Thoughts of an ancient cybernaut on smart homes and other things. I try not to give offence: please try not to take any.
It all started with an article on the BBC website enthusing about the most beautiful road in the world. I would like to drive along that, I thought. I’d have been about 68 at the time and had just acquired a motorbike again after 43 years abstinence. The road is called “Kystriksveien”, which means Coastal … Read more
The plum tree in our garden celebrated the exit from lockdown and other Covid restrictions this year by producing a record number of plums. Having provided my neighbours with plums I realised that I still had far too many left over. I’m still using my plum jam from years gone by so I was at … Read more
Our home network transitioned a few years ago to a fairly standard home network powered by MacOS Server and network equipment from various companies. As I added smart home functionality the network grew organically and became increasingly difficult to manage. I solved that partially by chance and also by moving to UniFi. Then Apple decided … Read more