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• Jake’s last Friday on Earth

  By Shaun on January 9, 2022 • ( 1 )

  That evening Jake’s chest started to get “crackly” and he became increasingly short of breath. This time, he felt pain in his chest and neck, so we went straight to the hospital. He spent that Friday night in a rammed… Read More ›

• LEGO animal sculptures

  By Shaun on January 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  When constructing his sculptures, the Japanese LEGO enthusiast tends towards a cyberpunk aesthetic and gray-scale color palette to highlight his signature style. His varied collection includes LEGO sculptures of walruses, Huntsman spiders, crayfish, cicadas, triceratops, beetles, shoebills, and even microscopic… Read More ›

• The Inky Dashboard

  By Shaun on January 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Setting up the Raspberry Pi was straightforward, though the NOOBS operating system installer gives a choice between Full, Normal, and Lite Raspberry Pi OS with no real explanation as to what the difference was. And it appears to be very… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 86 (Should we ban private education etc?)

  By Shaun on January 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Tom and I talked for some time about ideas to improve the lives of everyone and how we should be levelling up opportunities. We inevitably discussed moving on from Covid and, at the end, fell back into old ground. It… Read More ›

• Open-source software + 1,440 literary quotes = a clock, and a plot

  By Shaun on January 6, 2022 • ( 1 )

  Ever since it came out, The Clock has been inspiring people to make timekeepers that, like Marclay’s, play with the notion that a clock’s usefulness, or value, is one-dimensional. In 2011, staff at The Guardian crowdsourced literary quotes for every… Read More ›

• I didn’t think my opinion of Norton could get any lower

  By Shaun on January 6, 2022 • ( 2 )

  I have not used a Norton product since their software destroyed a PC of mine many years ago, but this is definitely not what a virus protector should be doing.

• Do you use Apple TV+?

  By Shaun on January 6, 2022 • ( 2 )

  Tom Hanks’ “Greyhound” and Billie Eilish’s documentary were well received, and when Apple debuted the first season of “Ted Lasso,” things started changing for the service. Even though the company still doesn’t share how many subscribers it has – rather,… Read More ›

• Is your fit tech healthy?

  By Shaun on January 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  ‘I have seen first-hand in clinical practice that not meeting goals or falling short of targets can have negative implications for people. Missing these goals has led to them having negative thoughts, lowered mood and even strategies such as restrictive… Read More ›

• The Daily Mail reaches peak gaslight (‘The NHS is not in crisis…’)

  By Shaun on January 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Can Britain ‘ride out’ the Omicron wave without another lockdown, as Boris Johnson suggested on Tuesday? Or is the NHS being hopelessly overwhelmed as Covid infection rates soar? The answer to the first question is Yes. The answer to the… Read More ›

• Seiko Presage SRPC99J1 Cocktail Time review

  By Shaun on January 5, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  I wrote a while back about my lessening fascination with watches and it has stuck. There is a glimmer of interest remaining, however, and so when I was offered the chance to take a look at this particular Seiko Presage… Read More ›

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