My cloud server

So I have my own cloud server, so far it's not been as I expected it to be, mainly as I appear to have mixed up a media server with a could server.

Oh well back to the drawing board

Cold

Am I supposed to be cold in mid June?

Building

So I had the delight of building the new BBQ it took rather a long time as one of the screws for part of it proved very difficult to screw into the metal work due to the fact there was very little room for it.

But in the end we have got a working BBQ and that's all that counts.

Personal cloud

As I said in an earlier post on this blog I have brought myself a 3TB cloud drive and so far all has been well and it works.

Just a couple of things that I don't like are that the media player that it comes with does not seem to know many video types.

The second thing is that the IOS apps are a little bit flakey and that sometimes it fails to see the shares on the cloud drive, it see's the drive but not the shares on it.

So far I have only put 300GB on it, sadly most of the video files fail to play due to the media servers shortcomings.

Sunshine

Finally more than two days with blue sky and sunshine, it could even be a record this year with the weather we have been having here in the UK.

June

June already but it does not feel like it.

Rain

Rain, rain and more rain it could start to get you down.

Personal cloud

So I have taken the plunge an brought myself a 3TB hard drive to use as my personal cloud, that way I have total control over my files and all of that sort of stuff.

Only thing is after I ordered it and paid for it I then started to read reviews on it, if you start to take all the reviews seriously then I don't think anyone would buy anything, I do wonder if some of the reviews are written by people who don't even have the item that they are reviewing!

So I have got myself a WD Live Drive it will be interesting to see just how many of the reviews are right and how many are wrong.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is.....

Pepsi Max with lots of ice, I know the weather here in the UK is not very warm or sunny but a pint of ice cold Pepsi Max just does a good job.

May

So it's very near to the end of May so why are we having temperatures of 4 centigrade ?

I know strange, but that's how the weather is these days. 

Cat

Cats on laps always fun

iPad

Why is it so hard to move 2000 photos from the iPad to the computer?

Books

Brought a some more books, it's like an addiction for me I must now have some 10 or more books to read that I also want to read but for some reason or another I have not read. These are book that I have looked forward to as well.

So the books that I brought yesterday where the new Dan Brown book which I believe is not just written by him I think his wife has a lot to do with the books but for some reason she does not get co author tagged, which is sad as she clearly can write or come up with plot twists or something, maybe one day it will be revealed just how much a partnership the books were.

Anyway I have his new book which here in the UK came out on my birthday, I have yet to even look through the book but from what I have heard else where it's been written like a screenplay for what that's worth, the only thing I want to know is is it a good story? Will I be entertained?

The other book I brought is on a road called the A303 which here in the UK is famous as the road that leads to the west and it goes past Stonehenge, the road is only 90 miles long but it does go through some great countryside and is one of the roads that I have traveled down many a time, in fact I had to travel down it to get to Newquay.

The last book I brought I think is the second to last book that Ian Banks will ever have printed its called stone mouth and looks like it will be a good read. You may ask why I can state that it is the second to last book by Ian banks the reason is sad but true in that he has terminal cancer with less than six months to live, he will be sadly missed as some of the books he has written have been good reads with great stories.

The sea

Sea watching is fun especially when it's a nice day, there always appears to be something going on.

Rest

It's nice to have a day when I can do nothing if I want to.

Breakfast

Not sure if I have ever recorded what I have had for breakfast before, or even why I should recorded what I have had for breakfast, but when on holiday a fried breakfast for some reason or other always tastes nice and does really set you up for the feast of the day.

Weather

So it's the right time of the year for it to be warm and there to be lots of sunshine. I at this time in Cornwall where by rights it's should be warm with lots of that stuff called sunshine.

So you can guess what we are having down here at this time?

Yes it grey cloudy very windy and cold, single figure cold..

I just can't figure out the weather this year.

Birthdays

So everyone has them, birthdays that is and I have one this month in a few days, the thing is that I am not that excited about it, I can remember when I was younger being very excited about having a birthday, but now it's really another day.

I suppose as you get older and the years pass by the fact that you are a year older is just one of those things that happens to you.

May

May then, and the weather has been a bit up and down, but better than it has been and that's all that counts.

Bank holiday

So it's bank holiday weekend so will it be wet or will it be dry?

I don't know the answer but it will be fun to see what happens.

iPad 4

I wonder if apple has brought copies of what the over makers of tablets produce, just so they can see where they need to go if they want to stay in business.

