A while back I had an e-mail from my web hosting company saying they were increasing the price for the package I was using. This got me thinking about whether the route I’d taken for hosting was the best option and if I’m getting my money’s worth there. For reference I had a reseller hosting package, hosting a few sites for family members using not very much disk space or bandwidth - certainly not near the allowance on the package.

For Christmas the girls gave me a Raspberry Pi, and for my first project I decided to try recording how bright the sunlight at our window is using an old Webcam. The basic idea is: Capture a photo Analyse the brightness of the photo Log it (and eventually publish to cosm) So first of all getting the webcam set up - My webcam is a Logitech Quickcam Express, which proved to work nicely with the Raspberry Pi, after plugging it in, it showed up straight away in the output to lsusb: ricky@pi ~ $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.

This morning I had fun doing the mini great south run with Abi, unfortunately RunKeeper crashed as we went through the start line but I think we did the 1.5k in roughly 11minutes. She had a great time and did it with a mixture of running at a good pace and then walking for a little bit until she saw too many people overtake, then she would pick up pace and dive through gaps in front of her.

After seeing the bagel making on “The Great British Bake Off” the other night, I decided it would be fun to give it a go myself. So this evening using this recipe I did… Not quite as exciting as the ones they made on the programme, but they seemed to go well for a first attempt!

[caption id=“attachment_7453” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”] Sketch of Dolbadarn Castle, Wales[/caption]

Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! Psalm 43:3

A while back I wrote my original script to tweet event reminders from Google Calendar and it’s been through a couple of iterations since and been broken for a while. Well finally I got round to update it to use OAuth to connect to twitter using the twitteroauth library and switched to using Postmark Inbound for handling the incoming e-mail. What you will need Web hosting with php A Google calendar attached to a Gmail account

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways. Psalm 119:37