Category: Hobbies & Interests
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The StoryGraph: A Genuine, Independent Alternative to Goodreads
In today’s digital age, many readers find themselves tethered to massive corporate platforms for tracking their reading journeys. The StoryGraph offers a refreshing alternative that’s independent of Amazon’s ecosystem—something I, personally, value after transitioning from 16 years of Kindle use. I recently swapped my Kindle Oasis for a Kobo Clara Colour which you can read…
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The Kindle Is Dead. Long Live The Kobo.
I’ve been an Amazon Kindle user since the 2009 Kindle 2. Over the years, I’ve upgraded three times—first to a Kindle, then the Kindle Paperwhite, then finally to the Kindle Oasis. My e-book library now holds over 400 books. I even bought Kindles for my partner and daughter, so they have their own collections. My…
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My Personal Backup Plan
We need to talk about backups. I started a previous post about recovering my system, from trying out a Beta Operating System, with the following paraphrased lyric (from Baz Luhrmann’s Sunscreen)… Do backups. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, backup would be it. The long-term benefits of backups have been…
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Crash Course In Rolling Back From Apple macOS and iOS Beta’s
Do backups. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, backup would be it. The long term benefits of backups have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
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Multiple Logins For The Same Online Services? Try Out Firefox Multi-Account Containers To Ease Your Life.
Seriously, you will thank me later. This may effortlessly cross over to other aspects of your life. The most obvious and simplest, being able to keep your personal and public lives separate easily. Many Chrome-based browsers will allow you to create profiles, but the problem with those is that the information from the different profiles…
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Unmasking the Power of Email Aliases: Taking Control of Your Online Privacy and Security
I hate getting asked for my email address, I find it as personal as asking for my home address. Every website you log into now seems to have a pop-up asking for your email address, and it drives me bonkers. They are going to take it, use it to market to and profile you, but…
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Patience. The Tiger Cometh.
After 60,000km it’s all changing again. My ever trusty, everyday workhorse and general do everything exceptionally well Tiger 800 XRt (2016) is now being replaced. The why is fairly mundane, just like the Tiger 800 XRx before that, I can take the oppurtunity to move up now. The Tiger has not missed a beat in…
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Rev’It Pioneer OutDry Boots
Rev’It Pioneer OutDry Boots After a year in the Rev’It Poseidon Suit (review here and photos here) I am adding the Rev’it Pioneer Boots to my wardrobe. What a boot these are! They are new arrivals to the Rev’It catalogue at the end of 2016 and certainly match the marques now standard high quality. Unboxing…
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Rev’it Poseidon Jacket and Trousers Impressions
UPDATE: You can find photos of the suit HEREThe Emperor’s New Clothes Having bought a new suit in 2015 for my daily motorcycling needs, the idea was to replace my then 4 year old Hein Gericke suit. The Hein Gericke suit was working just fine keeping me dry and warm in a functional sense, but…
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Blow & Snow – Some Winter Riding in Ireland
“Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No,…
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