Retired software engineer finding ways to keep himself busy which is not to hard with a child, two dogs, a sailboat and too many hobbies.
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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/
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Chill day onboard
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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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WP_ALLOW_REPAIR to the rescue
Just had a big little scare when the blog/website you are on showed the dreaded “Error establishing database connection” error message. I’ve had this show up quite a few times and every time it meant that MySQL had gone down (I’ll go into why I think that happened further down). Luckily I was on my…
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Tropical Dawn podcast
We (Kay and Dimitri) have been thinking and talking about doing a podcast about our sailing adventures for a while now and we finally got round to recording an introduction and a first episode. It is out on Podomatic and as soon as we can get it sorted we’ll publish on other podcasting platforms as…