Rick
A Yorkshireman born in the early 1960's who loves to learn new things. Knows something about everything but doesn't know everything about anything.
Enjoys exploring anything mechanical
or technical, educated in mechanical engineering and various computer related subjects with a passion for repairing rather than simply disposing of broken things.
As my first adventure into music, I began trying to play bass guitar during a mild mid-life crisis because all the other family members could play music. Whilst I'll never be a Jah Wobble, Donald 'Duck' Dunn, Jaco Pastorius, or Cliff Burton, I do thoroughly enjoy the playing, and my time at Macclesfield Music Centre was a great experience.
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Christmas 2024 was spent quietly relaxing at home here in Portugal.
We did have a nice pile of gifts to open on the day and lots of food to see us through the festive season.
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During our recent trip to Venice Janet decided to buy a present for me, as my birthday is less than a couple of weeks after our anniversary.
There was a great deal of choice with our endless walks around the shops while in Venice.
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Yes, it is slightly late for the Christmas update but as usual, getting around to these things takes a little time.
Once again I had a snap-together wooden model to assemble.
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After a day's worth of traveling, "planes, trains and automobiles" style, we were now staying at a hotel in Frènois, on the outskirts of Sedan, France.
The main purpose of the surprise trip, which everyone had kept secret, was to visit my grandfather's gravesite in the small village of Fleigneux some 5-6 km from Sedan.
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I had known for some time that Janet was arranging a special trip away for my 60th birthday this year.
However, the destination remained a secret until the penultimate part of the journey.
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I managed another challenge over the last couple of days by successfully registering for my driving licence renewal.
Even more astounding is that I did not have to resort to speaking English in any of the offices.
Subcategories
Technology
The main technology blog area.
Raspberry Pi
A section to explain the Raspberry Pi.
I have two Pis, one is an old Pi 2 model B with 512MB RAM, and the newer is a Pi 4 model B with 8GB RAM.
Just used for tinkering now and then, but I have some projects in mind.
Superboard II
This page is dedicated to the Ohio Superboard II microcomputer.
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The first computer that I bought, back in 1980, where my programming began.
Synology Diskstation
All things Synology here.
Problems, hacks, great features and poor features.
Synology Fixes and Patches
Synology Diskstation is a complete package, but there are situations where it needs manual intervention to stay fully updated.
Joomla Patches
This is where I document the specific modifications and patches to the Joomla! system and its components.
For my own reference when updates break the patches and overrides are not in place.
Bass Guitar
Blog space for Rick's bass guitar hobby. 
MMC-Gig
Jean's Birthday
The MMC Big Band were requested top perform for the birthday party of Jean, one of our members. The event took place on 3rd February 2013 at Hollin Hall, Bollington and was recorded on video. I took the resulting video files to produce a DVD.
I'm in there playing bass next to the drummer but usually obscured by Ben on keyboards. Our eldest daughter Emily is also in the band playing clarinet, the young lady wearing the dark jacket on the front row.
All held together by Neil Shaw-Hulme, a talented multi-instrumentalist with a fantastic sense of humour and a great deal of patience.