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Placebo
For reasons that I don’t really want to go into, I’ve had to resort to sleeping tablets. Nothing major, just herbal things to help me drop off and stay asleep. I’ve used them before, many years ago, and found they really …
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Rutland Water In The Sun
Another walk around Rutland again today. Enjoying the boats and water sports
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I want to do everything and nothing
It doesn’t take more than a few minutes for the uncomfortable feeling to set in. Tiny little pin pricks that raise in intensity while I am still. Prodding me towards doing something, anything, just stop being still. My …
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My life doesn’t work like that
Shawn Blanc has a cushty life being able to be indistractable until lunch. Between 6am and noon is arguably my most precious / important / valuable time of the day for getting things done. That’s why I keep all of my …
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WFH slipping away
Over the last few weeks, I am having to spend more and more time in an office environment. There’s no rhyme or reason for it apart from the things I need to do need me to be there. I can slowly but surely feel my happy …
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Oh, Instagram!
Where to actually start? Every so often we see the once great Instagram app slide into oblivion, barely clinging on to its importance to the users that have used it for more than a decade. Unfortunately, there isn’t a …
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Small Walk At Rutland
It was a bit blustery and choppy out on the water, but an enjoyable hour walk with the pooch. Headed to the south shore and went a bit further south on the path until we got to the boat harbour. I wish I had taken a …
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Never going to switch
Gruber doing his usual thing “Apple silicon is a profoundly inconvenient truth for many computer enthusiasts who do not like Macs, so they’ve gone into denial,” Or. Bear with me. Windows publications like Windows …
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Instagram may be trash, but I can’t stop
The well shared Om post from a few weeks ago: ““While Instagram initially fueled my passion for photography; rather than being inspired through the art of photography itself, too often I find myself chasing numbers of …
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TikTok grabs all the things
Turns out TikTok is basically spyware. “TikTok is said to collect “everything”, from search and browsing histories; keystroke patterns; biometric identifiers—including faceprints, something that might be used in …
