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  • Does the World Wide Web Dumb us Down too Much to Read

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesDoes the World Wide Web dumb is down to much to read is an article exploring the idea that we have too many distractions and that as a result we are unable to focus. Yesterday I wrote about blogging rather than writing twitter threads and this article goes some way to exploring…

  • Thoughts on the Oculus Quest

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuring the World XR Forum I had to carry six or more Oculus Quest devices from a car to the conference centre and then help with setting up at least one of these devices. At first I thought it was like most VR headsets where the phone is the display. In…

  • Garmin Connect and the Daily Step Goal

    Garmin Connect and the Daily Step Goal

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesYesterday I took over 16,000 steps. Some of those steps were during a short run from Eysins to Nyon and the rest were during the walk around Nyon and back to Eysins. By the end of the day I had manage to accumulate the step goal of 15300 steps. With Fitbit and…

  • Cropping an activity on Strava

    Cropping an activity on Strava

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you’re hiking, cycling, climbing or doing other sporting activities it is easy to forget to stop tracking an activity. When you’re at home or static this is less critical. When you get into a car after a hike or other activity that mistake will screw up your average speed and other…

  • Thoughts on the Garmin Vivosmart 4

    Thoughts on the Garmin Vivosmart 4

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Garmin Vivosmart 4 is the first activity tracker that I see tracking descent as well as ascent. It is yet another fitness tracker and in theory I had no need for it as my Suunto Spartan Wrist HR Baro and my Apple Watch Series 4 do almost the same thing. I…

  • 100 Move Day Goals reached

    100 Move Day Goals reached

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have 100 move day goals reached. The difficulty of this goal depends on how high you set the bar. If you set the bar at two hundred calories a day then the goal is easy to achieve. If you set the goal at 500 or 600 calories then the achievement is…

  • Planned Obscolesence as Fragility

    Planned Obscolesence as Fragility

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI want to discuss Planned obsolescence as fragility. In the days of Nokia you could buy a phone and give it to a teenage boy and expect it to survive without breaking. I know because I was a teenage boy with a Nokia phone. So were plenty of my peers. It was…

  • Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch

    Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIndoor Climbing and the Apple Watch are a bad mix. They are a bad mix because the Apple watch has an unprotected glass screen. The screen is so exposed that last Thursday I shattered the screen without realising until I got home and tried to use it but the capacitive screen did…

  • Mouse trap videos

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I lived by the seaside in England I was told by one of my flat mates that they had seen a rat go into my room and I don’t remember how I felt about it. Rat traps were soon placed to catch them. A few years later I saw a flat…

  • Listening to podcasts with the Apple Watch

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning I was listening to podcasts with the Apple Watch I have. I like that I can listen to podcasts that play straight from the watch because more often than not I have the watch on my wrist almost all the time. This means that I no longer need to keep…