[ { "id": 0, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s Day 1, but I’m super impressed by Inkwell, a new RSS reader developed by @manton as it ties nicely into my micro.blog infrastructure. I’m not typically a web app guy but this is pretty good.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 22:08:15 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/03/02/its-day-but-im-super.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F03%2F02%2Fits-day-but-im-super.html" }, { "id": 1, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@agilelisa I hated that book too.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 20:19:54 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/03/01/85270393.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/85270393" }, { "id": 2, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@philosopher Trialing Apple Passwords. Bitwarden is my next option.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 20:18:07 +0800", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/03/01/85270330.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/85270330" }, { "id": 3, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 10 complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 15:50:16 +0800", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/28/bag-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Fbag-complete.html" }, { "id": 4, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had a dream that I discovered a colleague was using OmniFocus for the Web, and we bonded over our shared passion for GTD. I know this will never happen in real life. 💭\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 09:24:05 +0800", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/28/i-had-a-dream-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Fi-had-a-dream-that.html" }, { "id": 5, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@philosopher They raised their prices by 33%, and haven’t delivered any meaningful improvements to me as a home user in years. I think they are really focused on the corporate market now, and if they can get some bonus revenue from home users at a nice premium, that’s just cream.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-25 19:29:21 +0800", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Feb 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/25/84990875.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/84990875" }, { "id": 6, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m wondering if 1Password and I are no longer strategically aligned.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-25 14:02:38 +0800", "date": "2:02 p.m. on Feb 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/25/im-wondering-if-password-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F25%2Fim-wondering-if-password-and.html" }, { "id": 7, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton This is so great. I’ve just posted a little review of Current on my own blog, hosted at micro.blog. I love the indie web, and I’m excited for Terry’s app, your forthcoming app, and NetNewsWire. It’s all wonderful.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 23:10:58 +0800", "date": "11:10 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/18/84517725.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/84517725" }, { "id": 8, "type": "post", "title": "App Review: Current", "text": "I talked about Terry Godier\u0026rsquo;s essay on RSS on Episode 156 of Hemispheric Views.\nI was blown away when shortly after, Terry reached out to myself, Martin and Jason. Turns out Terry is a listener of our show! He was honoured, we were honoured, it was a lovely moment in email!\nIn rapid time Terry has since developed an RSS reader app, Current. He allowed me to participate in the beta even though my feedback was mainly limited to spotting typos in copy text. Sorry Terry! I tried - I really tried - to give better feedback. I\u0026rsquo;m a bad tester!\nThe rapid development cycle Terry achieved has paid off as he has now released 1.0 of Current on the App Store. It\u0026rsquo;s not a subscription! Yay! It\u0026rsquo;s an AU$9.99 one-time buy.\nThe unique aspect of Current is that it embraces the concept of \u0026ldquo;The River of News\u0026rdquo; that was oft-spoken of back in the early days of RSS. His take on this is to allow the user to identify what type of feed the content is. Is it an article, news, or perhaps evergreen content? Your choice affects the length of time that article remains in your “river” before it ages out and drifts away, not to be seen again. The rationale is that this eliminates the obligation to reach inbox zero with your RSS queue. Rather, you dip in as you feel. If you don\u0026rsquo;t do it often, the time-sensitive stuff drifts awa but the evergreen contents stays waiting for you.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a different take on things for sure. I\u0026rsquo;m still coming to grips with it. After all, I\u0026rsquo;ve been an inbox zero RSS reader since before Google Reader. I was a Bloglines user! So not worrying about getting to “all articles read” is a tough habit to break. Although this app is the most unique and potentially impactful RSS reader I\u0026rsquo;ve seen in a long time. The simple fact that It\u0026rsquo;s not leveraging an email client, three-pane metaphor is alone worth celebrating.\nThe app can sync with iCloud or you can do what I did and allow it to sync with a server of your choice. I\u0026rsquo;ve got the app connected to my FreshRSS instance, but all the usual RSS server suspects are supported.\nI\u0026rsquo;m having fun trying this new take on RSS.\nI congratulate Terry on re-imagining what a newsreader can be. Even more fun is that he is still actively developing the app. New and better features are landing quickly. The latest being an easier way to set what type of content each feed is. I\u0026rsquo;m excited to keep using the app, and to see where Terry takes it.\nGet on board!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 22:57:26 +0800", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/18/app-review-current.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F18%2Fapp-review-current.html" }, { "id": 9, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have been talking budgeting and financial forecasting with Google Gemini. It knows I like GTD, OmniFocus and lean manufacturing. So now the machine presents all its financial analogies using Japanese lean nomenclature. I, of course, love this. 🇯🇵💵🤖\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-17 22:26:52 +0800", "date": "10:26 p.m. on Feb 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/17/i-have-been-talking-budgeting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F17%2Fi-have-been-talking-budgeting.html" }, { "id": 10, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 9 complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 20:10:35 +0800", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/16/bag-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F16%2Fbag-complete.html" }, { "id": 11, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jimmitchell 👀\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 16:06:15 +0800", "date": "4:06 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/16/84359665.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/84359665" }, { "id": 12, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Together Alone by Crowded House is possibly my favourite album. I not only enjoy the music but I enjoy the memories it conjures of me listening to the music so long ago. 🎶\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 22:40:11 +0800", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/14/together-alone-by-crowded-house.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F14%2Ftogether-alone-by-crowded-house.html" }, { "id": 13, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jimmitchell I’m not offended… I’m not offended… I’m not offended… 😝\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 17:52:25 +0800", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/14/84249986.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/84249986" }, { "id": 14, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@andrew @jason Patched in. No longer a Prospect.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 12:07:00 +0800", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/14/84239716.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/84239716" }, { "id": 15, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve finished all 7 seasons of Sons of Anarchy. What a ride. 🏍️\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-12 22:20:12 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Feb 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/12/ive-finished-all-seasons-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F12%2Five-finished-all-seasons-of.html" }, { "id": 16, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 8 complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-10 18:07:15 +0800", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Feb 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/10/bag-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F10%2Fbag-complete.html" }, { "id": 17, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 7 complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-08 15:40:54 +0800", "date": "3:40 p.m. on Feb 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/08/bag-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F08%2Fbag-complete.html" }, { "id": 18, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 6 complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-07 14:39:14 +0800", "date": "2:39 p.m. on Feb 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/07/bag-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F07%2Fbag-complete.html" }, { "id": 19, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton We talked about this RSS challenge on Episode 156 of @hemisphericviews and I referenced Terry’s blog post.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-07 07:28:02 +0800", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Feb 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/07/83749773.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/83749773" }, { "id": 20, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@lmika I can totally relate. This is why I keep changing my vocation. I’m on about the fourth iteration of myself.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-05 12:44:42 +0800", "date": "12:44 p.m. on Feb 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/05/83612871.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/83612871" }, { "id": 21, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jimmitchell No changes. It’s just plugging away. I liked hearing you on the show. Your whole history is fascinating!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-05 06:47:45 +0800", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Feb 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/05/83596951.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/83596951" }, { "id": 22, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 5 complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-04 11:12:24 +0800", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Feb 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/04/bag-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F04%2Fbag-complete.html" }, { "id": 23, "type": "post", "title": "Rotting to the Core", "text": "You should read the entirety of Matt Gemmell\u0026rsquo;s article, The Fallen Apple, it\u0026rsquo;s great.\nAt work I\u0026rsquo;m surrounded by tech normies, and I\u0026rsquo;ve heard two people actively complain about the \u0026ldquo;new Apple version\u0026rdquo; now running on their iPhones. I can only presume that millions of other people who don\u0026rsquo;t blog, don\u0026rsquo;t read tech news, and play Candy Crush and use Instagram, also hate Liquid Glass.\nThis is a monumental misstep, but declining performance and living on past grandeurs is fast becoming the new Apple way.\nAs Matt says:\n Apple\u0026rsquo;s old and hard-won reputation just doesn\u0026rsquo;t ring true now. The company feels like a performance of itself, diverging farther and farther from the original, shuddering with escalating dysfunction, and held together by the sheer, grotesque extent of its indentured income.\n ", "dateiso": "2026-02-04 08:46:49 +0800", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Feb 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/04/rotting-to-the-core.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F04%2Frotting-to-the-core.html" }, { "id": 24, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks @jimmitchell for the shoutout on Episode 169 of The Omni Show.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-03 17:26:39 +0800", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Feb 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/03/thanks-jimmitchell-for-the-shoutout.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F03%2Fthanks-jimmitchell-for-the-shoutout.html" }, { "id": 25, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 4 complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-02 17:48:49 +0800", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Feb 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/02/bag-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F02%2Fbag-complete.html" }, { "id": 26, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@martinfeld A jazz club when completed.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-01 21:09:27 +0800", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Feb 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/01/83344216.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/83344216" }, { "id": 27, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@martinfeld haha just another 20 or so!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-01 20:55:46 +0800", "date": "8:55 p.m. on Feb 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/01/83343596.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/83343596" }, { "id": 28, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@bradenslen At this point I don’t think even that kind of revelation would change anything.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-01 17:49:42 +0800", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Feb 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/02/01/83335874.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/83335874" }, { "id": 29, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 3 complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-01 17:48:20 +0800", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Feb 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/01/174820.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F01%2F174820.html" }, { "id": 30, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: How Not to Become a Grumpy Old Bugger by Geoff Hutchison 📚\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-01 15:50:58 +0800", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Feb 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/01/finished-reading-how-not-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F01%2Ffinished-reading-how-not-to.html" }, { "id": 31, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 2 complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-01 14:57:13 +0800", "date": "2:57 p.m. on Feb 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/02/01/bag-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F02%2F01%2Fbag-complete.html" }, { "id": 32, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bag 1 is complete.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-31 14:05:34 +0800", "date": "2:05 p.m. on Jan 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/01/31/bag-is-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F01%2F31%2Fbag-is-complete.html" }, { "id": 33, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@MitchWagner I know my audience. 😂\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 10:34:00 +0800", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/01/23/82662268.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/82662268" }, { "id": 34, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@lmika Thank you for your submission! Printers were so much better back in the day. And I miss the screech of the dot matrix as well. The day that Harvey Norman finally retired their ancient POS equipment was the last time I’ve seen one in the wild.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 10:23:20 +0800", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/01/23/82661723.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/82661723" }, { "id": 35, "type": "post", "title": "My Favourite Computer Peripheral", "text": "On Hemispheric Views episode 155 we got to talking about old computer peripherals. We agreed to put something on our respective blogs about our favourite peripheral1 of all time.\nMartin talked about, and has blogged about, his R2-D2 device.\nI mentioned on the show that I had a memory of an early flatbed scanner I had. It may have even connected to my Amiga, but it was definitely connected to my Packard-Bell 166MHz MMX PC.\nI couldn\u0026rsquo;t remember the name of the device at time of recording, but I knew it was a SCSI-connected Canon flatbed scanner. I remember that it created \u0026ldquo;massive\u0026rdquo; files when scanning at full resolution.\nSubsequent research has helped me narrow it down to either the Canon CanoScan 300 or CanoScan 600. I am pretty sure I had the 300. But I can\u0026rsquo;t be absolutely certain. I also can\u0026rsquo;t find any pictures of it online to verify it, or even show it.\nI do know I loved that scanner. I don\u0026rsquo;t even know why I wanted a scanner so badly. But it does track with my personality. I\u0026rsquo;ve been obsessed with digital management and paperless from a strangely young age. I used to want to be a \u0026lsquo;businessman\u0026rsquo;, whatever that meant to a young boy. This was my way of mainfesting a future life, I guess?\nAnyway, Canon, thank you for making awesome late 1990s scanner hardware.\nIf you want to play along with this topic, I encourage you to listen to the podcast, and blog/post about your favourite peripheral. Throw it up on Mastodon and give it a tag #HemisphericPeripherals. Let\u0026rsquo;s gather up all those favourite peripherals - old or new!\n Whenever I hear the word peripheral, I have memories of a departed friend of mine from my tweenage years who could never say the word, so would instead call them \u0026ldquo;preherfals\u0026rdquo;. To this day, when I see or hear the word peripheral, my internal voice says preherfal.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 10:13:42 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/01/23/my-favourite-computer-peripheral.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F01%2F23%2Fmy-favourite-computer-peripheral.html" }, { "id": 36, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@hutaffe Nobody so stupid has ever been able to alter the world like this guy. it’s insane.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-21 22:41:22 +0800", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Jan 21, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/01/21/82538751.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/82538751" }, { "id": 37, "type": "post", "title": "Home Ethernet", "text": "About a year ago I had my home wired with Ethernet. The previous house I had lived was cabled, and I couldn\u0026rsquo;t live in the new house without wireless backhaul. Aint nobody got time for that.\nThe other day I noticed that my network transfer speeds seemed slow.\nRunning 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. However, that 97 number was so perfectly close to 100 Mbps that it just had to be a failed cable or terminator. The problem was, which one?\nMore problematic was that I couldn\u0026rsquo;t remember how the house hasd been wired. The contractors didn\u0026rsquo;t leave me with a diagram, so to diagnose the fault it was also helpful to build a map of the network.\nTo help my future self, here is one I created using the wonderful software Curio:\n With my topology now clear I moved on to testing, slowing spanning outwards from the mac mini that was my listening end of iperf. Starting with a direct connection between it and my laptop, confirming gigabit speeds, then moving out from the server, a network layer at a time, to see where the speeds dropped.\nI determined that it was a single Ethernet patch wire that was running from an Ethernet drop in my TV Room to the switch in that room that was damaged. I replaced it with a new cable, and continued to test other connections, and all were good.\nMy home network is performant once more, and I\u0026rsquo;m so pleased that it was a simple cable that was damaged, and not any of the infrastructure. That would have been annoying.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-14 15:04:06 +0800", "date": "3:04 p.m. on Jan 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/01/14/home-ethernet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F01%2F14%2Fhome-ethernet.html" }, { "id": 38, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At work I\u0026rsquo;ve reverted back to \u0026lsquo;old\u0026rsquo; Outlook. It\u0026rsquo;s still so much better than \u0026lsquo;new\u0026rsquo; Outlook. It makes me sad to see how old powerful applications are being set aside for lowest common denominator webapps. Dumbing down. Or enshittification.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 14:38:08 +0800", "date": "2:38 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/01/05/at-work-ive-reverted-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F01%2F05%2Fat-work-ive-reverted-back.html" }, { "id": 39, "type": "post", "title": "The Value of Blogging", "text": "Joan Westenberg\u0026rsquo;s post, The Case for Blogging in the Ruins has been working around the \u0026lsquo;blogosphere\u0026rsquo;. Is the blogosphere even a thing anymore? It used to be massive, which is exactly the point of Westernberg\u0026rsquo;s piece.\nI\u0026rsquo;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.\nOver the years my blogging has had different foci, probably reflecting the growth and change in me and my own interests over the years. My blogging has also been influenced by short-form social media, in that most of my posts now are short. I rarely have the time or motivation to put forward a longer think-piece.\nWestenberg says this in their post about what makes a blog work:\n \u0026ldquo;They build. The best blogs create posts that reference and extend earlier posts, developing ideas over time rather than starting from scratch each week. Gwern\u0026rsquo;s site is an extreme example, with entries that get updated for years, accumulating evidence and refinement. But even a modest version of this works: a body of work that compounds.\u0026rdquo;\n To confirm this, I can refer back to a post I made on August 14, 2018, Blogging As an Exercise in Thought where I also talk about my history of blogging. I\u0026rsquo;m reminded by this post that I also hosted a blog on Blot for a number of years! There we go, my blog has supported my own memory!\nI still read many blogs every day, mainly via RSS. I still prefer them to social media. I hope that they don\u0026rsquo;t wither and die completely, and that people will continue to find ways to use the medium to build their own long-lasting presence on the web.\nI appreciate Westenberg\u0026rsquo;s post and I hope that I will find time to blog a little more this year.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-03 09:43:17 +0800", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Jan 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/01/03/the-value-of-blogging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F01%2F03%2Fthe-value-of-blogging.html" }, { "id": 40, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@iChris I bought this for my kid and I to play as a Christmas gift. Looking forward to playing it.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 19:40:49 +0800", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/replies/2026/01/02/81190296.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/canion/81190296" }, { "id": 41, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 15:49:17 +0800", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/01/02/finished-reading-are-you-mad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F01%2F02%2Ffinished-reading-are-you-mad.html" }, { "id": 42, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finished The Drifter. What a great game. Adventure point and clicks are the best!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 16:32:27 +0800", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2026/01/01/i-finished-the-drifter-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2Fi-finished-the-drifter-what.html" }, { "id": 43, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this the best subscription cancellation deal ever?\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-26 13:41:55 +0800", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Dec 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/12/26/is-this-the-best-subscription.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F12%2F26%2Fis-this-the-best-subscription.html" }, { "id": 44, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Christmas movie on the outdoor screen at Perth Stadium. 🚴\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-20 18:54:07 +0800", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Dec 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/12/20/christmas-movie-on-the-outdoor.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F12%2F20%2Fchristmas-movie-on-the-outdoor.html" }, { "id": 45, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Summer Ride\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-19 21:03:26 +0800", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Dec 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/12/19/summer-ride.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F12%2F19%2Fsummer-ride.html" }, { "id": 46, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I couldn\u0026rsquo;t take anymore Tahoe Liquid Glass shenanigans. So I\u0026rsquo;m back to this classic look.\nAt least I have my proxy icons back.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-10 11:46:47 +0800", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Dec 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/12/10/i-couldnt-take-anymore-tahoe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F12%2F10%2Fi-couldnt-take-anymore-tahoe.html" }, { "id": 47, "type": "post", "title": "Defaults (2025)", "text": "It has been more than 2 years (😱) since Episode 097 of my podcast Hemispheric Views, where we held a Duel of the Defaults! competition.\nTwo years on, where do I stand now?\nIf there is a change from my list last year, I’ve indicated it with a leading ✨.\n Change? Category Default Comment on Change ✨ Mail Client Fastmail Goodbye Fmail3 Mail Server Fastmail \u0026amp; Apple Mail iCloud is there, but I don\u0026rsquo;t actively use it Notes Obsidian for Work; Apple Notes for Home To-Do OmniFocus iPhone Photo Shooting Camera.app Photo Management Photos.app Calendar BusyCal (plus Calendar.app) Cloud file storage iCloud (plus OneDrive) RSS Reeder with FreshRSS Contacts Contacts.app ✨ Browser Safari Despite trying Vivaldi and Firefox, I always come back to Safari Chat Signal Bookmarks Safari Goodlinks is gone; back to basics Read It Later GoodLinks Rarely used now; very few worthwhile things to read (later) on the web Word Processing n/a I don\u0026rsquo;t process words Spreadsheets Numbers (plus Excel) Presentations n/a I don\u0026rsquo;t do presentations Shopping Lists AnyList Meal Planning AnyList Budgeting \u0026amp; Personal Finance Actual Budget on PikaPods ✨ News RSS \u0026amp; NYTimes Music Apple Music ✨ Podcasts Castro I got bored with PocketCasts Four changes this year from 23 categories. 8 of the 23 are true defaults.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-01 22:35:24 +0800", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Dec 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/12/01/defaults.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F12%2F01%2Fdefaults.html" }, { "id": 48, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For about the 14th time in my life I am once again experimenting with David Seah’s Emergent Task Planner sheets.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-17 22:30:12 +0800", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Nov 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/11/17/for-about-the-th-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F11%2F17%2Ffor-about-the-th-time.html" }, { "id": 49, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s Hemispheric Views episode 150 Or is it 152? Or 153? Who knows, but it\u0026rsquo;s here! We\u0026rsquo;ve got mail and Martin has coffee! Pay attention, there is homework for you in this one.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-14 17:59:26 +0800", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Nov 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/11/14/its-hemispheric-views-episode-or.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F11%2F14%2Fits-hemispheric-views-episode-or.html" }, { "id": 50, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-11 06:47:52 +0800", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Nov 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/11/11/im-sure-im-not-supposed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F11%2F11%2Fim-sure-im-not-supposed.html" }, { "id": 51, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Saw Gomez perform tonight. So awesome!\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-07 23:11:33 +0800", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Nov 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/11/07/saw-gomez-perform-tonight-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F11%2F07%2Fsaw-gomez-perform-tonight-so.html" }, { "id": 52, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 31. Award\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-31 20:28:08 +0800", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Oct 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/31/inktober-day-award.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F31%2Finktober-day-award.html" }, { "id": 53, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 30. Vacant\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-30 21:07:08 +0800", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Oct 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/30/inktober-day-vacant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F30%2Finktober-day-vacant.html" }, { "id": 54, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 29. Lesson\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-29 21:54:52 +0800", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Oct 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/29/inktober-day-lesson.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F29%2Finktober-day-lesson.html" }, { "id": 55, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 28. Skeletal\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-28 20:26:19 +0800", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Oct 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/28/inktober-day-skeletal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F28%2Finktober-day-skeletal.html" }, { "id": 56, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 27. Onion\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-28 20:23:22 +0800", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Oct 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/28/inktober-day-onion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F28%2Finktober-day-onion.html" }, { "id": 57, "type": "post", "title": "Automating the Bridge Between Obsidian and OmniFocus", "text": "The following article is predominantly a record for my future self. The solution as described was imagined and thought through by me, but development was helped by ChatGPT because I don\u0026rsquo;t have the necessary coding skills. As it took a long time with multiple iterations, I asked ChatGPT to summarise and document the flow of my attempts.\nAs such, the majority of this article is AI-generated, but proofread and edited by me, a human.\n For years, I’ve kept OmniFocus as my single source of truth for tasks. Every commitment lives there — work projects, household jobs, even odd ideas that might grow into something.\nBut my work notes live in Obsidian. That’s where meeting records, brainstorms, and running logs of ideas go. The two systems complement each other perfectly — except when they don’t talk.\nI wanted a way to extract the tasks I jot into Obsidian (- [ ] Do the thing) and have them appear automatically in my OmniFocus inbox. No manual copy-and-paste. No Quick Entry window. No duplicative reliance on the Tasks plugin for Obsidian. Just seamless capture.\n The goal Identify unchecked tasks in a note. Send each one to OmniFocus Inbox. Include a backlink to the originating Obsidian note. In short, bridge the gap between where ideas start (Obsidian) and where they’re managed (OmniFocus).\nI thought this would be quick and easy. It definitely wasn\u0026rsquo;t quick.\n The first ideas: AppleScript OmniFocus supports AppleScript. The theory was to have a script read tasks from the note, feed them to OmniFocus, and be done.\nIt didn’t go well.\nAppleScript threw up errors like:\n “Expected end of line but found plural class name.”\n Keyboard Maestro tried to help, but AppleScript didn’t behave the same when triggered from automation tools. Even when it ran, nothing actually appeared in the Inbox. After several dead ends, I concluded AppleScript might be powerful — but it’s also brittle, opaque, and slow to debug.\n The URL scheme breakthrough That led me to OmniFocus’s x-callback-url API. This allows new tasks to be created via a simple URL such as:\nomnifocus://x-callback-url/add?name=Test\u0026amp;note=Hello\u0026amp;autosave=true The autosave=true parameter was the key. It bypasses Quick Entry completely and saves the task directly into the Inbox.\nThat was exactly what I wanted: a silent, background handoff.\n Enter LaunchBar… and exit again My first working prototype ran from LaunchBar.\nI created an action that triggered a shell script, which in turn parsed the current Obsidian file and sent the tasks via the OmniFocus URL scheme.\nAt first, it looked promising. LaunchBar picked up the script, presented it as an action, and I could trigger it with a simple keyword. But then the gremlins arrived:\n LaunchBar kept throwing “The script does not implement a handler named 'run'”. Some actions failed silently — no errors, but no results. It appeared LaunchBar was spawning subshells that didn’t execute AppleScript context properly, so the automation chain would just vanish. After hours of troubleshooting, I realised the reliability wasn’t there. The script itself worked — but LaunchBar wasn’t the right launcher.\n Keyboard Maestro saves the day I rebuilt the automation inside Keyboard Maestro, which handles timing, focus changes, and system permissions much more predictably.\nThe macro:\n Copies the current Obsidian note URI. Runs a Bash script that parses the note. Sends tasks straight to OmniFocus using the URL scheme. Everything was almost perfect — except nothing happened. The logs said “No open tasks found.”\nAfter several tests, I discovered the real culprit: macOS’s ancient Bash 3.2, which lacks mapfile. My whole parser depended on that command, so the script never captured anything.\n The Bash 3.2 workaround The fix was to make it Bash-3.2-safe. The parsing logic was recreated in Perl, which handles UTF-8 and regex. Instead of mapfile, it outputs each task line to a temporary file and loops through them safely.\n/usr/bin/perl -ne \u0026#39;if (/^\\s*[-*]\\s*\\[\\s\\]\\s+(.+?)\\s*$/){print \u0026#34;$1\\n\u0026#34;}\u0026#39; \u0026#34;$FOUND\u0026#34; \u0026gt; \u0026#34;$TITLES_FILE\u0026#34; Each task line is then URL-encoded and sent directly to OmniFocus:\nopen \u0026#34;omnifocus://x-callback-url/add?name=${NAME}\u0026amp;note=${NOTE}\u0026amp;tags=Obsidian\u0026amp;autosave=true\u0026#34; No Quick Entry panel, no intermediate prompts — direct to the Inbox.\n The Alfred solution The final piece was Alfred. After LaunchBar’s unreliability, I moved the trigger there. Alfred handled it flawlessly.\nNow I just type cap in Alfred (for , and it fires the Keyboard Maestro macro that runs the script. Within a second, all unchecked tasks from my current Obsidian note appear in OmniFocus, tagged “Obsidian” with a backlink to the note.\nNo friction, no crashes, and no mysterious “handler” errors. The feeling of done When the first test task appeared silently in my OmniFocus Inbox, I felt great satisfaction and relief. After all the false starts — AppleScript’s syntax chaos, Bash’s 2007 limitations, and LaunchBar’s quiet failures — it finally worked.\nThat single, silent task represented a perfect workflow: low friction, invisible automation, total reliability.\n Lessons learned AppleScript is fragile. It works great until it doesn’t — and then it really doesn’t. macOS Bash is ancient. Write scripts that avoid mapfile or other modern features. LaunchBar isn’t built for complex handoffs. Great launcher, but not for multi-step automations. Keyboard Maestro is the control centre. It bridges everything cleanly. Alfred is the perfect trigger. Fast, predictable, and rock-solid. The final system Alfred keyword: cap Keyboard Maestro macro: orchestrates the automation Bash 3.2-safe script: parses unchecked Markdown tasks Perl for encoding: ensures UTF-8 and emoji safety OmniFocus URL scheme: sends tasks straight to the Inbox (tagged “Obsidian”) It’s simple, fast, and utterly reliable — everything good automation should be.\n When people talk about “seamless capture” in GTD, this is what they mean. The tools fade away, leaving nothing but flow. Now, if only I could have this work on Windows\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-28 09:30:15 +0800", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Oct 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/28/automating-the-bridge-between-obsidian.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F28%2Fautomating-the-bridge-between-obsidian.html" }, { "id": 58, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 26. Puzzling\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-26 18:07:39 +0800", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Oct 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/26/inktober-day-puzzling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F26%2Finktober-day-puzzling.html" }, { "id": 59, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 25. Inferno\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-26 10:01:56 +0800", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Oct 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/26/inktober-day-inferno.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F26%2Finktober-day-inferno.html" }, { "id": 60, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 24. Rowdy\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-25 09:49:27 +0800", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Oct 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/25/inktober-day-rowdy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F25%2Finktober-day-rowdy.html" }, { "id": 61, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 23. Firefly\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-24 08:18:38 +0800", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Oct 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/24/inktober-day-firefly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F24%2Finktober-day-firefly.html" }, { "id": 62, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 22. Button\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-22 20:19:14 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Oct 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/22/inktober-day-button.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F22%2Finktober-day-button.html" }, { "id": 63, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 21. Blast\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-21 21:37:48 +0800", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Oct 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/21/inktober-day-blast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F21%2Finktober-day-blast.html" }, { "id": 64, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 20. Rivals\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-20 22:29:41 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Oct 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/20/inktober-day-rivals.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F20%2Finktober-day-rivals.html" }, { "id": 65, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 19. Arctic\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-19 18:13:13 +0800", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Oct 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/19/inktober-day-arctic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F19%2Finktober-day-arctic.html" }, { "id": 66, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 18. Deal\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-18 12:02:35 +0800", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Oct 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/18/inktober-day-deal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F18%2Finktober-day-deal.html" }, { "id": 67, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 17. Ornate\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-17 23:03:52 +0800", "date": "11:03 p.m. on Oct 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/17/inktober-day-ornate.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F17%2Finktober-day-ornate.html" }, { "id": 68, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 16. Blunder\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-16 19:27:46 +0800", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Oct 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/16/inktober-day-blunder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F16%2Finktober-day-blunder.html" }, { "id": 69, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 15. Ragged\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-15 20:48:17 +0800", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Oct 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/15/inktober-day-ragged.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F15%2Finktober-day-ragged.html" }, { "id": 70, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 14. Trunk\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-14 18:37:18 +0800", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Oct 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/14/inktober-day-trunk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F14%2Finktober-day-trunk.html" }, { "id": 71, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 13. Drink\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-13 18:50:48 +0800", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Oct 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/13/inktober-day-drink.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F13%2Finktober-day-drink.html" }, { "id": 72, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 12. Shredded\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-12 19:08:29 +0800", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Oct 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/12/inktober-day-shredded.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F12%2Finktober-day-shredded.html" }, { "id": 73, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday I rode my bike to work in the morning, then rode it to a pub in another suburb at the end of the day to meet friends and watch basketball, before riding my bike home in the dark. I love the bike as a viable alternative to vehicular traffic. 🚲 🍺\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-11 11:27:31 +0800", "date": "11:27 p.m. on Oct 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/11/yesterday-i-rode-my-bike.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Fyesterday-i-rode-my-bike.html" }, { "id": 74, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 11. Sting\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-11 11:24:11 +0800", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Oct 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/11/inktober-day-sting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Finktober-day-sting.html" }, { "id": 75, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 10. Sweep\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-11 11:13:37 +0800", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Oct 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/11/inktober-day-sweep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Finktober-day-sweep.html" }, { "id": 76, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 9. Heavy\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-09 19:13:46 +0800", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Oct 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/09/inktober-day-heavy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F09%2Finktober-day-heavy.html" }, { "id": 77, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 8. Reckless\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-08 19:18:21 +0800", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Oct 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/08/inktober-day-reckless.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F08%2Finktober-day-reckless.html" }, { "id": 78, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 7. Starfish\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-07 12:47:56 +0800", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Oct 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/07/inktober-day-starfish.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F07%2Finktober-day-starfish.html" }, { "id": 79, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 6. Pierce\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-06 17:38:57 +0800", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Oct 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/06/inktober-day-pierce.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F06%2Finktober-day-pierce.html" }, { "id": 80, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 5. John Deer(e)\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-05 15:39:28 +0800", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Oct 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/05/inktober-day-john-deere.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F05%2Finktober-day-john-deere.html" }, { "id": 81, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 4. Murky\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-04 14:55:58 +0800", "date": "2:55 p.m. on Oct 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/04/inktober-day-murky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F04%2Finktober-day-murky.html" }, { "id": 82, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚This book honestly took me about a year to read. I heard great things about it, but quite clearly, I found it a struggle. The completionist in me won, but at what cost?\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-03 22:01:58 +0800", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Oct 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/03/finished-reading-tomorrow-and-tomorrow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F03%2Ffinished-reading-tomorrow-and-tomorrow.html" }, { "id": 83, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 3. Crown\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-03 15:46:47 +0800", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Oct 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/03/inktober-day-crown.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F03%2Finktober-day-crown.html" }, { "id": 84, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 2. Weave\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-02 18:59:23 +0800", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Oct 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/02/inktober-day-weave.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F02%2Finktober-day-weave.html" }, { "id": 85, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hemispheric Views episode 147: Positives and Benefits!\nIt\u0026rsquo;s tax season! Well, for some of us. We do talk a little about Liquid Glass\u0026ndash;sorry. Is Jason making a move for control of WA? Always respect the hard out.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-02 16:27:58 +0800", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Oct 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/02/hemispheric-views-episode-positives-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F02%2Fhemispheric-views-episode-positives-and.html" }, { "id": 86, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The hoop might have been slightly off regulation, but I’m 48! Give me a break!\n\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-02 12:30:40 +0800", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Oct 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/02/the-hoop-might-have-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F02%2Fthe-hoop-might-have-been.html" }, { "id": 87, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober 2025 Day 1. Mustache\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-01 19:18:26 +0800", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Oct 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/10/01/inktober-day-mustache.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F10%2F01%2Finktober-day-mustache.html" }, { "id": 88, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve had to enable Reduce Transparency on iPadOS 26. It’s nice to have legible dialogue boxes once more. Who at Apple thought Liquid Glass was a good idea?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-27 17:47:11 +0800", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Sep 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/27/ive-had-to-enable-reduce.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F27%2Five-had-to-enable-reduce.html" }, { "id": 89, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my mind’s eye I see 1945 as war era, filled with greys and browns. 20 years later in 1965 it was psychedelia and free love. 2025 is what we are now, but 2005 seems pretty much the same, but without smart phones. Is it me, or is it the world not changing as much?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-26 23:33:49 +0800", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Sep 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/26/in-my-minds-eye-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F26%2Fin-my-minds-eye-i.html" }, { "id": 90, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Don’t take health advice from Trump, and don’t bother to engage with Kennedy’s mad takes on autism. This US administration truly is the dumbest.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-23 15:01:41 +0800", "date": "3:01 p.m. on Sep 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/23/dont-take-health-advice-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F23%2Fdont-take-health-advice-from.html" }, { "id": 91, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The NYTimes is story after story of US government dysfunction, dystopianism, and fascism. In the words of David Byrne, ”I ask myself, how did we get here?” and more importantly, what is the exit plan?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-21 09:27:22 +0800", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Sep 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/21/the-nytimes-is-story-after.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F21%2Fthe-nytimes-is-story-after.html" }, { "id": 92, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have no desire to update any of my OS’s. Apple, you’ve killed my enthusiasm. I used to pay actual money for your upgrades on a silver disc. And now look at me.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-16 22:27:29 +0800", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Sep 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/16/i-have-no-desire-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F16%2Fi-have-no-desire-to.html" }, { "id": 93, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 26 icons look horrific on iOS 18.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-13 22:09:42 +0800", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Sep 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/13/ios-icons-look-horrific-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F13%2Fios-icons-look-horrific-on.html" }, { "id": 94, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now the USA is not requiring their EPA to collect emissions data. Meanwhile, Trump is saying that domestic violence shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be included in crime data. What a country. 💀🇺🇸\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-13 15:08:08 +0800", "date": "3:08 p.m. on Sep 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/13/now-the-usa-is-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F13%2Fnow-the-usa-is-not.html" }, { "id": 95, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does the US put flags at half mast for the rest of the week for mass school shootings, or just for right-wing friends of the President?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-11 11:55:25 +0800", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Sep 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/11/does-the-us-put-flags.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F11%2Fdoes-the-us-put-flags.html" }, { "id": 96, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My iPhone 15 Pro will easily go another year, despite the battery not being what it was. I somewhat want a larger phone, but the iPhone 17 Pro is hideous - both in terms of price and looks. That colour. 🤮 At this stage, I\u0026rsquo;m more interested in Android devices.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-10 08:24:52 +0800", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Sep 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/10/my-iphone-pro-will-easily.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F10%2Fmy-iphone-pro-will-easily.html" }, { "id": 97, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If OmniFocus were on Linux (or even Windows/Android), I think I’d switch platforms at this point.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-08 23:25:50 +0800", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Sep 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/08/if-omnifocus-were-on-linux.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F08%2Fif-omnifocus-were-on-linux.html" }, { "id": 98, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-09-07 19:54:35 +0800", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Sep 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/07/195435.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F07%2F195435.html" }, { "id": 99, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-09-05 21:34:23 +0800", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Sep 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/09/05/213423.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F09%2F05%2F213423.html" }, { "id": 100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tonight I’ve reached the end of The Shield. Seven seasons! Great show and I wish I knew what Vic Mackie got up to next… 📺\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-24 21:27:31 +0800", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Aug 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/08/24/tonight-ive-reached-the-end.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F08%2F24%2Ftonight-ive-reached-the-end.html" }, { "id": 101, "type": "post", "title": "Omni Newsletter Summer 2025", "text": "Omni Newsletter Summer 2025 - The Omni Group Newsletter:\nHow Andrew Canion Uses OmniFocus — The exceptionally entertaining Andrew Canion, who oversees 16 (hello!) remote centers in Western Australia while also being a podcaster and basketball commentator, talks about “Mastering projects without stress” using Focus, automation, review cycles and other keen insights. Very cool to receive the latest Omni Newsletter and find myself featured, and be described as \u0026ldquo;exceptionally entertaining\u0026rdquo;!\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-08 20:04:27 +0800", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Aug 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/08/08/omni-newsletter-summer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F08%2F08%2Fomni-newsletter-summer.html" }, { "id": 102, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Winter eucalyptus.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-07 23:15:56 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Aug 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/08/07/winter-eucalyptus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F08%2F07%2Fwinter-eucalyptus.html" }, { "id": 103, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My exciting Sunday task: reviewing 1Password, updating passwords, deleting accounts, and adding MFA and Passkeys. I know how to party.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-27 14:00:12 +0800", "date": "2:00 p.m. on Jul 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/27/my-exciting-sunday-task-reviewing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F27%2Fmy-exciting-sunday-task-reviewing.html" }, { "id": 104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was a while ago now, but I’m still very proud of being a guest on Episode 155 of The Omni Show, talking about my love of OmniFocus from @omni.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-26 22:32:14 +0800", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Jul 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/26/it-was-a-while-ago.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F26%2Fit-was-a-while-ago.html" }, { "id": 105, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The random link on my blog is the best. My own little time machine.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-26 15:51:02 +0800", "date": "3:51 p.m. on Jul 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/26/the-random-link-on-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F26%2Fthe-random-link-on-my.html" }, { "id": 106, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-07-23 22:06:35 +0800", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Jul 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/23/220635.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F23%2F220635.html" }, { "id": 107, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 With YNAB leaning into a … | Canion dot Blog\n With YNAB leaning into a new branding of Yet Another Price Increase or YAPI™, I’m trialing Actual Budget running on PikaPods. Early in my testing, but this could be good enough.\n A little over a year later, and the Actual Budget trial must be deemed a success. I love the software and hardly miss YNAB (except for the mobile app, which is well advanced compared with Actual).\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-22 22:52:14 +0800", "date": "10:52 p.m. on Jul 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/22/with-ynab-leaning-into-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F22%2Fwith-ynab-leaning-into-a.html" }, { "id": 108, "type": "post", "title": "How ChatGPT interprets my blog", "text": "I supplied ChatGPT with the following prompt:\n Can you review the articles on canion.blog and tell me what the key themes emerging are?\n It provided a response that I\u0026rsquo;ve included in its entirely below. It does indeed, offer an effective summary of the type of person I am and the things I write about. Why did it surface my review of Nightbitch, of all things, though? 🤣\n1. Recurring Personal Monthly (and Annual) Reviews Andrew regularly posts Monthly Reviews—detailing what went well at home, at work, personal highlights, media consumption, and passion projects. These posts often extend into annual retrospectives, reflecting on health, work, family, hobbies, and personal growth. 2. Deep Engagement with Tools \u0026amp; Productivity Systems Frequent reviews of productivity software (e.g., NotePlan, Agenda, The Archive, MOS for macOS) spotlight his interest in knowledge management, note-taking, and tool workflows. Posts include long-form analyses, pros/cons, integrations, and usage patterns—showing a strong focus on increasing work and life efficiency. 3. Reflections on Personal Life \u0026amp; Family The monthly and yearly summaries often track family moments (swimming, time off, events) and personal routines (cooking, deck maintenance). He openly discusses health challenges (e.g., hip dysplasia, gym commitment) and managing a child’s autism care. 4. Media Consumption \u0026amp; Reviews Regularly logs books, podcasts, movies, and TV shows—with starred reviews and reading lists visible in posts like “Bookshelf”. Often shares short-form thoughts and ratings on media, e.g., “Nightbitch, 2024 – ★★½” or series binge‑watches. 5. Nostalgia \u0026amp; Personal History Posts like “Once a Nerd…” dive into his childhood interests—old computers, financial ledgers—illustrating how past passions have shaped his present. Annual reflection posts frequently explore nostalgic themes, discussing shifts in life priorities and technology. 6. Indie Web Ethos \u0026amp; Platform Preferences A strong preference for the “open web”—via RSS, micropublishing—avoiding mainstream social platforms like Twitter and Facebook. He values control, privacy, and thoughtful connection over algorithm‑driven platforms. 7. Local Involvement \u0026amp; Regional Identity Posts reflect his life in Perth, Australia—mentioning local events (e.g., Perth Observatory), climate (heatwaves), and professional roles (youth centre manager, NBL commentator). 📋 Summary Table Theme Description Monthly/Annual Reviews Structured reflections on personal and family life Productivity Tools Deep reviews and workflows involving apps and systems Family \u0026amp; Health Open sharing about family routines and health Media \u0026amp; Reviews Personal ratings and media consumption logs Nostalgia \u0026amp; History Connecting childhood interests to current identity Indie Web Philosophy Emphasis on open platforms and thoughtful online presence Local Perth Focus Posts tied to local events, weather, and community roles 🎯 Overall Impression canion.blog is a personal, reflective space where Andrew weaves together:\n Structured retrospectives, Thoughtful tool-based productivity reviews, Media consumption logs, Deep ties to local culture, And a consistent preference for open, independent web presence. The tone is thoughtful, measured, and growth-oriented—balancing family life, mental frameworks, and technological exploration.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-22 13:40:28 +0800", "date": "1:40 p.m. on Jul 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/22/how-chatgpt-interprets-my-blog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F22%2Fhow-chatgpt-interprets-my-blog.html" }, { "id": 109, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Completed my personal Annual Financial Report for the 2024-25 year. I produce this document each year using OmniOutliner as the document editor. This year data was sourced from Actual Budget as a result of my successful transition away from YNAB.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-21 09:14:06 +0800", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Jul 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/21/completed-my-personal-annual-financial.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F21%2Fcompleted-my-personal-annual-financial.html" }, { "id": 110, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finished watching Invincible tonight. What a great show. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-19 23:38:42 +0800", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Jul 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/19/i-finished-watching-invincible-tonight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F19%2Fi-finished-watching-invincible-tonight.html" }, { "id": 111, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m so sick of Trump. He’s a buffoon ruining the USA. I honestly don’t understand how he has achieved a grip on so many. It’s like an Idiocracy version of the Steve Jobs reality distortion field.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-18 23:43:43 +0800", "date": "11:43 p.m. on Jul 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/18/im-so-sick-of-trump.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F18%2Fim-so-sick-of-trump.html" }, { "id": 112, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A ride with no destination in mind.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-17 14:44:27 +0800", "date": "2:44 p.m. on Jul 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/17/a-ride-with-no-destination.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F17%2Fa-ride-with-no-destination.html" }, { "id": 113, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Practice of Project Management by Enzo Frigenti 📚Because who doesn’t read about project management for fun?\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-17 14:16:48 +0800", "date": "2:16 p.m. on Jul 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/17/currently-reading-practice-of-project.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F17%2Fcurrently-reading-practice-of-project.html" }, { "id": 114, "type": "post", "title": "Crucial Track for July 15, 2025", "text": "\"Change In Mood\" by Kids In the Kitchen\nListen on Apple Music\nYour browser does not support the audio element.\nI remember being a kid and this song would be played as a filler on ABC TV in the mornings, but the vision would be of lots of different trains. I’ve searched but can’t find that clip. Even this song took my mind a while to dredge up, and I don’t actually know how I pulled the artist name out of nowhere. My brain is weird.\nView Andrew Canion's Crucial Tracks profile\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-16 07:43:03 +0800", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Jul 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/16/crucial-track-for-july.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F16%2Fcrucial-track-for-july.html" }, { "id": 115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks friendly and efficient Perth Apple Store Genius who fixed my MacBook Pro which had suffered a screen misalignment from the base. No charge service was welcomed, like Apple of old. 🍎\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-15 19:32:49 +0800", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Jul 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/15/thanks-friendly-and-efficient-perth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F15%2Fthanks-friendly-and-efficient-perth.html" }, { "id": 116, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m streaming music from my ancient Plex music library. Talk about throwback music! Most of it was populated more than 20 years ago. 🎶\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-15 14:48:45 +0800", "date": "2:48 p.m. on Jul 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/15/im-streaming-music-from-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F15%2Fim-streaming-music-from-my.html" }, { "id": 117, "type": "post", "title": "Crucial Track for July 14, 2025", "text": "\"Sun in an Empty Room\" by The Weakerthans\nListen on Apple Music\nYour browser does not support the audio element.\nWhat I first heard as a theme song for a podcast (Heavyweight) has morphed into a song I love to hear regularly. The tune is great and the lyrics capture my own early memories of moving house.\nView Andrew Canion's Crucial Tracks profile\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-14 19:01:19 +0800", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Jul 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/14/crucial-track-for-july.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F14%2Fcrucial-track-for-july.html" }, { "id": 118, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Croque Monsieur and an almond flat white.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-13 13:59:17 +0800", "date": "1:59 p.m. on Jul 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/13/croque-monsieur-and-an-almond.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F13%2Fcroque-monsieur-and-an-almond.html" }, { "id": 119, "type": "post", "title": "Thanks PCYC!", "text": "Today my employment with Police \u0026amp; Community Youth Centres comes to a close. I\u0026rsquo;ve got an opportunity to build on my career with a new employer, applying much of what I\u0026rsquo;ve learned over the past two years.\nI am thankful and appreciative of the team at PCYC. I\u0026rsquo;m proud to have been a part of the organisation\u0026rsquo;s story. Working in the \u0026ldquo;for purpose\u0026rdquo; sector is rewarding and enjoyable and I\u0026rsquo;m happy to be able to continue working in this industry.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-11 16:35:37 +0800", "date": "4:35 p.m. on Jul 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/11/thanks-pcyc.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F11%2Fthanks-pcyc.html" }, { "id": 120, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I learnt that Australia imposes a tariff on imported handkerchiefs. This is one of many “nuisance tariffs” our Productivity Commission recommends be abolished. Seems reasonable to me.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-08 11:48:06 +0800", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Jul 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/07/08/today-i-learnt-that-australia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F07%2F08%2Ftoday-i-learnt-that-australia.html" }, { "id": 121, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-06-23 23:07:07 +0800", "date": "11:07 p.m. on Jun 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/23/230707.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F23%2F230707.html" }, { "id": 122, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve re-embraced Day One in a significant way. I’ve never actually stopped using it, but at the moment I’m using the heck out of it. It has to be in my pantheon of great apps, alongside OmniFocus at this point. I’ve got 2,864 entries dating back to November 2011. That’s 14 years of app usage!\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-23 23:01:22 +0800", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Jun 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/23/ive-reembraced-day-one-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F23%2Five-reembraced-day-one-in.html" }, { "id": 123, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal 📚 A fascinating look at how to best structure modern workforces with engaging battlefield—and other—examples. I would have liked a bit more detail on how to actually implement these ideas, though.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-23 15:40:14 +0800", "date": "3:40 p.m. on Jun 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/23/finished-reading-team-of-teams.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F23%2Ffinished-reading-team-of-teams.html" }, { "id": 124, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trump has determined the US to enter a war without Congressional approval. Irrespective of the decision itself, it\u0026rsquo;s another rule not followed, another step closer to dictatorship.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-22 11:33:43 +0800", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Jun 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/22/trump-has-determined-the-us.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F22%2Ftrump-has-determined-the-us.html" }, { "id": 125, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " ", "dateiso": "2025-06-21 22:50:24 +0800", "date": "10:50 p.m. on Jun 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/21/225024.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F21%2F225024.html" }, { "id": 126, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-06-14 20:44:12 +0800", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Jun 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/14/204412.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2F204412.html" }, { "id": 127, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-06-09 21:00:24 +0800", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Jun 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/09/205859.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F09%2F205859.html" }, { "id": 128, "type": "post", "title": "Gittins on Productivity", "text": "In my semi-regular series of posts in appreciation of Ross Gittins' role in reporting Australian economics, here is my latest.\nThis article by Gittins, If bulldusting about productivity was productive, we\u0026rsquo;d all be rich provides insight into the recent Fair Work Commission ruling to raise award rates by 3.5%. Award workers are typically some of the lowest paid workers in our economy, and industry groups are \u0026lsquo;concerned\u0026rsquo; that this is a whole 1.1% above inflation. Oh no! Clutch your pearls!\n Whereas keeping the lid on wages may seem profit-increasing for the individual firm, when all of them do it at the same time, it’s profit-reducing. Why? Because the economy is circular. Because wages are by far the greatest source of household income. So the more successful employers are in holding down their wage costs, the less their customers have to spend on whatever businesses are selling. If economic growth is weak – as it is – the first place to look for a reason is the strength of wages growth.