Getting wet and staying dry in the Triple Aught Design Raptor Hoodie
Reviewing the TAD Raptor Hoddie, in wind, snow, and the wet, and on a bike
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The DJI Osmo+: a review of a shambles
Whilst pursuing better video, I obtained first a DJI Osmo Mobile, and after returning that, a DJI Osmo+. Here’s what happened.
The disruptive DxO One
When photography started, it was a case of exposing plates to light in order to change them. Today, the principle still exists, except that…
Of Bedrolls and Picnic Blankets
When Prometheus Design Worx announced their technical picnic blanket, I was somewhere between amazed, disgusted, and outraged, based on the following points: * technical: how is a picnic blanket technical? The language used to describe outdoor equipment is bad enough for the consumer (softshell or hardshell? Technical baselayer?), but when it’
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Reviewing the Oakley Radar Pace over a few days
On 2016–10–01, Oakley released the Radar Pace, for $449. Very little technical information was available pre-sale, and it was a delight to find it supports both Bluetooth and ANT+ sensors. A novel feature of it that was also undocumented is that the software (‘coach’) will calculate running power,
Evolving the Arc’teryx Konseal: The Triple Aught Design Vortex
For a while, my preferred base/mid layer for anything cold (running, snow shoeing, cycling: sweaty pastimes) has been the Arc’teryx Konseal. Its lightweight thin fleece fits closely to my body, and the ‘scuba’ hood with integrated face warmer/jaw component of a balaclava keeps my head warm and
On the Mystery Ranch Flight Monster Duffle
I’ve been known to by bags, normally something around the size of a day pack (20–25L), but every so often I need something bigger. This is one of those times, and with an imminent move to San Francisco, I knew I’d need something large and strong. Having
Coffee, the constantly growing industry
A while ago, I knew a guy in a place. This guy, we’ll call him Carter (and the place Milk Bar) made great coffee and knew other people who make great coffee. Finding out I was from Oxford, he pointed me in the direction of another guy, and another
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Longer-term with the Suunto Ambit3 Vertical
Continued from here. A while back, Suunto announced a new iteration of their GPS/GLONASS line, called the Vertical. Like a good technologist, I pre-ordered, and embraced its smaller feature set (compared with the Peak) with delight. I endured Suunto’s decision that people who ‘chase the Vertical’ don’t
Backing up data in a SaaS company
When I started working in IT, life was simple: everything was on servers in a server room or a data center, and everything on those servers needed to be backed up. Data replication had yet to really take off, internet connections were slow, and clouds were only just starting to
Losing weight through high protocol and technology, and my exercise stack
As someone who is most content when everything is quantified, I was immediately made unhappy last June, when I upgraded my long-standing original Suunto Ambit to an Ambit3 Peak. It had a new feature my completist nature had to check: a running performance graph, or, as I saw it, unquantified
On Queal, and chewing your drink
Experiments with meal-replacement powders from a person who enjoys food and cooking Two of my hobbies are reading cookbooks, normally in an armchair in the kitchen while something else cooks, and cooking. With that in mind, I took the probably improbable decision to try one of the many meal replacement