Anyone who reads my blog will know that I don’t particularly like Google to the extent of stopping using their monopolised browser/search engine however that was quite easy due to the multitude of great replacements.
The two other parts of my life that are still entangled with the tech giant are storage and email. I assumed that I would tackle the former first - email seemed so complicated compared to other things that I had done like web servers - however last week I happened upon a guide that promised to take me through the steps to making a “fully-functional mail server”. At the bottom of the page there was a long list of testimonials. I decided to try it.
The ISPmail Guide is really good. It was much clearer than other instructions that I have failed to follow in the past. It only took me a couple of hours and a little bit of troubleshooting to get a mail server up and running on my Raspberry Pi 1 A+.
The setup seems reasonably robust and I can add other addresses - maybe some friends or a organisation/company mail - if I want which is great.
My new email is tom@tombrandis.uk. I love getting mail so don’t hesitate to send some to me.
In other news I have made 20 posts here, containing just over 8,000 words! This is a lot for me - writing wasn’t really my thing for a long time. I have also just (nearly) finished my 14,000 word computing project writeup, which was quite hard to do. That will be coming to the reports section soon (although I imagine that the only people interested in it will be other computer science A level students).
Ten posts ago I made a list of things that I wanted to do. They were:
- get into a university I like
- my own experimental search engine
- write a bit about the music I like
- write another essay-length piece
I haven’t finished my A levels yet so I the first point is not achieved yet. I do have offers from some very nice universities though so I should be getting there.
The search engine is getting there but I haven’t had much time to work on it. It will probably reach a version 1 some point after I finish my exams.
I have added the music section to show music I like. I would like to add some more albums here.
I’m not working on a essay right now but I am attempting to write a guide to making a HTML web page for people who have never done so before with the aim of non-tech people being able to understand it. Right now it is longer than “Is content destroying art”.
Since then I have also made 102 commits to the site repo with improvements (or posts) including a thank you page, made the post footers (hopefully) more semantic HTML, add a page to see how much CO2 was in the atmosphere when you where born and adding a new RSS feed with links from around the web.
Here’s to another great 10 posts, Tom Brandis