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  • Walking “Barefoot” with The Vapor Glove 6

    Walking “Barefoot” with The Vapor Glove 6

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesMost shoes are designed to protect the heel with a cushion of air or material that absorbs heel strikes, before they are transmitted to the rest of the skeletal system. With barefoot shoes, especially the Vapor Glove 6 those heel strikes are not absorbed. You feel the force with which your heel…

  • Prompt Engineering and chatGPT

    Prompt Engineering and chatGPT

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you follow chatGPT and AI courses you will often come across the term “Prompt Engineering”. Prompt Engineering is the art and science of writing instructions so that AI understands what you would like to do. With time and practice you can be as specific as you like. You can fine tune…

  • Thoughts on Moonwalkers Shoes

    Thoughts on Moonwalkers Shoes

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSome of us remember a time when you could get roller skates that fit shoes. Moonwalkers have the same idea, except that the goal with their project is for the wheels to be powered, to drive you forward at a maximum speed of 11 km/h. Speed Increase Depends on Base Walking Speed They…

  • Battery Powered Transportation And Fitness

    Battery Powered Transportation And Fitness

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery time you go for a walk, bike ride or run you encounter people being moved along by something using electricity.  The most common of these forms of transport are the electric car, the electric bike and the electric foot scooter. People want to be more environmentally friendly in their way of…

  • Adopting the Safety Razor. 

    Adopting the Safety Razor. 

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor more than a decade I was happy with a Gillette Mach 3. I used it every day for years. Eventually I found an affordable electric razor so I switched to that, and used it until I had to replace the blades at least twice. I only reduced my use of it…

  • Andrew Keen And The Scarcity of Choice

    Andrew Keen And The Scarcity of Choice

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI recently noticed that I had Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur book as an audiobook on Apple Books. I have had the book for at least a decade but have only got around to reading it recently. Over the last week I have listened to him speak about the closing…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…