\n Money we earn is money we spend. More so for lower income earners, because a greater proportion of their income is spent, rather than saved, by virtue of the scale of fixed costs relative to their income levels. So let the people have some more money so that they can spend it.\n the commission points out a little-recognised inaccuracy in the conventional way of measuring real wages. It says that, if you take into account that prices rise continuously but wages rise only once a year, award wage workers’ overall loss of earnings since July 2021 has been 14.4 per cent.\n 14.4%! So all those people who feel like the economy is more difficult now, that everything costs more, and there is little if nothing left over by the time the next payday rolls around\u0026hellip; you are absolutely right.\n What the lobbyist witch doctors have been doing is concealing the truth that the best explanation for our weak productivity performance is that employers have been seeking to increase their profits by holding down wage costs, rather than by investing in labour-saving technology.\n This was a designed strategy by the previous Federal Liberal government and it\u0026rsquo;s in industry\u0026rsquo;s individualised (but not collective) self-interest to maintain this approach as long as they can. And they are trying to do exactly that.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-09 11:17:51 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Jun 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/09/gittins-on-productivity.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F09%2Fgittins-on-productivity.html" }, { "id": 129, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After using Vivaldi for some months, I\u0026rsquo;m back to Firefox as my main browser.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-07 13:50:47 +0800", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Jun 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/07/after-using-vivaldi-for-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F07%2Fafter-using-vivaldi-for-some.html" }, { "id": 130, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-06-07 13:29:06 +0800", "date": "1:29 p.m. on Jun 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/07/132906.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F07%2F132906.html" }, { "id": 131, "type": "post", "title": "Crucial Track for June 7, 2025", "text": "\"Fantasy '82\" by Azymuth\nListen on Apple Music\nYour browser does not support the audio element.\nNew album drop from Azymuth.\nView Andrew Canion's Crucial Tracks profile\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-07 13:18:12 +0800", "date": "1:18 p.m. on Jun 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/07/crucial-track-for-june.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F07%2Fcrucial-track-for-june.html" }, { "id": 132, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-06-05 22:06:58 +0800", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Jun 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/05/220658.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F05%2F220658.html" }, { "id": 133, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 17:40:06 +0800", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/02/174006.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2F174006.html" }, { "id": 134, "type": "post", "title": "Get out in the world", "text": " “Often, the achievement of a grand life goal is dependent upon a serendipitous discovery—of the sort that cannot be unearthed while sitting in front of the television set. This is why consistent daily action is so essential. Because it is only by walking the path that new paths will emerge. If you remain stagnant and cease your forward movement down life’s winding road, then the adventures that lie beyond the next bend will never be revealed to you.” 📚\n — Ikigai \u0026amp; Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, \u0026amp; thrive) by Anthony Raymond\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 17:26:16 +0800", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/02/often-the-achievement-of-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2Foften-the-achievement-of-a.html" }, { "id": 135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I did a 20km meandering cycle this morning and got home just before the rain arrived.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 13:29:07 +0800", "date": "1:29 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/02/i-did-a-km-meandering.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2Fi-did-a-km-meandering.html" }, { "id": 136, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-06-01 14:10:08 +0800", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Jun 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/06/01/141008.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F06%2F01%2F141008.html" }, { "id": 137, "type": "post", "title": "Komoot Enshittification Incoming", "text": "Jan-Lukas Else brought to my attention that Komoot, a cycling (and other sports) app I had been trialling recently after seeing good reviews, has been acquired and many staff have been laid off.\nI was led to this article, Komoot Acquired: History Says This Won\u0026rsquo;t End Well\n today, March 20th, the company has announced that it’s been acquired by Bending Spoons, which bills itself as a technology company (rather than a private equity or other investment apparatus). Though, in reality, history shows otherwise.\n As soon as I saw Bending Spoons mentioned, I knew I was out. They have a history of buying and hollowing out companies; most notably Evernote.\nKomoot is now deleted. Plenty of other app options out there. Sad though that such a good team was shown the door after doing all the hard work building a good app.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-31 13:58:04 +0800", "date": "1:58 p.m. on May 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/31/komoot-enshittification-incoming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F31%2Fkomoot-enshittification-incoming.html" }, { "id": 138, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve finished editing Episode 138 of Hemispheric Views podcast. That’s a lot of episodes!\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-28 19:09:22 +0800", "date": "7:09 p.m. on May 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/28/ive-finished-editing-episode-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F28%2Five-finished-editing-episode-of.html" }, { "id": 139, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The TRMNL device I ordered several months ago has arrived. Jury remains out on its long-term usefulness but for the moment I\u0026rsquo;m having fun playing with it.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-26 19:13:20 +0800", "date": "7:13 p.m. on May 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/26/the-trmnl-device-i-ordered.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F26%2Fthe-trmnl-device-i-ordered.html" }, { "id": 140, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve never been a Pocket user, but did use Instapaper for years. Micro.blog offers an excellent Read it Later option. An optional AI layer simply provides a synopsis - nothing more. Plus you can highlight text and commence a blog post from the save quite easily.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-24 09:55:54 +0800", "date": "9:55 p.m. on May 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/24/ive-never-been-a-pocket.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F24%2Five-never-been-a-pocket.html" }, { "id": 141, "type": "post", "title": "Black Swan on the Swan", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-05-23 22:31:51 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on May 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/23/black-swan-on-the-swan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F23%2Fblack-swan-on-the-swan.html" }, { "id": 142, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Don’t tell USA but I got my annual flu vaccination the other day. 💉\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-23 17:33:48 +0800", "date": "5:33 p.m. on May 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/23/dont-tell-usa-but-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F23%2Fdont-tell-usa-but-i.html" }, { "id": 143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Juice by Tim Winton 📚A tale I could almost imagine to be true, but as with most Winton books, I get to the end and find myself saying, “huh?”\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-22 14:14:49 +0800", "date": "2:14 p.m. on May 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/22/finished-reading-juice-by-tim.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F22%2Ffinished-reading-juice-by-tim.html" }, { "id": 144, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Keep It in the Family by John Marrs 📚A gripping page-turning thriller.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-22 12:32:01 +0800", "date": "12:32 p.m. on May 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/22/finished-reading-keep-it-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F22%2Ffinished-reading-keep-it-in.html" }, { "id": 145, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While commentating the Perth Redbacks game against Warwick Senators, I caught a deflected ball from the commentary position, then managed to catch my MacBook Pro as it was about to tumble off the table. Reaction speed is still good! 🏀 🤲🏻 🎤\n\n ", "dateiso": "2025-05-21 14:28:32 +0800", "date": "2:28 p.m. on May 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/21/while-commentating-the-perth-redbacks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F21%2Fwhile-commentating-the-perth-redbacks.html" }, { "id": 146, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tonight while commentating Perth Redbacks v Warwick Senators I caught the deflected game ball in mid-flight, then held the ball in my left hand while catching my MacBook Pro with my right hand as it was falling off the table. Still have my reflexes! 🏀💻🥷🏻\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-17 21:11:55 +0800", "date": "9:11 p.m. on May 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/17/tonight-while-commentating-perth-redbacks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F17%2Ftonight-while-commentating-perth-redbacks.html" }, { "id": 147, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Time Surfing by Paul Loomans 📚I’ve adopted some of the advice but I can’t give up my beloved OmniFocus.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-17 08:46:47 +0800", "date": "8:46 p.m. on May 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/17/finished-reading-time-surfing-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F17%2Ffinished-reading-time-surfing-by.html" }, { "id": 148, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been taking my 9 year old son to the driving range. It’s wonderful. Incredible bonding time. As a bonus, I think I’ve finally resolved my slice! Practice makes… better. 🏌️‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-15 20:07:58 +0800", "date": "8:07 p.m. on May 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/15/ive-been-taking-my-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F15%2Five-been-taking-my-year.html" }, { "id": 149, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "45 kilometre e-bike ride today. Not bad! 🚲\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-11 16:35:27 +0800", "date": "4:35 p.m. on May 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/11/kilometre-ebike-ride-today-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F11%2Fkilometre-ebike-ride-today-not.html" }, { "id": 150, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bought Folder Preview, a macOS extension to Quick Look into folders. Where has this been all my life? 🤓\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-07 09:11:08 +0800", "date": "9:11 p.m. on May 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/07/bought-folder-preview-a-macos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F07%2Fbought-folder-preview-a-macos.html" }, { "id": 151, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-05-03 21:45:32 +0800", "date": "9:45 p.m. on May 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/03/214532.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F03%2F214532.html" }, { "id": 152, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well done Australia. You got it right. 🔴🗳️\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-03 21:16:27 +0800", "date": "9:16 p.m. on May 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/03/well-done-australia-you-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F03%2Fwell-done-australia-you-got.html" }, { "id": 153, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love watching election night TV!\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-03 18:21:49 +0800", "date": "6:21 p.m. on May 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/03/i-love-watching-election-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F03%2Fi-love-watching-election-night.html" }, { "id": 154, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Australia has our Federal election tomorrow. Thank goodness for compulsory voting, the preferential counting system, and an independent authority that balances electoral boundaries. We have a functioning democracy! 🗳️\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-02 09:08:43 +0800", "date": "9:08 p.m. on May 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/02/australia-has-our-federal-election.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F02%2Faustralia-has-our-federal-election.html" }, { "id": 155, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh my gosh we have published Episode 136 of Hemispheric Views podcast. Thank you Guy English!\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-01 15:36:02 +0800", "date": "3:36 p.m. on May 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/05/01/oh-my-gosh-we-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F05%2F01%2Foh-my-gosh-we-have.html" }, { "id": 156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Time Surfing by Paul Loomans 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-30 17:22:35 +0800", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Apr 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/30/currently-reading-time-surfing-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F30%2Fcurrently-reading-time-surfing-by.html" }, { "id": 157, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Year One by Nora Roberts 📚. First quarter of the book was interesting. Then it got silly, then just boring. Why is this author popular?\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-29 23:30:15 +0800", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Apr 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/29/finished-reading-year-one-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F29%2Ffinished-reading-year-one-by.html" }, { "id": 158, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m obsessed with watching The Shield which I’ve never seen before. It holds up really well for a show made over 20 years ago.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-29 22:56:01 +0800", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Apr 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/29/im-obsessed-with-watching-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F29%2Fim-obsessed-with-watching-the.html" }, { "id": 159, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought my upgrade to Curio 31. I’d been using version 22. It’s fun software and I hope I can find ways to use it more.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-26 09:13:46 +0800", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Apr 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/26/i-bought-my-upgrade-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F26%2Fi-bought-my-upgrade-to.html" }, { "id": 160, "type": "post", "title": "Crucial Track for April 25, 2025", "text": "\"Seen Better Days\" by Voyager\nListen on Apple Music\nYour browser does not support the audio element.\nVoyager have released a new song reflecting on Danny’s ongoing battle with cancer.\nView Andrew Canion's Crucial Tracks profile\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-25 12:27:16 +0800", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Apr 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/25/crucial-track-for-april.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F25%2Fcrucial-track-for-april.html" }, { "id": 161, "type": "post", "title": "Crucial Track for April 19, 2025", "text": "\"Arnold\" by Luke Million\nListen on Apple Music\nYour browser does not support the audio element.\nThis came up while I rode me bike today. It was hilarious and catchy.\nView Andrew Canion's Crucial Tracks profile\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-19 21:46:31 +0800", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Apr 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/19/crucial-track-for-april.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F19%2Fcrucial-track-for-april.html" }, { "id": 162, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Always nice to see a new Homestar Runner video, and this one has a catchy tune.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-18 13:19:16 +0800", "date": "1:19 p.m. on Apr 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/18/always-nice-to-see-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F18%2Falways-nice-to-see-a.html" }, { "id": 163, "type": "post", "title": "Crucial Track for April 18, 2025", "text": "\"1/1\" by Brian Eno\nListen on Apple Music\nYour browser does not support the audio element.\nAmbient music by the OG AirPlaying through the house.\nView Andrew Canion's Crucial Tracks profile\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-18 09:55:02 +0800", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Apr 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/18/095502.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F18%2F095502.html" }, { "id": 164, "type": "post", "title": "Crucial Track for April 17, 2025", "text": "\"Wavy (feat. The Soul Surfers)\" by Janko Nilovic\nListen on Apple Music\nYour browser does not support the audio element.\nI’ve been going through a jazz-inspired phase. Finding music styles that I’ve never listened to before.\nTrying to get off the beaten path.\nView Andrew Canion's Crucial Tracks profile\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-18 08:01:37 +0800", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Apr 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/18/crucial-track-for-april.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F18%2Fcrucial-track-for-april.html" }, { "id": 165, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve never been more thankful to not be a citizen of the United States of America than right now.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-17 22:32:07 +0800", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Apr 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/17/ive-never-been-more-thankful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F17%2Five-never-been-more-thankful.html" }, { "id": 166, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " ", "dateiso": "2025-04-13 21:52:30 +0800", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Apr 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/13/215230.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F13%2F215230.html" }, { "id": 167, "type": "post", "title": "Best in Show", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-04-13 21:19:33 +0800", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Apr 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/13/best-in-show.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F13%2Fbest-in-show.html" }, { "id": 168, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-04-13 14:54:44 +0800", "date": "2:54 p.m. on Apr 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/13/145444.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F13%2F145444.html" }, { "id": 169, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-04-13 11:36:35 +0800", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Apr 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/13/113635.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F13%2F113635.html" }, { "id": 170, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-04-12 15:41:43 +0800", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Apr 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/12/154143.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F12%2F154143.html" }, { "id": 171, "type": "post", "title": "Flow", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-04-11 21:51:26 +0800", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Apr 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/11/flow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F11%2Fflow.html" }, { "id": 172, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-04-11 17:58:30 +0800", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Apr 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/11/175830.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F11%2F175830.html" }, { "id": 173, "type": "post", "title": "Trump's Ego Drives Him to \"Win\"", "text": "This NYTimes article by Jamelle Bouie, The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing does a great job of surmising who Trump is: a mad President who has a compulsion to \u0026ldquo;win\u0026rdquo;, at least as far as he understands winning to mean.\nThis is a gift link, so you will be able to read the whole thing, but some excellent quotes include:\n For as much as the president\u0026rsquo;s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump\u0026rsquo;s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.\n The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance.\n This simple fact of the president\u0026rsquo;s psychology does more to explain his antipathy to international trade and enthusiasm for tariffs and other trade barriers than any theorizing about his intentions or overall vision. It certainly is not as if he has a considered view of the global economy. It is not even clear that Trump knows what a tariff is.\n Trump\u0026rsquo;s desire to dominate others is the driving psychological force of his administration.\n The sooner we are rid of this monstrous person%2C the better the entire world will be.\nBut it\u0026rsquo;s going to take a long time to reverse the damage; if it even can be. I just hope this isn\u0026rsquo;t the direction of new world orders.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-11 09:18:44 +0800", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Apr 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/11/trumps-ego-drives-him-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F11%2Ftrumps-ego-drives-him-to.html" }, { "id": 174, "type": "post", "title": "Toying with Tariffs", "text": "In a normal world I’d say there would be no way the US president would manipulate global markets for their own gain. But this is no normal world. This is greed and self-interest above all else.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-10 07:01:11 +0800", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Apr 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/10/toying-with-tariffs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F10%2Ftoying-with-tariffs.html" }, { "id": 175, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tapestry or Reeder? I can’t decide!\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-09 07:19:23 +0800", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Apr 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/09/tapestry-or-reeder-i-cant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F09%2Ftapestry-or-reeder-i-cant.html" }, { "id": 176, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-04-08 06:48:26 +0800", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Apr 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/08/064826.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F08%2F064826.html" }, { "id": 177, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been trialling the new Reeder app gain, and this time I like it. I think after trying Tapestry, I’m more on board with what it is trying to achieve. Traditional RSS is a hard habit to break though; I’ve been on board since Bloglines days (pre Google Reader).\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-07 22:29:40 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Apr 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/07/ive-been-trialling-the-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F07%2Five-been-trialling-the-new.html" }, { "id": 178, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "All these people suddenly showing interest in that boring “Stocks” app on iOS. It’s never had so much exposure.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-05 19:10:10 +0800", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Apr 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/05/all-these-people-suddenly-showing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F05%2Fall-these-people-suddenly-showing.html" }, { "id": 179, "type": "post", "title": "Dog Man", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-04-05 19:02:14 +0800", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Apr 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/05/dog-man.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F05%2Fdog-man.html" }, { "id": 180, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bought my DEVONthink 4 upgrade!\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-05 14:09:44 +0800", "date": "2:09 p.m. on Apr 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/05/bought-my-devonthink-upgrade.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F05%2Fbought-my-devonthink-upgrade.html" }, { "id": 181, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "ROSS GITTINS: Are you better off now? That\u0026rsquo;s Dutton\u0026rsquo;s trick question\n since it’s become such a central issue in this election, let’s dissect Dutton’s magic question. For a start, it’s completely self-centred. Focus on what’s happened to you and your family and forget about what’s happened to anyone else.\n I enjoy Gittins’ writing on Australian economics and politics. He breaks things down using straight-forward language.\nHis point here sums up right-wing politics. It’s selfish. Forget about everything else. Just make sure you get yours now at any cost.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-03 07:16:45 +0800", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Apr 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/04/03/ross-gittins-are-you-better.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F04%2F03%2Fross-gittins-are-you-better.html" }, { "id": 182, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-03-30 20:06:42 +0800", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Mar 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/30/200642.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F30%2F200642.html" }, { "id": 183, "type": "post", "title": "Guest Appearance: The Omni Show episode 155", "text": " My great thanks to host Andrew J. Mason and the folks at The Omni Group for having me as a guest on The Omni Show, episode 155.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve listened to this podcast forever, so to be on it myself with the opportunity to talk about my favourite and most used software of all time—OmniFocus—was so much fun.\nAll details of the episode are available on the episode page. The show is also available in your podcast player of choice, or watch on YouTube.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-25 10:18:18 +0800", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Mar 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/25/guest-appearance-the-omni-show.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F25%2Fguest-appearance-the-omni-show.html" }, { "id": 184, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2025-03-22 20:58:48 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Mar 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/22/205848.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F22%2F205848.html" }, { "id": 185, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " ", "dateiso": "2025-03-22 15:35:22 +0800", "date": "3:35 p.m. on Mar 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/22/153522.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F22%2F153522.html" }, { "id": 186, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My night cat. 😻\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-21 21:47:44 +0800", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Mar 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/21/my-night-cat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F21%2Fmy-night-cat.html" }, { "id": 187, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Q: What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do?\nA: Parenting a kid with autism.\n~fin~\n🧩\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-17 19:38:41 +0800", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Mar 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/17/q-whats-the-hardest-thing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F17%2Fq-whats-the-hardest-thing.html" }, { "id": 188, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve subscribed to Kagi as my default search engine. Been trialling it for a few months. I like it, and I want to get away from big tech wherever I can. Nice to avoid Google\u0026rsquo;s crappy results and ads.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-16 21:57:11 +0800", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Mar 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/16/ive-subscribed-to-kagi-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F16%2Five-subscribed-to-kagi-as.html" }, { "id": 189, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s fun to click the button that delivers a random post from my own blog. I have a considerable number of posts over many years and it’s fun to see what pops up and what memories each post triggers.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-15 22:27:55 +0800", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Mar 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/15/its-fun-to-click-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F15%2Fits-fun-to-click-the.html" }, { "id": 190, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg 📚A sensible, easy read about what makes big projects work. Focused mainly on capital investments but most of the lessons are applicable to soft projects as well, I think. Shame about the poorly-ageing Elon Musk cases tidy towards the end.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-15 13:46:09 +0800", "date": "1:46 p.m. on Mar 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/15/finished-reading-how-big-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F15%2Ffinished-reading-how-big-things.html" }, { "id": 191, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Year One by Nora Roberts 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-13 07:56:07 +0800", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Mar 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/13/currently-reading-year-one-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F13%2Fcurrently-reading-year-one-by.html" }, { "id": 192, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I went to an outdoor concert to see PJ Harvey recently. Here is a photo from the night. 📷\n ", "dateiso": "2025-03-11 21:07:50 +0800", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Mar 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/11/i-went-to-an-outdoor.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F11%2Fi-went-to-an-outdoor.html" }, { "id": 193, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve bought a subscription to Quick Reviews by @mattbirchler. I\u0026rsquo;m going to use it instead of a vanilla RSS integration with my blog. Support a member of the community and have reviews that are more attractive. Win, win!\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-09 21:39:21 +0800", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Mar 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/09/ive-bought-a-subscription-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F09%2Five-bought-a-subscription-to.html" }, { "id": 194, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Banksia 📷\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-09 12:40:42 +0800", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Mar 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/09/banksia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F09%2Fbanksia.html" }, { "id": 195, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg. I’m 20 pages in and loving it. Yes, I’m a nerd. 🤓 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-08 21:34:29 +0800", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Mar 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/08/currently-reading-how-big-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F08%2Fcurrently-reading-how-big-things.html" }, { "id": 196, "type": "post", "title": "USA is One with Russia", "text": "The United States of America has made the decision to side with Russia. It is time to accept that the USA can no longer be considered a good faith ally to Australia, Europe, NATO, etc. They\u0026rsquo;re ceasing support of Ukraine, suspending cyber-intelligence actions against Russia, and investigating how to unwind Russian sanctions. The USA is now part of the Russian regime. This goes well beyond people wearing red MAGA hats. This is globally catastrophic to the stability of a world order I have known for my entire life.\nTrump Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine After Oval Office Blowup\n The officials said the directive would be in effect until Mr. Trump determined that Ukraine had demonstrated a good-faith commitment to peace negotiations with Russia.\n Conveniently ignoring that it was Russia who invaded Ukraine and peace could be achieved by negotiating with Russia to withdraw their troops.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-04 16:33:54 +0800", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Mar 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/04/usa-is-one-with-russia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F04%2Fusa-is-one-with-russia.html" }, { "id": 197, "type": "post", "title": "Here, 2024 - ★★★½", "text": "The set camera requires strong acting. This film delivered although it took a while to find its feet.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-02 22:43:30 +0800", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Mar 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/02/here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F02%2Fhere.html" }, { "id": 198, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve donated to Ukraine via their official platform. I know it’s a drop in the ocean, but if we all donate a drop, perhaps we can make a difference. And fuck Trump and Vance. 🇺🇦\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-01 21:25:51 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Mar 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/03/01/ive-donated-to-ukraine-via.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F03%2F01%2Five-donated-to-ukraine-via.html" }, { "id": 199, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A colleague of mine took this photo without me even knowing it. I\u0026rsquo;m really happy with how it turned out! Business and basketball all in one shot. Highly representative.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-26 18:05:11 +0800", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Feb 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/26/a-colleague-of-mine-took.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F26%2Fa-colleague-of-mine-took.html" }, { "id": 200, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In one day of work I wrote professional correspondence, finalised a contract, played basketball with at-risk kids and a player from the Perth Lynx and Perth Redbacks, then spoke with two Federal politicians, including Australia\u0026rsquo;s Attorney-General. My job can be kind of unique.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-25 19:41:24 +0800", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Feb 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/25/in-one-day-of-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F25%2Fin-one-day-of-work.html" }, { "id": 201, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl by Sonia Henry 📚\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-23 22:13:08 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Feb 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/23/finished-reading-put-your-feet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F23%2Ffinished-reading-put-your-feet.html" }, { "id": 202, "type": "post", "title": "Favourite TV Shows by Decade", "text": "Lou Plummer blogged his favourite TV shows from each decade in which he has lived.\nI thought it was a fun idea, so here are mine.\n1970s The Brady Bunch\nI only lived three years in the 1970s but I sure watched a lot of this show in the 1980s. I wanted a house with a giant staircase and a housemaid. I still don\u0026rsquo;t understand the economics of how that family afforded to care for 6 kids. Mike must have been an incredibly well paid architect.\n1980s The A-Team \u0026amp; Knight Rider\nI can\u0026rsquo;t split these two. 80s TV was a boy\u0026rsquo;s dream. So much action. So much technology. So many shows that had entirely standalone episodes. Story arcs were not a thing. Both these shows had bad guys that could only ever shoot behind the hero\u0026rsquo;s feet.\n1990s Stargate SG-1\nThis TV show took a middling movie and made it fun for TV. Elements of it brought back memories of MacGyver. It was a juiced-up sci-fi show with militaristic scenes combined with Egyptology. I loved it.\n2000s The Wire\nThings get a little darker in my taste from the 2000s onwards. Everybody loves The Wire. Subtitles help because the slang can be hard to understand. To this day, I still think about the times that Omar be strollin'. This show highlighted how basically everybody is in a gang/tribe/collective, and criminality can appear in any of them. Everybody is really playing the same game, just in different clothes.\n2010s Breaking Bad\nWhat can be said about Breaking Bad, bitch? Incredible storytelling achieved by an incredible cast of actors. How a sunny State was made to be so dark and foreboding is very impressive.\n2020s Severance\nI have invested so much time thinking about this show, that even though we\u0026rsquo;re now only halfway through its second season, it has to win the 2020s for me. An honourable mention to Ted Lasso.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-23 09:48:25 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Feb 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/23/favourite-tv-shows-by-decade.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F23%2Ffavourite-tv-shows-by-decade.html" }, { "id": 203, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t understand the iPhone 16e\n But if there’s a device that best encapsulates the overall state of Apple today, it is, without doubt, this iPhone 16e.\n This phone is too expensive. It’s a Tim Cook fever dream of recycled parts for a market they presume exists.\nGive me a 13 mini SE any day over this confused mess.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-22 22:25:54 +0800", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Feb 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/22/i-dont-understand-the-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F22%2Fi-dont-understand-the-iphone.html" }, { "id": 204, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve given up trying to make my home Eero network useful with wifi backhaul. Tonight I’ve run Ethernet around. It looks ugly. I need proper drops installed. But my internet is now maximising its performance capacity.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-16 21:22:24 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Feb 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/16/ive-given-up-trying-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F16%2Five-given-up-trying-to.html" }, { "id": 205, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I used to buy Amiga Format every month. Loved this video retrospective of the magazine.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-16 09:32:50 +0800", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Feb 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/16/i-used-to-buy-amiga.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F16%2Fi-used-to-buy-amiga.html" }, { "id": 206, "type": "post", "title": "The Substance, 2024 - ★★★★", "text": "Appreciate who you are. You’re beautiful. You got you to where you are.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-15 20:35:59 +0800", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Feb 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/15/the-substance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F15%2Fthe-substance.html" }, { "id": 207, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Exciting to hear @hemisphericviews get a shoutout on the latest episode of Connected from Relay.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-13 21:38:25 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Feb 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/13/exciting-to-see-hemisphericviews-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F13%2Fexciting-to-see-hemisphericviews-get.html" }, { "id": 208, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying out the new Micro Social app from @gregmorris\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-13 16:22:17 +0800", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Feb 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/13/trying-out-the-new-micro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F13%2Ftrying-out-the-new-micro.html" }, { "id": 209, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I read this comic. Other than Archie, Garfield, Mad and The Far Side I’ve never read comics! I kind of enjoyed it. Now I need issue #2 to find out what happens. 😱\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-09 13:21:51 +0800", "date": "1:21 p.m. on Feb 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/09/i-read-this-comic-other.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F09%2Fi-read-this-comic-other.html" }, { "id": 210, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was thinking about the Amiga game Wings today. I loved that game. Loved it so much that I played it without an externally disk drive. If you know, you understand my level of commitment to the game. 🕹️\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-08 20:08:03 +0800", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Feb 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/08/i-was-thinking-about-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F08%2Fi-was-thinking-about-the.html" }, { "id": 211, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Invites seems incredibly middle-aged. It also seems like a desperate attempt to find a use case for AI. The dagginess of this app is a long way from the days of edgy iPod silhouette ads.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-05 20:03:45 +0800", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Feb 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/05/apple-invites-seems-incredibly-middleaged.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F05%2Fapple-invites-seems-incredibly-middleaged.html" }, { "id": 212, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Masters of the Air. A wonderful treatment of the US Air Force story of WWII. Those men would hardly believe what has become of their nation more recently. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-03 22:10:46 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Feb 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/03/finished-masters-of-the-air.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F03%2Ffinished-masters-of-the-air.html" }, { "id": 213, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Have installed a couple of Thermacells on the balcony. Let’s see how they do! Mozzies be gone. 🚫🦟\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-01 19:39:43 +0800", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Feb 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/01/have-installed-a-couple-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F01%2Fhave-installed-a-couple-of.html" }, { "id": 214, "type": "post", "title": "MOS for Smooth Mouse Scrolling on macOS", "text": "MOS brings macOS' smooth scrolling to any mouse:\nThe biggest (only?) issue with using a non-Apple mouse on macOS is losing that smooth scrolling, also known as kinetic scrolling. It might seem like a silly detail, but it’s such a nice feature that I really miss when it’s not there.\nA few years back, when I swapped out my MacBook’s trackpad for a cheap mouse, I found a solution in this quirky, free, open-source app called MOS.\nI\u0026rsquo;m a user of SteerMouse to provide full functionality to my Logitech MX Master mouse, but it doesn\u0026rsquo;t help with smooth scrolling. MOS does it! Game changer!\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-01 14:27:56 +0800", "date": "2:27 p.m. on Feb 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/02/01/mos-for-smooth-mouse-scrolling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F02%2F01%2Fmos-for-smooth-mouse-scrolling.html" }, { "id": 215, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Binge watched Behind Her Eyes. What a great show! 📺\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-31 23:37:07 +0800", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Jan 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/31/binge-watched-behind-her-eyes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F31%2Fbinge-watched-behind-her-eyes.html" }, { "id": 216, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This cold/flu whatever it is came out of nowhere. Sore throat yesterday, total blech this morning. Better not be COVID.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-28 07:43:39 +0800", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Jan 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/28/this-coldflu-whatever-it-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F28%2Fthis-coldflu-whatever-it-is.html" }, { "id": 217, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My mac mini server with Thunderbay drive array is back in a cupboard, as God intended servers to be located.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-27 21:47:57 +0800", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Jan 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/27/my-mac-mini-server-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F27%2Fmy-mac-mini-server-with.html" }, { "id": 218, "type": "post", "title": "My Indieweb Friends are Fighting and I Don't Like It", "text": "There has been a disturbance in the indie blog force this week.\nTypically, I stay out of online arguments. This is something I learned when I was a mere youngster toying around on BBSs and Usenet. Arguing didn\u0026rsquo;t amount to much. Even when you \u0026ldquo;win\u0026rdquo;, do you really? Trophies are yet to be presented.\nSo when this week\u0026rsquo;s ruckus broke out, my standard rules applied. Stay out of it. Don\u0026rsquo;t pile on.\nWriting this now is challenging, because I worry that it won\u0026rsquo;t help, it will create more confusion, and, selfishly, perhaps sticking my head above the parapet will lead to it being blasted off. Or even just caught in a ricochet.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not even certain I am fully understanding all aspects of the argument at hand. Yet more reason to stay quiet.\nSo why write something now? Why get involved? Because I have skin in the game. I\u0026rsquo;m a user of all three platforms/services in question: micro.blog, omg.lol and Tinylytics/Shoutouts. Beyond that, I have connections with all three of the owners. I have corresponded with Manton over many years, I have semi-regular chats with Adam, and I\u0026rsquo;ve had online chats with Vincent and he helped me with some coding challenges.\nSo all of this feels more personal than it typically might. I feel like a friend watching his other friends have a fight, and as the friend I don\u0026rsquo;t know whether I should let them work it out, or if I should step in and shout at everyone to \u0026ldquo;break it up!\u0026rdquo;. In a friendship circle, disagreements happen. Arguments can be cathartic and educational. Growth can come from finding middle ground and seeing different perspectives. We can improve our own selves by seeing the perspective of others.\n I have reached out to be both Adam and Manton privately, as a friend should. Now I\u0026rsquo;m writing this piece.\nI wasn\u0026rsquo;t going to post anything public.\nI wonder if this will be a mistake.\n Words are hard. What I\u0026rsquo;ve written in the paragraphs above isn\u0026rsquo;t perfect. I don\u0026rsquo;t think it\u0026rsquo;s expressing the nuance of what is actually in my head.\nLaid over the top of the challenges of the back and forth this week are cultural differences. I have an Australian perspective. This disagreement is between Americans. Australians are renowned for being \u0026ldquo;laid back\u0026rdquo;. Traditionally, we aim to find the middle ground and leave each to their own if that fails. That culture is being challenged in the internet age.\nI\u0026rsquo;m a 47 year old man that grew up in the 1980s where societal norms were different. I was raised in a religious environment. I was taught what was right and wrong according to the values of God as they were presented in that setting.\nI feel generationally split as I see a younger cohort grow up beneath me with completely different mindsets and societal norms. I live and grow and work hard to avoid becoming calcified and conservative. Background, culture, upbringing, and the ability to accept and consider new thinking all affects how we adapt to the reality of now. None of this is easy.\nAs I was growing up, a societal challenge was for gay and lesbian people to be accepted. With my upbringing noted earlier, that was a challenge for me. It took time. It was a journey of mine that required consideration, introspection and an assessment of values in my own life against those I was taught as a child.\nNow we are onto the next era, which is about progression of the broader LGBTQI+ community. I\u0026rsquo;m not an expert in the experiences of that collective. It\u0026rsquo;s not something that has directly affected my personal life, so in a sense, I\u0026rsquo;ve had the option to keep it all at arm\u0026rsquo;s length. However, I approach it in the same way I did with the LG era; by listening, thinking, and not judging.\nI imagine younger generations might also be open to their own journey of growth through this LGBTQI+ era, in the same way that I had my journey through the LG era. It may take them time, experience, and communication. And it may result in a few missteps and miscommunications along the way.\nUltimately, what I hope for is that we keep our lines of communication open, and take a compassionate view as people learn and grow.\n This post has turned into a bit of a random walk of thoughts. At this point I should probably end.\nI hope this somewhat confused post doesn\u0026rsquo;t lead to more anger, frustration, or cancellation.\nI hope we can find a path forward, even if that path is zigzagged.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-26 20:53:40 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Jan 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/26/my-indieweb-friends-are-fighting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F26%2Fmy-indieweb-friends-are-fighting.html" }, { "id": 219, "type": "post", "title": "Nightbitch, 2024 - ★★½", "text": "Strong start, faded in the third act.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-26 18:33:06 +0800", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Jan 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/26/nightbitch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F26%2Fnightbitch.html" }, { "id": 220, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You can continue to doomscroll the news reading US politics, or you can consider whether salad excites you. If you choose the latter, Hemispheric Views E129 is for you!\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-23 22:21:33 +0800", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Jan 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/23/you-can-continue-to-doomscroll.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F23%2Fyou-can-continue-to-doomscroll.html" }, { "id": 221, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pizza shop stools.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-22 22:53:28 +0800", "date": "10:53 p.m. on Jan 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/22/pizza-shop-stools.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F22%2Fpizza-shop-stools.html" }, { "id": 222, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate anxiety, especially the work-induced kind. Neither my parents nor grandparents held senior positions across their working careers. It makes me consider how impacted they were by similar challenges. I wonder how I am managing to hold it all together and even why I continue trying to do so.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-22 16:27:56 +0800", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Jan 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/22/i-hate-anxiety-especially-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F22%2Fi-hate-anxiety-especially-the.html" }, { "id": 223, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not sure I will be able to deal with another 4 years of Trump news. Not my country, not my President, but I can’t help but think Australia will suffer at least some collateral damage. Get ready for the era of US oligarchs, featuring tech bros.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-21 23:22:32 +0800", "date": "11:22 p.m. on Jan 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/21/im-not-sure-i-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F21%2Fim-not-sure-i-will.html" }, { "id": 224, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been re-engaging with my blog, and the micro.blog community, over the past few days. Still the nicest place on the internet.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-20 22:03:53 +0800", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Jan 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/20/ive-been-reengaging-with-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F20%2Five-been-reengaging-with-my.html" }, { "id": 225, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Severance S2E01 was weird! Not that I should be surprised by that.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 20:41:05 +0800", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/19/severance-se-was-weird-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fseverance-se-was-weird-not.html" }, { "id": 226, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m playing around with Pixelfed. Have set up my account and posted a single photo.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 09:24:29 +0800", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/19/im-playing-around-with-pixelfed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fim-playing-around-with-pixelfed.html" }, { "id": 227, "type": "post", "title": "Good Friends and Dead Websites", "text": "I’m really not qualified to own and manage a website. 🤷\nIn attempting to tweak a few things last night I broke everything. The site was down and dead. 💀\nI was stuck. I couldn’t fix it. 😬\nEnter my pal @Burk. While I slept in my Australian timezone, he worked to fix it in his US one. 🤖\nAlso enter micro.blog founder and owner @manton. He responded to my help email overnight and also worked on it like the internet greybeard wizard he is. 🧙‍♂️\nI woke up and the site is back. 🔙\nThank you, friends, Jason and Manton. I’m fortunate to be connected to you both. 🙏\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-18 08:49:38 +0800", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Jan 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/17/good-friends-and-dead-websites.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F17%2Fgood-friends-and-dead-websites.html" }, { "id": 228, "type": "post", "title": "Blog Question Challenge 2025", "text": "Thanks for the tag, Gabz.\nWhy did you start blogging in the first place? It is so long ago, it’s hard to remember why. Was there even a why? I was a nerd interested in technology, and blogs were the hot new thing. There was a cool platform called Movable Type and I wanted to try it out. So I started a blog. This was all a very long time ago.\nMy blog varies between a diary, an opinion platform, a software review centre and a place to dump thoughts, photos, audio and video. A blog in incredibly versatile!\nWhat platform are you using to manage your blog, and why do you use it? I use micro.blog and I can’t picture myself moving away from that platform for the foreseeable future, even though my friend Adam is building a cool new thing called Neato, and my friend Vincent has Scribbles. For my purposes, micro.blog is perfect.\nHave you blogged on other platforms before?  I’ve used Wordpress, Blot and Movable Type.\nHow do you write your posts? However I feel like it. Sometimes I use the micro.blog app. Right now I’m drafting this in Paper. I might use iA Writer or Ulysses or MarsEdit. I might use Drafts. That’s the beauty of Markdown. It doesn’t matter what I use and I can bounce between them freely. I love that.\nWhat’s your favorite post on your blog? I love all my children the same.\nLooking at what my readers like, my Duel of the Defaults post that stemmed from the viral podcast sensation which was Episode 097 of Hemispheric Views is clearly the favourite with 2,464 views over the lifetime of me tracking stats with Tinylytics. That one page accounts for 16.7% of all my website traffic.\nAny future plans for the blog? Nothing really. I haven’t changed anything for quite a while. It’s doing its job and I’m okay with that.\nWho will participate next? I would like to hear from Rach Smith and Scotty Jackson.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-17 22:14:01 +0800", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Jan 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/17/blog-question-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F17%2Fblog-question-challenge.html" }, { "id": 229, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I couldn’t be bothered walking back from the pub where I had dinner.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-14 23:12:58 +0800", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Jan 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/14/i-couldnt-be-bothered-walking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F14%2Fi-couldnt-be-bothered-walking.html" }, { "id": 230, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My 9-year old is asking how consoles work. This is testing my ability to teach computing hardware principles based on my knowledge that was established 30 years ago. Do I still talk CPU, GPU, RAM/ROM? HDD v SSD?\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-12 16:08:10 +0800", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Jan 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/12/my-year-old-is-asking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F12%2Fmy-year-old-is-asking.html" }, { "id": 231, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our @hemisphericviews with a Tight 45 on the button for 2024.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-09 22:13:53 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Jan 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/09/our-hemisphericviews-with-a-tight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F09%2Four-hemisphericviews-with-a-tight.html" }, { "id": 232, "type": "post", "title": "Kung Fury, 2015 - ★★★★", "text": "Funnier now than when I watched it on release.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-07 22:16:21 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Jan 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/07/kung-fury.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F07%2Fkung-fury.html" }, { "id": 233, "type": "post", "title": "Paddington in Peru, 2024 - ★★", "text": "Lacked the charm of the earlier two. Perhaps it was the different Director.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-07 14:02:30 +0800", "date": "2:02 p.m. on Jan 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/07/paddington-in-peru.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F07%2Fpaddington-in-peru.html" }, { "id": 234, "type": "post", "title": "Robot Dreams, 2023 - ★★★½", "text": "Enjoy love where you find it and accept that things may change.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-05 21:44:01 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Jan 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/05/robot-dreams.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F05%2Frobot-dreams.html" }, { "id": 235, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had a foot massage today. I think it\u0026rsquo;s the first one I\u0026rsquo;ve ever had. It was nice - even the painful bits!\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-02 13:51:25 +0800", "date": "1:51 p.m. on Jan 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/02/i-had-a-foot-massage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F02%2Fi-had-a-foot-massage.html" }, { "id": 236, "type": "post", "title": "I See You, 2019 - ★★★", "text": "I chatted throughout, which might make it seem like I wasn’t into it, but I was into it! Although what has Helen Hunt done to her face?\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-01 22:33:45 +0800", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Jan 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/01/i-see-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F01%2Fi-see-you.html" }, { "id": 237, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My New Year’s resolution is not to change my PKM app stack for 12 months. OmniFocus plus Obsidian (work), DevonThink (home).\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-01 21:33:23 +0800", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Jan 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/01/my-new-years-resolution-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F01%2Fmy-new-years-resolution-is.html" }, { "id": 238, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "These are lovely words from Tim Klapdor about my podcast Hemispheric Views.\nA Year in Podcasts:\nHemispheric Views: This is the only \u0026ldquo;guys having a chat\u0026rdquo; podcast in my feed. I really enjoy the dynamic of these guys and the community they\u0026rsquo;ve built around them. Recommend: The Battle of the Defaults and the App Defaults craze it created is a great place to start.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-01 14:21:38 +0800", "date": "2:21 p.m. on Jan 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2025/01/01/these-are-lovely-words-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2025%2F01%2F01%2Fthese-are-lovely-words-from.html" }, { "id": 239, "type": "post", "title": "The Lighthouse, 2019 - ★★", "text": "What the fuck did I just watch?\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-31 20:13:52 +0800", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Dec 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/12/31/the-lighthouse.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F12%2F31%2Fthe-lighthouse.html" }, { "id": 240, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s not everyday that you see a home perfectly framed by a rainbow.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-30 22:42:55 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Dec 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/12/30/its-not-everyday-that-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F12%2F30%2Fits-not-everyday-that-you.html" }, { "id": 241, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Birthday Booji! 9 years old today. My, how time flies!\n ", "dateiso": "2024-12-23 20:28:28 +0800", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Dec 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/12/23/happy-birthday-booji-years-old.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F12%2F23%2Fhappy-birthday-booji-years-old.html" }, { "id": 242, "type": "post", "title": "Norwegians FTW", "text": "Norwegians are the best. Listeners of Hemispheric Views will already know of the esteem in which I hold fürstenberg; who is essentially Norwegian me. We have many similarities across our respective histories; it’s quite fun!\nNow, I’ve got another Norwegian to thank: Erland. I discovered Erland through Mastodon, I think. Although he also has a micro.blog site, so it could have been there. Like myself, Erland also seems to have an interest in notetaking apps, and his favourite is Paper. He wrote a wonderful review of it.\nI’ve looked at Paper in the past, but the sheer cost of the app prevented me from trying it. I have so many Markdown notetaking apps, I simply couldn’t justify buying another, no matter how nice it may be.\nNow, though, thanks to the kindness of Erland from Norway, I am typing this blog post in Paper, as a way of testing. I’m using the Mac app now, but I also have the iOS version. How? Erland provided me with codes for the apps! This came about as we had a little discussion on Mastodon (still my favourite social network) about our notetaking app preferences. Typewriter mode was one such nicety, and I see that Paper offers that very feature. I have enabled it now, and it is very lovely—especially the slightly delayed scroll on each carriage return.\nThis blog post is the first thing I’ve written in Paper. I’m about to go back and add links and stuff. I’m using my new MacBook Pro which is lovely, but I haven’t yet installed Brett Terpstra’s SearchLink tool to automate link insertion, so we will see how Paper handles this next process.\nThe takeaway from this blog post? Firstly, Paper is a new app I’m trying. The main point though? Norwegians are great! I must visit sometime.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-09 21:36:04 +0800", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Dec 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/12/09/norwegians-ftw.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F12%2F09%2Fnorwegians-ftw.html" }, { "id": 243, "type": "post", "title": "Defaults (2024)", "text": "It has been more than a year since Episode 097 of my podcast Hemispheric Views, where we held a Duel of the Defaults! competition.\nOthers have been updating their lists, one year on.\nIt seems appropriate that I should do the same.\nIf there is a change from my list last year, I’ve indicated it with a leading ✨.\n Change? Category Default Comment on Change ✨ Mail Client FMail2 \u0026amp; Apple Mail Back to FMail2 app \u0026amp; no more MailMate Mail Server Fastmail \u0026amp; Apple Mail ✨ Notes Obsidian for Work; Apple Notes for Home Different apps for different contexts To-Do OmniFocus iPhone Photo Shooting Camera.app Photo Management Photos.app Calendar BusyCal (plus Calendar.app) Cloud file storage iCloud (plus OneDrive) RSS Reeder with FreshRSS Contacts Contacts.app ✨ Browser Vivaldi (plus Safari) Vivaldi is great, and Arc has been deprecated by the developer Chat Signal Bookmarks GoodLinks ✨ Read It Later GoodLinks I hardly read later anymore Word Processing Pages Spreadsheets Numbers (plus Excel) Presentations Keynote Shopping Lists AnyList Meal Planning AnyList ✨ Budgeting \u0026amp; Personal Finance Actual Budget on PikaPods YNAB became overpriced News Apple News (plus ABC RSS feed) Music Apple Music (plus Spotify) I have access to a Spotify account for variety, now ✨ Podcasts PocketCasts I left Overcast after the disastrous rewrite Six changes out of 23 categories. 26% of the apps have been changed. Yikes.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-04 21:45:39 +0800", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Dec 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/12/04/defaults.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F12%2F04%2Fdefaults.html" }, { "id": 244, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve re-established the Pi-Hole on the home network. Ads be gone.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-24 16:20:53 +0800", "date": "4:20 p.m. on Nov 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/11/24/ive-reestablished-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F11%2F24%2Five-reestablished-the.html" }, { "id": 245, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My crappy Dell monitor has died. Long live the crappy Lenovo monitor that shall replace it!\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-24 15:58:26 +0800", "date": "3:58 p.m. on Nov 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/11/24/my-crappy-dell.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F11%2F24%2Fmy-crappy-dell.html" }, { "id": 246, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve turned on cross-posting from my micro.blog account to my bluesky one. Not sure I\u0026rsquo;ll keep it, but may as well give it a try.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-22 12:15:50 +0800", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Nov 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/11/22/ive-turned-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F11%2F22%2Five-turned-on.html" }, { "id": 247, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Notetaking app update: my experiment with Notebooks.app is over and I’m back to DevonThink, and for work, I’ve bought a month’s subscription to Obsidian Sync and will likely get it for a year.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-17 21:46:28 +0800", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Nov 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/11/17/notetaking-app-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F11%2F17%2Fnotetaking-app-update.html" }, { "id": 248, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Commiserations USA.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-06 16:40:23 +0800", "date": "4:40 p.m. on Nov 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/11/06/commiserations-usa.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F11%2F06%2Fcommiserations-usa.html" }, { "id": 249, "type": "post", "title": "Inside Out 2, 2024 - ★★★½", "text": "A good rendering of anxiety, especially towards the end. Overall, though, this movie didn’t do it for me like the first.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-22 21:25:07 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Oct 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/10/22/inside-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F10%2F22%2Finside-out.html" }, { "id": 250, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Over 15,000 steps recorded by my Apple Watch before 2pm today. Well over my normal pace. That\u0026rsquo;s what gardening and packing a house ready to move will do for you.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-22 17:23:14 +0800", "date": "5:23 p.m. on Oct 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/10/22/over-steps-recorded.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F10%2F22%2Fover-steps-recorded.html" }, { "id": 251, "type": "post", "title": "Lonely Planet, 2024 - ★", "text": "I watched this 48 hours ago and have already forgotten it. Did not enjoy; it felt like a throwaway Hallmark movie.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-16 22:13:54 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Oct 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/10/16/lonely-planet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F10%2F16%2Flonely-planet.html" }, { "id": 252, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Scripting News: Monday, October 7, 2024\n interviews with star athletes saying the same predictable bullshit after being asked how it felt to do whatever heroic thing they just did. All of TV and news is like that, none of it is news, all of it is predictable bullshit.\n News is no longer news, it’s just another form of disposable content.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-08 07:22:47 +0800", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Oct 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/10/08/scripting-news-monday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F10%2F08%2Fscripting-news-monday.html" }, { "id": 253, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s weird to think that globally there are millions of businesses using Teams. This is the best that the giant Microsoft can build? Is all of corporate society playing a game of “The Emperor Has No Clothes”? Teams is shit software and we all deserve better.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-07 22:18:19 +0800", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Oct 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/10/07/its-weird-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F10%2F07%2Fits-weird-to.html" }, { "id": 254, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I borrowed a book using Libby from my local library. On comparing it with the Kindle sample of another book with the same name, it’s some kind of scammy AI-rewritten scam book. Fascinating. I think I will just buy the legitimate one.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-03 12:37:47 +0800", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Oct 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/10/03/i-borrowed-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F10%2F03%2Fi-borrowed-a.html" }, { "id": 255, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At work I get barraged with email. I want to be able to compose an email without seeing my inbox. It’s an Outlook on PC situation. Let me guess, this is a whacky idea for normies and thus there is no way to achieve it. Am I correct?