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  • October 12, 2022
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Truly that is news.

    Apple News screenshot with the text: You blocked The Sun
  • March 13, 2022
    xcode
    David G Smith David G Smith

    TIL - Xcode can display build time right there in the activity view:

    defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode ShowBuildOperationDuration YES

    Command line preference settings. Living in the future.

  • February 19, 2022
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Collaboration of the day… presumably an album is in the works.

    XKCD x Leonard Cohen

  • February 14, 2022
    David G Smith David G Smith

    UK energy company Northern Powergrid…

    has apologised after 74 customers hit by power cuts during Storm Arwen accidentally received compensation cheques for trillions of pounds.

    – BBC News

  • February 1, 2022
    David G Smith David G Smith

    I am guessing that Apple didn’t do that much Neil and Joni promotion before this week.

    Apple Music screenshot advertising Neil Young and Joni Mitchell music
  • February 1, 2022
    cycling
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Tour de Zwift 2022, stage 7

    Zwift screenshot
  • January 31, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 31 of #DoddieAid - out with a whimper.

    Today’s miles: 2.92
    January 2022 total exercise miles: 262.50

    Over £400k raised (inter)nationally this January for the [My Name'5 Doddie Foundation] (https://doddieaid.com/leaderboard).

  • January 30, 2022
    cycling DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 30 of #DoddieAid - Tour de Zwift 2022, stage 6.

    Today’s miles: 20.4
    January miles: 259.58

    Zwift screenshot
  • January 29, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 29 of #DoddieAid - only chores.

    Today’s miles: 1.8
    January miles: 239.18

    Do you know that moment when your german shepherd leaps at your wall-mounted TV when it sees an animated bird that it really wants to chase, and cracks the screen beyond repair?

    Yeah, that.

  • January 29, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 28 of #DoddieAid - running like a fish.

    Today’s miles: 7.52
    January miles: 237.38

    A word picture is worth a thousand stills.

  • January 27, 2022
    cycling DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 27 of #DoddieAid - Tour de Zwift 2022, stage 5.

    Today’s miles: 14.22
    January miles: 230.86

    Zwift screenshot
  • January 26, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 26 of #DoddieAid - know thyself.

    Today’s miles: 2.73
    January miles: 216.64

    Another UCAS (UK university application) deadline flies by. Now we wait.

  • January 25, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 25 of #DoddieAid - am I meant to be exercising?

    Today’s miles: 2.92
    January miles: 213.91

    …

  • January 24, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 24 of #DoddieAid - restless day.

    Today’s miles: 3.23
    January miles: 210.99

    Finally set up a discord account. i presume therefore that all the right people have already moved to something else.

  • January 23, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 23 of #DoddieAid - git on thi push iron.

    Today’s miles: 11.09
    January miles: 207.76

    One of the unsettling things about Zwift is cycling on virtual roads that you have ridden the real equivalents of. It’s the same. But it’s not. It’s not worse, just different.

  • January 23, 2022
    cycling DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 22 of #DoddieAid - Tour de Zwift 2022, stage 4.

    Today’s miles: 11.96
    January miles: 196.67

    Zwift screenshot
  • January 21, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 21 of #DoddieAid - more procrastination.

    Today’s miles: 4.47
    January miles: 184.71

    Did you know? - 1 in 300 people are at risk of developing the incurable MND in their lifetime.

  • January 20, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 20 of #DoddieAid - 5k, with 100m of up.

    Today’s miles: 6.77
    January miles: 180.24

    I said. I did. No pictures. It’s for the best.

  • January 20, 2022
    cycling
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Just one of the reasons to watch pro cycling:

    “This is the valley where in 218 B.C., Hannibal came through here with 90000 men and 10000 horsemen and thirty seven elephants on his way back home…”

    Mini-Stories: Volume 14 - 99% Invisible

  • January 19, 2022
    DoddieAid
    David G Smith David G Smith

    Day 19 of #DoddieAid - didn’t get to Zwift tonight, because work.

    Today’s miles: 3.07
    January miles: 173.47

    If I say now that I will ‘run’ 5k after work tomorrow is it more likely to happen?

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