If you’re thinking of visiting Ireland…. Here’s my standard list of places you should visit - the disclaimer is that I haven’t been in Ireland since 2019, and not very much as a tourist for the last 30+ years. There are a few places here that have been mentioned by others - marked by an “I’ve never been” clause. Map of Ireland to get you started ...
Further Tales from An Cruiscin Lan We’ve been living on Quadra island for almost two years now. There have not been too many places for sale, but we finally found one that we really like. This is the short story of what we intend to do with it. March 2024 Digging started. January 2024 Jesse and Nigel took down the old maple behind the house. Trimmed a few other as well. ...
VPN comparison I need a VPN. We all need a VPN. Here are the ones I’m looking at for these criteria: Security rating: no logs, encryption etc. Trustpoint score is a good indicator Number of countries: where can you reach with a “local” IP address? Base country: is it one of the 5 eyes, 14 eyes Devices: How many connections, what type of clients, what OSes are supported? Speed: There will be overhead, and we’ll have to trust others for this data Price: Reasonable rate per month Name Country of Origin #Servers #Countries $/month Trustpilot score Speed #devices OVPN Sweden 56 29 4.99 75 Mullvad Sweden 0 0 5Euros 74 Express VPN British Virgin islands 3000+ 94 6.67 4.6 94Mbps 5 Private Internet access USA 35500+ 84 2.67 4.2 85Mbps NordVPN Panama 5200+ 60 3.67 4.0 92Mbps 6 CyberGhost Romania 7700+ 90 2.25) 4.8 91Mbps 7 Surfshark British Virgin islands 3200+ 65 2.21 4.3 93Mbps unlimited Other possibilities : VeePN, SpiderVPN, ProtonVPN
Our satellite in life Our starlink gear got shipped to North Bay in August. It came with simple instructions and 100 feet of cable which is just about enough. Reaches from the edge of the lake to the garage, or just about the corner of the cottage. Not good on the roof or the deck. Speedtest stats | 27 Aug 2021 | Lakeside | Clear | 61 | 69.75 | 16.42 | | 28 Aug 2021 | Lakeside | Raining | 59 | 45.5 | 11.59 |1194612937 |
Euro 2020 The Rules Seeing as we’re staring so late, we’ll only count second round matches and on from there. Here’s how you score: 3 points for a win 2 ponts for a goal your 4th pick team gets 1 point for a yellow and 2 points for a red card Entrant Team1 Team2 Team3 Team4 Points Meg Spain (20) Italy (28) France (6) Denmark (20,1) 75 Alma Italy (28) Czech Republic (9) Croatia (6) England (27,4) 74 Keelin France (6) Spain (20) Belgium (7) Italy (28,11) 72 Ailbhe Italy (28) Czech Republic (9) Germany (0) Spain (20,2) 59 Aidan Italy (28) France (6) Germany (0) Denmark (20,1) 55 Kevin Italy (28) France (6) Czech Republic (9) Sweden (2,4) 49 Joanne Germany (0) Italy (28) France (6) Czech Republic (9,2) 45 Sjaan France (6) Croatia (6) Czech Republic (9) Spain (20,2) 43 Helen Belgium (7) France (6) Italy (28) Germany (0,2) 43 Games In parenthesis after the teams are the points for wins+goals, then the points for yellow and red cards. Let me know if you spot a mistake. ...
Hugo related items. Using hugo to generate a web site from a git repo. Deploy it locally on the laptop to test it, then build the static site and publish to ourlotinlife. Followed these instructions to get hugo going for my docs. This is the next link where we use git hooks to run hugo. And this is the Markdown cheatsheet Openstreetmap shortcodes for hugo Found Bluestnight theme on gitlab which is in use here. Current theme is zzo. The repo and the docs Upgraded hugo from 0.74.3 to 0.81.0 following this article, basically rename the pop_os version and use dpkg to install the .deb file. Found a new leafletimplementation I want to add to olil-extra. Also want to add this hugo easy gallery to the site. Trying to get Hugo to understand floating images. I ended up using a bit of CSS from the page above and adding #floatleft or #floatright to the image source and now…. Id modi explicabo non accusantium accusantium. Voluptates laborum est exercitationem odit voluptate dicta laborum nemo. Dolorum et aliquam qui dolorem voluptates ducimus voluptatibus. Quia sunt molestiae id ut. Necessitatibus itaque sed unde sit repellendus sit. Error pariatur deserunt dignissimos saepe cupiditate beatae. ...