I think it's sad that apple appear from where I am sitting in the sunshine if you must know, that they are coming across as we know better than our users and this is what we are going to give you even if its not as good as what the rest of the market if offering and what's more we shall charge you a lot of money to own our product that is already falling behind what the market is already producing.

I hope apple don't fall into this trap as I happen to like the iPad but as you use it more and more there are some things on it that just start to get you a bit pissed off with some of the designs that apple have in in the pursuit of profit.

One of the things that I don't like is that 64G is not enough memory or storage I need more than this so why can't I just plug a memory card into the machine?

Why does the keyboard have no cursor keys? Is that apple employees never have to backspace more than once?

I don't know the answer to these questions?

My last thought is why is the gallery so poor in options to filter and sort? Why is there no facility to make folders? So I can store my pics by date or subject without them all being in the photo roll ?

Again I don't know the answers to these questions, perhaps I should do some looking on the Internet to see what others have said about the choices apple made when making the iPad?

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is.....

Pepsi Max with ice and lemon and very nice it's is in the warm sunshine and the blue sky thank you very much.

Sunshine

Today was a sunshine day and very nice it was to.

Blog posts

So I notice that its the last day of April, it does not feel like it, I suppose part of the reason for that is that this year winter just dragged on and on and I must admit I was starting to wonder if it would ever end.

The good news is that it has but I can't say that the seasons feel right, it feels like the reason has slipped a month or so or so it seems to me, but then what do I know about the weather and the seasons we are meant to have here in the northern hemisphere, I sure that I can't be the only person to have seen the way that the Seasons are appear to be getting late or even not started right.

Any way I am glad that spring appears to be napping now, and that's good.

Blue sky

Finally some blue sky and strong sunlight, nice that's what it is....

Girly girl

Are there such girls as girly girls?

If there is such a girly girl i have yet to meet one.

Are they something that is made up by the media?

If they are real what are they like to live with?

As I have never meet one I don't have any answers to the above questions.

Perhaps the thing for me to do is have a look on the I telnet and see what comes up!

Drink of the day

So the drink of the day is water!

I know but sometimes that's all that you need is a drink of water.

Happy

What is happy?

Can you tell me what happy is?

I know when I am happy but is that the same thing for you?

I know it's a stupid question but sometimes you have to ask yourself these questions it's all part of the joy of being alive.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is one that I have never had before in my life, it's called cusquena and its an inca beer, it's nice but I think it has to be served cold, I drank mine warm....

Writing

As you may not knowi written a few items on chemistry, which is a subject that has always interested me since I was as all person. Now that I am a bigger person I am still interested in chemistry, not sure why that is but that's how it is.

Any way because I like chemistry some time ago I wrote a few books and articles on various bits of the periodic table that interested me in one way or another.

I have just had cause to go back and have a look at what I have produced and I am amazed at just how much stuffing wrote!

I am thinking that I might set up a wiki with all the stuff I have written but in an easy way to look at the various version of the items I wrote. This is something I shall have to think about.

Emm

Can you feel emm?

I do today, not too sure why....

Wampserver

Playing with wampserver just found that it does not like copper mine the gallery programme loads of errors, but it works. Lots of errors on stuff being static which sadly I don't have a clue about, then to top all of it off it does not like half the images that i am trying to upload into copper mine. What is strange the same images load into Gallery 3 with no problems.

I suspect that copper mine might need some more setting up, which is something gallery does not need.

Spring

Just a note to me that Hawthorn leaves when they first appear are a lovely light green.

Semantic wiki

So as you know of you have read my blog I have in the past played with a semantic wiki and as you know it did not go to well in that some how or over I managed to loose all the hard work I did in creating the wiki.

Well the news is that my luck with a semantic wiki has not changed and I have so far failed in my attempts to install a wiki on my local server, even though the semantic software is much more up-to date for some reason or other I just can not yet get it to work.

Oh well there is always another day.

Happy

Are you happy?

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is,

Bavaria. And very nice it is too, just make sure that you have it cold, not ice cold as that does not work so well, for some reason it looses it taste some what.

Wampserver

Having a play with wampserver, so far it's working we'll.

Wet

So it's wet now which is what I think April weather should be about here in the UK.

Give blood

So I gave blood today, which is something I have done many times. At this time I have given 126 units which is a great total if I do say so myself.

So do some thing amazing give a unit of blood.

Sun

Where has the sun gone, one day of blue sky and now it does a dissapearing act.

