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Navidrome + Feishin. The way to go...

Deeply in love with Feishin ... Great app. Even though I don't know what Feishin means. Thanks very much...!!!

Backup. My new goto..!

I self-host most, if not all, of my digital life: email, websites, music, and photos. As I say, most, if not all. I do have a Google account, but there’s not really much on it. Which naturally begs the question: Do I backup all this stuff? The answer is yes — very much so; you would be crazy not to. The self-hosting platform I use is YunoHost . I’ve been running this server for nearly six years…

Picture of the week no. 5

On a recent visit to an animal sanctuary, The Wildheart Animal Sanctuary on the Isle of Wight, in the United Kingdom, I encountered this little fellow. Cute or what?

Visitors to be charged a "Road Tax" to use Belgian roads.

Visitors to be charged a "Road Tax" to use Belgian roads Will they improve the roads though...? I guess not. All governments are grabbing money from whoever they can, however they can.

Another Cowes Week over...

The 200th Cowes Week ends today. It was a good week that we actually took part in. We entered a race, the Performance Cruiser "C" class with Salty Sailing, where we had a great day out. A very slick and professional outfit. The rest of the week was spent visiting and watching races with good friends, which ended with watching the closing fireworks with the same friends. My public collection of the…

Picture of the week no. 4

While having coffee, I spotted this poor dog, who looked so fed up. Poor thing... A fed up dog

Cowes Week 2026

It's the 200th Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight... Just had to have a go...

Quote… Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali said: Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it!

Picture of the week no.3

Taken at a railroad crossing in Florida. Slow shutter speed, hold it steady and… fire!

Forgotten how to write

Too much tech....! We always walk about making notes on our phone, tablet or computer, but what about good old fashioned pen and paper? I got a very nice writing pad out and my old fountain pen out and started writing again. How novel... It feels good to write stuff down...