Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: relentless: “a patient but relentless taskmaster” 📷 #mbaug
Keep Practising 15: The Value of Friendships
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt in 2020, it’s that friendships are important. I’m getting better at making and maintaining them, but there’s always work to be done.
In Nerd Corner I vent about the poor connectivity of my Logitech MX Master 3 mouse.
Like the show? You’re welcome to buy me a coffee as a vote of thanks!
Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: hope Jeremiah 29:11 📷 #mbaug
Mondo Electronics
Mondo Electronics is a company I’ve helped as part of my job as an Entrepreneurs’ Programme Growth Facilitator.
They were kind enough to say some nice words about the value of the service to their business and me personally.
Working with companies like Mondo is what makes my job enjoyable.
3 Cheers for Tech Support
Recently I came across an annoying calendaring problem. I have a number of domain names, with associated email aliases. These all reconcile via my Fastmail account.
I noticed the other day that calendar invitations created in my calendar app of choice, BusyCal, were defaulting to being sent from one of my non-default email addresses.
There was no obvious setting for this in BusyCal and it was an issue that I hadn’t noticed at all over previous years so I assumed there was some problem at the server end. I checked Fastmail but its calendar settings were configured to send calendar events from my primary and preferred domain. Nevertheless, I fired a support ticket to Fastmail. Over the next few days (the one ding on Fastmail is slow support turnarounds) they verified my settings were correct. They inspected the logs generated by BusyCal created events, and tested things from their end. After all of this, they confirmed the problem was coming from BusyCal.
Off I went to BusyMac support. Their fast support turnaround confirmed that it was BusyCal causing the problem, and that the software had no ability to choose which email to send from - it took the first in the arbitrary list of available email addresses.
It didn’t end there, however. Soon after, I received an email saying that they had looked at the issue - agreed it wasn’t ideal, and built a new beta build that offered up an option to choose the originating email address for new events. They provided me a download link to this new beta.
It works perfectly. Now, BusyCal will create new event invitations from my preferred domain.
What really works, though, is tech support. These are the unsung heroes of software. Helping mere users like me get more out of their products. This is another reason why I am happy to pay for software. These people are doing real work, and like the rest of us, they deserve to get paid for what they do.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: frosty 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: graceful 📷 #mbaug
Ted Lasso is brilliant. Most enjoyable show I’ve watched in a long time.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 22: home 📷 #mbaug
The other day I was complaing about the lack of extensions in Safari. After hearing about Brett Terpstra @ttscoff talk about Workona I’m trialling it in Firefox. This thing is a game-changer. I’m loving it.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 21: This bag makes a crunch when I squeeze it. It did hold a breakfast sandwich which also crunched in my mouth. 📷 #mbaug
A reminder to my future self: Create email (and other) templates in Textexpander but embrace writing them in Markdown. Then use Brett Terpstra’s Markdown Services Tool to convert the template text into rich text prior to sending. This will solve the problem of Textexpander’s rich text editor being so flakey and annoying.
I deleted the YouTube app from my iPhone because I was sick of saying “No” whenever it tried to gain background access to my microphone. Own goal, YouTube.
I enjoyed hearing @miraz talk to @martinfeld on his Lounge Ruminator podcast. I like crosswords but I never seem to be able to settle for simple things. 🤔
Photoblogging Challenge Day 20: change 📷 #mbaug
Very little happening in the NBL this week, but we still managed to talk for an hour about it. That’s true passion! The NBL Pocket Podcast / Brett Brown, John Mooney nicknames and Draymond Green’s tweets 🏀 🎙
Photoblogging Challenge Day 19: Many a ribbon won by my gym trainer in international Ironman Events. 📷 #mbaug
My third visit back to the gym after a lay-off of about 18 months(!). Really happy with the weight training I did today. Improving quicker than I had anticipated! 🏋🏻♂️
This Apple Music radio show with Billie Eilish and her Dad is surprisingly good. music.apple.com
I hope Safari 14 on Big Sur brings better extensions. I’ve been a Safari loyalist but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to justify compared with Firefox/Edge/Chrome.