Odd Thoughts from a High Desk: How to make a Largerita ( Updated Content)

Odd Thoughts from a High Desk: How to make a Largerita ( Updated Content)

Books to be read

I have noticed that I have some how ended up with a pile of books to read, how did that happen?

Time

Does the hour hand on a clock break the speed of sound when you are not looking?

Podcasts

I note to me, podcast above and beyond just as good as 5 years ago, that's right 5 years.......

Reading Blogs

Reading Blogs just how many do people read in a day, week or month?

I asked myself this question today as I noticed that I have a list of blogs that I visit on a semi regular basis and enjoy what the various authors choose to write about.

As some of these authors live in different parts of the world their outlook on the world is different from mine and its nice to see their world through their eyes.

Some of the authors are a different sex to me and so the way they see and interact with the world is also different from mine, saying that can you really tell from reading a bit of text if the author is male or female?

I know I can't unless the author is taking about something that is very female orientated like the experience of giving birth and what that feels like from their perspective.

Some of the Blogs I read are on subjects far removed from my way of life, but the authors have a great way with words and I have learnt stuff that I would never have known anything about.

So of the blogs that I have read have been on items that to me here in the UK are so direr rant that I have had trouble understanding why and how things can be so different.

I have read blogs on photography that have help me become better at taking photos and also better at enjoying looking at photos and also teaching me at least a little bit on why some photos are better looking to me than others.

I have also wish that some of the photos I have seen I wished that I had taken them, or that I knew the model or the place they were taken.

Blogs are on the whole another window into a world that as I get older is even more amazing that I could have ever thought.

Some of the blogs I have read are by people who are one sex but for reasons that I don't think anyone Truley understands want to live part or all their life in the other sex. The things that I have picked up from this are the hurt and pain that they suffer for something they did not ask for and also the hate and just dam right nastiness that they also have to put up with.

Some of the blogs are sad and some are very happy, it's amazing just how people cope with all the trouble placed on their shoulders.

I have learned new words while reading these blogs and have learned that their is no such thing as two genders just as there is no such thing as black and white, the world truly is grey and it appears that this grey is all over the place and in all the different things that we do each day.

Has reading these king of blogs changed me?

The answer has to be yes, as my eyes have been opened to the fact that there are lots of different ways to be happy in your life, but if you are only slightly different from everyone else then for some reason you are singled out and treat differently when all you want to do is enjoy your life without stress and hurt.

Other blogs that I have read have been funny, other sad others have been so different that I have had to book mark them and come back to them when I have an understanding as to what they were talking about.

It goes without saying that there have been many blogs that were just there to sell something and some are just about sex..

So will I still read these blogs?

Yes is the answer, as these dirrerant blogs show me a world that for one reason or another I would never get to see or hear about and surly that makes be a better person with a better world view?

Drink of the day

The drink of the day to day is....

Coffee and why not, not an instant coffee mind you but one of them fancy pod coffee's which has a name that at this time I can't remember as I am know-where near the machine or the pods.

All I can say is that the coffee was very nice thank you very much and it did the job.

Sunshine

Well we have had some sunshine and to make it even more of a surprising weekend we have also had some blue sky. Sad to say that the blue sky did not last long but it was great to see it even if it was only for a short time.

So I ask myself is this finally the start of spring?

The answer I suppose will come in the next week or so if the weather starts to warm up to where it should be for this time of year in the UK.

Shares

Is it worth buying shares in the company you work for if you can afford it?

Warm

So will the. Weathermen get it right and we get a bit more spring like weather?

Only time will tell.

Iain Banks

So have just heard the sad news that one of the authors that I like is going to die this year due to the cancer that he has got. This is sad as I have spent many an hour reading his books and enjoying the different worlds that he created and also enjoying the stories that he told in his worlds that he made.

59 is not old and I think he has written 20 odd books and has enjoyed his life his way, I notice from the news that he has just got married for the second time to his lady partner of many years, I wonder how she is holding up with this sad news and that her marriage may not last as long as they both wanted, how do you cope with this kind of news?

I know that it is something that I dread being told that the one you love and want to be with is soon going to leave you forever, what do you do?

I don't know the answer and I don't want to find out either, I just wish them both as happy times as they can have in the time left and hope that she gets some great memories of the good times.

To Iain I say thank you for the entertainment you have provided me through your books.

Rumours

There are rumours from the weathermen that early next week we might have a start to spring, this would be good I think.

Sunrise

Today had a nice sunrise in that I could see the sun, which has been rare around here for the last few weeks and also it was a lovely red orange ball, which I have not seen for even more weeks.