\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-30 23:51:27 +0800", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Sep 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/30/at-work-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F30%2Fat-work-i.html" }, { "id": 256, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As I recover from pneumonia, I cough, then hear my lungs crackle and pop as the airways pop open. It\u0026rsquo;s weird but kind of enticing. Like having a built-in bowl of rice bubbles.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-22 11:49:56 +0800", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Sep 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/22/as-i-recover.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F22%2Fas-i-recover.html" }, { "id": 257, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape 📚As a long-term envelope (YNAB/Actual Budget) disciple, I found some of this too non-specific. Although it has some good thoughts on longer-term financial planning.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-14 16:31:24 +0800", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Sep 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/14/finished-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F14%2Ffinished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 258, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2024-09-13 09:20:31 +0800", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Sep 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/13/092031.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F13%2F092031.html" }, { "id": 259, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s a couch, wine and music night.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-12 21:38:42 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Sep 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/12/its-a-couch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F12%2Fits-a-couch.html" }, { "id": 260, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 📚 A slow-moving story that kept me engaged, but I’m not sure what I come away with at the end.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-12 19:21:53 +0800", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Sep 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/12/finished-reading-norwegian.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F12%2Ffinished-reading-norwegian.html" }, { "id": 261, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve spent this week watching all the Indiana Jones movies in sequence with my 8-year old kid. A nice way to spend evenings. 🍿\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-07 22:12:46 +0800", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Sep 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/07/ive-spent-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F07%2Five-spent-this.html" }, { "id": 262, "type": "post", "title": "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, 2023 - ★★★", "text": "Silly fun but way too long.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-07 22:06:15 +0800", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Sep 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/07/indiana-jones-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F07%2Findiana-jones-and.html" }, { "id": 263, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Benji solved a Rubik’s cube using an app and showed it to me.\nI scrambled it.\n“Well, that was a cool few seconds,” he said, as he looked at the messed up toy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-06 16:07:16 +0800", "date": "4:07 p.m. on Sep 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/06/benji-solved-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F06%2Fbenji-solved-a.html" }, { "id": 264, "type": "post", "title": "Hemispheric Views E119", "text": "Hemispheric Views E119: We kick things off at an odd time for everyone this time. How many Counter Chats™ are allowed in a single episode? Remember Pzizz? How many countries have you listened to the show in? I am Gratitudinal for all the basketballs in the run sheet this week.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-05 20:14:20 +0800", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Sep 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/05/hemispheric-views-e.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F05%2Fhemispheric-views-e.html" }, { "id": 265, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At work I’m almost at the point where I couldn’t live without Obsidian. At home I don’t use it because now it’s embedded in my brain as “work software”.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-05 20:10:46 +0800", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Sep 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/09/05/at-work-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F05%2Fat-work-im.html" }, { "id": 266, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I sold my Toyota Camry SL Hybrid 2021 today. It served me well for 40,000km. A lean manufacturing success story!\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-26 19:51:26 +0800", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Aug 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/26/i-sold-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Fi-sold-my.html" }, { "id": 267, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It would appear that I did not win the $100 million lottery. This week…\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-22 20:02:05 +0800", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Aug 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/22/it-would-appear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F22%2Fit-would-appear.html" }, { "id": 268, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s been a big day. Listed my house for sale and agreed to a sale on my Toyota Camry. All change at the station!\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-21 19:58:41 +0800", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Aug 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/21/its-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F21%2Fits-been-a.html" }, { "id": 269, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m trialling the new micro.blog post editor in the browser on iOS. My goodness, @manton, this is so much better! Thank you!​\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-20 21:44:34 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Aug 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/20/im-trialling-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F20%2Fim-trialling-the.html" }, { "id": 270, "type": "post", "title": "Lucky Extension", "text": "Launch: Lucky - And a Dinosaur:\n Lucky not only removes the clutter from the Google search results but also removes tracking, lets you block spammy domains, and fixes some of the annoyances with Google search.\n Another cool Safari extension from And a Dinosaur.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-18 16:16:50 +0800", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Aug 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/18/lucky-extension.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F18%2Flucky-extension.html" }, { "id": 271, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Recorded another episode of @HemisphericViews with @martinfeld and @Burk.\n ", "dateiso": "2024-08-18 14:17:23 +0800", "date": "2:17 p.m. on Aug 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/18/recorded-another-episode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F18%2Frecorded-another-episode.html" }, { "id": 272, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Jarrod Blundy @jarrod created a shortcut that allows the creation of a meme library and subsequent selection from it, then the creation of a markdown reference to it. This is how I imagine Jarrod during its creation. ", "dateiso": "2024-08-18 10:27:30 +0800", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Aug 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/18/jarrod-blundy-jarrod.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F18%2Fjarrod-blundy-jarrod.html" }, { "id": 273, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why does every day have a morning I have to deal with? 😴\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-18 08:21:38 +0800", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Aug 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/18/why-does-every.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F18%2Fwhy-does-every.html" }, { "id": 274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cat guy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-17 21:14:51 +0800", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Aug 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/17/cat-guy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F17%2Fcat-guy.html" }, { "id": 275, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Signed on for anotherr year of Micro.blog Premium. The best blog host I’ve ever had, by far. @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-15 21:54:52 +0800", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Aug 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/15/signed-on-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F15%2Fsigned-on-for.html" }, { "id": 276, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I held a 4-month old baby today and had it chuckle as I zoomed her around. So cute!\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-15 21:53:24 +0800", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Aug 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/15/i-held-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F15%2Fi-held-a.html" }, { "id": 277, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m about 30 years late but it turns out shoegaze is the name of the music genre I like.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-15 21:51:03 +0800", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Aug 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/15/im-about-years.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F15%2Fim-about-years.html" }, { "id": 278, "type": "post", "title": "The Dark Knight, 2008 - ★★★★", "text": "The best Joker.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-09 22:44:29 +0800", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Aug 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/09/the-dark-knight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F09%2Fthe-dark-knight.html" }, { "id": 279, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Perhaps I’m getting reasonably good at this audio editing caper.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-08 21:22:02 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Aug 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/08/perhaps-im-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F08%2Fperhaps-im-getting.html" }, { "id": 280, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Hey, it\u0026rsquo;s Jason! // Arcadia June 2024\n So, what is everyone playing for? Fame, bragging rights, LinkedIn endorsements? Sure, all of those, but if they are honest, it’s for the COVETED bespoke yearly Arcadia June Trophy! Obviously.\n Jason has taken Hemispheric Views Arcadia June trophies to a new level.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-06 23:40:48 +0800", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Aug 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/08/06/hey-its-jason.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F08%2F06%2Fhey-its-jason.html" }, { "id": 281, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Discovered the band The Boxer Rebellion tonight. I like. 🎵\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-30 22:46:08 +0800", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Jul 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/30/discovered-the-band.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F30%2Fdiscovered-the-band.html" }, { "id": 282, "type": "post", "title": "Australia Day, 2017 - ★★★", "text": "A gritty film that is more honest about parts of Australia than we’d probably like to admit.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-29 23:01:29 +0800", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Jul 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/29/australia-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F29%2Faustralia-day.html" }, { "id": 283, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finally finished the full run of The Walking Dead. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-25 21:25:45 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Jul 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/25/i-finally-finished.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F25%2Fi-finally-finished.html" }, { "id": 284, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Double Rainbow. 🌈 🌈\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-25 18:53:20 +0800", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Jul 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/25/double-rainbow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F25%2Fdouble-rainbow.html" }, { "id": 285, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2024-07-20 21:38:58 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Jul 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/20/213858.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F20%2F213858.html" }, { "id": 286, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My glasses are not in the same locationn as me. How annoying. 👓\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-14 20:42:01 +0800", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Jul 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/14/my-glasses-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F14%2Fmy-glasses-are.html" }, { "id": 287, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I needed a spreadsheet solution but couldn\u0026rsquo;t be bothered to design and build it myself. No problem, I\u0026rsquo;ll spend $5 on an Etsy solution. Pay the money; now waiting 72 hours for payment clearance. Awesome. That time-saving idea didn\u0026rsquo;t quite pan out.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-14 14:53:04 +0800", "date": "2:53 p.m. on Jul 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/14/i-needed-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F14%2Fi-needed-a.html" }, { "id": 288, "type": "post", "title": "A Family Affair, 2024 - ★½", "text": "A couple of funny lines and lots of Zac Efron muscle shots. Why the hell did I watch this?\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-11 20:35:18 +0800", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Jul 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/11/a-family-affair.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F11%2Fa-family-affair.html" }, { "id": 289, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Those shockwaves you just heard? Yes, that was me deleting my YNAB account. I’m now all-in on Actual Budget hosted on Pikapods.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-10 11:48:22 +0800", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Jul 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/10/those-shockwaves-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F10%2Fthose-shockwaves-you.html" }, { "id": 290, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You know you are back from holidays because once again the weekend is filled with laundry.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-07 09:55:45 +0800", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Jul 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/07/you-know-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F07%2Fyou-know-you.html" }, { "id": 291, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate getting sick while on holiday. 🤒\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-05 08:24:21 +0800", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jul 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/05/i-hate-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F05%2Fi-hate-getting.html" }, { "id": 292, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-03 21:41:54 +0800", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Jul 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/03/sydney-opera-house.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F03%2Fsydney-opera-house.html" }, { "id": 293, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With YNAB leaning into a new branding of Yet Another Price Increase or YAPI™, I\u0026rsquo;m trialing Actual Budget running on PikaPods. Early in my testing, but this could be good enough. Being in Australia I don\u0026rsquo;t get any of the fancy YNAB automation anyway.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 13:30:26 +0800", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/02/with-ynab-leaning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F02%2Fwith-ynab-leaning.html" }, { "id": 294, "type": "post", "title": "Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★½", "text": "A 4-hour flight was the catalyst needed to watch this marathon movie. I didn’t realise I was signing up for a political thriller. It kept me engaged so it must have been okay.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-01 16:56:31 +0800", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Jul 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/07/01/oppenheimer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F07%2F01%2Foppenheimer.html" }, { "id": 295, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m copying Pawel and have set my MarsEdit quick entry to Hyperkey-P. Now I have to internalise the shortcut.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-30 13:54:27 +0800", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Jun 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/30/im-copying-pawel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F30%2Fim-copying-pawel.html" }, { "id": 296, "type": "post", "title": "Anyone But You, 2023 - ★", "text": "A vehicle for both Sydney’s and other anorexic women. Bryan Brown must have grabbed the bag.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-22 22:21:55 +0800", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Jun 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/22/anyone-but-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F22%2Fanyone-but-you.html" }, { "id": 297, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " It was a beautiful day for a walk.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-16 21:07:57 +0800", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Jun 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/16/it-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F16%2Fit-was-a.html" }, { "id": 298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hired a e-scooter for a bit of dumb fun. 🤣\n\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-16 15:36:50 +0800", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Jun 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/16/i-hired-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F16%2Fi-hired-a.html" }, { "id": 299, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " ", "dateiso": "2024-06-13 20:26:29 +0800", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Jun 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/13/202629.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F13%2F202629.html" }, { "id": 300, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I miss dunking on my kid.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-13 13:38:08 +0800", "date": "1:38 p.m. on Jun 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/13/i-miss-dunking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F13%2Fi-miss-dunking.html" }, { "id": 301, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m genuinely excited by what Apple has put forward in its WWDC24 keynote. xos18\u0026rsquo;s, Sequoia and Apple Intelligence all look brilliant. I\u0026rsquo;ve never been so excited for math worksheets.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-11 13:41:27 +0800", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Jun 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/11/im-genuinely-excited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F11%2Fim-genuinely-excited.html" }, { "id": 302, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter how organised your task list is, you still need to do the task. I\u0026rsquo;ve procrastinated on my boots for two years!\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-10 13:21:44 +0800", "date": "1:21 p.m. on Jun 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/10/it-doesnt-matter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F10%2Fit-doesnt-matter.html" }, { "id": 303, "type": "post", "title": "Under Paris, 2024 - ★★★★", "text": "An environmental warning plus sharks eating people. What’s not to love?\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-08 21:27:00 +0800", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Jun 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/08/under-paris.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F08%2Funder-paris.html" }, { "id": 304, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 ROSS GITTINS: The RBA has squeezed us like a lemon, but it\u0026rsquo;s still not happy\n Problems such as higher world petrol prices and higher insurance premiums caused by increased extreme weather events.\nI’d like to see Bullock put up a big sign in the Reserve’s office: “If it’s not coming from demand, interest rates won’t fix it.”\n Ross Gittins succinctly notes the disconnect in the Australian economy and the frustration of interest rates as a singular mechanism.\nMortgage holders, such as myself, have cut back and the data shows it. The problem is elsewhere, and so the solution must be also.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-07 12:28:33 +0800", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Jun 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/07/ross-gittins-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F07%2Fross-gittins-the.html" }, { "id": 305, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 I really like everyone on my blogroll, but I\u0026rsquo;m sorry to say that it must die — Keenan\n And, let me reiterate that I understand this was irrational, driven wholly by anxiety. These were inside thoughts, and inside thoughts are better left alone\n Keenan has the best lines. I often listen to my inside thoughts even when I shouldn’t.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-06 22:21:19 +0800", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Jun 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/06/i-really-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F06%2Fi-really-like.html" }, { "id": 306, "type": "post", "title": "As They Made Us, 2022 - ★★★★", "text": "Touching movie with great comedy from Bergen.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 22:08:27 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/02/as-they-made.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2Fas-they-made.html" }, { "id": 307, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got to love fire pit season.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-01 19:55:30 +0800", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Jun 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/06/01/got-to-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F06%2F01%2Fgot-to-love.html" }, { "id": 308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Episode 112 of Hemispheric Views was one of the crazier ones.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-31 22:36:02 +0800", "date": "10:36 p.m. on May 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/31/episode-of-hemispheric.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F31%2Fepisode-of-hemispheric.html" }, { "id": 309, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The orange one being found guilty has made me so happy. He\u0026rsquo;s going to be so full of rage now - watch out America.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-31 09:47:01 +0800", "date": "9:47 p.m. on May 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/31/the-orange-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F31%2Fthe-orange-one.html" }, { "id": 310, "type": "transcript", "title": "", "text": "On Hemispheric Views, it has become a bit of a running gag that when I become interested in something new or different, the phrase, I\u0026rsquo;m an, insert interest here, guy is unleashed.\nMost recently this was raised in Hemispheric Views E112 when it became clear that I\u0026rsquo;m a footy guy.\nRob Knight has formalized the collection of slash pages across the IndieWeb.\nPursuant to that list, I hereby submit an RFC, not to the IETF, but to the RKTF, Rob Knight Task Force, to formally add slash preferred pronoun as another potential slash page.\nFor my purposes, that page would be entitled, slash guy.\nHere forth, as best as I can recall, and in no particular order, is my current list.\n I\u0026rsquo;m a pencil guy.\n I\u0026rsquo;m a beach guy.\n I\u0026rsquo;m a footy guy.\n I\u0026rsquo;m a DSLR guy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-29 18:20:43 +0800", "date": "6:20 p.m. on May 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/transcripts/2024/05/29/1164.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2Ftranscripts%2F2024%2F05%2F29%2F1164.html" }, { "id": 311, "type": "post", "title": "Slash Guy", "text": "On Hemispheric Views it has become a bit of a running gag that when I become interested in something new or different, the phrase, “I’m an insert interest here guy!” is unleashed.\nMost recently this was raised in Hemispheric Views E112 when it became clear that “I’m a footy guy!”.\nRobb Knight has formalised the collection of slash pages across the IndieWeb.\nPersuant to that list, I hereby submit an RFC—not to the IETF—but to the RKTF (Robb Knight Task Force) to formally add /preferred-pronoun as another potential slash page.\nFor my purposes, that page would be entitled /guy.\nHereforth, as best as I can recall and in no particular order is my current list:\n I’m a pencil guy! I’m a beach guy! I’m a footy guy! I’m a dSLR guy! ", "dateiso": "2024-05-29 18:20:33 +0800", "date": "6:20 p.m. on May 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/29/slash-guy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F29%2Fslash-guy.html" }, { "id": 312, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 22.00.0058 Get up early! • Johnny.Decimal\n I don’t do much in the way of ‘life advice’, but here’s one: get up early!\nAs in, 05:00 early.\n Today I woke up just after 5am. I read this post yesterday. I’m not pleased with Johnny’s undesired influence. I’m not a morning guy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-28 06:22:53 +0800", "date": "6:22 p.m. on May 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/28/get-up-early.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F28%2Fget-up-early.html" }, { "id": 313, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dinner Preparation. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-26 19:44:37 +0800", "date": "7:44 p.m. on May 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/26/dinner-preparation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F26%2Fdinner-preparation.html" }, { "id": 314, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish Apple sold a standalone Touch ID sensor.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-26 10:16:07 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on May 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/26/i-wish-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F26%2Fi-wish-apple.html" }, { "id": 315, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Over the past few years I have made some amazing Internet friends. I’ve met people with whom I have much in common. The only problem is they are distant. How much I would love to find a friend who is local. Whom I could go to the pub with and talk to in person.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 19:03:46 +0800", "date": "7:03 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/25/over-the-past.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Fover-the-past.html" }, { "id": 316, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I sometimes wonder how other people live. At dinner time, what do they eat? How do they organise their evenings? Do their homes resemble my own?\nI would love the opportunity to observe a bunch of other lives, in other homes. Are we all the same? Or do we differ wildly?\nIt’s a curiosity of mine.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 17:04:40 +0800", "date": "5:04 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/25/i-sometimes-wonder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Fi-sometimes-wonder.html" }, { "id": 317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The joy of a self-cleaning oven. Pyrolysis for the win.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 12:35:05 +0800", "date": "12:35 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/25/the-joy-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Fthe-joy-of.html" }, { "id": 318, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Job satisfaction.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 12:32:36 +0800", "date": "12:32 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/25/job-satisfaction.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Fjob-satisfaction.html" }, { "id": 319, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve ticked many tasks off the OmniFocus “household cleaning” list. ✅\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 12:02:09 +0800", "date": "12:02 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/25/ive-ticked-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Five-ticked-many.html" }, { "id": 320, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Respect our Overlords. A 3x2 submission for @martinfeld and @Burk\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 10:17:08 +0800", "date": "10:17 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/25/respect-our-overlords.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Frespect-our-overlords.html" }, { "id": 321, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 slash pages\n Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses.\n I’m particularly partial to /defaults and /save\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-24 17:02:11 +0800", "date": "5:02 p.m. on May 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/24/slash-pages-slash.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F24%2Fslash-pages-slash.html" }, { "id": 322, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m proud to be the commentator of the Perth Redbacks NBL1 team who is smashing out these numbers!\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-21 19:48:57 +0800", "date": "7:48 p.m. on May 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/21/im-proud-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F21%2Fim-proud-to.html" }, { "id": 323, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 My Podcast History • Robb Knight\n Now I\u0026rsquo;m mostly listening to a handful Relay shows like Connected, Rec Diffs, and Ungeniused plus Hemispheric Views, ATP, and Really Specific Stories.\n I’m not going to lie. It’s pretty cool to have my podcast mentioned in the same breath as some of these big names. Thanks Robb!\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-15 21:31:14 +0800", "date": "9:31 p.m. on May 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/15/my-podcast-history.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F15%2Fmy-podcast-history.html" }, { "id": 324, "type": "post", "title": "Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★", "text": "That was weird but fun, and slightly confusing.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-11 22:36:51 +0800", "date": "10:36 p.m. on May 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/11/everything-everywhere-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F11%2Feverything-everywhere-all.html" }, { "id": 325, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve woken at 4am and stayed that way. Cool!\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-10 05:13:49 +0800", "date": "5:13 p.m. on May 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/10/ive-woken-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F10%2Five-woken-at.html" }, { "id": 326, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Even on the hard days, and facing hard times, it’s healthy to find the fun.\n ", "dateiso": "2024-05-09 23:47:32 +0800", "date": "11:47 p.m. on May 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/09/even-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F09%2Feven-on-the.html" }, { "id": 327, "type": "post", "title": "The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999 - ★½", "text": "After watching the TV series Ripley, this didn’t hold up.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-08 22:08:05 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on May 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/08/the-talented-mr.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F08%2Fthe-talented-mr.html" }, { "id": 328, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The one thing I want to buy after the announcement of new iPads? A replacement battery for my existing iPad Pro (3rd gen).\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-08 20:44:45 +0800", "date": "8:44 p.m. on May 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/08/the-one-thing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F08%2Fthe-one-thing.html" }, { "id": 329, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our pal @rknightuk has knocked this one out of the park. We talked albums on Hemispheric Views E110. Now Robb has built a replica-iTunes to catalogue responses from listeners. It\u0026rsquo;s incredible.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-08 08:00:42 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on May 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/05/08/our-pal-rknightuk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F05%2F08%2Four-pal-rknightuk.html" }, { "id": 330, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been in Epic Games account v Microsoft Xbox account hell for the past hour.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-30 18:26:49 +0800", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Apr 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/30/ive-been-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2Five-been-in.html" }, { "id": 331, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve completed the first Chapter of the Johnny Decimal Workshop. This is a pre-recorded video training course that has excellent production values. If you want to get organised, I highly recommend it.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-29 13:53:57 +0800", "date": "1:53 p.m. on Apr 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/29/ive-completed-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F29%2Five-completed-the.html" }, { "id": 332, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my happy place commentating NBL1 basketball. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-28 19:56:25 +0800", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Apr 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/28/in-my-happy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fin-my-happy.html" }, { "id": 333, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A brick wall.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-26 22:05:52 +0800", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Apr 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/26/a-brick-wall.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F26%2Fa-brick-wall.html" }, { "id": 334, "type": "post", "title": "All of Us Strangers, 2023 - ★★★", "text": "Poignant, sad, confusing. In equal measures.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-25 21:46:16 +0800", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Apr 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/25/all-of-us.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F25%2Fall-of-us.html" }, { "id": 335, "type": "post", "title": "Mornings of Reading are a Blessed Treasure", "text": "A good reading session will take me on a journey. Often the start will come as a surprise, and will take me on a voyage to an unknown destination. Along the way, my mind will be engaged, interested, and challenged.\nToday, I’ve had one of those mornings.\nHere is some of what I found, and some of the most captivating excerpts from them. I invite you to come with me on my reading adventure.\nMusic I started with an article on musical taste. Daniel Parris dives into how musical tastes change and develop, using statistics:\n Open-earedness refers to an individual\u0026rsquo;s desire and ability to listen and consider different sounds and musical styling. Research has shown that adolescents exhibit higher levels of open-earedness, with a greater willingness to explore and appreciate diverse musical genres. During these years of sonic exploration, music gets wrapped up in the emotion and identity formation of youth; as a result, the songs of our childhood prove wildly influential over our lifelong music tastes.\n My music tastes were definitely set in my earlier years. I still get ridiculously happy when I play Radiohead’s OK Computer and it still feels modern.\nWhile reading the article, I found it supported a stance I often talk about when I buy the same noodle dish from the same shop, the theory of opportunity cost. Then Parris educated me on the optimal-stopping problem and the 37% Rule, which were new to me:\n The explore-exploit trade-off and an adjacent decision-making puzzle known as the optimal-stopping problem have prompted extensive research and the coining of a shortcut known as the 37% rule. This heuristic suggests we spend the first 37% of available search time exploring our options before settling on a preferred solution or selection.  Seriousness Next, I found an article by Ian Leslie1 on what it takes to be a “serious person”. If I could choose to live my life over, I would be a serious person. Sadly, I think my personality traits and my lived experience prevent me from achieving this.\nOn seriousness, this quote sums up my issue well:\n I wanted to have children partly because I thought it might make me feel more serious. It actually did, although only somewhat. Maybe the biggest difference is that I stopped worrying about being serious.\n Wokeness Having recently suffered the wrath of extreme wokeness in a work setting, I have been subconsciously trying to understand this issue better. For most of my adult life, I’ve identified as ‘centre-left’. Progressive, but with an understanding that there is a place in society for a functioning economy, but that the economy is there to serve people and create an improved society. I don’t believe we are there merely as agents to feed the economic machine, and so there is a social justice and care for humanity that must be incorporated. Then, all of sudden, I was in a meeting where I became type-cast as the ‘old white guy’ and became the target for woke vitriol. Since then, I’ve been somewhat fascinated by my own stance on all of this.\nThis morning’s reading was interesting, in this regard, as another of Ian Leslie’s articles was entitled, Am I Anti-Woke?\nOn Nick Cave, Leslie writes:\n Cave is, like most rock stars and artists, a left-leaning liberal, but he has a well-stocked mind which draws from various streams of influence, including and particularly Christianity (although he’s not a practicing Christian). As a result he takes positions that are unusual for his milieu. For instance, he has written that “cancel culture” is having “an asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society.” In another blog post he says he’s repelled by “woke culture” because of its “lack of humility and the paternalistic and doctrinal sureness of its claims”.\n On conservatism, this resonates. Am I becoming a conservatist? Or just willing to recognise the value that it can deliver?\n “The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.”\n Ah, hang on. Leslie covers my thinking in the next paragraph:\n By the standards of most conservatives, Cave is a progressive, but I take him to be saying that he combines a conservative sensibility with a liberal one. This is how the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie puts it: “Yes, there is a part of me, as I think there should be a part of everyone, that is conservative. There are things that we don’t want to change, you know.”\n And getting to wokeness itself, Leslie writes:\n Wokeness is a social contagion at least as much as it is a set of ideas - I’m sorry to say it, but ‘mind-virus’ is not the most inapposite epithet I’ve ever heard. It has an amazing ability to make clever people say stupid things and to lower the IQ of institutions. I think that’s partly a function of an emphasis on appearances, on being seen to be saying the right thing, in a world where everyone feels on show, and vulnerable to a moralising ransomware attack.\nThat’s why so many people in positions of power have passively gone along with it, without quite buying into it. Up until recently (this is changing) wokeness has been a safe space for those who can’t or don’t want to risk thinking for themselves in public. The passivity of moderates allowed a minority of activists outsized influence, and woke’s worst aspects - divisiveness, scapegoating, obscurity, just the sheer absurdity it generates - to flourish without check.\n I think this is what I experienced in my work setting. I appeared different, I didn’t speak according to the norms of the room, and so I became vulnerable to attack.\nI love this 1924 quote, showing that things have, in a sense, always been about finding a way between two extremes. However it seems that, as with many things, time has created further polarisation. Less shades of grey:\n In 1924, G.K. Chesterton wrote about how the world was dividing into Conservatives and Progressives: “The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” The world is now dividing into a degraded version of this dichotomy: woke and anti-woke. You’re either for Kamala Harris or Ron DeSantis. You’re either for children being taught there are 183 different genders or you want to ban gay marriage.\n Nick Cave All these links and discussion of Nick Cave were a surprise. I know virtually nothing about Nick Cave other than he is liked by Tim Hein of The Unmade Podcast. Today, I learned he is an interesting and thoughtful character.\nMy reading session led me to articles about Cave, and his own blog.\nA couple of quotes from Cave that stood out to me today, include:\n I tend to become uncomfortable around all ideologies that brand themselves as ‘the truth’ or ‘the way’. This not only includes most religions, but also atheism, radical bi-partisan politics or any system of thought, including ‘woke’ culture, that finds its energy in self-righteous belief and the suppression of contrary systems of thought. Regardless of the virtuous intentions of many woke issues, it is its lack of humility and the paternalistic and doctrinal sureness of its claims that repel me.\n …\n Wokeness, for all its virtues, is an ideology immune to the slightest suggestion that in a generation’s time their implacable beliefs will appear as outmoded and fallacious as those of their own former generation. This may well be the engine of progress, but history has a habit of embarrassing our treasured beliefs.\n …\n However, my duty as a songwriter is not to try to save the world, but rather to save the soul of the world. This requires me to live my life on the other side of truth, beyond conviction and within uncertainty, where things make less sense, absurdity is a virtue and art rages and burns; where dogma is anathema, discourse is essential, doubt is an energy, magical thinking is not a crime and where possibility and potentiality rule.\n Nick Cave, is, indeed, a serious person.\n Incidentally, this article led me down a rabbit-hole of Ian Leslie writing, and has me closer to subscribing to a Substack article than I have been before. For now, I’ve grabbed the RSS feed.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2024-04-25 11:43:00 +0800", "date": "11:43 p.m. on Apr 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/25/mornings-of-reading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F25%2Fmornings-of-reading.html" }, { "id": 336, "type": "post", "title": "Late-Stage Capitalism \u0026 Housing Supply in Australia", "text": "Late-stage capitalism is destroying a basic human right - being able to live in a house - as housing affordability for renting and buying across Australia has been smashed in recent years.\nA report produced by Anglicare Australia highlights with cold hard facts something that is already clear in the community: Australian housing is unaffordable. I note a few quotes from ABC News’ story covering the release of the paper that highlight the challenge facing our nation.\n There is not a single property across Australia – or even a room in a shared house – that\u0026rsquo;s affordable for someone on youth allowance, according to a new report from support organisation Anglicare Australia.\n Not one property! Not even a crappy place in a crappy suburb. Nothing. And good luck convincing a renter to let you rent their property and establish a share house. That isn’t going to happen. You’re stuffed.\nIn Western Australia, the housing market has lost all dynamism. It has ground to a halt, with just a couple of thousand properties on the market in a city of around 1.8 million people. If people can’t be certain of being able to find a house to buy a house, they’re not going to try to sell the one they’re in. So we end up with a malfunctioning market. Just as the employment market needs dynamism to ensure productivity—people leaving old jobs and entering new ones—so the housing market needs a pipeline of properties on a continual basis.\nHousing unaffordability has killed the market, and is leaving a wake of homelessness as a result.\nThe solution isn’t unknown. It has been known for a long while. But conservatism and vested interest holds back change, which is hardly a surprising situation.\n \u0026ldquo;an overhaul of the tax regime\u0026rdquo; is needed – including the capital gains tax discount being phased out over a period of 10 years and negative gearing deductions to be phased out for new investors in the private market.\n It has been evident for many years that the ‘investor class’ are leveraging what is not a loophole, but designed policy, in the form of negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount to profit from housing. Buying and owning multiple homes has become an investment game for those who can afford it, pushing up prices and pushing out people who need a home to simply live in. The increasing price pressure means rents go up in lockstep, further punishing those who can’t afford a ride on this particular gravy train.\nA previous Federal Election saw Bill Shorten as Opposition Leader run an aggressive campaign to end the current negative gearing tax policies. Confronted with a scare campaign from the conservative side of politics, he lost the election. That’s scared away current politicians from making changes that are necessary for the greater good, never mind the wake of economic and social destruction that might be left in its wake.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-24 16:34:12 +0800", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Apr 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/24/latestage-capitalism-housing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F24%2Flatestage-capitalism-housing.html" }, { "id": 337, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I swear my Roomba stalks me. Whichever room I move to, sure enough, Roomba soon turns up.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-22 10:06:35 +0800", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Apr 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/22/i-swear-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F22%2Fi-swear-my.html" }, { "id": 338, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Domain transfers from Hover to Porkbun are in progress.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-22 10:03:00 +0800", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Apr 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/22/domain-transfers-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F22%2Fdomain-transfers-from.html" }, { "id": 339, "type": "post", "title": "Reviewing my Backups", "text": "I identified that my formerly robust system of data backups, particularly for photos, was no longer great.\nA combination of frugality and simplification had gone too far.\nSome time ago I deleted my Backblaze account. Recently I deleted my Flickr account. That left me only with iCloud Photos, which is a sync service and not a true backup. This doesn\u0026rsquo;t protect my old Lightroom .dng files, nor anything else that isn\u0026rsquo;t a photo.\nI tried using my OneDrive account, but attempts to upload large volumes of files through the web interface and disabling the relevant folder through the OneDrive client to avoid multiple download/duplications failed. OneDrive on the web borked at the folders - I don\u0026rsquo;t know why, and nor did I have the patience to investigate deeply.\nI asked my brains trust over at the Hemispheric Views Discord, and the answer was Backblaze. So, I\u0026rsquo;ve returned to that service, tail between my legs.\nMy other option was to dig out my spinning disk caddy, and buy a hard drive, but that sounded like more physical labour than I was motivated to achieve.\nAs Backblaze once again sends terabytes of data from my system to its data centres, I feel some sympathy for the machines. But seriously, NBN, can we please get some faster upload speeds?\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 10:28:32 +0800", "date": "10:28 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/21/reviewing-my-backups.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Freviewing-my-backups.html" }, { "id": 340, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tonight I was lucky enough to commentate a triple-overtime game of NBL1 basketball between Perth Redbacks and Eastern Suns. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-20 22:39:25 +0800", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Apr 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/20/tonight-i-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F20%2Ftonight-i-was.html" }, { "id": 341, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rocking a new pair of shoes.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-19 16:00:50 +0800", "date": "4:00 p.m. on Apr 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/19/rocking-a-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F19%2Frocking-a-new.html" }, { "id": 342, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finished Season 1 of 3 Body Problem and don’t want to have to wait for Season 2. Bring it on! 📺\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-14 21:58:02 +0800", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Apr 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/14/i-finished-season.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F14%2Fi-finished-season.html" }, { "id": 343, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Should I subscribe to Castro podcast player? I like the direction the new ownership seems to be going in.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-12 08:29:42 +0800", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Apr 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/12/should-i-subscribe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F12%2Fshould-i-subscribe.html" }, { "id": 344, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun to be back behind the microphone calling NBL1 West basketball games for Perth Redbacks. 🏀 🎙️\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-06 22:37:02 +0800", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Apr 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/06/fun-to-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F06%2Ffun-to-be.html" }, { "id": 345, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Those who listen to @HemisphericViews will know that I’m a beach guy! Here I am repping the show and a wetsuit!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-05 12:01:22 +0800", "date": "12:01 p.m. on Apr 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/05/those-who-listen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F05%2Fthose-who-listen.html" }, { "id": 346, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spotify is so much better at surfacing interesting, not necessarily mainstream music. Apple Music works really hard to keep me near the Top Charts. 🎵\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-03 15:23:38 +0800", "date": "3:23 p.m. on Apr 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/03/spotify-is-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F03%2Fspotify-is-so.html" }, { "id": 347, "type": "post", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, 2014 - ★★½", "text": "This feels closer to Star Wars than The Hunger Games. The plot to kill Catniss is possibly over convoluted?\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-01 20:47:51 +0800", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Apr 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/04/01/the-hunger-games.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F04%2F01%2Fthe-hunger-games.html" }, { "id": 348, "type": "post", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, 2013 - ★", "text": "Just get to the good bit already. Oh, there is no good bit.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-31 22:08:04 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Mar 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/31/the-hunger-games.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F31%2Fthe-hunger-games.html" }, { "id": 349, "type": "post", "title": "Are You There God? It\u0026#039;s Me, Margaret., 2023 - ★★★★", "text": "More evidence that the 70s were the best. I remember reading this Judy Blume book (and others). Wholesomeness delivered to the sad 20s.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-29 22:24:49 +0800", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Mar 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/29/are-you-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F29%2Fare-you-there.html" }, { "id": 350, "type": "post", "title": "Run Rabbit Run, 2023 - ★★", "text": "The audio mix was terrible, but the film at least made me think. But can somebody tell me what the deal was with the face appearing in the memorial?\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-29 22:22:50 +0800", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Mar 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/29/run-rabbit-run.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F29%2Frun-rabbit-run.html" }, { "id": 351, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Buying something with coins feels as good as getting it for free.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-26 09:19:36 +0800", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Mar 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/26/buying-something-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F26%2Fbuying-something-with.html" }, { "id": 352, "type": "post", "title": "Sideways, 2004 - ★★★★", "text": "Such a fun movie but it feels like a movie from the mid 90s. A lot has changed in 20 years - more than I realised.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-23 23:03:32 +0800", "date": "11:03 p.m. on Mar 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/23/sideways.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F23%2Fsideways.html" }, { "id": 353, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Boti Nagy giving NBL Pocket Podcast a good shoutout!\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-23 11:14:26 +0800", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Mar 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/23/boti-nagy-giving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F23%2Fboti-nagy-giving.html" }, { "id": 354, "type": "post", "title": "NBL Pocket Podcast with Boti Nagy", "text": "How fortunate am I that I could do a podcast with journalistic legend, Boti Nagy. This man has a huge history reporting the National Basketball League, is a published author, and thanks to my friend Joseph Corr is now a co-podcaster with me! I was reading Boti’s articles when I was 12 years old. What an honour to do a show with him.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-22 22:56:44 +0800", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Mar 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/22/nbl-pocket-podcast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F22%2Fnbl-pocket-podcast.html" }, { "id": 355, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-21 21:51:55 +0800", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Mar 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/21/currently-reading-tomorrow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F21%2Fcurrently-reading-tomorrow.html" }, { "id": 356, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I dated a handwritten document as 21/3/14. Crikey, I\u0026rsquo;m a decade out of date!\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-21 19:32:28 +0800", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Mar 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/21/i-dated-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F21%2Fi-dated-a.html" }, { "id": 357, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Taking photos of signs @maique style. This one is a relic! Look at those seniors!\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-21 15:21:38 +0800", "date": "3:21 p.m. on Mar 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/21/taking-photos-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F21%2Ftaking-photos-of.html" }, { "id": 358, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The boy and I started playing It Takes Two on Xbox. So much two-player raging. Lots of fun. He pulled out the nail while I was swinging on it! 🎮\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-19 22:01:06 +0800", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Mar 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/19/the-boy-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F19%2Fthe-boy-and.html" }, { "id": 359, "type": "post", "title": "The Family Plan, 2023 - ★★", "text": "Not great but good family fare.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-17 21:09:08 +0800", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Mar 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/17/the-family-plan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F17%2Fthe-family-plan.html" }, { "id": 360, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 📚 Probably one of the weirder books I\u0026rsquo;ve read. Entirely compelling, but I\u0026rsquo;m not sure I comprehend what I read.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-17 17:23:38 +0800", "date": "5:23 p.m. on Mar 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/17/finished-reading-kafka.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F17%2Ffinished-reading-kafka.html" }, { "id": 361, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last night amongst my many vivid dreams, I met Linus Torvalds. I thanked him for his work and the contribution to society that Linux has been. Then I went and rode an elevator that went sideways instead of up and down.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-15 14:41:06 +0800", "date": "2:41 p.m. on Mar 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/15/last-night-amongst.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F15%2Flast-night-amongst.html" }, { "id": 362, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Surely now I own all the Notes apps.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-14 14:19:52 +0800", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Mar 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/14/surely-now-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F14%2Fsurely-now-i.html" }, { "id": 363, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I listened to E70 of @hemisphericviews tonight. So cute to hear my own son from an earlier time. “Be more negative!”\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-08 23:20:50 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Mar 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/08/i-listened-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F08%2Fi-listened-to.html" }, { "id": 364, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We are aware that enshittification is a big deal in the tech industry. With the latest apparently vindictive moves by Apple against Epic, is the great fruit company now on the fast track to its own enshittification? Hubris is at an all-time high.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-07 23:22:52 +0800", "date": "11:22 p.m. on Mar 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/07/we-are-aware.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F07%2Fwe-are-aware.html" }, { "id": 365, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good grief, parenting a kid with autism can be hard. 🪫🧩\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-06 22:46:52 +0800", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Mar 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/06/good-grief-parenting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F06%2Fgood-grief-parenting.html" }, { "id": 366, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m trying Alfred instead of Launchbar. I keep getting stuck. Today, I couldn’t get an equivalent of Launchbar’s “Instant Send” up and running. Why am I doing this to myself?\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-05 17:15:15 +0800", "date": "5:15 p.m. on Mar 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/05/im-trying-alfred.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F05%2Fim-trying-alfred.html" }, { "id": 367, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not built for humidity. The last few days in Perth have featured this weather condition, and I\u0026rsquo;m not coping well. I have finishing mopping my floors, and now I\u0026rsquo;m the one who is mopping wet. 😰\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 13:35:26 +0800", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/04/im-not-built.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fim-not-built.html" }, { "id": 368, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Day One journal consists of 2,597 entries. Of those, 418 are Instagram imports, leaving 2,179 “proper” entries. The oldest entry is an Instagram import from 5 November 2011. My first genuine entry was on 4 August 2012. I’ve journaled on 1,808 days since then.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 08:53:48 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/04/my-day-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fmy-day-one.html" }, { "id": 369, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished the show One Day and feel sad. It’s an impactful series. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-03 10:56:30 +0800", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Mar 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/03/finished-the-show.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F03%2Ffinished-the-show.html" }, { "id": 370, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m watching the 46th season of Survivor. That is crazy! 📺\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-02 20:26:24 +0800", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Mar 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/02/im-watching-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F02%2Fim-watching-the.html" }, { "id": 371, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Refreshed my site\u0026rsquo;s Bookshelf page and simplified my navigation bar.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-02 20:18:30 +0800", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Mar 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/03/02/refreshed-my-sites.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F03%2F02%2Frefreshed-my-sites.html" }, { "id": 372, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of those days where I wake up at 4:15am. An hour later now and I feel tired but know I’m not going back to sleep. Here we go then. Bring it on, Monday.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-26 05:11:56 +0800", "date": "5:11 p.m. on Feb 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/26/one-of-those.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F26%2Fone-of-those.html" }, { "id": 373, "type": "post", "title": "The Lost Daughter, 2021 - ★★½", "text": "Children really can be that annoying.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-25 21:44:01 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Feb 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/25/the-lost-daughter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F25%2Fthe-lost-daughter.html" }, { "id": 374, "type": "post", "title": "The Sad State of Fibre Internet in Australia", "text": "A couple of days ago I got fibre to the home installed (finally). Australia\u0026rsquo;s broadband rollout is a decades-long case study in political fuckery. Previously I was on \u0026ldquo;Fibre to the Node\u0026rdquo; which used fibre to the end of the street, then copper from that street node to my home. Now I have fibre all the way to my home, which is great, but the plans offered are still depressing.\nI used to pay for 100Mbps down/40Mbps up on copper and I would get about 88 down and 37 up.\nNow, with new fibre, my plan is 100/20. I get 107 down, and 18.6 up.\nDespite my nice new cabling, I\u0026rsquo;ve got a marginal improvement, all because our Internet plans have been bastardised.\nI could pay even _more_money to get 1000 down and 50(!) up, but they only guarantee 600/40. Nah, I\u0026rsquo;ll keep my money.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a sad state of broadband affairs here in Australia.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-24 10:54:00 +0800", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Feb 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/24/the-sad-state.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F24%2Fthe-sad-state.html" }, { "id": 375, "type": "post", "title": "Proud of my Podcast Productions", "text": "Several years ago I became interested in creating podcasts. As an early adopter, I\u0026rsquo;d listened to them for years. I decided I finally wanted to try the creation side of the equation.\nI\u0026rsquo;m proud of what I\u0026rsquo;ve achieved since that decision.\nYesterday, two podcasts of mine were released on the same day. They show two different aspects of my personality and interests. I am incredibly proud of these latest episodes, but also the incredible run of consistent podcast creation I have achieved over the past few years.\nHemispheric Views Episode 105 highlights my nerdy, techy side that is still linked with empathy and humanity.\nNBL Pocket Podcast Episode 268 demonstrates my knowledge and love for Australian NBL basketball, combined with great rapport with my friend, Joe Corr.\nHemispheric Views is carefully and meticulously edited. NBL Pocket Podcast is a shoot-from-the-hip live recording. Two entirely different topics, recorded and edited in two different ways. I\u0026rsquo;m proud of being able to create podcasts in both forms.\nI\u0026rsquo;m also proud that I have the ability to edit and produce as well. Podcasting has given me a whole raft of skills that I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t otherwise have.\nI am proud of these shows. I am proud of myself for having the confidence and capability to produce these shows. I am proud that both have a large audience of listeners.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-23 23:29:48 +0800", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Feb 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/23/proud-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F23%2Fproud-of-my.html" }, { "id": 376, "type": "post", "title": "Zoolander, 2001 - ★★★★", "text": "I watch this film now and struggle to identify the cameos. Not all careers kick on, I suppose.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-23 16:21:42 +0800", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Feb 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/23/zoolander.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F23%2Fzoolander.html" }, { "id": 377, "type": "post", "title": "Bob Marley: One Love, 2024 - ★★★½", "text": "I was unaware of the Bob Marley story and this clued me in well. Actors of course were more attractive than the actual people.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-20 21:54:51 +0800", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Feb 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/20/bob-marley-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F20%2Fbob-marley-one.html" }, { "id": 378, "type": "post", "title": "Windfall, 2022 - ★★★", "text": "A well-acted kooky thriller.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-18 21:02:17 +0800", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Feb 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/18/windfall.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F18%2Fwindfall.html" }, { "id": 379, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m binge watching S4 of For All Mankind. I didn’t have “labour dispute and unionisation on my bingo card of topics. Was this show written around the time of the Hollywood Writers’ Strike? 📺\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-15 22:24:13 +0800", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Feb 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/15/im-binge-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F15%2Fim-binge-watching.html" }, { "id": 380, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A GP appointment time is more of a general indicator that they will see you sometime in the hour following that prescribed slot.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 10:09:39 +0800", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/14/a-gp-appointment.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fa-gp-appointment.html" }, { "id": 381, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s great to see Jon Stewart back home on The Daily Show. Old Presidential candidates. What could go wrong?\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-13 23:10:10 +0800", "date": "11:10 p.m. on Feb 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/13/its-great-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F13%2Fits-great-to.html" }, { "id": 382, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Autism Parent Night: Making checklists to assist kids with morning, afternoon and evening routines, and pack lists. Made it all look pretty with OmniOutliner. ☑️\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-12 21:24:14 +0800", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Feb 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/12/autism-parent-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F12%2Fautism-parent-night.html" }, { "id": 383, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If the United States population somehow finds it in themselves to re-elect deadbeat, shyster, and Russian-compromised Trump, we are all fucked. Gift link to a relevant New York Times article.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-12 08:34:58 +0800", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Feb 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/12/if-the-united.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F12%2Fif-the-united.html" }, { "id": 384, "type": "post", "title": "Wonka, 2023 - ★★★", "text": "I wanted to like it more, but it was trying too hard.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 21:20:31 +0800", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/07/wonka.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Fwonka.html" }, { "id": 385, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After resisting all the Bluesky invitation codes; I\u0026rsquo;ve signed up with the masses.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 15:45:22 +0800", "date": "3:45 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/07/after-resisting-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Fafter-resisting-all.html" }, { "id": 386, "type": "post", "title": "Lean Can Be Applied Anywhere", "text": "Deploying small, incremental improvements. Prototyping an improved workflow using lean, visual control and 5S principles. Observation will determine what improvements and changes to next make.\n ", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 11:30:37 +0800", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/07/lean-can-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Flean-can-be.html" }, { "id": 387, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I need a side hustle that generates a reasonable amount of cash. Why are my skills so esoteric?!\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-06 22:30:10 +0800", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Feb 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/06/i-need-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F06%2Fi-need-a.html" }, { "id": 388, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spent the money. This is a much more pleasant reading experience. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 20:00:53 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/05/i-spent-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fi-spent-the.html" }, { "id": 389, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Should I spend $16 to buy a Kindle version of the book I’m reading so I don’t have to deal with small print? The pink highlight shows the Kindle viewport. