This post provides information about obtaining the specific residence card for people who have been resident in Italy since before Brexit.
Continue reading “Brexit: Carta di Soggiorno for residents in Italy”Building pigpio for Raspberry Pi OS “trixie”
The pigpio library for GPIO control supports hardware timing for PWM and servo outputs, which provides much more accurate and jitter-free control. It can be used from gpiozero by setting the pin factory.
However, for some reason, pigpio is not included in the latest version (“trixie”) of Raspberry Pi OS. This post summarizes how to build it from source.
Abbey Art Centre (1952)
WordPress plugins
WordPress is a website creation and blogging platform that I have used for a number of websites (including this one). It’s very quick to install, highly customisable and well supported. You can find out more and download an installer from WordPress.org.
Continue reading “WordPress plugins”What just happened in Parliament?
I don’t know WTF just happened in the UK parliament. It is complete chaos. After tonight’s votes it seems that this government (and parliament) are out of control and totally ineffective.
Continue reading “What just happened in Parliament?”Further evidence that Farage is an idiot
Apparently, Farage and other UKIP/Brexiter morons are up in arms about the EU referring to Gibraltar as a “colony”. These are the same people who want the old “blue” (black) passports back. You know, the ones that referred to Gibraltar as … you guessed it … a colony.

Honda CRV
Emergency pit stop on the way home. And then, having her temperature taken to make sure all is well.


What a great snowman

RIP Hans Rosling
The always-excellent BBC More or Less has a fantastic tribute to Hans Rosling. In this post-truth / alternative-facts era we need people like him, and organisations like Gapminder, more than ever.

