Since I’m doing a lot more running and cycling now than ever before, and I’m a bit sick of killing my phone’s battery running Strava, I decided I wanted to get an all-in-one device that can do running, cycling, and swimming metrics.  If I could wear it as a day-to-day watch with activity tracking, all the better.

At the beginning of September, 2014, I hit a crossroads.  I was 105kg, unfit as hell, and worsening.  I decided that I wasn’t going to keep going down that route.  I had to improve my fitness and drop the weight - for myself and for my family.  A lifestyle change and a bunch of remedial work was required to fix up decades of sloth.

After having played Elite: Dangerous for a while now, I’ve finally moved up to a Lakon Type-7.  The ships I moved through were;

I’m going to assume that you’ve done the basic tutorials and can actually fly your ship a bit.  Some tips are helpful to land / take off more effectively and not smash into things.

A couple of days ago, Elite: Dangerous was finally released.  I’m an original Kickstarter backer and Premium Beta player of ED, and have been playing it off an on during its entire development period.

I don’t have a specific use case for this, but I thought I’d experiment and see just how this can be done.  I’ve recently changed over to encryption on my smartphone, because it came to my attention that it’s possible to use the Android debugger to get access to an Android device’s flash even if you don’t have the unlock pin.  This of course requires physical access to the phone.