Pincushion Protea Rob Dempster
'Allo 'Allo Gardens! (AAG)
Howick (uMngeni)

AAG Blog

Lest they be forgotten
The Patersons
(Maternal Genes)

11 December 2024
Pincushion Protea

How did I get here? Well, I ended up with a weather station that is NAMELESS. It consists of a Sensor Suite that sits on a pole in the garden, and a tablet display that sits on top of a bookshelf and displays what the sensor suite is recording. Neither of these two devices has any markings what so ever. The system also does not export the data being recorded. That really bugs me. It is NAMELESS!!!

So I wrote a blog about NAMELESS that includes some images (pics). In doing so I did not resize images to sizes suitable for transmission and display on the WWW. That was a first. It also means that when someone views the blog, the BIG images are downloaded to the viewers PC, tablet or phone. There they are resized to display as thumbnails and the larger (than the thumbnail) popup images of the same. No Problem!!!! We all have tons of bandwidth.

I should also add that the program I wrote some time ago to resize images for blogs is BROKE, BROKEN by the most recent upgrade of my UBUNTU Linux operating system to version 24.04 I recently also wrote a blog about that.

As I have already mentioned, this blog also uses the BIG images. However, I am working on a fix for the resizing problem. When I have done so I will republish this blog with the resized images. Hopefully in doing so I will be able to discern a noticeable difference in terms of the speed with the two blogs load.

Next, meet the Patersons, and Trish.

To view a larger image, click on a thumb-nail. Click anywhere within the browser context in order to remove it.
Starred thumbnails have an accompanying comment that pops up and remains up, while the mouse pointer is over the thumb-nail.
thumb nail
dempster1.jpg
* 		thumb nail
dempster2.jpg
* 		thumb nail
dempster3.jpg
*
thumb nail
dempster4.jpg
* 		thumb nail
dempster5.jpg
* 		thumb nail
dempster6.jpg
*

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a bicycle.

This blog would be incomplete if it did not mention my (our) son, Bruce. He patiently scanned all the photographs stored in the albums that Edith and I had in our home. These included our albums, and those that came from our parental homes.
A time consuming task.

If you have any comments, corrections, suggestions or plain criticism,
I would appreciate it if you would communicate the same to me.

Fern Hill left fern frond E-mail address
[email protected]
Allo Allo (Protea) Gardens My Home Page icon Fern Hill right fern frond