Category: observation
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The Saturday Cycling Challenge to Begnins
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Saturday I went for a ride with Bike Club Switzerland from Geneva. The ride itself was planned on an 80km loop that went from Geneva via Vich up to Begnings and then towards one or two more places before heading back towards la Rippe, across the top, and eventually down to…
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Strava, Komoot, and the Activities of Others
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, as I walk and hike with others, and as their activities are shown along my own, in the list of participants, so I begin to follow people I know on Strava, Komoot and other social networks focused on sports. Notice how I didn’t call them social media. The reason for…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I drove to Geneva, with the intention of going to a coworking event. In the end I skipped it. Usually when I plan to participate in something like this I go at the start time, rather than at some point during the day. I broke with my routine so I was…
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Expired Tailscale Device Keys
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I found myself accessing Audiobookshelf on one of my Pi devices in the morning and it timed out in the morning. As I am travelling this situation is not ideal as I had to find a way to recover access. I checked the tailscale device list and could see that…
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The Hidden Wash Basin
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen roads are built they often require a lot of soil to flatten the land so that the road may be built. In the process objects are hidden. In one case old clothes washing basins were hidden beneath a road. It’s funny to see a road, a hole, and within the…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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EV Charging around Signy and Nyon
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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…
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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…