Category: travel

  • TimeTagger and Christmas

    TimeTagger and Christmas

    Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s the twenty fourth today, and people who have been good will soon get things, and those who haven’t will get a lump of coal. Given enough pressure that coal could become a diamond. At such a time it’s interesting to take stock of how productive, or unproductive the year has…

  • Playing with Nextcloud Continued

    Playing with Nextcloud Continued

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Setting up a drive to be available via Samba is a relatively simple thing to do. The drawback is that you have files that are as organised as the media asset manager. It can be quite chaotic unless you have someone trained as a media asset manager, archivist, or other, to…

  • Watching a Roomba

    Watching a Roomba

    Reading Time: 3 minutes In theory the entire reason for getting a Roomba is to let it do the vacuuming and forget about it. In reality I always feel the desire to watch roombas as they do their work. It doesn’t make any sense, because the entire goal of a roomba is that it automates…

  • A Walk by the Vallée De Joux

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Every so often I get in a car to walk somewhere different. For two or three days we have been in the fog. Yesterday the fog was so thick that when I was driving I decided to slow down. I wanted to be able to stop in half the visible…

  • The Subtle Art of Trial and Error

    The Subtle Art of Trial and Error

    Reading Time: 4 minutes For 40 CHF you can buy a Tapo or Xiaomi webcam and it is almost ready to be used as a webcam. You take it out of the box, plug it in, add an SD card, download the app, pair it with the phone and let the phone connect it to…

  • From Timelogger to Timetagger

    From Timelogger to Timetagger

    Reading Time: 4 minutes For at least two or three years I have been using Timelogger and I really liked the app. That’s why I kept using it for so long. There is one fatal flaw to Timelogger. It wants you to pay 2 CHF per month, or 9 CHF per year, or 25 CHF…

  • Walking in Heavy Rain

    Walking in Heavy Rain

    Reading Time: 3 minutes I knew that it would rain heavy yesterday (at the time when you read this) so I considered running so that I would spend less time in the weather. The issue, at this time of year, is that if you run you need to do so before the sun sets but…

  • Reading Time: < 1 minute Reblog via harmonicarichard https://mastodon.social/@jpmens/111532759490595481 I hate the cybertruck for this reason. No decent human being needs a car that can run people over without being damaged. Imagine cycling in a world with bastards driving cybertrucks. It’s frightening enough without the cyberfucks.

  • Shovelling Snow and Playing With Plex

    Shovelling Snow and Playing With Plex

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday it snowed for several hours and that snow was covering the path to my house. When I saw the ground turn from asphalt black to grey, to white I decided to go and start clearing the snow. It’s easy to clear snow when you have three or four centimetres, rather…

  • Avoiding Rush Hour Recycling

    Avoiding Rush Hour Recycling

    Reading Time: 3 minutes On Monday, Wednesday and Friday the recycling centre is open from 1600-2000 or so, which is great if you’re working and want to go after work. The drawback to going at this time is that the one for local villages is down a narrow road where cars can barely pass each…