Kay & Dimi off on adventures yet unknown
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New podcast episode
New episode of our podcast goes live each Friday on all podcast platforms, just search for “Tropical Dawn podcast” in your favourite podcast player (we’re on Podomatic, Amazon, Audible, Apple, Google, Spotify, and a bunch of others) or just listen to right here:
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Ready For The Rapture: This Wind-Up Cassette Player Can Play Anywhere
As useful as electronics are, the need to have some source of power for them can be a bit of an issue, especially for small, portable devices. One of… Ready For The Rapture: This Wind-Up Cassette Player Can Play Anywhere Whaaa, this is so cool, low tech, solarpunk, retro, vintage, awesome!
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WordPress and ActivityPub
I am very excited for everyone who uses Mastodon or any other ActivityPub technology, and for the many many users of WordPress. The fediverse just got a lot bigger!
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Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries
Reblog via LOW←TECH MAGAZINE English Image: a laptop running on direct solar power. Photo: Marie Verdeil. Conventional solar installations do not question our dependence on fossil fuels and the energy-guzzling lifestyle that results. Both rooftop solar panels and large-scale solar farms provide us with all the power we want, even when the sun is not…
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Workshop in Rotterdam: How to Build a Bike Generator
Reblog via LOW←TECH MAGAZINE English Afbeelding: Low-tech Magazine workshop in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Poster: Marie Verdeil. Image: Sara Vercauteren The workshop takes place on behalf of the “House of the Future”, a spinoff of the Human Power Plant project. The House of the Future will bring the Human Power Plant’s “Human Powered Neighbourhood” scenario to…
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Feeling anxious
This morning was feeling quite anxious, couldn’t really put my finger on it. Our boat is having engine trouble for which the solution isn’t clear yet. But we knew this since last week, so that wouldn’t explain the sudden feeling of dread taking over. We have quite a bit of work to do on the…
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Reblog via Dimitri Dhuyvetter Duh! This is so evident that it is sad that it still needs to be pointed out: Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163 #cycling #bicycle #city
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Reblog via Dimitri Dhuyvetter Just when I thought AI had no practical use. https://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-replace-ai-job-employees-executives-save-money-salary-2023-9
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Moved all blogs to Cloudways
I was getting tired of my WordPress blogs going down because the database stopping so I’ve moved all of them to Cloudways managed hosting. Hopefully that will sort things out.
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Moved S/V Tropical Dawn post to their own blog
I’ve moved all posts about our cruising adventures on board our fine small ship Tropical Dawn to its own blog: svtropicaldawn.blog. We (Kay and myself) will be posting all sailing, cruising and boat related posts on there from now on. https://svtropicaldawn.blog/
What are you up to?