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.

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Gallery Pause & Resume

I needed to take my photos down for a while, because of what happened when PHP met OpenAI tools. Not the first or last AI-assisted CVEs.

Update 11NOV26 - back up, with a new architecture.  I'm planning to make some other changes soon, including AI content tagging and uploading some missing galleries that were hosted elsewhere.

Some very old links might not work, but searching for the file in the new gallery will get you there. If I have time I'll create a redirect table.

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?