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I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • Dormant Social Media Life While Sorting Through Drives

    Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently my Social Media Life has become dormant. I do visit Facebook every so often but I ignore Instagram, barely touch Mastodon or the fediverse, and in general have stopped looking at social media for a social life. It’s not that my life offline has become vibrant. It’s that online is empty…

  • Listening to Podcasts While Walking

    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been listening to plenty of [Late Night Linux](https://latenightlinux.com/) podcasts. I like them because they’re half an hour long, the adverts are half way through the show, and in general I don’t feel that they’re filling time to fill one and a half hours of podcast time. Plenty of other…

  • The Nicest Pi Setup Yet

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are several types of people. One of them is youtubers that try and fail until they succeed, and then there are people like me, who also try and fail until they succeed. In one case the individual probably gets millions of views, and earns enough to waste hundreds of dollars per…

  • Journey Through Time

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor two weeks I have been sorting through terabytes of data and it has been a journey through time. It’s easy to collect data and every so often when the laptop is full, move that data to a hard drive until that drive is full, and then onto the next, and the…

  • Almost Linear Walks

    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwice in the last two weekends I have done linear rather than circular walks. By linear I don’t mean that I walked from A to B. I mean that I started walking along a loop but when I saw that the routes I wanted to walk were either crowded by couples or people…

  • Exploration on Foot

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWalking is an easy activity. You put your shoes on, and you go for a walk. Sometimes you walk from home. Other times you walk from a car park. Sometimes you walk along rivers that are full, and others you walk along streams that are almost dry. A few years ago I…

  • Blogging with the Pi 5

    Reading Time: 3 minutesOver at least a week I have been blogging with the Pi 5 and an Apple keyboard. I am using the Apple keyboard just because it’s the one I have, rather than out of a preference for their keyboards over others. I have a full size keyboard but it lost a part…

  • Apple and Dongles

    Reading Time: 2 minutesSeveral years ago I broke my most important rule. Never take a laptop with you that you are not willing to carry at all times. I had a Mac Book Pro stolen and this was extremely frustrating. The reason for which it was frustrating is that this Mac Book from still had…

  • Organising Terabytes Fast

    Reading Time: 4 minutesImagine for a second that you have six hard drives filled with Data. Some are four terabytes. Others are one terabyte each, and you’ve already sorted personal videos and photos from other media files. Each drive is moved to its own folder Two Terabyte Seagate has gone from being a drive to a…

  • Migrating to ExFAT

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile on one of my numerous walks I heard about ExFAT being compatible between windows, macOS and Linux so I was tempted to experiment with the file system. I heard this while listening to a podcast as I often do. When I was on an iBook, or a Mac Book Pro, or…