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Build Your Own Air Quality Monitoring System
Introduction When you have multiple Awair air quality sensors scattered around your home or office, checking each one individually through their apps gets tedious. I wanted a centralized dashboard to monitor all my devices at once, track trends over time, and store historical data for analysis. This is the story of building a complete air Continue reading
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Building an ADS-B Flight Tracker with Oracle 23ai and Python
Introduction I recently built a local web application that captures aircraft data from my Flightradar24 ADS-B receiver and stores it in an Oracle database. As someone who works with Oracle databases professionally but admittedly struggles with Python coding, this project was both challenging and rewarding. In this post, I’ll walk you through the entire journey Continue reading
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Settling in nicely.
Pepper has been with us almost three glorious weeks now and she’s the calmest, best behaved puppy one could ask for. Easy to train, thanks to her desire to please and motivated by food (kibble as treats!) and we’ve reliably gotten her to now stay in place on a training mat so we can eat Continue reading
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Pepper 1, Pepper 2.
A couple of months ago, Pepper (1) started exhibiting some health issues around balance and general cognitive functions – affected a permanent head tilt and became clumsier than her usual self. Issues jumping onto the sofa for a cuddle, getting in the car, staggering when walking, etc. We consulted with the vet and they did Continue reading
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Chilean Sea Bass “fish and chips”
Keeping it simple this Christmas with a low effort dinner. Last week I had made the exact same fish in the style of Nobu’s Miso Black Cod and froze the marinade that remained. Since black cod is somewhat of a hard fish to find locally (H-Mart might carry it), I opted once more to use Continue reading
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More Oracle stuff – possibly
I’m a terrible blogger. I don’t mean that the content I put out there is bad, it’s just that I rapidly lose enthusiasm for writing up something I’ve done that I find fascinating and so often just don’t write at all. It’s another reason I’ve never pursued Oracle ACE status – my lack of enthusiasm Continue reading
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Hearing aids.. Widex and Jabra
So I’ve always suspected I have some degree of hearing loss. Recently in the UK and attended a dinner for ten with five each side of a table, something was very apparent. Not a noisy restaurant setting by any measure but understanding anyone not seated directly adjacent even if they were speaking directly towards me Continue reading
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Christmas week dinners
A few years back (2008 or so), we were on a trip to Paris (the one in France, not the one that’s very Texan) for a conference and decided to tack on a trip down to Barcelona. Since we were passing through, we stopped for the night in Carcassonne (France) which is a UN World Continue reading
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Embroidery, dead spiders and bad beer
September 14, 2023, Day 9 I should mention my adventure last night. Walking across the street, not at the crossing I should add, I walked onto an active construction zone. Towing my rolling case uphill about 20 yards I stopped to talk to a construction worker who motioned that I should follow them back onto Continue reading
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Sage and Pepper's Musings 