Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
With all problems related with Twitter at the moment , I spent the last couple of weeks getting into posting on Mastodon instead. I briefly played around with running my own Mastodon instance using a virtual machine, but I found it a little lonely out on my own. It was difficult to discover new people
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Over the last few years ESB Networks – the electricity network operator – has begun the rollout of Smart Meters. The idea is that every home and business in Ireland will eventually get a smart electricity meter. What are smart meters? Smart meters take regular usage readings throughout the day – I believe it’s every
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There are lots of people moving their current account in Ireland at the moment. With both Ulster Bank and KBC having announced that they’re leaving the Irish market this year, there are more than a million banking customers looking to change banks over the next six months. There’s a few online-only banks and payment cards
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On Sunday morning we were singing the Venite from the Orlando Gibbons Short Service, and the CPDL edition we sang from had some rather interesting word underlays. Here on page 3, the tenor and basses sing “and hi-i-i-i-i-i-i-is” for some reason – whereas I rather suspect we should have had the same words as the
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I’ve been using my Jabra Elite 85t ear buds with my Macbook Pro during conference calls in Google Meet for the last 6 months without any problems, until I upgraded to macOS Monterey. Now, they will randomly auto-mute themselves during a call. I might be in the middle of talking, and suddenly in my ear
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It’s less than 6 weeks until Christmas, and I’m checking out the calendar for a few carol concerts to go to in December. But I guess I’m growing impatient, because I’ve already started listening to carols on Spotify. And as I’ve found a few new favourite recordings, I thought I’d add them together to form
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This blog is written by Richard Bloomfield who lives in Dublin, Ireland. I write about stuff that interests me - technology, singing, cycling, and a myriad of other topics.
