Wow, what a crazy week. Last weekend I photographed some matches of the Volley Ball SA Beach Volley Ball open which was for the Commonwealth games selection process. Whilst at Glenelg I also swam out past the jetty. Although parallel to it and far enough away I wasn’t going to get a fishing hook… Continue reading 19th Jan – Looking back at the last week
2017 – The Year that was
So it’s the last weekend of the year and time for a more in depth than usual review. I do a weekly review, usually just spending a couple of minutes looking at the list below and thinking about each item a bit. Recently however I have realised I need to start writing my thoughts… Continue reading 2017 – The Year that was
Low Carb, High Fat – Ketosis Diet
It’s been a month since I started the low carb, high fat diet also known as the Ketone (or ketosis) diet. I started it by eating (well drinking) KetoOS and here’s my thoughts and journey. As intro you are best off reading this part of Melia Robinson’s article: The low-carb, high-fat diet — which… Continue reading Low Carb, High Fat – Ketosis Diet
What is your core?
What do you care about? What’s the core of your life? For me it’s relationships, for others I’ve noticed it can be food, music, sometimes it’ll be work but that’s rarely actually the case. Your core part of you is what your mind drifts to thinking about when you are idle. It’s what… Continue reading What is your core?
w00t! Solar Thermal in Port Augusta
w00t! 5+ years of campaigning and we finally have some great news. Solar Thermal is going to be build in Port Augusta! Key Points 150MW CST (Concentrating Solar Thermal) plant. The South Australian state government is buying the power from it at a maximum of $78 per megawatt hour. It’ll be build close to Port… Continue reading w00t! Solar Thermal in Port Augusta
ZDay presentation – Price of Zero Transition to an RBE
At both the Global ZDay event in Brisbane, Australia the New Zealand ZDay event in Auckland in 2017 and at the Global Zday event in Frankfurt, Germany in 2018 I gave this presentation about the Price of Zero transition to a Natural Law Resource Based Economy. The slides are based on the presentation given on… Continue reading ZDay presentation – Price of Zero Transition to an RBE
Zday 2017 – My Experience
Wow, the last 4+ weeks has been INTENSE. Certainly the most intense of my life so far. First it was 12-16hr days at work trying to get a web project at work over the line. Then 20 hour days (yes, only 4hrs sleep a night) trying to move out, putting most of my stuff into… Continue reading Zday 2017 – My Experience
Fixing SA’s power network
There’s a lot of buzz at the moment about a Twitter conversation between Elon Musk and Mike Cannon-Brookes about fixing South Australia’s power issues. Elon says he can fix the issue in 100 days by providing 100+MW of battery storage. Mike Cannon-Brookes says he can find the money and deal with the politics. As a member… Continue reading Fixing SA’s power network
LetsEncrypt / Certbot – Virtualhost vs VirtualHost
Certbot, formerly letsencrypt is a great tool for setting up SSL certificates on websites. I love being able to quickly, easily and for free, setup a HTTPS SSL (TLS) certificate. I use apache to host lots of WordPress sites, custom sites (e.g Symfony) and the like and Certbot helps keep them secure. Except when it… Continue reading LetsEncrypt / Certbot – Virtualhost vs VirtualHost
My ~/.bash_aliases 2017
I have a base ~/.bash_aliases file which I normally use Ansible to update on various servers when needed and thought I’d share it. This is intended for sys admins using Ubuntu. [ Download the bash aliases file here ] The main aliases are : ll – I use this ALL the time, it’s `ls -aslch` and shows the… Continue reading My ~/.bash_aliases 2017