Category: Swiss walks
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The First Metric Century of the Season
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I set off from home at around 08:00 for what I planned would be a one hundred kilometre ride. The rational was that I would cycle to and from Geneva, around 50 kilometres, and participate in a group ride with Bike Club Switzerland, another fifty kilometre ride. It’s because it was…
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On High Winds, Cold Temperatures and the Need for Relaxed Group Rides
Reading Time: 5 minutesMore than two weeks ago I could hear the slats dancing. The wind was strong, so it made the slats for the shutters dance. I could also see tree branches dance with the wind. I could also hear the wind load the roof and make it creak. These sights and sounds made…
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Playing With Our Sports Data With Eleventy and Strava
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis month Apple wants me to walk ten point three kilometres with the Apple Watch 10 times. Garmin and Strava want me to cycle 8000m uphill, 800km horizontally, and more. Apple, Garmin and one or two other companies want me to walk 300,000 steps per month. Now, I have two ways of…
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Using Photoprism and Immich in Tandem Across Three Machines
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have an HP laptop running Photoprism, and two Raspberry Pi 5 running Immich. One of the Pi devices is running Immich, solo, and is made accessible via Tailscale when I am on the move. Photoprism runs on the HP laptop and is not available at all times. When the laptop sleeps,…
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On Blogging, AI, and Antisocial Media
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere are two types of people in the world. Those that live alone and those that don’t. People that don’t live alone go out for a day of sports, adventure and work, and then come home and can have hours of conversations, or being ignored by their children, spouses or others on…
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A Quiet Whatsapp Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a year or more I was part of GoSocial, because I’m curious. The experimental community is based on Whatsapp group chats. There is “one” chat per city, whether Nyon, Bale, Lausanne and others. I was part of Lausanne and Geneva. The first thing that struck me is that the community uses…
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The Woodpecker Walk
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt would be tremendously easy for me to go to Pampigny and do the usual three or four walks. Today i didn’t. I decided to explore a new route. Rather than walk up to the walks, and then turn, and walk along fields, I went into the woods. The reward was the…
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Saving Energy with Convivial Cycling
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have seen either the same headline, or a similar headline three times. It speaks about the revival of nuclear energy as a solution for Europe’s energy problem. Given how Europe gave up on COVID zero as soon as vaccines arrived, I’d strongly recommend against nuclear. If governments don’t follow through with…
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On a Slow Puncture and the Cyclplus AS2 Pro
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is an experience review, rather than a product review. During yesterday’s group ride I noticed that my rear tyre was feeling flat. I stopped to re-inflate it because the problem seemed minor but I made the mistake of not closing the valve properly before setting off again so the inner tube…
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The Zero Second Not a Number Strava Mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I noticed that I had an unusual workout that was getting likes. It had zero minutes of exercise, zero distance travelled, and NaN speed in km/h. In other words I had a track that should not have been counted by Strava as a workout. Everyone is familiar. If you go for…