Then the weather men ruin it all by saying that here in south England expect snow showers!

I mean why?

I have started to think that 5 months of winter is just too long I want a hot day without having to put loads of clothes on just to stay warm in April!

Sunshine

Not used to it but we had sunshine today, even if I had to scrape the car windows this morning.

Happy

So some very good news is that daughter has got engaged and I am very happy for her.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day is.... Pepsi max with ice and lemon, nice to drink while stuck indoors with the heating on at Easter at the start of British summer time......

Hot cross buns

I have had the pleasure ? Of having some hot cross buns and from more than one shop,the thing is none of them are what I call great to eat, I have a feeling that if I ever get the chance to have real hot cross buns they will taste completely different to what I have had.

Easter

So it's Easter the clocks have now moved forwards because its summer time and its cold just 4 centigrade so stuck indoors with the central heating still on....

Arh summer or spring or winter I wish the weather would read the script and get on the right page.

Reading

Still managing to do some reading, which is good.

Gone

Note to me noticed that eloree stopped in feb 2013

Cold

Cold so it must be Easter?.....

DJ Studio

dJ studio is an app on the iPad which is as the name suggests is a dj mixes app and I have to say I have had some fun with it , I now have a way of getting my mixes off the iPad and into the big wide world which is something that the app it's self does not do a good job of in my mind.

But the biggest problem with the app now is lack of new content as I can not import my own samples I am stuck with what the app provides and I am sad to say that they are getting stale.

Drink of the day

The dink of the day today is and you are not going to believe this ....Bravia zero alcohol I know it's strange but this zero alcohol beer really to my taste buds tastes okay and that's all that matters.

Software

Finally brought an app called audio copy and it just works and has solved my problem of getting my mixes out of dj studio and into the big wide world.
I am being to think that dj studio has stopped being updated as its so long since the last update.

Rest

So Easter is here four days rest is always good.

Easter

Finally Easter is here, so you can guess what the weather is going to be like. Yes your right it's going to be horrid.

Spring

I think I have seen signs of spring here. I can't be sure but I have seen that the moss under some tree that I go by has turned a lighter green, it was not like that a week or so ago.

Apple apps

I have been having some fun with a new app on the iPad called real racing 3 apart from it just being set up to take money from you I have enjoyed racing badly around the different tracks. Best of all is that it is free and if you have the time the money grabbing side of it will not ruin your game play, it just takes longer to play.

Blogs

So this blog is not dead but I have to admit that I have not made many posts as I have not had much I want to say and also that I have started to do some reading for the first time in a long while.

So as I am reading I am going to enjoy it while I can.


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Not much

For some reason I have very little I want to say at this time


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Drink of the day

The drink of the Amy today is..... Coffee and why not its always good, if you buy decent coffee....

Music

Funny how music can make things better.

Cold

It's turned rather cold I am not happy about this as I thought ring was due soon.

Websites

Just managed to totally destroy the new website that I have been working on for the last week, gutted is one of the words that I have just used.

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Concrete 5

Just having a go at using concrete 5 as a crm to see if it can be used as a replacement for my current static websites.

I will let you know here how I get on.

Dirk Maggs website

Finally done some work on the Dirk Maggs website added new production due to be broadcast early 2013

Pancake day

So it's pancake day today here in the UK, I am told that sugar and lemon on pancakes is not known in the USA is this really true?

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is ....

Summer punch by Schweppes I know now why it's on special offer!

Even when served cold with ice, to me it just does not taste right, is has a sort of sour taste to it that I just don't like.

Dirk Maggs Productions Website

So after rather a long time I have updated the Dirk Maggs Productions website, spent over an hour or so doing so. The thing is that the end result, when you look at it does not look much different from what I started with.

But and its a big but the main thing is that I have updated the site.

This is good news as I was starting to think that I would never update the site again, that I had lost interest in it.

I have not lost interest but its a sad fact that there is not a lot of new information to add to the site anyway, as the BBC don't appear these days to do radio plays.....

Drink of the day

The drink of the day, well actually yesterday is Bavaria 0.0%

Yes that's right it is a larger with no alcohol !

much to my surprise its actually okay as a drink, but and its a big but their are two things you must do before drinking this that are essential.

So my two rules are;

One the larger must be served cold, not ice cold but just cold.

Two make sure you have not had anything sweet to eat or drink, as this tends to muck up your taste buds for hours and that is the last thing you want when drinking low or zero alcohol drinks.

