Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I’m fascinated by the Quantified Self movement where people collect masses of data about themselves and aggregate it to show some meaning. For example you might every day record your weight, steps taken and the weather and map them out to see if there is any correlation between them. This is exactly what both Gyroscope …
Continue reading “Gyroscope vs. Exist – Quantified Self Aggregator Review”
As I write this and look out of my window it is a beautiful day. The sun is shining down and there is not a cloud in the sky. Wind back to this morning when the solar eclipse was supposed to be happening it was grey and overcast with zero chance of seeing what the …
There’s a real problem with free in that it has zero cost (obviously) so people seem to think that means it also has zero value. I hate to see any waste and my heart sinks with everything that gets put into the bin and not recycled. My kids are fed up with me saying that …
It’s possible that I might have a significant birthday this year and if you are wondering what you might get me the above BMW would be most welcome 😉
Opening scene somebody gets ill, others around are concerned but this is misdirection as ta-dah it’s one of the concerned others that falls sick and needs a trip to the hospital. Someone tries to entice House to take the case by offering up tidbits of information about the illness but he is not interested. Then …
I love music. It’s really unusual for me to not have music playing somewhere. If it’s blaring out of my computer, music streamer in the lounge or out of my headphones when on the move it is pretty unusual. Music, for me, can be background noise, something that doesn’t require too much concentration and fills …
When I posted recently about the tracks added to my music library over last year something that struck me was that it required 35gb of additional storage. That still seems like an enormous amount of disk space to me. This now takes the total amount of storage for all my music to 266gb. This is …
Last year I ran a series of monthly blog posts recording all the music that I had acquired over the previous month, you can see all those posts here, but I thought it would be good to do a summary. Here are the raw stats over the year 49 Artists 89 Albums 959 Songs 97 …
In keeping with many we used the time between Christmas and the New Year to blow off a few cobwebs and get out and about. After a few lapsed years we had renewed our National Trust membership this year and so decided to try and get to a different property each time we went out. …
Continue reading “Seven Days, Five Counties, Five National Trust Properties”
This is a personally motivated post and will without a doubt be biased for which I make no apologies but then what politically motivated speeches aren’t? Earlier this year my eldest son started looking for jobs in marketing as that would allow him to make use of his talent for writing. He quickly got three …