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• Citizen Brycen (AW1590-55E) review

  By Shaun on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  So, I finally got my grail watch, a Tudor Black Bay, and was happy. I wasn’t 100% happy because it was the GMT rather than the Black Bay Black, but because the waiting lists are so long to get the… Read More ›

• Fitness trackers ‘add miles to your marathon’

  By Shaun on April 27, 2019 • ( 2 )

  It found that the least reliable was the Garmin Vivosmart 4, which underestimated the distance by 10.8 miles – meaning the researcher actually ran 37 miles. Garmin said it was because that particular tracker did not contain GPS. It described… Read More ›

• To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time

  By Shaun on April 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  When my wife died, my life was thrown out of time. My past didn’t seem to connect to my present. How had the last 13 years turned me into an only parent of two young children, owner of a house… Read More ›

• How did the qwerty keyboard become so popular?

  By Shaun on April 27, 2019 • ( 2 )

  Typing at 60 words per minute (wpm) – no stretch for a good typist – means five or six letters striking the same spot each second. At such a speed, the typist might need to be slowed down for the… Read More ›

• Street Artists Transform an Ordinary Building

  By Shaun on April 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  “We’ve noticed that this project brought people together without pushing it,” Is De Man tells My Modern Met. “They meet each other through books. Regardless of the differences in cultures, regardless of the differences in political point of views. Regardless… Read More ›

• Sculpting Freddie Mercury

  By Shaun on April 25, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Wow!

• Instagram is awful

  By Shaun on April 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Recently I decided to set up a new Instagram account and to write about Tudor watches. I wanted to experiment with simple images and longer form text than you normally see on Instagram. No great ambitions here, just something to… Read More ›

• No backdoor…

  By Shaun on April 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Cook and Sewell met with Eric Holder and Jim Cole, then the deputy attorney general, in late 2014, and FBI agents told them they were “interested in getting access to phones on a mass basis.” This was way before the… Read More ›

• Look after your own baby you lazy…

  By Shaun on April 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  I don’t normally like it when people have a dig at millennials, but this individual seems to be unable to do anything for themselves or take responsibility for real life. This is, however, a highly entertaining Twitter thread.

• Retro Tech: Game Boy

  By Shaun on April 19, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Excellent, just excellent.

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