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 19:22:07 +0800", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/05/should-i-spend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fshould-i-spend.html" }, { "id": 390, "type": "post", "title": "My Replacement Xbox Controller Dead on Arrival", "text": "What\u0026rsquo;s the deal with garbage Xbox controller hardware?\nI had to return a controller because a button wasn\u0026rsquo;t responding. My replacement controller arrived. Straight out of the box, it reports LB as being permanently activated, and I can\u0026rsquo;t even navigate the menu system with it, as the D-sticks and buttons don\u0026rsquo;t respond correctly.\nSo now I\u0026rsquo;m sending back the replacement of the replacement, but Amazon won\u0026rsquo;t issue another replacement.\nSo I will have to buy another somewhere else, and hope that Amazon eventually give me my money back.\nThe main issue though, is this is about the 4th Xbox controller I\u0026rsquo;ve had that has had problems.\nIs this common? Are there any alternative controllers I can get instead?\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-03 19:45:11 +0800", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Feb 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/03/my-replacement-xbox.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F03%2Fmy-replacement-xbox.html" }, { "id": 391, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve decided not to renew my Flickr Pro account. I\u0026rsquo;ve had it for years and years. I don\u0026rsquo;t use the service enough to justify the cost. Sorry for any link breakage that may occur!\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-02 15:07:35 +0800", "date": "3:07 p.m. on Feb 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/02/02/ive-decided-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F02%2F02%2Five-decided-not.html" }, { "id": 392, "type": "post", "title": "Vesper, 2022 - ★½", "text": "Wow, that was really boring.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-29 22:13:05 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Jan 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/29/vesper.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F29%2Fvesper.html" }, { "id": 393, "type": "post", "title": "The Big Lebowski, 1998 - ★★★½", "text": "This movie makes me want to go bowling.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-28 22:33:56 +0800", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Jan 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/28/the-big-lebowski.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F28%2Fthe-big-lebowski.html" }, { "id": 394, "type": "post", "title": "The Breakfast Club, 1985 - ★★★★½", "text": "I think I’m older than the teacher now. He’s the guy I now relate to.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-28 20:33:38 +0800", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Jan 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/28/the-breakfast-club.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F28%2Fthe-breakfast-club.html" }, { "id": 395, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 📚\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-28 06:26:14 +0800", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Jan 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/28/currently-reading-kafka.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F28%2Fcurrently-reading-kafka.html" }, { "id": 396, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just used Make Me A Cocktail. I don\u0026rsquo;t have a large bar at the moment, but it suggested a Black Russian and I\u0026rsquo;m enjoying it!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-24 19:47:46 +0800", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Jan 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/24/make-me-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F24%2Fmake-me-a.html" }, { "id": 397, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I feel in the flow. Normally this feeling is linked to a particular task, job or project. Yet I\u0026rsquo;m feeling it broadly across life management and my mental state. I like it. 🌈\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 09:25:16 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/22/i-feel-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Fi-feel-in.html" }, { "id": 398, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks 📚My takeaway is that I am in a spiral career transition. Plus I now have an excuse as to why my energy levels for work are lower than they used to be.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 19:46:13 +0800", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/21/finished-reading-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F21%2Ffinished-reading-from.html" }, { "id": 399, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I simply don\u0026rsquo;t care about Apple Vision Pro. I have no desire or motivation to watch the 10 minute demo videos. I don\u0026rsquo;t care about listening to hours of podcast thought pieces. I\u0026rsquo;m not interested.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 15:34:20 +0800", "date": "3:34 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/21/i-simply-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F21%2Fi-simply-dont.html" }, { "id": 400, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I started watching Loudermilk tonight. I like it. Not sure if only because Ron Livingstone basically plays a recovering Peter Gibbon from Office Space, 📺\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-18 22:51:40 +0800", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Jan 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/18/i-started-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F18%2Fi-started-watching.html" }, { "id": 401, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Thirst by Scott Harrison 📚on Headway app (🪜). Glad I only committed 13 minutes to the book, rather than actually reading it, because it was terrible.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-16 08:15:26 +0800", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Jan 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/16/finished-reading-thirst.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F16%2Ffinished-reading-thirst.html" }, { "id": 402, "type": "post", "title": "Once a Nerd…", "text": "I can draw a fairly straight line from my personality as a young fella to who I am today.\nI mean, look at this nerd. He\u0026rsquo;s got a Commodore computer running Workbench 2.04. Dot matrix printer. Stephen Lawhead books on the shelf. A thermometer that read the outside temperature. Basketball trophies. This would be a great submission for one of Hemispheric Views Desk Reviews.\nBut it doesn\u0026rsquo;t end there. As listeners of my podcast will know, I maintain a depreciation spreadsheet tracking my major asset purchases. Turns out, this isn\u0026rsquo;t a new concept for me. Here is the prototype, from 2001:\nPeople may also know me as a prodigious booster of YNAB as a means to manage your personal finances. Before YNAB, there was Quicken. Before Quicken, there was my ledger book.\nAnd before my ledger book, there were my transaction registers!\nTo give a sense of the timeline, the registers, as the first documents, are dated from 1994. That would put me at 16/17 years old. My memory has me doing these a little younger, but this is the first documented evidence.\nI also found a neat record of my automative service history from 2000. This car needed a lot of work!\nI\u0026rsquo;m not sure I\u0026rsquo;ve changed much in the 30 years since.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-09 15:39:58 +0800", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Jan 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/09/once-a-nerd.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F09%2Fonce-a-nerd.html" }, { "id": 403, "type": "post", "title": "Douchebags Galore!", "text": "Steven Hackett is being ripped off by douchebaggery from 37signals, as they try to get their HEY! Calendar app approved by the App Store Review Team.\n37signals Resubmits Its Calendar App, Includes Dates in Apple History to Get Past App Review – 512 Pixels:\nIt’s a real bummer to feel like I’ve been ripped off by a much bigger company, seeing them pitch something I’ve worked hard on as a free feature in their app. I find it fitting that douchebag DHH is promoting his actions on X, a site owned by another douchebag.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-09 14:21:23 +0800", "date": "2:21 p.m. on Jan 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/09/douchebags-galore.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F09%2Fdouchebags-galore.html" }, { "id": 404, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So many big life decisions to be made. Being an adult can be hard.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-08 22:31:10 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Jan 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/08/so-many-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F08%2Fso-many-big.html" }, { "id": 405, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just did an internet quiz like it’s 1999. What Anime Hair Color Best Suits Your Personality?\nHosted By theOtaku.com: Anime\nvia Thomas Rigby\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-07 22:01:09 +0800", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Jan 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/07/i-just-did.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F07%2Fi-just-did.html" }, { "id": 406, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In between watching basketball and packing Lego into boxes, I recorded E102 of @HemisphericViews with @Burk and @martinfeld.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-07 19:43:15 +0800", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Jan 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/07/in-between-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F07%2Fin-between-watching.html" }, { "id": 407, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our friend @rknightuk has built a word cloud based on the 320 default blog posts arising from @HemisphericViews Episode 097. His talents are amazing to me.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-02 23:18:07 +0800", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Jan 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/02/our-friend-rknightuk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F02%2Four-friend-rknightuk.html" }, { "id": 408, "type": "post", "title": "Year in books for 2023", "text": "Here are the books I finished reading in 2023.\nThis is a terribly short list.\n ", "dateiso": "2024-01-02 16:14:42 +0800", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Jan 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/02/year-in-books.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F02%2Fyear-in-books.html" }, { "id": 409, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m at the beach! It’s a bit cold today.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-02 07:22:47 +0800", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Jan 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2024/01/02/im-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2024%2F01%2F02%2Fim-at-the.html" }, { "id": 410, "type": "post", "title": "Out of my Comfort Zone", "text": "This year has been one of significant change.\nA big positive change I’ve experienced, but haven’t talked—or blogged—about is my new relationship.\nLisa, my partner, is an impressive woman who has made her way in life with strength and conviction. Her life has had challenges and events that have shaped her, and those events could easily have destroyed her if not for her own strength of character. Through it all, Lisa has navigated a path that has ensured she is a bright, happy and joyful person. She is raising two kids and both of them are absolute delights. They are a credit to her as a mother.\nIn episode 101 of Hemispheric Views I talk about how I’ve become a beach guy. For whatever reason, I didn’t explain how or why I’ve become a beach guy.\nI’m into going to the beach now because Lisa introduced me to it. It was her that taught me the 20 minute splash. It’s her smarts that brought forth the “get in, swim, get out, wash feet” process. I should have given Lisa credit in that episode, but I didn’t. When I’m with Lisa, there’s another bonus that may occur, and that’s a coffee after the swim. Even my coffee order has been changed by Lisa. My flat white is now made with almond milk. My guts thank me, and I in turn thank Lisa for pulling me out of my coffee ordering comfort zone, even though it caused stomach discomfort.\nMy comfort zone. That’s where I feel safe and tend to return all too often. I am naturally risk and conflict averse. Lisa has a way of extracting me from that zone, and challenging me to grow and change. When I leave my comfort zone I’m a better person. Lisa makes me a better person through her encouragement and support.\nYet it’s my comfort zone that has prevented me from coming out and saying these things. From speaking openly about now being in a new and special relationship. It was my fear of judgment from others, of having to explain and answer questions, that has prevented me from being upfront about the fact that I am in a positive and wonderful relationship, and that it makes me feel happy and valued.\nLisa’s presence in my life makes me a better person. She makes my life better. This past year has been a doozy in so many ways, but upon reflection, I am not sure where I’d be if I hadn’t benefited from the steadfast care, attention, and honest love that Lisa has bestowed upon me.\nThere’s been enough of me prevaricating about how to express my relationship situation. It is thus. I am in a relationship. I am in love. I love Lisa.\nI’m excited to head into 2024 with this clarity of thought. I’m excited to share the news with whomever might read my blog.\nI’m a beach guy, and I am that because Lisa made it so.\nI’m a better person, because Lisa inspires me to be my best self.\nI love Lisa.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-30 19:39:14 +0800", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Dec 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/30/out-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F30%2Fout-of-my.html" }, { "id": 411, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember that time I live-streamed going to Officeworks to buy an SD card as part of the @HemisphericViews live event? 😂\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-30 17:39:30 +0800", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Dec 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/30/remember-that-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F30%2Fremember-that-time.html" }, { "id": 412, "type": "post", "title": "Amazon - and Prime Video Ads - in Australia", "text": "Jason Snell writes about the consideration given to Amazon Prime:\nShocked—shocked!—to find that Amazon is putting ads in Prime Video – Six Colors:\n when my wife and I were auditing our streaming subscriptions the other week, Prime was one of the ones that will basically never get cut, because free two-day delivery saves us money in the long run.\n When Amazon Prime was a USA only thing, I lusted for it. Finally, Prime came to Australia and I jumped onboard at their low introductory price. Amazon sucked for the first year, with low availability and high prices. Over the past 18 months it has improved.\nEven with their improvement, though, when it came time to review my annual subscription, it didn\u0026rsquo;t make the cut. I\u0026rsquo;m intentionally buying less and not having ready access to free shipping was almost a blessing. If I really want something, there are plenty of other Australian retailers that will take my money.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve gone from being sad that Amazon is not in Australia, to extremely happy it hasn\u0026rsquo;t achieved total market dominance.\nAs for Prime Video? If I hadn\u0026rsquo;t already cancelled my subscription, adding adds to my paid video service would incentivise me to ditch them even more. The quest from all these services to squeeze more blood from the stone is simply going to steer me back towards Usenet.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-29 22:20:15 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Dec 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/29/amazon-and-prime.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F29%2Famazon-and-prime.html" }, { "id": 413, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks 📚Time to start thinking about Act II (or is it III?) 🤷‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-29 22:05:28 +0800", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Dec 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/29/currently-reading-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F29%2Fcurrently-reading-from.html" }, { "id": 414, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I did an end of year review today. Interesting to look back on all that has happened over the course of 12 months. (tldr, a lot!)\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-29 20:01:26 +0800", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Dec 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/29/i-did-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F29%2Fi-did-an.html" }, { "id": 415, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my on-going Pokemon-style quest to catch all the note-taking apps, I\u0026rsquo;ve bought Notebooks by Alfons Schmid.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-28 22:39:17 +0800", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Dec 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/28/in-my-ongoing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F28%2Fin-my-ongoing.html" }, { "id": 416, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For Christmas this year I got everybody in my family their own AI-generated Funko Pop likeness. 😃\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-25 23:44:18 +0800", "date": "11:44 p.m. on Dec 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/25/for-christmas-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F25%2Ffor-christmas-this.html" }, { "id": 417, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was @Ddanielson that made me do it! A throwback to my younger years.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-24 23:38:14 +0800", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Dec 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/24/it-was-ddanielson.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F24%2Fit-was-ddanielson.html" }, { "id": 418, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Perth can be alright.\nMerry Christmas.\n ", "dateiso": "2023-12-24 19:32:34 +0800", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Dec 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/24/perth-can-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F24%2Fperth-can-be.html" }, { "id": 419, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve jumped aboard the Ai-generated Funko Box bandwagon!\n ", "dateiso": "2023-12-24 16:42:24 +0800", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Dec 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/24/ive-jumped-aboard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F24%2Five-jumped-aboard.html" }, { "id": 420, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hello, this is Andrew talking into MurmurType, the recording app that records and then transcribes whatever I have to say. I could use this to write a blog post, I could use this to write an essay. The only problem is, I don\u0026rsquo;t think as well speaking extemporaneously as I do when I write.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-15 14:08:55 +0800", "date": "2:08 p.m. on Dec 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/15/hello-this-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F15%2Fhello-this-is.html" }, { "id": 421, "type": "post", "title": "Subscriptions 2023", "text": " th:nth-child(3) { width: 50%; } A few people are blogging about their current subscription software.\nHere I am, jumping on the train.\nI have a subscriptions grouping in YNAB so I\u0026rsquo;m referencing that to assist here. In writing this, I\u0026rsquo;m discovering that there are a few subscriptions without a YNAB category. I will have to fix that!\nEven with YNAB, some of the cost estimates are fuzzy because of currency exchange fluctuations.\nWhat might be most noticeable is the paucity of streaming services. I\u0026rsquo;ve gotten rid of them all recently, as my budget has changed, and their value quotient declined. I now only have Apple TV+ and Fetch (for ESPN) during the Australian NBL basketball season.\n Service Monthly Cost AUD Logic Apple One $24.97 I use enough Apple Services that the full deal is worth it. I share this cost, so only pay 50%. YouTube $2.00 I rarely watch YouTube, but my kids love it, and I don\u0026rsquo;t want constant ads being driven into their brain. NY Times $2.00 I subscribed on a sweet deal to play the Crosswords. Now I\u0026rsquo;m only playing Wordle and Connections, so this will go when the cheap option expires. Xbox Game Pass $18.95 This one comes as goes based on the interest of my kids and I. I tend to subscribe for a month, then turn off automatic renewal. When we want it, I turn it back on again. Micro.blog $15.00 The price fluctuates because of the currency conversion. Micro.blog is my digital home. It hosts my blog, it hosted my first podcast, and I love it. omg.lol $2.50 My second home on Internet, which hosts my profile landing page, but is also my Mastodon instance. Adam is also a friend. shoutouts.lol $2.00 Another indie service hosted by a friend, Vincent. It helps me profile things I like on canion.blog. tinylytics.app $2.00 Also by Vincent, this service is a nice simple way to get a sense of which pages on my website are interesting to people. Domains $10.00 You can\u0026rsquo;t be on the internet and not have a few domains. Key ones for me include canion.blog, canion.me and andrewcanion.com Day One $3.00 I have been journalling in Day One for about a decade, and I enjoy having a private, safe place to put my thoughts. I\u0026rsquo;ve even used their book printing service. It\u0026rsquo;s excellent. AnyList $1.34 AnyList helps me with my shopping, but also with my recipe management. I use it all the time. Textexpander $2.17 I went away from TE for a while, but a friend works there, and I still enjoy the affordances it provides. They really took a lot of heat moving to subscription before most other providers did the same. 1Password $5.00 I would be willing to move away from this, but I\u0026rsquo;m part of a family group and I don\u0026rsquo;t love the idea of having to deal with transferring other people. Fastmail $10.00 I have been this close to leaving Fastmail in favour of iCloud, but I don\u0026rsquo;t think I have the motivation. My subscription still has about 4 months left, so we will see how I feel then. YNAB $8.00 It\u0026rsquo;s pricing is stupid, a bunch of their features don\u0026rsquo;t work in the Australian banking sector, and I\u0026rsquo;ve outgrown all their training. Yet it\u0026rsquo;s still the only show in town for keeping me on the financial straight and narrow, so it\u0026rsquo;s not going anywhere. Flickr $15.00 I went through the cancellation flow last year, which netted me a big annual discount and kept me onboard. It\u0026rsquo;s basically a photo backup and not much else. Microsoft 365 $9.73 I got a cheap subscription to the Family plan through my previous employer. I honestly don\u0026rsquo;t know if I even need it now, but am worried that I will cancel, discover I do need it, and then not have access to the discounted rate anymore. Setapp $15.00 I\u0026rsquo;ve gone back and forth on Setapp, but have always kept it around. I have been onboard since launch and am grandfathered into a slightly cheaper plan. Fetch $6.00 An Australian TV service that gives me access to enough ESPN to watch Australian NBL basketball. So there we have it, my subscriptions as they stand in late 2023.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-14 16:46:16 +0800", "date": "4:46 p.m. on Dec 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/14/subscriptions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F14%2Fsubscriptions.html" }, { "id": 422, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Boosted! 🩼🦠\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-13 17:20:00 +0800", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Dec 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/13/boosted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F13%2Fboosted.html" }, { "id": 423, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My long national nightmare of not being able to swipe to change Apple Watch faces is over. The setting can be changed in Settings \u0026gt; Clock \u0026gt; Swipe to Switch Watch Face. Now can we revert the button functionality, Apple?\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-13 12:03:12 +0800", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Dec 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/13/my-long-national.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F13%2Fmy-long-national.html" }, { "id": 424, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can hardly believe our little Hemispheric Views podcast has inspired 267 blog posts!\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-09 19:36:21 +0800", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Dec 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/09/i-can-hardly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F09%2Fi-can-hardly.html" }, { "id": 425, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2023-12-06 22:42:23 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Dec 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/06/224223.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F06%2F224223.html" }, { "id": 426, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve designed a TypeForm survey. So much nicer to use than SurveyMonkey.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-05 11:51:00 +0800", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Dec 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/05/ive-designed-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F05%2Five-designed-a.html" }, { "id": 427, "type": "post", "title": "Candy Cane Lane, 2023 - ★★★★", "text": "A good old fashioned comedy that actually made me laugh out loud.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-04 21:53:05 +0800", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Dec 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/04/candy-cane-lane.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F04%2Fcandy-cane-lane.html" }, { "id": 428, "type": "post", "title": "My 2023 Mac Apps of the Year", "text": "Once again, I\u0026rsquo;m here to blog about my favourite Mac Apps for the year.\nSee previously:\n 2022 2017 The Standard Criteria For my purposes, to be considered an App of the Year, the software needs to be something I used extensively, value and enjoy. I also must feel I would miss them if they suddenly went away. Of course, it also needs to be a Mac App.\nOmniFocus It\u0026rsquo;s almost to the point where this app needs to be put into the Hall of Fame, and removed from future consideration. OmniFocus continues to provide structure to my life both at a professional and personal level.\nMost of this year has been spent using the beta of OmniFocus 4 in tandem with OmniFocus 3. The new version has come a long way and is closing in on release.\nWhile there are elements that continue to frustrate me (please, can we have natural language entry?) there is still no other task manager that can filter, slice and dice tasks like OmniFocus. And of course, defer dates. No task manager can be serious if it doesn\u0026rsquo;t have the ability to set a start date for a task into the future.\nObsidian Notes apps are my playground. I bounce between them continuously. Heck, I\u0026rsquo;m writing this post in iA Writer! This year, however, has seen me give Obsidian another try - after I stuck with Logseq for some time before it.\nThere are parts of it that I still don\u0026rsquo;t like, but it\u0026rsquo;s now rock solid, and the price cannot be beat. I am even putting aside the fact that it is running in Electron! 😱\nI wanted to continue to use Agenda, but it\u0026rsquo;s simply too fiddly. Plain text entry is so straightforward, it is hard to beat.\nMona 2023 was the downfall of Twitter. In its place stormed Mastodon and I have enjoyed using Mona. While most of the cool kids seemed to gravitate to Ivory, for me Mona ticks all the boxes I need from a Mastodon client.\nReeder Last year, NetNewsWire took over from Reeder as my RSS app of choice. This year, I\u0026rsquo;ve flipped back to Reeder across macOS and i(Pad)OS. It\u0026rsquo;s smooth and gorgeous, and rock solid.\nWhat\u0026rsquo;s even better is that this year has seen somewhat of a renaissance in blogging, and with the help of the App Defaults craze, launched by our own Hemispheric Views 097, I\u0026rsquo;ve found a bunch of new voices to add to my feed reader.\nSafari Last year I used Arc. For whatever reason, this year I\u0026rsquo;ve retreated to the comfort, energy efficiency, and cross-platform syncing offered by Safari. It also makes me feel good that I\u0026rsquo;m not supporting the Chromium hegemony.\nApps That Fell Off My List From Last Year NetNewsWire: As mentioned above, it\u0026rsquo;s taken a back seat to Reeder. Arc: I\u0026rsquo;ve moved back to the default choice of Safari. MarsEdit: I continue to use it, but I could live without it if it went away. Still a great app. Launchbar: This year I trialled RayCast, but I\u0026rsquo;m back on Launchbar. As much as I like it, given there are other alternatives, it didn\u0026rsquo;t make the cut this year. Agenda: As discussed, Obsidian has trumped Agenda for 2023. ", "dateiso": "2023-12-03 17:53:14 +0800", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Dec 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/12/03/my-mac-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F12%2F03%2Fmy-mac-apps.html" }, { "id": 429, "type": "post", "title": "Who can resist a Blu-Tak snowman guy?", "text": " I can\u0026rsquo;t.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-30 18:54:19 +0800", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Nov 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/30/who-can-resist.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F30%2Fwho-can-resist.html" }, { "id": 430, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Connected #478: Not So Bankrupt Anymore - Relay FM\nAmazing to see our podcast, Hemispheric Views, and its Duel of the Defaults! mentioned on Connected!\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-30 09:57:07 +0800", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Nov 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/30/connected-not-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F30%2Fconnected-not-so.html" }, { "id": 431, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In today\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m an idiot\u0026rdquo; news, I almost feel victim to a phishing scam. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t on my A-game and almost got found out. Frightening!\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-29 17:10:14 +0800", "date": "5:10 p.m. on Nov 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/29/in-todays-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F29%2Fin-todays-im.html" }, { "id": 432, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I did it!\nWordle 892 1/6*\n🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-28 07:48:11 +0800", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Nov 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/28/i-did-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F28%2Fi-did-it.html" }, { "id": 433, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I reintroduced my old Raspberry Pi 3B+ to the home network today, and with it, Pi-Hole! I may elect not to renew my NextDNS subscription as a result.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-25 20:50:29 +0800", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Nov 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/25/i-reintroduced-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F25%2Fi-reintroduced-my.html" }, { "id": 434, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been building class timetables. Hyper Plan has been a life-saver. I love this app. Timetables have multiple variables (time, day, teacher, skill level) and Hyper Plan has wrangled it all for me in a way that is so much easier and better than Excel Pivot Tables. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-22 13:16:26 +0800", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Nov 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/22/ive-been-building.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F22%2Five-been-building.html" }, { "id": 435, "type": "post", "title": "The Mop Will Always Be Your Friend", "text": "A career is an interesting thing.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve never been a \u0026ldquo;career at all costs\u0026rdquo; kind of person. Probably why I\u0026rsquo;ve never made millions of dollars or been a CEO.\nAt uni, I worked at a pizza shop and a liquor shop. The mop was my friend. Things always needed to be cleaned.\nI spent the first part of my \u0026ldquo;proper\u0026rdquo; career working to get ahead, to succeed in using my brain and to find new challenges to overcome.\nThe middle part of my career was spent leveraging my specialist skills to deliver consulting services and support others. There was value in status with this role; being seen to be successful and knowledgable.\nNow, in the current (but hopefully not last) part of my career, I\u0026rsquo;ve got no interest in any of that. I don\u0026rsquo;t really care what others think of me, or what status is assigned to my job. I\u0026rsquo;m enjoying the effort of being a good manager. As a manager I have an ethos of never asking somebody to do something that I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t do myself (if I have the requisite skill and capability).\nMopping. I know this. 30 years later, the mop is still as friendly as ever. I feel no embarrassment about being a manager that mops.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-21 13:26:35 +0800", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Nov 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/21/the-mop-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F21%2Fthe-mop-will.html" }, { "id": 436, "type": "post", "title": "Time for Some Fiscal Policy in Australia", "text": "Talking with a friend today. The topic of interest rates came up, as they do in any recent conversation within the Australian context.\nMy friend asked a poignant and sensible question, \u0026ldquo;why doesn\u0026rsquo;t the Government adjust the rate of the Goods \u0026amp; Services Tax (GST)?\u0026rdquo; It is a broad-based consumption tax. If consumption is getting out of hand and creating an inflationary spike, then why not add a disincentive to consumers by raising the price of consumption?\nWith interest rates variations it\u0026rsquo;s the mortgage belt who carry all the pain. They represent about 25% of households. Yet rising interest rates enrich those with existing savings, enabling greater consumption. Wouldn\u0026rsquo;t it be better to share the load equitably across any and all of those who spend?\nThe downside to this strategy is that the GST is regressive. It hits everybody with the same cost. For those with lesser incomes, the proportion of income the tax takes is greater. It\u0026rsquo;s not an equitable solution, because now low income earners are bearing a greater proportion of the pain.\nFrom a political point of view, it\u0026rsquo;s easier to blame the independent Reserve Bank for pain and suffering. Why place the crosshairs on your own government by changing fiscal policy? \u0026ldquo;Monetary policy delivered by the independent Reserve Bank, that\u0026rsquo;s who to blame!\u0026rdquo;, is the relieving Government cry!\nWhether it\u0026rsquo;s the GST, or a more equitable adjustment to the broader taxation platform, the Australian Government needs to do something. Since its election, the Albanese Labor Government seems content to sit on the sidelines, apart from some modest targeted tinkering. It withdrew funding for some capital works projects, that at least in WA have now been funded by the State Government, so that attempt at withdrawing money and inflationary pressure from the system didn\u0026rsquo;t work. Some modest efforts to encourage growth in housing supply have been delivered.\nSmall target strategy, however, seems to remain the prevailing preference in Canberra.\nI would like to see the Government take some real, tangible action. Let\u0026rsquo;s look at negative gearing. Let\u0026rsquo;s look at tax breaks that make no sense. Let\u0026rsquo;s recalibrate towards equality and away from the neo-liberalist agenda.\nI elect a government to do things: not to watch the RBA use its only blunt instrument.\nGet to work, Labor.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-20 14:34:58 +0800", "date": "2:34 p.m. on Nov 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/20/time-for-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F20%2Ftime-for-some.html" }, { "id": 437, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 So Many Default Apps • Robb Knight\n The latest feature was added today when I was inspired by something said on episode 098 but as of this moment I cannot remember what it was that was said. Regardless, I wanted to visualise the links between all the blog posts to get a sense of how the \u0026ldquo;trend\u0026rdquo; spread between people so I created the Network Graph page.\n Robb has done an incredible job compiling all these Default Lists. My sincere thanks to him for doing it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-18 12:56:02 +0800", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Nov 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/18/so-many-default.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F18%2Fso-many-default.html" }, { "id": 438, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Bridges | Devon Dundee\n But what sets Bridges apart from the rest of the pack is its focus on making it really easy to get links back out once you’ve saved them. It isn’t a vault for locking links away forever; it’s a funnel for storing links and then putting them to good use.\n I’m looking forward to putting Bridges through its paces. This is a great analogy from Devon to describe its value.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-15 23:16:08 +0800", "date": "11:16 p.m. on Nov 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/15/bridges-devon-dundee.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F15%2Fbridges-devon-dundee.html" }, { "id": 439, "type": "post", "title": "My 2022 Mac Apps of the Year", "text": "This article was originally written for the December 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus.\n In December of 2017, I put together a list of my Mac Apps of the Year.\nFor this issue of Hemispheric News, I thought it would be interesting to revisit this article to see what, if anything, has changed. Given our collective consternation about Electron, the average capabilities of Swift-based apps, and the sad state in general that Mac development seems to be in against the influx of web apps, has the Mac App of the Year category shown improvement?\nIn 2017 I defined the apps on the list as those I used extensively, value and enjoy. I also noted them as those I would most miss if they suddenly went away.\n Given that criteria, my nominations for Mac Apps of 2022 are:\nNetNewsWire NetNewsWire has taken the job of feed reading away from Reeder. NNW doesn’t do a lot, but it does what is needed. The app works fast, never crashes, and plays nicely on macOS.\nArc Still in beta, this browser is efficient in our modern web world. I don’t use a number of its more esoteric features such as Boosts (site based code injection) or Easels (weird pinterest-like pages), but its ability to manage multiple independent spaces/containers that let me stay logged in to multiple Microsoft accounts - while keeping me spatially aware of which is which, is better than any other implementation I’ve found.\nThe only downside I feel is that it isn’t as battery-efficient as Safari, and I feel a bit guilty about that. It’s built on Chrome though, so at least every single website out there renders correctly.\nOmniFocus I continue to rely on OmniFocus to steer my work and my life. Having said that, after being on the v4 beta train on macOS for some time, I don’t love it. OmniFocus have taken a gamble and built the new app in Swift, and it seems they are really an excellent edge-case for the language. They are asking a lot of it.\nI stick with OmniFocus at this point because I know it inside-out, I have workflows built around it, and it keeps me on track. I don’t love it nearly as much as I used to. This is unfortunate.\nMarsEdit A rekindling of my enjoyment for blogging has coincided with the enjoyment of using MarsEdit and the new version 5 has made it even better. There are still some weird things about the way it uses Markdown (I wish it had more affordances and keyboard shortcuts), and it intermingles HTML with Markdown too much in my view, but it is solid. Lots of other apps can push to my micro.blog host, but only MarsEdit offers a seamless editing experience.\nI also love its browser extension, but I wish it was available for Arc.\nMarsEdit remains an honest-to-goodness Mac app.\nLaunchbar Without Launchbar I’m inefficient, and I don’t even remember to use half of its available features. I’ve tried to replace it with Alfred, and Raycast, but I always come back to Launchbar. It works how my mind thinks - or at least it has trained my mind to think like Launchbar. I wish development was faster and that third-party support was greater. But it works and I can’t be rid of it.\nAgenda Thanks to the additional shortcuts from friend of Hemispheric Views, Scotty Jackson, Agenda has become an important cog in my macOS arsenal. I use it to take day notes and meeting notes.\nI don’t love its in-built text editor, so sometimes notes might start elsewhere (Drafts, iA Writer, Tot…) but then I can dump them into Agenda. It’s helpful to be able to find notes either by project/client or by meeting/date.\nAgenda has seen a lot of development over the past year and it continues to scratch an itch.\n Apps that are no longer on my list from 2017:\n1Password I use this app, but I do feel that if push came to shove, iCloud Keychain is probably good enough that I could move into that. 1Password has a few niceties that keep me using it, plus inertia. Also my mother-in-law is part of my Family account and\nI dare not disrupt that workflow.\nIt is interesting to note that 1Password 8 uses an Electron front-end and a Rust backend. Not very macOS-like at all.\nLogseq I have fun using this app, but I could just as easily move its content into any number of other apps and go on just fine.\nLogseq is another Electron-powered application and its current sync system makes me nervous.\nBear I haven’t used Bear for years. Also for years, they were promising a new text engine. Agenda has taken over the role Bear once played.\nUlysses I sometimes use Ulysses for work-related writing, but that’s about it. Any Markdown writing is done somewhere else, such as Drafts or iA Writer.\nDEVONthink Pro It’s like infrastructure in my system. I keep things in there. But I don’t enjoy using it. It has the capability to do almost everything that I use a whole bunch of other apps for. But it can be confusing, even after I’ve been using it for more than a decade.\nStockMarketEye I continue using the old version 4, despite version 5 being out for a few years. I like v4 more, plus its not a subscription. I don’t need much, and SME4 does enough.\nUpdate: As of a couple of weeks ago, StockMarketEye has closed down.\nReeder NetNewsWire took the crown.\nPDF Expert Wow, I haven’t used this for ages.\nBusyCal I’ve been on a Fantastical subscription for a couple of years, but don’t worry BusyCal because I’m coming back. The Fantastical price increases were too much, and I get BusyCal through Setapp, so come March I will be back as a full-time user.\n Apps that came close in 2022:\n Craft Bike Discord Day One ", "dateiso": "2023-11-15 15:08:58 +0800", "date": "3:08 p.m. on Nov 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/15/my-mac-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F15%2Fmy-mac-apps.html" }, { "id": 440, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This iPhone 15 Pronis my first one with an OLED screen and I love it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-13 21:02:49 +0800", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Nov 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/13/this-iphone-pronis.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F13%2Fthis-iphone-pronis.html" }, { "id": 441, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I keep getting older. Not even an iPhone 15 camera can change that.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-13 19:37:55 +0800", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Nov 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/13/i-keep-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F13%2Fi-keep-getting.html" }, { "id": 442, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Loki Season 2 and loved it. I wish it had a longer season but then it might have overstayed its welcome? 📺\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-13 14:09:05 +0800", "date": "2:09 p.m. on Nov 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/13/finished-loki-season.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F13%2Ffinished-loki-season.html" }, { "id": 443, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Look what arrived in Perth, Western Australia @rknightuk @prami@social.lol\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-09 17:32:37 +0800", "date": "5:32 p.m. on Nov 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/09/look-what-arrived.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F09%2Flook-what-arrived.html" }, { "id": 444, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Publish Quote - HeyDingus\n This shortcut provides a quick and easy way to publish a quote from a Safari webpage (or in-app Safari web view), with or without a comment, to Micro.blog. Just select the text you want to quote, hit the share button in the toolbar, and run this shortcut. You’re given the option to add a comment and review the text before publishing.\n I really like this Shortcut that Jarrod Blundy has created.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-07 20:32:11 +0800", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Nov 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/07/publish-quote-heydingus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F07%2Fpublish-quote-heydingus.html" }, { "id": 445, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The RBA slugs the economy with another 0.25% interest rate rise. What a terrible decision. Monetary policy is a blunt instrument that smashes those who can least afford it, and benefits those who already have it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-07 12:26:02 +0800", "date": "12:26 p.m. on Nov 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/07/the-rba-slugs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F07%2Fthe-rba-slugs.html" }, { "id": 446, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Duel of the Defaults from @HemisphericViews is building community momentum. Thanks to @rknightuk for creating a collections site.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-05 07:57:56 +0800", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Nov 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/05/duel-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F05%2Fduel-of-the.html" }, { "id": 447, "type": "post", "title": "Duel of the Defaults: My List", "text": "On Episode 097 of my podcast Hemispheric Views we held a Duel of the Defaults! competition. Jason and Martin fought head-to-head to see who used the most default apps on macOS. As I was the compere and judge of the competition, it wasn’t for me to speak of my choices during the show.\nFor the sake of the record, and to follow some of our loyal listeners who have blogged their defaults, here is my list:\n Mail Client: Apple Mail \u0026amp; Fastmail Web App (plus MailMate) Mail Server: Fastmail \u0026amp; Apple Mail Notes: Obsidian (plus Agenda \u0026amp; Apple Notes) To-Do: OmniFocus iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app Photo Management: Photos.app Calendar: BusyCal (plus Calendar.app) Cloud file storage: iCloud (plus OneDrive) RSS: Reeder with FreshRSS Contacts: Contacts.app Browser: Safari (plus Arc) Chat: Signal Bookmarks: GoodLinks Read It Later: Readwise Reader (will be moving back to Omnivore) Word Processing: Pages Spreadsheets: Numbers (plus Excel) Presentations: Keynote Shopping Lists: AnyList Meal Planning: AnyList Budgeting \u0026amp; Personal Finance: YNAB News: Apple News (plus ABC RSS feed) Music: Apple Music Podcasts: Overcast Password Management: 1Password I encourage you to join in the fun, both by blogging your defaults and listening to our show.\n 2023-11-05 Update with Score On Mastodon, Jarrod Blundy asked about my score.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve calculated it to be 38!\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-04 15:03:52 +0800", "date": "3:03 p.m. on Nov 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/11/04/duel-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F11%2F04%2Fduel-of-the.html" }, { "id": 448, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m having fun editing @HemisphericViews this week for E097. It\u0026rsquo;s a different and fun episode coming up!\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-30 13:56:07 +0800", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Oct 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/10/30/im-having-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F10%2F30%2Fim-having-fun.html" }, { "id": 449, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Four months ago I took an opportunity for a career change. A move from consulting to managing two Centres of not-for-profit WA Police \u0026amp; Community Youth Centres. It\u0026rsquo;s been an opportunity to learn, grow and improve. What I love most is working for my staff. The people at Rockingham and Fremantle Centres are first-class. As their manager it\u0026rsquo;s my job to make their work days better. When employees are happy, customers win. Culture is king.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-26 10:45:13 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Oct 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/10/26/four-months-ago.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F10%2F26%2Ffour-months-ago.html" }, { "id": 450, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tim Cook chasing more of that sweet services revenue. A 16% increase! Even though I don’t use Arcade \u0026amp; Fitness they still have me over a barrel.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-26 07:59:10 +0800", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Oct 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/10/26/tim-cook-chasing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F10%2F26%2Ftim-cook-chasing.html" }, { "id": 451, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can hardly believe I\u0026rsquo;ve installed Obsidian again. It didn\u0026rsquo;t gel with me last time; let\u0026rsquo;s give it another go.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-22 16:14:28 +0800", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Oct 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/10/22/i-can-hardly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F10%2F22%2Fi-can-hardly.html" }, { "id": 452, "type": "post", "title": "Totally Killer, 2023 - ★★★", "text": "A fun movie that doesn’t take itself seriously and works as a result.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-21 23:36:07 +0800", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Oct 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/10/21/totally-killer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F10%2F21%2Ftotally-killer.html" }, { "id": 453, "type": "post", "title": "Champions, 2023 - ★★★½", "text": "A fun, heartwarming movie that is a good reminder that sport should be fun.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-17 23:34:36 +0800", "date": "11:34 p.m. on Oct 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/10/17/champions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F10%2F17%2Fchampions.html" }, { "id": 454, "type": "post", "title": "Fair Play, 2023 - ★", "text": "Molasses moves faster than the plot of this movie. Bad in so, so many ways.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-16 23:04:36 +0800", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Oct 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/10/16/fair-play.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F10%2F16%2Ffair-play.html" }, { "id": 455, "type": "post", "title": "Jarrod Blundy on Really Specific Stories", "text": "My friend Martin is a great interviewer on his podcast, Really Specific Stories.\nAnd thanks to Jarrod for mentioning Hemispheric Views!\nMy Appearance on ‘Really Specific Stories’ - HeyDingus:\n That, along with this being my very first time on the speaking side of a podcast rather than the listening side, made me quite nervous, but it paradoxically felt both exhilarating and completely comfortable to just chat with an internet friend. All those hours listening to RSS and another of Martin’s shows, the also great Hemispheric Views made it easy to jump into our conversation.\n I enjoyed hearing from Jarrod just as much as I did other Internet luminaries such as John Siracusa, John Gruber and Jason Burk.\nLike and subscribe today!\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-03 15:54:25 +0800", "date": "3:54 p.m. on Oct 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/10/03/jarrod-blundy-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F10%2F03%2Fjarrod-blundy-on.html" }, { "id": 456, "type": "post", "title": "Object Linking \u0026 Embedding", "text": "This article was originally written for the November 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus.\n Martin has set me a challenge as to what to write about this month. He told me I have to write something about old office technology; maybe an office app feature that I used to use, or something similar.\nBecause I\u0026rsquo;m so old, I have many topics to potentially write about; but also because I\u0026rsquo;m old I have forgotten so many of them.\nIdeas that I considered and discarded: fax machines, binding machines, shredders, Lotus Notes, Windows NT Workstation\u0026hellip; All great things that I had to deal with that Martin did not.\nToday, however, I wish to write about Object Linking and Embedding.\nIn our current era we take embedding items as a given, notably in web pages, where elements are easily embedded, be they Flickr images, Twitter tweets, or podcast episodes. Adding multiple content forms in a single page is not innovative in 2022.\nThere was a time, however, where embedding items from one place into another was indeed innovative. It was Microsoft leading the innovation as they pushed the concept of OLE - Object Linking and Embedding. How amazing would it be to embed a live spreadsheet chart into your Word document. Make a change in the spreadsheet, and suddenly the chart data in your report is updated! Incredible! Excel not cool enough for you? No problem, create a view in Access and include that in your Word file. This was a time when the combined power of the MS Office Suite with its stylised puzzle art design on the box, actually made sense. You weren\u0026rsquo;t using a single application one at a time; you were working within a connected ecosystem.\n At least\u0026hellip; that was the dream.\nNow it\u0026rsquo;s time to hit you with a dose of the reality from those times I tried to use OLE in a meaningful way within a work context. There were a number of drawbacks that I can recall — and I\u0026rsquo;m sure there were others that I do not. Let\u0026rsquo;s work through the shortlist of those I do:\n PC Speed. The 166 MHz Pentium I was probably using, that would also have had limited RAM, didn\u0026rsquo;t love running multiple applications at one time. Having to run an instance of one program inside another one; well that made everything that much worse. Hard Drives. Have you forgotten how slow spinning hard drives are? Try to think how slow a 5400RPM drive, running in an old PC with limited throughput, might handle swap files, which once OLE was enabled, was an automatic outcome. File Servers \u0026amp; Sharing. This was an era of local files and a bit of network sharing via Novell Netware, or maybe the first instance of Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s network stack. I recall for a long time we had to use a terrible Document Management System called Hummingbird, which added version control and check-in/check-out features. Now imagine how well a system like that worked when one file was calling the contents of another file embedded within it. More often than not, if it was somebody else opening the file, they wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have access to the embedded data. Printing. We used to print a lot. It was surprisingly difficult to get the window into the data displayed on screen in such a way that it would also print that way. And heaven help you if somebody clicked inside the OLE to activate it. There went your careful print-aligned view. To be fair to Microsoft, they weren\u0026rsquo;t the only company going down this path. Apple tried something similar with the OpenDoc standard. It too, didn\u0026rsquo;t deliver.\nIn hindsight, all these years on, it is evident that this technology didn\u0026rsquo;t work. The ideas, however, of embedded content and live data, made sense. With web applications backed by database systems we\u0026rsquo;ve now arrived at a similar destination, albeit via a different route. However, I\u0026rsquo;m still not sure we have hit upon a complete standard, that OLE tried to deliver.\nMaybe one day. For now, though, I do not miss OLE.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-03 13:23:18 +0800", "date": "1:23 p.m. on Oct 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/10/03/object-linking-embedding.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F10%2F03%2Fobject-linking-embedding.html" }, { "id": 457, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not sure if this is a compliment or a brickbat, but I think I prefer micro.blog as a Sonoma Safari app ahead of the native Mac app. Sorry @manton and @vincent\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-28 20:32:31 +0800", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Sep 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/28/not-sure-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F28%2Fnot-sure-if.html" }, { "id": 458, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "End of month YNAB life. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-27 09:39:30 +0800", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Sep 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/27/end-of-month.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F27%2Fend-of-month.html" }, { "id": 459, "type": "post", "title": "Cannonball, 1976 - ★★", "text": "I really wanted to watch Cannonball Run! but I got this instead. The 1970s were a simpler time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-26 12:07:34 +0800", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Sep 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/26/cannonball.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F26%2Fcannonball.html" }, { "id": 460, "type": "post", "title": "Reading Ross Gittins on Economics", "text": "I enjoy reading Ross Gittins' articles on economics. He is doing a great job of highlighting the many failures of the neoliberal dogma in Australia.\nROSS GITTINS: What's kept us from full employment is a bad idea that won't die:\n Wages have risen in response to the higher cost of living, but have failed to rise by anything like the rise in prices. Why? Because, seemingly unnoticed by the econocrats, workers’ bargaining power against employers has declined hugely since the 1970s.\n This is so key. When I was in university, the Phillips Curve was being boosted as the saviour solution. I\u0026rsquo;ve changed, and economic thinking needs to change as well.\nUnions have been neutered. Individualised long-term contracts have nobbled any opportunity for people to achieve meaningful wage growth; unless you\u0026rsquo;re a CEO in which case your performance bonuses alone will see your income skyrocket year-on-year.\nOur major economic problems are that trickle-down economics didn\u0026rsquo;t trickle—rather it locked in wage growth benefits to the elite—and that the value of capital has been overvalued at the expense of labour. Which benefits the elite, who are the continued proponents of neoliberalism. Wow, who would have thought?\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-25 07:49:36 +0800", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Sep 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/25/reading-ross-gittins.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F25%2Freading-ross-gittins.html" }, { "id": 461, "type": "post", "title": "NextDNS or Pi-Hole?", "text": "I’ve been using NextDNS for a few years to block ads. Previous to it I used Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi. With the terrible AUD-USD exchange rate, I’m contemplating a return to Pi-Hole, but this time via Docker running on a Mac mini. Does anybody have any experience with this setup? I don’t want to have to do a lot of fiddling around and regular maintenance.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-24 10:06:58 +0800", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Sep 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/24/nextdns-or-pihole.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F24%2Fnextdns-or-pihole.html" }, { "id": 462, "type": "post", "title": "Climate Change Stripes for Perth, Western Australia", "text": "Depressing; alarming.\nThis is an emergency.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-24 09:04:20 +0800", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Sep 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/24/climate-change-stripes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F24%2Fclimate-change-stripes.html" }, { "id": 463, "type": "post", "title": "Today’s Advice: Don’t Get Old", "text": "I know, the advice is meaningless because age is undefeated. The world turns, time moves ever forward, and we get old. If you can manage to avoid the process, though, I recommend you do.\nMy latest ageing problem is a pulled back muscle that has entirely incapacitated me for one day, and three days later continues to prevent me from walking properly, putting on pants, or picking up things I have dropped. The worst part about said back complaint is how I did it… by walking. Nothing crazy; nothing energetic. I was at work walking between locations. If that doesn’t say “ageing man”, then I don’t know what does.\nWhen I was young this sort of thing didn’t happen to me. But I’m succumbing to ageing. Stupid progress of time. Not happy.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-23 12:30:11 +0800", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Sep 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/23/todays-advice-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F23%2Ftodays-advice-dont.html" }, { "id": 464, "type": "post", "title": "Case Study: The Weekly Cost of an iPhone", "text": "Hemispheric Views - Blog - Case Study: The Weekly Cost of an iPhone:\n During the episode recording I referenced the spreadsheet as I was describing my decision to buy an iPhone 15 Pro. I rattled off some statistics, but Martin (appropriately) suggested I write a blog post that provides the necessary detail. Fun fact: the description of number series are not great content for an audio show.\n A blog post written by yours truly in support of a conversation had on Hemispheric Views Episode 094.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-22 20:20:14 +0800", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Sep 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/22/case-study-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F22%2Fcase-study-the.html" }, { "id": 465, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m going to give Stage Manager another honest try on iPadOS 17, with “More Space” set as the display resolution.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-21 14:24:45 +0800", "date": "2:24 p.m. on Sep 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/21/im-going-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F21%2Fim-going-to.html" }, { "id": 466, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Transforming the Difficult Child by Howard Glasser 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-21 11:09:46 +0800", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Sep 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/21/currently-reading-transforming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F21%2Fcurrently-reading-transforming.html" }, { "id": 467, "type": "post", "title": "Really Specific Stories: John Gruber", "text": "My friend and Hemispheric Views co-host Martin Feld was able to interview John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame for his podcast project, Really Specific Stories.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s incredible the line-up of guests Martin has been able to assemble for this podcast series.\nLet\u0026rsquo;s fireball the feed!\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-19 12:24:46 +0800", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Sep 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/19/really-specific-stories.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F19%2Freally-specific-stories.html" }, { "id": 468, "type": "post", "title": "Dr Drang's Shell Script for Blank Calendars", "text": "A shell script for blank calendars - All this:\n I wanted a script to help me print out blank monthly calendars.\n Oh Dr. Drang, where have you and this script been my whole life?\nThe steps I have gone to to get blank calendars in the past. Now I can simply run your script.\nThank you!\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-18 10:42:41 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Sep 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/18/dr-drangs-shell.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F18%2Fdr-drangs-shell.html" }, { "id": 469, "type": "post", "title": "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004 - ★★", "text": "Some nice moments but this film felt like it ran for 4 hours.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-17 22:29:18 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Sep 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/17/the-life-aquatic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F17%2Fthe-life-aquatic.html" }, { "id": 470, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Love this end frame quote from Young Sheldon. If this doesn’t describe Trump I’m not sure what does.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-16 22:26:54 +0800", "date": "10:26 p.m. on Sep 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/16/love-this-end.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F16%2Flove-this-end.html" }, { "id": 471, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Dad joke for today:\nQ: What do you call an extra vegetable?\nA: A-spare-agus.\n🥁\nI’m here all week, folks!\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-16 18:09:08 +0800", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Sep 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/16/my-dad-joke.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F16%2Fmy-dad-joke.html" }, { "id": 472, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I preordered an IPhone! This will be the first time I’ve had a Pro designation. My history as best I can remember it is: 3G, 5, 5S, 8, XR, SE, SE2, 13 mini. Soon to be 15 Pro.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-16 13:32:30 +0800", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Sep 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/16/i-preordered-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F16%2Fi-preordered-an.html" }, { "id": 473, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today at work I casually sketched out a swimlane diagram as I listened to a colleague describe a process. Can\u0026rsquo;t decide if I was a good management consultant for so many years, or I\u0026rsquo;m just a nerd now.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-14 19:28:49 +0800", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Sep 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/14/today-at-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F14%2Ftoday-at-work.html" }, { "id": 474, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Apple event was most underwhelming, even with low expectations. Evidence perhaps the iPhone in current form has reached its zenith. While I’m tired of having a too small for me 13 mini, it’s hard to justify the expense (and the environmental impact) of an upgrade.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-13 22:18:24 +0800", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Sep 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/13/the-apple-event.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F13%2Fthe-apple-event.html" }, { "id": 475, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Heading into another Apple event, and I\u0026rsquo;m not that jazzed about this one. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to be too excited when the most impactful development is likely to be USB-C. However, I am still looking forward to moving beyond my too small for my big hands iPhone 13 mini. Great in my pocket; not great in my hand.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-12 21:27:21 +0800", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Sep 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/12/heading-into-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F12%2Fheading-into-another.html" }, { "id": 476, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve cancelled my Backblaze account. Photos continue to be backed up across iCloud and Flickr. Everything else? 🤷‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-10 16:45:19 +0800", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Sep 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/10/ive-cancelled-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F10%2Five-cancelled-my.html" }, { "id": 477, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m enjoying Kagi a lot. Am I seriously going to pay for a search engine? I’m not a normal internet user.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-09 11:49:59 +0800", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Sep 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/09/im-enjoying-kagi.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F09%2Fim-enjoying-kagi.html" }, { "id": 478, "type": "post", "title": "The Challenge of Podcast Discovery", "text": "This article was originally written for the October 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus.\n A couple of weeks ago I inserted a thread into the Mac Power Users Forum. Part honest question, part hopeful Trojan Horse that might lead people to discover Hemispheric Views.\nThe topic of the thread was around how people discover new, independent podcasts. This is a problem that I don\u0026rsquo;t believe has been solved. In fact, I\u0026rsquo;m not sure the problem has even been considered in any meaningful way. The economics of podcast exploration don\u0026rsquo;t stack up. Closed ecosystems want to put their money behind their own properties. Independent podcast apps are so often not that independent, because they are \u0026ldquo;friends\u0026rdquo; with existing networks.\nOvercast is the great example here. Developer Marco Arment has his own successful podcast, and they are tight with Relay.fm. It is a clique and despite their power in the market, they don\u0026rsquo;t seem to be using it to lift others up.\nSo how do people discover podcasts? While machine learning might be helpful (other people who subscribe to your shows also subscribe to \u0026lsquo;x\u0026rsquo;), this could prove to be an amplifier of already successful shows, as well as being a potential negative privacy vector.\nI want to find new shows, new voices, but that have high production values. Basically, I want to find other versions of Hemispheric Views. At the same time, I want people to discover Hemispheric Views for themselves. The challenge is the old rule of Dunbar - 90% of everything is crap. How do you get people to wade through the crap to find the good stuff. It\u0026rsquo;s not exactly an enticing task. How do you convince people that the show you want to promote is not part of the 90%? How do you know it\u0026rsquo;s not part of the 90%?\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a dilemma and I don\u0026rsquo;t know how to solve it, and I don\u0026rsquo;t see much appetite from others to do so.\nDo our readers know of any great independent podcasts that deserve more listeners?\nAnd can our readers share the good news of Hemispheric Views? I want more people to enjoy our show.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-06 16:41:59 +0800", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Sep 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/06/the-challenge-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F06%2Fthe-challenge-of.html" }, { "id": 479, "type": "post", "title": "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023 - ★★★★", "text": "Just love the animation style. So impressive.