When we set up our office earlier in the year I decided on a standing desk which I put together using the Ikea Algot system. In order to avoid using up desk space with a light I originally planned on a clip on light but then saw my Pi Zero and Unicorn pHat and thought they could make a good alternative. Hardware The Raspberry Pi Zero is in a simple case, mounted onto the underside of the shelf above my working space.

At Jessica’s school, where I am a governor and Laura works, they’ve got an incubator of eggs from Living Eggs, so that the school can watch as they hatch into chicks. On Monday I got a text from Laura wondering if it would be possible to set up a webcam to watch them hatch. We happened to have a wireless webcam that wasn’t being used so that evening I got it out to make sure it was working and configured it with an FTP server to upload photos every minute and if there was motion detected.

Updated 11th October 2016 for API Connect In less than half an hour I could update my project to automatically publish my API in IBM API Connect - Here’s the steps… Sign up for API Connect through Bluemix by creating an API Connect service instance - if you don’t already have a Bluemix account you can sign up for a free trial account. Install and configure the new toolkit CLI - replacing eu with au or us if you chose a different bluemix region:

Great South Run weekend is here! Today we had the 5k run which Laura, Anne and Des took part in and all did very well, and Abi’s 1.5k Mini Run - even Jessica was enjoying running on the race track they had there and is keen to do the mini run next time round. Now all that’s left is my one tomorrow - I’m going to be running the 10 mile Great South Run for the first time to raise money for gain.

With POODLE the time has come to disable SSLv3 everywhere. There will be clients that break and need fixing but it needs doing. You can read more details and background on the vulnerability. Here’s a few useful snippets from my experience with it this week: Apache Make sure the combination you have for the SSLProtocol line disables SSLv2 and v3 - something like: SSLProtocol All -SSLv2 -SSLv3 DataPower Ensure your crypto profiles have SSLv2 and v3 disabled in the options line:

Using my Raspberry Pi, Piglow and the traffic API feeds I have created a script to give me a visual representation of the journey time to work. This gives me an idea of the traffic before I leave the house in the morning, or so that when I’m working at home I can look at it and see how glad I am that I’m not sitting in traffic on the way to work :)

Elasticsearch Server Second Edition is a good book to read if you’re getting started with Elasticsearch or considering using it. It goes through all the main areas of getting your data indexed and then searching and analysing it. The book is well written and easy to read through and serves well as a reference guide to refer back to later. It has helped me get an overview of some of the features of Elasticseach that I’ve not yet used, some of which I hope to explore in further depth following on from the examples in the book.

Boot from Live CD / USB Decrypt the filesystem <code class="markdown">cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 <span class="emphasis">*hostname*</span> </code> Mount filesystems <code class="sql">mount /dev/dm-2 /mnt mount /dev/dm-3 /mnt/home mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot mount <span class="comment">--bind /dev /mnt/dev</span> mount <span class="comment">--bind /sys /mnt/sys</span> mount <span class="comment">--bind /proc /mnt/proc</span> </code> Enter chroot chroot /mnt /etc/crypttab should have: sda5_crypt UUID=sda5_uuid

Jessica on her first day at school