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Well it has become apparent that i’m an idiot. Firstly somehow in the confusion of moving house it would seem i have left the current clamp attached to the old house mains …. meaning my home monitor/smart meter is now not so smart and i need a new current clamp.

Secondly the python program works ok in py2 not py3 which is strange as i tried to write it in a such a way that it worked for both, and on tests on the original pi it worked ok but after transfer to a new pi with a fresh install of Raspbian Stretch Lite it does not like python3.

Well I knew moving was stressful, moving an entire house on your own (and i do mean solo!) is additionally stressful but actually agreeing on decor, layout, appliances and so on just notches it up to kill me now stress levels.

My grasp of English must be quite limited because apparently the colloqial phrase everything is shit constitutes a meaningful and purposeful way of starting a discussion on the contents of the house it can include items such as the doors are shit which conveniently goes hand-in-hand with there are too many doors (one for each room if anyone’s interested!), floor tiles, bathroom tiles, curtain rails, fireplace, kitchen …. the list goes on but the phrase remains the same.

Well after much deliberation (6 months!) i’ve gone and done it…. today i received an Amazon Echo. I’d read reviews, considered privacy, looked at alternatives thought about if i was comfortable talking to no one .. then realised i’ve been doing it for years

So after about 2min of setup she’s up and running, location in the house is still to be defined but seeing as i’ll be moving later this week it don’t matter but it works. Quite simply, it works. I had doubts about accent recognition, was it worth it and so on but eventually i followed a time worn principal of fuck it this same principle saw me twenty years ago leave home to buy a fridge freezer and return with a motorbike or more recently go food shopping and bring back a TV.

Information overload - over the years i’ve collected terabytes of data in different forms, books, cd’s, pdf’s, word documents, emails and so on. Finding that one bit of critical info is a pain, my work laptop has over 45g of standards, specifications and so on all stuff that should be referenced yet because it is often buried in subdirs or perhaps i’ve given the document i created a title which made sense at the time but months/years later means nothing i cannot find that which i need.

Well its done, the move to hugo has been started. Cannot say it is finished because there will be errors and always something to learn but i’ve removed wordpress and copied the hugo generated files to the host and thats now being served. Hopefully it will mean more updates (like this) but also clearer content besides as mentioned before i like the “old” feel as it harkens to the early days of bulletin boards (fidonet) and the young internet when the content to bullshit ratio was significantly different.

Sorting out everything for the transition to hugo i find that the wordpress plugins had created multiple copies of images in all different sizes whereas I only need the main size plus the 150x150 as a thumbnail and rather than rename by hand every filen from filename-150x150.jpg to filename-thumb.jpg i wrote the following quick and dirty python to do for it for me.