Technology
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Manual vs. One-Click WordPress Install: A Personal Journey
For reasons not related to this blog I decided to look into webhosting options. I found a service which offered one click WordPress installation and decided I might just as well start WordPress on that site as well. This one click did not work as expected and the installation didn’t run through to the end.…
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Welcome Apple Watch Series 11
As I decided my 8 year old Apple Watch had to go also I had to decide what to replace it with. For a long time I had been thinking about switching to a Garmin ForeRunner but after watching some reviews on DC RainMaker I went for the newest Apple Watch Series 11 instead. This…
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Goodbye Apple Watch Series 4: Why I Made the Switch
This week I finally said goodbye to my Apple Watch Series 4. I had it for more than 7 and a half years but now it was time to make a switch. The watch was running on an old OS and missing many of the newer sports activity features. It also has a limited 16Gb…
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Compact and Versatile: The Leatherman Skeletool Rx in Action
A little while ago I was looking for a pocket knife for emergencies to cut material and break glass, like for example when you would to cut your safety belt and break the window of your car when trapped inside for some reason. I came across the Leatherman Skeletool Rx which was made for that…
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Arsenals of Folly, Richard Rhodes (ISBN 978-0-375-71394-1, Vintage Books)
The third book in the series on atomic weapons after ‘The making of the atomic bomb’ and ‘Dark Sun’. Chronologically it also covers the period after these 2 books and covers the nuclear arms race and the negotiations between Gorbatchev and Reagan that finally lead to several treaties that finally lead to a reduction in…
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Powershell or Nickel & Dimed
‘Your choice is Learn Powershell, or Would you like fries with that ?‘― Don Gannon-Jones
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A House of Dynamite
Watched this movie on Netflix after having read about it in the paper. In the movie a single unattributed nuclear missile is launched at the US. The whole movie tells the story what happens in the 20 minutes between launch detection and impact. It is a good thriller for the first 40 minutes at least.…
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The Road From Los Alamos, Hans Bethe (ISBN 978-0883187074, American Institute of Physics)
I bought this book after reading the making of the atomic bomb. And then, as usual it ended up sitting on a shelf for a long time. After recently having read Dark Sun I decided it was time to get this book from Hans Bethe behind me. It was actually better than I expected and…
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The Auk adventure continues
A few weeks ago the first cherry tomatoes started to appear. Now there are more and bigger ones on the plant but all are still very green. Also, my other 2 plants are starting to bear fruit although it is too early to tell with certainty which one is the pepper plant and which one…
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AI Humor
When writing posts I often ask the system to generate title options. Very often I find them uninspired and stereotypical. The follow a repetitive pattern and as a result I don’t use them very often. Recently I posted the following quote ‘It may be that we are jogging in tandem on a treadmill to nowhere.‘…
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