Blog ≫ 2020 ≫ Have I fixed my wifi issues at last?

Hmm we'll see if anything is fixed on the wifi / broadband / home internets or not, but I have made another change. I accidentally factory-reset the router, which might have been a good thing. It did mean the pi-hole stopped working so ads started showing everywhere, and then the ip addresses all changed so it was hard to figure out what was going on for a bit. I've now got it all back online, and checking the settings of the pi-hole I think I saw the DNS was wrong. The router goes to the pi-hole for DNS, but then the pi-hole was set to either go to google or go back to the router again. This would surely make it freak out and go into a loop of not being able to find things wouldn't it? I've made it go only to google now, will see if that improves things.

There is screaming from the other room, the wifi is not better and it is all my fault.

I finished the Reginald Hill book and I'm reading Lord Of The Flies 1 now. I have not read this before, this is Clare's copy from her school days with all sorts of notes written in the margins.

Author Book Thoughts
Ian Rankin Westwind 2 Dated thriller, shame.
Ian Rankin Doors Open 2 Really good crime caper in Edinburgh but with no Rebus.
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games 2 Borrowed from the children, very good.
Suzanne Collins Catching Fire 2 Hunger Games part 2, read this even quicker, a bit darker.
Suzanne Collins Mockingjay 2 Hunger Games part 3, joyless and grim. Very 2020...
Karen McManus One Of Us Is Lying 3 Another one liberated from the children's bookshelf. A Breakfast Club whodunnit, dying to be a film, not at all suitable for a ten year old...
Robin Paige Death at Glamis Castle 4 Edwardian era mystery written by Americans. I read one of these before. Quite atmospheric, though a little twee. Sort of romance / crime. Written in accents, with plenty of "of the time" attitudes.
Jed Rubenfield The Interpretation of Murder 5 A charity shop find, one you always see, have had it kicking around a long time. Historical crime fiction again set in New York 1909, featuring Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Great, but complicated and fairly unlikely!
Muriel Spark Loitering With Intent 6 Branching out a little this time, it's not even a crime.
Julie Wassmer Murder on the Pilgrims Way 7 Going back to the familiar now. Fairly gentle and local crime. Forgot I had this one from when we met the author in Waterstones. Mostly predictable and cosy but I did not get the actual end murderer correct.
Reginald Hill Blood Sympathy 8 Even more familiar, have read this before, but keen to revisit this crime series. Very enjoyable.
Robert Webb Come Again 9 Time travel action rom-com, not very good, feels like two unrelated stories in one with no resolution.
Reginald Hill Born Guilty 10 Joe Sixsmith again, hoping I enjoy all of this series as much as the first one. Dated and a little complicated but lots of fun.
William Golding Lord Of The Flies 1 Like I'm doing GCSE English! I have not read this before but we had it in the house.
Country cases deaths
USA 3833271 142877
Brazil 2075246 78817
India 1077864 26828
Russia 765437 12247
Peru 349500 12998
Mexico 331298 38310
Chile 328846 8445
Spain 307335 28420
UK 294066 45273
Iran 271606 13979

Very nice day out there, a high of 20° but I think we're going to have a very lazy one as it is the first day of the holidays. They are having the lazy one anyway, I've made the penne arrabiata for tonight and now I have chores to do 11...

Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + UK + Italy + France + Spain

popex graph Graph line from 4441.0 to 18090.0🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Graph line from 3685.0 to 7567.0🇧🇷 🇧🇷 Graph line from 681.0 to 7959.0🇬🇧 🇬🇧 Graph line from 167.0 to 3849.0🇮🇹 🇮🇹 Graph line from 257.0 to 5855.0France France Graph line from -1113.0 to 3637.0Spain Spain -150 deaths? Spain readjusted figures here! Y axis of graph 0 - 5000 - 10000 - 15000 - X axis of graph May '20 Jun '20 Jul '20
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Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Married + dad to 2, I am a full stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.