Category: travel
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Trail Glove 7 After 440 Kilometres
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince the 7th of May 2023 I have been wearing Trail Glove 7 Shoes for most of my walks. During this time I have walked in towns, villages, fields, the mountains and more. They have felt comfortable for almost all of this walking. As I am not familiar with this type of…
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Reading Alaska and Iberia by Michener
Reading Time: 2 minutesIntroduction to Iberia Between last night and this morning I began to read Iberia by Michener and the introduction is pleasant. It takes us back to a time when people trailed by coal ship to Italy, before bouncing around and dropping into Spain to pick up oranges. The scene described within the…
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Walking Heatwave Strategy
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo days in a row I have poured water on my head. The reason for this is that yesterday we were in 35°c heat and today we were in 33°c heat. When you’re walking for two or three hours at the solar Maximum the best cooling strategy is to pour water on…
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Learning by Trial And Error
Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery day or two I see people post about how the Fediverse should be simplified to welcome new people. It’s a shame. Signing up for a fediverse server is easy. It’s the same process as for every site. The biggest difference is that you’re signing up for a privately owned, crowd sourced…
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Blogging and Medium
Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring the early days of the pandemic I wrote for at least one days every day. I was blogging the pandemic experience from my point of view. More recently I have kept up another blogging streak. This time I am reaching day 274 as I write this blog post. Developing a Writing…
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Three Hundred and Sixty Kilometres in Trail Glove 7
Reading Time: 4 minutesSince the Seventh of May 2023 I have walked more than 360 kilometres in the Merrel Trail Glove 7 and the experience has been good. For a long time I enjoyed wearing normal shoes but recently they started either to rub the front of my feet, or the heel would get worn…
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Social Media Glossy Magazines via Facebook and Twitter
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I spent time on Twitter and Facebook and I was reminded of that horrible feeling you get when you’re looking for posts and tweets by friends, to interact with, and see crappy adverts instead. Imagine if you walked into a pub or conference and instead of having personal conversations you were…
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Generating Images with Bing AI
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I played with Bing Chat, which is Microsoft’s AI engine and I noticed that I could play with generating images. I spent quite a bit of time generating a multitude of images, in part for fun, but also to get a grasp of the limitations of the opportunity presented by software…
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The Unquantified Self and the Garmin Etrex SE
Reading Time: 4 minutesSince boyhood I have liked watches. There was a period when I wore none, but eventually I got the habit back and now I regularly wear two watches. I don’t wear two watches because I like to wear two watches. I wear two watches because Apple sends to one database and Garmin…
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A Markdown test
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI want to see how well **markdown** works so I am writing a few lines This is a subheading * and one item not another item and a third item and a fourth A sub heading Hello Goodbye I say hello and you say goodbye