Well Water-Depth And Rainfall - Nov 2022 to Jan 2023

We monitor the depth of the water in our well via a system I built last year. The level rose rapidly at the end of last year (from ~3 feet of water to ~10 feet of water) during the heavy rains, so I decided to plot a chart of water depth and rainfall to see what it looked like.

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Published on Sat Feb 4th 2023 at 17:02

A Year Of Small-Scale Undertakings - What I Worked On In 2022

After twelve years as a startup CTO, I set 2022 to be a year for pursuing projects with principles that were the polar opposite of the Silicon Valley ethos. I would spend my work time on a variety of projects that had no commercial potential, no ambitions for large-scale or widespread usage, and no supposed economic or technologcial utility. But they would be ambitious in another way - to realise a single good idea, to create a small amount of beauty, to uniquely serve one person or one family.

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Published on Tue Jan 31st 2023 at 22:29 and last updated on Wed Feb 8th 2023 at 10:33

Monitoring The Depth Of Water In Our Well

Our household water supply comes from an old hand-dug well. The well is 6ft wide, about 20ft deep, and was presumably dug back when the house was built in the 1880s. There's a simple automatic pump system to lift the water into a large storage tank.

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Published on Mon Jan 30th 2023 at 16:56 and last updated on Wed Feb 8th 2023 at 10:30

Winter Sunset Over The Village

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Published on Wed Jan 18th 2023 at 14:55

The Branches Of A Cypress Tree In Autumn At Sunset

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Published on Wed Jan 18th 2023 at 13:59 and last updated on Wed Jan 18th 2023 at 14:05