3rd Raspberry Pi Zero updated to Trixie. This one has the Envirophat header attached and monitors the current temp, pressure and light in the lab. The data is stored in an sqlite database and then presented as a Web page.

Friday drinks, some Saggy Stone Desert Lager 👍🍺

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify New Music Friday with the latest release (today) from Big Big Train .... open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...

Day 2 of Raspberry Pi upgrades. Second Pi Zero done. Bit more complicated this time. Had get to the LCD display up abd running with a python script to get Cape Town weather information.

First Raspberry Pi done 👍 Digital Clock running again on Trixie .... #RaspberryPi

Raspberry Pi day today. First task is getting all my Pi's up to the latest version, Debian 13 Trixie. First 1, my digital clock Pi Zero. It was 2 levels back so it means a new SD card with the latest image and then migration of backed up code to get it back working again. #raspberrypi

Another amazing sunset over Table Mountain and #CapeTown tonight, who needs the Southern Lights 😁

Writing day today continuing with my semi-autobiography story returning to the 1990's and my early career in the IT industry. #writing #booksky #oldschool #nostalgia 📖✒️💻🖱️

#NowPlaying #ProgRock Back to the start of this century for some music from Matt and the boys ... from my newly curated digital music library ...

#NowPlaying #ProgRock New week starting ... some old(ish) music to begin with .. Pendragon's 2008 release Pure ...

#NowPlaying #ProgRock First listen to Bioscope's Gento, the highly anticipated collaboration between Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning. So far an excellent and atmospheric album, perfect for Sunday morning chilling ☺️ open.spotify.com/album/5ov1TW...

Normal service has been resumed, 3-2 to Chelski at the full-time whistle, more bullshit officiating as usual, Chelski players kicking off against the Hammers and coming off second best, Jao Pedro and Cucerella deserved a good slap for being cheating knobheads at the end.

Back in my parallel universe again Chelski 0 - 2 West Ham HT score .... #COYI ⚒️⚽️⚽️

London clash ⚒️

If anybody is looking for something different to watch I recommend "Landman" with Billy Bob Thornton who is brilliant in it. The story has the right mixture of humor, sadness and action. The characters are all strong in their own way and relatable to despite the Texas oil fields setting. 🛢️

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Time for some more classic tunes .... open.spotify.com/album/78tN6v...

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Playing some midweek classic albums starting with this personal favorite of mine..... open.spotify.com/album/75ol9O...

Back in Cape Town after a month away and back on the semi-autobiography writing project again ... more reminiscences from way back when I was a brand new computer programmer starting my career in the IT industry and figuring out life .... 😦💻 #writing #wannabeauthor #booksky

Another win for the Hammers 👍⚒️ ... that's now 3 in a row, I appear to have entered a parallel universe 🌌🌍 ...

Best half of the season so far ... #COYI ⚒️ ... Even the BBC called us superb !

Game time, early kick-off for once on a Saturday #COYI ⚒️

After a month in Pretoria with weather more akin to Durban, rain, rain, rain, hot .... it's time to head back to Cape Town and the mountain and sea views 😀⛰️🌊

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Some Tuesday Tunes from John Mitchells Lonely Robot Project .... 🤖 open.spotify.com/album/3deZ3R...

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify After Christmas, a funeral and the birth of a new grandchild with relatives from all over South Africa and Australia it is now only myself, my partner and her sister until we go back to Cape Town in 2 days, I thought this appropriate 😁 open.spotify.com/album/4nh8I6...

#NowPlaying #ProgRock Latest purchase from @bandcamp.com ..... Another great album from Pendragon ..... pendragon3.bandcamp.com/album/men-wh...

Game 500 in the daily Scrabble competition with my partner. She is currently 8 games ahead. I need to start winning some games as she has been ahead now since last August!

If this is our last victory of the season at least it was against the Spuds at their home ground 👍⚒️ ... Spuds 1 Hammers 2 #COYI

Right in the middle of the track "Strange World" Amelia Rose arrived weighing in at 3.35kg 👶👍

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Still no news on the baby arrival after an hour or so of Steven Wilson so moving on to a bit of Frost* ..... open.spotify.com/album/3s1DQq...

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Listening to another favourite from Steven Wilson whilst awaiting news of arrival of 5th granddaughter 👶 .... open.spotify.com/album/6P7vL4...

Created my first Rust program today managing to get user input and select specific data from a local MySQL database based on the users input. I find the Rust language quite straightforward to understand. I like the way the compiler suggests ways to fix my bugs :-) #rust #programming #newbie

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #AmazonMusic ... Thursday tunes from Pendragon. This is my second favorite of their albums, after their debut "The Jewel" ...

Half way through this BBC Sport report on goal xG there is a graphic about Scottish Independence? #random www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Another fascinating article on Quantum Computing. I particularly liked the analogy of finding something in 100 drawers comparison between current computers and those using quantum computing chips .... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A win is a win, however it comes. Let's see who we play in the next round ..... West Ham analysis: Castellanos scores but Summerville provides spark - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Some tunes from the 2001 release from Pallas and because it's Sunday ⛪👼 .... open.spotify.com/album/03TLpS...

Found a favourite of mine at lunch today ..... 👍🍺🇿🇦 #beer

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify It's a little while after the Twelfth Night but still excellent tunes .... open.spotify.com/album/1X4ZGD...

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify From 1999 ...... open.spotify.com/album/0BSPbc...

Amazing clouds after tonight's thunderstorm here in Pretoria 🌤

#NowPlaying #PorogRock #Spotify More great tunes to start the year oof with, Rush ..... open.spotify.com/album/3uDtOe...

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Starting the New Year with some awesome tunes from Porcupine Tree ... open.spotify.com/album/76iRPj...

New Years Eve beers from Devils Peak Brewery in #CapeTown

The UK is literally falling apart at the edges ..... BBC News - Cliff collapses at West Bay on Dorset's Jurassic Coast - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

This West Ham v Brighton game is mental so far, 3 penalties, 2 scored and 1 missed and the Hammers lead 2-1 at half time #COYI ⚒️

This little guy turned up at the gate today to say hello 🐢 ....

I wasn't in the least bit surprised when Fulham scored in the final minutes of todays match. It is as inevitable as the purchase of yet another useless striker in the January transfer window. We are Championship bound for sure now. 👎

#HowDidTheyDoThat No idea how, but England managed to win the 4th Ashes test in Melbourne today 😦 Maybe my hash words on here yesterday spurred them on 😀