dave.auld

Last week we picked up our second rescue dog. Meet McGee, he is an 11 week old Staffy cross. I was travelling back into the country on the Friday, so had agreed to collect him on the Saturday, we were

Way back in 2012 I backed the Adapteva Parallella Kickstarter. I was going through a phase of gadgets, and was experimenting will all sorts of electronic boards. Unfortunately, as work and family evolved,

Took an evening stroll down at Paphos harbour, lovely sunset, so peaceful and still in the harbour. Let me know in the comments which photo you like the best!

Over the last few months I have been building up a small pot of various crypto's, dipping in and out of a few to profit take and diversifying across various tokens. So, as of this morning, the spread of

The big AltCoin sell off has begun as we approach the first of the Bitcoin forks coming up. October 25 for BitgoinGold. Alts are down and BTC is trading up over $4800. In my view it is a really risky move

Get them sorted John.........

Located in the Persian Gulf between Qatar and Iran, we had an unscheduled visitor to the installation. A Greater Spotted Eagle dropped by to say hello. It had no marking rings on its legs, and appeared

It was only yesterday morning I woke and checked CoinMarketCap. It was a sea of red. All but about 4 or 5 of the Top 100 were red. I didn't take a note of them unfortunately....... 24 hours later and it

In case you didn't see the interview on RT, John McAfee talks about why the current Bitcoin value rise isn't a bubble. And interesting point to note from his sentiment, is that his valuation of $500,000/BTC

This morning, I decided to have a little bit of a fettle, or more of a play. Nothing major, $1000. Having been watching the markets recently and the spike in BCH over night, I felt that the indicators

The Litecoin Developer update has recently been dropped onto Youtube. There are several interesting things in development and certainly the futures bright and shiny. Especially the solid 18k gold Nano

Following on from my previous picture post, below are some photographs I took while in Cyprus back in March of this year. Having spent the last 2+ years in Qatar, I had got quite used to the sky having

I have recently moved to Cyprus from Qatar, and while I was out doing a spot of shopping, on the road home, I came round a corner and was presented by this cloud formation growing in a brilliant blue sky,

It has been an amazing run over the last week for Bitcoin. The fork appears to have settled down, the investors are hungry for more. Everyday just feels like a new high is reached. The question has to

A look at how I implemented site-to-site openvpn tunnel on dynamic endpoints. Note: I originally published this article in October 2016 on CodeProject. The original article can be found here and also posted

I thought I would just share how things have looked over my first month on Genesis. As I said back in this post a couple of weeks back, I had decided to take Genesis Mining for a spin. I purchased a 50MH/s

I you use Google Sheets to track Bitcoin or other CryptoCurrencies, you may be unaware that Google Sheets has direct support for Bitcoin pricing using the BTC currency ticker, and this can also be using

I don't know about your message box on Facebook, but they have started arriving in my mailbox telling me not to accept and to forwardard onto all my contacts blah blah blah.... FFS it is 2017, do people

I had the pleasure of staying a few days at the Intercontinental The City in Doha, Qatar last week. I had been to the hotel previously for meetings during the day, but as a resident of the city, had never

With all the talk of Qatar at the moment, many people round the world have only heard of it because of Qatar Airways, World Cup, Oil & Gas and been the richest country by capita. They think hot, sandy,