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Everyday Stories, Lived

Technology

  • Hello iOS! 👋

    I may be decades too late, but as someone who just entered this well-trodden space of the iOS ecosystem, I finally had the experience of what it’s like to use a minimalist but powerful device. I never said goodbye to my Android phone. In fact, I’m using both the Android and iPhone for separate reasons. Read more

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  • I watched the “Time Bomb Y2K”

    It was the year 1999, and I don’t understand much of anything that’s been going abuzz, but what I understand as a five-year-old is that the turn of the century could mean the end of the world as we know it.  It’s all over the news. And I’ve seen glimpses of the panic over the Read more

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  • Letter no. 39

    Dear reader from the future, Have you heard about the millenium bug? I’ve just watched a documentary, “Time Bomb Y2K,” and it showed me the extent of the panic that happened before the turn of the century. All I can remember as a five-year-old was that there seemed to be a problem with the turn of Read more

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  • Estimating solar PV generation using PV-GIS

    If you want “free and open access to photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation potential for different technologies and configurations,” this resource is for you. When you click on the link, you will be redirected to the Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS) webpage and get access to three tools: By indicating the address or latitude/longitude of your Read more

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  • When an AI writes a story

    I asked the WordPress AI assistant to “tell me a story about a man who would have talked to a woman, if only when the opportunity for him to confidently greet her happened but did not.” The statement in the parenthesis is the prompt I used to generate the content you’d be reading in the Read more

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  • Getting things done

    If you’ve been pondering how some people get many things done in a day, knowing that you spend the same hours but feel like you’ve done nothing (except binge-watching what’s new or doom-scrolling through social media) most of your waking hours. You feel like waking up from a stupor. “Something has to change,” you tell Read more

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  • The “3-2-1” backup rule

    What is the “3-2-1” backup rule? Have three (3) copies of your data where two (2) copies are stored in separate devices and one (1) is stored in a different physical location. But how much should we invest in storage these days so that we can afford to have this redundancy? Read more

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