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My favourite time of the year…
Got the new Recycling Calendar the other day. This makes me happy in a nerdy way 🤓 We have plastic boxes in the house to sort recycling before I put them into the outdoor wheelies. I have to say, when I saw our regular collection day of Tuesday was only being shunted to Wednesday for the…
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First name basis
Clearing out some photos to make space and I came across this one from a few weeks back Ben has an iPad two with a few games on it, he’s listed as a child in my iCloud “family” and I have purchase requests on. I found it odd that when i was installing YouTube Kids…
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Discovering & educating about account access
This evening I discovered a possible security problem with an online service who sell a physical problem. I’m being intentionally vague now since I’ve responsibly disclosed it to the company and they’re going to work on it. They’ve let me know I can publish a post when it’s fixed. If I find a security hole…
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Porridge explosion
As I was nearing the end of my 7-10 live chat, the kids came into my office. “The porridge went all over the microwave. I thought it said put in for one minute then another minute. Not one minute then sit for a minute” admits Hannah. “It’s everywhere!” says the littlest one. “Okay, I’m working…
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Luther, & tracking TV watching
Just started watching the new series of Luther. Pretty intense stuff but I love it. It reminded me that I don’t know of an elegant solution to track this sort of thing, any tips? I mentioned before that I’m going to use Goodreads for books and Letterboxd for movies but I don’t have a solution…
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So close…
I have a 10K target on Gyroscope for my steps… 😫 However I did close all my rings on Activity 👌🏻💪🏻
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Apple Watch Happy New Year
It’s a nice touch, a non-dismissible notification you can press for fireworks: But when you keep pressing it hours later and can’t dismiss it, it gets old.
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The final panels
…Let’s go exploring
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See ya 2018
74 (75 when this is published) blog posts. Not as much as I thought but I hope to keep up a post a day, now I’ve backdated the past two weeks. ✌🏻 [Edit – I’m going to collate some great posts by friends and others which I read and are better year round ups than…
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More data about everything
I’ve long had Gyroscope and use it to measure some parts of my life. Now with my Apple Watch, I’m measuring more, like sleep, heart rate, activity. I spent some time logging back into apps today I hadn’t used in a while to help me measure more parts – some via Gyroscope, and some outside of…
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