kerrsclyde

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by kerrsclyde 6y ago
I've found the quality of discussion on forums vs Facebook is far higher for my hobby (steam powered transport). Post a picture on a forum and get some interesting replies, post a picture on Facebook and just get 101 likes and nothing
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by kerrsclyde 6y ago
I went to a talk by Joshua Schachter not that long after del.icio.us started gaining traction. It was a most fantastic time for the web, the possibilities seemed endless. I happen to think if it hadn't been bought by Yahoo! who seemed
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by kerrsclyde 6y ago
I track my numbers. Tracking, maintaining and improving any number gives me tremendous motivation. (This works for me but it may not work for you!)
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by kerrsclyde 6y ago
Amen. I was involved with free laptops for pupils scheme much trumpeted by UK Government in their press briefings. We finally took delivery of 4 (between 250 children!) on Thursday, months after it was promised and 4 days before children st
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Ask HN: What is IN your personal knowledge management system?
3 points by kerrsclyde 6y ago|0 comments
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by kerrsclyde 6y ago
Ergonomics still matter. My DSLR is so much more fun to shoot with than phone. That said the Osmo Mobile 3 is pretty damn cool.
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by kerrsclyde 6y ago
I wrote a system so that people can help me to identify the steam traction engines featured in each one of my photograph collection. The premise of the system was simple, you view a pic, type in the registration / license plate then mo
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by kerrsclyde 6y ago
Almost bought a Concept2 rowing machine on the day UK lockdown started, decided not to, now there is no stock left in country and no possibility of getting one until at least June. Really regret it. If anyone has ideas how I can beg, borrow
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
Write your distractions down. Look at them at lunch / end of the day (and by then you'll find they don't seem so important).
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
Bookmark the groups you want to periodically check. Stay away from the newsfeed on the home page, no distraction and no mindless scrolling.
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
I started journalling daily when I was 35. If I could change one thing about my life I wish that I had started journalling 20 years earlier.
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
Friend of a friend needed some web dev work done, which I did very cheap. From this one client I picked up more associates of theirs. I don't freelance much now but I never found a better way of marketing myself than word of mouth. I d
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
Hopefully this commitment won't go the way of other long term targets, like the 2020 budget surplus plan...
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
Plenty of iPad use within industry. Using it as more than just a consumption device. Yesterday the guy fixing the mobile traffic lights was using an iPad to configure them / My gym gets me to change my membership plan using an iPad wit
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
I'm really careful with bookmarking now. I found a txt file backup of my del.icio.us account from 2004, I couldn't find a single link which still worked. There was some gold which I would have loved to be able to look at again. If
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
I've cut it down further, I'll do 30 seconds on a task just to get me going. Then I can't cope with doing 30 secs on something and I'm up and running.
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
Clients only care about getting their job done. Past work portfolio, companies you've worked with, your qualifications - give it 2mins max, then spend the rest of the time talking about their project.
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
A lot of my users migrated to a Facebook group. The quality of discussion on Facebook seems very low however, very few replies to posts, just a bunch of likes / smiley faces.
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
Some of this is the romance of steam. My love of steam comes from my father, he was around in the 50's and 60's when steam was superseded and disappeared in a very short period of time. He spent hundreds of hours photographing the
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
VPN Providers will be crying into their beer.
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UK Government drops controversial 'porn blocker' plan(bbc.co.uk)
73 points by kerrsclyde 7y ago|2 comments
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
More than a quarter of their profits were being used to pay interest on loans taken out after years of decline. The management seem to do a good job of diverting attention from the debts but the company was seriously badly managed, it was o
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
I don't have a single friend who I could ask to meet for a drink/socially. When I was 20 I had numerous close friends, but no wife and family, which have now replaced my friends. The relationship I have with my family I feel is mu
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
From mid 90's to mid 2000's I was a social teenager, nobody took photographs (nobody owned a camera). I wish I had some pictures of those times. Places we went, people I no longer see. Not hundreds but a few to help me remember. S
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
Shops can refuse to accept them but if you are using them to settle a debt; pay restaurant bill / taxi ride then they cannot legally be refused.
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
I can see the Atlantic from my window, great when I found this web site so I can put name / destination to those huge ships on the horizon off the coast of Cornwall, UK.
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UK Porn Wall Delayed Again(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by kerrsclyde 7y ago|0 comments
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
This. My 12 year old son was never very interested in school coding (Scratch mainly), but when shown how to manipulate existing web pages using Inspect in Chrome that really caught is imagination.
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by kerrsclyde 7y ago
In Henry's Sneeze in one of the early books there was a line about soot covered boys running away as black as n *s [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Green_Engine#Racism_...
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by kerrsclyde 8y ago
I understand there are some blockades of motorways planned if Brexit is delayed. [1] The fuel blockades of the early 2000's resulted in some significant political action, more than marches seem to have. [1] https://www.brist

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