Author: richard
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The Pleasure of the Shave
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I was thinking about the act of shaving and what a pleasure it is, For a long time I saw it as a daily chore, which is why I switched to an electric razor for years. Eventually the blades dulled so I looked for alternatives before deciding to try safety…
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Music Festivals, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sleep Deprivation
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst things First, I have had a lot of fun at festivals, and I have volunteered for a few. What I object to is the noise pollution. In the 21st century we could avoid that noise pollution, so we should. And now for the rant, now that I have told you I…
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One Hundred and thirty Two Kilometres in Trail Gloves
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn theory shoes are meant to last for eight hundred kilometres before they need to be replaced. I am now one eighth of the way towards needing to replace my Trail Gloves. In theory. In practice the left shoe is worn and the tread is gone, in two spots. The toes, where…
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Apple Pure Vision and the Immersive Experience Opportunity
Reading Time: 4 minutesMemorable VR experiences AR/VR and XR have been around for years, if not decades. The most unique VR experience I was involved with was people wearing an immersive headset whilst snorkelling in a pool to experience being “weightless” whilst watching an immersive video. The second most interesting video 360 experience was a…
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The Diversification Of The Social Media and Microblogging Environment
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Elon Musk bought Twitter he signed the start of the Social Media giant’s implosion. A decade earlier Murdoch had done the same thing to MySpace. In the end he sold MySpace for a fraction of what he had bought it for. We could cry, and bemoan the loss of Twitter but…
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Of Blogging and Substacking
Reading Time: 2 minutesA month or two ago we had the chance to jump on the Substack wagon while it was hot and to ride the wave of new followers and experience a growing community. I could have joined in. I could have become one of those “I’m one of you people” but I didn’t. …
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Application Programming Interfaces, Really Simple Syndication and the Open Protocols
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitter and Reddit want to charge people to use their API despite already wanting people to pay them directly. Twitter decided to drive users away and make itself more expensive. As a result of this the website is imploding, rather than thriving. Yesterday I read that Reddit, too, wanted to charge users…
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The Solitaire Puzzle
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I rediscovered my love of the game solitaire. It is the game we played on windows 3.1 and other windows operating systems, up to iOS and more. Solitaire is a simple game to play on a mobile phone, ipad or computer, whether laptop or desktop. I have found that a game…
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Playing with the Hugo With An Old Site
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a few days I have been playing with Hugo with Markdown and HTML pages. It says that it is “the world’s fastest framework for building websites” and so far I do notice that it has a key strength that I like. Front Matter That strength is that with small modifications you…
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The Pay To Play and Pay To Win iOS Games
Reading Time: 2 minutesI like casual gaming. I like to play games on the iPhone when commuting or waiting for something to happen. The problem is that casual gaming is about seeing adverts at the end of every puzzle or challenge. For every game of solitaire, every game of Woodoku and more games, you see…