Hot and Sandy

Travel writing, pictures and stuff for people I know. Quite a lot of cycling talk, and some semi-controlled ranting. Hiking, outdoor and two-wheeled stuff, perhaps a little computing when it's worth talking about. Meandering thoughts.

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

A VW doing some Transporting


Thursday, September 24, 2026

A Quick Jaunt in "The Goblin"



And also I rode into the back of a London bus just over 20yrs ago.

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Ten Years Ago!

This visit to a disused Tube station was a decade ago.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

NAS Benchmarks

Some interesting results here.  Mainly that the 1TB and 3TB NAS devices have the same hardware, network position and so on - the only difference is the spec of the drives themselves.  The other surprise is the weak throughput of the Apple TimeCapsule, which has just been fitted with a new Seagate 8TB drive (exact model unknown).  The local SATA connection is pretty impressive but not amazing.  For reference note that my 1Gbps network should support about 125MB/s throughput.


Sunday, February 23, 2020

Fake CPL and Garmin Dash Cam 55

Looks like I might have purchased FAKE circular polariser filter for my Garmin Dash Cam 55:


Check out the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNeziyYled0

Friday, January 31, 2020


Can you guess which days we charged our 94Ah BMW i3?

Monday, October 28, 2019

Almost Time for Another Winter