I bought a DJI Phantom 3 Standard drone last year. While I did take it out a couple of times between travel, buying a house, moving house, travel and "life" I hadn't really done a lot of flying with it. The last few days the weather in Ireland has been really nice and with the long evenings it's been perfect conditions to take the drone out. Over the last couple of … [Read more...] about Some Fun With a Drone Down by the River
Making Some Choices About the Garden
I've got plenty of space in the back garden to do a lot of things. Putting it simply, I have options. For now, however, I really don't know what I want to do. I know that at some point I will need to get a garden shed of some kind, but for now I've no idea how big a shed I want, so I've parked the idea. There are some really interesting solutions on the market, like this … [Read more...] about Making Some Choices About the Garden
Getting the Home Network Working a bit Better
Since I moved into the house I've had broadband. Up until the other day I had a single router which handled both the connection to the outside world, as well as the wifi for the entire house. The router is a Fritz!Box 7560, which works pretty well over IPv4. The IPv6 side of things is incredibly flaky unfortunately, so I've had to disable it for now, which is rather annoying, … [Read more...] about Getting the Home Network Working a bit Better
Taming the Garden, Adding More Touches and Taking a few Aerial Photos
One of the things that I love about the house is that it has ample space around it, including a fairly big back garden. Unfortunately nobody had done anything with the garden in years. The garden at the front of the house was kept reasonably tidy, but the area at the back of the house was completely wild. A few weeks ago a friend cut the grass for me, but by the time I came … [Read more...] about Taming the Garden, Adding More Touches and Taking a few Aerial Photos
Love vs Violence
Ramadan 2017 runs from May 26th until June 24th. One middle eastern company has released a very powerful advert to coincide with Ramadan which focusses on the all too topical issue of extremism and violence. Their answer? Love. Here's the video: https://youtu.be/U49nOBFv508 Of course in a hyper connected world the video has gone viral and has also drawn criticism from … [Read more...] about Love vs Violence