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-02 21:23:44 +0800", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Sep 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/09/02/spiderman-across-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F09%2F02%2Fspiderman-across-the.html" }, { "id": 480, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love international basketball. I like that every couple of years I see the Head Coaches of each nation, and I remember them only from the previous tournament. Somw coaches I love, others I hate. All based on tournament impressions. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-30 21:20:39 +0800", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Aug 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/08/30/i-love-international.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F08%2F30%2Fi-love-international.html" }, { "id": 481, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don’t love.”\n— Ramit Sethi\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-29 17:35:44 +0800", "date": "5:35 p.m. on Aug 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/08/29/frugality-quite-simply.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2Ffrugality-quite-simply.html" }, { "id": 482, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve deactivated my LinkedIn profile and deleted all my social media apps (except Mona and Micro.blog). I’m done with big social media.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-29 17:16:02 +0800", "date": "5:16 p.m. on Aug 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/08/29/ive-deactivated-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2Five-deactivated-my.html" }, { "id": 483, "type": "post", "title": "RIP Warnock and the Hollowing of the Tech Industry", "text": "The passing of John Warnock brings to mind how few current tech “leaders” have technical prowess. Zuckerberg might be closest but he stole stuff to get ahead, Gates is retired, Musk is a snake oil salesman, Cook is a business guy. I wish the tech industry would get back to making useful things instead trying to get rich.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-22 22:43:39 +0800", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Aug 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/08/22/rip-warnock-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F08%2F22%2Frip-warnock-and.html" }, { "id": 484, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I know this is not a new insight, but the older I get the quicker life goes. Enjoy each moment because none of it lasts long.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-18 22:24:31 +0800", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Aug 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/08/18/i-know-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F08%2F18%2Fi-know-this.html" }, { "id": 485, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am so not ready to start my day.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-11 07:58:58 +0800", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Aug 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/08/11/i-am-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F08%2F11%2Fi-am-so.html" }, { "id": 486, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a test post using Scribe, a web-based text editor for micro.blog, developed by @amit. He is continually making new and interesting projects. The pop-over bubbles when text is selected is a nice touch.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-08 13:16:15 +0800", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Aug 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/08/08/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F08%2F08%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 487, "type": "post", "title": "Three Years of Hemispheric Views Feedback", "text": "Three Years of Hemispheric Views Feedback:\n 040 I am furious Andrew doesn’t use “Grand Canion” as a username everywhere because that is so fucking good\n Let\u0026rsquo;s face it, I probably should use that username everywhere.\nThis is just one of the many things I\u0026rsquo;ve rediscovered about myself and Hemispheric Views after reading this epic blog recap by @rknightuk. I am incredibly appreciative of the work Robb invested through his committed listening project of reviewing the entire back catalogue of our podcast.\nI think Hemispheric Views is a special podcast and I\u0026rsquo;m glad others think that too.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-05 17:25:24 +0800", "date": "5:25 p.m. on Aug 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/08/05/three-years-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F08%2F05%2Fthree-years-of.html" }, { "id": 488, "type": "post", "title": "The Value of Rest", "text": "This article was originally written for the September 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus.\n Beck Tench is a person whom I follow online. Beck has produced a range of content pertinent to her areas of interest as an academic. One of the topics Beck has written about includes the power of rest and what makes a restorative environment. I\u0026rsquo;ve always found this interesting. I\u0026rsquo;m not an academic but I do have a brain that grabs onto new and interesting thoughts, philosophies and approaches.\nRest by definition is restorative. If the body and soul are not being restored in a period of rest - then what is the point? But in this modern world, what is rest?\nI think mental rest is almost more important than physical rest for many of us. That is not to diminish physical rest - especially hours of sleep - but many of us as modern knowledge workers are not destroying our bides daily in the way the majority of the workforce once did.\nWe are, however, pressing our minds so much more, whether that be through higher-level thinking or information absorption. How many RSS feeds, podcasts, news articles, and social networks do you imbibe daily?\nThe point is, we need to give our brains a break. We need a chance to restore.\nRecently I enjoyed a week away in Exmouth - a remote town of Western Australia. Exmouth has bad internet. You may have surmised this when I called into Episode 064: Nested Jackets. On this holiday I was able to step away from the daily hosepipe of information. I allowed my mind a rest from the the thoughts of others and gave it a chance to focus on the here and now, and my own thoughts.\nIn addition, I gave my body more activity and motion than it usually gets - but an amount that is more healthy than what I typically achieve. This may seem opposed to my thoughts about rest. But what it meant was that I went to bed hours earlier than usual and got more sleep each night.\nThis additional rest was restorative.\nAnother element of Beck Tench\u0026rsquo;s thesis (as best I can tell) is that water is restorative. I experienced this to be true on my holiday. Between pool swims, ocean splashing and reef snorkelling seeing coral fish and turtles, being in and around water was restorative.\nWhat am I trying to say through this essay? Apart from corroborating what I\u0026rsquo;ve noticed Tench write about, it is an exhortation to myself to not lose touch of the value of stepping away; and to you, to encourage you to take a rest yourself.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-03 12:51:07 +0800", "date": "12:51 p.m. on Aug 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/08/03/the-value-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F08%2F03%2Fthe-value-of.html" }, { "id": 489, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The best podcast you’ve never listened to is 3 years old! Happy birthday @HemisphericViews\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-28 22:06:52 +0800", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Jul 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/07/28/the-best-podcast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F07%2F28%2Fthe-best-podcast.html" }, { "id": 490, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Bear is great television. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-25 23:13:37 +0800", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Jul 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/07/25/the-bear-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F07%2F25%2Fthe-bear-is.html" }, { "id": 491, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "No Meta apps (Instagram, Threads) load when IPv6 is enabled. Vanguard website doesn’t load when IPv6 is disabled. Argh.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-17 22:40:28 +0800", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Jul 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/07/17/no-meta-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F07%2F17%2Fno-meta-apps.html" }, { "id": 492, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Even when I’m not on Hemispheric Views, I’m on it. Episode 089\n\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-15 10:08:10 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Jul 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/07/15/even-when-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F07%2F15%2Feven-when-im.html" }, { "id": 493, "type": "post", "title": "Week One Done \u0026 Finished With a Flourish", "text": "Today I completed my first week at my new job. It\u0026rsquo;s been a whirlwind, but every day has been better than the previous one.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s been so many years since I started a new job that I wasn\u0026rsquo;t match fit in the process. I\u0026rsquo;d forgotten how to \u0026lsquo;start over\u0026rsquo;, so that in itself has been an experience.\nLearning what is expected of me, and figuring out how to implement that without getting lost in the minutiae becomes the next challenge. I need to keep my head elevated and focus on the strategic objectives, without getting too deep into the weeds of daily tasks. An interesting juggling act to think about over the coming weeks.\nToday, however, as part of NAIDOC Week, a bunch of the team got together to work on an indigenous-style artwork. We were provided with the starting template and then as a team we \u0026ldquo;completed the dots\u0026rdquo;. It was a great way to get to know everybody and bond while doing an activity that was quite meditative.\nThe team is a wonderful group. I haven\u0026rsquo;t done a team activity for such a long time, and this was a perfect way to end a first week at a new job.\nI am also proud of the painting. I think it looks fantastic!\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-07 20:24:00 +0800", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jul 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/07/07/week-one-done.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F07%2F07%2Fweek-one-done.html" }, { "id": 494, "type": "post", "title": "Browser-based Apps Just Aren't as Nice", "text": "I can\u0026rsquo;t believe that 40 years of computer software design has led us to a world where we are all reliant on a range of entirely bespoke browser-based apps. The tech world has really ended up in a basket-case of UI design.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t mind server-based stuff, but I love a native front-end. It\u0026rsquo;s such a shame that market economics has resulted in us running complex apps in an app that was never designed for that purpose. It\u0026rsquo;s such a massive kludge, retrofitting entire platforms into a web browser.\nNative code kits are sitting right there, and simply not being used.\nIt saddens me.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-06 22:07:47 +0800", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Jul 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/07/06/browserbased-apps-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F07%2F06%2Fbrowserbased-apps-just.html" }, { "id": 495, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Half-way through the first day of a new job. It\u0026rsquo;s been a long time since I\u0026rsquo;ve had to go through the rigamarole of induction. 💼\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-03 13:15:48 +0800", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Jul 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/07/03/halfway-through-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F07%2F03%2Fhalfway-through-the.html" }, { "id": 496, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wordle 739 2/6\n🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩\n🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩\nIt’s going to be a good day!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-28 08:04:44 +0800", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Jun 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/28/wordle-its-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F28%2Fwordle-its-going.html" }, { "id": 497, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That feeling when you’re enjoying the job of being a basketball commentator. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-23 23:08:17 +0800", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Jun 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/23/that-feeling-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F23%2Fthat-feeling-when.html" }, { "id": 498, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When the struggle is real, a walk can be the remedy. 🚶🏼‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-14 10:53:50 +0800", "date": "10:53 p.m. on Jun 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/14/when-the-struggle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F14%2Fwhen-the-struggle.html" }, { "id": 499, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m liking Tinylytics - a new project from @vincent. Giving me what I want to know, and nothing more, about site stats for my micro.blog site.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-13 14:28:04 +0800", "date": "2:28 p.m. on Jun 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/13/im-liking-tinylytics.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F13%2Fim-liking-tinylytics.html" }, { "id": 500, "type": "post", "title": "Binance ordered out of Nigeria", "text": "This could be a headline from The Onion. You know things are bad when Nigeria decides your business is too scammy to be allowed to operate in its country.\nBinance ordered out of Nigeria:\n Nigeria\u0026hellip;has ordered Binance to \u0026ldquo;immediately stop soliciting Nigerian investors in any form whatsoever\u0026rdquo;.\n I bet there are many Nigerian Princes happy to once again have a clear run at the market.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-11 16:14:34 +0800", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Jun 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/11/binance-ordered-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F11%2Fbinance-ordered-out.html" }, { "id": 501, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thinking about Slack\u0026rsquo;s fall from grace. Acquired by Salesforce. 🤮 Squeezed on the business side by Teams with typical Microsoft embrace, extend, extinguish. Squeezed by Discord from the casual side. Slack will probably keep limping on as a sad brand, Yahoo!-style, for years.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-11 11:02:30 +0800", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Jun 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/11/thinking-about-slacks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F11%2Fthinking-about-slacks.html" }, { "id": 502, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Friendships make my heart sing.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-10 12:12:01 +0800", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Jun 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/10/friendships-make-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F10%2Ffriendships-make-my.html" }, { "id": 503, "type": "post", "title": "Reddit is Enshittified", "text": "Social Media Deathwatch II - Mark writes:\n When a site tells you they don’t want you using it, except by their captured clients, you should stop using it. All they want is to control you and put ads in your eyeballs, until you explode.\n \u0026hellip;\n Reddit came out of Digg being fed into a woodchipper just because Kevin Rose wanted a little bit of money\u0026hellip;\n Don’t use closed networks owned by someone else.\n The enshittification of Reddit is now complete.\nChristian Selig, developer of the best Reddit client, Apollo, is shutting it down after he failed to comply with Reddit\u0026rsquo;s mafia-style multi-million dollar shakedown effort. Instead of paying the protection money, he is closing Apollo down.\nRemember all those cool tips about adding reddit to the end of your search term to find real results? That\u0026rsquo;s probably not going to be reliable much longer, because I think this is the first—and last—step to Reddit becoming an unmoderated cess pool of spam, devoid of helpful humans contributing good content.\nThis is a cycle that any venture capital-backed firm seems unable to fight against. The interest of community and users is sacrificed at the altar of money; those high priests seemingly unable to see that it is the community being sacrificed that generates the potential to make money in the first place.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve enjoyed Reddit. Maybe we need to reboot Usenet?\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-09 11:54:51 +0800", "date": "11:54 p.m. on Jun 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/09/reddit-is-enshittified.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F09%2Freddit-is-enshittified.html" }, { "id": 504, "type": "post", "title": "Keane on the RBA's Approach to Inflation", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m happy to see pressure mounting on the RBA. Not so much even for the decision to lift rates, but on it\u0026rsquo;s myopic approach to analysis. The economy has changed; it has become more integrated, and duopolies and oligopolies rule the Australian markets. A fundamental lack of competition is allowing the growth of profits, and the RBA currently seems unwilling to accept this as a line of thinking.\nBernard Keane, writing for Crikey, knocks it out of the park on the Reserve Bank of Australia\u0026rsquo;s approach to inflation.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s hard to choose a few highlights from Keane\u0026rsquo;s article; the entire piece is worthy of reading.\n The RBA wants to wish the entire profit-inflation debate away, seemingly enraged at the suggestion that gouging by firms with high levels of market power is a greater spur to inflation than the traditional villain: greedy workers demanding pay rises driving a wage-price spiral.\n \u0026hellip;\n the OECD weighed into the debate, devoting a section of its latest global economic forecasts to the issue. Its data specifically on Australia shows unit profits massively outweighing unit labour costs as a source of inflation.\n \u0026hellip;\n this bout of profit-driven inflation comes at the end of a near-decade of wage suppression, and a historic shift — especially since 2017 — from wages to profit share of income nationally. Merely preserving, let alone strengthening, profit margins in a period of high inflation perpetuates that shift from workers to business.\n \u0026hellip;\n Neoliberals have a blind spot when it comes to market concentration: the core idea that unfettered markets work more efficiently than highly regulated markets means a relative antipathy to effective competition laws designed to protect the very mechanism by which markets work efficiently.\n ", "dateiso": "2023-06-08 11:21:15 +0800", "date": "11:21 p.m. on Jun 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/08/keane-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F08%2Fkeane-on-the.html" }, { "id": 505, "type": "post", "title": "Monetising Latent Skills", "text": "Most people have a set of skills that aren\u0026rsquo;t monetised. These skills are often linked with hobbies or interests. Why don\u0026rsquo;t people make money from them?\nPerhaps there is no discernible market for the particular skill. Maybe the joy is removed when a transactional element is added. For whatever the reason, humans are adept at many things, and we often only get paid for a small aspect of the overall talent inherent within us.\nA large part of the economy is built around free labour in the form of volunteering (probably much to the disgust of neoliberals - unless they are receiving the fruits of the labour). Many volunteer in some capacity; whether it\u0026rsquo;s coaching their kid\u0026rsquo;s sports team, or sitting on the board of a not-for-profit organisation, or singing in their church choir. I\u0026rsquo;ve done volunteer work such as this, except singing in the choir. Nobody wants that.\nWhat latent skills do I have that could be put to use for some small financial gain? And what are the associated downsides or limiting factors?\n Skill Limiting Factor Podcast editing \u0026amp; production Niche Personal finance training Liability risk; licensed industry Apple product know-how Apple Store and search engines Basketball I\u0026rsquo;m not a coach Personal productivity \u0026amp; efficiency YouTube domination It\u0026rsquo;s a shame I\u0026rsquo;m not a handyperson. Physical labour continues to be one area that is clearly linked to a necessity—and a willingness—to pay.\nHowever, if you see a skill of mine listed that you think could help you, let me know. I may be willing and able to help.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-08 10:35:28 +0800", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Jun 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/08/monetising-latent-skills.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F08%2Fmonetising-latent-skills.html" }, { "id": 506, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh no, now I\u0026rsquo;m going down a Safari versus Arc versus Vivaldi browser showdown rabbit hole. 🕳️🐇\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-07 22:43:00 +0800", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Jun 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/07/oh-no-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F07%2Foh-no-now.html" }, { "id": 507, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh, is that all we have to do? More gold from the guy earning in excess of $900,000 per year from his one job.\n “People can cut back spending, and in some cases find additional hours of work that will put them back into a positive cash flow position.”\n – RBA Governor Philip Lowe\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-07 14:44:06 +0800", "date": "2:44 p.m. on Jun 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/07/oh-is-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F07%2Foh-is-that.html" }, { "id": 508, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Creating rice outline islands with my boys.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-06 20:01:59 +0800", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Jun 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/06/creating-rice-outline.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F06%2Fcreating-rice-outline.html" }, { "id": 509, "type": "post", "title": "Neoliberalism Gives Again", "text": "The \u0026ldquo;party\u0026rdquo; that is neoliberalism has been giving our society gift after gift.\nWe\u0026rsquo;ve had corruption and self-interest at the highest levels, as PwC executives had their snouts in the trough on both sides of the consulting equation, giving legislative design advice to government then flipping that information and advising their corporate customers on ways around said legislation.\nWe\u0026rsquo;ve had executive wages grow exponentially over recent years, irrespective of their performance, or that of the company they lead. (Hi, Alan Joyce of Qantas!) We see executives engaging more consultants and labour-hire at the expense of full-time wage earners.\nWe\u0026rsquo;ve had companies making extraordinary profits, helped by government supports such as JobKeeper (Harvey Norman excelled at this one.)\nYet workers have not benefited from the neoliberalism party. They\u0026rsquo;ve just had to buy the drinks then clean up the mess the next morning.\nWorkers have seen their share of the economic pie decrease over time. From ABC News in March 2019:\n In the two years preceding 2019, Australian workers received the lowest share of total economic output since the 1950s - less than 47% of GDP. This is a decline of 11% since the 1970s. Corporate profits have increased 10% in that same time.\n Wage stagnation—which is one of the design outcomes of the neoliberalist agenda—is another problem. The economy might have a high level of headline employment, but due to low levels of worker organisation (unionisation has been demonised for years) combined with individualised contracts and wages that are set for multiple years in advance, workers can\u0026rsquo;t leverage the high rates of employment to broker a better deal for themselves. The cards are stacked against them.\nToday, we received another gift courtesy of the neoliberalism inherent in our economy. The Reserve Bank of Australia has determined that what our economy needs is yet another interest rate rise. Never mind that this generation of Australians are facing the highest home prices of all time, and that as a share of household income, mortgages are eating more than has historically been the case.\nCanceling Netflix and not getting Uber Eats once a week is not going to make a dent in the additional mortgage repayments required of a household. Where is the extra money to be found? Surely we are nearing the point where the RBA is expecting people to find blood from a proverbial stone.\nI predict a major economic calamity for Australia, and it\u0026rsquo;s not going to be pretty. My only hope is that it destroys whatever credibility neoliberalisms might have. At least then, something will have been gained from the misery.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-06 16:21:15 +0800", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Jun 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/06/neoliberalism-gives-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F06%2Fneoliberalism-gives-again.html" }, { "id": 510, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So we are at the point where the feature update for macOS is\u0026hellip; screensavers. Better for energy efficiency, and thus climate change, to simply have the screen turn off.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-06 14:47:50 +0800", "date": "2:47 p.m. on Jun 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/06/so-we-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F06%2Fso-we-are.html" }, { "id": 511, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sick day. Watching episodes of Seinfeld.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-05 14:45:33 +0800", "date": "2:45 p.m. on Jun 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/05/sick-day-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F05%2Fsick-day-watching.html" }, { "id": 512, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve discovered the music artist Jelly Roll. Really digging his sound. 🎵\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-05 12:09:14 +0800", "date": "12:09 p.m. on Jun 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/05/ive-discovered-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F05%2Five-discovered-the.html" }, { "id": 513, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s storming outside. I’m sick and don’t have a voice. Today’s Public Holiday is wasted on me. My boy wanted me to feel better so brought me breakfast in bed. 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-05 09:38:18 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Jun 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/05/its-storming-outside.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F05%2Fits-storming-outside.html" }, { "id": 514, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Life admin takes up an inordinate amount of time, effort and resources. Problem with having a task manager is nothing ever gets lost in the mix. Full personal accountability can be a real bear.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 22:37:10 +0800", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/04/life-admin-takes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Flife-admin-takes.html" }, { "id": 515, "type": "post", "title": "The Whale, 2022 - ★★★★", "text": "Incredible acting supported by great lighting and the 4:3 aspect ratio.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 10:39:54 +0800", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/04/the-whale.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Fthe-whale.html" }, { "id": 516, "type": "post", "title": "The Redeem Team, 2022 - ★★★½", "text": "Turns out I like Carmelo Anthony, even though he carved up Australia when playing for USA.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-01 21:22:56 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Jun 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/06/01/the-redeem-team.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F06%2F01%2Fthe-redeem-team.html" }, { "id": 517, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Arcadia June, the annual @HemisphericViews gaming event, is getting underway. Check out our launch video!\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-31 17:28:27 +0800", "date": "5:28 p.m. on May 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/31/arcadia-june-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F31%2Farcadia-june-the.html" }, { "id": 518, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How the heck was this opening sequence from Apple 10 years ago? Feels like last week. via @jarrod\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-29 22:35:04 +0800", "date": "10:35 p.m. on May 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/29/how-the-heck.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F29%2Fhow-the-heck.html" }, { "id": 519, "type": "post", "title": "Where Have I Been?", "text": "I think this list is complete, and compiled in no particular order. Thanks @manton for the inspiration.\n 🇮🇹 Italy 🇻🇦 Vatican City 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇨🇳 China 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇯🇵 Japan 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇺🇸 United States of America New York Washington D.C. Virginia West Virginia Tennessee California Texas Florida 🇦🇺 Australia Tasmania (born) Perth (reside) Darwin Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Canberra ", "dateiso": "2023-05-29 13:12:28 +0800", "date": "1:12 p.m. on May 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/29/where-have-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F29%2Fwhere-have-i.html" }, { "id": 520, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Post-soccer hangs with The Booj.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-27 11:34:28 +0800", "date": "11:34 p.m. on May 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/27/postsoccer-hangs-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F27%2Fpostsoccer-hangs-with.html" }, { "id": 521, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looking forward to commentating #NBL1 West action between Perth Redbacks and East Perth Eagles, streaming on Kayo Freebies tonight. 🏀 🎙️\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-26 12:05:38 +0800", "date": "12:05 p.m. on May 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/26/looking-forward-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F26%2Flooking-forward-to.html" }, { "id": 522, "type": "post", "title": "My Favourite App — Not Spoiled in the Title", "text": "This article was originally written for the August 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus.\n I\u0026rsquo;ve written about my favourite apps before, namely OmniFocus and DEVONthink. I starting to learn and enjoy anther app — Logseq — but I don\u0026rsquo;t feel I\u0026rsquo;m in a position to yet write about it with too much authority.\nI use a whole toolkit of apps on a regular basis to get my work done and enjoy my computing time. All these apps (and others) are great to use but I don\u0026rsquo;t feel compelled to write about them here now.\nUpon consideration, I am going to write about another app that I use every day. It\u0026rsquo;s an app that you can install on macOS, iOS and iPadOS and experience a consistent and enjoyable experience. It\u0026rsquo;s an app that will cost you nothing - it\u0026rsquo;s free, as in beer. It can work alone or sync with services and share content to other apps.\nA Universal app, that is free, that is a perfect citizen on the OS. Universal, free, perfect\u0026hellip; Are you getting it?\nThat\u0026rsquo;s right, it\u0026rsquo;s NetNewsWire. One the most Mac-assed Mac apps you can find, that is also an iOS and iPadOS-assed app as well. NetNewsWire has had more lives than your local cat. I remember using it eons ago when it looked like a more exciting version of Mail.app. Then it had its dark days when it was owned by Black Pixel and left to wither. Then once again under the stewardship of its original author, Brent Simmons, it was brought back, this time into the open-source community.\nNetNewsWire is a wonderful app. It doesn\u0026rsquo;t do everything. If you want everything, get Reeder 5. If you\u0026rsquo;re content with everything you need, get NNW.\nBut what is it? C\u0026rsquo;mon, this is a Hemispheric Views newsletter. You know its an RSS reader. Reading web pages via RSS is a feature that I have used almost every day for probably about 20 years. I used Bloglines. I used Google Reader. I used FeedWrangler. I used Feedly. Now I use Inoreader. Others use Feedbin. With NNW, you can continue to use RSS syncing services, or you can rely on its internal sync engine that leverages iCloud. I will probably do that once my Inoreader subscription expires.\n NNW has a few themes you can switch between, it can share to Read It Later services, and it can subscribe to Twitter and Reddit feeds in addition to regular RSS ones. Does it do much else? Not really. Is it absolutely rock-solid in what it does do? Yessiree. I\u0026rsquo;ve never once had NNW crash. It hardly uses any system resources. It\u0026rsquo;s blazing fast. It has one job and it does it.\nI love NNW and I think you will too. It costs nothing to give it a try. Why not do so?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-25 09:52:53 +0800", "date": "9:52 p.m. on May 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/25/my-favourite-app.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F25%2Fmy-favourite-app.html" }, { "id": 523, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What happened to Roam Research? For a while it was the talk of the internet. Has Obsidian entirely cut its lunch?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 23:01:13 +0800", "date": "11:01 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/22/what-happened-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Fwhat-happened-to.html" }, { "id": 524, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So it seems I will once again be addicted to a Zelda game. 🕹️\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 12:54:02 +0800", "date": "12:54 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/22/so-it-seems.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Fso-it-seems.html" }, { "id": 525, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I watched Seinfeld S1E1. It holds up relatively well, apart from some of the stand-up bits that don\u0026rsquo;t factor in modern phone technology and riff on normative gender stereotypes. The episode itself was still a lot of fun. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-21 22:20:50 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on May 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/21/i-watched-seinfeld.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F21%2Fi-watched-seinfeld.html" }, { "id": 526, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-21 11:30:34 +0800", "date": "11:30 p.m. on May 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/21/currently-reading-atomic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F21%2Fcurrently-reading-atomic.html" }, { "id": 527, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: The Tools by Phil Stutz 📚 As with any “self-help” book, application is the key. Interesting how in alignment with stoicism many of the concepts are. There is nothing new in the world.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-19 08:14:38 +0800", "date": "8:14 p.m. on May 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/19/finished-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F19%2Ffinished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 528, "type": "post", "title": "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, 2023 - ★★★½", "text": "I like that I don’t need to be an MCU nerd to enjoy this film. I didn’t like the music in this as much as the first two, but playing from a brown Zune makes up for it. The corridor scene is epic.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-19 06:15:43 +0800", "date": "6:15 p.m. on May 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/19/guardians-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F19%2Fguardians-of-the.html" }, { "id": 529, "type": "post", "title": "Hemispheric Views 084", "text": "Discord voice messages are like a podcast in a podcast! Voyager crushed Eurovision, and you know it! Operation Employ Andrew is full steam ahead, and @martinfeld is leading the campaign. Wait, you can play games on a Mac!? Have you tried text-only toolbars? You should! Finally, why are all these tins full of buttons!? Listen to Hemispheric Views 084 now! @HemisphericViews @Burk\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-18 15:31:43 +0800", "date": "3:31 p.m. on May 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/18/hemispheric-views.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F18%2Fhemispheric-views.html" }, { "id": 530, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "andrewcanion.com/cv\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-16 09:59:05 +0800", "date": "9:59 p.m. on May 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/16/andrewcanioncomcv.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F16%2Fandrewcanioncomcv.html" }, { "id": 531, "type": "post", "title": "Everything is Going to Be Alright", "text": "I was a young teenager in the early 1990s. My brother, 11 years my senior, had children early in his life. He would often come back to the family home and bring his young son and daughter with him.\nAs the older Uncle Andy, I had responsibility for entertaining the boy. What a pain he was! Entirely obsessed with playing F/A 18 Interceptor on my Amiga 500, but so young that he could rarely get the bird off the carrier without crashing. Over and over he would try - driving me crazy in the process.\n\u0026ldquo;Alex!\u0026rdquo;, I would bellow, \u0026ldquo;go away and leave me alone!\u0026rdquo;\n Today, at 4:15am Perth time, little Alex hit the big time with Voyager, the band for whom plays he bass guitar and provides supporting vocals.\nAfter a near-miss in 2022 in the Australian Eurovision qualifiers with their song, Dreamer, this year they made it through to the Eurovision big show in Liverpool, UK.\nTheir song for this year_Promise_, is even better.\n The band absolutely slayed their semi-final. The song was great, the performance was impeccable, the lighting and staging first-class.\nWhen my little nephew Alex let out his gutteral, \u0026ldquo;riiiigghhttt\u0026rdquo;, I knew this performance was on the money. My annoying little nephew transformed into a rock superstar, and I\u0026rsquo;m here for it.\nMy 2023 has been a challenge. I\u0026rsquo;ve suffered the end of a marriage. I\u0026rsquo;m soon to lose my current job.\nYet for this 3 minutes of Eurovision all those personal challenges was washed away, as I jumped around a Perth lounge room at 4:15am with my two sons, all three of us belting out the lyrics, \u0026ldquo;everything is gonna be alright!\u0026rdquo;.\nFor Alex—for Voyager—who now push onto the Eurovision 2023 Grand Final, no matter what happens in that performance, everything is going to be alright. They\u0026rsquo;ve made it.\nFor me, dealing with one of the hardest times of my life, it was reassurance that everything is going to be alright for me also.\nThe annoying little nephew has taught his old uncle a good life lesson.\nI bet he still can\u0026rsquo;t land an F/A-18, though.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-12 06:30:58 +0800", "date": "6:30 p.m. on May 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/12/everything-is-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F12%2Feverything-is-going.html" }, { "id": 532, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Voyager just slayed at Eurovision! 🎶\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-12 04:29:30 +0800", "date": "4:29 p.m. on May 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/12/voyager-just-slayed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F12%2Fvoyager-just-slayed.html" }, { "id": 533, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "andrewcanion.com/cv\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-11 13:55:35 +0800", "date": "1:55 p.m. on May 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/11/andrewcanioncomcv.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F11%2Fandrewcanioncomcv.html" }, { "id": 534, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today it was confirmed that my current employment will end as of 30 June 2023. If anybody is looking for a person with broad knowledge and skills, get in touch! andrewcanion.com/cv\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-10 17:19:09 +0800", "date": "5:19 p.m. on May 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/10/today-it-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F10%2Ftoday-it-was.html" }, { "id": 535, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-10 06:54:53 +0800", "date": "6:54 p.m. on May 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/10/currently-reading-top.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F10%2Fcurrently-reading-top.html" }, { "id": 536, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In Hemispheric Views E083 I ask whether to mustache, or not to mustache. @Burk thinks Migration Assistant is fantastic. Do you have a series of items you carry around every day? We learn @martinfeld is actually in Europe and loves clubs with pokie machines. Plus depreciation is great!\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-05 14:34:26 +0800", "date": "2:34 p.m. on May 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/05/in-hemispheric-views.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F05%2Fin-hemispheric-views.html" }, { "id": 537, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey @amit I have noticed my stats page seems a little broken - under-reporting my post volume. Just wondering if there might be a bug with the plugin?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-02 21:13:27 +0800", "date": "9:13 p.m. on May 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/02/hey-amit-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F02%2Fhey-amit-i.html" }, { "id": 538, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: The Tools by Phil Stutz 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-02 00:05:52 +0800", "date": "12:05 p.m. on May 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/05/02/currently-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F05%2F02%2Fcurrently-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 539, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This week in NBL1 West basketball I am commentating Perth Redbacks v Willetton Tigers (women and men). These games will be broadcast on Kayo Sports Freebies. Watch the stream and enjoy my commentary!\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-26 17:05:03 +0800", "date": "5:05 p.m. on Apr 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/26/this-week-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F26%2Fthis-week-in.html" }, { "id": 540, "type": "post", "title": "Once Again, I'm Asking You to Suggest a Note-taking App", "text": "This article was originally written for the July 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus.\n It\u0026rsquo;s happening again. I\u0026rsquo;m feeling a degree of dissatisfaction with my note-taking app of choice.\nI thought Craft was going to be the one. It was as close to a macOS native application as I was going to find (albeit with Catalyst sensibilities) and features the ability to take topic notes, daily notes and collaborate with other people.\nCraft has been working well and my use-case was aligned with the vision the developers seemed to have for their own app.\nUntil\u0026hellip; venture capital. The company developing Craft wasn\u0026rsquo;t willing or able to build a business the old-fashioned way—by making a product and selling it for money. Well, they did do that (I paid!) but obviously the revenue wasn\u0026rsquo;t enough to pay the bills or deliver the desired return on investment. So venture capital provided at least $8m, and now Craft needs to find a way to not only cover costs, but deliver a return on a much larger amount of invested capital. They\u0026rsquo;ve chosen to do this by\u0026hellip; you guessed it\u0026hellip; pivoting to the business market.\nTheir newly revamped website no longer promotes the idea of attractive note creation for a motivated individual. Now, they are all about creating impactful documents, showing how Craft makes business documents more attractive than Word or Docs. Good luck to them, I say, if they think businesses care that much about how documents work - so much that they\u0026rsquo;re going add on a Craft subscription on top of their existing Microsoft 365 account. I can\u0026rsquo;t see companies going for that. Appearance doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter that much.\nFor me, now, I\u0026rsquo;m left using an app that is adjusting its focus towards a market that is not me. I can either roll with it - which I will at least until my current subscription (that just renewed for 12 months) runs out, or until there is another option that is immediately compelling.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve tried Obsidian before (have you heard the good word?) but it\u0026rsquo;s not for me. Just the other day I took advantage of a discount price to renew my Agenda subscription for another 12 months. I\u0026rsquo;m also now exploring Logseq, which is intriguing, despite being entirely non-native to macOS. Who knows, maybe I simply fall back to DEVONthink—the old workhorse.\nWhat I do know is that it\u0026rsquo;s disappointing that businesses don\u0026rsquo;t seem willing or able to build a product that is targeted at the home or individual user. Everything is about making it big and trying to attract that sweet corporate cash. Which leads to product design decisions that offer no benefit to home users.\nOh Craft, why have you put me in this position?\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-25 11:31:18 +0800", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Apr 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/25/once-again-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F25%2Fonce-again-im.html" }, { "id": 541, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve had doubts about this season of Ted Lasso but the Amsterdam episode is a welcome return to form. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-22 11:37:45 +0800", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Apr 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/22/ive-had-doubts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F22%2Five-had-doubts.html" }, { "id": 542, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s always been this myth that really neat, fun people at home all of [a] sudden get very dull and boring and serious when they come to work, and it\u0026rsquo;s simply not true. So if we can again inject that liberal-arts spirit into this very serious realm of business, I think it would be a worthwhile contribution.\u0026rdquo;\n – book.stevejobsarchive.com\nI love this quote from Steve Jobs. With my own ageing my work persona has become less serious. I have no desire to be dull and boring.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-21 12:20:52 +0800", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Apr 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/21/theres-always-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F21%2Ftheres-always-been.html" }, { "id": 543, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This special guest episode of Hemispheric Views features the wonderful Scot Hacker, author of The BeOS Bible. We talk about the past, present and future in this great extended episode covering BeOS, photography and writing books.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-20 15:27:01 +0800", "date": "3:27 p.m. on Apr 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/20/this-special-guest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F20%2Fthis-special-guest.html" }, { "id": 544, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Djeran is definitely my favourite season in Perth. Perfect amount of warmth, I’m not getting sunburnt, and relatively little wind. I love it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-18 13:25:06 +0800", "date": "1:25 p.m. on Apr 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/18/djeran-is-definitely.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F18%2Fdjeran-is-definitely.html" }, { "id": 545, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just became moustachioed!\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-18 12:13:35 +0800", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Apr 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/18/i-just-became.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F18%2Fi-just-became.html" }, { "id": 546, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve liberated the archive of tweets from my @andrewcanion account, and set them free. Unfortunately the larger @canion archive remains on my local storage only. Thanks @manton for building this feature into micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-15 14:27:07 +0800", "date": "2:27 p.m. on Apr 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/15/ive-liberated-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F15%2Five-liberated-the.html" }, { "id": 547, "type": "post", "title": "The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023 - ★★½", "text": "Hits all the Mario tropes, and I got a few chuckles along the way. Mainly one for the kids, though.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-11 15:10:14 +0800", "date": "3:10 p.m. on Apr 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/11/the-super-mario.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F11%2Fthe-super-mario.html" }, { "id": 548, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tomorrow I am flying to Karratha to commentate the NBL1 basketball game between Geraldton Buccaneers and Perth Redbacks. It will be streamed live at 7pm (+8GMT) if you want to watch. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-07 12:28:23 +0800", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Apr 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/07/tomorrow-i-am.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F07%2Ftomorrow-i-am.html" }, { "id": 549, "type": "post", "title": "Air, 2023 - ★★½", "text": "A basketball movie about business - my kind of film! Would have benefited from some tighter editing, but it’s always a pleasure to watch Damon act.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-05 23:42:37 +0800", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Apr 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/05/air.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F05%2Fair.html" }, { "id": 550, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been watching this video of hit songs via kottke. My two takeaways: the 1980s was the era of epic bangers, and strong sexual innuendo in music video clips arrived around 2005.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-05 09:26:12 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Apr 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/05/ive-been-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F05%2Five-been-watching.html" }, { "id": 551, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: The Dry by Jane Harper 📚 I ruined this excellent whodunnit mystery by taking far too long to read it. Shame on me.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-04 09:41:36 +0800", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Apr 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/04/finished-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F04%2Ffinished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 552, "type": "post", "title": "Thank You for Smoking, 2005 - ★★★★", "text": "I was excited to rewatch this movie, until I saw the opening credits where both Elon Musk and Peter Thiel were listed as Executive Producers. Urgh.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-04 09:40:26 +0800", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Apr 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/04/thank-you-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F04%2Fthank-you-for.html" }, { "id": 553, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using an iPad in Centre Stage with a Studio Display is kind of compelling. I’ve just been bouncing between apps, servers, local servers, etc. With Spotlight to jump between it doesn’t feel terrible.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-02 22:40:56 +0800", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Apr 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/04/02/using-an-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F04%2F02%2Fusing-an-ipad.html" }, { "id": 554, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the Hemispheric Views Discord I diagrammed my cable connections after my recent setup change. I thought it would be fun to post it here, as well.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-30 12:50:45 +0800", "date": "12:50 p.m. on Mar 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/30/on-the-hemispheric.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F30%2Fon-the-hemispheric.html" }, { "id": 555, "type": "post", "title": "New Mac Setups", "text": "Today I restructured my computing setup. For about 2 years I\u0026rsquo;ve been running a MacBook Air M1 as a satellite device, keeping my 2019 Intel iMac as my centralised \u0026lsquo;home base\u0026rsquo;. The iMac had a nice screen, 40GB RAM and apart from at boot, never felt slow.\nTo the iMac were connected a bunch of devices, including a Stream Deck, JBL speakers, an EVO-4 audio interface, and a Time Machine drive.\nToday, I got sick of the whole setup. The slow load time and the flakiness it was showing with regard to iCloud Drive sync pushed me over the edge.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve promoted my MacBook Air to \u0026lsquo;home base\u0026rsquo; status. I\u0026rsquo;ve retired the JBL speakers, Stream Deck and Time Machine drive.\nFor the time being, I have access to a Studio Display, which I\u0026rsquo;m using as a great monitor. If I lose access to this, I can see myself buying another (perhaps even with nanotexture glass). The MacBook Air feels faster with a bigger screen!\nThe iMac isn\u0026rsquo;t entirely retired, although I\u0026rsquo;ve moved it into a retirement home, setting up a new computer desk in my front \u0026lsquo;library\u0026rsquo;. Now I can choose my computing location - study or library. It might be nice.\nIn all the changes, I considered promoting my mac mini to \u0026lsquo;home base\u0026rsquo; but the fact that I bought it with only 8 GB RAM, and the noise that its attached 4-bay Thunderbay drive array made meant that idea was short-lived. That machine is back in the closet running as the headless media server once again.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-26 20:37:22 +0800", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Mar 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/26/new-mac-setups.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F26%2Fnew-mac-setups.html" }, { "id": 556, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Intel iMac annoyed me one too many times. The closet/server M1 mac mini has been promoted to the production environment. Biggest loss? Going from 40GB RAM to 8GB. ☹️\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-25 12:53:04 +0800", "date": "12:53 p.m. on Mar 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/25/my-intel-imac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F25%2Fmy-intel-imac.html" }, { "id": 557, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why do all modern washing machines have such obnoxious beepers?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-24 11:03:15 +0800", "date": "11:03 p.m. on Mar 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/24/why-do-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F24%2Fwhy-do-all.html" }, { "id": 558, "type": "post", "title": "The Love Punch, 2013 - ★", "text": "This was bad. What were the contract terms that got Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan on board?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-22 20:37:03 +0800", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Mar 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/22/the-love-punch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F22%2Fthe-love-punch.html" }, { "id": 559, "type": "post", "title": "Living, 2022 - ★★★★", "text": "A great reflection on what is truly important in life. Supported by great cinematography and the audio treatment of the dialogue is lovely.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-22 00:48:58 +0800", "date": "12:48 p.m. on Mar 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/22/living.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F22%2Fliving.html" }, { "id": 560, "type": "post", "title": "Software Before Hardware", "text": "This article was originally written for the June 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus.\n Another WWDC has come and gone, and Apple have released the M2 and a new MacBook Air to go with it. Apple’s hardware continues to be refined and it’s hard to argue that they are not knocking all their new machines out of the park.\nThe thin and colourful iMac, the Studio with ports on the front, MacBook Pros and now the Air. Add on beautiful iOS devices and every piece of Apple hardware looks (and works) brilliantly.\nApple software, on the other hand, is not going well. I don’t know whether to blame the new design guy that took over from Jony Ive, the business managers who are trying to create consistency across platforms in the name of efficiency, or that SwiftUI seems to be entirely incapable of acting as the supporting infrastructure for feature rich applications (or even utilities).\nThe latest kerfuffle arrives in the form of the proposed “Setting” application in macOS Ventura. It’s ugly, it’s not optimised for the platform it’s operating on, and it feels like a regression from the “Preferences” panel that came before. Given that the Preferences panel was universally seen as “not great”, it is a sad indictment on Apple’s current ability to build good user-facing software that the rewrite is turning out to be worse.\nThere are other examples, such as the vertical orientation of notification panels in macOS, the notifications system on all platforms, and even larger software efforts such as GarageBand never embracing podcast editing, Podcasts app continuing to be average, etc.\nThe strange thing is, Apple is insanely great at developing low-level core frameworks. That they transitioned the entire macOS fleet to APFS without anybody realising is amazing. They built Metal - which goes chronically underused by game developers - but still they did it. Rosetta emulation is a masterpiece to aid the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon.\nI suppose no company can ever be perfect. Apple is doing great on the engineering side: highly technical work and manufacturing process management. They are not doing great on the softer design side. I think they need to take a new approach to software design, and that probably starts by changing their vision of what good software looks like. To me, it doesn’t mean everything looks like an iOS element. To me, it means embracing complexity where that complexity is beneficial to the user. There is no point making something look simple, if in using that simple design things get harder.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-20 12:05:41 +0800", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Mar 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/20/software-before-hardware.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F20%2Fsoftware-before-hardware.html" }, { "id": 561, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have the Brother HL-3170CDW laser printer. It prints. I like it. Nilay is right 🖨️\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-16 20:03:02 +0800", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Mar 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/16/i-have-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F16%2Fi-have-the.html" }, { "id": 562, "type": "post", "title": "A Relationship Well-lived", "text": " \u0026ldquo;So it goes\u0026rdquo;\n— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five\n I met Hannah Beazley in 1999.\nWe married on 19 March 2005.\nInnumerable highlights (and lowlights), some of which include:\n Establishment of a business, which together we ran for 5 years, then sold. Multiple overseas trips. Vietnam, Hong Kong, Italy, USA, Croatia, Singapore, Bali. Each of these trips with their own massive collection of memories and experiences. Hannah\u0026rsquo;s chronic medical challenges, which resulted in near death, as then virtually unknown hypereosinsophilia ravaged her body. Two children, when for the longest time we figured that number would be zero because of the aforementioned medical issues. Home ownership. Political campaigns, culminating in her becoming the Member for Victoria Park. 18 years of marriage.\nNow, that chapter comes to a close.\nLife is long. People grow and change. Wants and needs change and morph.\nI will never have another marriage, or even relationship, like the one I\u0026rsquo;ve had with Hannah. My heart sings with happiness about the time we\u0026rsquo;ve had together. I look forward to continuing to work with Hannah on our shared lifelong project of parenting our two beautiful boys. The time for romantic love, however, has come to an end. In its place is admiration, respect and appreciation for a friend who has been there through the highs and lows, and will continue to be there for our children as they experience the highs and lows of their own lives.\nStoicism has been a helpful support over the past few months. Concerning myself with the controllables, and letting everything else be, has been a great help. I thank my friends and family for their support. Emotions are hard and having shoulders has been a blessing.\nDespite the massive change this change of relationship status entails, I feel sanguine. A life is long. I have been rewarded with a successful relationship that lasted 24 years. This is a thing deserving of marvellous celebration. An end is not a failure. Our relationship brought two new incredible people into a world that needs more incredible people in it. Now that relationship closes, and I feel appreciation and kindness towards the one I shared it with. I am so grateful there is no domestic violence, hatred, drug abuse, or other negative elements. The relationship ran its course and ended well. That is a good thing.\nNow, Hannah and I both enter new phases of our lives, and we work to ensure our children understand that this can be a good thing for us and them.\nFor me, it\u0026rsquo;s an opportunity to once more spread my wings. To try new things, meet new people and explore the world on my own terms. There will be hard, lonely and depressing times. I know this to be true. But there is a chance for a recreation, a rebirth.\nI look forward to what comes next as I strive to live my best life.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-15 10:43:27 +0800", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Mar 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/15/a-relationship-welllived.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F15%2Fa-relationship-welllived.html" }, { "id": 563, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Did some window shopping at the Apple Store yesterday.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-15 08:16:40 +0800", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Mar 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/15/did-some-window.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F15%2Fdid-some-window.html" }, { "id": 564, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Listening to In Rainbows by Radiohead while drinking expensive whisky. What a life. 🎵🌈🥃\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-14 22:46:37 +0800", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Mar 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/14/listening-to-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F14%2Flistening-to-in.html" }, { "id": 565, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "canion dot blog slash save @HemisphericViews\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-14 12:24:09 +0800", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Mar 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/14/canion-dot-blog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F14%2Fcanion-dot-blog.html" }, { "id": 566, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve had a music evening. I love these nights. Ranged across Jónsi, R.E.M., Sloan, Dolly Parton, and Toby Martin, to name a few. 🎶\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-12 23:02:09 +0800", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Mar 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/12/ive-had-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F12%2Five-had-a.html" }, { "id": 567, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am enjoying reading The Daily Stoic each morning as a devotional. Today, this resonated.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-10 08:49:13 +0800", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Mar 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/10/i-am-enjoying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F10%2Fi-am-enjoying.html" }, { "id": 568, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My nephew Alex Canion doing media on ABC News. His band Voyager are going to be playing Eurovision in a couple of months!\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-08 15:51:14 +0800", "date": "3:51 p.m. on Mar 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/08/my-nephew-alex.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F08%2Fmy-nephew-alex.html" }, { "id": 569, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Perth today feels as though it\u0026rsquo;s the end of summer and perhaps an early end to Bunuru season. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t warm enough to swim today. It\u0026rsquo;s 7:25pm and it\u0026rsquo;s dark outside. Perth moves closer towards Djeran.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-05 19:29:20 +0800", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Mar 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/05/perth-today-feels.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F05%2Fperth-today-feels.html" }, { "id": 570, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: tile\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-05 16:51:45 +0800", "date": "4:51 p.m. on Mar 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/05/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F05%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 571, "type": "post", "title": "Bohemian Rhapsody, 2018 - ★★★★", "text": "Watched on Friday March 3, 2023.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-04 14:58:51 +0800", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Mar 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/04/bohemian-rhapsody.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F04%2Fbohemian-rhapsody.html" }, { "id": 572, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-04 13:02:47 +0800", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Mar 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/04/currently-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F04%2Fcurrently-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 573, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Parenting a son with autism is hard. The thunderstorms of rage pass, but lightning is fired from the maelstrom in the moment.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-03 20:16:00 +0800", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Mar 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/03/03/parenting-a-son.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F03%2F03%2Fparenting-a-son.html" }, { "id": 574, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My reward for mowing the lawn.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-26 17:21:13 +0800", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Feb 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/02/26/my-reward-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F02%2F26%2Fmy-reward-for.html" }, { "id": 575, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bed Update 🛏️: I appreciate all the thoughts and suggestions. I went with the expensive, local-manufactured option. Supporting Western Australian small business! Also hopefully getting a better product as a result.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-24 15:49:22 +0800", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Feb 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/02/24/bed-update-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F02%2F24%2Fbed-update-i.html" }, { "id": 576, "type": "post", "title": "The Edit of Hemispheric Views 078", "text": "Here is a screenshot of the edit for Hemispheric Views episode 078. Six audio tracks in play. Lots of edits and adjustments. Ferrite by WoojiJuice makes this possible, combined with a couple of years of editing experience and know-how I have built up.\nI\u0026rsquo;m proud that I have the skills to do this. Not something that generally goes on my curriculum vitae, but maybe it should?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-24 07:00:55 +0800", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Feb 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/02/24/the-edit-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F02%2F24%2Fthe-edit-of.html" }, { "id": 577, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In Andrew’s exciting world today, he does online shopping for bed frames. Does he buy the cheap one? Does he take the risk of entering the second-hand market? Or does he say, “stuff it”, and buy the expensive locally-manufactured option? Opinions welcomed. 🛏️\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-23 22:43:13 +0800", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Feb 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/02/23/in-andrews-exciting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F02%2F23%2Fin-andrews-exciting.html" }, { "id": 578, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The @hemisphericviews Discord server is my happy place. I love the wonderful community that has formed there.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-19 23:25:04 +0800", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Feb 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/02/19/the-hemisphericviews-discord.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F02%2F19%2Fthe-hemisphericviews-discord.html" }, { "id": 579, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The choreography of this entire NFL Half-time show was incredible.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-15 11:13:59 +0800", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Feb 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/02/15/the-choreography-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F02%2F15%2Fthe-choreography-of.html" }, { "id": 580, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m enjoying the app Structured as a corollary of OmniFocus and a calendar. It is allowing me to fine-tune my day.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-23 12:36:31 +0800", "date": "12:36 p.m. on Jan 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/23/im-enjoying-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F23%2Fim-enjoying-the.html" }, { "id": 581, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is why I make podcasts. Quote is from Kurt Vonnegut, via Do the Work by @rishabh\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-23 12:11:24 +0800", "date": "12:11 p.m. on Jan 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/23/this-is-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F23%2Fthis-is-why.html" }, { "id": 582, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Mom sent me this quote. Much appreciated right now.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-20 17:16:09 +0800", "date": "5:16 p.m. on Jan 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/20/my-mom-sent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F20%2Fmy-mom-sent.html" }, { "id": 583, "type": "post", "title": "Paddington 2, 2017 - ★★★★", "text": "Absolute heart warmer of a movie. I love it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-18 22:51:46 +0800", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Jan 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/18/paddington.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F18%2Fpaddington.html" }, { "id": 584, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Relationship Reset by Lissy Abrahams 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-17 16:33:28 +0800", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Jan 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/17/finished-reading-relationship.