What’s New
Fixed incorrect dates on Portfolio items.
Reinstalled my list of Australian riding roads.
Fixed the tiling of thumbnails in the Museum section.
Current Issues
Access from a mobile phone remains slower than normal. I have turned off AVIF format images, these load faster on a PC but some phones lack the cpu power needed for them.
Some old images are higher res and slow loading – a legacy of this blog being built with gigabit internet in Japan thus I originally posted high resolution images and never saw any slowdown until I arrived in Australia.
Transfer of old posts from Blogger to WordPress remains glacial slow due to my slackness… about 5 remain to be done.
Feedback
Does this site seem hard to read to you? i.e. the colour or fonts? If so can you tell me how it appears to you? I am using black text on a white background, same as books or newspapers but someone once told me the site was too difficult for him to read?
Have you noticed something broken – please let me know!
FAQ
The blog is slow? – You need minimum of 4G or broadband to view this site. 5G or NBN 50 or higher are better. Aussie NBN 25 is borderline too slow for web browsing, shouldn’t even be called broadband. I already have in place a CDN and a professional quality site optimizer and Namecheap’s fastest hosting as well I’ve added extra ram to my hosting so nothing more I can do from this end for now.
How can I download your GPS routes? – A link can be found on the Contact page.
What is your YouTube channel? – I used to shoot video in the 90’s but realised I was mainly trying to entertain other people and never looked at the videos again myself. I’m not trying to entertain anyone now just record my travels and my preference for doing that is photography and written word, i.e. blogging. And frankly in a world where literally everyone is a ‘YouTuber’ busy spamming videos having sold their soul to the algorithm – I rather like that I’m doing my own honest thing here rather than pumping of contrived drivel on YouTube.
