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I was a huge fan of Wunderlist and was sad when I learned they were shutting down to be replaced by Microsoft To-Do. Panicked even. So I did a ton of research, read a few dozen ‘Top 10 to do lists’ and discovered Tick Tick. I pretty much ran my life with the aid of…
Unless you are a wanker, you are probably self-isolating right now. Well, Sir Patrick Stewart is here to help the boredom by reading a Shakespearean sonnet every day. As someone who writes for a living and then spends his downtime writing more, reading, gaming and watching films / TV, self-isolation is pretty much something I…
I am not trying to be controversial or complacent about AI here as I am talking purely from a personal perspective. I have written before about the race for AI supremacy and even how they might be of benefit, but the concern for most people is simply that an Artificial Intelligence will steal their jobs….
Recently, while all the NASA types were on holiday, the Mars Curiosity Rover got bored and took a panorama. You can’t really blame it, it went to Mars on a two year mission to see if there was the possibility that the red planet (which is mostly brown) was capable of ever harboring life. One…
I wrote about the coronavirus and masks a month ago when it was just beginning to scare people / be talked about by the media all the time. The two things are obviously closely related. Thanks media. My stance then was that people need a better grasp of mathematics, statistics, and how the media and…
A brief sojourn in Baan Krood, Thailand. As I mentioned last week, I have been travelling a lot recently but only locally. I live in Thailand, so local travel is what a lot of people travel around the planet to see (I don’t mean to gloat, we also have the coronavirus and pollution at the…
I was blissfully mask and worry free for two weeks, the coronavirus and pollution a distant dream. I have just spent almost two weeks down the coast of Thailand in a place called Baan Krood, followed by a town called Prachuap Kiri Khan, and then a more touristy city called Hua Hin. All of which…
The sun, or Sol as it prefers to be called, it a pretty damned amazing ball exploding stuff. Now, thanks to a new telescope that goes by the catchy moniker of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (or even catchier DKIST), we can now see Sol in ever more impressive detail. The image at the…
I have decided to write for Medium. It can’t hurt. I was a member anyway and decided to give it a bash after realising that The Word of Ward has been going since April 2009. Which is a bugger of a long time. This website has always been a combination of attention seeking and a…
Foldable technology is almost here. Well, technically all laptops are foldable but that is verging on the pedantic. What I am talking about are foldable screens and while a lot of people may not see the point, I am very excited. I mean, when the iPad first came out people complained that it was essentially…
Over the last few years I have striven to care less about stuff in a quest for contentment. Not giving a shit about what other people think has been pretty easy as I generally have a low opinion of my fellow humans. When I see friends on Facebook claiming that climate change is a hoax,…
I recently read an article in New Scientist that said statistically, if you make new year resolutions, you are more likely to keep them than merely vaguely wanting to do something. I had read in Professor Richard Wiseman’s 59 seconds that said if you publicly let people know your resolutions, then you will try harder…
Happy Christmas dear readers from all of us here at Word of Ward Towers! I, I mean, er, we, hope you have a joyous one and if your faith allows it – a drunken one. I usually find it quite a challenge to even get tipsy at Christmas as I am also constantly eating. It’s…
Well, not just Udemy, a variety of sites and apps, but it is definitely one of the better ones. It is always good to better yourself (even though I am sure you’re superb) and thanks to the interweb you can now access a huge variety of learning resources. Obviously if you want to be old-school…
If you are interested in the haunted shenanigans, the occult, ghost, demons, spirits or folklore, then you are in for a treat. A cheap treat too because I am nice like that. A tiny bit of background. Many moons ago, I used to live writing freelance articles for a number of magazines in Bangkok. The…
Winter is coming! I have had several friends and a couple of near strangers ask me when is the best time to visit Thailand when it comes to weather and budget. So I thought I would help. The two things are very much linked like everywhere else. My favourite time of year here in Thailand…
I love data, statistics, facts and figures. Even more so when they are presented in easy to understand formats like pie charts, graphs, and bar charts. You learn but in a really easy and eye-friendly way. I like that. Being something of a cool nerd, I chart quite a lot of my own life and…
For years, I have been searching for the prefect technology combination and I think foldable tech is going to be the answer. Just not for a while. The other day, I saw a Galaxy Fold and got to play with it. It was pretty cool. Essentially a slim and quite thick phone that opens into…
The internet is currently talking about the new Disney+ streaming service. I have to say, it looks amazing and I desperately want them to have my money. Except I can’t. I live abroad. I spend a lot of time in the UK but most of my life is based in Asia. I am currently living…
After last week’s furious rant you will be pleased to hear I am in more of a chipper mood of late. This is possibly down to wearing noise cancelling headphones while I write coupled with an increase in writing or, alternatively, a mild uptick in beer intake (mostly because of rugby). Whichever it is, hello…