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Started using Aloe Bud to remind myself to take breaks through the day.

Particularly important for me as I tend to forget to get up and move about for a bit, which doesn’t do my back any favours.

I’m pretty much all in with Firefox these days as my main browser. I’m using it for both browsing and work and I’m also using it on my iPad and iPhone.

Speed isn’t the major driver behind this decision. I just prefer the extensibility of Firefox as well as it’s test pilot betas.

After a couple of weeks of heads down work for a client, I decided last night to find some solace in some simple work and clean up the @penmuse website.

I’ve removed the fixed sidebar and opted for a centred two-column design that keeps the site simple to use.

Ethan and my dad all set for the Junior/Senior Open at Paisley GC today.

Looking forward to seeing their score when we catch up with them for dinner.

I wonder if all those people that said, “I want to build the next Facebook” are still behind that aim.

The best map in the galaxy

This morning, the European Space Agency unveiled a new, highly detailed sky map of the Milky Way Galaxy that showcases the brightness and positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars. It’s the most comprehensive catalog of stars to date, and it includes precise details about many of the stars’ distances, movements, and colors as well. With the map’s release, astronomers are hoping to use this information to learn more about the structure of our galactic home and how it first formed billions of years ago.

New galactic map shows the positions and brightness of 1.7 billion stars by The Verge

The numbers are just mind boggling, precise positions of over 1 billion stars.

The 360 degrees view of what the Gaia spacecraft mapped is worth clicking through for.