This is the first of a series of posts looking at CPD and learning. Let’s talk about learning. I coach. I’ve spent a significant amount of my life attempting to understand how other people learn, and to help others learn better. I used to really suck at it. I’ve become...
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Cat and I Made it to Maker Faire
24 ... wait 48 ... wait 72 ... wait, 96 hours with the VivoActive HR
I usually write a first impressions post a day after receiving a new shiny, so I’m a little late in doing this.
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Under 24 Hours With a Blackberry Priv
Right, I have a new phone.
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Offa’s Dyke – Part 1 of Many
It’s getting late in the year, and I wanted to try and get a route in with a bit of serious mileage before it became prohibitively cold to bivvy. I wanted something I could get to (and get away from) by public transport, and ideally something linear, rather than circular....
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Chromecast Audio – Quick Review
This may be one of the quickest reviews I’ve ever posted.
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Parkruns – Or How I Put One Foot In Front of The Other
Blackpool Air Show 10k
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Snowdon via Rhyd Ddu, Snowdonia
Eldir Fawr, Snowdonia
Coniston, Old Man
Gadget of the Year 2014
It’s been a funny year for gadgets. I tend not to acquire a gadget unless I’ve got a really good use for it, and it fits in my bag. After something of a drought for a year or two, I’ve found myself picking up more than usual this year. But...
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72 Hours Later With The Chromecast
So, we’ve had the Chromecast the better part of a week now. It’s interesting to see how easily it’s slipped in to every day usage. Want to watch a thing, load up on phone, cast to TV. In general, it still “just works”. We even had a few friends around...
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24 Hours With Chromecast
Over the past few years, we’ve used a number of solutions to stream content from various sources around the house. We started out with a classic Xbox running XBMC (when the X really did stand for XBox), then we upgraded to a dedicated media PC which streamed content from our...
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Minor Obsession – Every Day Carry
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One Resolution for 2014
Be Better.
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Rain, Rain, Come Back…
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Running a Triathlon
Last weekend, Caius, Carole, Liam and I ran a Triathlon.
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Living With Migraines
I’m … exhausted. I think that’s the right word. When one of these finally passes, it feels like I’ve been competing all day. Before the feeling passes, and I just go back to thinking they’re minor things, I’m going to write about it.
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Tall Paul & Gemini Giant
For our honeymoon, Cat and I spent twelve days in Florida (awesomely paid for by friends and family). Whilst there, we picked up two mugs from a target store.
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Treating A Sore Throat
Disclaimer: I claim no medical training. All advice given here is based on my own, highly personal opinion of going through a few days of hell. If any of it helps, great. If some of it happens to kill you, I accept no liability.
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Barcamp Blackpool 4
New venue, new hotel, new socks.
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London Olympics 2012
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Name The Kitten
Today we go and pick up a new ball of fluff – notably, this ball of fluff:
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24… 72… Since Thursday with a Motorola Xoom
I have an apology to make. My Xoom arrived on Thursday, at which point I tweeted I would post a review of it after 24 hours. Well, I’ve been a little busy getting to grips with it and making it fit in to my daily workflow that… ah, who am...
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An (Un)healthy Relationship With Weight
It is a truth universally acknowledged amongst geeks, that weight equals mass times the local gravitational acceleration.
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Taking a Digital Fast
Type: Blog Post (Markdown) Blog: kianryan Post: Title: Taking a Digital Fast. Pings: Off Comments: Off Category: LifeTrack
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The Garden Is Trying To Eat Me (So I’ll eat it)
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I Want To Ride My Bicycle
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Gardening for Geeks
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Beef Casserole with Dumplings
What to do with a large quanitity of root vegetables? Well, the only logical answers are to stew it or casserole it. Here’s my basic recipe.
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Abel and Cain (Surely Cole? – ed)
It’s a well regarded fact that geeks often live off a combination of pizza, Coke (Dew for our Merkian and enlightened home bretheren) and foodstuffs that generally come with an immediacy. Quite a few of us are also food-geeks, but our planning faculties tend to let us down in having...
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Welcome to the LifeTrack
Welcome to the LifeTrack, feel free to ignore it ð
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