Highlights

Health And Life

  • 100% Dark Chocolate / 42

    Montezuma's Chocolate

    New guilty pleasure. Clear chocolate without sugar, last for a week and especially great with morning coffee.

    Favourites:

    1. Montezuma’s 100% Absolute Black with Orange & Cocoa nibs

    2. Mark & Spencer Single Origin 100% Peru

    3. Montezuma’s 100% Absolute Black

  • Smartwatch and Fitness Tracking / 37

    It is interesting to see that although I feel that I spend in bed a lot of time, my actual sleep levels are very low. When it comes to steps and general activity plan is to keep it above 10_000 each month. One pattern to see is how I tried to exercise more in winter but then bank holidays and the start of spring had a negative impact. Still trying to recover from that.

    Sleep Length October 2017 - June 2018

    Sleep Length: Dec 2017 - 5:13; Jan - 4:59; Feb 5:52; Mar 5:12, May 4:4 Sleep Stages

    Steps Per Day October 2017 - June 2018

    Steps

IT and Tech

  • New Smartphone /

    Xiaomi Mi A1

    Time to buy a new one. The battery in old one is completely dead and inacessible wi-fi at work makes it hard to connect with people. Current top choice:

    Xiaomi Mi A1
    5.5” 1920x1080, 4GB RAM, 64GB, 3080mAh battery, Android 7.1

    pros: price (~ £200), screen size, clean-ish Android, 3.5jack

    cons: missing NFC, last year model, looks good on paper but real quality?

    Alternatives: wait for this year model (Mi A2), Nokia 7, ???

  • Little Schemer / 13

    Little Schemer An enjoyable introduction to programming, computability and Scheme language. Recommend to everybody unless you are trying to avoid eating biscuits. For next few months, I have in plan go through the second book “Seasoned Schemer”. Yay!

Art and Pleasure

  • Peckham Chamber Orchestra / 23

    PCO - Peckham Chamber Orchestra Local amateur orchestra. Their sound sometimes can be rough, but actually some of the pieces they played sounded better than the version I found on youtube. Together with a venue (Peckham Liberal Club) it is a peculiar experience.

    Thank you, Hortense!

  • Hannu Rajaniemi - The Quantum Thief / 26

    Hannu Rajaniemi - The Quantum Thief One of the good sci-fi books I have read recently. We will see how the story unfolds in following books. (Credit Andrej)

    Summary from wiki:

    The Quantum Thief is the debut science fiction novel by Hannu Rajaniemi and the first novel in a trilogy[1] featuring Jean le Flambeur; the sequels are The Fractal Prince (2012) and The Causal Angel (2014). It was published in Britain by Gollancz in 2010, and by Tor in 2011 in the US. It is a heist story, set in a futuristic solar system, that features a protagonist modeled on Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc. Wikipedia

What is Radar?

Radar is exercice introduced and popularised by ThoughtWorks.

Meaning of the Rings

  • Adopt - Do regularly or did and can recommend to others without hesitation.

  • Trial - Actively experimenting but not production ready.

  • Asses - Interested in and collecting more information about it.

  • Hold - It pops up on my Radar but not pursuing further at the moment.

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