Sunday, November 10, 2019
Day 10 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. I’ve made a concerted effort this year to increase my volume of book reading. In recent years my reading has been dominated by web pages, articles and RSS feeds. This resulted in a decline in my book reading - something I used to do a lot of. To track my reading and add some motivation I set a target on Goodreads.
Sunday, November 10, 2019
I’ve got problems with my Catalina install. I have wifidiagnostics files multiplying like tribbles in my private/var/tmp/ folder. With each of these files weighing in between 200Mb and 400Mb, my entire SSD is being swamped with these files, to the point of the operating system being crippled for lack of disk space. I thought a short-term interim solution would be to set up a Hazel watch script to automatically trash these files as they are created.
Microblogvember: My son is building a Lego craft at the moment that is designed to go into space.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Day 9 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. There is so much high-quality television programming available now. We have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Free to Air, etc. There was a time when it was necessary to find things off the back of a truck. I think those days are almost gone. This overwhelming choice has led to a strange outcome, in that I’m actually watching less TV than I probably ever have.
Microblogvember: Today’s temperature is forecast to hit 38 degrees Celsius. That is the opposite of cold.
Friday, November 8, 2019
Day 8 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. This week I’ve had a massive technology upgrade. I’ve moved from a 2013 MacBook Pro (the generation of MacBooks which had great keyboards), to a 2019 27" iMac. I had been deferring this computer upgrade for ages, as I dithered between getting a new MacBook (and which variant?), an iMac or even a mac mini. I was hoping the iMac would gain the T2 security chip and possibly a new display with reduced bezels.
Kids cricket is winding down as the sun sets. Yay summer! 🏏
Microblogvember: A pet peeve of mine is when people describe an asterisk as either an asterix or a star.
Watched Episode 1 of For All Mankind and enjoyed it. It brings to mind how fragile the success of the Apollo missions were, despite how much we take it for granted now. 📺
Over the last 24 hours I’ve been running on a brand new 27" iMac 3.1GHz 6-core i5. Compared with my old 2013 MacBook Pro this thing screams. I know it’s not an iMac Pro but this is plenty enough for my needs. Also glad that I swapped out the default Fusion drive for SSD only.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Day 7 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. All in all I have a pretty great job. I’ve been doing it for long enough that I feel I have well and truly mastered the fundamentals. With my interest in personal productivity I have constructed a range of efficiencies into my process flow to make things easier for me. This enables me to increase my overall productivity, do more with no more effort.
Microblogvember: We tend to think that we always have complete agency over our lives. If you stop and think how much is actually left to random chance, it can be a bit frightening.
Adobe Technical Support chat was so slow in linking me with somebody, that I was able to trawl forums and test random solutions. Just when somebody got to me, I had solved the problem. Great work, Adobe. 🤔
Microblogvember: I take my kids to the park and inevitably they find a stick to play with. Trees make the most versatile toys ever known to man. A stick can be a proxy for any number of imaginary things.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Day 6 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. I am most comfortable within a nuclear family. I grew up in a family with my Mom and 3 siblings. We had a few extended family members, but most lived in different parts of the country or overseas. As an adult the nuclear family is again the structure we are living in, except now I’m the Dad.
At the checkout of the IGA grocery store three employees and I each claimed our childhood James Bond. We had Brosnan, Moore and Connery. Plus one, “no idea”. Friendly staff for the win!
I’ve escaped from Migration Assistant hell!
I’m in the midst of Migration Assistant hell.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Day 5 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. Right now in Perth we are in the perfect time of the year to enjoy nature. We are moving into nice spring sunshine with temperatures in the mid-twenties. This is a time to enjoy, before the Perth furnace gets cranking for summertime and I can’t step outside without getting burnt. The grass is still green from winter, before it browns off over the summer months.
I’ve bought an annual subscription to Harmonizely as my replacement for WhenWorks, which is shutting down at the end of 2019.