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Run the Runway Dundee 2025
We’ve all been affected by cancer either through our families, friends or ourselves. Maggie’s provides help and support to so many people and we wanted to give something back. For that very reason, I’ve signed up to take part in a fundraising activity for Maggie’s. It is a 5km run around the runway of Dundee…
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Self-hosting AI LLMs
With all of the recent focus on deepseek, I decided to check out the fuss. With a degree of a caution, I wanted to self-host deepseek, but also take the opportunity to look at other LLMs. If you are reading this, you are likely to know what an LLM is. Simply put, it stands for…
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Loch Leven Castle
Photos from a recent trip to Loch Leven Castle in Fife, Scotland. Built in the 1300s, it was famously used to imprison Mary Queen of Scots in 1567. The castle can only be reached by boat from the pier in Kinross, which is a 15 minute journey. Upon landing at the pier the journey begins……
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Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis in Fife, Scotland
A few photos from the recent solar activity on the evening of 10th March 2024 and the resulting Northern Lights as seen in Fife, Scotland. Aurora Borealis in Fife, Scotland – May 2024 Aurora Borealis in Fife, Scotland – May 2024 Aurora Borealis in Fife, Scotland – May 2024 Aurora Borealis in Fife, Scotland –…
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Retro gaming with Batocera
In this post, I want to take you on a journey. A journey back to the future… of retro gaming. I’ve long extolled the virtues of retropie, however my head was recently turned by Batocera. I wish I had discovered it sooner! I’m a big user and advocate for Raspberry Pi devices. They are great,…
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Ride the North 2024
I’ve only gone and done it and signed up for another ride. I love cycling but in the past few years I’ve eased away from doing organised rides and sportives. What I now look out for is things that are different and also do a bit of good – step forward Ride the North. The…
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Paris Roubaix 2024
Wow once again! MVDP quite simply outclassed the field at Paris Roubaix 2024. The immediate lead up to the famous classic was somewhat marred by the big crash at Itzulia Basque Country 2024, where so many of the big GC riders for the grand tours crashed out (and thankfully) didn’t appear to suffer major injuries.…
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Paris Roubaix Femme 2024
Lotte Kopecky. Wow. A great race, still can’t believe there have been so few womens ‘Hell of the North’ races but at least that wrong has been righted belatedly. My heart was hoping that one of the Bäckstedt sisters could magic up something on the 20th anniversary of their dad’s famous wins in 2004 (props…
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Build your own games server with Pterodactyl
If you like hosting your own games servers, this article will show you how to do so with Pterodactyl and Docker. Previously I posted about building a Minecraft server, but I wanted to be able to host multiple games at the same time, with a reliable way to manage them. There are notable alternatives to…
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Container Monitoring with cAdvisor, Prometheus and Grafana (Part 2)
After my previous post on this topic, I realised there were issues to address due to running Docker and cAdvisor on an ARM-based architecture. The issue As per my previous post, I use Raspberry Pi 4 devices. To get the cAdvisor container to run, you need to use the ARM64 image. An inkling that something…
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