ADRIAN’S BLOG
Ramblings of an IT geek
2024 Lego Star Wars Advert Calendar
It's been quite a while since I blogged about one of these, but in the time I've been away I've continued to open a Star Wars Lego Advent Calendar each year. I've only added the first week, but I'll be sure to update this once I've opened the other. You can relive...
More PHP Updates
It feels like quite a long time since I blogged about PHP, and that's because it is! Over 5 years, to be precise. Unsurprisingly, none of the supported versions of PHP I was running back then (7.2 and 7.3) are supported today. How about we...
Swytch Review
I started this last month, but I'd already blogged twice at that point and had another one drafted (which I've since published), so why had I started another? Are blogs like buses? Well, not this blog, which is about a different form of transport: the good old...
TrueNAS 13.3
Well, it's been a busy month! TrueNAS and FreeNAS (as it was named before that) have been one of, if not the, most blogged-about subjects in the last 250 blogs (yes, I made it to 250 and didn't even notice) over the past 8 years (or at least it will be in November...
iPhone History
When writing my last blog on the Kindle Scribe, I linked back to an Old iPhone blog, which I thought might be interesting to revisit some five years later! I think my daughter has interrupted the natural order of upgrades, although other factors may be at play, too....
Kindle Scribe
Page 1I've been an Amazon kindle fan for quite a while now and have just upgraded a kindle Voyager to a kindle Scribe. I thought it might be interesting to test out the note taking abilities of the Scribe by writing this blog on the kindle scribe itself, and testing...
I Loved FreeNAS
This blog is a bit of a con, as I drafted it to post on the iXsystems forum in the hope that I might get some ideas about what to do with my TrueNAS server. I've posted it below, but I still haven't added it to the forum! I loved FreeNAS, and since first installing...
EPIC Roadtrip
Before we begin Right, this is going to be a long one, so buckle in for the ride! I’m going to try to blog over the next couple of weeks while we travel from Scotland to Austria, stopping at some interesting places along the way. Before we begin, a few updates related...
Another New Drone
Well, so much for blogging every month! I'm only a few days late, but there's still no blog for May. Part of the problem was knowing what to blog about, as I was all out of ideas. At least, I was until I took my new drone out for a test flight over the weekend....
Raspberry Pi 5
I had drafted a blog called 'Android 11 on Raspberry Pi', but it was just a title. That was back in 2021! What's quite funny is that I am running Android 14 on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 7" touch screen as a console on my desk for monitoring Home Assistant. I set this up...
To buy or not to buy
Or more accurately, to buy or to lease again, that is the question! Back in May 2021 I blogged about a Tesla Model 3 test drive, which very shortly afterwards became a Tesla Model 3 delivery day and led to a Tesla road trip blog later that year. Almost 3 years later,...
Whisky Geek
I've blogged a few times about whisky here, but I think it's fair to say my interest has grown significantly in the 2-year gap between my last two blogs! I can't recall the exact order these things happened, but there were a number of triggers to me becoming somewhat...
Long time, no blog
Well, it really is a long time since the last blog, which was at the start of 2022! Life just seemed to get in the way as things started to get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic, but that's really quite a poor excuse. I did start a new permanent job,...
TrueNAS 2022
This has now become a regular annual update, but I really didn't think after the crazy year of 2020 (blogged about here), that we'd be in a very similar situation at the end of 2021. I've spent the whole of 2021 working from home, working for the same customer, which...
Apple MacBook Pro 14″ M1 Pro
I started typing this on my new Apple MacBook Pro 14 M1 Pro shortly after it arrived, but didn't get beyond the first paragraph, part of the reason for which I blogged about here. I'm actually finishing it now on my new Apple MacBook Pro 14 M1 Pro, but not the same...
Still Here?
It's been over 2 months since my last blog about our trip to Skye in the Tesla, and probably the longest gap between blogs since I started on this rambling journey, exactly 5 years ago yesterday! But yes, I am still here, just sometimes life gets in the way! Things...
Tesla trip to Skye
It's been almost a month since our first Tesla trip to Skye, and while I had good intentions of blogging about the experience while I was there, I really didn't have the time or inclination. So this is going to be a kind of flashback, with some of the highs and lows...
Painless Upgrades
Well, almost! It's been a little while since I blogged about upgrading PHP here, and while I think I've done one update (from 7.4.4 to .13) I haven't kept things all that up to date. I thought it was about time to change that, and overall they were pretty painless...
Tesla for a month
Right, after the gushing posts about my new Tesla Model 3 here and here and I thought it was time to bring some balance now I've used the Tesla for almost a month. Before I begin though, I probably need to add a disclaimer that I'm still really happy with the car. In...
Printing – Brother DCP-J1100DW
I created this blog with just the title of 'Printing' back in March when I bought the Brother DCP-J1100DW. I thought I better make an attempt to finish it off now I've been using it for the past few months... I should probably start with a brief printing history,...
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