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  • Four Reading Tracking Apps

    Four Reading Tracking Apps

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesFor years I have been tracking my reading, whether by Goodreads or Audible but more recently, within the last four months, or so, I also started using Bookmory, booktracker and a fourth one but I don’t remember the name. The one whose name I forgot was abandonned because it forgot my login…

  • Daily Move Goal Reached One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fourty Seven Times

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn three days I will have closed the activity on an Apple Watch 1750 times. I have a love hate relationship with the device. That Love/hate relationship started when I broke the screen on my Series three watch when climbing but continued on when I got into the habit of allowing the…

  • Castamatic and Boosts

    Castamatic and Boosts

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been Lunix Unplugged and Self-Hosted. It’s by listening to self-hosted that I decided to experiment and learn about Linux by experimenting with Pis and projects created for Pi such as PhotoPrismPi, Pi-Hole and Nextcloud, to mention just a few. These podcasts kept mentioning [boosts](https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/boost/), sats, value for value and…

  • Cough Radar

    Cough Radar

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning, for the first time in months I used Sleepcycle manually to mark the start and end of my sleep and I noticed that they added the Cough Radar. This is a quick and easy way of seeing whether there is a lot of coughin in the region where you live,…

  • Playing with the Xiaomi Band 7

    Playing with the Xiaomi Band 7

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have had the Xiaomi Band 7 for a while but I didn’t wear it properly until the start of the new year. As a silly concept I thought that I would try to wear it for the entire year and so far I have kept to that resolution. Sometimes it’s worth…

  • 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…

  • The Curious Step Miscount Due to Walking Sticks

    The Curious Step Miscount Due to Walking Sticks

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I walked with hiking sticks and whereas one watch told me that I had 13,000 steps, or so, the other said I had 9000. It is the second time that I notice such a difference in step count.  The first time I noticed this issue was a few days ago, after…

  • Life Cycle by Northcube AB

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLife Cycle by NorthCube AB is a life tracking application available on iphone. It allows you to keep track of your sports activities, time spent at work, sleeping, shopping, socialising and more. At first it knows nothing about it. It learns of your home location, your work location, where you go climbing…