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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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  • Nextcloud Via Infomaniak Hosting

    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few days I was playing with Day One, the note taking app, after years without touching it and I was playing with the idea of paying for the app. The cost is 38 CHF per year. It used to be cheaper. I think it was around 23-28 CHF rather than…

  • Random

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWriting a blog post every day is a challenge that I have tried to be consistent with for several seasons if not a year and a half or more. It requires inspiration, and doing interesting things. If life becomes routine, or if events became normal, then writing inspiration fades away. After…

  • The Long Sleep

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter the long drive I ofen have a long sleep, hence no post.

  • The Long Drive

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s funny. It is a drive that I have done plenty of times. Tomorrow I will do the usual twelve hour drive from Switzerland to around Alicante, and I will do so with minimal stops. In essence the drive is easy. I take the motorway from Nyon all the way to Ondara,…

  • EV Charging around Signy and Nyon

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday morning I plugged the car in to charge at Signy Centre while shopping and for the price of a coffee I charged the car by ten percent. I then went to the lakeside of Nyon to test the Service Industriel de Nyon (SIN) chargers and failed. They were out of service…

  • Goodreads Et Al

    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently people wanted to move from Goodreads to open alternatives to move away from the grasp of Amazon. I wanted to do the same so I moved to two or three apps and used them for a while. I stopped using them for one simple reason. They don’t have an extensive library…

  • The Evolution of In Car Navigation

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I was a child we had paper maps. These maps had to be studied and read to make navigating simpler. You had to know that you would drive from A to B to C to D and so forth. In the age of Google Maps, before phone navigation we had to…

  • The Growing Desire to Self-Host

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs WordPress grows and as my comfort with Hugo increases I question whether to move my blog from Infomaniak to being self-hosted on a Pi. I know that the Pi is not powerful but my site doesn’t get much traffic so I don’t think that it will be overwhelmed with traffic.…

  • Car Apps That Don’t Work

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI am fatigued by cars and their apps. When I was using the Citroën car twice a week it was working fine but then I let it sit for a month and then it stopped synching correctly. I have done several trips now, and the journeys are either not recorded properly or…

  • The Morning Afternoon Run

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday or recently I had a discussion about running. The discussion was about whether I have a favourite time of day to run and whether I can eat before a run and still run. The answer is that I’m flexible in the time at which I run. I can run as easily…