I was pondering this recently when I finished a book that had taken me 2 months to read. I am not a prolific reader by any means, but I like to catch a few minutes each day and also have… Read More ›
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eBay is for Suckers
I shipped the iPhone on October 17 via UPS almost immediately after receiving full payment in my PayPal account. I had the money, so I assumed everything was going to be fine. Everything was not fine. The buyer waited a… Read More ›
2017
Well, this is a year I have been looking forward to and not only because it isn’t 2016. My worry is that 2016 is likely just the opening of the toxic bottle and that the real poison will start to… Read More ›
Once you have a mobile system that works…
I was looking at the App Store the other day and yet again I found nothing that I wanted to install. It has been this way for about a year now and I think it is because I have reached… Read More ›
WORLD WAR THREE, BY MISTAKE
President Jimmy Carter’s national-security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was asleep in Washington, D.C., when the phone rang. His military aide, General William Odom, was calling to inform him that two hundred and twenty missiles launched from Soviet submarines were heading toward… Read More ›
2016
I don’t really know what to say about 2016, a year which has already been written off as one of the worst ever for many people. I guess the only thing I can do is write about how it has… Read More ›
Why Seiko?
Someone asked me recently what the best watch they could buy was for less than £500 and I was taken aback. Firstly, I know a bit about watches, but realise that buying a watch is a very personal decision and… Read More ›
Apple, where did the magic go?
My iPhone 7 updated to 10.2 without any issues whatsoever. But had I updated my Apple Watch to watchOS 3.1.1, I would have bricked it. Following reports of borked Apple Watches, Apple pulled the software update without further explanation. It… Read More ›
The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill is the most famous conman you’ve probably never heard of. Born into poverty in rural Virginia at the end of the 19th century, Hill went on to write one of the most successful self-help books of the 20th… Read More ›
Is the wareable industry in trouble?
It’s hard to tell if there are problems within the wareable industry because many people only class smart watches as falling in to that category. Motorola no longer seems keen on the genre, but that may be related to Google’s… Read More ›
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