Finished Masters of the Air. A wonderful treatment of the US Air Force story of WWII. Those men would hardly believe what has become of their nation more recently. 📺
Have installed a couple of Thermacells on the balcony. Let’s see how they do! Mozzies be gone. 🚫🦟
MOS for Smooth Mouse Scrolling on macOS
MOS brings macOS' smooth scrolling to any mouse: The biggest (only?) issue with using a non-Apple mouse on macOS is losing that smooth scrolling, also known as kinetic scrolling. It might seem like a silly detail, but it’s such a nice feature that I really miss when it’s not there. A few years back, when I swapped out my MacBook’s trackpad for a cheap mouse, I found a solution in this quirky, free, open-source app called MOS.
Binge watched Behind Her Eyes. What a great show! 📺
This cold/flu whatever it is came out of nowhere. Sore throat yesterday, total blech this morning. Better not be COVID.
My mac mini server with Thunderbay drive array is back in a cupboard, as God intended servers to be located.
My Indieweb Friends are Fighting and I Don't Like It
There has been a disturbance in the indie blog force this week. Typically, I stay out of online arguments. This is something I learned when I was a mere youngster toying around on BBSs and Usenet. Arguing didn’t amount to much. Even when you “win”, do you really? Trophies are yet to be presented. So when this week’s ruckus broke out, my standard rules applied. Stay out of it. Don’t pile on.
Nightbitch, 2024 - ★★½
Strong start, faded in the third act.
You can continue to doomscroll the news reading US politics, or you can consider whether salad excites you. If you choose the latter, Hemispheric Views E129 is for you!
Pizza shop stools.
I hate anxiety, especially the work-induced kind. Neither my parents nor grandparents held senior positions across their working careers. It makes me consider how impacted they were by similar challenges. I wonder how I am managing to hold it all together and even why I continue trying to do so.
I’m not sure I will be able to deal with another 4 years of Trump news. Not my country, not my President, but I can’t help but think Australia will suffer at least some collateral damage. Get ready for the era of US oligarchs, featuring tech bros.
I’ve been re-engaging with my blog, and the micro.blog community, over the past few days. Still the nicest place on the internet.
Severance S2E01 was weird! Not that I should be surprised by that.
I’m playing around with Pixelfed. Have set up my account and posted a single photo.
Good Friends and Dead Websites
I’m really not qualified to own and manage a website. 🤷 In attempting to tweak a few things last night I broke everything. The site was down and dead. 💀 I was stuck. I couldn’t fix it. 😬 Enter my pal @Burk. While I slept in my Australian timezone, he worked to fix it in his US one. 🤖 Also enter micro.blog founder and owner @manton. He responded to my help email overnight and also worked on it like the internet greybeard wizard he is.
Blog Question Challenge 2025
Thanks for the tag, Gabz. Why did you start blogging in the first place? It is so long ago, it’s hard to remember why. Was there even a why? I was a nerd interested in technology, and blogs were the hot new thing. There was a cool platform called Movable Type and I wanted to try it out. So I started a blog. This was all a very long time ago.
I couldn’t be bothered walking back from the pub where I had dinner.
My 9-year old is asking how consoles work. This is testing my ability to teach computing hardware principles based on my knowledge that was established 30 years ago. Do I still talk CPU, GPU, RAM/ROM? HDD v SSD?
Our @hemisphericviews with a Tight 45 on the button for 2024.
