Home Sweet Home Alone, 2021 - ★
Saturday, November 13, 2021
It is just… so… bad.
Lest we forget.
Okay, real talk Windows people. How do I create a second Explorer window? How do I stop Explorer save dialogues being so tiny and defaulting to some weird location? And how the hell do you do anything without Quick Look? How do you Windows people live?
Corridor of Doom. Inspired to take a photo as a result of the @hemisphericviews newsletter article written by @burk
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 →
Isolated the source of the fridge noise. A wearing fan. I’ve unleashed a vacuum cleaner and compressed air. Still noisy. I bet they charge a fortune for a new $5 fan.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 →
We have an expensive fridge that is only a few years old. It has become really noisy and is driving me crazy. I’ve already had a tech come and check it, and changed a fan. That sort of worked for a while. Now I want to throw the stupid thing on the street.
Too cold to swim. Not too cold to dip the feet.
Nostalgic November
Sunday, November 7, 2021
This post originally appeared on the Hemispheric Views blog for the month of Nostalgic November. You can also read the accompanying posts by Martin Feld and Jason Burk. I was in Year 5 at a new school. I didn’t know anybody. My previous school didn’t have a formal uniform and I’d worn velcro shoes everyday. Now at this new school I had to wear leather lace-ups, and I didn’t know how to tie laces.
The Sad State of Mousing on macOS
Sunday, November 7, 2021
This post was originally written in June 2021 for Hemispheric News; subscribe at the Patreon site One Prime Plus to receive this monthly newsletter and other benefits that are linked to the Hemispheric Views podcast. On 28 May, I posted to my micro.blog: My kingdom for a good mouse that works with macOS. Logitech MX Master 3 - garbage drivers cause lag all over the place. Razer Viper Ultimate - doesn’t work with macOS.
Sorry kid, I don’t have Instagram. I’ve got micro.blog though!
File this one under “irony” from the YNAB change log. November 5th, 2021 - You Need A Budget:
We released a fix to ensure all users are seeing the correct price in their account settings.
Given the number of sites you maintain @jack your omg.lol could be your most useful property on the web. 😂
A new episode of NBL Pocket Podcast has been recorded and released. I’ve been into Australian basketball since 1987. This passion is entirely different to my other more nerdy pursuits. 🏀
Nostalgic November
Thursday, November 4, 2021
This month Hemispheric Views podcast is celebrating Nostalgic November. We are inviting listeners to share something from their history that makes them happy, be it a memory, a thing, an experience… whatever they like! As hosts, we each contributed our own piece of nostalgia. This is how mine starts out: I was in Year 5 at a new school. I didn’t know anybody. My previous school didn’t have a formal uniform and I’d worn velcro shoes everyday.
What’s that noise? Oh, it’s a new episode of @HemisphericViews podcast hitting the Internet. OMG! @neatnik @maique
Solid workflow, Andrew. Solid. Can somebody please send help?
Keyboard Maestro making it even easier to meet my needs as a Textexpander replacement. Now with menubar icons for specific groups!
YNAB Jumping the Shark
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
On YNAB, and the pricing outrage that I and other users are feeling: I can afford the increase. It’s ridiculous that it’s more expensive than Microsoft 365 or Adobe, but okay. But really it’s the poor communication, the tin ear they are showing (a budgeting app that promotes forward planning pushing a 100% price increase on people with a month’s notice), that they’ve dumped the news about this (via pop up which I didn’t see because I use NextDNS - that’s right, no official email), and then gone into hiding that bothers me.
Undertaking an edit of @HemisphericViews is no mean feat. But like any hobby, it’s a labour of love in which the time invested is not about generating a return, but instead about trying to make something as good as it can be.
Crocodile Dundee, 1986 - ★½
Monday, November 1, 2021
If you ever think society hasn't progressed in 35 years, watch this movie. You will realise that many social norms have improved.