Well, I’ve not been doing great with posting more, especially on the quick short posts front. I guess it’s because I’m either too busy all the time or because I just don’t think anyone wants to read every last thought which pops into my head. Probably a bit of both!
Anyway, here’s a quick run-down of what I’ve been up to over the past couple of weeks:
- I’ve been working on an Arduino project at home. I’ll post more on this over the weekend (with photos). For now I’ll just say that it’s a clock with some sensors on it – but it does a little more than your average clock. Although I’ve had my Arduino for a couple of years I’ve never really used it in earnest and I’m finding it refreshing to work with. Since I use PICs at work the simpler architecture is nice. Of course I program it in C so I can’t comment on the IDE/language provided by the Arduino tools.
- The beer which I made recently is now bottled and maturing. It’ll need a couple more weeks to be ready to drink though (actually the longer the better really, but I can never wait!). I’ll report back on what it’s like when I try it.
- I’ve been thinking about ways to get the ton of data I have spread across my machines in order. Basically I want to get it all onto my mythbox/home server/personal cloud and acessible via ownCloud and NFS. I also have a ton of dead tree (read ‘important’ documents) which need scanning and a ton of CDRs that need backing up. After that I have to overhaul my backup scheme. It’s a big job – hence why I’ve only been thinking about doing it so far.
- I’ve also been thinking about upgrading my security with the recent hacks which have occured. Since I’m not hugely reliant on external services (i.e. Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon) I’m doing pretty well already. Also, I already encrypt all my computers anyway (which is way more effective than that stupid ‘remote wipe’ misfeature Apple have). I am considering upgrading to two factor authentication using Google Authenticator anywhere I can and I want to switch to using GPG subkeys and storing my master private key somewhere REALLY secure. I’ll be writing about these as I do them so stay tuned.
Well, hopefully that’s a quick summary of what I’ve been up to (tech-wise) lately as well as what might be to come in these pages. For now, that’s all folks.
Leave a Reply