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MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL HIT 1 MILLION VIEWS

My YouTube Channel @skopioeye has finally hit 1 million views. – hurray! I first created this YouTube channel back in October 2010 and for the first couple of years only used the account to view YouTube videos. The first video that I published was in 2013 and it was a video I captured using a […]

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HOW TO REPLACE A FLY SCREEN

I have a home renovation DIY method for replacing a fly screen, which I’d like to share. The only things you’ll need are fly screen mesh and a spline roller. I cleaned the existing spline and reused it because it was still in good condition. The new fly screen mesh is a big improvement compared […]

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RUNNING EVERY DAY 1460 DAYS = 4 YEARS

Time flies and I completely forgot that it’s been 4 years since I started the journey of running every day for at least 5 KM. My running streak as of today is 1467 days and yes, it’s been quite a journey. This picture is of me running this morning when it was sprinkling with rain […]

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2021 AND GOALS FOR 2022

Happy New Year all! It’s now 2022 and time to publish my annual review and goals for this year. This is the article I published last year: ANNUAL REVIEW 2020 AND GOALS FOR 2021 Let’s recap the goals I wrote down for 2021: increase traffic to this website and other website I manage increase YouTube […]

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MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS GETTING MONETISED

I’ve finally managed to monetise my Skopioeye YouTube channel. I first started the channel back in 2012 and at the time there was no such thing as YouTube channel requirements – ie 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time in 12 months. There are also some new ones now such as having the account […]

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USING THE LAZY SUSAN FOR BOARD GAMES

Like many families in New South Wales, Australia, we’re in lockdown and life can get a bit boring. If you have some board games tucked away in the cupboards or in the garage now is a great time to dust off the covers and start teaching and playing with the kids. I decided to play […]

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2020 AND GOALS FOR 2021

Another year has quickly gone by. 2020 was a year that many of us won’t forget especially due to the pandemic and the bush fires. Life simply goes on and I wanted to spend some time in reflecting on some of my achievements in 2020 and write down some goals for 2021. Out curiosity, I […]

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WEBSITE MONITORING AND STATUS PAGES

If you’re a digital marketer, entrepreneur, a small/medium/large business owner or just a hardcore techie that owns or manages multiple websites (just like me) then let me introduce to you a tool I’ve been using to monitor all my websites – it’s called Better Uptime. In this article, I’ll show you how I use this […]

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IMPROVING MY TYPING SPEED – TYPING TEST

I decided to test my typing speed after watching a video from Ali Abdaal – a YouTuber who is also a junior doctor (well sort of, he’s currently on a break). His videos are about various topics such as book reviews, tips for studying for exams, lifestyle topics, tech and productivity tips (how to be […]

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Marco Tran 5KM RUNS FOR 30 CONSECUTIVE DAYS

5KM RUNS FOR 30 CONSECUTIVE DAYS

Today marks the 30th day of running at least 5km per day! I ran a total of 149.7kms. I decided to see how my body will respond when running at least 5km each day and yes it’s a bit crazy. I have been running the occasional 1-3 runs a week but never consecutively for 30 […]

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Marco Tran FIXING THE CISCO ANYCONNECT PROFILE

FIXING THE CISCO ANYCONNECT PROFILE

In a previous post “Configuring the Cisco ASA” I described how I configured the Cisco ASA and I mentioned about the Cisco AnyConnect client. The Cisco AnyConnect client has been working well but recently I noticed the profile hostname changed and it was not loading the correct server. It was getting annoying so I wanted […]

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NOVEMBER BURPEE CHALLENGE

In November I was involved in a burpee challenge, where our group decided to aim to complete 1400 burpees for that month. For those of you who don’t know what a burpee is, then had a look at this video. It strengths all parts of the body and it’s like doing a pushup with a […]

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