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  • 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…

  • Netflix – Browse By Language

    Netflix – Browse By Language

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently Netflix added a Browse by Language option which means that you can browse for content by original language. Yesterday I saw that I can browse for content in French, Italian, Polish,, Korean, German and many more languages. I could list more but that’s dull. Instead I want to focus on the…

  • To Blog Or To Newsletter, That Is The Question

    To Blog Or To Newsletter, That Is The Question

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the sudden growth of audiences for newsletter writers on sub stacks as they start to use Notes so the question emerges on whether to dump blogging, for news lettering. In theory by news lettering on Substack we grow an audience that is pre-packaged and ready to go.  The drawback is that…

  • The Curious Step Miscount Due to Walking Sticks

    The Curious Step Miscount Due to Walking Sticks

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I walked with hiking sticks and whereas one watch told me that I had 13,000 steps, or so, the other said I had 9000. It is the second time that I notice such a difference in step count.  The first time I noticed this issue was a few days ago, after…