Nostr notes by Simon Wolf

Doing the same with The Gentlemen and I have a feeling I might ...

2026-09-18T20:17:44Z

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Doing the same with The Gentlemen and I have a feeling I might also do it for Mobland too.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@mattgemmell/117245877920815883 I’d ...

2026-09-10T11:45:46Z

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@mattgemmell/117245877920815883

I’d not seen this blog post before and it’s not an easy read but it is definitely worth it and for some of us it will resonate at some level.

I don’t think that any of this is as uncommon as we would all like to think or hope. Maybe everybody has their own private battles and inner demons and as someone with them I have no idea if people genuinely don’t.

And it does feel ironic writing this on social media — one of the things that can greatly influences my own state of mind.
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It might be related to a text editor… although ancient is ...

2026-09-07T16:30:12Z

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It might be related to a text editor… although ancient is subjective. 🙈😂

Don’t even joke about it… We can’t be too far off. It did ...

2026-09-07T10:23:10Z

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Don’t even joke about it… We can’t be too far off.

It did also occur to me that the AI engines will have already scraped the content. 😩

It’s 2026 and I’m still trying to learn new things the old ...

2026-09-07T08:52:21Z

It’s 2026 and I’m still trying to learn new things the old fashioned way… I’m expecting a programming book to be delivered today which ticks both the “physical media” and “still learning” boxes and I’m actually excited about both elements.

I decided to try a simple, obvious reverse route through the ...

2026-08-30T11:26:00Z

I decided to try a simple, obvious reverse route through the woods near my village today in an attempt to work out how, on my first run there, I turned 5k into 10k by getting lost. Still got lost but at least I know that the “Private Drive” to a farmhouse is also a public right of way. And this time I only added around 1k to the planned route by stumbling around in the undergrowth. Some additional comments in the alt text of the photos. #Running #RunnersOfMastodon

👏🏻 Just be warned that your legs may not thank you for it. ...

2026-08-24T13:03:14Z

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Just be warned that your legs may not thank you for it. Take a look at “The Physical Steps” in my old blog post about it: https://blog.sgawolf.com/post/2025-04-10-couch-to-somewhere/

My three other suggestions are:

1. Do some leg strengthening exercises if you can. That will help your knees.
2. Run (or walk) on grass if you can. That helps reduce the impact.
3. Go and start walking at your local parkrun. Plenty of other people will be walking it too and it’s not all just runners charging around.

Today I ran the #Frome #Running Festival #10k with a chip time of ...

2026-08-16T11:41:18Z

Today I ran the #Frome #Running Festival #10k with a chip time of 59:44 so I finally broke the sub-1 hour barrier (just and mainly thanks to a short, fairly steep downhill bit in the final kilometre).

I think I need to be more confident at race starts because the first kilometre was really slow whilst I made my way through the pack.

#RunnersOfMastodon

RE: https://toot.community/@shortcolin/117005317162661118 I miss ...

2026-07-29T22:28:01Z

RE: https://toot.community/@shortcolin/117005317162661118

I miss Psions too. But perhaps it’s also a reflection of how much I loved technology back then and how exciting it all was. I try not to wallow in nostalgia but the 1980s and 1990s felt very different (in a good way!) to what is going on today.

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I did some scanning of Psion documents today at Ucreate at Edinburgh university library:

- Palmtop magazine issues 13-16 and issues 31-34.
- A Psion catalogue listing hardware and software for the Series 3.
- A Psion 3fax brochure.

I miss Psions.

There is a review of the Nokia 9210 (although one page is corrupted); I'd forgotten how excited people were then having a pocket computer connected to the internet -with colour!

They are available at: https://archive.org/details/@shortcolin

#psion

Hot, hilly, and slow run this morning. I’ve slept badly for the ...

2026-06-21T10:42:08Z

Hot, hilly, and slow run this morning. I’ve slept badly for the last couple of nights so it was all a bit of a struggle but I need runs like this to make me properly appreciate the ones which go well.

And I got to meet a very friendly pet sheep (in a domestic garden).

#running #runnersofmastodon

Exactly a year ago I finished week one of Couch to 5K. At ...

2026-04-04T15:23:21Z

Exactly a year ago I finished week one of Couch to 5K. At today’s #parkrun I edged closer to my goal of a 30 minute 5k… 31 minutes and 3 seconds. I’ll get there…

#running

Two years ago I’d not have believed it. A year ago I’d like ...

2026-02-28T14:38:53Z

Two years ago I’d not have believed it. A year ago I’d like to have been able to believe it. Today started with me taking part in my gym’s #CrossFitOpen contest (a mix of people of all ages (18 to 70+) and all abilities (me to them)) and I’ve just come back from a 6k run (the change in the weather and some sunshine is too big a pull to go #running after all the recent rain). I guess it’s never too late to change your lifestyle.

I think that @npub1jjf…jh0u might do, or can maybe point you to ...

2025-07-31T17:52:11Z

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I think that gadgetoid (npub1jjf…jh0u) might do, or can maybe point you to someone who does.

I’m one of those annoying #NixOS users so I tend to open a ...

2024-12-05T07:46:37Z

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I’m one of those annoying #NixOS users so I tend to open a terminal window and spawn a shell containing any packages I temporarilly need. When I end that shell session they get uninstalled.

In a tiny step away from Microsoft and Office, today I managed to ...

2024-11-04T22:41:01Z

In a tiny step away from Microsoft and Office, today I managed to convince my sister to install and use LibreOffice (npub1tgg…qwzh) since she couldn’t log in to her company Microsoft account and was unable to use Word. I don’t know how long this will last for but I have a feeling that her IT skills mean it might be a while before she is logged in again so fingers crossed! It would give me a great amount of pleasure if our company dropped Office entirely.

The @npub1hpu…ggnf StarLite used to be. Up until the current ...

2024-10-10T07:12:32Z

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The Star Labs Systems (npub1hpu…ggnf) StarLite used to be. Up until the current revision (5) it was a 12” laptop for £400 built for Linux and is a great little machine (I have one and love it… I also have a revision 2 one which I have Windows on for configuring our GPS devices).

The current one is a tablet with detachable keyboard which appeals less but I may try at some point (but I may wait for revision 6 first to see what that updates).