Reay

Technology is great, when it works

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I’m testing out a new, very well reviewed email service. The first thing I wanted to do when I signed up for it was to see if people could actually see it, since with my current (problematic) email service, I’d seem to initially end up going into peoples’ spam folders more often than not. So … Read more

Another email service needed? Again?

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Back in February, I found I couldn’t continue using my (then) current email service (let’s call it Service 1), because while it was excellent as far as performance, reliability, tech support, and the slick UI (user interface) went, the head of the Swiss-based company praised… well, look, I don’t want to get political… but let’s … Read more

When is too little a change still worth it?

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A few months back, I read that microplastics have been found to be in chewing gum. And not just the mass produced stuff, where one could reasonably expect that producers may cut corners on quality of ingredients to keep cranking out their offerings, but microplastics were found even in the likes of more natural brands … Read more

Last day of my first Blaugust

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So it’s a wrap. Looking back on the last 30 days, and in no particular order, here are my thoughts on my first crack at Blaugust: I can manage to write every dayThis is a big one. I managed to pull off a few years of doing something creative every day, before I totally dropped … Read more

What I read this month

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I’m pretty happy with the number of books I managed to get in this month, what with focusing on Blaugust as much as I did (typically taking an hour+ out of each day to post something, which could otherwise have been used for other things including reading), and with our pretty slammed schedule road-tripping out … Read more

Photographs

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It’s been too long since I’ve posted any photos here on my site. I keep taking them — I take them all the time, whenever a moment pops up and I have the chance to capture it — but I often need to do a bit of tweaking before I’m happy with how the final … Read more

Trying to be okay to play

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I have a bit of a weird thing with playing video games, in that when I’m playing them, I often feel like I can — nay, should — be doing something more productive with my time. That may not seem unusual on the surface of it, Ok, so you’re someone who likes getting stuff done … Read more

Hunt for quality, not just name brands

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When I was young, my parents held the Sony brand up as one of the best technology manufacturers in the world. Those were the TVs we got when we could, those were the VCR brands (he says, dating himself) and eventually the Walkman and Discman and other CD players. Pioneer was high on that list … Read more

This isn’t giving up, this is letting go

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I went to my first Fan Expo yesterday and managed to get in one seminar led by experienced panellists. The second seminar was a bust because, whether by some miscommunication from the staff or some other reason — we were told by a staff member that the location of the seminar had changed at some … Read more