When was the Golden Age of Technology? To me, technology was most interesting from about 1995-2018. Palm Pilots, Psions, Nokia phones in many wonderful shapes and sizes, you name it: if design teams could draw it, it could be manufactured! It might (or might not) be bug-ridden, but compared to
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After some searching on DDG, I found a solution that worked, actually linked on Ghost's help site where they offer a migration service. Their URL, 'for the brave': ageitgey/medium_to_ghostInstantly move all your Medium.com content (formatted posts + images) to an open source Ghost
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In Casino Royale, Bond orders not a vodka martini (shaken) but a drink he later names the Vesper: 'A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' 'Oui, monsieur.' 'Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka,
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How to infuse Lapsang Souchong's distinctive flavour into vodka.
Posting to Instagram, more than any other social platform is an art unto itself. To start with, they only allow three aspect ratios in a single post: * 1:1 * 4:5 (portrait) * 1.91:1 (landscape, very annoying!) From a platform perspective, I understand the restriction, and from a photographer&
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Goal-seeking a cheaper nut butter.
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After making my buttered bourbon, the next logical step was to use it in an Old Fashioned. Initially, I thought I'd made a mistake with the cask strength Maker's Mark, but after drinking it kept the flavour of the bourbon in pace with the other flavours.
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Back around 2015, I used to enjoy a a cocktail called a Full Fat Old Fashioned from at the Hawksmoor restaurant, in Soho, London. This was back when I ate steak tartare, and every other animal product between me and the bottom of the plate. Present day, 2021, it'
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A long time ago (2008), quite literally in a land far, far away, I gave a short talk on how I'd started using Google Apps For Your Domain. Prior to that, whilst studying for my MCSE, I'd set up an Exchange server environment on old desktops
In my last post, I wrote about the maths behind getting maximum exposure with minimal motion blur using my Sony Nex 7, and predicting that exposure for a given focal length. This maths - originally using the 500 rule, re-writing it to a 200 rule, served as a useful guide
The Sony Nex 7 is a mirrorless 24mpx camera, released in 2011, featuring an Exmor APS-C sensor, with a crop factor of 1.53 when compared to a 35mm piece of film. Exposure I attempted to work out the optimum exposure to reduce/remove motion blur from stars, by starting
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Julbo, French maker of sunglasses, partnered with ActiveLook, a manufacturer of a wearable heads-up display. This allows the wearer to see geospatial and physiological data displayed in their field of view, without loss of an area of sight. TL;DR? Good hardware, usefulness heavily restricted by the software. Hopefully the