Category: travel
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Social Networks in 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesCreative Bloom wrote about the shift back to personal blogs. They wrote about how people are shifting from social media back to self-owned personal websites. This is good. People are tired of social networks they build up and enable being sold off to people with different moral codes. Twitter is one example,…
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Amazon Kindle and Book Downloads
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome people are saying “Rush to download your Kindle Books because after the 26th of February you won’t be able to. My reaction is both neutral and to some degree indifferent. For me Amazon is destroying the reason for which people would buy from Kindle rather than other book sellers, but more…
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GoFast Charging
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I had a chromebook, an e-book reader, warm clothes and a coffee. My plan had been to drive to a charging point and spend some time walking, and some time reading or writing a blog post. Instead I drove by McDonald’s and saw that the GOFAST chargers were free so I…
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Sygic GPS Navigation & Maps
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I saw the Sygic app appear when searching for car navigation apps. Finally I decided to experiment with the app. I drove a familiar route yesterday, and another one today and the experience was good. It has the advantage of being European and it is well designed for people with…
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The Allure of Public Libraries with E-Books
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy joining a book club and hearing people speak about borrowing books, rather than buying them I was at once asking myself the question "Why wouldn’t you buy a book when you can afford it?" and "Why wouldn’t you want to own the books you read?" Since then I have changed my…
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Apple and the Expensive Budget Phone
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few months ago I was thinking of getting a new iPhone SE and then I read that it would go up in price by at least 50 USD and that it would have an Apple modem and more and I lost interest in upgrading. For me the niche served by a…
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Lending Libraries in the Twenty First Century
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when you got an Audible Subscription and you had access to 24 credits per year. You could choose 24 books per year. That’s a new book every two weeks. Eventually, after many years the plan and offer changed. You can now buy books from Audible, or you can…
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On AI and Corporate Social Responsibility
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I went for a run. During this run I listened to Systems Crash and the discussion about AI, about the US attitude, and the European/International attitude and it convinced me that I much prefer to use EU/International projects rather than American ones for a simple reason. Corporate Social Responsibility. The…
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Walking with Others
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I walked from Vevey to villeneuve with a stop in the castle for a visit before taking the train home. In the process we walked about fifteen kilometres along the lake. This was an easy pace for me. It was slow enough for my heart rate to be at seventy eight…
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Chateau De Chillon
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe old and the new. The Chateau de Chillon and the Motorway