Where My Whimsey Takes Me – Travels of a wandering retiree …

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019

Tiny Walk Along the Beach

A short while back I was down in Pattaya to visit with some friends for Australia Day, even though I'm not Australian. Mostly it was just a day to pick when we'd all come down from wherever we're living across Thailand, and meet up for an evening to drink beer and swap stories. It was …

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January 8, 2019

Smile! You’re on …

Way back in 2011, before I moved to Thailand, I bought a small Synology DS-211j NAS. The DS-211j came out in 2011, and it has room for two 3.5 inch hard drives. The 'J', I'm not sure of. Maybe 'Junior' since the J model is the least expensive, stripped down version. That said, it's still …

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December 15, 2018

Getting back to how things were–kinda-sorta

When the travel theme I'd been using not only stopped development, but shut down their support site, and the theme broke with an update to the baseline WordPress, I really had no choice to change themes. I picked Twenty-Seventeen since it's a baseline theme from WordPress. It ought to be around for a while. There …

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December 12, 2018December 15, 2018

The Talking Head

I bought an inexpensive 360 camera last year, and while it's gotten some good use as a 360 still camera, I really have not done much of anything with it as a video camera. I made a couple of handheld GoPro videos that I wasn't happy with at all. After learning that Samsung has added …

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