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F17%2Ffinished-reading-relationship.html" }, { "id": 585, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Belong by Radha Agrawal 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-17 16:30:36 +0800", "date": "4:30 p.m. on Jan 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/17/finished-reading-belong.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F17%2Ffinished-reading-belong.html" }, { "id": 586, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Disentangle by Nancy L. Johnston 📚. This book has taught me things I didn’t realise were a thing.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-17 15:22:02 +0800", "date": "3:22 p.m. on Jan 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/17/finished-reading-disentangle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F17%2Ffinished-reading-disentangle.html" }, { "id": 587, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: The Anxiety Handbook by Calistoga Press 📚\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-15 20:02:57 +0800", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Jan 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/15/finished-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F15%2Ffinished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 588, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday 📚. I am hoping I will be able to read this each day this year. I need to escape the mental health dangers and associated anxiety of ruminating upon things I can’t control.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-15 16:43:45 +0800", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Jan 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/15/currently-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F15%2Fcurrently-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 589, "type": "post", "title": "Stutz, 2022 - ★★★★", "text": "Me bring me, I wanted more technical details of application.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 23:15:24 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/14/stutz.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2Fstutz.html" }, { "id": 590, "type": "post", "title": "The Menu, 2022 - ★★★★", "text": "A gastronomical delight, with acting to die for.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-11 23:00:09 +0800", "date": "11:00 p.m. on Jan 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/11/the-menu.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F11%2Fthe-menu.html" }, { "id": 591, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Depression is a right bastard. ☹️\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-10 16:13:06 +0800", "date": "4:13 p.m. on Jan 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/10/depression-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F10%2Fdepression-is-a.html" }, { "id": 592, "type": "post", "title": "Hustle, 2022 - ★★★½", "text": "I’m old so I liked cameos by old guys. But this is a movie for the next gen, with a solid development montage.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-06 22:22:23 +0800", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Jan 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/06/hustle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F06%2Fhustle.html" }, { "id": 593, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m contemplating a career change - or at least a new job. Is there anybody out there that might be interested in having a conversation?\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-05 22:05:40 +0800", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Jan 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/05/im-contemplating-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F05%2Fim-contemplating-a.html" }, { "id": 594, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I learned that Siri can identify buffalo grass with its machine learning.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-04 18:57:20 +0800", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Jan 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/04/today-i-learned.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F04%2Ftoday-i-learned.html" }, { "id": 595, "type": "post", "title": "Uncle Buck, 1989 - ★★", "text": "It’s pretty bad, but it still an iconic 80s movie.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-03 21:53:56 +0800", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Jan 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/03/uncle-buck.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F03%2Funcle-buck.html" }, { "id": 596, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was wonderful to have a conversation with @heyscottyj today. Another cool friendship in the making.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-03 18:21:59 +0800", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Jan 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/03/it-was-wonderful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F03%2Fit-was-wonderful.html" }, { "id": 597, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m trialling Raycast (again 🙄) as a possible replacement for Launchbar.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-03 09:55:04 +0800", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Jan 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/03/im-trialling-raycast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F03%2Fim-trialling-raycast.html" }, { "id": 598, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Harry Froling has nothing on Nick Tan!\n \n", "dateiso": "2023-01-02 16:58:37 +0800", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Jan 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/02/harry-froling-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F02%2Fharry-froling-has.html" }, { "id": 599, "type": "post", "title": "My App Toolkit 2023", "text": "At the beginning of 2023, an update to my 2020 post about my App Toolkit.\nIt is still overflowing with tools, although I think it\u0026rsquo;s in better shape than at my last review.\n Purpose iOS Primary iOS Secondary macOS Primary macOS Secondary Best Cross Platform Blogging Gluon Micro.blog MarsEdit Micro.blog Drafts Report Writing Word Ulysses Word Word Meeting Notes Agenda iThoughts Agenda iThoughts Agenda Daily Notes Agenda Logseq Agenda Logseq Agenda Tasks OmniFocus Reminders OmniFocus Reminders OmniFocus Brainstorming iThoughts MindNode iThoughts Bike iThoughts ", "dateiso": "2023-01-02 16:45:40 +0800", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Jan 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/02/my-app-toolkit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F02%2Fmy-app-toolkit.html" }, { "id": 600, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does anybody know what has become of @smokey - no activity for a couple of years on any of his sites.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-02 11:41:37 +0800", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Jan 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/02/does-anybody-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F02%2Fdoes-anybody-know.html" }, { "id": 601, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My favourite tree.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-01 19:05:20 +0800", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Jan 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/01/my-favourite-tree.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F01%2Fmy-favourite-tree.html" }, { "id": 602, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m going through a tough time. Day One has been a blessing to capture thoughts, feelings and emotions. The subscription is worth every cent.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-01 18:49:28 +0800", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Jan 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2023/01/01/im-going-through.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2023%2F01%2F01%2Fim-going-through.html" }, { "id": 603, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: A Guide for Grown-ups by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 📚\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-31 18:24:19 +0800", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Dec 31, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/31/finished-reading-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F31%2Ffinished-reading-a.html" }, { "id": 604, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microsoft Authenticator will no longer work on Apple Watch. I use this feature every single day. 😖\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-30 20:58:12 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Dec 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/30/microsoft-authenticator-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F30%2Fmicrosoft-authenticator-will.html" }, { "id": 605, "type": "post", "title": "Strange World, 2022 - ★★½", "text": "A story of climate change wrapped up in some impressive animation and characters that I didn’t warm to.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-28 21:54:16 +0800", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Dec 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/28/strange-world.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F28%2Fstrange-world.html" }, { "id": 606, "type": "post", "title": "Die Hard, 1988 - ★★★★½", "text": "Now I have a 64-bit computer. Ho Ho Ho.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-24 21:42:31 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Dec 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/24/die-hard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F24%2Fdie-hard.html" }, { "id": 607, "type": "post", "title": "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, 1992 - ★★½", "text": "1992 really seems a different era, back when you could board a plane because you assumed your parents were on it. Slapstick cruelty is still fun, though.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-24 17:19:38 +0800", "date": "5:19 p.m. on Dec 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/24/home-alone-lost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F24%2Fhome-alone-lost.html" }, { "id": 608, "type": "post", "title": "Books of 2022", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve not done so great on book reading this year. The list looks a little thin!\n ", "dateiso": "2022-12-22 18:19:06 +0800", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Dec 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/22/bookgoals.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fbookgoals.html" }, { "id": 609, "type": "post", "title": "Oiling the Deck", "text": "There are some household jobs that I procrastinate over. Oiling the deck is a new one I can add to the list. Our deck was installed a couple of years ago as part of a backyard renovation. I knew at the time this would be a necessary maintenance job that I would despise. I dutifully entered it into OmniFocus as a task for the future.\nThat OmniFocus task has been deferred for about 9 months. I did the prepartory work of buying the expensive Cutek Extreme CD50 oil and the fancy Deck Boss applicator. The task of actually oiling the deck, though? That sat for a long time. Most of the time because of my own laziness. Sometimes because of the weather. I contemplated outsourcing the job but knew deep down within myself I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t trust anybody else to care enough to do it right.\nFinally, the time came and I went for it. The first step was to clean the deck a couple of days before the oiling. That went well. I used Cutek Quickclean.\nA few days after the clean, it was time to oil. The weather was hot - over 32ºC. I had to do the work in two shifts: one in the morning and one in the evening. The morning shift came to an end when I almost vomited from exertion in the heat. I\u0026rsquo;m too white, too old, and too unfit for manual labour in the burning sun.\nThis is how I looked after the first shift — just a touch pink:\nI completed the second shift, and the job, with a minimal amount of oil left in the can. Maybe there\u0026rsquo;s enough to do a second coat on areas that look to need a little more. There is definitely not enough remaining to do a complete second coat. I think I\u0026rsquo;m okay with that.\nNow I have to schedule the next maintenance coat into OmniFocus…\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-20 13:58:15 +0800", "date": "1:58 p.m. on Dec 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/20/oiling-the-deck.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F20%2Foiling-the-deck.html" }, { "id": 610, "type": "post", "title": "You Always Own Your Blog", "text": "My Blog, My Home - Geoff Graham:\n That’s why I love my website. It’s apolitical. It can’t be bought by a billionaire (maybe). It doesn’t care when I last logged in. It doesn’t push me to gain an audience and could care less if I have a one or not. And the feed is spot-free of algorithms and sponsored content.\n But it’s always ready for me to say something if I need to. It’s all signal and no noise, and gives me the peace of mind to write without abandon.\n I pulled up my old (now lost) blog, twosittingducks.com, on the internet archive the other day. There were posts there from 2004. While I don\u0026rsquo;t think of myself as a blogger, I\u0026rsquo;ve run a blog site for a long time now.\nLike Geoff, I love that my blog is always here for me.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-18 15:45:26 +0800", "date": "3:45 p.m. on Dec 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/18/my-blog-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F18%2Fmy-blog-my.html" }, { "id": 611, "type": "post", "title": "Swearing in of Hannah Beazley MLA as Parliamentary Secretary", "text": "Earlier I posted how happy I was that my wife, Hannah Beazley MLA had been made Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Emergency Services; Innovation and the Digital Economy; Medical Research; Volunteering, within the WA State Government.\nOn 14 December, 2022, Hannah was officially sworn in by the Governor. It was fantastic to share the experience with her, and also with her Dad, former Governor of WA, Hon. Kim Beazley AC. It coincided with his 74th birthday, so it was a great birthday gift from his daughter!\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-17 12:05:10 +0800", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Dec 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/17/swearing-in-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F17%2Fswearing-in-of.html" }, { "id": 612, "type": "post", "title": "Stephen Hackett on \"Really Specific Stories\"", "text": "My friend and Hemispheric Views co-host Martin Feld continues to bring incredible guests to his interview show, Really Specific Stories. This week he welcomes Stephen Hackett, founder of Relay.fm.\nMartin Feld:\n This time on Really Specific Stories, I’m joined by @ismh, who delves into the history of Relay FM and explains his shift to podcasting and running a business—all the while balancing the needs of advertisers, co-hosts, members and of course, family.\n …\nReally Specific Stories: Stephen Hackett – 512 Pixels:\n I recently sat down with Martin Feld to talk about the history of Connected and Relay FM, as well as my story as an indie content person on the web.\n ", "dateiso": "2022-12-17 11:33:10 +0800", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Dec 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/17/stephen-hackett-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F17%2Fstephen-hackett-on.html" }, { "id": 613, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another average day in Perth.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-16 16:29:41 +0800", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Dec 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/16/another-average-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F16%2Fanother-average-day.html" }, { "id": 614, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On Episode 073 of @hemisphericviews I talk about shoutouts.lol by @vincent\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-16 11:37:09 +0800", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Dec 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/16/on-episode-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F16%2Fon-episode-of.html" }, { "id": 615, "type": "post", "title": "Hemispheric Views 073", "text": "Hemispheric Views 073: I Can Delete You from this Note!:\n In the second to last episode for 2022: I have a big shoutout for Monster Cables. @martinfeld solves my audio (or is it video?) problem. @Burk does some inefficient shopping for Kangaroos.\n Rate, review, subscribe!\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-16 00:07:23 +0800", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Dec 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/16/hemispheric-views.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F16%2Fhemispheric-views.html" }, { "id": 616, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My 11 year old kid woke me up to watch the World Cup (3am). It’s half time and I might go back to bed. ⚽️\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-14 03:54:39 +0800", "date": "3:54 p.m. on Dec 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/14/my-year-old.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F14%2Fmy-year-old.html" }, { "id": 617, "type": "post", "title": "Congratulations to my Wife, Hannah Beazley MLA", "text": "New McGowan Cabinet Ministers elected:\n Wanneroo MLA Sabine Winton and South West MLC Jackie Jarvis will be sworn in as Cabinet Ministers tomorrow, along with new Parliamentary Secretaries Jodie Hanns, Dr Jagadish (Jags) Krishnan, Meredith Hammat, Pierre Yang and Hannah Beazley.\nThe Premier will announce the allocation of portfolios tomorrow, with Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries to be officially sworn in by the Governor of Western Australia at a ceremony at Government House.\n I\u0026rsquo;m extremely proud of the work my wife Hannah has done for the community as the Member for Victoria Park, and I know she will continue to do that while also fulfilling the role of Parliamentary Secretary with skill and diligence, irrespective of the Portfolio provided to her by the Premier.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-13 13:06:32 +0800", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Dec 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/13/congratulations-to-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F13%2Fcongratulations-to-my.html" }, { "id": 618, "type": "post", "title": "Quality Tech Support from Indie Mac Developers", "text": "How good is the Mac indie developer community?\nCaddyshack Good GIFfrom Caddyshack GIFs I have been a long-time user of the SearchLink service developed by Brett Terpstra. I use it so regularly that I have it tied to a button on my Stream Deck, as well as keyboard shortcut, ⌃ + ⌘ + L.\nLast night I attempted to use SearchLink while typing in the all new MarsEdit 5. Instead of it working as it always has, I received a confounding error:\nThe action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error: “-e:1778:in `scan': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) from -e:1778:in `ddg' from -e:987:in `parse' from -e:2147:in `\u0026lt;main\u0026gt;'” This was beyond me. I knew that MarsEdit 5 had a new foundational text editing platform, so I assumed whatever had changed was probably a bug related to that. I also tried SearchLink in BBEdit (another great Mac app made by legendary Mac developers, Bare Bones Software) and the problem appeared there too - which shot somewhat of a hole in my MarsEdit theory.\nNevertheless, I emailed Daniel Jalkut, developer of MarsEdit, with a support request. He quickly responded saying that he doesn\u0026rsquo;t use SearchLink, but would look into it.\nI also sent a support request to Brett. Very quickly Brett asked a further diagonostic question, then while I was asleep (welcome to Australia-USA relations), he emailed me through an updated version of the SearchLink script. Brett had determined that DuckDuckGo, the engine powering SearchLink, was suddenly providing results in a zipped format. The new version 2.2.27 fixes the issue.\nSo within hours of noticing a problem with SearchLink, I again have a working version that supports the all-new MarsEdit 5 — and every other Mac-assed Mac app1 that works with services2.\nThe Mac indie developer community is amazing. I thank them, and encourage you to support them by buying and using their products. Let\u0026rsquo;s keep this thing alive.\n Kudos to you, 1Password, for registering the domain macassedmac.app in defense of Electron-based 1Password 8. I don\u0026rsquo;t know what to think.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n I\u0026rsquo;m looking at you, Electron.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2022-12-13 07:11:32 +0800", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Dec 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/13/quality-tech-support.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F13%2Fquality-tech-support.html" }, { "id": 619, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got a new pair of glasses a couple of days ago. They\u0026rsquo;re playing havoc with the muscles of my left eye. It\u0026rsquo;s early so I guess I wait a few more days to see if I become accustomed. This is the worst part of getting new glasses.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-11 21:34:22 +0800", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Dec 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/11/i-got-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F11%2Fi-got-a.html" }, { "id": 620, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I taught Benji how sports brackets work. Now he is building his own World Cup version. 😍🥰🤩⚽️\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-11 20:22:16 +0800", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Dec 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/11/i-taught-benji.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F11%2Fi-taught-benji.html" }, { "id": 621, "type": "post", "title": "Elvis, 2022 - ★★★½", "text": "A wonderful telling of the bastardry of Colonel Parker.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-10 21:22:41 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Dec 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/10/elvis.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F10%2Felvis.html" }, { "id": 622, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve disabled cross-posting from micro.blog to mastodon. Going to try letting each be its own thing.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-09 12:32:27 +0800", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Dec 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/09/ive-disabled-crossposting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F09%2Five-disabled-crossposting.html" }, { "id": 623, "type": "post", "title": "Ferrite 3", "text": "Ferrite 3:\n Ferrite 3 offers an enhanced, modernised UI all across the app.\n I couldn’t edit Hemispheric Views without Ferrite. Believe me, I tried. If Ferrite wasn’t available, I’m not sure our podcast would be either. Version 3 is an insta-upgrade for me. While it has a list of new features, the faster playback speeds are the real seller.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-09 09:14:50 +0800", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Dec 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/09/ferrite.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F09%2Fferrite.html" }, { "id": 624, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On one of Jack Baty\u0026rsquo;s blogs, I saw a reference to neofetch.\nIt doesn\u0026rsquo;t do a lot, but it looks pretty. I\u0026rsquo;ve run it on my three machines:\niMac MacBook Air Mac mini ", "dateiso": "2022-12-07 15:47:21 +0800", "date": "3:47 p.m. on Dec 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/07/on-one-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F07%2Fon-one-of.html" }, { "id": 625, "type": "post", "title": "Casey Liss on Really Specific Stories", "text": "My friend and Hemispheric Views co-host Martin Feld continues to build his other excellent podcast, Really Specific Stories. The latest episode features a guest famous to many of us in Mac-nerd circles: Casey Liss, one of the hosts of the hugely successful Accidental Tech Podcast.\nCasey references his experience as a guest on the show on his own blog.\nAppearance: Really Specific Stories — Liss is More:\n On this episode, Martin and I walked through my path into podcasting, starting all the way — and I’m not kidding — from when I was a toddler. It was a fun discussion, and I’m honored that Martin asked me to be a part of the project.\n Of course, I can\u0026rsquo;t help but mention my own appearance on Really Specific Stories, but I encourage you to binge the whole run.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-07 12:03:15 +0800", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Dec 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/07/casey-liss-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F07%2Fcasey-liss-on.html" }, { "id": 626, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a post mentioning @vincent to help him test @gluon\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-06 07:06:13 +0800", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Dec 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/06/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F06%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 627, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Excuse me @rosemaryorchard - are you still developing When.Works? Does it work?\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-04 20:35:14 +0800", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Dec 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/04/excuse-me-rosemaryorchard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F04%2Fexcuse-me-rosemaryorchard.html" }, { "id": 628, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve cancelled my Fantastical subscription that expires in March 2023. My need for the bookings service may be declining. That, plus their price increase, means I will go back to BusyCal through Setapp. If it turns out I really need bookings, then I will reassess at the time.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-04 18:21:05 +0800", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Dec 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/04/ive-cancelled-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F04%2Five-cancelled-my.html" }, { "id": 629, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Poor USA. The goalie has been poorly treated by his defenders. ⚽️\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-03 23:52:22 +0800", "date": "11:52 p.m. on Dec 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/03/poor-usa-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F03%2Fpoor-usa-the.html" }, { "id": 630, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Fantastical price increase is a bummer, because it’s a double whammy for me as an Australian user. Our weakened exchange rate multiplies the scale of the increase.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-03 08:18:22 +0800", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Dec 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/03/the-fantastical-price.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F03%2Fthe-fantastical-price.html" }, { "id": 631, "type": "post", "title": "Spirited, 2022 - ★★★½", "text": "I don’t like musicals but I liked this movie.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-02 22:03:42 +0800", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Dec 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/02/spirited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F02%2Fspirited.html" }, { "id": 632, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh no, I\u0026rsquo;m going down a TaskPaper rabbit hole.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-02 14:49:46 +0800", "date": "2:49 p.m. on Dec 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/02/oh-no-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F02%2Foh-no-im.html" }, { "id": 633, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks, Medibank data breach. I really appreciate you holding onto my details as an ex-customer, allowing it to be shared on the dark web following its theft. Great stuff.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-02 13:21:38 +0800", "date": "1:21 p.m. on Dec 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/02/thanks-medibank-data.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F02%2Fthanks-medibank-data.html" }, { "id": 634, "type": "post", "title": "Is This Thing On?", "text": "A mini-revival of an old favourite.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-02 13:09:06 +0800", "date": "1:09 p.m. on Dec 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/02/is-this-thing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F02%2Fis-this-thing.html" }, { "id": 635, "type": "post", "title": "Human-sized Services", "text": "My friend Adam at omg.lol is building another special surprise for his customers.\nI have taken the pre-alpha version for a spin:\nA Weblog · Human-sized Services:\n There are now three blogging services that I admire, all of which are run by humans - not corporations. Humans making websites was what made 1.0, back in the Netscape Navigator days, great. Blink tags, under construction logos, and multi-colour Times New Roman font. It was joyous because it was the web at human level.\n The Internet is healing.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-01 14:28:16 +0800", "date": "2:28 p.m. on Dec 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/01/humansized-services.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F01%2Fhumansized-services.html" }, { "id": 636, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My mental health energy meter is reading at about 3% today. Can we shut it down today and reconvene tomorrow? 🪫\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-01 09:40:19 +0800", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Dec 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/12/01/my-mental-health.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F12%2F01%2Fmy-mental-health.html" }, { "id": 637, "type": "post", "title": "Web App Barbarians", "text": "This article was originally written for the April 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus.\n I love to use native software but it feels like I\u0026rsquo;m the last of the troops that has been put on the final line of defence, guarding against the marauding \u0026lsquo;web apps\u0026rsquo;.\nIt appears that most users are more than happy to load a copy of Google Chrome and run a bunch of web apps in fullscreen mode. This is what I see in my day job, as companies use Xero, Hubspot and any other number of web apps to run their companies.\nOn a personal level things aren\u0026rsquo;t much better with Google Apps, YNAB, etc. sharing the platform with a growing number of Electron apps such as Discord, 1Password and Slack (and, of course, Obsidian).\nSo I end up feeling like one of a declining number of people who prefer an app that utilises the native architecture of the client platform. Either people don\u0026rsquo;t care or they actively prefer web apps.\nI actually think it\u0026rsquo;s the former (users not caring) combined with development houses caring more about cost management and not actually putting the user first. If they were willing to invest development resources in native applications I am sure people would enjoy them. But they don\u0026rsquo;t care enough to force developers' hands.\nSo we end up with the best app to meet profit targets — not the best app.\nAs much as Apple invests in outlandishly fast and impressive hardware, what\u0026rsquo;s the point if all it means is that the platform can successfully run more Chrome tabs? Is that really what we have arrived at?\nApple is not helping by not investing in their own first platform applications, either. They are creating meh apps across macOS as they attempt to consolidate development efforts through shared Swift/Catalyst implementations. Nothing seems better or more powerful than it was a decade ago.\nI hope that now Apple has its hardware house in order, that it can focus on its software.\nI\u0026rsquo;d love to hold off the web app barbarians at the gate just a few years longer.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-30 17:10:37 +0800", "date": "5:10 p.m. on Nov 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/30/web-app-barbarians.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F30%2Fweb-app-barbarians.html" }, { "id": 638, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 30: I am having to watch online cybersecurity safety training videos. They suck, and the questions at the end are poorly worded.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-30 11:20:07 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Nov 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/30/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F30%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 639, "type": "post", "title": "Embedding Toots in a Blog Post", "text": "Sometimes I ask dumb questions:\n Sometimes, kind people humour me:\n Thank you, @jameskoole@indieweb.social\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-30 10:53:44 +0800", "date": "10:53 p.m. on Nov 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/30/embedding-toots-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F30%2Fembedding-toots-in.html" }, { "id": 640, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can\u0026rsquo;t sleep so I\u0026rsquo;m reading my book, Principles. I\u0026rsquo;m at the section where there are glowing references to amazing \u0026ldquo;shapers\u0026rdquo;, such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. Yeah, those latter two are so amazing. 🙄 This book is perhaps not ageing well.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-30 01:22:17 +0800", "date": "1:22 p.m. on Nov 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/30/i-cant-sleep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F30%2Fi-cant-sleep.html" }, { "id": 641, "type": "post", "title": "We Need a New Approach to Social Platforms", "text": "The Elon-gate’d Man | Jared White:\nJared White mounts a solid argument as to where we have gone wrong with big tech celebrity, and talks about how me might be able to do better in the future.\nwith this maturity has to come broader awareness that Big Tech can’t simply act like 21st century echoes of the robber barons. Either the tech sector must demonstrate its ability to police itself and show good corporate governance and a willingness to let bottom-up creativity and entrepreneurship flourish in the marketplace of ideas, or we must call for increased regulatory scrutiny on all fronts. …\nAnd for the love of all that is holy, we must rid ourselves of this absurd myth that a single person just shows up one day with a skip in their step and a spark of genius in their brain to change everything overnight. Never again should we fall for an Elizabeth Holmes. Never again should we fall for an Adam Neumann. Never again should we fall for a Sam Bankman-Fried. Never again should we fall for a Mark Zuckerberg. Doing the same thing again, with a different company, a different founder offering a story of salvation, a different VC backer… any of that will only take us to the same place we\u0026rsquo;ve been, and has been proven to fail.\nLet\u0026rsquo;s build something different. Let\u0026rsquo;s build interop.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-29 15:49:02 +0800", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Nov 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/29/we-need-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F29%2Fwe-need-a.html" }, { "id": 642, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 29: Is it wrong that I\u0026rsquo;m waiting for our fish to die? I don\u0026rsquo;t want to kill them, but if they were to not make it much longer, I\u0026rsquo;d probably be okay with that. 😬\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-29 13:38:04 +0800", "date": "1:38 p.m. on Nov 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/29/microblogvember-day-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F29%2Fmicroblogvember-day-is.html" }, { "id": 643, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A reminder that now is a great time to sign up to @hemisphericviews at One Prime Plus Dot Com to take advantage of our version of Black Friday/Cyber Monday!\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-29 02:25:15 +0800", "date": "2:25 p.m. on Nov 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/29/a-reminder-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F29%2Fa-reminder-that.html" }, { "id": 644, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When considering investing time and effort into a service, check to see whether it is VC funded. If it is, keep in mind that they are more interested in their financial return than you receiving a return on the investment you make in that service.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-28 19:09:43 +0800", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Nov 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/28/when-considering-investing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F28%2Fwhen-considering-investing.html" }, { "id": 645, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I may need a note taking/writing app intervention.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-28 12:40:03 +0800", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Nov 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/28/i-may-need.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F28%2Fi-may-need.html" }, { "id": 646, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 28: I loathe the current trend towards the mullet haircut. Wasn\u0026rsquo;t good in the 80\u0026rsquo;s, isn\u0026rsquo;t good now.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-28 08:47:59 +0800", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Nov 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/28/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F28%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 647, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;d forgotten how enjoyable World Cup Soccer (Football) can be. Morocco beat Belgium, 2-0. Amazing. ⚽️\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-27 22:57:00 +0800", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Nov 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/27/id-forgotten-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F27%2Fid-forgotten-how.html" }, { "id": 648, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We set the Christmas tree up today and in doing so crossed some sort of kid threshold. This year, our boys actually helped setup and decorate the tree. They enjoyed unpacking decorations and reminiscing about their associated memories. It was really sweet.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-27 20:52:16 +0800", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Nov 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/27/we-set-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F27%2Fwe-set-the.html" }, { "id": 649, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 27: I had to work hard to find the motivation to put up the Christmas tree. Didn\u0026rsquo;t I just take it down a couple of weeks ago?\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-27 16:01:21 +0800", "date": "4:01 p.m. on Nov 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/27/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F27%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 650, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 26: I have made a commitment to not use Twitter while it is owned by Elon Musk.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-26 19:00:51 +0800", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Nov 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/26/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F26%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 651, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve figured out why Australia doesn\u0026rsquo;t have Thanksgiving. It\u0026rsquo;s celebrated on a Thursday, which would mean our entire country would then of course chuck a sickie on Friday. The productivity decline would be far too deleterious.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-26 00:46:30 +0800", "date": "12:46 p.m. on Nov 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/26/ive-figured-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F26%2Five-figured-out.html" }, { "id": 652, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Principles by Ray Dalio 📚\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-26 00:16:46 +0800", "date": "12:16 p.m. on Nov 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/26/currently-reading-principles.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F26%2Fcurrently-reading-principles.html" }, { "id": 653, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seems host nation Qatar will be out of the World Cup. If this were basketball, I’d say “ball don’t lie”. Some degree of justice delivered for the payola World Cup. ⚽️\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-25 23:05:52 +0800", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Nov 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/25/seems-host-nation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F25%2Fseems-host-nation.html" }, { "id": 654, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 25: Completing a microblogvember post everyday this month has almost become ritual at this point.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-25 13:02:10 +0800", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Nov 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/25/microblogvember-day-completing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F25%2Fmicroblogvember-day-completing.html" }, { "id": 655, "type": "post", "title": "I'm Out on Twitter 🫡", "text": " \u0026ldquo;The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.\u0026rdquo;\n — Lieutenant General David Lindsay Morrison AO\n Upon reflection, I have determined that my values are inconsistent with those of Twitter\u0026rsquo;s post-acquisition by Elon Musk.\nRather than continue to use the service - even within my safe #NBL23 bubble - I believe the correct and appropriate action is to cease use of the platform.\nI am available on Mastodon @canion@social.lol and micro.blog @canion 🫡\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-24 14:12:53 +0800", "date": "2:12 p.m. on Nov 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/24/im-out-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F24%2Fim-out-on.html" }, { "id": 656, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 24: As I get older the challenge to retain my hair becomes greater.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-24 13:02:30 +0800", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Nov 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/24/microblogvember-day-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F24%2Fmicroblogvember-day-as.html" }, { "id": 657, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lunch date at Parliament House, with Hannah and, uh, Benji\u0026rsquo;s lion.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-23 18:48:36 +0800", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Nov 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/23/lunch-date-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F23%2Flunch-date-at.html" }, { "id": 658, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 23: With the doom of Twitter, I have enjoyed being able to focus on a daily update of my micro.blog site — this content I own.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-23 10:09:03 +0800", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Nov 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/23/microblogvember-day-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F23%2Fmicroblogvember-day-with.html" }, { "id": 659, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 22: When I was a kid I would constantly have a graze somewhere on my body. Fortunately, I survived.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-22 11:46:57 +0800", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Nov 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/22/microblogvember-day-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F22%2Fmicroblogvember-day-when.html" }, { "id": 660, "type": "post", "title": "Should I Mix Up My Approach to RSS?", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve always been an RSS completionist. Since the days of Bloglines, which was before Google Reader. I have a few hundred feeds and I work through them — usually on a daily basis — to ensure they are read and down to \u0026lsquo;inbox zero\u0026rsquo;.\nI achieve this with Inoreader and a combination of NetNewsWire and Reeder.\nI\u0026rsquo;m wondering though, should I be using FraidyCat? I tried it years ago and it didn\u0026rsquo;t stick. Maybe I should try again?\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-21 17:29:03 +0800", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Nov 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/21/should-i-mix.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F21%2Fshould-i-mix.html" }, { "id": 661, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 21: It is late November and our swimming pool is still as cold as ice. I don\u0026rsquo;t like it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-21 10:35:25 +0800", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Nov 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/21/microblogvember-day-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F21%2Fmicroblogvember-day-it.html" }, { "id": 662, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tipped 100% for this round of #NBL23. Thanks Shaun Bruce of Sydney Kings for knocking down the end game triple to steal that one.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-20 22:30:56 +0800", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Nov 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/20/tipped-for-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F20%2Ftipped-for-this.html" }, { "id": 663, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 20: As a parent, I find I have to repeat myself quite often.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-20 18:38:55 +0800", "date": "6:38 p.m. on Nov 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/20/microblogvember-day-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F20%2Fmicroblogvember-day-as.html" }, { "id": 664, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Recent events have almost — but not quite — destroyed musk sticks for me.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-20 11:13:18 +0800", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Nov 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/20/recent-events-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F20%2Frecent-events-have.html" }, { "id": 665, "type": "post", "title": "Welcome New Micro Bloggers", "text": "It’s good to see new accounts and activity on micro.blog. I hope a reasonable proportion stick around.\nThe best thing to remember about micro.blog is that it is a personal blog host as much as it is a social network. Blogs are a permanent place for your writing, and in my opinion, this makes them more weighty, and less transient, than tweets. It provides an opportunity to build a corpus of thoughts in the form of text, pictures, video and audio over time.\nSlowly but surely you end up with years of posts that you can look back upon - and link to.\nMicro.blog is not Twitter, it’s not Mastodon, and that is its strength.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-20 11:04:12 +0800", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Nov 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/20/welcome-new-micro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F20%2Fwelcome-new-micro.html" }, { "id": 666, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 19: I used to read a novel quite regularly. Nowadays, I still read a lot, but it\u0026rsquo;s mostly short-form articles and news. I should re-focus attention on books.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-19 07:45:37 +0800", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Nov 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/19/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F19%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 667, "type": "post", "title": "Musk Has Destroyed His Own Mythos", "text": "Ed Zitron has published \u0026ldquo;The Fraudulent King\u0026rdquo;, a marvellous explainer on the latest happenings at Twitter, but at the same time, outlined what a petulant, unimpressive person Elon Musk is — and how the world now knows it.\nThere were so many great lines in this article, it was hard to know which to highlight as an extract:\n …we are in the process of watching said timeline wholesale reject Elon Musk and his ideology. Musk has paid $44 billion to purchase a website that has all told him to go fuck himself.\n …\n Under the largest spotlight in the world, Musk has proven himself to be a petty charlatan who lacks any meaningful skills necessary to run a company. While we may have been able to fool ourselves that Musk could have successfully run three or four companies at once, the truth is more likely that SpaceX and Tesla have survived his tenure as CEO rather than thrived under his leadership.\n …\n When given absolute power and the world\u0026rsquo;s undivided attention, Elon Musk has managed to economically destroy his company, publicly (and repeatedly) humiliate himself, ostracize most of Silicon Valley’s engineering talent, and dispel any belief that he is a Tier 1 Genius Operator.\n Honestly, read the entire article.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-19 07:21:46 +0800", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Nov 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/19/musk-has-destroyed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F19%2Fmusk-has-destroyed.html" }, { "id": 668, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With all the Twitter stuff, can we please get one more season of Silicon Valley?\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-19 06:27:39 +0800", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Nov 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/19/with-all-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F19%2Fwith-all-the.html" }, { "id": 669, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why have I woken at 5am? It’s Saturday! 😩\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-19 05:15:41 +0800", "date": "5:15 p.m. on Nov 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/19/why-have-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F19%2Fwhy-have-i.html" }, { "id": 670, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It is amazing how quickly @neatnik can roll out a new feature. His opt-in address directory at omg.lol was an idea I threw out during @HemisphericViews E071. Listen to the podcast and check out the directory!\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-18 21:36:57 +0800", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Nov 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/18/it-is-amazing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F18%2Fit-is-amazing.html" }, { "id": 671, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If anybody finds Instagram isn\u0026rsquo;t loading on wifi, try disabling IPv6. That worked for me with my Eero 6. This will please my wife.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-18 18:00:52 +0800", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Nov 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/18/if-anybody-finds.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F18%2Fif-anybody-finds.html" }, { "id": 672, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This sounds frightfully Trumpian:\n In a tweet Thursday evening, Musk said: “The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried.”\n Source: Hundreds of Twitter employees resign after Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum - The Verge\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-18 15:54:13 +0800", "date": "3:54 p.m. on Nov 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/18/this-sounds-frightfully.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F18%2Fthis-sounds-frightfully.html" }, { "id": 673, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 18: I\u0026rsquo;ve knocked off 18 consecutive microblogvember posts. I will not tire before I reach 30.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-18 10:59:28 +0800", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Nov 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/18/microblogvember-day-ive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F18%2Fmicroblogvember-day-ive.html" }, { "id": 674, "type": "post", "title": "Twitter Circling the Bowl as Employees Leave", "text": "Elon Musk walked into Twitter HQ carrying a sink; in hindsight it should have been a toilet, because Twitter is now circling the bowl.\nElon Musk eases return-to-office order - The Washington Post\n One Twitter staff member said the numbers of employees seeking to leave had alarmed Twitter’s managers, who had formed “war rooms” to determine which employees should be asked to stay on.\n Resignations and departures were already taking a toll on Twitter’s service, employees said. “Breakages are already happening slowly and accumulating,” one said. “If you want to export your tweets, do it now.”\n Hate speech and other abuse was also likely to spike, employees said. Most of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, consisting of up to 40 people, was expected to resign.\n Is it surprising that engineers are opting to leave and take a 3-month severance package, as opposed to staying where they have to work extensive hours for a mercurial owner, without the joy of working with colleagues?\nMusk really doesn\u0026rsquo;t seem to understand that employment is a two-way street. These people are not indentured servants. If the deal isn\u0026rsquo;t good, they can/should/will walk.\nLast one out, please switch off the lights.\nWhat\u0026rsquo;s the bet that in a couple of months, Twitter is employing remote-work engineers working out of India?\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-18 09:34:33 +0800", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Nov 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/18/twitter-circling-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F18%2Ftwitter-circling-the.html" }, { "id": 675, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Adam Newbold of omg.lol returns to Hemispheric Views E071 to discuss recent developments. I roll up my sleeves to offer some top-tier business advice while Jason and Martin back away slowly into a hedge.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-17 22:42:02 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Nov 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/17/adam-newbold-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F17%2Fadam-newbold-of.html" }, { "id": 676, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 17: What exactly is a barrel of laughs, anyway? Were laughs once packaged in a barrel for easy transportation? I don\u0026rsquo;t get it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-17 13:44:13 +0800", "date": "1:44 p.m. on Nov 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/17/microblogvember-day-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F17%2Fmicroblogvember-day-what.html" }, { "id": 677, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watching the Artemis I launch - T-7 minutes. 🚀\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-16 14:41:38 +0800", "date": "2:41 p.m. on Nov 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/16/watching-the-artemis.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F16%2Fwatching-the-artemis.html" }, { "id": 678, "type": "post", "title": "Twitter News: Don't Criticise the Owner (But the Owner can Criticise You)", "text": "Musk fires Twitter engineers after critical posts on Twitter and Slack:\n Musk had already tweeted Monday that he had fired at least one engineer who publicly criticized him on Twitter. The latest terminations come in the wake of Musk’s decision to let go of about half of all Twitter employees in a bid to cut costs.\n Some Twitter employees confirmed the layoffs on their verified accounts.\n “Looks like i just got fired for s\u0026mdash;posting too ✌️” one wrote in response to another person who said they had been let go.\n It\u0026rsquo;s never smart to criticise your employer in public, although some of this criticism was published on an internal Slack. A mature manager would probably look at the recent unrest and seek to counsel their employees. Not Elon, who has shown not maturity to date and continues to exhibit none. He fired the complainers, and gloated about it publicly afterwards:\n “I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses,” he (Musk) wrote on Twitter. “Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.”\n Good to see he can criticise those individuals publicly without recourse, hey?\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-16 11:29:29 +0800", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Nov 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/16/twitter-news-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F16%2Ftwitter-news-dont.html" }, { "id": 679, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 16: Every sports team needs a franchise player to be truly successful. At the moment, for the Perth Wildcats, that guy is Bryce Cotton.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-16 10:00:09 +0800", "date": "10:00 p.m. on Nov 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/16/microblogvember-day-every.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F16%2Fmicroblogvember-day-every.html" }, { "id": 680, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 15: Barenaked Ladies have a song entitled Aluminium on their album Everything to Everyone. It address the pronunciation elephant in the room. Track on Songwhip\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-15 08:16:53 +0800", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Nov 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/15/microblogvember-day-barenaked.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F15%2Fmicroblogvember-day-barenaked.html" }, { "id": 681, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Summer is gradually returning.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-14 19:16:17 +0800", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Nov 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/14/summer-is-gradually.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F14%2Fsummer-is-gradually.html" }, { "id": 682, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been comparing two Read-it-Later services, Omnivore and Matter. Omnivore had the head start with earlier integration with Logseq but now Matter also has that feature. Matter is more attractive. Omnivore is open source. If there is one thing that the recent Twitter/Mastodon comparison has reminded me of, is that open source is probably the safer long-term bet.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-14 11:50:03 +0800", "date": "11:50 p.m. on Nov 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/14/ive-been-comparing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F14%2Five-been-comparing.html" }, { "id": 683, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 14: It will be fascinating to see how Twitter evolves and if all the people and organisations who decided to leave, stay away.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-14 11:44:14 +0800", "date": "11:44 p.m. on Nov 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/14/microblogvember-day-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F14%2Fmicroblogvember-day-it.html" }, { "id": 684, "type": "post", "title": "Own Your Content (A Reprise)", "text": "Precisely two years ago today, I wrote this, in the context of Instagram.Blog of Drew - Own Your Content:\n A personal website and domain name remains the most reliable way to avoid your content serving as feed stock for a commercial enterprise.\n Today, it holds up in the context of Twitter.\nThe more things change…\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-13 21:45:58 +0800", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Nov 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/13/blog-of-drew.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F13%2Fblog-of-drew.html" }, { "id": 685, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 13: My first experience with the game Deathloop left me unimpressed but after playing some more I may have to adjust my initial impression.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-13 18:04:22 +0800", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Nov 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/13/microblogvember-day-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F13%2Fmicroblogvember-day-my.html" }, { "id": 686, "type": "post", "title": "Shooting Hoops", "text": "Recently we have installed a cool basketball hoop in our front yard, ostensibly for our kids to play as they grow into their teenage and teenage years.\nAn unexpected benefit has been for me – Dad. I used to play basketball. You may be aware that I now host NBL Pocket Podcast, have media accreditation for NBL, and commentate games for NBL1.\nWhen I was younger, I was an athletic guy who could slam dunk and knock down 3s. Age, however, shoots 1.000 and I no longer have the leap I once did. In fact, my knees are basically destroyed.\nInstalling this hoop, however, has proven to me that a jump shot (or maybe a standing shot now) is like riding a bike. You don\u0026rsquo;t forget how to do it. You also don\u0026rsquo;t forget the love. There is something about shooting a basketball that is immensely soothing for me. Nothing else eliminates the worries and stresses of day-to-day life than hearing the shwoosh of a basketball ripping through a net.\nI wish I had installed this basketball system a decade ago. Nevertheless, I remind myself that while the best time was 10 years ago, the next best time is now.\nI have my now. I am shooting hoops. In my mind, I am young once more.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-12 23:30:23 +0800", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Nov 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/12/shooting-hoops.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F12%2Fshooting-hoops.html" }, { "id": 687, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog has changed my life trajectory. It has given me connections with a range of people across the Internet. Without micro.blog, I would not have @HemisphericViews and the group of friends that are part of that community. M.b has changed my life. @manton @jean\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-12 23:12:53 +0800", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Nov 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/12/microblog-has-changed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F12%2Fmicroblog-has-changed.html" }, { "id": 688, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One thing the whole Twitter saga has done is re-energised my use of my own blog, as well as getting into Mastodon. Happy with the changes and improvements I\u0026rsquo;m making to my own web sites.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-12 15:25:40 +0800", "date": "3:25 p.m. on Nov 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/12/one-thing-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F12%2Fone-thing-the.html" }, { "id": 689, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 12: I have a suspicion that things at Twitter are going to get worse before they get better. If they get better.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-12 15:02:50 +0800", "date": "3:02 p.m. on Nov 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/12/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F12%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 690, "type": "post", "title": "Sorry, Crypto Bros", "text": "Molly White, reporting on her brilliant site tracking all the happenings in the crypto/NFT world.\nFTX files for bankruptcy, Sam Bankman-Fried resigns:\n Aaaand there it goes.\nFTX announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States. Sam Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO.\n I wonder how all the Diamond Hands crypto HODL bros are feeling.\nThere\u0026rsquo;s only one thing worse than a Ponzi scheme, and that is being the one holding the \u0026ldquo;asset\u0026rdquo; when the music stops and there is no next fool in line.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-11 23:24:08 +0800", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Nov 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/11/sorry-crypto-bros.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F11%2Fsorry-crypto-bros.html" }, { "id": 691, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So uh, is Twitter Blue no longer available for purchase? Just when I thought things couldn’t get crazier over there.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-11 18:31:46 +0800", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Nov 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/11/so-uh-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F11%2Fso-uh-is.html" }, { "id": 692, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 11: I am happy about having shoutouts to display on my blog\u0026rsquo;s homepage.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-11 14:09:24 +0800", "date": "2:09 p.m. on Nov 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/11/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F11%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 693, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More news from the front. Grey “official” check marks are back. Yes, Elon killed them yesterday. Now he has revived them.\nThis isn’t hard to follow at all, is it? I don’t know why you can’t keep up.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-11 11:52:12 +0800", "date": "11:52 p.m. on Nov 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/11/more-news-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F11%2Fmore-news-from.html" }, { "id": 694, "type": "post", "title": "Twitter Loses Executives", "text": "So the Twitter executives responsible for selling ads and ensuring trust and safety have both left the company. You would think they\u0026rsquo;d be kind of important to the business?\nIn a normal company, two executives leaving would be bad, but maybe it would be an opportunity to promote others. Unfortunately, Twitter probably sacked those others a few days ago.\nMusk is now talking about bankruptcy. I imagine this might be a way for him to wash his hands of the affair, and socialise the losses across his venture capital buddies. Remember that is a key edict of corporations: capitalise the gains and socialise the losses. It seems like Elon might be contemplating pulling an Adam Neumann.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-11 10:28:53 +0800", "date": "10:28 p.m. on Nov 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/11/twitter-loses-executives.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F11%2Ftwitter-loses-executives.html" }, { "id": 695, "type": "post", "title": "The Twitter News Cycle Moves Fast", "text": "Not even a day, and there\u0026rsquo;s a new item of craziness I can add to my earlier list.\nElon Musk's First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Work from Home - Bloomberg:\nThe new rules, which kick in immediately, will expect employees to be in the office for at least 40 hours per week… At least 40 hours per week? The standard working week in Australia is 38 hours. So if Twitter were an Australian firm (or perhaps for the remaining Australian Twitter staff), Musk is asking them to work in the office for more than the typical working week. And since it is \u0026ldquo;at least\u0026rdquo;, one presumes additional work would be required at home beyond those 40 hours?\nMaybe he should have announced this before the firings. That might have minimised severance costs while still reducing head count.\nOnce again, we are provided evidence that wealth and intelligence are not inextricably linked.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-10 23:31:25 +0800", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Nov 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/10/the-twitter-news.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F10%2Fthe-twitter-news.html" }, { "id": 696, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With a massive thanks to @vincent I\u0026rsquo;ve got his new shoutouts.lol platform running on the homepage of my blog. I\u0026rsquo;m still tweaking the look but I\u0026rsquo;m loving the opportunity to promote things I like™.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-10 23:16:31 +0800", "date": "11:16 p.m. on Nov 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/10/with-a-massive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F10%2Fwith-a-massive.html" }, { "id": 697, "type": "post", "title": "Fun and Games at Twitter", "text": "Update 10 November: Now Elon is requiring employees to work at least 40 hours per week in the office.\n Twitter is a clown show. But I have an irrational fear of clowns, and not Twitter, so maybe it\u0026rsquo;s better described as a dumpster fire.\nAnyway, let\u0026rsquo;s see if I can get this straight. In a few short days, Elon has:\n Fired half the company, including ones who knew what they were doing. Introduced the blue tick for anybody - at a price ($20, nah, $8 - USD anyway). Seen impersonation happen (surprise!) and created random rules about not being allowed to do that. Implemented a new grey, \u0026ldquo;official\u0026rdquo; checkmark for people who sort of used to be the blue tick people (but not quite). Removed the grey official checkmark: I just killed it\n\u0026mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022 There\u0026rsquo;s move fast and break things, and then there\u0026rsquo;s fly by the seat of your pants doing random shit because you can\u0026rsquo;t think even 1 step ahead.\nFurther evidence that there is false equivalence between wealth and intelligence.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-10 13:30:34 +0800", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Nov 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/10/fun-and-games.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F10%2Ffun-and-games.html" }, { "id": 698, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 10: My father-in-law was once Australia\u0026rsquo;s Minister for Defence. My father was an Anglican minister. Separation of Church and State!\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-10 10:12:55 +0800", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Nov 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/10/microblogvember-day-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F10%2Fmicroblogvember-day-my.html" }, { "id": 699, "type": "post", "title": "The Great Correction?", "text": "Are we now experiencing \u0026ldquo;the great correction\u0026rdquo; in the tech world? Meta has announced layoffs of 11,000, we just had now privately-owned Twitter reduce headcount by 7,500. Stripe let go of 14% of its people, and Sketch had to let a bunch of it\u0026rsquo;s employees go recently as well. These are just the ones I recall off the top of my head - I\u0026rsquo;m sure there are others.\nHigher interest rates reduce the availability of cheap venture capital; leading to increasing pressure to run a business to deliver profit and return to shareholders; and a number of these firms are behemoths that may have reached the end of their natural growth potential.\nSocial media in particular is a business that relies on ad revenue above all else. If interest rates continue to increase, people will buy less, and thus advertisers will have less free cash flow to put towards advertising. Ultimately this will result in more pressure on revenue for the social media companies.\nGood luck everybody; I think the tech seas are about to get rough for some time.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-09 20:14:53 +0800", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Nov 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/09/the-great-correction.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F09%2Fthe-great-correction.html" }, { "id": 700, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 9: After virtually no sleep last night, I am certain to sleep well this evening.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-09 15:41:44 +0800", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Nov 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/09/microblogvember-day-after.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F09%2Fmicroblogvember-day-after.html" }, { "id": 701, "type": "post", "title": "You Get a Checkmark, and You Get a Checkmark!", "text": "Update, 10 November: Now the official checkmark has been unrolled out. You couldn\u0026rsquo;t make this stuff up.