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Location of Saint John on our route It was a fine day for ducks...rain, wind and more rain... but we ventured into Saint John anyway. It’s an old city. Samuel de Champlain and company first …

Real-world testing!

ESPHome device, a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 and level shifter with 3.5mm TS and HDMI connectors. After getting the Onkyo RI support for ESPHome and Home Assistant in place, it was neat that I could …

Falco Riot, creator of Octyl Fora perfume, described the effect of his fragrant creation with a stale, twentieth century trope, “with Octyl Fora you're transformed into a living philter.” When questioned about the ingredients used …

In-brief Get your planting designed carefully to:– reduce numbers & optimise plant grades for <$– streamline planting & achieve your aims Allow for planting to start following year– (unless you want to spend $$$) Source …

This is one of those things that I do so much but always need to think. So I’m going to create some documentation for myself, and maybe it’ll help others. Specifically, I’m going to setup …

This is just a quick short & sweet ‘Shoes’ blog that I hadn’t initially planned to publish, as I had already given the subject matter a ‘light touch’ within the content of a recently published …

I think it’s a good thing for people to have side quests in their lives to keep things interesting. They don’t have to be anything particularly grand, like finding The Antidote or something, but just …

I’m not sure if I’m misremembering but my brain says there was a time when blog posts did not have “post titles” by default. Coming up with a post title is one of my least …

Another group of smirking techbros have decided that rich people shouldn't have to follow the same rules as the poors. There's an app for that. LineLeap, backed by Y Combinator, lets people pay to skip …

Fed Cuts Interest Rates by 0.5% In reality, presidents have little power to influence the economy (at least, for the better). They can sign bills passed by Congress that raise or cut taxes, but not …

The last bean thread variant I had was really quite nice. Curious how this will be. Let’s give it a whirl! Vifon Instant Bean Thread Crab Flavor – Vietnam Detail of the packaging (click to …

As the studio follow-up to his landmark triple album All Things Must Pass, George Harrison further explored his spiritual and physical selves on 1973's leaner Living in the Material World. On November 15, the album …

Born in Toledo, Ohio, on September 20, 1869, Mary Emma Wood (1869-1950) was always called by her nickname Mollie. She was the 14th of 17 children of Thomas Haskell Wood and Mary Amanda Demarest Wood, …