The Joy of AI

Have just spent several geological eras wrestling with a microscopic QGIS problem. All I wanted—all I wanted—was for the page size to magically appear in my metadata block. Hours of web searching, manual‑reading, and ritual sacrifices to the GIS gods produced nothing.

Then I thought, “Aha! AI will save me.”

Two hours later, after trying every single suggestion it hallucinated into existence, it finally announced:

“Oh yeah, you can’t do that. Just hard‑code it like you’ve been doing.”

ChatGPT, you are officially shortlisted for Subscription I’m Cancelling Out of Spite.

Currently feeling

It’s possible that I have posted this before but it seems particularly appropriate today. It’s definite that I am James Tiberius Kirk as much as I would like to be.

Fly Boy

Note the extremely winter jacket….

Spring seemed to be very cold and rainy and today it finally feels like summer is at least on its way, or has certainly sent a note with it’s arrival date.

Thankfully I can finally get out with the drone again and finally pass the GVC test and be licenced and insured for it, for project as well as fun.


Anyway, here is something from last summer and hopefully some good stuff from this summer later!

Random finds

So it has been a while since I have browsed around my network drive, I usually just use it for downloads nowadays, and for storing old images.

I came across a directory of images I that I kept when I was still living in The Netherlands that for one reason or another I kept. Most were ‘collected’ when I was loading data. Some of them made me laugh, some were (a little) inspirational and some were images of woman that were “wow” so to speak.

Here is a snapshot of these, click and hover for the Lightbox and explanation.

I have no idea who owns these images or what the copyright is on them. Am not sure I particularly care either ;-)