\n Twitter’s solution for ruining verification is another check mark - The Verge:\nTwitter is rolling out another type of check mark to help distinguish accounts that users actually need to know are real. Although you can pay $7.99 per month for a blue check mark with the new version of Twitter Blue, select accounts for governments, companies, or public figures will get a gray “Official” check mark Twitter is on the pathway to full farce. it reminds me of this clip from The Late Show:\n ", "dateiso": "2022-11-09 09:14:57 +0800", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Nov 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/09/you-get-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F09%2Fyou-get-a.html" }, { "id": 702, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This past night I slept for about 90 minutes. Today is going to be so much fun…\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-09 04:52:35 +0800", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Nov 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/09/this-past-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F09%2Fthis-past-night.html" }, { "id": 703, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 8: I truly hope that Australia reaches consensus regarding the need for — and value of — an indigenous voice to Parliament.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-08 10:31:19 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Nov 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/08/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F08%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 704, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This submarine cable map is really cool!\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-07 17:09:12 +0800", "date": "5:09 p.m. on Nov 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/07/this-submarine-cable.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F07%2Fthis-submarine-cable.html" }, { "id": 705, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve set up shoutouts.lol by @vincent. For now it is running as the opening entry at canion.me or specifically at canion.me/shout-out\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;ve tried it on andrewcanion.com but the styling doesn\u0026rsquo;t look so nice and I don\u0026rsquo;t know how to fix that.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-07 16:50:22 +0800", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Nov 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/07/ive-set-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F07%2Five-set-up.html" }, { "id": 706, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 7: With the amount of time spent in Microsoft Teams, surely I have gained enough insight for a single work day.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-07 14:05:29 +0800", "date": "2:05 p.m. on Nov 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/07/microblogvember-day-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F07%2Fmicroblogvember-day-with.html" }, { "id": 707, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 6: I went on a roller coaster today. I\u0026rsquo;m too old for it. But I heard the echo of screams while riding.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-06 15:34:11 +0800", "date": "3:34 p.m. on Nov 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/06/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F06%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 708, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 5: Today I am exempt from making lunch.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-05 12:28:35 +0800", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Nov 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/05/microblogvember-day-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F05%2Fmicroblogvember-day-today.html" }, { "id": 709, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 4: After two weeks of solo parenting, I look with admiration upon all those who do it alone full-time.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-04 08:55:26 +0800", "date": "8:55 p.m. on Nov 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/04/microblogvember-day-after.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F04%2Fmicroblogvember-day-after.html" }, { "id": 710, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 3: I\u0026rsquo;m so old. I\u0026rsquo;ve had a license to drive a car for 28 years. I still remember driving myself to school for the first time; I felt like a bad-ass.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-03 12:49:07 +0800", "date": "12:49 p.m. on Nov 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/03/microblogvember-day-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F03%2Fmicroblogvember-day-im.html" }, { "id": 711, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got myself a new avatar! Thank you nanayudhistira2.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-02 19:29:19 +0800", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Nov 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/02/i-got-myself.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F02%2Fi-got-myself.html" }, { "id": 712, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I see that @dave has created Feedland. I\u0026rsquo;m having trouble grokking it - or maybe I\u0026rsquo;m over-thinking. It grabs RSS feeds and presents a river - but I don\u0026rsquo;t understand why I\u0026rsquo;d use it ahead of a feed reader. I\u0026rsquo;m missing something, right?\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-02 16:04:01 +0800", "date": "4:04 p.m. on Nov 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/02/i-see-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F02%2Fi-see-that.html" }, { "id": 713, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 2: My coffee shop sandwich was de-contented. It was definitely not a feast. Guess that\u0026rsquo;s one way to defy rising cost of materials.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-02 11:40:33 +0800", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Nov 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/02/microblogvember-day-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F02%2Fmicroblogvember-day-my.html" }, { "id": 714, "type": "post", "title": "Business Basics and Twitter Acquisitions", "text": "Can Elon Musk Make the Math Work on Owning Twitter? It’s Dicey. - The New York Times:\n Last year, Twitter’s interest expense was about $50 million. With the new debt taken on in the deal, that will now balloon to about $1 billion a year. Yet the company’s operations last year generated about $630 million in cash flow to meet its financial obligations.\n That means that Twitter is generating less money per year than what it owes its lenders.\n In my paid employment I often take time to explain to companies who do not benefit from the largesse of venture capital that the number one priority must be to keep revenue ahead of expenses, and avoid saddling their firm with debt.\nMusk has ignored these basic tenets of business because the culture of tech bros is that the rules don\u0026rsquo;t apply to them. In a falling market, however, other people\u0026rsquo;s money becomes less accessible. At some point, the music stops, and the debtors knock on the door.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-01 22:50:27 +0800", "date": "10:50 p.m. on Nov 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/01/business-basics-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F01%2Fbusiness-basics-and.html" }, { "id": 715, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have added rel=\u0026quot;me\u0026quot; links on my various websites so they each vouch for one another that they\u0026rsquo;re all related to me.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-01 22:29:04 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Nov 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/01/i-have-added.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F01%2Fi-have-added.html" }, { "id": 716, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am grateful not to be working in an office, where I have to pretend to care about the Melbourne Cup. That stupid horse race has ruined so many of my Tuesdays - I even remember having to watch it in Primary School! (obviously the teachers were betting on it)\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-01 10:15:02 +0800", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Nov 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/01/i-am-grateful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F01%2Fi-am-grateful.html" }, { "id": 717, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember 2022, Day 1. I need to figure out how to rediscover my motivation for work. Been feeling meh these past few days.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-01 09:33:37 +0800", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Nov 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/01/microblogvember-day-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F01%2Fmicroblogvember-day-i.html" }, { "id": 718, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trick or Treat! Happy Halloween.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-01 09:29:05 +0800", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Nov 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/11/01/trick-or-treat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F11%2F01%2Ftrick-or-treat.html" }, { "id": 719, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Having a night where I can’t fall asleep. Then I start thinking about not getting enough sleep, and start calculating how little sleep I am going to get before having to wake up, which causes sleep anxiety… you know the drill.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-31 01:02:56 +0800", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Oct 31, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/31/having-a-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F31%2Fhaving-a-night.html" }, { "id": 720, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m having a lot of fun with Mastodon tonight. I\u0026rsquo;ve joined the server hosted by @neatnik. My username is @andrew@social.lol\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-30 23:40:47 +0800", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Oct 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/30/im-having-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F30%2Fim-having-a.html" }, { "id": 721, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Okay @maique I\u0026rsquo;m at the point where I feel I need a cute avatar like all the cool kids. What was the name of the guy who did yours, how much did it cost, and what source material did you have to supply to provide inspiration?\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-30 17:29:28 +0800", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Oct 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/30/okay-maique-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F30%2Fokay-maique-im.html" }, { "id": 722, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What kind of bizarre inception moment is it when you follow your own micro.blog account via Mastodon? I have done it. 😵‍💫\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-29 22:48:35 +0800", "date": "10:48 p.m. on Oct 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/29/what-kind-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F29%2Fwhat-kind-of.html" }, { "id": 723, "type": "post", "title": "The Book Thief, 2013 - ★★½", "text": "Watched on Saturday October 29, 2022.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-29 21:57:49 +0800", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Oct 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/29/the-book-thief.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F29%2Fthe-book-thief.html" }, { "id": 724, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s macOS and iPadOS release day and I’ve updated nothing. That is a first for me!\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-25 21:29:48 +0800", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Oct 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/25/its-macos-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F25%2Fits-macos-and.html" }, { "id": 725, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At @HemisphericViews we finished our One Prime Plus member re-watch of Severance Season 1. It\u0026rsquo;s been a fun opportunity for @martinfeld, @Burk and I to get to know a group of our listeners better. We are blessed with a wonderful audience. Start listening today!\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-23 21:26:51 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Oct 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/23/at-hemisphericviews-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F23%2Fat-hemisphericviews-we.html" }, { "id": 726, "type": "post", "title": "Planning on Paper?", "text": "Finished reading: The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran 📚\nAfter reading this I\u0026rsquo;ve pulled out a hard copy Best Self journal my wife bought me a while ago and have been giving it a go. I am enjoying the paper lifestyle in support of my typical Fantastical/OmniFocus/Agenda/Logseq combination.\nI am going to give it a full genuine effort for at least the 13-week cycle the journal allows. I don\u0026rsquo;t know if it will stick after that but having a change-up in approach to help keep some mindful plasticity is probably no bad thing.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-20 21:30:23 +0800", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Oct 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/20/planning-on-paper.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F20%2Fplanning-on-paper.html" }, { "id": 727, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lactose free coffee is a bit gross. Not sure it’s worth it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-20 09:22:55 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Oct 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/20/lactose-free-coffee.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F20%2Flactose-free-coffee.html" }, { "id": 728, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s terrible when you order a takeaway coffee and it\u0026rsquo;s still almost too hot to drink 25 minutes later.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-18 09:49:59 +0800", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Oct 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/18/its-terrible-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F18%2Fits-terrible-when.html" }, { "id": 729, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Perth RAC Arena at 7:33pm. Perth Wildcats lost to Melbourne United, 81-84. I was invited to attend and sit court side by a Patreon supporter of my podcast NBL Pocket Podcast. What an opportunity! #adayinthelife\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-14 22:30:54 +0800", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Oct 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/14/perth-rac-arena.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F14%2Fperth-rac-arena.html" }, { "id": 730, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have two podcasts, both of which I think are pretty great. As always with podcasts, however, achieving discovery by a wider audience is the greatest challenge. I\u0026rsquo;m all ears for good ways to grow the listenership.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-13 14:37:14 +0800", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Oct 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/13/i-have-two.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F13%2Fi-have-two.html" }, { "id": 731, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you\u0026rsquo;re looking for 5 minutes of fun, have a listen to the Cappuccino Corner chapter in Episode 68 of Hemispheric Views. I promise you will be entertained. 🎙 ☕️\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-11 19:40:58 +0800", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Oct 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/11/if-youre-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F11%2Fif-youre-looking.html" }, { "id": 732, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I took one last BeReal photo, and deleted the app.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-10 16:02:11 +0800", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Oct 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/10/i-took-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F10%2Fi-took-one.html" }, { "id": 733, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With my employer making it harder to login from multiple devices, I\u0026rsquo;ve had to go searching for a web-based cross-platform text sync program. It\u0026rsquo;s back to the future with\u0026hellip; Simplenote!\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-10 11:31:52 +0800", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Oct 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/10/with-my-employer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F10%2Fwith-my-employer.html" }, { "id": 734, "type": "post", "title": "Secret Headquarters, 2022 - ★½", "text": "I watched it with kids. Even they got bored.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-10 10:14:22 +0800", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Oct 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/09/secret-headquarters.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F09%2Fsecret-headquarters.html" }, { "id": 735, "type": "post", "title": "Guest Appearance: Throwback Hoops Episode 46", "text": "I was welcomed as a guest on the podcast/YouTube show \u0026ldquo;Throwback Hoops\u0026rdquo; Episode 46 to talk Australian basketball. We covered women\u0026rsquo;s world, cup, NBL Round 1, and gave our predictions for the league\u0026rsquo;s awards. 🏀 🎙\nPodcast link\n ", "dateiso": "2022-10-06 15:26:20 +0800", "date": "3:26 p.m. on Oct 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/06/guest-appearance-throwback.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F06%2Fguest-appearance-throwback.html" }, { "id": 736, "type": "post", "title": "Fall, 2022 - ★★★½", "text": "A nice amount of nervous tension in this one.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-04 10:35:04 +0800", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Oct 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/03/fall.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F03%2Ffall.html" }, { "id": 737, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I remember as a kid sitting in the backseat of our car. I can place exactly which road I was on. I was calculating how old I would be when the year became 2000 (13 years old). Now I\u0026rsquo;m well into 2022. I\u0026rsquo;m both impressed with my memory and saddened by my age.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-02 00:00:13 +0800", "date": "12:00 p.m. on Oct 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/02/i-remember-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F02%2Fi-remember-as.html" }, { "id": 738, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun with DALL-E: “A painting of a middle-aged white man creating a podcast about basketball.”\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-01 01:21:00 +0800", "date": "1:21 p.m. on Oct 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/10/01/fun-with-dalle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F10%2F01%2Ffun-with-dalle.html" }, { "id": 739, "type": "post", "title": "Ferris Bueller\u0026#039;s Day Off, 1986 - ★★★★★", "text": "Watching this with my kids for the first time. It's such an awesome movie. But Rooney is not the old man I remember him being! John Hughes was a genius.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-30 09:23:00 +0800", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Sep 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/29/ferris-buellers-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F29%2Fferris-buellers-day.html" }, { "id": 740, "type": "post", "title": "I Hate Entropy", "text": "This article was originally written for the March 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus\nThings break down and that causes me stress. I know that everything in the world is gradually corroding, eroding and disintegrating but that doesn\u0026rsquo;t mean I have to like it.\nThe root cause of my problem is that I don\u0026rsquo;t like fixing things. I have zero interest in hardware, maintenance and DIY projects. I\u0026rsquo;m more capable of worrying about making things worse, and the ramifications of not fixing something than I am about actually getting a thing repaired.\nI think I put too much mystique into infrastructure. When a repair person comes around who knows what they are doing, inevitably there is futzing around, bashing things, and basically forcing it to work. I have a mindset that things should elegantly function - that they shouldn\u0026rsquo;t have to be pushed into working as designed.\nMy latest adventure has been a hydrochloric acid dispenser for my swimming pool. It uses a peristaltic pump system to draw the acid from a bottle and doses it into the pool. The control unit monitors the pH of the pool water and runs the peristaltic pump on a regular basis to inject small volumes of acid into the pool. According to my research, peristaltic pumps are simple and reliable. According to my real world experience, they aren\u0026rsquo;t.\n A few weeks ago it stopped dosing. I played around with the rubber hosing, asked the retailer for help, and eventually managed to reseat it in a way that must have made it happy, because the dosing worked once more.\nFast forward to now, and a few additional weeks of entropy, and the pH levels were again elevated. This time the control box is telling me to replace the tube. Fine, I do this thinking that a worn tube must be the root cause. Of course, this small piece of tubing was $42.\nI manage to remove the old one and install the new one. I seat it back into its peristaltic pump in a way that looks right. I prime the tube. I let it run for a few hours. Has the pH level come back down? No, of course not. Because hardware doesn\u0026rsquo;t love me. Will it resolve over the next day or two? I don\u0026rsquo;t know. I don\u0026rsquo;t even know if the pump is pumping - there is no way to see if there is any fluid flowing. Of course, this is made a little more dangerous by the fact that the fluid is hydrochloric acid.\nAnother day passes and the problem is still there, so now I have to call out the guy who knows what he’s doing. Turns out the pump spinner had suffered entropy of its own—eroding such that it didn’t create a strong enough pulse in the piping to effect peristalsis.\nI hate that entropy exists in the world, such that equipment can\u0026rsquo;t be relied upon for a longer period of time. I hate that I\u0026rsquo;m not a more capable handyman.\nAddendum\nToday, one of my outdoor taps broke. I managed to find a replacement part - after visiting 4 hardware stores, and get it changed out. So while I fixed it, it’s still more household entropy.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-28 14:11:05 +0800", "date": "2:11 p.m. on Sep 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/28/i-hate-entropy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F28%2Fi-hate-entropy.html" }, { "id": 741, "type": "post", "title": "Jurassic World Dominion, 2022 - ★", "text": "This was so boring, derivative, and I didn’t appreciate the Indiana Jones rip-off moments.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-27 10:45:13 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Sep 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/26/jurassic-world-dominion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F26%2Fjurassic-world-dominion.html" }, { "id": 742, "type": "post", "title": "Semi-Pro, 2008 - ★★★", "text": "It’s fun, but it’s not the best basketball movie.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-27 08:29:21 +0800", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Sep 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/26/semipro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F26%2Fsemipro.html" }, { "id": 743, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Jurassic Park Lego exhibition put on by Brickman is epic.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-26 21:42:55 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Sep 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/26/the-jurassic-park.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F26%2Fthe-jurassic-park.html" }, { "id": 744, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "8 days of basketball, 15 games, 8 podcasts, 2 silly videos, many conversations with basketball people, countless Twitter updates. The NBL Blitz in Darwin has finished, and I had a blast engaging with it as an accredited member of the media. I live a fortunate life. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-23 22:11:26 +0800", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Sep 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/23/days-of-basketball.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F23%2Fdays-of-basketball.html" }, { "id": 745, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Making this parody video was hilarious.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-23 09:00:18 +0800", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Sep 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/23/making-this-parody.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F23%2Fmaking-this-parody.html" }, { "id": 746, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would consider this grammar a bug in iOS 16. Anybody else agree?\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-22 22:59:41 +0800", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Sep 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/23/i-would-consider.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F23%2Fi-would-consider.html" }, { "id": 747, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While at the NBL Blitz, Nick and I made a parody video of this South East Melbourne Phoenix inside look video. We had fun with it. 📹\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-22 09:08:30 +0800", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Sep 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/22/while-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F22%2Fwhile-at-the.html" }, { "id": 748, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just a metre away from a crocodile. No big deal. 😬🐊\n\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-21 21:26:18 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Sep 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/21/just-a-metre.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F21%2Fjust-a-metre.html" }, { "id": 749, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today at the NBL Blitz I’m cross-promoting @hemisphericviews 🏀 🎙️\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-20 15:25:59 +0800", "date": "3:25 p.m. on Sep 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/20/today-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F20%2Ftoday-at-the.html" }, { "id": 750, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Suburban Darwin needs to lift its coffee game.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-20 08:29:02 +0800", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Sep 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/20/suburban-darwin-needs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F20%2Fsuburban-darwin-needs.html" }, { "id": 751, "type": "post", "title": "That Thing You Do!, 1996 - ★★", "text": "I’m watching this movie 30 years from when it was made, which is the same amount of time between when it was made and the time it was portraying.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-17 10:25:11 +0800", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Sep 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/16/that-thing-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F16%2Fthat-thing-you.html" }, { "id": 752, "type": "post", "title": "NBL Blitz Day 1", "text": "I am in Darwin this week as the National Basketball League is holding its pre-season Blitz tournament. All 10 teams competing to win the Loggins-Bruton Cup. I am attending all the games as accredited media, representing the NBL Pocket Podcast.\nThese are my brief notes from Day 1.\n A venue where the first NBL volunteer I meet is a friendly Darwin lawyer by day, basketball fan by night.\nPlenty of NBL staff scurrying around 90 minutes before tip-off, getting score benches ready.\nOne of the cup namesakes, Cal Bruton, strolls into the stadium. Later in the night, I would speak to said man. This man who dazzled me I was 9 years old and he played for the Perth Wildcats.\nUnlike the pre-season of two years ago in Tasmania, where beanies and hoodies were the go, here in Darwin is shorts all the way.\nPlayers warm up on court, Craig Randall II draining many threes from NBA range, but shooting with less accuracy from NBL 3-point range. Having played G-League and with a dream of making the NBA, this shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be a surprise. That’s the range he’s been practising for years.\nThe crowd filled in and were genuinely excited to be here. They were getting into the cheers, and were 100% behind Kai Sotto. This support for Sotto remained evident after the game, when a scrum formed around him to take photos and be in his presence.\nThe broadcast had scoreboard issues. I became a defacto score updater for viewers via Twitter. At half-time I shared a printout of the half-time box score that I obtained from the score bench.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-16 22:04:03 +0800", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Sep 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/16/nbl-blitz-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F16%2Fnbl-blitz-day.html" }, { "id": 753, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our clothes dryer died today. Repair guy isn’t available to the end of the month. Of course, now it’s raining.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-12 17:58:33 +0800", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Sep 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/12/our-clothes-dryer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F12%2Four-clothes-dryer.html" }, { "id": 754, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hotham Valley Steam Train. 🚂\n\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-11 17:44:52 +0800", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Sep 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/11/hotham-valley-steam.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F11%2Fhotham-valley-steam.html" }, { "id": 755, "type": "post", "title": "Professional Realism - I'm Not Who I Was", "text": "Tonight I have been noodling around on LinkedIn. It\u0026rsquo;s the curse of working in our current world, that I must maintain a LinkedIn account. The whole site feels incredibly superficial — a \u0026lsquo;social network\u0026rsquo; devoid of true humanity, but full of humblebrag posts and small talk comments in something which amounts to little more than a business-suited circle jerk.\nYet there I must be. Truth be told, for the last few years I\u0026rsquo;ve mostly used it as an avenue for promoting Hemispheric Views because if there is a podcast that deserves more listeners, it is that.1\nSo as I was on LinkedIn tonight, removing connections to ancient Groups that I\u0026rsquo;d not interacted with for years, updating my profile with current URLs, etc. I took a look at my profile picture used on the site.\nThe photo was nice. It was taken by a professional photographer at a time when I was more intensely involved in \u0026ldquo;corporate\u0026rdquo; work. I was wearing a nice tailored suit. I was 20 kilograms lighter than I am now - and 10 years younger. It was the kind of photo that you keep on a site like LinkedIn in some odd attempt to demonstrate a youthful verve that never fades.\nLooking at that photo tonight I realised that it was no longer me. That it was a photo of a different Andrew. It was an Andrew who was still trying to climb a ladder, impress those above him, and show capability.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not that Andrew anymore. I\u0026rsquo;m at a point in my life where I\u0026rsquo;m interested in doing work that interests me. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to climb a ladder. I don\u0026rsquo;t feel a need to try to exude competence.\nI am competent. More importantly though, now I\u0026rsquo;m confident. I know who I am. I\u0026rsquo;m relaxed and more aware of the need to build human connection ahead of corporate achievement. To that end, I knew that the Andrew in that LinkedIn photo was not the truth. It was the truth, but not anymore.\nSo I changed my photo. Now I\u0026rsquo;ve got a mug shot that shows me with a slight smile, my hair longer, stubble on my face, and a few more wrinkles and signs of ageing. This is who I am now. It\u0026rsquo;s the photo I\u0026rsquo;m already using on my personal sites, because it\u0026rsquo;s how I identify with myself.\nAs for LinkedIn, if you want to do business with me that is fantastic and I\u0026rsquo;m excited to explore opportunities. If you don\u0026rsquo;t, that\u0026rsquo;s fine. I\u0026rsquo;m walking my own path now.\n Please, tell your friends. Let\u0026rsquo;s boost those listener numbers!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2022-09-10 21:48:14 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Sep 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/10/professional-realism-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F10%2Fprofessional-realism-im.html" }, { "id": 756, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the first day of my life in which Queen Elizabeth is not with us. As an Australian I\u0026rsquo;m a firm believer that our country should become a Republic in its own right; but that is not to dismiss the magnificent servant of the Monarchy that Elizabeth II was. Rest in Peace.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-09 09:25:47 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Sep 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/09/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F09%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 757, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this the last night that Australia has Elizabeth II as its Monarch? She\u0026rsquo;s had an amazing run.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-08 22:24:34 +0800", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Sep 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/08/is-this-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F08%2Fis-this-the.html" }, { "id": 758, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Things got a bit crazy for E066 of Hemispheric Views. We struggled to keep to the script, and it was mainly my fault. @HemisphericViews @Burk @martinfeld\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-08 19:24:04 +0800", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Sep 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/08/things-got-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F08%2Fthings-got-a.html" }, { "id": 759, "type": "post", "title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005 - ★★½", "text": "Watched on Wednesday September 7, 2022.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-07 21:41:12 +0800", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Sep 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/07/charlie-and-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F07%2Fcharlie-and-the.html" }, { "id": 760, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Once again I\u0026rsquo;ve decommissioned the Logitech MX Master 3 mouse and Logi Options+ in favour of the Razer mouse supported by razer-macos drivers and button management by Steermouse.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-05 17:20:52 +0800", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Sep 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/05/once-again-ive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F05%2Fonce-again-ive.html" }, { "id": 761, "type": "post", "title": "Like You – A Mindfulness Podcast for Kids", "text": "If you have kids, you and they might enjoy the wonderful Like You – A Mindfulness Podcast for Kids. I\u0026rsquo;ve been a Patreon supporter for almost as long as Noah Glenn has been producing it. My kids fall asleep listening to Noah almost every night.\n Like You is a mindfulness podcast for kids. We use breathing, affirmations, music, and imagination to explore feelings, relieve anxiety, encourage self-esteem, and grow empathy, all while having fun!\n Noah is basically another member of our family at this point.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-03 12:43:27 +0800", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Sep 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/03/like-you-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F03%2Flike-you-a.html" }, { "id": 762, "type": "post", "title": "3D Impression of Tokyo's Subway System", "text": "This 3D Version of Tokyo's Subway System Looks Like a Labyrinth of Roller Coasters:\n \u0026hellip;by creating a 3D model of Tokyo’s tangled subway system, one which has brightly colored tubes swooping up and down, running over and around each other like the tracks of one of the craziest roller coasters ever.\n I\u0026rsquo;ve appreciated the scheduling efficiency of the Tokyo subway system in the past, but this 3D impression of how all the lines interact is something else.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-02 11:20:58 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Sep 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/02/d-impression-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F02%2Fd-impression-of.html" }, { "id": 763, "type": "post", "title": "Ali, 2001 - ★★", "text": "The movie needed a more forceful editor.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-02 06:11:15 +0800", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Sep 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/09/01/ali.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F09%2F01%2Fali.html" }, { "id": 764, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The latest episode of Hemispheric Views One Prime Plus is something else. Ostensibly we discuss our experience with the new browser, Arc, but we meander into a bunch of other unrelated - but funny - side topics as well. Sign up at OnePrimePlus.com. It\u0026rsquo;s in the long game!\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-29 22:45:38 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Aug 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/29/the-latest-episode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F29%2Fthe-latest-episode.html" }, { "id": 765, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve never been able to achieve blue-tick status on the bird site, but @neatnik at omg.lol has blessed me with his blue tick. Also, you should definitely buy an account. It\u0026rsquo;s an awesome service offered at a crazy-low price.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-29 22:31:55 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Aug 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/29/ive-never-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F29%2Five-never-been.html" }, { "id": 766, "type": "post", "title": "macOS Content Caching Fails to Propogate Security Updates", "text": "Last Week on My Mac: Security updates are down again – The Eclectic Light Company:\nHoward Oakley is doing an amazing job at diagnosing and bringing to light (pardon the pun) issues involving macOS Content Caching Server:\n Over the last three months, of the nine security updates to XProtect pushed by Apple, only one has been delivered and installed correctly through my Monterey Content Caching server, that on 4 August. The other eight security updates to XProtect and its new companion XProtect ‘Remediator’ all downloaded correctly from my local server, but then failed to install.\n After reviewing Howard\u0026rsquo;s articles on the topic, and using his impressive apps to identify whether I had an issue, I discovered that all three of my Macs behind a Mac mini server running content caching had failed to receive critical security updates. I\u0026rsquo;ve now disabled the caching server. If it can\u0026rsquo;t be trusted to deliver security updates it doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter how much internet bandwidth I can save, nor how much faster I can update machines. Security is more important than that.\nApple needs to do better. Maybe they need to rewrite the Content Caching Server in Swift? 🥁\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-29 21:44:07 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Aug 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/29/macos-content-caching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F29%2Fmacos-content-caching.html" }, { "id": 767, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Email is not a messaging platform.\nLoad the email app a couple of times a day, write and respond, and shut it down.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-29 21:29:44 +0800", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Aug 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/29/email-is-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F29%2Femail-is-not.html" }, { "id": 768, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been monkeying around with websites. Of course I managed to break something. Does anybody know how to configure DNS such that it will redirect a URL to an omg.lol profile page? @maique\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-28 15:48:03 +0800", "date": "3:48 p.m. on Aug 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/28/ive-been-monkeying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F28%2Five-been-monkeying.html" }, { "id": 769, "type": "post", "title": "Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★", "text": "Watched on Friday August 26, 2022.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-27 09:12:29 +0800", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Aug 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/26/top-gun-maverick.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F26%2Ftop-gun-maverick.html" }, { "id": 770, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My young fella performed at school assembly today. They rocked out to a song about adjectives!\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-26 22:05:38 +0800", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Aug 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/26/my-young-fella.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F26%2Fmy-young-fella.html" }, { "id": 771, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to Howard Oakley\u0026rsquo;s article Has Apple fixed recent Software Update problems? – The Eclectic Light Company I can confirm that no, Apple\u0026rsquo;s Content Caching service is not fixed. All Macs on my local network had out-of-date versions of XProtect. Content caching now disabled.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-25 15:38:00 +0800", "date": "3:38 p.m. on Aug 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/25/thanks-to-howard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F25%2Fthanks-to-howard.html" }, { "id": 772, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great episode of Really Specific Stories podcast with @manton hosted by @martinfeld\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-24 12:41:43 +0800", "date": "12:41 p.m. on Aug 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/24/great-episode-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F24%2Fgreat-episode-of.html" }, { "id": 773, "type": "post", "title": "Choosing a Twitter Client", "text": "This article was originally written for the February 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus\n Update as of August 2022: I have basically settled on Twitterrific on iOS/iPadOS and Twitter on macOS.\n I don’t love Twitter, but I use the heck out of it for one reason only: following the Australian National Basketball League (@NBL) and the community of passionate fans around it.\nFor a normal person with this use case, they would use the company-issued Twitter app and be done with it. But you know that I’m not normal (and not Martin Feld) so default apps are not generally in my wheelhouse. So it is with Twitter.\nThe best thing about a third-party app is the lack of in-line ads, and the chronological timeline. They bring other benefits (and some deficiencies) but these are the two reasons why I don’t accept usage of the Twitter app.\nFor the past year I’ve been using Tweetbot, but as is my wont, I elected not to auto-renew my subscription. They got a year of income from me, but the implied agreement with a subscription app is that I can (and should?) walk away at the end of the term to consider my options and assess the broader market.\nA couple of months ago I purchased Spring. I like that this app is a one-time purchase, and it unlocks the app on all platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS). I’ve been using it in tandem with Tweetbot to see how it works. It’s… fine? I don’t like the way it shows the thread of a retweet within the context of the main timeline. I end up seeing the same tweets over and over, and it bloats the timeline. This is probably because I’m a timeline completionist. I can imagine that if one was dipping in and out, the additional context might be welcomed. I also struggle with the UX flow of the app. I think I understand its logic, but I find myself having to think about it. I don’t want to think that hard about Twitter.\nMy next option is Twitterrific. I used this many, many years ago. I’ve once again downloaded it for iOS but have yet to buy the subscription. I don’t like that the subscription doesn’t unlock the macOS version. That seems less than ideal. I have a memory of developers Iconfactory saying this was going to change, but I can’t confirm that, and as at the time of this article, it isn’t the case. So I will judge based on what is in front of me.\nI like the airy, spacious feel of Twitterrific. Its big thing is the unified timeline where it puts replies and mentions inline with everything else. This seems less revolutionary these days.\nI honestly don’t know what to do. Are there other options out there that I’m neglecting?\nWhich app do you use? Which one should I use?\nHelp!\nAnd if you want to see lots of random comments about NBL basketball, follow @andrewcanion.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-23 12:45:30 +0800", "date": "12:45 p.m. on Aug 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/23/choosing-a-twitter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F23%2Fchoosing-a-twitter.html" }, { "id": 774, "type": "post", "title": "Adventures in SoftRAID", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve had an adventure with my OWC Thunderbay 4-disk drive array this week. I\u0026rsquo;ve emerged the other side, ultimately unscathed, but the journey certainly could have been easier. Let\u0026rsquo;s take a look.\nIt all started when I reached the capacity of my RAID-5 formatted array of 4 x 2TB drives. The 6TB of storage this provided me was almost full. This array sits in a cupboard connected to a headless M1 mac mini, so all operations need to be managed through screen sharing with Screens or SSH.\n Incidentally, for many months now this RAID-array, with SoftRAID as the management software has been causing hardware panics and reboots on the M1 mac mini it\u0026rsquo;s connected to. My winding adventure has also been able to resolve this problem - although word is Ventura will eliminate some macOS bugs that were the root cause.\n Preparing the Way Back to the story\u0026hellip; the SoftRAID software has a neat feature within it that allows the user to resize a RAID volume if the disks have additional capacity than is used by the volume. RAID 5 allows any one disk to be removed at a time and continue to operate. This feature I would use to my advantage to grow the size of my array.\nI bought four new 4TB disks. One at a time, I removed an existing 2TB disk - setting the array to a degraded mode. I dropped in a replacement 4TB drive, and the Thunderbay took a day or so to rebuild the array using 2TB of the new 4TB. I did this same thing four times. It took days, but I ended up with my existing array of 4 x 2TB but now it was on 4 x 4TB disks.\nNo Resize for You ⛔️ Now I could use that nifty feature to upsize my volume to 12TB. I happily clicked the button and tried to enter my new volume size. Nothing. Nada. Zip. It wouldn\u0026rsquo;t let me go beyond the current 6TB. Oh no.\nOff to the SoftRaid website and support forums I go. I eventually find a support note - and random threads in the forum - that there is a known bug in SoftRAID 6.3 that prevents resizing and growing RAID arrays. The solution? Use SoftRAID 6.0.3. Cool! I\u0026rsquo;ll do that. But SoftRAID 6.0.3 is only compatible with Big Sur. Not Monterey. Hmm. All my Mac\u0026rsquo;s are upgraded and I don\u0026rsquo;t fancy trying to downgrade any of them.\nThis is a dead end. There is no resolution. Except one. Erase the RAID array and start again, formatting the drives and going from scratch. ARGH! On the bright side, by formatting the drives I could select a 64kb stripe size instead of the recommended and preferred 16kb stripe size the RAID array was using now and that was causing the kernel panics on any macOS version less than Ventura for M1 Macs.\nBelt and Suspenders So I needed to find a way to backup 6TB of data.\nI bought a USB 3.1 hard drive caddy. My friend Nick allowed me save some dollars by lending me two 6TB drives which I could use as backup media.\nSo now how to actually undertake the backup in a way that was resilient to failures, kernel panics and restarts? Running rsync from the command line was one option - but I\u0026rsquo;m not a command line guru and was worried I\u0026rsquo;d get my flags wrong and not properly copy metadata. Aha, I have a license for SuperDuper! That\u0026rsquo;ll do it! Except my license had expired so I couldn\u0026rsquo;t use it. Before I bought a new license, I checked in on Carbon Copy Cloner, which I know other people praise. Not only does it feature a more up-to-date (and informative) user interface, it offers a fully-featured 30-day trial. Brilliant!\nI setup CCC to create a clone of my RAID. Off it went. It took about 24 hours. This was extended because what I did forget to do was erase the Time Machine backups that were on the array. I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t have kept them, but oh well, I left it alone.\n Nick recommended I actually make two backups, because he couldn\u0026rsquo;t verify the quality of the disks he\u0026rsquo;d lent to me. Despite no errors being reported from the first backup, I did as suggested - setting CCC to do a repeat backup (but this time I deleted the Time Machine backups first). Another almost 24 hours passed.\nErase and Restore 😱 Now, onto erasure of the RAID array itself. This was the \u0026lsquo;gulp\u0026rsquo; moment of the process. No going back from here. I re-initialised the drives and reset the volume, and thankfully, was able to choose a volume size of 12TB. And, as mentioned, I went with the 64kb stripe size to avoid kernel panics (even though I will probably regret that once Ventura is released with support for 16kb stripes).\nRAID array ready, it was time to restore from my backup. Queue another long process. The next day, I check the completed restore, which\u0026hellip; had errors. Nick, this is where I thank you for suggesting the \u0026lsquo;double backup\u0026rsquo; strategy. While the backup drive had no errors writing content, it had troubles reading it. This is also where I was very thankful to have chosen Carbon Copy Cloner which offers a clear and helpful log file showing the failed files. There was only about a dozen that didn\u0026rsquo;t work, so I was able to restore all of these successfully from the second backup.\nWith this done, the RAID array was back! And almost everything picked up from where I left off. As I had transferred some invisible BackBlaze configuration files, I had to re-associate the new drive with my account, which was an easy toggle. I had to reset the Time Machine settings in the MacBook Airs that back up to it, so they would find the new drive. Finally, I had to reinitiate Content Caching on the mac mini by turning it off and on again.\nAfter a week, I\u0026rsquo;m up and running once more.\nWill I do all this again when Ventura is released and I want to leverage 16kb stripe sizing? I don\u0026rsquo;t know if it\u0026rsquo;s worth it, to be honest.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-21 14:21:06 +0800", "date": "2:21 p.m. on Aug 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/21/ive-had-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F21%2Five-had-an.html" }, { "id": 775, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A photo from Yardie Creek during our recent break in Exmouth, Western Australia.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-15 20:41:54 +0800", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Aug 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/15/a-photo-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F15%2Fa-photo-from.html" }, { "id": 776, "type": "post", "title": "Lightyear, 2022 - ★★★½", "text": "Incredible animation and a non-stop action adventure, with just enough Pixar feels added.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-15 09:25:49 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Aug 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/14/lightyear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F14%2Flightyear.html" }, { "id": 777, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It is wonderful to be attending the Basketball WA Awards with my wife Hannah Beazley MLA.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-13 19:56:38 +0800", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Aug 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/13/it-is-wonderful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F13%2Fit-is-wonderful.html" }, { "id": 778, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am loving Arc Browser, and I\u0026rsquo;m not even using the fancy \u0026ldquo;new\u0026rdquo; stuff it contains. Just it as a browser is a great experience.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-12 14:25:14 +0800", "date": "2:25 p.m. on Aug 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/12/i-am-loving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F12%2Fi-am-loving.html" }, { "id": 779, "type": "post", "title": "The Rescue, 2021 - ★★★★", "text": "An incredible story well told.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-12 07:26:08 +0800", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Aug 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/11/the-rescue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F11%2Fthe-rescue.html" }, { "id": 780, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not an academic but that is not stopping me from futzing around with Zotero.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-07 08:11:15 +0800", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Aug 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/07/im-not-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F07%2Fim-not-an.html" }, { "id": 781, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoying a holiday read. A View to Die For by @cheri\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-04 10:47:58 +0800", "date": "10:47 p.m. on Aug 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/04/enjoying-a-holiday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F04%2Fenjoying-a-holiday.html" }, { "id": 782, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande 📚 I didn\u0026rsquo;t want a story justifying the use of checklists; I wanted a book providing a guide to the development of best practice checklists.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-02 20:56:41 +0800", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Aug 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/02/finished-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F02%2Ffinished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 783, "type": "post", "title": "Still Loving Logseq", "text": "My love affair with Logseq continues unabated. I enjoy using the software - even through the weird and buggy bits. There is an immediacy to it that I like, which Craft has been unable to match. Craft was always too fussy, and I found myself becoming distracted by fonts and styles. The best comparison I can make is that Craft is the modern Microsoft Word, while Logseq would be BBEdit.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-01 00:16:27 +0800", "date": "12:16 p.m. on Aug 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/08/01/still-loving-logseq.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F08%2F01%2Fstill-loving-logseq.html" }, { "id": 784, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In E063 of @hemisphericviews we talk to @ericmwalk to find out how he is so good at Arcadia. Plus we pontificate profusely pertaining to Podcasting 2.0.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-28 15:53:13 +0800", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Jul 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/28/in-e-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F28%2Fin-e-of.html" }, { "id": 785, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made a caraway seed cake. When I was a schoolboy, my Mom would sometimes make one of these during the day. When I got home we would eat it alongside a cup of tea using our fancy tea cups. This cake today has provided me with both deliciousness and nostalgia.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-26 11:56:00 +0800", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Jul 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/26/i-made-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F26%2Fi-made-a.html" }, { "id": 786, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Scotty Jackson has been working hard and putting up with my bug reports regarding his Shortcut to create a daily note in Agenda with links to calendar events and OmniFocus tasks. The Shortcut is now flawless - and amazing!\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-26 10:14:43 +0800", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Jul 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/26/scotty-jackson-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F26%2Fscotty-jackson-has.html" }, { "id": 787, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I had a conversation with a magpie. 🐧\n\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-22 14:42:33 +0800", "date": "2:42 p.m. on Jul 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/22/today-i-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F22%2Ftoday-i-had.html" }, { "id": 788, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why\u0026rsquo;s everybody talking about Obsidian? Loqseq is where it\u0026rsquo;s at! I\u0026rsquo;m digging it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-19 23:17:34 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Jul 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/19/whys-everybody-talking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F19%2Fwhys-everybody-talking.html" }, { "id": 789, "type": "post", "title": "Minions: The Rise of Gru, 2022 - ★★", "text": "A few light-hearted moments scattered amongst a sea of meh.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-14 09:10:47 +0800", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Jul 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/13/minions-the-rise.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F13%2Fminions-the-rise.html" }, { "id": 790, "type": "post", "title": "Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★", "text": "Massive fan service and I’m here for it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-13 10:04:56 +0800", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Jul 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/12/top-gun-maverick.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F12%2Ftop-gun-maverick.html" }, { "id": 791, "type": "post", "title": "Logging into Agenda.app with Shortcuts", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been getting back into Agenda as a work diary and daily tracker.\nThe app is brought to a new level of usefulness thanks to the ingenuity of Shortcuts developer Scotty Jackson.\nScotty Jackson:\n This is all about my Rapid Log Shortcut, for use with the Agenda app … and my Agenda Daily Log Shortcut. The basic conceit of this Shortcut is that it appends provided input to note in Agenda.\n Scotty works wonders with Shortcuts. This is a new version of his Rapid Logger that ties in with his also new Daily Log shortcut.\nCheck them out, they\u0026rsquo;re excellent examples of the power of Shortcuts as a programming application.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-12 09:38:07 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Jul 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/12/logging-into-agendaapp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F12%2Flogging-into-agendaapp.html" }, { "id": 792, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve discovered another Read-it-Later service, Omnivore. Hard to find out much more about it though - has anybody else heard of it?\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-11 14:40:59 +0800", "date": "2:40 p.m. on Jul 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/11/ive-discovered-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F11%2Five-discovered-another.html" }, { "id": 793, "type": "post", "title": "Big, 1988 - ★★★", "text": "Watched on Sunday July 10, 2022.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-11 08:53:13 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Jul 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/10/big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F10%2Fbig.html" }, { "id": 794, "type": "post", "title": "Console Games are Fun; Mobile Ones Aren't", "text": "Matt Birchler writing on his blog makes a succinct point.\n Mobile games are a shit industry with shit companies making shit games that don’t exist to entertain, they exist to extract as much money as possible from a few whales who will spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.\n Fun is not the point.\n Matt nails it. This is why I enjoy playing games on Xbox and Switch, and get nothing from mobile gaming.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-10 17:08:17 +0800", "date": "5:08 p.m. on Jul 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/10/console-games-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F10%2Fconsole-games-are.html" }, { "id": 795, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate knee bursitis or whatever worse thing is going on with my ageing joints. One small jump today led to immediate chronic pain after suffering underlying soreness for months prior.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-10 04:56:19 +0800", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Jul 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/10/i-hate-knee.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F10%2Fi-hate-knee.html" }, { "id": 796, "type": "post", "title": "Me in 1 Chart", "text": "After listening to myself interviewed by Martin Feld on Really Specific Stories I started thinking about the strange mixture of interests I have.\nFor fun, I thought I\u0026rsquo;d grab the main categories and represent them in graphical form.\nBasketball is predominantly represented by NBL and NBL1 - not NBA.\nPodcasting incorporates listening, and producing NBL Pocket Podcast and Hemispheric Views.\nProductivity and IT \u0026amp; Tech almost bleed into one another to an extent. Productivity is about finding optimal ways of working, creating time and space through efficiency and clever use of technology where appropriate. This can be applied at a personal level or a corporate level. Application of effective productive measures is how I can often add value with companies I support as part of my day job. The IT \u0026amp; Tech portion has shrunk over the years, as this area has become commoditised and it becomes harder to tinker. Nowadays my focus is mainly on using Apple platforms to build nice workflows to support my own productivity improvements. I will let IT \u0026amp; Tech also capture the small amount of computer gaming I do.\nFinally, politics encapsulates mainly Australian Federal politics and Western Australian State politics. I used to work in State politics; my wife is a State Parliamentarian, so I guess this checks out.\nI wonder if there are any other people out there with a similar cross-section of interests?\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-09 14:38:59 +0800", "date": "2:38 p.m. on Jul 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/09/me-in-chart.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F09%2Fme-in-chart.html" }, { "id": 797, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve built my own Hello page riffing on Alastair Johnson\u0026rsquo;s idea.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-07 11:07:52 +0800", "date": "11:07 p.m. on Jul 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/07/ive-built-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F07%2Five-built-my.html" }, { "id": 798, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: The Profit Paradox by Jan Eeckhout 📚 It took me a long time to finish because I put it down halfway through and left it for a while. Great insights, but did tend to get a little bogged down in the last third. Very US-centric, of course.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-04 13:17:15 +0800", "date": "1:17 p.m. on Jul 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/04/finished-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F04%2Ffinished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 799, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m seriously addicted to Halo Infinite on Xbox. I love the open world approach to the game.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-03 17:26:16 +0800", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Jul 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/07/03/im-seriously-addicted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F07%2F03%2Fim-seriously-addicted.html" }, { "id": 800, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Look at that - a new episode has dropped! Hemispheric Views 061: Bullet Point Out Of Context!\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-30 16:13:12 +0800", "date": "4:13 p.m. on Jun 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/30/look-at-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F30%2Flook-at-that.html" }, { "id": 801, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a quick post using Quill which I vaguely remember seeing before, but which I was reminded about by @gabz at What is my process or workflow?. Quill is an online form for entering new blog posts.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-30 09:03:05 +0800", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Jun 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/30/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F30%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 802, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought a discounted year of Agenda.app. I owned it a couple of years ago, but moved onto Craft. I still think Craft is better, but I can’t resist a note-taking app!\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-29 21:05:11 +0800", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Jun 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/29/i-bought-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F29%2Fi-bought-a.html" }, { "id": 803, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Stopped to make sure old mate wasn\u0026rsquo;t about to crash into my car in the parking lot as he was having a rough time steering into a bay. He missed my car, then we had a nice old chat about the weather and footy walking in to the shops together.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-27 10:22:54 +0800", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Jun 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/27/stopped-to-make.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F27%2Fstopped-to-make.html" }, { "id": 804, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For all the things my country gets wrong - and we get a lot wrong - today I\u0026rsquo;m even more appreciative of being an Australian. Our governance systems remain robust and to date have corrected against efforts made by extremist political advances.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-25 10:06:26 +0800", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Jun 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/25/for-all-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F25%2Ffor-all-the.html" }, { "id": 805, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can’t believe Roe v Wade has been overturned. What is going on in the USA? I don’t understand extremist conservative thinking.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-24 23:47:35 +0800", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Jun 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/24/i-cant-believe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F24%2Fi-cant-believe.html" }, { "id": 806, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Obi Wan Kenobi. It does a really great job bringing insight to the characters we know and love, while maintaining the feeling of something at stake.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-23 23:48:21 +0800", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Jun 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/23/finished-obi-wan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F23%2Ffinished-obi-wan.html" }, { "id": 807, "type": "post", "title": "Palmer, 2021 - ★★★★★", "text": "A tender and touching story of parenting and caring.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-20 10:36:52 +0800", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Jun 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/19/palmer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F19%2Fpalmer.html" }, { "id": 808, "type": "post", "title": "Great Writing About a Not Great President", "text": "Maureen Dowd: Donald Trump, American Monster\n Shelley’s monster, unlike ours, has self-awareness and a reason to wreak havoc. He knows how to feel guilty and when to leave the stage. Our monster’s malignity stems from pure narcissistic psychopathy — and he refuses to leave the stage or cease his vile mendacity.\n Maureen Dowd truly is a great writer. I would love to be able to craft words in such a way.\n— Link to this article found via Rob Fahrni\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-19 07:46:21 +0800", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jun 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/19/great-writing-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F19%2Fgreat-writing-about.html" }, { "id": 809, "type": "post", "title": "COVID Day 4", "text": "Day 4 of COVID has seen me sleep for 14 hours and wake with a sore throat, aches and a pounding head.\nDuring the night I had the experience that I sometimes feel with bad flus. It is as if the electrical wiring in my body has been incorrectly rerouted and partly disconnected. So I will get a pinging, almost zapping feel in my hip for instance, when I twist my shoulder. Or in my foot when I move my torso. It\u0026rsquo;s quite disconcerting and I would be fascinated to know the scientific explanation for it. I guess it\u0026rsquo;s probably inflammatory symptoms?\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-18 12:33:14 +0800", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Jun 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/18/covid-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F18%2Fcovid-day.html" }, { "id": 810, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If I were to describe how COVID feels, I would say: \u0026ldquo;Imagine if your body - inside and out - were made up of jigsaw puzzle pieces. Then take away about 35% of those pieces and imagine how unstructurally sound you would feel. That\u0026rsquo;s COVID.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-17 08:54:45 +0800", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Jun 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/17/if-i-were.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F17%2Fif-i-were.html" }, { "id": 811, "type": "post", "title": "I Care a Lot, 2020 - ★★½", "text": "Started off great. I would have preferred a different ending.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-16 07:29:49 +0800", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Jun 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/15/i-care-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F15%2Fi-care-a.html" }, { "id": 812, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "COVID has finally found me. Now let’s see what sort of defence this triple-vax has delivered me.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-14 21:02:28 +0800", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Jun 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/14/covid-has-finally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F14%2Fcovid-has-finally.html" }, { "id": 813, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been having all sorts of problems with my DNS and NextDNS. After many rabbitholes, I found it stemmed back to my originating DNS provider, which I had inadvertently set to my ISP. Switched it to Quad9 and all seems to be working well again.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-10 12:55:12 +0800", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Jun 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/10/ive-been-having.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F10%2Five-been-having.html" }, { "id": 814, "type": "post", "title": "Meeting Australia’s New Prime Minister", "text": "Yesterday we attended an event in South Perth with Australia’s new Prime Minister, The Hon Anthony Albanese MP.\nIt was an opportunity for him to introduce the newly elected Labor Members of Parliament from WA, and thank the volunteers that worked as part of the campaign.