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I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • The Crosscall Odyssey Plus

    Reading Time: < 1 minute  The Crosscall Odyssey Plus fills two niches. It is a rugged weather proof phone rated to the IP 68 standard and is equipped with dual sim capability. This makes it ideal for the sports I enjoy, mainly via ferrata as pictured below and hiking. It comes with a smaller carabiner…

  • The Apple Watch does not fill a niche

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Apple Watch rather than fill a niche provides a fifth screen. According to Wikipedia the four first screens are the cinema screen, the television screen and the mobile phone and tablet screen. The fifth screen is the smart watch as designed by Apple, Samsung, Sony and others. Apple and others have designed…

  • Pride and media consumption

    Reading Time: 3 minutesI enjoyed reading the Unbearable Lightness of Being so much that I read every book by Milan Kundera. I also read every book by Albert Camus because I enjoyed reading La Peste so much. Laura M. Holson wrote an article about “Unplugging without FOMO” which I skimmed after someone on twitter commented on…

  • Inner Life of A Cell

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes people share interesting videos as animated gifs. When I see these interesting videos I quickly google the search term and find the complete video. I then share it.

  • Setting up Chromecast

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSetting up Chromecast takes four steps 1. Plug it in 2. Connect to chromecast wifi 3 type appropriate wifi password for home network 4. wait as chromecast updates Now you can use it from your devices. It’s like setting up a gopro camera. If you’ve managed that you can do this-

  • Lufthansa – Total Solar Eclipse – Watch From the Stratosphere

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Lufthansa flight took a detour over Iceland so that passengers would pass in the shade of the total Eclipse.

  • Headline rating app to encourage useful headline writing.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn future I would like an application or social network that allows me to rate headlines according to whether they are sensationalist, informative, emotional informative or other. The aim of this network or app would be to discourage article writers from re-using the same phrases over and over. It would encourage…

  • Social media, loneliness and isolation.

    Reading Time: 3 minutes“The pathology of social media is all about loneliness” Social media professionals take the weekend off. Twitter users use hashtags so that their content can be found without being followed. Everything is turned towards discoverability rather than commitment and conversation. Social media practitioners know that people aren’t listening attentively so they repeat…

  • An Air France advert with swings

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI would have enjoyed working on this. I’d have played on the swings in between takes.

  • The Solar Eclipse as seen from the Vaud Countryside

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSolar Eclipse 2015 from Mainvision on Vimeo. Eventually the clouds blocked it.