Glasgow based IT consultant. Ayrshire to Glasgow and back, via England and Blantyre (Lanarkshire). All tweets my own. Trying out Bluesky

Ayr, Scotland
Joined April 2011
WAVERLEY IN DRY DOCK - UPDATE SUN 29th MARCH Waverley has now been in dry dock for just over a week with great progress made. Check out the pictures in this post to see just how much work is underway to prepare Waverley for her 2026 season. 👇 Work Completed or Underway: ✅ Hull cleaned and fully inspected ✅ Hull cut open to remove old sprinkler system ✅ Old port spring beam removed ✅ Port paddlebox steel repairs ✅ Ship’s side valves removed, cleaned and inspected ✅ Hull painting ✅ Repainting capstan ✅ Sanding and varnishing of deck shelter doors ✅ Installing new upper aft deck timbers ✅ Installation of new cabling and piping for water mist fire suppression system ✅ Fitting new Dining Saloon windows Work on Waverley has been taking place 24 hours a day as night shift workers are brought in to ensure all tasks are completed before the Easter weekend. Commercial dry docks often work around the clock to meet demand and given the scale of work underway on Waverley this level of labour has been much needed. Dry docking Waverley is an annual event to allow for hull inspection and to keep her in tip top condition, however it is expensive and costs several thousand pounds each docking. This year over £700,000 will be spent in the shipyard. On leaving dry dock Waverley will return to the James Watt Dock as work continues to install the new water mist fire system. In just a few weeks crew will be joining to undertake final preparations for sailing. Timetables are now published for all sailings from Friday 8th May until Thursday 3rd September. Visit waverleyexcursions.co.uk/pla… and book your cruise today. Keep watching for the release of the South Coast and Thames 2026 timetables which will be published in April. #waverley #ship #repair #DryDock #greenock
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I should point out - as indicated by the watermark bottom right - that I made this for my followers on X. And your post is also misleading, because none of it is colourised.
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Alan McFarlane retweeted
Urgent Advisory: DrayTek Router Rebooting Issues Over the weekend, we received numerous reports of DrayTek routers unexpectedly rebooting. This issue appears to be linked to a previously disclosed vulnerability from early March. Read more here: DrayTek Security Advisory Immediate Actions to Take # For the listed models with firmware upgradeable, please update your Vigor Router to the latest firmware version. Disable SSL VPN or Remote Management (HTTPS on Port 443) # Out of listed models without firmware upgradeable, we strongly recommend disabling SSL VPN & WAN Management services or considering a hardware upgrade for continued security. If you need further assistance, please contact "[email protected]". Thank you for your patience and cooperation. Stay tuned for updates! #DrayTek #CyberSecurity #Networking #ITSupport #FirmwareUpdate
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Congratulations to Alan McFarlane @alanjmcf for being the first to identify this as Tantallon Castle in East Lothian and thanks to everyone who took part. The wider view can be seen on this page: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/n…
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Hey @trufflepiggy Are you down? Certificate expired this morning apparently...
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Congratulations to Alan McFarlane @alanjmcf for being the first to identify this as the Castle of Mey in Caithness and thanks to everyone who took part. The wider view can be seen on this page: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/m…
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Congratulations to Alan McFarlane @alanjmcf for being the first to identify this as Strathaven in Lanarkshire and thanks to everyone who took part. The wider view can be seen on this page: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/s…
WHERE IN SCOTLAND? Where is this? This is a detail from an image that appears somewhere on Undiscovered Scotland. Please reply with your answers. We'll award kudos to the first correct response tomorrow. Some signs have been obscured.
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One teeny tiny bell bollard stopping a huge concrete lorry. ENJOY THE POWER OF BOLLARDS. #WorldBollardAssociation
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One of the most deeply disturbing videos we’ve EVER seen. The #WorldBollardAssociation has cancelled its Prime membership with immediate effect. xitter.cf/CanLager/status/184435…
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“We hope you’re enjoying your subscription to Domain Subscription. The price for this subscription will decrease”. Woo hoo, I’ll spend that saving wisely!
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Congratulations to Alan McFarlane @alanjmcf for being the first to identify this as Burghead in Moray, and thanks to everyone who took part. The wider view can be seen on this page: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/b…
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Alan McFarlane retweeted
I’m enjoying @ShonaRobisonMSP’s clarification that Scotland’s public finances aren’t actually quite as bad as they were following the failure of the Darien Scheme in the late 1690s.
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Congratulations to Alan McFarlane @alanjmcf for being the first to identify this as Wick in Caithness, and thanks to everyone who took part. The wider view can be seen on this page: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/w…
WHERE IN SCOTLAND? Where is this? This is a detail from an image that appears somewhere on Undiscovered Scotland. Please reply with your answers. We'll award kudos to the first correct response before posting the next in the series tomorrow. Some signs have been obscured.
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Congratulations to Alan McFarlane @alanjmcf for being the first to identify this as Inveraray Castle in Argyll, and thanks to everyone who took part. The wider view can be seen on this page: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/i…
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Alan McFarlane retweeted
Understandably lots of debate about child poverty this morning – something we as a country should spend much more time focusing on
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Looks like DNS server down at DWS Daisy Murphyx ISP. And also more services including their portal.
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Their status page confirms "We’re aware of an ongoing major outage affecting DNS services, this will affect both broadband and ethernet. We are currently investigating the issue." daisycomms.co.uk/service-upd…
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Alan McFarlane retweeted
This strange tweet got >25k retweets. The author sounds confident, and he uses lots of hex and jargon. There are red flags though... like what's up with the DEI stuff, and who says "stack trace dump"? Let's take a closer look... 🧵1/n
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