Category: Switzerland
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Playing With the Old Garmin Instinct Solar Watch
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Garmin Instinct Solar is an excellent watch if you like to hike and walk, but falls short if you want more detailed stats when you’re running. It doesn’t have HRV monitoring, fatigue and other features. Years ago, when I was in Spain I was playing with the watch. I would leave…
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The Facebook Lag When Typing
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I noticed that when I type a comment or write a post on Facebook there is a considerable lag between when I start to type and when it appears on screen. We’re speaking about more than a second of lag. For an instant I was thinking that it might be because…
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Running to End on a Round Number
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Monday I went for a run. When I stopped the tracker on the Apple Watch and the Garmin watch I noticed the same number. 9.99km. If I had run just one more straight, or one more curve of the track I would have had a 10km run. I couldn’t restart the…
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Swapping eSIMs between Phones
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday, for fun, and out of curiousity I swapped eSIMS between two phones. If you’re old enough, you remember that swapping physical sims required turning it off and on again. it being both phones. Today, with eSIMS the process has been simplified since the last time I tried. Today if you…
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The Value of Rural Walks
Reading Time: 4 minutesSome series, like Last of the Summer Wine, follow people going on local walks and getting up to mischief. We often hear of people that love to go for walks on the weekend. The issue, as traffic density increases is that the local walks that were along quiet roads are now along…
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On Blogging and a Good Training Session
Reading Time: 2 minutesNormally I don’t like interval training because I don’t like pushing myself too hard. I like, instead, to work on endurance. I’m fine with a 23km hike with 1200m of climbing and I’m okay with a 5 to 8km social run but I don’t like interval training. Specifically I don’t like pushing…
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The Professional Approach to Soft Mobility
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few days ago my fears were confirmed. After a run I had a short talk with one of the people that prepares pedestrian routes during road works. When I spoke of one area he said “I don’t really know that area”, and more. It took professionalism, and empathy of my own…
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On Superficial Artificial Intelligence
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have a Fairphone 4 and the battery is now at seventy six percent or so. I’ve been trying to have a conversation with Gemini about the state of the battery. In so doing I started with the question about replacing the battery but I soon moved on but AI, due to…
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J’accuse Akismet and Fediverse Spammers
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently every post I wrote got a dozen or more spam messages. As a result of this flood of spam comments Akismet or another app said “You need to pay due to the volume of spam comments. It struck me as tremendously unfair. Most blogs have little to no income, so if…
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What if Linkedin Was a Jovial Chat Rather Than Self-Promotion
Reading Time: 3 minutesYears ago I saw that a UN organisation were looking for an archivist on Twitter so I got in touch and within two days I had signed a contract for work. In another spontaneous act of curiousity I saw that Adecco Geneva was looking for people that weren’t afraid of heights, so,…