Raspberry Pi

A friend at work gave me one of these last week and, with the arrival of an HDMI / DVI cable yesterday, I was able to boot it up for the first time this afternoon. As an exercise in getting back into Debian package management, I set up motion, and successfully FTPed some horribly blurry pictures of our cat onto my website, care of a Sony EyeToy camera, which must be about 9 or 10 years old now.

I hope it rains next weekend :).

I had to change the picture – the horizon was knocking my eye out every time I looked at it. Doing the custom crop to the precise dimensions that this theme requires has exposed an irritating feature – or rather absence of feature – in Aperture: you can’t save a custom crop size. The original picture this is taken from is here. The croc was at the Ranganathittu Sanctuary.

New year, time for a new theme. And as usual, the bit that is tricky to do is the random image. The banner picture is from our trip to Nagarhole national park, and was taken on our boat safari, showing the people crossing the lake in a coracle.

I’ve found one bug already, which is that the search page is displaying some HTML around the thumbnails in articles that return results. I’ll live with it for tonight at least…