Month: May 2017
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Ecosia – Planting trees with a search engine
Reading Time: 2 minutesEcosia is an environmental search engine for those who want to do social good through their web browsing habits. The principle is simple. You go to the Ecosia main page and type in your search engine query. For every search engine query that you do ad revenue is generated. This ad revenue…
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Unhappy facebook users – Marketers and Academics are looking in the wrong place.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUnhappy Facebook Users – Marketers and Academics are looking in the wrong place. Every single day they publish articles about why social media is bad for us. Every day they ignore that we meet people via social media rather than bars. Every day they ignore that those I meet through social media…
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The age of Bloggers and Self installations
Reading Time: 2 minutesI come from the age of bloggers and self-installations. In fact, I come from the age of HTML pages and static websites. In those days we surfed the web looking for and finding content. We also found interesting bits of code and we added new features to our websites. We would install…
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The Drapel Climbing wall near Aigle
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Drapel Climbing Wall near Aigle is a nice place to climb. When I was there yesterday we were in the shade of the trees unless we were climbing. The temperature for this week is at around 25-27°c daily which is nice. These are almost summer temperatures, at last. The parking for this…
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Mental Health and Social media
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is a lot of discussion about Mental Health and social media because most people are not social media natives. They are either Luddites who do not appreciate playing with technology. They see themselves as users rather than participants and then there are extroverts and other people who see Social Media as…
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The World VR Forum – Year 2 – The Conferences
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was a volunteer at the World VR Forum again this year. I was in the conference room providing speakers with microphones before they went up on stage. As a result of this I was able to listen to many interesting speakers. They spoke about a diversity of topics of interest to various groups.…
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K2 With a Drone
Reading Time: 2 minutesK2 with a Drone is a documentary following Petr Jan Juracka, a scientific photographer’s trip to K2 with Klara Kolouchova with two drones. He performed extensive testing before setting off on the trip. He flew the drone in a hyperbaric chamber to see how it would react. He flew it in freezing…
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Interval training and climbing are a good combination.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you were to look at the graph below you would clearly see that it’s a form of interval training but you’re at a loss to know which sport it is from. With running and cycling you would see 2-3 minutes of hard effort and then two to three minutes of less…
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Dirty Gold War screening at the Graduate Institute.
Reading Time: 1 minuteI went to watch Dirty Gold War at the Graduate Institute at lunch time today. The film is interesting because it makes you think about the environmental impact of gold mining. We’re familiar with the stories of gold mines in South Africa. We’re familiar with the stories of the gold rush. We…