Social media is one of the most powerful tools ever created for expanding human knowledge. It has broken the monopoly that geography and institutions once held over education and ideas. Anyone, anywhere, can learn from experts, explore new perspectives, and participate in fast-moving global conversations. It has also transformed how we find each other. Communities … Read more
I’ve changed my internet connection over from Virgin to Vodafone to save money. It was roughly half the price for the same speed. I don’t want to have a Vodafone (or any other ISP) router on my home network. They can remotely access the routers and update them. I can’t see why anyone would take … Read more
A few friends and I have decided to migrate from WhatsApp onto Signal messaging. I’m doing this because I don’t want Meta having accesses to my (approximate) location, contracts and other metadata. I know that the messages are securely encrypted (after all, they use Signals messaging protocol). However, I worry about these summary AI feature, … Read more
My company has been using Vimeo for perhaps a decade. Over that time, our usage has grown sustainably. The cost of the bandwidth for Vimeo is really steep, and we ended up on an enterprise account – which means you then have someone to negotiate the price of your data with. It’s really time-consuming and … Read more
Like most people, I use numerous Google products – Search, Mail, Drive, YouTube, Photos, etc. I use them at work and in my personal life. Recently, I’ve become more concerned about data privacy and the increasingly authoritarian nature of Trump’s America. So I decided to move away from Google (as much as possible) in my … Read more
I’ve put this list of family friendly walks around Chamonix together because it’s the guide that I wish I had when we started walking here as a family. I’ve got a similar blog post about Family Friendly Walks around Briancon too.. I have ended up writing up 16 hikes around in Chamonix in total. They … Read more
Champex-Lac is a beautiful place for visit. Here is a short child / family friendly walk around Champex-Lac – although alot more exciting than just walking around the lake. We have two 7 and 9 year old girls and it took around 2hrs with a picnic lunch. It’s around 4.5km with 250m accent. The northside … Read more
I have just just been setting up a new Macbook. I was expecting the batterylife to be 12 hours. However, Google Filestream was just continously sycning and using battery. Google Filestream shouldn’t sync anything…. however the probelm was that Bitdefender was scanning everyfile in the filestream. Hence the computer was continuously syncing file after file. … Read more
I’m run into some error message like: “Expression #2 of SELECT list is not in GROUP BY clause and contains nonaggregated column”. It’s turns out that this is caused by MySQL updating the way it behave in relation to aggregate functions since MySQL 5.7. Here is how I solved it on Ubuntu . You can … Read more
If you are thinking of going walking with your kids in Briancon then hopefully this short guide will help you. I tried to find some child / family friendly walks on other website but it was quite hard. If you find others yourself then please let me know and I’ll pop them up on here … Read more