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The absurdity of the use of kph

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  First and foremost I apologise (yet again) for such a long gap in between blog posts. The return of freedom over the past year has kept me away from screens. They say it takes 66 days to develop a new habit. Running is a habit I developed over lockdown, but the return to the office (and I intend to never work from home again) and frequenting the pub has reduced frequency of this.  It is, however, not completely bleak for my physical well-being. Cramming a number of social events in after work has led to me doing a lot more walking around central London. I don’t have an Apple Watch, (other brands of smart watch exist), but my iPhone records my steps and a lot of really interesting data on my walking and running. As would be no surprise, I’ve configured everything in metric units. Thankfully, gone are the days where Apple would dictate to you , based on your location, the units of measurement you use. You have a chose whether to specify distances in miles or kilometres. You al

The one (and only) good thing about Apple Maps

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A few posts back I lamented about the inability to use metric units on the maps feature of an iPhone. With the launch of iOS6 and the new Apple maps, this bug is now gone. iPhone users who prefer to use sensible (metric) units finally have the option to do so. It's just a shame, that the maps themselves are rubbish.

Olympic Units

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For the Olympics, signs such as these were erected in most stations. It was nice to see the use of kilometres for distances (rather than just miles) but a a grievance which I hold is the measurement of walking distances exclusively in miles per hour. At minimum, for the sake of consistency, the speeds should have been given in km/h as well – or even better, only in km/h. Personally, I find it impossible to gauge walking/cycling speeds in mph. It's a lot easier to use metres per second, which is easily convertible to km/h - a lot more accurate too! I guess it's just the country we live in.