Sam's Ramblings

This might seem like a silly post, but I managed to do the impossible – removing the lid from a soldering iron tip tinner tin (what a mouthful). This is the first time I have ever bought the stuff, so I never knew how hard it would be to get...

I recently migrated this WordPress website between servers. It was fairly straightforward: copy the database, copy the files, transfer the domain etc. However, one (big) issue that I encountered was that with the exception of the homepage and the admin dashboard, every page resulted in a 404 Not Found. I...

I had a need to straighten some pieces of wire that came from a coil. They started out all bent and twisted. Even after some manual manipulation, trying hard to get out every kink using a pair of pliers, it was still wonky – nowhere near straight enough. I then...

Introduction This post serves as a reminder to myself what the basic steps are to configure my webserver. Hopefully it will help others. There are some additional steps I took following those below, such as to configure Python, but that is outside the scope of this post. I was prompted...

I saw a wolf spider the other day (Pardosa amentata) dashing about with her egg sac beneath her. As it was a warm sunny day, she was particularly fast so I was unable to take a photograph. However, I did notice that she had two bright red lumps on her...