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• Starting to understand minimalism

  By Shaun on September 30, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  I am not a fan of going the full minimalist route that you see touted all over YouTube and by people who are, I presume, mostly vegan. It often comes over as doing it because it is cool or retro,… Read More ›

• E-ink adventures

  By Shaun on September 27, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  On a whim I decided to purchase a pre-owned Remarkable 2 for £200 and an 3rd party Staedtler pencil for £22. This to me represented a decent price for a product that could help me in so many ways and… Read More ›

• IX&DAO Engineer – probably the best value watch I have ever seen

  By Shaun on September 23, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  This watch is conflicting to me. It is an obvious homage to my grail watch, the IWC Ingenieur, but it is one that offers many surprises. A quick round up of the specs follows- 316L Stainless Steel caseSapphire CrystalPT5000 movement… Read More ›

• E(lusive) Ink

  By Shaun on September 19, 2025 • ( 9 )

  

  I have been searching for an e-ink device that I can use when I want to read books, articles and PDFs, but which can also handle services like email, web browsing and Reddit. Those tasks are all I require now… Read More ›

• Sleep Score needs work

  By Shaun on September 11, 2025 • ( 2 )

  

  Apple needs to do some work on the new sleep tracking feature. Two nights with it working on my Ultra 2. Two nights of dreadful and continually interrupted sleep. Two high sleep scores that say my sleep is excellent. 🥴

• Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

  By Shaun on September 10, 2025 • ( 4 )

  

  I missed the Apple event yesterday, but got some time to watch it this afternoon and I must say that I came away from it quite confused. iPhone 17 A decent upgrade and lots of specs for the money when… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 101 (M.E)

  By Shaun on September 1, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Myself and Joanne decided to tackle the M.E. subject in a new podcast episode which is roughly a year since the last one. We thought we were done with the podcast, but feel the more ears on the subject of… Read More ›

• Stuff

  By Shaun on August 31, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  I thought I would post the stuff I saw over the past few weeks while I wasn’t positing content. The completionist part of me cannot help it. Frank Caprio This man was a lesson in the spirit of the law… Read More ›

• Turbulence

  By Shaun on August 30, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  Twelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next… More here. I read this book over a few days recently and it grabbed me because of the… Read More ›

• ME

  By Shaun on August 29, 2025 • ( 4 )

  

  It would be fair to say that 2025 has been a bad year. After a year of tests and waiting while the NHS continues to move at a pace that is no doubt causing 100,000’s of people to be sicker… Read More ›

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