Fitheach

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Thank you for dropping-by, I hope you enjoy your visit. The main content is to be found in the blog, where I discuss everything and anything, but, topics including: photography, nature, technology, food, movies, music, politics, and life in the Highlands of Scotland, make regular appearances.

I commonly write reviews of movies (or films, if you prefer). Some movie reviews are short, others will be discussed in more detail. The scope covered will be mainly mainstream English language movies from the 1930s until the present day.

About me

My name is Iain MacDonald and I live in the Highlands of Scotland (although I have lived elsewhere in the past). I use Fitheach as my online pseudonym, on this website, on Mastodon, and on Matrix. I am a big fan of Free & Open Source Software, which I use both professionally and at home.

Computing and technology tend to infuse themselves into my other interests, as once you learn some skills in one area it is convenient to use them to solve problems in other spheres.

When not tinkering with computers, I am likely to be found repairing things because living in the countryside you learn to be resourceful.

Of course, man doesn't live by SSH tunnels and kerosene vapour burners alone, so, food, as a subject, makes regular appearances, too.

My latest Life articles

My most recent ramblings can be found in the Life section.

My latest Mastodon posts

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Fitheach

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:25:04 +0000

How Canada is perceived south of the border.

Hoodlum1:
"What are we going to do in Canada?"

Hoodlum2:
"Freeze our balls off."

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Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:51:54 +0000

I've been training Bogofilter (a Bayesian spam filtering program) for weeks, by marking all messages coming in as either ham or spam.

To-day, at long last, I got my first email classified as spam. Woohoo! 😃

No, wait... it's a false positive . :blobsad:

Sometimes it feels like the solutions are harder work than the problems. That said, I'm not giving up, I'm not letting the spammers win.

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Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:15:11 +0000

I wrote a short article, in January this year, which explains how Hair Ice is formed:

fitheach.scot/life/hair-ice

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Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:07:41 +0000

Also on the we had many, many sightings of Hair Ice. I can't believe that Hair Ice sightings are supposed to be rare. I'm constantly tripping over Hair Ice, as it is so common in the .

The conditions have been ideal recently for Hair Ice formation. A prolonged period of wettish weather, followed by sub-zero (°C) temperatures.

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Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:46:51 +0000

The faerie sighting wasn't far from my "rabbit" sightings from a couple of years ago. The rabbits and the faerie may be connected.

mstdn.io/@fitheach/10843053355

mstdn.io/@fitheach/10855484779

mstdn.io/@fitheach/10857747326

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Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:34:15 +0000

We were very quiet on to-day's , and were lucky enough to chance upon a wood faerie, nestling in the crack of a beech tree. We left just as quietly, so as not to interrupt her important work.

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