<![CDATA[Stories by James Cridland on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@jamesrcridland?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*LoOA4eXLY4pcmY7xW4d8KA.jpeg Stories by James Cridland on Medium https://medium.com/@jamesrcridland?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 Medium Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:37:29 GMT <![CDATA[Berlin airport isn’t very good]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/berlin-airport-isnt-very-good-40b4d9490ee0?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/40b4d9490ee0 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:09:08 GMT 2023-04-24T09:09:08.124Z
Berlin airport. Not very good.

I’m afraid to report that I’ve been to Berlin airport, and it isn’t very good.

This surprised me: I thought, as Europe’s newest big airport, it would be rather better than it was. It isn’t.

More in the new home of my travel trip reports… over here.

Trip report as travel tips - BNE-LAX-LAS-ORD-LHR-BER-LHR-SIN-BNE

]]> <![CDATA[Trip report: LAX to BNE]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/trip-report-lax-to-bne-c546f2a269d?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/c546f2a269d Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:46:25 GMT 2023-03-13T09:46:25.860Z Medium is lovely; but I’m moving my personal posts, like my trip reports, to my own website.

So, here’s a brand new trip report, including plenty of comment about Las Vegas.

I’m posting this message here to redirect over. Of course it has RSS…

]]> <![CDATA[What does the BBC know about me?]]>

I get hold of the BBC’s data about me, to discover what they’re capturing.

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]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/what-does-the-bbc-know-about-me-d52d26dc9f77?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/d52d26dc9f77 Sun, 29 Jan 2023 09:30:20 GMT 2023-07-06T03:51:13.562Z <![CDATA[What does Google know about me?]]>

121,000 times I’ve searched for something, for starters.

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]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/what-does-google-know-about-me-a5b870adba52?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/a5b870adba52 Tue, 03 Jan 2023 04:35:00 GMT 2023-01-03T04:35:00.247Z <![CDATA[What does Apple know about me?]]>

I get a big data dump from Apple, and look at my history with Apple devices.

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]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/what-does-apple-know-about-me-bd54a4b1e297?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/bd54a4b1e297 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 02:37:09 GMT 2023-01-04T10:42:20.929Z <![CDATA[Welcome to the burstable zone: why AWS is not always a good plan]]>

I tried hosting a Mastodon-compatible service on an AWS box: but AWS is eminently unsuited to it.

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]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/hosting-your-own-pleroma-instance-welcome-to-the-burstable-zone-923ef1e494b7?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/923ef1e494b7 Sat, 10 Dec 2022 12:14:42 GMT 2022-12-11T11:16:29.453Z <![CDATA[Moving from Mastodon to Pleroma]]>

The simple (ha!) method of moving from a Mastodon instance to a Pleroma one: and why I did.

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]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/moving-from-mastodon-to-pleroma-864f91001e16?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/864f91001e16 Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:55:16 GMT 2022-12-10T12:15:31.552Z <![CDATA[Hosting your own Mastodon instance]]>

I’m on @james@crid.land on Mastodon. Here’s how I did it.

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]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/hosting-your-own-mastodon-instance-240abf61a8c2?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/240abf61a8c2 Fri, 11 Nov 2022 07:43:26 GMT 2022-11-24T12:05:36.674Z <![CDATA[Trip report: BNE to DOH and beyond, on Qatar]]>

A trip in the pointy end and the fancy lounges

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]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/trip-report-bne-to-doh-and-beyond-on-qatar-8d44a0d8f373?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/8d44a0d8f373 Mon, 24 Oct 2022 01:24:10 GMT 2022-10-24T01:39:12.372Z <![CDATA[How I use Alfred on my Mac to automate all the things]]>

Alfred is a little productivity app on the Mac that is an essential

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]]> https://jamesrcridland.medium.com/how-i-use-alfred-on-my-mac-to-automate-all-the-things-7eac9261727c?source=rss-1eeac15c31ac------2 https://medium.com/p/7eac9261727c Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:19:46 GMT 2022-10-16T11:19:46.882Z