Technology
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Solis Rice Cooker: Convenient Cooking Made Easy
After contemplating and hesitating for a couple of years whether or not to buy a rice cooker I finally made the jump and bought a small rice cooker from Solis at a local store last weekend and used it for the first time yesterday. Use is super simple, simply add the number of cups of…
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Online Calculators
I have owned many physical calculators over the years and still have around 7 of them at home. I mostly use the HP15C Limited Edition or the HP50G. Whenever I need a calculator and I don’t have one I grab my phone but when I am at home at my desk I will always choose…
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Apple Watch Series 11 Review: Battery Life and Features After One Month
I have now used my Apple Watch Series 11 for about one month and I am quite pleased with it. Added software functionality for running and increased battery life are all positive. I could get one with a 15% price discount and if it lasts as long as my previous Apple Watch then I will…
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Bootstrap 5 Foundations, Daniel Foreman (ISBN 9798749992465, foremanlearning)
Recently I followed a course on Coursera about Front-End Web Development, html and css from Meta. It was a nice refresher but compared to some other courses on similar topics created by universities the course materials are a bit meager: no slides or reading material you can save and easily read again. You have to…
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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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