Also make sure you have not had any soft drinks especially the low or no sugar ones, as there appears to be some sweetness in there that just takes you taste buds out for hours.

So if you have followed rules one and two, then the end result is that this drink is okay.

 The larger does to me taste like a larger but just  with no alcohol  some folks say that you need the alcohol as it deepens the taste, I am not too sure, what they mean by this but in my case as long as I follow rules one and two then drink zero alcohol larger it all works for me and at the end of the day that's all that matters.

Drink of the Day

The drink of the day today is....

tea!

Yes I know but it really is a great drink, of course it has to have milk in it, full fat is best and it also has to have no sugar in it, as with sugar in it all you appear to taste is the sugar and not the tea!

Colder

Just when I was starting to think that we are on our way to spring the weather people are now saying that it could snow on Sunday ?

Why?

I want spring and I want it now

I am getting tired of all this cold weather, I want a BBQ and sunshine, I want to have to wear my sunglasses.

I suppose that I shall have to be like everyone else and wait and count the days to spring, then knowing how strange the weather is these days spring will not be how spring should be it will be wet and cold.

But that's one of the great things about living in the UK in that you never really know what the weather is going to be like and I suppose in the long run its one of the reasons that the weather is one of the most talked about things in the UK.

Windy

So it's just a bit windy today and cold, is spring just around the corner?

Lonely

I think that the word lonely is not a nice word and I hope with how ever long I have left to live that I never end up lonely, if that happens I would I think end. It all as I don't think I could cope with being on my own.

Time

So today time is mostly going quickly.

Anniversary

So I have a special anniversary today, and no I am not going to say what it is here, just that it is 31 years ago to the day and that's all I need to say here about it.

Drink of the day

Today's drink of the day is.....black current squash made with fizzy water and ice, I know it's not hot but it does make I nice drink.

Daylight

Please can I have more daylight that I can see, if possible can I also have some blue sky?

Voice

Had an odd thought this morning, and as this is a notebook for me, I thought I better record it here, so I don't forget it and also as I might one day come back to Can you fall in love with just a voice?

I know that there was a film with David Niven in where his character fell in love with just a voice but that was a film. Can you in real life fall for a voice?

I don't know the answer, I not even sure where one would go to even find out, I do know that people have fallen in love just seeing someone be it a picture or seeing someone in the street or where ever, so I suppose it's possible.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is.....tea!

And why not is nice it's refreshing and it just works.

The tea is Tyhoo if you want to know with milk but no sugar.

Daylight

For the first time in a while I have seen some blue sky and the sun. I know it's a bit strange, Apparently looking at the sun is not good for the eyes but I had forgotten, this as I had not seen it in such a long time.

The good news is that the days here in the northern hemisphere are now getting longer and we have passed the coldest day of the year here in the northern hemisphere which as you know is the 17th of January, so spring is on its way....

Weather

So we are having some weather here at this time, it's rain and strong winds which is good as its not snowing and also it means that it's warmer than this time last week.

Hampton Court Palace

Finally I got to go to Hampton Court Palace on Saturday  and its an amazing place to spend a day in, but if you want to walk the gardens then pick a summer day, as when we were there it was a bit too cold in the wind.

The palace itself is well worth a visit seeing stuff from so long ago that has survived a civil war and 2 world wars is always nice, and this palace is history.

The cost of getting in was I think expensive.

Drink of the Day

The drink of the day today is.... Pepsi max..

Not sure if its something you can drink elsewhere in the world.

But its sugar free and it does not taste like diet Pepsi.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is....milk!

I know milk, but hey it's nice, so long as its the full fat kind... Okay?

Oh and cold...okay?

Warmer

I can't wait for it to get warmer.

Cold and snow

So if things goes as we are told the snow should be gone soon. This is good as I am getting a bit pissed off with it.

Snow

So we have had snow and that's all it's been doing all day snowing, but the snow is not the flake type but the small ball type if that makes sense.


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Snow again

So as I said before I don't like snow, so what's happened today?

Yep we had snow 3 or more inches not sure how much as I have not measure how much there is as I said I don't like snow, and driving in it is not fun.

Driving

Driving in snow is not nice, not fun, and is knackering.

Also its the other cars on the road, they scare me.....

Can you really drive at 70 mph in ice and snow?

That's my problem...

I Hate Snow

I hate snow, there I have said it, I think its because I don't like the uncertainty that comes with it snowing, and I am not very good in driving in it.