Author: Glenn Trigg
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Bikepacking in the Yarra Ranges
When: April 6 to April 12, 2025Total riding distance: 202KmCumulative elevation gain: 2015mApproximate loaded bike weight: ~50Kg Day 1: Mt Evelyn to East Warburton Along the Lilydale-Warburton rail trail. Day 2: East Warburton to near Cambarton Along Woods Point road.First stop to replenish water. Day 3: To Frenchmans Creek camp ground Along Woods Point road…
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Ghostty – Debian/Ubuntu package
I’m really liking this new terminal emulator, ghostty, so while we’re waiting for official deb packages to appear, here is my offering for the amd64/x86-64 architecture. md5sum: c8d2899a54a1349b9b75a8355983a6b6shasum: 41bbf845a40e10b015310ce9c64f20645f7b88e0
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Then and now – 37 years in electronics
In 1985 I completed the final year project for my electronic engineering degree. The project I chose was an ultrasonic level detector. Here is the introduction from my report which explains the use scenarios… Without getting too technical, the solution involved using a special purpose ultrasonic transceiver integrated circuit (LM1812 by National Semiconductor) surrounded by…
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Contemplating the power outage
Recently we experienced a severe storm that left the area without power, phone & internet. The water supply for the house that we occupy comes from a tank that collects rain water, and is fed to the house via an electric pump. So when the power is out we also don’t have any tap water…
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The case against having pets
Whoever came up with the idea of domesticating animals and turning them into pets had one of the worst ideas ever! My rant 😀 Ok, with that out of the way here are some thoughts around why keeping pets is not a good idea. They start out fairly personal and mostly opinion and progress to…