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  • Mewe, pronounced Mais Ouais. 😉

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesMewe is like all other social networks were in their early days. In the early days it’s all about building a community, it’s all about privacy and it’s all about putting the user above commercial interests. Several years down the line they often shift towards trying to survive and even thrive if…

  • The Pleasure of Slow Motion

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast weekend I watched hours worth of slow motion videos because I enjoy them. I also watched them because I was fighting one of the worst colds I've had in years. Slow motion videos are great because what is invisible to the eye, and hard to see in normal speed videos becomes…

  • Migrating Away From Facebook

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen we first joined Facebook it was filled with chronological timelines kept active by university friends. At that time algorithms did not affect what we saw or how frequently and there was a sense of community. In the last two or three weeks we have heard a lot about Cambridge Analytica and…

  • Let down by the DJI Go 4 Android app

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few months ago, before the winter months came I was happilly flying the drone up to four times a day. At the time I was running their old app and it worked flawlessly. You turned on the remote, turned on the drone and then you connected to the wifi hotpot…

  • The Ice finally came

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesA few days ago I went towards the lake to take pictures. The wind was strong and cold. The temperature was close to -9°c. The last time we had such cold weather the lake side became beautiful as the porcelain ice formed around boats, trees, over grass and cars. As this only…

  • An e-book morning

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning rather than use the phone, check twitter, look at Facebook, or look at Instagram I took one of my two e-book readers. I have a Kobo and a Kindle device. I have both because I don't want to lose all of my books if one company goes out of business. Twitter…

  • Book reading instead of Social Media

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the beginning of the year I said that I would prioritise book reading over Social Media because I feel that the disconnect between reader and audience has grown to such an extent that you benefit more from reading books than Facebook and Twitter Timelines.  Reading So far this year: Abandon :…

  • Google’s shift from narrow casting to broadcasting.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier this week Google decided that it would shift from subsidising narrowcasting content makers to favouring "broadcasters". This was demonstrated with their shift towards rewarding content creators with higher requirements. In order to be a youtube partner, you need people to have viewed 4000hrs worth of content and have over 1000 subscribers.…

  • Gutenburg WordPress plugin

    Gutenburg WordPress plugin

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gutenburg Press Plugin provides a new way to write blog posts. Rather than write as if a blog post was a single block of text it breaks it up into segments or "presses"  A few weeks ago a Gutenburg Press was brought to the Palais wilson and we had the opportunity…

  • A theoretical Seven Minute Workout a day

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSeven Minute Workout for 36 days For about six weeks I have been trying to do at least one seven-minute workout every single day. I eventually fell out of the habit for a few days because I had to fight a little virus. I’m feeling better again. Time to see if I…