Here is a fix to a problem that’s been annoying me ever since we were away travelling for the winter. Despite having the iPhone clock settings configured to ‘Set Automatically’ it would show the wrong timezone, and so the clock would out. Regardless of my physical location in the UK, France or Spain, it would…
Last weekend our friend Derryl came to visit, bringing along the new man in her life, Ash. Lovely to see Derryl again, and great to meet Ash for the first time, a lovely chap. We decided a little exercise was necessary to balance out the general debauched-ness of food and drink, and so headed over…
Here is the next job on the list. We gutted the old part of the house three years ago with the intention of moving the kitchen into the old lounge (pictured). We failed to follow through as a result of the recession, Mel shifting careers to sculpting and me getting my time sucked away by…
An update on my exploits in the downstairs loo. Work is now complete, it’s all plastered, tiled, painted and plumbed up. This was the last room of the extension which we’d managed to avoid completing for no particularly good reason. It was originally mean to be a shower room and toilet, but that was conceived…
It don’t get much better than this! Despite a couple of short, sharp showers, so far we’ve enjoyed better than expected weather and some very enjoyable scenery. About 12 miles covered yesterday, a nice pub stop to avoid a shower at lunchtime (liquid only) followed by a gargantuan pork pie that did more to slow…
Funny how life gets turned on its head sometimes. After months of travel adventures and spectacular views, the last couple of weeks have seen me ensconced in the downstairs toilet trying to finally finish it off after avoiding the issue for 8 years since we started the extension. I managed to complete the plastering yesterday,…
On April 4, Russian antivirus vendor Dr. Web published strong evidence that more than 500,000 Macs have been infected by the latest variant of the Flashback trojan. As Mikko Hypponen, Chief Researcher at F-Secure pointed out via Twitter, if there are roughly 45 million Macs out there, Flashback would now have infected more than 1…
This site fell victim to a hack that allowed potentially malicious code to be installed. After investigation, it appears no code was inserted, but a backdoor was created, which I’ve now firmly closed shut. Read about what happen, how I investigated, and what remedies were taken that you might find useful if you are vulnerable to similar problems.
After a winter away from home, its time to get stuck into some of those long postponed jobs – a right proper bit of Spring Cleaning and getting into the minimalist spirit, and rediscovering my Mr DIY Mojo and making progress with the house.
Maybe you don’t have to get married, don’t have to get a “job,” buy two minivans and a McMansion, pack it bulgingly full of stuff you’ll never use, and call it a life. Maybe it’s only by breaking the dismally broken rules that you can rewrite better ones. The Economic Roots of Your Life Crisis…
My name is Dave Meehan. 43 years old. After travelling Europe in a Motorhome for 4 months over Winter 2011/12, now trying to readjust to home life. Enjoying challenges, living with less, personal discovery and alternative realities.
