RNLI Shout Report – 01/01/2024
Yes, you read that right. Bembridge RNLI gets off to a flying start with a shout on New Years Day. The pager went off at 1759 to launch the ALB. I was just settling down to watch something on the TV, I say “something” as we had yet to determine what that was going to […]
RNLI Shout Report – 28/12/2023
The pager sounded at 1732, to which I responded immediately. The ALB was launched to search for an object reported to have been seen in the water by Sandown. Following the launch I was instructed to unhitch the Sea Catch from the Shackle and then walk the winch line and shackle down to the door. […]
RNLI Shout Report – 27/12/2023
There are two shouts to report, on this day of Storm Gerrit, a day when no right minded person, mad or otherwise, would venture out to sea. Shout #1 I actually missed the launch for this shout, at 1512, as I was in Newport at the time. However we were finishing up our quest to […]
RNLI shout report – 24/12/2023
I thought I would make more use of this site to record my involvements in various launches of the Bembridge lifeboat. Naturally I cannot post personal details and it is possible than it some cases I cannot post at all. However in the event that the outcome is good and is in the public media […]
Building our new life
It’s been a while. Look, maybe I should rename the site to “It’s been a while”. Lots and lot have been achieved. The old house, gone, sold, forgotten about. Well, not entirely forgotten about but its not my problem anymore. New house. Summer house, gone! Yeap, demolished. Cleared down to its concrete plinth. Less said […]
Progression
The “moving house” project has taken a lot of my time and will continue to do so. However this is a change in the phase of this project now. The primary moving exercise is now complete. The title of home has moved from the old house to the new. The old house, I shall call […]
It’s been a while…
Yes, it has been a while since I last posted on here. What is my excuse. Well, simply put, we’ve moved house. This site is hosted from home and that had to move as well. So, oh heck yes, so much has changed. The lab I built, which I vblogged on here, its been left […]
All quiet? Kind of!
Its been very quiet on the project front, at least what I can report on here. The increasing power bills have seen my enterprise servers go into a perpetual “cold and dark” condition. All primary functions are running on the pair of RPi4’s and a single RPi3. There is a big project a foot. I […]
Home Lab Cloud – Different host OS
Having succeeded in getting a small K8s cluster running I then considered the fact that I had to use a specific version of the packages and a specific version of Docker. Could I upgrade to the latest releases? First I cloned the working machines, then attempted the upgrade, and broke everything. That is pretty damn […]
Home Lab Cloud – Kubernetes install
Part 1 This subject has proven rather heavy. There are plenty of places on the net to describe what Kubernetes is. I get that. Now if I go to the home of Kubernetes at https://kubernetes.io/ then I have an absolute load of information about installing, managing and,,,, well, I didn’t really get off of the […]