Dave Rice

So the politicians warn us of 5G being used for spying and the snooping agencies complain it can’t be used for that purpose. Can’t have it both ways. It was always bollocks when Trump said he would lift the ban if the Chinese played ball on trade.

I’ve always said it’s the Americans and UK politicians we have to watch, not the Chinese or Russians.

I am impressed by the Reolink Argus but would still use a Hikvision camera unless there were cabling issues. In those circumstances the solar makes perfect sense as you’ll never have to worry about charging / changing the battery.

However they’re simple to remove from the standard mount which means putting up high or on a 3rd party mount, both of…[Read more]

Lighting is very important and usually the last thing people think about. My door’s south facing so anything pointing straight out, like a Ring, risks getting the sun straight down the barrel. My CCTV camera is mounted above the garage, so further along the wall you can see, and even though it’s angled downwards can suffer from flare for 30…[Read more]

It’s not a doorbell and doesn’t need to be. As they approach the existing doorbell they will trigger the motion detection.The motion detection pushes an alarm to your mobile device. This is how Ring works as well.

I tested it on my house before installing at the customers. This guy hadn’t rung the doorbell yet.

This is on it’s normal mount. At…[Read more]

Latency and over sensitive sensors. You need a longish drive IMO.

I fitted a solar power Reolink Argus for a customer on a longer wall mount so it was just covering their door (they have no drive, the door is <2 metres from the pavement).  They had a BT Home Hub under the stairs, so withing 10 feet, and it was hit and miss. Their TV only had…[Read more]

Wow. I remember upgrading our first network at work to get 100mbps. Cost a small fortune.

Result.

Is there a leader who isn’t a right tw@t? Angela Merkel maybe.

In the fictional Discworld land of Fourecks (previously known as XXXX or Terror Incognita) all politicians are locked up after they are elected, “because it saves time later”. Not a bad principle.

Patches and lozenges were my method, I don’t think I could have done cold turkey. I don’t miss it at all but also have no issues with people still smoking around me – outside. I’m not sure I could deal with a smokey pub like they used to be.

Looks like the best ones this year are at night https://www.severn-bore.co.uk/2019_times.html

29th September is a Sunday, probably be busy! October 1st looks good time wise.

IIRC there’s a geological step up in the bed too, plus of course the 2nd highest tides in the world. It’s always on the local news when it’s a good one but it’s nothing compared to the Pororoca on the Amazon. 4 metres high and up to 800km inland. The record surf was 37 minutes apparently.

Well done John. The last fag I had was the one before my heart attack, thankfully it wasn’t my last fag ever.

Same here. I can watch planes going down the runway if I zoom in.

You’d have seen my Grandparents house in Saul I expect, about 6 miles NE. Mind you my Grandfather would probably have been in the Drum & Monkey drinking Bass and playing his accordion.

Amazingly I’ve never seen the Bore, just never got around to it. I remember searching for Devils Toenails at the Hock though. It’s a mud shale cliff on the first…[Read more]

No argument over PR.

Looking at moving the Legion to 4G as their exchange was upgraded to FTTC a year+ ago but still no timescale on the green cabinet being upgraded. There’s plenty of domestic around, including new build estates so no commercial reason not to.

They renewed the BT contract about a year ago as FTTC was looking to be any day, but they couldn’t remember…[Read more]

A bit further down the Severn than that Ed. Elvers are Gloucestershire where it’s a river, albeit a wide one. We’re talking past Minehead where the water turns back to blue from brown.

It’s Porlock and Bossington Beach (a shingle bank like the Chesil). Following a major breach in 96 it was decided that an intervention was necessary. 20 years…[Read more]

What I generally find is that it isn’t the process that’s being objected to it’s the result. If the head of whatever is of the same thinking the objections as to how they got there disappear, as do any protestations about being able to remove them.

Once in power a major policy goal is to change the rules so that you increase your chances of…[Read more]

I don’t know why we didn’t involve the Dutch earlier.

There are some areas of North Somerset where I used to fish where they’ve realised the artificial barriers aren’t the answer and they’re letting the sea encroach again to create salt marshes etc.

Talking to some Americans after our guided tour of the Basilica and Doge’s Palace in Venice. They were interested in going to London next year and they wondered if there was anything as old there?

We had an interesting chat 😊 and didn’t even need to get around to Stonehenge, Westminster Abbey was enough. I explained London was London and not the…[Read more]