Cheating at Strava

 

I recently read a New York Times article about cheating in Strava. It seems that there is a site dedicated to helping people falsify their data.

I would never knowingly falsify my Strava data, but occasionally do it by accident. 

What happens is that I go cycling a distance from home and I bring my bike to the start point in the back of the car. I then use my bike computer to track my cycle. Occasionally I forget to turn off my bike computer when I return to my car. The bike computer is still tracking my cycle while I drive home at 120km/h on the motorway.

When this happens I get an email from Strava entitled "suspected fraud". :-/

eBooks unavailable on new Amazon.ie web site

Until recently Irish users were forced to use the https:amazon.co.uk site. This was annoying because prices are quoted in pounds sterling rather than euros. Also shipping was slower and more expensive for Irish users compared to the service for UK users.

Irish users were understandably excited with the recent launch of https://amazon.ie/ 

I am personally excited and I have bought some books and been pleasantly surprised with the low price and speed of delivery. Unfortunately, it seems that the new https://amazon.ie/  site does have a major flaw - it doesn't support the sale of eBooks. I was mildly surprised that it didn't offer me the option of ordering a Kindle edition of the books I wanted. I assumed that the book in question didn't have a Kindle version, but then I checked on the https:amazon.co.uk site and a `kindle edition was available there.