Another trip to Scotland for us in 2019, back to the same area around Loch Lomond although to a different cottage and at a different time of year. We decided to make the trip for my birthday this year which meant early July. Fortunately my birthday falls just before the school holidays so we don’t…
Peak Design Everyday Backpack – Review
When it comes to choosing a camera bag it’s a very subjective exercise and as everyone knows, you’re not a real photographer unless you have at least a handful of them. I have a few different bags that I use in different situations, day bags, shoulder bags, travelling back packs and hiking backpacks. I purchased…
Peak Design Capture V3 – Review
My first impressions of the Capture Clip V3 from Peak Design.
Final Practice
The weather was particularly good yesterday and it made a nice change to the rain and wind we’ve had this week. I decided it was a good chance to get some final preparation in for the 3Ds, so I finished work early and headed down to the wood. The weather held for the rest of…

New photo – March 22, 2014 at 03:12PM
Poochie face having a snooze…

New photo – March 01, 2014 at 06:58PM
I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t look like that, even if it has blown.

New photo – March 10, 2014 at 11:54AM
Red Arrows practice flight, late afternoon.
Apache and User Directories
When I’m developing websites, I usually run a test website in a user directory on one of my web servers instead of setting up a new virtual host under the main web server. There are a couple of reasons for this, the main one is I don’t have to change anything in my httpd.conf. The…
Apple Devices and Cisco VPN Client
If you’ve ever used an iPad or iPhone to connect up to an ipsec vpn endpoint, you’ll be familiar with this screen. I’ve been using these connections for a while now, mainly connecting to Cisco ASA firewalls. I use these VPN tunnels for both personal and business requirements. In the past I haven’t been able…