9 JUN 2026
Extensive health data analysis
I found a useful purpose for AI to summarise and analyse two years worth of Samsung Health data recorded by smart watch and phone. Samsung enables backup of ...
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25 MAY 2026
Remember the cartridge pen
I miss many things about life in the 70s and the 80s, but the cartridge pen isn't one of them. Why they were still being given to children in 1975 is a myster...
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22 MAY 2026
Maternal DNA reveals Viking heritage
According to a maternal DNA test (mtDNA), I'm descended from a Viking woman. My haplogroup is J1c3f, who lived 4600 years ago. A haplogroup is a genetic co...
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18 JAN 2026
The joys and woes of buying a home
Buying a home in 2026 is exciting but more stressful than I remember it being in the 1990s and early 2000s, with joys and woes galore today. Having been a re...
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9 JUL 2023
ISTJ personality type
I undertook a free Myer-Briggs personality test in 2007 and repeated it today with the same result. ISTJ = Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging. Accordi...
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25 AUG 2014
Peter Gorey eulogy
Dad with me in 1967 Dad would have been 79 years old today. Instead, he died of pancreatic cancer on June 17, 2008, aged 72. I’ve recently uploaded the ...
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