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Looking Out From The Other Side of the Internet Tunnel

Sep 27, 2020

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Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I started reading “What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains, The Shallows” and I feel that I am on the other side of the experience. I have been through the passion for new content, the passion to constantly write the new things that people write, and the need to be…

Learning To Code By Building CMSs

Aug 2, 2020

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in tech related, website news

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s easy to use Facebook or other CMS every day without thinking about how the code works. This summer I have coded two CMS using Linkedin Learning. One of these CMS was running with PHP and MySQL and the other was running with Ruby On Rails and MySQL. The PHP CMS In…

I Completed the Apple May Activity Challenge Yesterday

May 28, 2020

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in Apple, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesI completed the Apple May Activity Challenge yesterday. The goal was to walk or run 349 kilometres within one month. I finished this challenge two days early. Using the Apple Watch Series 3 and the SUUNTO Spartan Sport Wrist HR BARO I tracked all of my activities. For the first two or three weeks…

Day 61 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – World Community Grids Pandemic work units.

May 15, 2020

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richard

in social conscience, tech related

Reading Time: 3 minutesWorld Community Grids OpenPandemic work units are now ready. With your laptop or desktop, you can help find a cure for COVID-19. As a World Community Grid volunteer, you download a secure software program to your computer. And when your computer is not using its full computing power, it will automatically run…

Day Two of ORCA in Switzerland

Mar 18, 2020

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in Drones and quadcopters

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are in ORCA day two in Switzerland and I crashed the drone. I also avoided the shops because of the behaviour I witnessed yesterday. The weather is excellent at the moment. Sunny, warm, and without wind. These are perfect conditions for drone flying so I thought I’d take advantage. I forgot…

Of AirPods – useful and simple

Mar 9, 2020

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in tech related

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat do you have to say about AirPods? I see them as useful and simple. I have tried earphones, headphones, and Bluetooth variants. With some earphones, I found that they hurt my ears. With others, I found that they slipped out too easily. With yet more, I found that the noise cancellation…

Ingress Walks – A 12km path to Level 13

Feb 19, 2020

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in Ingress, ingress

Reading Time: 4 minutesI stopped playing Ingress a few years ago because of how much time it requires. I have started going on Ingress walks again – a 12km path to level 13 in yesterday’s case, because I’m combining the daily walk that I would do anyway, with listening to podcasts and audiobooks, anyway. By…

Suunto and Wear OS

Feb 12, 2020

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in Sports, tech related

Reading Time: 3 minutesSuunto and Wear OS is a cultural shame. I like Suunto because it’s a European company with a European OS developed in Europe. It’s nice to buy their products because they’re reliable and hardly ever let me down. They’re also great because it’s European tech developers working together to create something interesting…

Flying over Oeschinensee with an FPV Drone

Jan 21, 2020

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in Drones and quadcopters, Video

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFlying over Oeschinensee with an FPV drone looks nice. I went there as a child and the lake is distinct with its lake, green slopes, hills and that wall of rock on the other side. It’s above Kandersteg and there are a number of walks to be enjoyed in the area.…

A Drone flying over Hong Kong at night.

Oct 25, 2019

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in Drones and quadcopters, Video

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI ate lunch as I watched the footage of a drone flying over Hong Kong at night and at first I was confused as to whether the images were real or not. As you watch more of the video you see that everything is real. The depth of field is good…

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