Category: travel

  • The Age Old Hatred of Pedestrians

    The Age Old Hatred of Pedestrians

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I was reading from a book, rather than from a kindle or audible book. As a result I had to keep the bedside light on. I also had to ensure that the light light the pages of the book. I was reading from the book "Beneath My Feet, Writers on…

  • Paying for Facebook and Instagram

    Paying for Facebook and Instagram

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Unappealing Thought of Paying for Facebook Facebook would like us, in Europe, to start paying to use Facebook, Instagram and Threads, eventually. I will never pay for any of these services because they do not provide us with anything of value. The day we begin to pay for Facebook and Instagram…

  • Learning to Slow Down with Electric Cars

    Learning to Slow Down with Electric Cars

    Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the weaknesses of Electric cars is that they take longer to refuel than a petrol burning car. One of the advantages of electric cars is that they take longer to refuel than a petrol burning car. For some people this is a deal breaker. They don’t want to be forced…

  • A Growing Fear of Wolves

    A Growing Fear of Wolves

    Reading Time: 2 minutesMore Wolves In Switzerland they reintroduced wolves and they are thriving, to the point where a collection of 17 packs of wolves became a pack of 35 wolves. As the number of wolves increases so does the probability that humans will fall victim to wolves. They are thinking of reintroducing them to…

  • On Potentially Removing Google Adsense from this Blog

    On Potentially Removing Google Adsense from this Blog

    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been toying with the idea of removing Google Ads from my site and adding a donation option instead. This escalated, when, yesterday I was seeing ads in the admin panel of my wordpress blog. Ads are disruptive enough for users, with full screen invasive ads that require you to…

  • The Amplified Case for Car Free Cycling and Walking Routes

    The Amplified Case for Car Free Cycling and Walking Routes

    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the near future we may see many more self-driving cars from many different manufacturers. If this is the case then we should think about reducing the number of roads and lanes devoted to cars. As robots drive cars, rather than humans so safety distances no longer need to exist, because every…

  • Hugo and Static Files

    Hugo and Static Files

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I was experimenting with the Static folder in Hugo. Hugo and other static site generators has a folder where you can usually put content that you don’t want to have changed. You can add php, css, js and more. By making this an option it is possible to have your blog…

  • iOS and Environmentalism

    iOS and Environmentalism

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you use the weather app on iOS 17 the weather app provides you with information about average temperature and average precipitation. It tells you how different the temperature and rainfall are, compared to average. Today, for example, I see that the temperature is 4°c warmer than the average. It tells me…

  • A Good Run

    A Good Run

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s good to vary between walking, cycling and running. I even threw in skateboarding but I am not confident at that sport yet. The beauty of walking, cycling and running is that these are sports that you can do straight from home, without getting into a car, and without having to put…

  • Blogging with VS Code and Hugo

    Blogging with VS Code and Hugo

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I had no inspiration. In the end I did write about something but only after hours of staring at a hypothetical blank page. When I did start writing I used Frontmatter to generate the page but I forgot to open terminal and write the blog post using VIM. I used VSCode…