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Author: Rick Hurst
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Overland dreaming
As you may have guessed from the lack of recent updates, we haven’t been able to use Rocky much over the winter, and he is currently…
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Rasberry Pi as low power office server
Part of a system that I look after for a small distribution company includes a linux server based in their offices. The server doesn’t do much…
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Living The Van Life
I found this blog about a guy living in his Westfalia Vanagon (T25/T3) while surfing youtube – I found a video about heating a van on…
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2CV Campervan
After I had to let my first T25 go, I bought a Citroën 2CV. The 2CV, due to it’s incredibly simple mechanics, bulletproof 2 cylinder aircooled…
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Heating a campervan for winter camping (and day trips).
Rocky has sat parked up near our house pretty neglected since the summer, but now my thoughts are turning to winter camping and day trips. Last…
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Managing Google App Engine SDK versions on OSX with virtualenv
When I first started developing Django apps on Google App Engine (GAE), I downloaded the google app engine launcher. Installing this will install the latest version…
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Everyday Designer Article: Freelance to permanent and back again
Earlier this month I wrote an article for Everyday Designer talking about my experiences about my experience of working as both freelance and permanent web developer.
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Catching up – Summer 2013
Ok after a productive start to the blog this year, i’ve failed to post since the start of the summer. I’m going to blame it mostly…
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Where’s my office now?
Just stumbled across this blog about this stateside couple living and working on the road in their VW Vanagon (T25/T3 to us Brits). I’d love to…
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Owning a T25 – 12 months on
It’s nearly a year since we picked up our VW T25 camper. In that time, we’ve:- I’ve also spent an unhealthy amount of time on the…
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European holiday road trip 2013
At the end of July, we headed off in an unprecedented UK heatwave to Portsmouth to catch a ferry to Santander in the north of Spain.…
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Turn up, Pop up and Cider I up
Last weekend we decided we should absolutely not go away camping, as we have loads of life admin to sort out at home. But then some…