Fynbos Court Development Application submitted – next steps

It was a big milestone for our Tassie project this last week. Amongst the chaos of Cyclone Alfred in Brisbane our Development Application was submitted to Sorell Council for 5 Fynbos Court! As always it took longer than expected, with lots of calls and discussion on various aspects of the design. Rob from Another Perspective … [Read more…]
Primrose Sands Home Build Progress: Updates

In November, Katie and I made significant progress on our Tasmania project, meeting with electricians, builders, and various service providers. We researched builders’ cost drafts and references, planned design changes, and confirmed a preferred builder. Additionally, we initiated crucial environmental studies and finalized several important design elements. Overall, it was a productive trip.
External-only 2FA for secure ssh on CentOS / Red Hat 9
Securing external access to CentOS/RHEL ssh with google-authenticator 2FA
ClamAV on CentOS 7 (with amavisd)
There are a lot of guides out there to getting CentOS 7 working well with ClamAV / Amavisd-new, but I didn’t find out single one of them that quite hit the spot completely. I already had a working postfix / amavisd server, so this is working on an assumption of that. I don’t address configuration … [Read more…]
Matt and Hayley’s Wedding 2/8/16
Pictures from Matt and Hayley’s wedding today. Congrats to you both – and to Linc too 🙂 12…5►
The Five Sisters of Kintail
Near Eilean Donan Castle in the Highlands of Scotland, we stayed at a small town called Dornie. Our host, Jennifer (a Canadian with a lovely combined accent from years in Scotland!) owns a small place on the edge of the tidal Loch Long, which joins into Loch Alsh and Loch Duich. As we got there about … [Read more…]
Family, friends, and us!
I’m going to add pics of family, friends, and selfies / pics we’ve taken of us… I’ve started here: and here: I’ll add more as I go, and will try to put some captions on some to indicate who is who…
Steam Great Western Railway Museum, Swindon
Well this was one of the highlights for me 🙂 I had originally wanted to go to Didcot, where the Great Western Society are, but they are not open until summer. So this was second choice – but turned into a great visit. We have both been impressed by the interactive nature of the exhibitions … [Read more…]
Historic Bath, a lot of walking!
From Cheddar Gorge it was time to head to Bath. Again, somewhere I’ve never been before. Our first accommodation was an airbnb room in central Bath. On the way there we had a call from airbnb saying the host had cancelled the booking! This was followed by a call later to say that it was … [Read more…]