dougal

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• EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 8 years, 6 months

  

  The link between Jo Cox's killer and Britain First seems all but confirmed.

  BF have 1.5 million Facebook "likes" and apparently this page shows if your friends are among them.

  https://www.facebook.com/browse/friended_fans_of/?page_id=300455573433044

• In the news

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 8 years, 6 months

  

  Yes, I noticed that. Very heavily edited.

• RLJ (Red Light Jumping). (The definitive bikeradar thread)

  in General • 9 years, 1 month

  

  I genuinely don't think this would work here in the UK as people - whether pedestrians or cyclists - just have too much attitude. Too many pedestrians wander into the road without looking, and too many cyclists happily buzz inept jaywalkers. For something like this to work it needs a bit of care and consideration from all parties.

• Majorca training camp/bike hire

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 10 years, 10 months

  

  Spanks. Shit, I just had a thought - my Garmin might only have UK maps.

  Maybe time to investigate those open source maps?

  If you have the standard Navigator maps then I think they cover Majorca

• Wellness and technology, the quantified self movement

  in General • 11 years, 3 months

  

  Ok, thanks Hippy.

  That beddit gadget looks interesting. I've signed up.

• Wellness and technology, the quantified self movement

  in General • 11 years, 3 months

  

  If you didn't see it then it's worth watching the Horizon programme about QS that was on a few weeks ago. Some quite interesting stuff in it. Think it was called "Monitor Me".

• Android phones, apps and tablets

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 11 years, 10 months

  

  Yeah but that's not very "cloud" is it? ;)

• Android phones, apps and tablets

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 11 years, 10 months

  

  I think I'll need to adjust my phone tariff. I was curious about data usage, after a day of using Google Music on the go. On average I seem to use 2 - 10mb a day, and about 300mb a month. On Tuesday, after several hours of Google Music I'd used 260mb!

  I'll be looking for an unlimited plan as soon as I can change my Three contract.

  I'm just coming to terms with the impact of using Google Music on data usage :-) If my calculations are correct then it will take a little over 7 hours of continuous play to use up 1GB of data....

  (That assumes that you are listening to music with a constant bit-rate of 320 kbit/s. I don't know how Google Music adjusts bit-rate for the bandwidth that it actually finds to be available.)

• Android phones, apps and tablets

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 11 years, 10 months

  

  I'm expecting mine to arrive tomorrow. Good times. Currently uploading some tunes to Google Music and preparing for a more cloud-oriented lifestyle :)

  I ordered the bumper and had subsequently been thinking about getting some sort of case. But on further reflection I reckon I might just go for a sleeve of some sort. Any advice?

• Android phones, apps and tablets

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 12 years, 1 month

  

  I have also tried on and off since 8am and have not managed to buy one :)

  Has anyone heard of any retail stores where you can get one SIM-free?