Bag 3 complete.
Finished reading: How Not to Become a Grumpy Old Bugger by Geoff Hutchison 📚
Bag 2 complete.
Bag 1 is complete.
My Favourite Computer Peripheral
The discussion on a podcast about favorite old computer peripherals led to personal reflections on past devices, particularly a Canon flatbed scanner, and an encouragement to share similar memories online.
Home Ethernet
About a year ago I had my home wired with Ethernet. The previous house I had lived was cabled, and I couldn’t live in the new house without wireless backhaul. Aint nobody got time for that. The other day I noticed that my network transfer speeds seemed slow. Running iperf3 between my mac mini server and my laptop, I identified the network was throttling at around 97 Mbps - far from the gigabit speeds I would expect.
At work I’ve reverted back to ‘old’ Outlook. It’s still so much better than ‘new’ Outlook. It makes me sad to see how old powerful applications are being set aside for lowest common denominator webapps. Dumbing down. Or enshittification.
The Value of Blogging
Joan Westenberg’s post, The Case for Blogging in the Ruins has been working around the ‘blogosphere’. Is the blogosphere even a thing anymore? It used to be massive, which is exactly the point of Westernberg’s piece. I’ve blogged for decades now. The early Blogger and Movable Type accounts are gone now. Some of the latter I saved, but despite not having a full archive here on this site, there is certainly enough.
Finished reading: Are You Mad at Me? by Meg Josephson 📚Like so many “self-help” books there is a lot of fluff around built around some short but core concepts. A book where I think, “this could have been a blog post”, which might actually be where the book originated - but I haven’t done my research as I bought the book on a whim.
I finished The Drifter. What a great game. Adventure point and clicks are the best!
Is this the best subscription cancellation deal ever?
Christmas movie on the outdoor screen at Perth Stadium. 🚴
Summer Ride
I couldn’t take anymore Tahoe Liquid Glass shenanigans. So I’m back to this classic look.
At least I have my proxy icons back.
Defaults (2025)
It has been more than 2 years (😱) since Episode 097 of my podcast Hemispheric Views, where we held a Duel of the Defaults! competition. Two years on, where do I stand now? If there is a change from my list last year, I’ve indicated it with a leading ✨. Change? Category Default Comment on Change ✨ Mail Client Fastmail Goodbye Fmail3 Mail Server Fastmail & Apple Mail iCloud is there, but I don’t actively use it Notes Obsidian for Work; Apple Notes for Home To-Do OmniFocus iPhone Photo Shooting Camera.
For about the 14th time in my life I am once again experimenting with David Seah’s Emergent Task Planner sheets.
It’s Hemispheric Views episode 150 Or is it 152? Or 153? Who knows, but it’s here! We’ve got mail and Martin has coffee! Pay attention, there is homework for you in this one.
I’m sure I’m not supposed to see the icons being drawn consecutively onto the screen in iOS 26.1. Such poor software quality.
Saw Gomez perform tonight. So awesome!
Inktober 2025 Day 31. Award
