Posts about various subjects, including photography, computers (especially Apple stuff), gaming, and meta stuff about PigPog itself…

Elite: Dangerous: Journey to Colonia
Making the ‘pilgrimage’ to Colonia, taking over 500 jumps, in Elite: Dangerous.
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Missing Posts in RSS Feeds
Missing stuff by RSS feed? Sorry, it’s because I’m posting things with the dates they happened – plenty to see on the site.
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Buying a Mechanical Keyboard
Buying a loud clicky mechanical keyboard to use with an iPad.
Keep readingHe Sounded Like He Had a Beard
Where a customer wants to speak to someone who sounds like they have a beard.
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Upgrading to an iPad Pro
This was originally written around a year ago, not long after getting the iPad Pro, but I never got around to posting it. I’ll leave my thoughts from then as they were, and add my updated thoughts at the bottom. At risk of spoilering my own post, I love this iPad. A year ago, I…
Keep readingMoving to WordPress.com and Office 365
How we moved from a dedicated server to letting WordPress.com handle it all for us.
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Giving Up and Using Lightroom
How I finally gave in and joined every other photographer by using Lightroom.
Keep readingA New PigPog
We’re on a new host, with a fresh start. Sorry about the unfinished stuff, and all the new posts for RSS users.
Keep readingPortable Emacs-onna-Stick – USB Geekiness
I had quite a phase of using Emacs a while ago. One problem I hit was that I’d find a great trick for using it for PHP and JavaScript stuff at work, then forget to copy the stuff to home. Then, I found a nice code-folding trick at home, and forgot to copy that to…
Keep readingPilot Capless and Capless Decimo Review (AKA Vanishing Point)
Thanks to our bosses-to-be at Cult Pens, we are in a rather lucky position – being able to revew both the Pilot Capless (Vanishing Point to Americans), and the new Pilot Capless Decimo, which has just been released in the UK. Cult Pens have the first official stocks in the UK, and one of the…
Keep readingMoleskine Notebooks vs Filofax – Cost Comparison
If you’ve decided on paper, but you can’t decide if you’d be better off with a nice leather binder ( Filofax, Dayrunner or similar) or with Moleskine notebooks, you’ve probably figured that the cost of the Filofax option is pretty offputting compared to a Moleskine. You may also have realised that the cost of Moleskines…
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PigPogPDA – a Moleskine Hacked into a Complete System
An old post now, but still works – paper is like that. Uses a notebook as a simple GTD-based system.
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Parker 45 Fountain Pen Review
I had a few Parker pens when I was growing up, including a Jotter that used to belong to my Granddad. At the time, I thought they were very nice, classy pens. As I grew up, I realised that they were actually quite cheap, and not very good quality. That perception has stayed with me,…
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A Mars A Day Helps You Work, Rest and Play
The strange story of my grandma and a famous slogan.
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GTD – The PigPog Method
A way of implementing GTD in a simple todo list app, avoiding a separate projects list.
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