Sam's Ramblings

I have owned a Yongnuo Macro Ring Lite YN14EX flash for about 12 months now. It has been an absolutely brilliant accessory with the exception that after replacing the batteries, the battery compartment clips broke. The flash still worked, but the battery cover was open on one side. I had...

I had a need to set an environment variable which was accessible to some python code so that I could have my code use a different configuration on my home development computer from my webserver. Setting a variable is easy (just type export var_name=value). However, the variable is not accessible...

I have encountered this issue loads of times before, so thought it would be worth a quick “note to self” for the future. There are some occasions when I log onto a remote machine through SSH and need to edit text files. On some machines, when using the VI text...

This route starts and finishes in near The Partridge Inn, Singleton. It is a relatively flat walk through open fields and wooded areas with great opportunities for photographing insects such as ladybirds, butterflies and beetles. See some of my photos here. Route Info: Start: The Partridge Inn, Singleton Finish: The...

I took the opportunity while walking in the South Downs to take some photographs of insects along the route. These images were all taken on May 28th 2017 during a warm, sunny, summer afternoon, about an hour before a very heavy downpour. Click here to see the route taken.