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Good afternoon, good evening and good night, but more importantly welcome to my new mini blog!

I’m BrianLinuxing across social media and here as well, yet in truth I am just an old IT manager, who’s forgotten more than I want to ever think about.

I used to work in the City of London (the financial sector), doing complex computing things, building datacentres from scratch or migrating Mainframes, long before Google existed or there was a handy YouTube channel to explain everything!

I’ve done a lot over the years and started coding when Richard Nixon was in power, imagine that.

I have worked across many sectors, academia, Banking, commercial and also charities.

Non-profit-wise, I founded and ran the largest Linux community group in Britain.

I co-founded the largest Raspberry Pi community in London.

I give talks on tech, Linux, operating systems and how best to do technology the smart way. I run classes on Linux, how to get started, best practices and why to use it.

My computing talks and classes span the history of computing from the Abacus, to my new one: a quick guide to the AWS Amazon Linux 2 CLI.

Still, enough of me, that will be all explained in my new blog elsewhere when I finally managed to bolt it together, from all of the many disparate parts.

The function of this Tumblr blog is to collate my mini-reviews of #IoT devices, single board computers, strange pieces of tech and also to explain the odd gotchas that occur in Linux sometimes.

I am increasingly doing more and more #AWS

If you find it useful please let me know over on Mastodon, @BrianLinuxing at fosstodon.org

I exist on Instagram too! Even Twitter, yes as BrianLinuxing.

And now on Bluesky!

anyway, I’ve barely done anything on it lately, never really feel like it, blah blah. And then, a few days ago, I started writing something else 🤦‍♀️ like, you know when you see a person and fall in love* and imagine this whole life story and personality for them and let it consume your whole life for a little bit? Like that. As a result, I’ve written over 10,000 words in like three days (not even really days, mostly just evenings). Which is cool BUT. What about my other thing! My proper story, which would probably be finished by now if I had written those words for that!! The one I’ve invested months of thought and hours of writing into, the one that’s actually at least kind of good!!! Not this nonsense!!! (it genuinely is... useless writing, like, there is nothing I can ever do with this) And also, the “consuming your whole life” part where this imaginary thing is suddenly all I think about... WHY am I like this 

Drawing Techniques in Art & Design

Journal Entry 001

“Mind Map”- Focus: Food, Nature, Animals, Places and Celebrations associated with the Caribbean. 

Maybe I’m hungry-but food seemed to come to me easiest!

I followed along that path. Although my thoughts on steelpan lead me to local folklore- a VERY tempting concept, it seems too far removed from the initial 5 themes. 

Even the chance to delve into folklore may lead to some interesting pieces. But I digress. It does not provide the same intrigue as what I eventually decided upon.

Fruits (and vegetables).

The sheer array of vibrant colours and variety of fruits has me sold on the idea and has subsequently lead me to explore how these elements blend together in the different stages of ripening, shape, texture, how they stand out/contrast next to each other, sliced open or when exposed to sunlight.

Those prospects definitely have me excited at the possibilities.

Galleryyuhself - Blunt the bully.