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• Seiko’s Voice Digital Watch returns

  By Shaun on November 1, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Seiko’s line of watches for the visually impaired started in 1939 with a tactile pocket watch for those injured in the war, then in 1966 with a wristwatch version, then 1979 with a quartz version, and finally in 1998 with… Read More ›

• Bond bows out

  By Shaun on October 31, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Sir Sean Connery has died at the age of 90, his family has said. The Scottish actor was best known for his portrayal of James Bond, being the first to bring the role to the big screen and appearing in… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 23 (buying stuff)

  By Shaun on October 31, 2020 • ( 0 )

  In this episode Joanne and I discuss the following (excuse the sound quality- I need to figure out the new microphone and spend some more time editing in the future)– Do we actually buy anything on merit and do we… Read More ›

• A room, a bar and a classroom

  By Shaun on October 31, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The coronavirus is spread through the air, especially in indoor spaces. While it is not as infectious as measles, scientists now openly acknowledge the role played by the transmission of aerosols – tiny contagious particles exhaled by an infected person… Read More ›

• Amazon should NOT be selling these!

  By Shaun on October 31, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Amazon just announced that sales increased 37% yearly to $96.1 billion and profits jumped almost 200%. Amazon should NOT be selling products like this. And then there is this– When you purchase a TV show or movie on Amazon Prime… Read More ›

• Bag of leeks confused with machete after police called to Aberdeen community to track down man in bunny mask

  By Shaun on October 31, 2020 • ( 0 )

  A police spokeswoman said: “Around 9.40pm on Thursday, 29 October, 2020, a witness reported a man on Provost Watt Drive wearing a mask and carrying an item shaped like a machete. “Officers conducted inquiries in the area and CCTV from… Read More ›

• Data Disappeared

  By Shaun on October 31, 2020 • ( 0 )

  In mid-July, just when the U.S. was breaking and rebreaking its own records for daily counts of new coronavirus cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found itself abruptly relieved of its customary duty of collating national numbers on COVID-19 patients. Instead, the… Read More ›

• Erroneous iOS 14 beta notifications

  By Shaun on October 31, 2020 • ( 2 )

  Users evaluating the latest iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 beta versions are encountering an apparent bug that instructs the download of a new software version, though such an update does not exist. A number of beta testers are seeing incessant… Read More ›

• Post-Brexit UK will not be ‘centre of gravity’ for Biden

  By Shaun on October 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Sir Peter Ricketts, who was Britain’s ambassador to Nato and France and chief mandarin at the Foreign Office as well as servicing as David Cameron’s NSA from 2010-12, said that the Democrat candidate, if elected, will look to Berlin and… Read More ›

• Pininfarina’s 50-Year-Old Modulo Design

  By Shaun on October 29, 2020 • ( 5 )

  “Pininfarina has built 90 years of innovation”, company CEO Silvio Angori said in a statement. “The symbol of this journey is the Modulo, still considered, half a century later to be an icon of motor racing due to a revolutionary… Read More ›

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