Saturday, September 26, 2020 →
After a dalliance with Firefox as my core browser, I’m finding myself drifting back to Safari 14. I might maintain Firefox as my work browser, though. It’s support for containers helps with having to manage two Microsoft 365 accounts.
I bought more audio hardware. And I don’t think this is the end. Hobbies can get expensive.
Thursday, September 24, 2020 →
The latest episode of Hemispheric Views is live. We talk Portland fires, the latest Apple event, search engines and commemorative coins. Listen and share! 🎙
Thursday, September 24, 2020 →
My 9 year old told me about the Shortcut he has built to run on his iPad. Proud Dad moment.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
What’s better than Cortex Podcast? Animated highlights from Cortex Podcast!
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 →
Another Hemispheric Views with @burk and @martinfeld is in the can. Releasing in a couple of days. 🎙
After hearing the latest Mac Power Users on Read-it Later apps I dusted off my old Instapaper account. Now, though, @manton is soon launching Micro.blog premium which may scratch that itch? Exciting times.
Played some Sea of Thieves with @burk. Any other micro.bloggers play?
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 →
My Kia Sorrento decided that my Emergency Parking Brake needs to stay on all the time. A call to their Roadside Assist service and now my car will be put on a flat-bed and taken for repairs tomorrow. I’d almost forgotten I had that assistance service!
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably: Microsoft put a server farm at the bottom of the sea and let it run for a few years. The team hypothesizes that the atmosphere of nitrogen, which is less corrosive than oxygen, and the absence of people to bump and jostle components, are the primary reasons for the difference. If the analysis proves this correct, the team may be able to translate the findings to land datacenters.
So apparently to my kid I appear as a giant angry potato with arms growing out of my ears.
Monday, September 14, 2020
A quick update on another podcast project I’ve been working on with two other friends. Hemispheric Views has launched and we are quite proud of it.
I don’t want to brag, but I just had a Tim Tam Slam. @martinfeld @burk
Friday, September 11, 2020
I’m excited to have worked with two other great people to put something new out into the world. Working with Jason Burk and Martin Feld, we have released the first episode of a new podcast, Hemispheric Views. Our topics for this first episode range across condiments, technology and the price of petrol. Over time we anticipate the show will have a technology bias but we are interested to explore how Martin and I as Australians interpret things in comparison to Jason in the USA.
Thursday, September 10, 2020 →
Get on board with the micro.blog gaming sessions that @burk has organised. I’m rubbish at games but still had a blast. Definitely no need to be a hard-core gamer.
Thursday, September 10, 2020 →
Just a few hours until the Micro.blog gaming session. I look forward to losing badly @burk
I’ve upgraded to a Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM fan in my OWC Thunderbay RAID array. I should have done this a long time ago. The noise has always bothered me. It’s so much more quiet now. Best $32 I’ve spent in a while.
Launchbar has been updated. In the release notes it mentions search engine Ecosia. I’d never heard of it. Seems a laudable idea.
International Beard Day, you say?
I’ve been reassessing my note-taking apps again - that’s something that happens on a too-regular basis. NotePlan had been good, but I’m not keen on the v3 upgrade pricing. DEVONthink has shown it can work like NotePlan too. The answer is always DEVONthink. @jack @twelvety