Year: 2025
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A couple of hours into our ferry journey, we just got our first glimpse of the island of Tobago, where we'll be staying for the next few days.
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Across the sea, a rugged island begins to emerge over the horizon, through distant clouds.
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Just visited the Logos Hope, an ocean-going, volunteer-staffed floating book fair (run by a Christian charity, but it's not-TOO-religiousy inside, if that's not your jam) that's coincidentally docked for a fortnight right next door to my hotel on Trinidad!
What a strange concept. Fun diversion though.
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White and blue passenger ship docked alongside a building whose roof reads 'Welcome to Port of Spain'.
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My 12:55 flight is, according to this departure board, delayed to... 12:55!?
Either it's running a full 24 hours late, or this board is untrustworthy.
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Airport departures board, showing (among other flights) the 12:55 to Port of Spain is 'Delayed to 12:55'.
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Except to children, I don't really give Christmas presents to (or expect to receive them from) others any more.
But that didn't stop my buying myself a gift of a particularly fun Lego set to build over the festive period (with a little help from the eldest child!).
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Lego model of a Tallneck from videogame Horizon: Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, with minifigure of protagonist Aloy standing atop its head.
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I'm pretty impressed with running WordPress on Caddy so far.
It took a little jiggerypokery to configure it with an equivalent of the Nginx configuration I use for DanQ.me. But off the back of it I get the capability for HTTP/3, 103 Early Hints, and built-in "batteries included" infrastructure for things like certificate renewal and log rotation.
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Browser network debugger showing danq.me being served over protocol 'h3' (HTTP/3) and an 'Early Hints Headers' section loading a WOFF2 font and a JavaScript file.
(why yes, I am celebrating my birthday by doing selfhosting server configuration, why do you ask? 😅)
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Entitled by Kate Manne
Entitled is a bleak and sometimes uncomfortable pop-sci dive into the issue of male entitlement. Covering a variety of different areas in which our patriarchal society somehow continues to disenfranchise women in particular and injure everybody by proxy, it provides neither a 'quick fix' nor even an optimistic outlook for the future, but it provides valuable focus areas for the continued fight for a better future.
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Did not find GC8KR7D Motorway Mayhem (another one)
This checkin to GC8KR7D Motorway Mayhem (another one) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geohound and I braved an explore of this litter-filled GZ but couldn't spot a cache among the copious detritus before the whiny little thing started fighting to get back to the warm of the car …
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Endless SSH Tarpit on Debian
Given that I already routinely run my SSH servers on unusual ports, I'm surprised it took me until today before I discovered Endlessh, an SSH tarpit you can install on the conventional port to waste the time of anybody attempting a brute-force attack. Here's how I set it up on a Debian 12 server.
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Compared to the children, the dog is Not So Impressed by the deep snowfall we've just received. To be fair, it's basically up to get armpits!
(leg-pits? I don't know what the right word is for a canine!)
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A French Bulldog up to the top of her legs in deep snow.
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I'm staying in a lodge in the Yorkshire Dales National Park to celebrate the eldest kid's birthday and we've just received a huge dump of snow, overnight. What was grass is now a thick white carpet of fresh powder. Sounds like a great birthday present for an excited kid I can just hear beginning to wake up...
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Snow- covered meadow, uh a fence running through it, with snowy winter woods beyond.
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Did not find GC8TK41 05 - Willow's Wanders - Eshington Bridge
This checkin to GC8TK41 05 - Willow's Wanders - Eshington Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An extended search over two visits today by the eldest child and I couldn't reveal this one. Very frustrating, given that it's clearly there somewhere (CO performed maintenance just yesterday!). We're staying in …
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Found GC80592 Coffee, Cache and Dash
This checkin to GC80592 Coffee, Cache and Dash reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF while stopped for a confort break on a long journey North from Oxford. The dog wanted to go with the others into the services, but had to stay outdoors with me and hunt for the …
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My Ball
One of my dog's favourite games is 'My Ball', in which my role is to want the toy that she is guarding. It's all about the motivation, you see! Which is like some of the games I used to play with our eldest, when she was a toddler, I realise.
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Our family tradition on New Year's Day is to go to the Rollright Stones. Legend has it that you can't count the standing stones and get the same answer twice.
This year the younger child counted 37, the elder 67... so wide a difference that you can see how one might ascribe a mystical reason!
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A stone circle in the rain. Some people (and a dog) are walking around it.