Reading Time: 2 minutes James May is interesting. People like me know him from Top Gear and Grand Tour with Clarkson and Hammond but his side projects are interesting. Instead of farming like Clarkson, or driving cars with his daughter Clarkson plays with grown up toys. When I say toys I don’t mean adult cars, planes and more. I…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many decades ago, when computing was still in its infancy punch cards were used for looms, to design patterns in English mills. They were then modified to store census data and to help measure the US population. In the process they saved the US government weeks of work and five million dollars at the time….
Reading Time: 2 minutes On Saturday I drove for twelve and a half hours and felt exhausted by the time I got home. I didn’t write a blog post so I lost my 480 day blogging streak, and I didn’t read using the Kindle app so I lost my Kindle reading streak. In the end losing such streaks is…
Reading Time: < 1 minute 960km range For a brief instance I saw that I had a 960km range with the car. It was brief because as soon as I accelerated above a certain speed the reading went down to a normal reading. It would have been nice to have such a long range for longer.
Reading Time: < 1 minute On the 10th of May 2023 I started walking the PCT virtually and now I am 94 percent done. I have about 300 kilometres left to walk and I will have completed the entire distance. Some of it was covered walking and some of it was covered while walking. Of course I didn’t walk the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A few weeks ago I chose to replace my apple watch series 4 with an apple watch SE because the battery was dying two to three times a day. Recently I had the same with the mobile phone. I would charge it in the morning, charge it the first time by eleven, and then use…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Goodreads was independent, once upon a time, and then Amazon bought it and it became part of the Amazon universe. At that point Goodreads stopped being an interesting option because we were helping a billion dollar company rather than an indipendent project. Bookmory and storygraph are two alternative projects. Bookmory imports the goodreads csv faster…
Reading Time: < 1 minute With Tailscale you can easily use a Pi-Hole from wherever you are., as long as Tailscale is connected. It’s easier than travelling with a Pi-Hole and setting it up wherever you are. I’m using it now, on my laptop. The pi-hole is in Switzerland but my laptop is in Switzerland. The advantage of Tailscale is…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Do you walk by the sea and watch the seagulls fly up with something in their beak and then drop it? I did, this morning. I walked by the sea and filmed. You can see the G-force climb up and down with each step. Unfortunately the Garmin virb doesn’t self-level so the footage is lopsided,…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Usually if I forget my phone I realise quite fast. Not today. Today I went for half a day without my phone. It was at home and I wasn’t. I used the watch’s LTE connection but a watch can’t do much. People speak of leaving phones at home for runs, and more. If I leave…