Category: observation
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On AudioBookShelf, podcasts, Books, and Car Play
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I drove for 26 hours over two days between Switzerland and France and I used Audible rather than Audiobookshelf to listen. The reason for this is that when I am driving I do not want to fiddle with an app on a phone. I don’t even want to fiddle with apps…
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Books Read and the Tip of The Iceberg
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome people aim to read twenty books per year. Others aim for a book a week. I read 15 or so books last year which doesn’t feel like much, compared to others. Having said that, I don’t read like others. When I read I flit between books. I might start three or…
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Back to Suunto From Garmin
Reading Time: 2 minutesI like Garmin Connect and the Garmin Instinct 2. Both the app, and the device are good and they’re reliable for tracking sports on a daily basis. Having said this, I felt the urge to slide back to my Suunto devices and the Suunto app. For many, many, many years I was…
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Galaxus and Roaming in Europe with Maya
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is when you roam with your phone across Europe that you realise how much data an iPhone gets through. In the space of a week I burned through almost 3 gigabytes and 7 more gigabytes before controlling which apps could use data. At the same time I reset the data counters…
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I went up the Cumbre Del Sol
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI went up the Cumbre Del Sol in half an hour two days ago
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Rivers of Cars and Soft Mobility
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe biggest improvement you can make to walking and cycling mobility is to avoid having cyclists, and pedestrians blocked by car traffic. This can include traffic lights but also busy roads where it is impossible to cross. If you’re on a walk, or a bike ride, and you get blocked by cars,…
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A Walk in Night Fog
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday morning I woke and looked out of a window and saw fog. For some, the reaction is "oh zut alors" as we think that we’re in for several weeks of being under the clouds, with the mountains as a weekend escape from a sun deprived time spent in fog. An Indirect…