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This is your reminder to keep polarizing filters in your camera bag.

I think this shot would have been a lot better if I remembered to take them.

If you are self-hosting apps on your local network, that you also want to access from the external world, like I do with my webarchive then you may have challenges getting your DNS to work properly.

One way to do this is to host your own DNS server and point …

To round out 2022 the little guy and I took a walk in the forest to a waterfall that was pinned in my AllTrails. It was a muddy ATV trail, and he love the walk, even after landing in a big puddle. Luckily I brought a towel and we were …

For the last wandering hike of the year we headed out of town, and out of service, to Myra Road Falls (AllTrails Link). It starts at the tip of Porters Lake at the north end of Myra Rd. Which no matter how many times my car's navigation tried to direct …

Its been a while since I've posted here, and part of the reason was that the latest version of a plugin that I use was broken.

I have since downgraded to the last version and while it has its own quirks, they are known quirks.

So for now, I give …

Like this squirrel, we are just about finished our autumn chores and hunkered down for winter. Typically we will be ready much sooner in the season, but this year the weather really stayed warm until last week.

Of course there are a couple of things that need to be finished …

This time in in 2014 I was way up in the Rockies in Cripple Creek, CO working on site. No one was ready for us, so we played cards in the control room most days. It is a pretty part of the world.

Today I spent a lot of time …

I have been using the theme that I started working on in March 2021, and even branched a copy for JMK Engineering.

Since then I have added a bunch of features, customizations, etc to it so that I can customize most of it from the pelican configuration files.

I have …

I haven't been getting out exploring as much, but on the 5th I took the kids to the Polly's Cove trail.

We headed east towards Barbara Basin, but the trail was a little too rough for the youngests legs, so we found a good spot for our snack north of …

To manage all of the pictures that we take in this home, and with all the different cameras that we have around the house, there are a lot of pictures. So how do we make sure that the pictures we take are available for viewing?