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According to Fitbit, gardening is cycling
One of FitBit’s more useful features is its ability to automatically detect exercise. I think it uses a combination of your heart rate and how the device is moving. The pattern of motion and heart rates must be categorised by FitBit so the app can tell the difference between “swimming” and “running”, etc. It’s not…
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Accidental Fruit Tart
Attempted to cook a fruit pie, but the pastry I’d made was more like biscuit dough and didn’t want to stay together. Ended up turning it into a giant fruit tart thing instead. Worked out pretty good. The trick it appears was to leave it to cool down after over cooking the fruit into a…
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“Good” Morning?
I sleep with my FitBit on. Every morning it tells me how well I slept. For those with other devices (or none!) the way this works is by monitoring my heart rate, motion and blood oxygen level. It then does some magical maths to arrive at a score out of 100. In FitBit land, a…
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Zen and the art of Cross Stitch
I’ve taken up cross stitch. It’s strangely relaxing. Post contains images that are a bit NSFW…
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New Year’s Resolutions
The normal gag is to say “1080p” or “4k”, but I think I’ll go for a nice plain VGA. Nothing too ambitious, something I will actually manage to achieve. Let’s make the challenge for this year “being more healthy”. I do a lot of sitting down in front of computers, or in front of the…