For some reason there doesn't seem to be any official reminder sent out when it's time to submit a VAT return, not from my accounts software or HMRC.
I thought it would be easy to just add a reminder for the 2nd Friday every 3 months but my Google Calendar didn't seem to support the "2nd Friday" bi...

With the price of everything going up I felt like I needed to start tracking what I spend money on a bit better, so I looked for some open source software which would help me do that. The best looking one for me was HomeBank. After manually entering transactions for a couple of weeks I decided I s...

I have used Borg backup for a long time to backup my servers and some desktop PCs to a central location. These backups are encrypted by Borg and stored on external USB disks. I finally got around to getting that backup data stored in the cloud so I didn't have to worry about switching those USB di...