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  • Blogging and Medium

    Blogging and Medium

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    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…

  • Three Hundred and Sixty Kilometres in Trail Glove 7

    Three Hundred and Sixty Kilometres in Trail Glove 7

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    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…

  • Social Media Glossy Magazines via Facebook and Twitter

    Social Media Glossy Magazines via Facebook and Twitter

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    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…

  • Generating Images with Bing AI

    Generating Images with Bing AI

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    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…

  • The Unquantified Self and the Garmin Etrex SE

    The Unquantified Self and the Garmin Etrex SE

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    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…

  • A Markdown test

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    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

  • This blog has been migrated to Classic Press

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    Reading Time: < 1 minutePlaying with ClassicPress now, in production, because I am silly.

  • YQ, FrontMatter and Jekyll

    YQ, FrontMatter and Jekyll

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesFor two days I have been trying to understand how to use Jekyll, a Ruby version of Hugo. It is a Static website generator that is similar to Hugo but rather than being written in Go, it is written in Ruby. I find that it renders sites faster than Hugo, but that…

  • Twitter X-Roads – Twitter Crossroad

    Twitter X-Roads – Twitter Crossroad

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the change in name from Twitter to X, and with the destruction of a recognisable brand mentioned in tens of thousands of podcasts, podcasts, episodes and millions of web pages I was curious to see how Twitter was, with the new logo. It took more than 24 hours to change the…

  • Disinformation and Education – Social Media and AI

    Disinformation and Education – Social Media and AI

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesDisinformation and misinformation work for a very simple reason. People who did not study history, and do not follow current affairs do not have the background information to spot what is true from what is untrue. They are unable to use history’s lessons to see the warning signs and act accordingly. Algorithms…