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  • YouTube And Sensationalism

    YouTube And Sensationalism

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI love the medium of video and I have love having a choice of thousands, or even millions of videos to choose from. In effect my love of the medium of video should mean that I love YouTube. I don’t, because of sensationalism and clickbait.  I have paid for YouTube prime twice…

  • Updating Old HTML Webpages

    Updating Old HTML Webpages

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesMost websites are simple. They have five to ten pages at most but usually a single page is enough. Most pages are about one specific thing, whether it’s a CV inspired page to find new clients or a simple page with a few products. Most are usually about a single topic.  This…

  • Transmitting Photos by Phone

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I watched a 1930s film about how photographs were transmitted by phone. What makes this feature so interesting is that it is explained in a simple to understand manner, using, string that has an image, of all things. This is a clear explanation of how image sending works, but also…

  • Colza, Sheep, Metamorphosis and Mindfulness

    Colza, Sheep, Metamorphosis and Mindfulness

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I took a picture of brilliantly yellow Colza with the Jura looking dark due to storm clouds overhead. If you walk at this time of year you will see a lot of cola. At the moment it is brilliantly yellow and at it’s prime. Later on, the colza will be passed…

  • Audible For Dummies

    Audible For Dummies

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I noticed that Audible is great for dummies. To be more specific I noticed that if you are an Audible paying subscriber you have access to dozens of Audible For Dummies books available within the subscription.  They have books on goat keeping, bee keeping, ham radio and more available for us…

  • Thirty Seven thousand Kilometres later

    Thirty Seven thousand Kilometres later

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI have had the same scooter for about 37,000 kilometres and yesterday I finally decided to sell it off, after years of frequent use. I sold it off because whereas the usual service was about 270 CHF the quote for the latest service was 500 CHF.  This wouldn’t be so bad as…

  • Playing with StatsHunters

    Playing with StatsHunters

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I saw a link to Stats Hunters on the Google App so I clicked through on a laptop, once I was sitting at a computer. This is an app that looks at Strava data and gives you a summary of how many activities you’ve done as well as how far you…

  • World Television

    World Television

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow that I know that I can treat Netflix as an international film festival I do. Last night I watched the first episode of Crash Landing on You. A South Korean film about a woman CEO who goes for a parapente flight, gets caught in a storm, and dropped in North…

  • Earth Day – Some Simple Acts

    Earth Day – Some Simple Acts

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is Earth Day, as Google, Moleskine and other companies are reminding us of. Earth Day is an opportunity to think about how to reduce our carbon footprint and ecological impact.  Sigg recently began to sell aluminium water bottles that are made entirely from recycled aluminium. Instead of encouraging us to recycle…

  • Cold Brew – A 24 Hour experiment

    Cold Brew – A 24 Hour experiment

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been reading and watching videos about coffee brewing. In the process I kept seeing cold brew coffee come up again and again and it made me curious to try.  When listening to podcasts about thru-hiking I heard people speak about cold soaking food, rather than cooking it. The idea is…