Blocking websites easily on a home wifi router

For a few years I’ve found free to air TV to be painful. One time while holidaying with my Dad I was bored and resigned to watching TV – I was really surprised how shit it was. That can now compare to facebook, I don’t really use the website much recently, and I went as far as to block the domain on my home internet connection (instructions to follow). I blocked facebook for a few reasons:

  • When I have a moment to think of something to do, looking at facebook can turn into hours of distraction with various links plastered everywhere.
  • I don’t like comparing myself to others in an artificial way. It doesn’t really serve me to see all the interesting and cool things people I have met are up to – while I’m sitting in front of a computer screen (not standing – as I’m talking past tense).

So, I blocked facebook.

Bad posture

I was was noticing a bit of soreness around my lower back which I associated with bad posture on my computer chair.. So I went to my latest trusted resource and read about it. no back chairI found an easy partial solution.. no more seat back..

This didn’t solve the problem entirely, by chance I saw a low table sitting in storage which I thought would be perfect. It is pretty good, I just dusted it off this morning and have already noticed a difference. So my chair is sitting unused behind me. My keyboard is now sitting at basically exactly my belly button. Typing feels more natural, and the signs of bad posture aren’t getting my attention.. go team.

The status quo can be dangerous

This is a dark one. I can understand why things like Scientology are popular from a primal sense. The need to be part of a group is fundamental to survival.willful-blindness This can be dangerous when that group is malicious, wilful or not. Not saying Scientology is malicious – at least not to current or possible future devotees. For example the word genocide is a good example of how large numbers of complicit parties can perform pretty nasty things. So we can see plainly that people in general can hold beliefs that can be harmful to others…
I don’t like to talk about this due to it being so definitively polarised, but an example today I think could be vaccines…
Others may be Prison Unions in the US, the war or drugs, or more generally the proliferation of industrial corruption.

Mobile phone wireless tech

Was just thinking randomly about how many wireless transceivers my phone has.. there’s a lot

  • Cellular (several bands)
  • Wifi (2.4 and 5Ghz)
  • Bluetooth, including Bluetooth LE
  • NFC
  • GPS receiver
  • Ant+ receiver

That’s 6 RF radios, as well as infrared…

Also I might get a wireless changing thingo for inductive charging.. That’s another!

Although the only point of interest as far as health would be the radiated power.. people seem to get all hung-up about wifi, when cellular is a much more powerful signal.. A cellular signal has to travel all the way to the nearest phone tower, where as wifi might have 30-50m range tops.. From memory a cell radio in a phone may have 1-4W of power, where as wifi is maybe up to 200mW tops… 200 would be surprising. so likely more than an order of magnitude difference between wifi and cellular. People don’t seem to realise that. Although that being said, wifi is possibly used more frequently. I’m thinking I should disable cellular while I’m sleeping.

Bonus point coffee

 

wp-1458977589338.jpegSince I’ve lost faith in normal store milk (haven’t really looked into it as far as alternatives) I’ve been having more long blacks (Americano’s) instead of my preferred cappuccinos. Usually I put cacao and maca on my oats, and sometimes coconut oil but they’ve just been sitting there since this be diet. I added them to a long black and yup it’s pretty good. Basically it’s

  • Freshly ground locally roasted beans through an espresso machine – this seems to taste better than my drip coffee.
  • Hot water.
  • .3 teaspoon Cacao
  • .3 teaspoon Maca
  • 1 teaspoon coconut oil
  • .3 teaspoon cinnamon
    When I added the cinnamon it was pretty strong, but cinnamon is supposed to be good for you so whatever.

Gabor Mate on Addiction

I was just watching a video on a UFO topic out of interest and they were talking about psychology and therapy. It reminded me of a talk by Gabor Mate I’ve seen.

It’s a really interesting talk, and I think everyone could benefit from Gabor’s work. He boils down addictive behaviour as serving the short-term at the expense of the long term. He has a really great perspective which I think is a great expression of clinical Psychology. He doesn’t have an ego of being a ‘therapist’ and holds a compassionate demeanour.