Grampians Sept 2018

Misc unedited photos. Some are intended to be stitched for panoramas...click-through at your own pace.

Tried a different camp ground at the Grampians this year. Super Primo site. New owners in 2014. Really top-rate camp site. Highly recommended. Go if you get a chance. Photo information below.

We did the down-hill-ride from McKenzies falls to Zumsteins again. First time for Garrick. Really fun ride, and great walk prior.

Cold days and nights. Tent was frozen crispy hard one morning. Car completely iced over. Some fun cockatoo photos at the end.

** Many shots taken from an old digital camera because my current phone is a cheap replacement with a crummy camera...however the digi-camera is an old 4:3 ratio. Didn't realise 'till just now when viewing on my monitor at home. Oh well...

Camping kayak trolleys

Going camping with Garrick and Jana. Taking my two kayaks and borrowed a third so we can all be out.

One trolley is borrowed, the other is homemade from a golf buggy found on hard rubbish. Guess which one is mine...

Scrubbing Google, Chrome, Android

I've scrubbed Google/Chrome, and google products from my PC's and house. All the PC's have been scrubbed of Chrome, and my android phone was just a test machine anyway.

I finally snapped when I found they'd been scraping my emails for purchasing data. Not the headers or subject lines or meta data, but the ACTUAL contents of my emails. It's a little tricky to scrub the data too. (among other things that you didn't realise was tracked despite having settings turned off). Too much aggregate data, too much obfuscation. There are plenty of other reasons, they've clearly stepped into the same bucket as Apple.

Microsoft have stated they don't do what Google have been accused of in response to the current bout of craziness.

So that was easy. Cya Google, you've literally got nothing I need, and I'm sick of your updater background service not honouring my windows registry settings to keep you turned off. Bing and Edge are just fine. YouTube can track IP, but I don't have to log-in or subscribe to anything. I'll switch to another blogger service shortly.

RIP "don't be evil".

Happy Pixie

Network cable kitty.

Basketball court kitty.

Fence trench kitty.

Fence climbing kitty.

Contortionist sleeping cave kitty.

Belly rub desk chair kitty.

Sunbeam kitty.

Lioness sunbeam kitty.

Stopped for a rest in my play tunnel kitty.