Home Automation using Docker

Another blog started some time ago that I thought I’d finish off!  I’ve mentioned some of my home automation stuff in previous blogs, and whilst it’s nothing particularly complicated, I’ve always struggled with one small part.

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One Hundred (with Guttenberg)

Said In a darts commentary 20-20-60 stylee!

After my last, and longest blog, I’ll try and keep this one a little shorter.  It’s really just here to commemorate reaching 100 blogs.  Never when I started did I imagine I’d still be writing to myself!

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Advent 2 – The Last Christmas!

Now I’ve been blogging for a whole year; you’ll probably start to notice some patterns in my behaviour.  This year is no different to the last (several) with another Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar!  I’ve just started a new contract up in Aberdeen which means I’ll be away from home Monday to Thursday, so the pictures might not get updated as frequently, and some of the models will be built by my daughter, once she’s done her Lego Friends one 😀

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Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

So, a quick update, obviously without any spoilers given most sensible people won’t be seeing until later today (no excused beyond that!) Let’s start with saying it’s good.  How good is always a little subjective, but I’d say it’s in the ‘Good Range’ with The Force Awakens and Rogue One.  I’ll need to watch again at a more sociable hour, and in 2D before I give a final verdict, but at the minute I feel it’s not quite as good as those, but not by much.   (more…)