Where to start?! How can you just make yourself happier? Are these quick fixes that don’t last, or are they sustainable ways to improve your quality of life? Both! It’s up to you. The more you do these sorts of things, the more you raise your happiness baseline.
Think of it like exercise and cardiovascular fitness. [...]
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I’ve become increasingly aware of the knowledge gap many people have when they work on their PCs and the little things that I might do/have that make a big difference for me for my home computing experience. So, I thought it might be a nice idea to relay a few of the bare essentials that [...]
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It was nearly 10 years ago when a good friend of mine whom I was sharing a house with introduced me to fruit smoothies. I’d had milkshakes and fruit juice, obviously, but putting a heap fruits into a blender and drinking the product was something I’d never seen before. The beauty of the whole thing [...]
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Time and again I hear this term used and it gets either used completely incorrectly, or combined in some shape or form in a sentence with the word aperture, and voila, we have a statement that sounds remarkably technical, but actually makes little sense. With a quick explanation and with the help of a picture [...]
In the previous article I touched upon the 2 main extremes of digital cameras, namely SLRs, and compacts. The former is bulky and expensive, while the latter is small, slim and cheap.
What is a D-SLR and why would I want one?
SLR is an acronym for Single Lens Reflex. This represents the mirror and prism system [...]
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There are so many cameras out there, and so many options to consider that picking a digital camera can be quite daunting. Isn’t it an odd phenomenon that with more choice comes less satisfaction? Very often we find ourselves wondering if in-fact we chose the ‘wrong’ one… maybe there’s a better one that I didn’t [...]
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For those of you out there who make extensive use of Amazon to buy books and whatever else, I’m guessing that perhaps if you’ve now moved to Japan at least temporarily, you’re stumped at the first hurdle when you visit the Amazon JP store. It’s all in Japanese, right? Mostly, but once you’ve signed up, [...]
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