Rating: 5/5 Health Vitamin C: The Real Story by Steve Hickey and Andrew Saul This is the story of the simple compound vitamin C (or more correctly L-Ascorbic Acid) has been used by a small band of pioneering doctors and scientists to cure the supposedly incurable for more than half a century. The authors of this book are two scientists with first hand experience in the use of and the benefits of vitamin C treatments....

Rating: 4/5 Cycling The Art of Cycling by James Hibbard I picked this book up expecting it to be an account of how the author entered professional cycling and their progress in their professional career. It is all of this and more because this book is essentially two stories; one about cycling and the other about the history of philosophy and how this directly relates to the author’s own personal and intellectual journey....

When Tesla released the Model 3, they removed the instrument cluster that is traditionally behind the steering wheel. The information normally presented there is instead provided on the large landscape display in the center of the dashboard I believe that they did this for two main reasons; cost cutting and also because they expected that these cars would be capable of self driving at some point in the (near?) future rendering a driver and the need for extra driver information redundant....

In my previous post I asserted that Tesla vehicles are at their core computers on wheels. The electronic and mechanical systems are designed in a modular fashion and communicate with each other over multiple CANBUS networks with high speed two way information flows. If you want to access vehicle data and more specifically driving information, then you need to tap into the appropriate bus and filter the messages for the ones you are interested in....

In a previous post Hosting a blog using Hugo and Github, I explained how to use Hugo to create a blogging website and host it on Github. In this post we will look at how to configure Github to serve your website using your own domain. Configure Your Pages Repository I explained how to organise your Hugo blog/website into two repos; one for the entire website project and the other for the /public folder which represents your website....

Rating: 5/5 Health How Not To Die by Michael Greger MD After first reading this book and being really impressed by it nearly three years ago, I decided to revisit it again after a recent conversation with a doctor about cholesterol and blood pressure. His view is that these are often hereditory diseases that worsen with age and for which drugs offer the only real solution....

Rating: 4/5 Sci-Fi Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Although I don’t read a lot of science fiction, this book intrigued me because it had universally great reviews and is also written by the same author that created The Martian which turned into a movie of the same name starring Matt Damon. The movie is well worth seeing if you haven’t....

Rating: 5/5 Business Power Play Elon Musk, Tesla and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins Although Elon Musk is the central character in this book, this isn’t a book just about Elon Musk as much as it is the story of Tesla Motors itself. The book primarily tells the story of the original founders of Tesla and their ambition to create an electric sports car unlike anything seen before....

Sysadmins (and lesser mortals) use cron to schedule regular jobs on servers for all sorts of tasks including backups. Since it can be a pain to log into each server to ensure that these scheduled jobs are running correctly days, weeks or even months after the jobs were first created, you can opt to receive notifications of the success or failure of these jobs by email. In order to send emails, cron relies on sendmail....