\nMy wife is a State Member of Parliament, representing Labor in the Seat of Victoria Park. In 2019 she ran for the Federal Seat of Swan. Hannah’s father and Prime Minister Albanese were colleagues in earlier Australian Parliaments (when Kim was Opposition Leader). As a result, Hannah has known Anthony Albanese over a long period of time.\n This level of familiarity was captured, somewhat hilariously, in these three photos. My wife looks besotted! Should I be jealous?\nThe best thing about this event was how it was managed. It was held in a public open park. The area wasn’t restricted to only those specifically invited. I saw a couple cycle past, and stop to watch when they realised the Prime Minister was there. Apart from obvious police and security personnel scattered around, the event was open and welcoming. No metal detectors. No areas cordoned off.\nThe Prime Minister was amidst everybody else. He met and said hello to our two kids.\nI love that I live in a country where this can happen. We don’t have any great fear of random shooters arriving. Our elected leader can mingle among the everyday people. This is what is great about Australian culture, society and laws. Preventing people from having guns means we can have a more integrated society. It builds democracy. It builds people’s rights; it doesn’t impinge upon them.\nIt is great to say that I’ve met Australia’s 31st Prime Minister. It’s even greater to say that I live in a country where I can.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-06 16:48:28 +0800", "date": "4:48 p.m. on Jun 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/06/meeting-australias-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F06%2Fmeeting-australias-new.html" }, { "id": 815, "type": "post", "title": "Battleship, 2012 - ★★½", "text": "Based on the game Battleship? Seriously? The first third of the movie was good, the rest not so much.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-05 08:26:17 +0800", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Jun 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/04/battleship.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F04%2Fbattleship.html" }, { "id": 816, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve decided to make my various referral codes and affiliate links more accessible, and have added it to the navigation bar of my micro.blog homepage.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-03 16:25:10 +0800", "date": "4:25 p.m. on Jun 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/06/03/ive-decided-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F06%2F03%2Five-decided-to.html" }, { "id": 817, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 31: endurance (@uncertainquark)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-31 11:50:04 +0800", "date": "11:50 p.m. on May 31, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/31/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F31%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 818, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 30: fish (@thedimpause)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-30 15:44:27 +0800", "date": "3:44 p.m. on May 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/30/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F30%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 819, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 29: stripes (@CTD)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-29 14:36:07 +0800", "date": "2:36 p.m. on May 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/29/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F29%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 820, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 28: fair (@odd)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-28 21:12:42 +0800", "date": "9:12 p.m. on May 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/28/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F28%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 821, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 27: written (@sylvia)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-27 23:51:05 +0800", "date": "11:51 p.m. on May 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/27/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F27%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 822, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 26: schedule (@canion)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-26 14:28:34 +0800", "date": "2:28 p.m. on May 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/26/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F26%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 823, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 25: mountain (@Miraz)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-25 10:30:34 +0800", "date": "10:30 p.m. on May 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/25/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F25%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 824, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " A replica of the classic iTunes MiniPlayer to control Apple Music on modern macOS.Source: Music MiniPlayer for macOS\n This looks fun!\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-24 14:22:14 +0800", "date": "2:22 p.m. on May 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/24/a-replica-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F24%2Fa-replica-of.html" }, { "id": 825, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 24: intricate (@uncertainquark)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-24 11:52:58 +0800", "date": "11:52 p.m. on May 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/24/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F24%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 826, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 23: plain (@CTD)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-23 12:58:59 +0800", "date": "12:58 p.m. on May 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/23/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F23%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 827, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 22: textile (@stevelloyd)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-22 16:20:44 +0800", "date": "4:20 p.m. on May 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/22/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F22%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 828, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A great day for Australian politics.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-22 00:20:11 +0800", "date": "12:20 p.m. on May 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/22/a-great-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F22%2Fa-great-day.html" }, { "id": 829, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 21: symmetry (@amit)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-21 15:10:40 +0800", "date": "3:10 p.m. on May 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/21/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F21%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 830, "type": "post", "title": "1917, 2019 - ★★★★", "text": "A powerful movie showing the futility of war and the ability of people to push on.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-21 05:00:58 +0800", "date": "5:00 p.m. on May 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/20/170058.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F20%2F170058.html" }, { "id": 831, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 20: beverage (@bobwertz)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-20 19:20:50 +0800", "date": "7:20 p.m. on May 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/20/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F20%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 832, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In Hemispheric Views 58, I wrestle with the true nature of my business, Martin bids farewell to iPods (but keeps buying them) and Jason reviews a highly-anticipated yellow device—that’s right, it’s the Playdate!\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-19 15:29:07 +0800", "date": "3:29 p.m. on May 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/19/in-hemispheric-views.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F19%2Fin-hemispheric-views.html" }, { "id": 833, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 19: indulgence (@sylvia)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-19 13:20:40 +0800", "date": "1:20 p.m. on May 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/19/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F19%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 834, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 18: random (@JohnPhilpin)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-18 15:56:43 +0800", "date": "3:56 p.m. on May 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/18/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F18%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 835, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A dark and stormy night. Lightning everywhere.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-17 22:18:16 +0800", "date": "10:18 p.m. on May 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/17/a-dark-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F17%2Fa-dark-and.html" }, { "id": 836, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 17: hold (@dwalbert)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-17 14:40:45 +0800", "date": "2:40 p.m. on May 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/17/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F17%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 837, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love full moon nights where I can look outside and still see everything clearly. It\u0026rsquo;s an underrated benefit of having a life on Earth.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-16 21:36:18 +0800", "date": "9:36 p.m. on May 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/16/i-love-full.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F16%2Fi-love-full.html" }, { "id": 838, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 16: time (@rknightuk)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-16 14:22:18 +0800", "date": "2:22 p.m. on May 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/16/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F16%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 839, "type": "post", "title": "Rebuilding Drafts", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been a long-time user of Drafts, but my subscription is due to expire next month and I have been thinking that I\u0026rsquo;d let it go. I\u0026rsquo;ve been using Tot more these days, and Drafts had become an intimidating mess that I didn\u0026rsquo;t enjoy using.\nHowever, after listening to a Mac Power Users podcast featuring the Drafts app and an interview with its developer, and then reading a blog post by Jason Burk about his Drafts setup (plus a personal conversation with him), I realised that it wasn\u0026rsquo;t necessarily Drafts that was the problem - it was what I had done to it.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s the thing, Drafts is almost endlessly customisable to enable it to fit different users and use cases. I had created so many Actions, Action Groups, and sections that the app had become confusing and overwhelming. I had duplicated actions across different groups, I was having to think too much whenever I wanted to use the app.\nAs I said to Jason, actual use beats good intentions. My Drafts configuration had become so bloated with convoluted actions that I thought I might use someday that it put me off from using the simple actions I will actually use today.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve taken my myriad Action Groups and boiled them down to a single set. Now the only Actions that confront me are the ones I am likely to use and I don\u0026rsquo;t need to think about switching between different Action Groups.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve also kept a couple of additional Action Groups but set them only as Action Bars - essentially an additional layer of text editing commands that sit at the bottom of my editing window. These are for formatting text, as opposed to taking action on them.\nIn terms of Workspaces, I\u0026rsquo;m keeping that as I previously had configured, but have clarified my thinking about them. I have workspaces dedicated to:\n Untagged Blogging Podcast Work Templates These are populated through smart searches based on a tag I apply to each note.\nThe Templates Workspace is specifically for OmniFocus project templates that I send to OmniFocus using the scripts that Rosemary Orchard created. I continue to use this system because it allows for date math (for example, a task will be deferred 6 months from the date the project is created).\nI\u0026rsquo;m now feeling much more positive about Drafts after this cleanup. The Drafts editor is great, it supports all the Mac niceties (Services, smart markdown link insertion/pastes, etc.) and now I don\u0026rsquo;t feel overwhelmed when I load the app. Of course, Drafts also offers that great unique selling proposition of a blank field that is ready for text entry immediately. This is especially great on iOS.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-16 09:22:21 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on May 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/16/rebuilding-drafts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F16%2Frebuilding-drafts.html" }, { "id": 840, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 15: clouds (@klandwehr)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-15 14:04:49 +0800", "date": "2:04 p.m. on May 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/15/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F15%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 841, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After talking with @Burk I\u0026rsquo;ve been re-inspired with Drafts. I\u0026rsquo;ve streamlined my Actions to make the app more approachable. Actual use beats good intentions.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-15 13:24:00 +0800", "date": "1:24 p.m. on May 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/15/after-talking-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F15%2Fafter-talking-with.html" }, { "id": 842, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This Redbacks v Cougars game was a fun one to call. The game featured a bit of everything. I am loving doing NBL1 commentary this season!\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-14 22:35:17 +0800", "date": "10:35 p.m. on May 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/14/this-redbacks-v.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F14%2Fthis-redbacks-v.html" }, { "id": 843, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 14: fence (@val)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-14 21:22:18 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on May 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/14/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F14%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 844, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 13: community (@crossingthethreshold)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-13 14:13:27 +0800", "date": "2:13 p.m. on May 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/13/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F13%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 845, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 12: tranquility (@vincent)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-12 19:09:43 +0800", "date": "7:09 p.m. on May 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/12/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F12%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 846, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 11: maroon (@rom)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-11 16:27:17 +0800", "date": "4:27 p.m. on May 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/11/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F11%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 847, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 10: pot (@warner)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-10 15:59:50 +0800", "date": "3:59 p.m. on May 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/10/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F10%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 848, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We aim to keep Hemispheric Views podcast to around 45 minutes in length. We\u0026rsquo;re nailing it! Check out all the stats of the show 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-10 15:57:37 +0800", "date": "3:57 p.m. on May 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/10/we-aim-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F10%2Fwe-aim-to.html" }, { "id": 849, "type": "post", "title": "Homebrew", "text": "This article was originally written for the December 2021 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus\nAre you a Terminal wizard? A command line guru? A shell superstar? No, neither am I.\nFrom time to time I attempt to teach myself. It never sticks. As a result I know just enough about the macOS (and Linux, I suppose) terminal (bash/zsh) as the faded memory of a series of beginner courses permit. I’ve resigned myself to this, and have found a happy medium of mostly using the GUI - but using the terminal for a few specific and useful things.\nIntroducing Homebrew If you do nothing else with the terminal, it’s worth taking a look at homebrew(https://brew.sh/). Homebrew is a package manager for macOS. Put another way, it provides an easy way to install a whole bunch of Mac applications with a simple command.\nTo my mind, this is actually easier than finding the product website, downloading a .dmg file, dragging the application to /Applications, unmounting the .dmg and then putting it in the trash.\nAll of these steps can be replaced with the command brew install \u0026quot;appname\u0026quot; where app name could be zoom or microsoft-edge or marta. Brew then does all the hard work of grabbing the file and installing it in the appropriate location.\nIf you aren’t sure what the app is called, use brew search searchterm. It’s that easy.\nUpdating Apps Brew can update apps as well. It’s a two-step process, with two commands:\n brew update to get the latest version information. brew upgrade to perform an upgrade of all installed apps. Best Brews Using the command brew list I have checked out what I’ve got installed via brew at the moment.\nRemember, Jason made me erase my iMac, so I’m back to a short list at the moment, but highlights include:\n Firefox FMail Maestral Mailtrackerblocker Marta Netnewswire Zoom As you can see, that’s a mix of commercial and indie software.\nCasks or Formulae? Carrying on the theme, Brew has the concept of casks and formulae. All the apps above are casks - which eliminates the .dmg dance I described earlier.\nFormulae are the instructions that tell a Homebrew what is needed to be downloaded to get a working app on your machine.\nAs a user, you don’t really need to worry too much about it.\nIs it Safe? Yes, it’s as safe as installing any other app on the internet. That is to say, the major apps will be fine. Microsoft Edge has had 32,214 installs via Homebrew in the last 30 days.\nI believe there is a submission process for apps to be included in the homebrew directory, although don’t quote me on that. All the non-cask apps are open-source, so there is a degree of protection there in that you (or others) can read the code and identifying bugs or nasties if they so wish.\nI’ve never had a problem, and I believe that Homebrew is just nerdy enough not to be an attractive vector for bad actors.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-09 14:11:26 +0800", "date": "2:11 p.m. on May 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/09/homebrew.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F09%2Fhomebrew.html" }, { "id": 850, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 9: bloom (@thedimpause)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-09 12:18:59 +0800", "date": "12:18 p.m. on May 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/09/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F09%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 851, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 Day 8: union (@odd)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-08 21:02:31 +0800", "date": "9:02 p.m. on May 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/08/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F08%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 852, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 7: park @dejus\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-07 08:15:36 +0800", "date": "8:15 p.m. on May 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/07/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F07%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 853, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 6: silhouette @otaviocc\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-06 13:12:46 +0800", "date": "1:12 p.m. on May 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/06/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F06%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 854, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 5: Earth @dfj\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-05 19:08:52 +0800", "date": "7:08 p.m. on May 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/05/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F05%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 855, "type": "post", "title": "Knowledge Management: A Fool’s Errand?", "text": "CJ Eller – @cjeller on micro.blog – had a take on Personal Knowledge Management that resonated with me, in his articleGarbage Heap:\n I\u0026rsquo;ve bounced off of personal knowledge management tools like crazy. Wikis? Digital gardens? Zettelkasten systems? Nothing sticks.\n I’m a nerd, and I love the idea of capturing all the things I read, the information I learn, and being able to harvest it later for some great good.\nI have tried all the software tools. Some stick more than others. Some of the time I end up knowing I have information, but not knowing which software silo I stuck it in. Am I getting value from these attempts at capturing everything I know? Probably not, at least most of the time.\nTo illustrate the point of being driven crazy by ‘knowledge’, Eller quotes a short story Funes, His Memory by Jorge Luis Borges:\n Without the ability to generalize and abstract away his memories, Funes is left with a garbage heap that keeps piling up. “Funes, His Memory” is a story not of a gifted individual but a cursed one, trapped in an endless web of memories with no way out. A nightmare.\n Is there a point to capturing every piece of information that passes us by? Probably not, but there is something enticing about the idea of being able to somehow extract ‘knowledge and wisdom’ from disparate sources of ‘information’.\nI think that CJ has it right; it’s a fool’s errand.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-05 09:46:24 +0800", "date": "9:46 p.m. on May 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/05/knowledge-management-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F05%2Fknowledge-management-a.html" }, { "id": 856, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 4: thorny @ronguest\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-04 16:03:33 +0800", "date": "4:03 p.m. on May 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/04/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F04%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 857, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished the first three episodes of Shining Girls on AppleTV+. That service is really delivering quality content; firing on all cylinders. Netflix could learn a thing or two. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-03 15:03:37 +0800", "date": "3:03 p.m. on May 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/03/finished-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F03%2Ffinished-the-first.html" }, { "id": 858, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 3: experimental (my prompt!)\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-03 14:47:44 +0800", "date": "2:47 p.m. on May 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/03/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F03%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 859, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Knotwords is a fun game. It has that classic Zach Gage vibe to it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-03 09:48:41 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on May 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/03/knotwords-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F03%2Fknotwords-is-a.html" }, { "id": 860, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 2: photo @agilelisa\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-02 12:40:36 +0800", "date": "12:40 p.m. on May 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/02/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F02%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 861, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog photo challenge 📷 day 1: switch @ridwan\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-01 21:19:01 +0800", "date": "9:19 p.m. on May 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/01/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F01%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 862, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hello @Burk - your username is capital. That\u0026rsquo;s odd.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-01 09:22:45 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on May 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/05/01/hello-burk-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F05%2F01%2Fhello-burk-your.html" }, { "id": 863, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our One Prime Plus members have received their bonus episode! @hemisphericviews @martinfeld @burk\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-30 13:19:52 +0800", "date": "1:19 p.m. on Apr 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/30/our-one-prime.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F30%2Four-one-prime.html" }, { "id": 864, "type": "post", "title": "Is Discord the New Online Meeting Place?", "text": "With the probable demise of Twitter, it will join other social networks that have already met their demise (MySpace, Facebook, Instagram) with me, I am not that worried.\nMicro.blog will remain my generalised blogging location, allowing me to post whatever I like (and optionally cross-post to Twitter if I feel I must).\nWhat I’ve also found more recently is that Discord has become an unexpected surprise hit for focused communities. I only participate in four, and I wouldn’t want it to grow much beyond this, but they have each delivered an excellent place for virtual gathering, without anybody portraying negative behaviours, trying to sell NFTs, or undertake any other annoying actions that one sees elsewhere online.\nMy Discord communities are:\n Hemispheric Views (the podcast I host with Martin Feld and Jason Burk) has built a great community of listeners - if you listen to our show, please join our Discord. NBL Pocket Podcast is the other podcast I host together with Joe Corr, where we break down the Australian National Basketball League. A whole bunch of hardcore hoopers are joining this relatively young server that I set up on a whim. Even better, is now the management of the server has been shared across a couple of users - community supporting community. Neatnik - the developer of omg.lol has a Discord instance for users of his service. Lumon Industries is a Discord server for fans of the AppleTV+ show, Severance. A whole bunch of amazing fan conversations, theories, and art and craft exists in here. These Discord servers have a bonhomie that I don’t see on other social networks. They are private and fun. They embody the good spirits of the internet. I love them.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-28 22:33:39 +0800", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Apr 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/28/is-discord-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F28%2Fis-discord-the.html" }, { "id": 865, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s great to see so many new (and returning) people posting to micro.blog following the Musk Twitter news. I hope they stay and build this great community.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-26 21:49:35 +0800", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Apr 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/26/its-great-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F26%2Fits-great-to.html" }, { "id": 866, "type": "post", "title": "Commentating NBL1 Perth Redbacks Games", "text": "This season I have taken the job as a commentator for the NBL1 West\u0026rsquo;s Perth Redbacks. The NBL1 is the league directly beneath the national NBL competition and is broken into State-based divisions. I had to miss the first couple of games due to COVID protocols, so last night was my first behind the microphone.\nThe games are streamed via the league\u0026rsquo;s website.\nThe direct links to the videos of the games I called last night are:\nNBL1 - Perth Redbacks v Mandurah Magic Women\nNBL1 - Perth Redbacks v Mandurah Magic Men\nI had an absolute blast calling these games. While the home team didn\u0026rsquo;t get the win in either game, it was a lot of fun to call the action from the sideline.\nI am already looking forward to the next game.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-23 17:40:02 +0800", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Apr 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/23/commentating-nbl-perth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F23%2Fcommentating-nbl-perth.html" }, { "id": 867, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks @jean and @manton and @burk - I love being a part of micro.blog!\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-22 15:16:41 +0800", "date": "3:16 p.m. on Apr 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/22/thanks-jean-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F22%2Fthanks-jean-and.html" }, { "id": 868, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Despite owning the PowerPack, I\u0026rsquo;ve switched away from Alfred and back to Launchbar.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-22 13:16:16 +0800", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Apr 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/22/despite-owning-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F22%2Fdespite-owning-the.html" }, { "id": 869, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had to buy a subscription for Microsoft 365 today. That was an unexpected event. I appreciate the Home Use Program discount though.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-20 21:26:31 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Apr 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/20/i-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F20%2Fi-had-to.html" }, { "id": 870, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A day of IT disaster. Firstly corporate IT decided to lock down all access from machines other than their own, then by the end of the day my iMac reached a point where a \u0026lsquo;nuke and pave\u0026rsquo; installation was the only choice.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-20 17:14:36 +0800", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Apr 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/20/a-day-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F20%2Fa-day-of.html" }, { "id": 871, "type": "post", "title": "The Profit Paradox at play with the iPhone mini 14", "text": "The Looming Demise of the iPhone mini - MacSparky:\nThe part that gets me is that they really shouldn’t be forced to make a decision. Isn’t Apple selling enough iPhones that they could afford to sell small, medium, and large versions of the pro and non-pro phones? You’d think they could make that work, but, for whatever reason, they are choosing not to. David Sparks take the customer-centric Apple question, but the answer is business-centric.\nI\u0026rsquo;m an owner of an iPhone 13 mini who is also currently reading The Paradox of Profit by Jan Eeckhout. As well as being a fascinating book in general, it also provides an excellent framework to answer the question about why there won\u0026rsquo;t be an iPhone 14 mini, posed by MacSparky, despite the fact they could.\nApple is a company that has market power. A company with market power will produce less, in the interest of profit.\nIf Apple were to produce more iPhones (and the mini, specifically) it would result in lower profit margins. iPhone minis have been sold at a lower price than other iPhones. What incentive does Apple have to continue selling something that doesn\u0026rsquo;t boost their margin? Companies continue to be incentivised to deliver profit; not the best market outcomes. They also wear the cost burden of another manufacturing line to maintain, for little benefit to the business.\nAs much as we Apple fans like to deify Apple Inc., they remain a corporation with shareholders who look to quarterly earnings reports and admire the gross margin the company delivers, which flows through to the bottom line, and thus dividends.\nProducing an iPhone 14 mini might please a few million customers, but the economic incentives at play are perverse. Therefore, they will not make an iPhone 14 mini, and be rewarded for this action with greater profit margins.\nApple has sufficient market power such that would-be buyers of iPhone minis will not depart the iPhone brand in favour of Android, or another option (which there really isn\u0026rsquo;t, which introduces a whole other problem of there being a platform duopoly). What the customer will do is buy a higher priced iPhone that delivers better margins to Apple.\nTherefore, Apple will be rewarded for producing less, at higher prices.\nI highly recommend The Paradox of Profit to others who have an interest in macroeconomic theory.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-19 11:23:49 +0800", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Apr 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/19/the-profit-paradox.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F19%2Fthe-profit-paradox.html" }, { "id": 872, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finished the game Disco Elysium tonight. More akin to reading a book than playing a game, it tackled interesting concepts from politics to economics and the meaning of life.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-17 23:45:13 +0800", "date": "11:45 p.m. on Apr 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/17/i-finished-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F17%2Fi-finished-the.html" }, { "id": 873, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If, like me, you\u0026rsquo;ve been searching for the ultimate OmniFocus \u0026ldquo;Complete and Await Reply\u0026rdquo; automation script, we may have finally hit gold with Autocar.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-16 13:00:21 +0800", "date": "1:00 p.m. on Apr 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/16/if-like-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F16%2Fif-like-me.html" }, { "id": 874, "type": "post", "title": "High School Musical, 2006 - ★★", "text": "Lip sync is bad, fade to black transitions and an incredibly well-resourced High School. What’s not to love?\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-16 09:40:17 +0800", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Apr 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/15/high-school-musical.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F15%2Fhigh-school-musical.html" }, { "id": 875, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 📚. A short story that initiated self-reflection of how my own childhood experience resulted in the life I have today.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-15 12:24:03 +0800", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Apr 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/15/finished-reading-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F15%2Ffinished-reading-my.html" }, { "id": 876, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well that’s just great. COVID-19 has entered our household. 🦠\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-12 12:58:45 +0800", "date": "12:58 p.m. on Apr 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/12/well-thats-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F12%2Fwell-thats-just.html" }, { "id": 877, "type": "post", "title": "Severance Unboxing", "text": "\nIt was a lot of fun to host another Hemispheric Views live event this morning. This time, Jason was unboxing an official AppleTV+ Severance gift box he had acquired.\nThe event featured Severance talk, Severance sound clips and music from the show - even some Defiant Jazz.\nThere were many amazing goodies in the box. You can see some photos of the items at the Hemispheric Views photo album.\nMy thanks to our One Prime Plus members who joined in the event and helped make it a success!\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-10 10:27:38 +0800", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Apr 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/10/severance-unboxing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F10%2Fseverance-unboxing.html" }, { "id": 878, "type": "post", "title": "What Am I Nostalgic For?", "text": "This article was originally written for the November 2021 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus\nSince it\u0026rsquo;s Nostalgic November, I figured I should write something that fits the theme for the November issue of Hemispheric News.\nWhat is nostalgia, however? According to Apple\u0026rsquo;s dictionary, nostalgia is defined as:\n a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.\n According to Wikipedia, it is:\n a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.\n Nostalgia is associated with a yearning for the past, its personalities, possibilities, and events, especially the \u0026ldquo;good ol' days\u0026rdquo; or a \u0026ldquo;warm childhood\u0026rdquo;.\n Ah, yes, the good old days. As the elder statesman of the Hemispheric Views triumvirate, my good ol' days are certainly better than the others, especially that whippersnapper Feld. He may speak like an old man, but don\u0026rsquo;t be fooled. He never saw the 1970s.\nWhat am I nostalgic for, then? In many ways, my life now is the best it has ever been. I am as wealthy as I\u0026rsquo;ve ever been, I\u0026rsquo;ve got sufficient social status and I\u0026rsquo;m engaging in hobbies I genuinely enjoy.\nPerhaps playing basketball - when I was athletic and could jump, dunk and score with confidence? No. I miss that, for sure, but I\u0026rsquo;m not nostalgic for it. I\u0026rsquo;m proud of myself but there is no strong yearning to go back.\nHow about school and education? No way am I nostalgic for that. School was hard. Not the lessons, study or exams. They were easy. No major issues there. But dealing with the ups and downs of school friendships, politics and teenage angst? Hard pass.\nThere must be something I hold nostalgia for!\nIf I sit and think about it now, I feel nostalgia for the time when I was young in my career. I had few responsibilities other than keeping myself alive and paying the rent. I had independence. I could come home, sit in my La-Z-Boy recliner chair, watch the \u0026ldquo;Attitude Era\u0026rdquo; of WWE Raw and let the hours flow by.\nThe Internet was in its infancy. I had a computer that was connected but my mobile phone was purely a \u0026ldquo;feature phone\u0026rdquo;. There was no expectation to document my days, or justify how I spent my hours. Leisure was a primary element of what I did. Yet there was no guilt, because I worked full hours in a proper job. But come evening time, that was mine to do with as I wished.\nAnd with that time, I didn\u0026rsquo;t do much and that was kind of perfect. Going back to that time now is of course impossible. It would also mean giving up all the things that give me meaning and value now: my wife, my children. I can\u0026rsquo;t go back.\nSometimes, though, I want another night where I sit on the couch and watch wrestling - without having to make sure anybody besides myself brushes their teeth before bed.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-07 09:43:47 +0800", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Apr 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/07/what-am-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F07%2Fwhat-am-i.html" }, { "id": 879, "type": "post", "title": "Can we Have Some Modern Software as Well?", "text": "Riccardo Mori really nailed it with his latest post, Raw power alone is not enough where he talks about how Apple has left its software to wither, while it has been busy beefing up its hardware offering. The article is full of juicy content, but I\u0026rsquo;ve pulled out the parts that resonated with me:\n Without innovation in software, all we’re doing with these new powerful machines is essentially the same we were doing 20 years ago on PowerPC G4 and G5 computers, but faster and more conveniently.\n \u0026hellip;\n So, again, we have absurdly powerful machines like the Mac Studio and soon we’ll have the even more mind-boggling Apple silicon Mac Pro, and what kind of software will they run? A handful of professional apps which hopefully will take advantage of these machines’ capabilities to make the same things professional Macs did twenty years ago, ten years ago, but better and faster.\n \u0026hellip;\n This is the personal beef I have with tech innovation today, which I feel still revolving around the concept of ‘reinventing the wheel and making it spin faster’.\n I\u0026rsquo;ve had a number of generations of Apple hardware pass through my hands, but I essentially work in the same way, with a few small workflow changes around the edges. I don\u0026rsquo;t do video, but I would love some revolutionary ways to leverage all the power of the M-series chips.\n Software today still comes with much more friction than it should have, given the context of general technological advancement that has happened for the past 40 years or so.\n \u0026hellip;\n Without innovation in software, all we’re doing with these new powerful machines is essentially the same we were doing 20 years ago on PowerPC G4 and G5 computers, but faster and more conveniently.\n None of Apple\u0026rsquo;s software (or much software across the industry) has become easier. Actually, much of it has become harder as a result of either feature-bloat leading to design complexity, or fashionable UI changes making things less discernible, HIG be damned.\nI would love for their to be some great workflow/project-management software that was integral with macOS. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to have to jump out to some third-party web service, or use a mishmash of Hook, OmniFocus, Finder and Devonthink to manage project files. Finder is too small-minded with the combination of apps and services and files. But Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t seem to care about innovating in any of the hard spaces, or creating new interaction models for existing hardware.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t make video, but I\u0026rsquo;m a professional user of a Mac. I\u0026rsquo;d like some thought given to my workflows too.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-04 12:34:26 +0800", "date": "12:34 p.m. on Apr 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/04/can-we-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F04%2Fcan-we-have.html" }, { "id": 880, "type": "post", "title": "Sonic the Hedgehog 2, 2022 - ★★", "text": "Jim Carrey is fun for the adults and the characters are fun for the kids. I was disappointed with the soundtrack after really enjoying that of the first movie.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-02 10:21:20 +0800", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Apr 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/04/01/sonic-the-hedgehog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F04%2F01%2Fsonic-the-hedgehog.html" }, { "id": 881, "type": "post", "title": "Autism \u0026 Adults", "text": "Hannah Gadsby on her autism diagnosis: ‘I’ve always been plagued by a sense that I was a little out of whack’ | The Guardian\n I leave crowded spaces. I switch off discordant music. I wear headphones at restaurants. I openly express my hatred of the saxophone and electric guitar solos. I don’t allow important emotional conversations to take place in cafes with polished concrete floors.\n My son has an autism diagnosis. I do not. Yet the more I learn about ASD and witness the lived experience of my boy, the more convinced I am that I have undiagnosed autism.\nThere is too much about my childhood - and my adulthood - that ticks too many boxes for me not to be open to the idea that I\u0026rsquo;m \u0026ldquo;on the spectrum\u0026rdquo;.\nThis is completely fine; I only wish I had been able to give it a name earlier in life.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-31 13:04:13 +0800", "date": "1:04 p.m. on Mar 31, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/31/autism-adults.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F31%2Fautism-adults.html" }, { "id": 882, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve bought Disco Elysium - The Final Cut because it was on sale on the Steam Store. Friends tell me it\u0026rsquo;s good. 🕹\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-29 16:33:33 +0800", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Mar 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/29/ive-bought-disco.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F29%2Five-bought-disco.html" }, { "id": 883, "type": "post", "title": "The Adam Project, 2022 - ★½", "text": "Wow, this was boring. An hour in felt like 2 hours. Not even the Ryan Reynolds charm could save this script.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-26 10:16:06 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Mar 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/25/the-adam-project.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F25%2Fthe-adam-project.html" }, { "id": 884, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve got a new domain: canion.au\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-25 11:10:42 +0800", "date": "11:10 p.m. on Mar 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/25/ive-got-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F25%2Five-got-a.html" }, { "id": 885, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve re-upped my subscription to TextExpander. While my self-built Keyboard Maestro system was okay, it was rickety enough to create annoyances. @burk will approve.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-25 10:31:44 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Mar 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/25/ive-reupped-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F25%2Five-reupped-my.html" }, { "id": 886, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Kings Park calm.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-23 09:32:17 +0800", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Mar 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/23/kings-park-calm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F23%2Fkings-park-calm.html" }, { "id": 887, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can’t figure out why Flickr has two different types of Pro badge. One is black with a square surrounding the word Pro, and the other is blue with a pink underline.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-22 20:13:52 +0800", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Mar 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/22/i-cant-figure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F22%2Fi-cant-figure.html" }, { "id": 888, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been exploring Flickr again. I’m still a Pro, so I should try to get my money’s worth.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-21 20:43:23 +0800", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Mar 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/21/ive-been-exploring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F21%2Five-been-exploring.html" }, { "id": 889, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz 📚 An enjoyable read that is let down by its extreme US-centricity.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-20 13:35:08 +0800", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Mar 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/20/finished-reading-everybody.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F20%2Ffinished-reading-everybody.html" }, { "id": 890, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today @burk, @martinfeld and I hosted a @hemisphericviews Members Trivia Event. Hosted on Zoom with a quiz platform provided by Crowdpurr, it was a great way to spend an hour with people who dedicate time to listen and support our podcast.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-20 09:54:55 +0800", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Mar 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/20/today-burk-martinfeld.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F20%2Ftoday-burk-martinfeld.html" }, { "id": 891, "type": "post", "title": "Turning Red, 2022 - ★★", "text": "Watched on Friday March 18, 2022.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-19 10:17:12 +0800", "date": "10:17 p.m. on Mar 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/18/turning-red.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F18%2Fturning-red.html" }, { "id": 892, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As fun as getting back onto a basketball court is, at what point do I accept it’s no longer something I should do? Especially after possibly breaking a toe earlier in the day. Now my knee joins the injury party, not to mention the generalised leg soreness. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-17 23:13:57 +0800", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Mar 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/17/as-fun-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F17%2Fas-fun-as.html" }, { "id": 893, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If one smashes one’s toe into a door frame, one might worry they’ve broken said toe.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-17 13:30:50 +0800", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Mar 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/17/if-one-smashes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F17%2Fif-one-smashes.html" }, { "id": 894, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was fantastic to finally meet my NBL Pocket Podcast co-host in real life. Joe does exist! And so does Nick Tan!\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-16 19:12:55 +0800", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Mar 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/16/it-was-fantastic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F16%2Fit-was-fantastic.html" }, { "id": 895, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hi micro.blog gang! I wasn’t able to join the Town Hall live, but I’m watching the replay.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-13 21:59:20 +0800", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Mar 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/13/hi-microblog-gang.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F13%2Fhi-microblog-gang.html" }, { "id": 896, "type": "post", "title": "Uncharted, 2022 - ★★", "text": "An absolutely ridiculous movie that made me laugh because of just how preposterous it was.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-13 12:05:30 +0800", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Mar 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/12/uncharted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F12%2Funcharted.html" }, { "id": 897, "type": "post", "title": "CODA, 2021 - ★★★★★", "text": "It for me right in the feels. Amazing singing and acting. The treatment given to the school duet was incredible.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-12 10:20:18 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Mar 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/11/coda.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F11%2Fcoda.html" }, { "id": 898, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In Episode 51 of @hemisphericviews we talk Severance. Thanks @neatnik for making a Lumon Industries business card generator.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-11 04:14:56 +0800", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Mar 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/11/in-episode-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F11%2Fin-episode-of.html" }, { "id": 899, "type": "post", "title": "Australian Consumer Law", "text": "This article was originally written for the October 2021 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus\nThe Australian Consumer Law (ACL) is an unsung hero for the everyday Australian citizen. In 2011 it was introduced and replaced a bunch of outdated legislation, notably the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth). That piece of 1974 legislation was a foundation block of my university degree and I think s.52 is still seared into my brain.\nAt the time of its introduction I was working in the business lobby, and I remember the doom and gloom scenarios that companies were painting. “It will destroy us!\u0026quot;, \u0026ldquo;where\u0026rsquo;s the fairness?\u0026rdquo; were refrains heard all too often. Really makes the heart bleed. 🤷‍♂️\nThe legislation was introduced during the 43rd Parliament of Australia, led by The Hon Julia Gillard AC. Yet another achievement of a government that wasn\u0026rsquo;t thought highly of, but had a history of legislative achievement unlike many others, and certainly any since.\nThe ACL rebalances the scales in commerce to provide better support to consumers who buy in good faith, but who turn out to have bought items not of merchantable quality. There are a host of provisions, but this is the crux: if a product fails to meet its stated purpose within 12 months of purchase as new, then the buyer is entitled to remedial action, including a full refund. This also can\u0026rsquo;t be waived by not returning in original packaging, or any other kind of \u0026lsquo;gotcha\u0026rsquo;.\nThis is how operation of the ACL can be explained:\n When the consumer chooses a refund:\n The supplier must repay any money paid by the consumer for the returned goods, and return any other form of payment made by the consumer — for example, a trade-in.\n If this is not possible, they must refund the consumer the value of the other form of payment.\n A supplier must not:\n offer a credit note, exchange card or replacement goods instead of a refund\n refuse a refund, or reduce the amount, because the goods were not returned in the original packaging or wrapping.\n A consumer will usually need to show a receipt or other ‘proof of purchase’.\n ACL rendered Apple\u0026rsquo;s traditional AppleCare product obsolete in Australia. For a period of time there was virtually no point buying AppleCare because it offered no benefit beyond that which the ACL enshrined in law. Now we have AppleCare+ and the benefits of cheap screen repairs, but failing equipment is still no reason to consider buying that particular insurance policy.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve experienced some problems with some wifi routers I bought about 4 months ago from Amazon. Upon a reminder from a Hemispheric Views Patron I found the option to make a call to Amazon. Upon determining that I was in Australia, I was offered 3 options. The first two seemed like weird cruddy deals that people in other countries have to put up with (sending the faulty unit back and waiting for a replacement of that part, or accepting a part refund of $130). The third option was my ACL protection - the ability to send the whole thing back to Amazon for a full refund. That\u0026rsquo;s what I wanted, and that\u0026rsquo;s the option I took. The other choices paled in comparison.\nYou see evidence of the ACL quietly in action (and markedly different to other jurisdictions) in everything you buy in Australia. Vendors are required to insert a printed sheet explaining a consumer’s rights. There is no need to complete those shoddy \u0026lsquo;guarantee\u0026rsquo; forms to gain warranty protection from the ACL.\nThis is an area of governance that the Australian government got right, and I\u0026rsquo;m so glad that it is in operation. And despite all the clutching of pearls, no businesses seem to have gone bankrupt as a result of the ACL.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-09 16:42:17 +0800", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Mar 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/09/australian-consumer-law.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F09%2Faustralian-consumer-law.html" }, { "id": 900, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thank you to Robert for pointing out issues with my RSS feeds, and for reading my stuff!\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-02 19:54:28 +0800", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Mar 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/03/02/thank-you-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F03%2F02%2Fthank-you-to.html" }, { "id": 901, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m still waiting for all my Facebook friends to reach out and check that I’m okay, since my account has been deleted for about a year. I’m sure they’ll get in touch soon.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-28 12:59:59 +0800", "date": "12:59 p.m. on Feb 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/28/im-still-waiting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F28%2Fim-still-waiting.html" }, { "id": 902, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s not much, but it’s something. 🇺🇦\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-25 21:58:48 +0800", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Feb 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/25/its-not-much.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F25%2Fits-not-much.html" }, { "id": 903, "type": "post", "title": "OneDrive Files-on-Demand for macOS", "text": "Nick Heer at Pixel Envy:\n For example, placeholder files are not automatically created for the entire OneDrive directory, only for files and folders I have opened. This means Spotlight cannot index those files and folders, which means I cannot fully search OneDrive on my Mac. It does not matter to me whether this is Microsoft’s fault or Apple’s. It matters that I am surprised — daily — by new roadblocks in my existing workflow caused by software updates and under-hood changes no user should have to think about.\n The whole OneDrive change has been annoying, but this lack of “indexability” is the largest annoyance, because I rely on that for Alfred/Launchbar/Spotlight integrations.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-25 16:40:29 +0800", "date": "4:40 p.m. on Feb 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/25/onedrive-filesondemand-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F25%2Fonedrive-filesondemand-for.html" }, { "id": 904, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can we eject Putin from our world? Who is in favour of this madness? Why is annexation of land such a strongly-held desire. I’m sorry for Ukraine. I wish the people of the country all the best for what is about to transpire. 🇺🇦\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-24 18:50:45 +0800", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Feb 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/24/can-we-eject.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F24%2Fcan-we-eject.html" }, { "id": 905, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t know what Putin sees as his end-game, but his actions against Ukraine are beyond the pale and must be globally condemned. 🇺🇦\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-22 20:58:27 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Feb 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/22/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F22%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 906, "type": "post", "title": "Zootopia, 2016 - ★★★", "text": "Watched on Friday February 18, 2022.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-19 09:51:27 +0800", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Feb 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/18/zootopia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F18%2Fzootopia.html" }, { "id": 907, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Volume 2 of my Day One journal has arrived. // @patrickrhone\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-18 16:11:13 +0800", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Feb 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/18/volume-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F18%2Fvolume-of-my.html" }, { "id": 908, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My 6-year old man broke his leg last night! The bone broke right through, but thank goodness for a great hospital system than got his leg set and in a cast right away. 😢\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-18 09:19:21 +0800", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Feb 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/18/my-year-old.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F18%2Fmy-year-old.html" }, { "id": 909, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve adopted the Paper theme, by @amit for my blog. Which also meant upgrading the version of Hugo. I don\u0026rsquo;t think it broke anything.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-16 15:52:52 +0800", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Feb 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/16/ive-adopted-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F16%2Five-adopted-the.html" }, { "id": 910, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Random appreciation tweet for Wayne Simmons. He made playing basketball fun, and was a friend to me when I did work experience at 882 6PR and he was a sales rep. Anybody who played 🏀 in Perth probably knows Wayne and I don’t think anybody dislikes the guy. I hope he is well.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-15 17:48:53 +0800", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Feb 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/15/random-appreciation-tweet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F15%2Frandom-appreciation-tweet.html" }, { "id": 911, "type": "post", "title": "Encanto, 2021 - ★★★", "text": "My favourite character was... a house? I was surprised by the ease with which the fractured relationship with Grandma was resolved.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-13 10:41:36 +0800", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Feb 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/12/encanto.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F12%2Fencanto.html" }, { "id": 912, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another day of being sick. Urgh. Tested negative for COVID too, so it’s just a garden-variety flu making my life miserable.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-13 06:39:58 +0800", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Feb 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/13/another-day-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F13%2Fanother-day-of.html" }, { "id": 913, "type": "post", "title": "A Second Try With Zavala", "text": "Last Time… When I tried this the first time I used each line of the outline as a paragraph. Maurice Parker, the developer of Zavala, answered my call for help.\nHe advised:\n when you craft your blog post in Zavala, the Topics are headings and the Notes are the paragraph text. Make sure that when you export from Zavala you select the Markdown Doc format. It looks like you exported an outline without Notes using the Markdown List option.\n So it seems I made not one, but two, mistakes.\nNow I Try Again So this time, I’ve only got two outline nodes representing the headings, and text in the notes fields for my paragraph.\nInto the breach once more, I go.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-11 23:12:19 +0800", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Feb 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/11/a-second-try.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F11%2Fa-second-try.html" }, { "id": 914, "type": "post", "title": "Using Zavala to post to Micro.blog", "text": " One of the fun things about micro.blog is its inherent openness. It will accept the creation of new blog posts from a host of applications. I already have apps including Drafts, Ulysses, iA Writer and MarsEdit configured to send posts to my micro.blog site, so why not add another? In this instance, I’m using Zavala, an outliner app that works across macOS, iOS and iPadOS. There is a bit of configuration to do to make it work, including the installation of a support app from the Mac App Store called Humboldt, which provides a linkage between Shortcuts and the micro.blog API, as best I can tell. Testing This is the grand test, whereby I have written this document, and I aim to publish it to my blog. ", "dateiso": "2022-02-11 16:35:50 +0800", "date": "4:35 p.m. on Feb 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/11/using-zavala-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F11%2Fusing-zavala-to.html" }, { "id": 915, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks @podiboq for suggesting a great improvement to @hemisphericviews.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-10 21:48:40 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Feb 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/10/thanks-podiboq-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F10%2Fthanks-podiboq-for.html" }, { "id": 916, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s that time again. Hemispheric Views 049 covers third-party keyboards, the new iPad mini, the weird world of video gaming, and coffee sizes. 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-10 21:19:14 +0800", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Feb 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/10/its-that-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F10%2Fits-that-time.html" }, { "id": 917, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The new Fantastical Openings service may be enough to save me from needing a third-party bookings service. Unfortunately I recently bought a 12-month subscription to one.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-09 11:46:09 +0800", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Feb 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/09/the-new-fantastical.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F09%2Fthe-new-fantastical.html" }, { "id": 918, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s nice to put a voice to Phil Nunnally @twelvety who is one of the Internet nice guys. He was a guest on the Thinking About Tools for Thinking show with @andysylvester\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-07 15:36:45 +0800", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Feb 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/07/its-nice-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F07%2Fits-nice-to.html" }, { "id": 919, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Browser Wars This article was originally written for the September 2021 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus\nNo, this is not an article about the failings of Safari 15. I am sure Apple will get that sorted out, because having no idea about which is the active tab is a problem that will impact millions of users.\nThis article is about finding and selecting a preferred browser for general daily use. Let me preface this by saying that Safari has a huge advantage mainly because of iOS. Even with the changes to the default browser setting, the convenience of Safari on iOS remains streets ahead and it is a nice, fast browser. I’m yet to find a browser option on iOS that gets close to Safari for satisfaction.\nTherefore, I’m focusing on daily use on the Mac. Again, the ecosystem benefits push Safari to the fore. Syncing with iOS is reliable. Authentication is critical. I love the connections it has with the ecosystem biometrics (Touch ID, Apple Watch confirmations, Apple Pay), and the best feature is auto-filling of SMS 2FA tokens.\nLet me state that from an ecosystem perspective Safari is the best and only choice.\nOn a laptop, its energy efficiency is another win. I hate running other browsers because I can almost feel them eating my battery life.\nAs a browser for using the Internet, though, I feel that Safari is falling behind. I seem to run into the issue of “this website is using significant resources” more often. This morning, I had the problem with my bank website. Online banking - a solved problem for the last decade, now struggles to run in a modern browser?\nI realise that problems like this should be put at the feet of the website developers. Yet it’s tiresome swimming upstream. With most of the world using Chromium-based browsers this is the “standard” that developers are coding for.\nAnother issue I find with Safari is identity management with respect to Microsoft 365 hell. I have three work-mandated M365 identities. Even I forget which site needs which log-in. I can tell you, that none of the browsers handle this well.\nFirefox has containers which should do the trick. And they did, until they didn’t. At some point it got stuck in an authentication loop and the only thing I could do was delete all my container settings and start again. The alternative is incognito-mode/private browsing, or using a different browser entirely for each login identity. This is why I still like apps ahead of in-browser access.\nBack to browser options, currently installed and in some level of active use, I have Safari, Firefox, Edge and Vivaldi. I don’t have Chrome (eww, Google) and I don’t have Brave (eww, crypto).\nThe Firefox gecko rendering system feels slow, is energy-inefficient, and not being Chromium has the same incompatibility challenges. It did have Containers, but as mentioned, even that broke. Firefox is the biggest loser.\nVivaldi is Chromium-based, seems fast but is super-weird. Sometimes I like it, but most of the time I feel I am using a browser from 2004.\nEdge. A Microsoft product. Even being a Microsoft product it doesn’t have a solution for multiple Microsoft accounts. Yet it is Chromium based. And its UI is almost intelligible. It definitely makes more sense than Chrome. It feels snappy. I like it! Edge wins my award as my secondary browser.\nWhat I want to see is a turbo-boosted Safari. I like Safari. I worry that the development team is focusing in the wrong areas, though. I hope they get it sorted out because not until the past year have I even contemplated secondary browsers - it’s been Safari all day, every day.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-04 16:19:40 +0800", "date": "4:19 p.m. on Feb 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/04/browser-wars-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F04%2Fbrowser-wars-this.html" }, { "id": 920, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can confirm that getting a Day One journal printed is totally worth it. This first test only gets me until 2015. I am definitely ordering Volume 2.\n ", "dateiso": "2022-02-03 09:07:48 +0800", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Feb 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/03/i-can-confirm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F03%2Fi-can-confirm.html" }, { "id": 921, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s so much fun recording NBL Pocket Podcast. 🏀🎙\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-02 20:28:59 +0800", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Feb 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/02/its-so-much.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F02%2Fits-so-much.html" }, { "id": 922, "type": "post", "title": "Hemispheric Views Interviews His Excellency The Honourable Kim Beazley AC", "text": "Episode 48 of Hemispheric Views features an interview with the Governor of Western Australia, Kim Beazley. Previously a Federal Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Australian Ambassador to the USA, among other distinguished roles, Kim has now really hit the big time as a guest on the best tech and culture podcast on the Internet, @HemisphericViews! 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-01 15:08:10 +0800", "date": "3:08 p.m. on Feb 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/01/hemispheric-views-interviews.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F01%2Fhemispheric-views-interviews.html" }, { "id": 923, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My son came home from his first day of Year 1 yesterday complaining that it was ‘too babyish’.\nThis reminds me of myself. I came home after day one of Year 1 angry because they hadn’t taught me how to read and write, and instead made us do silly things such as colouring in.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-01 15:02:33 +0800", "date": "3:02 p.m. on Feb 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/01/my-son-came.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F01%2Fmy-son-came.html" }, { "id": 924, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "12 hours after I unsubscribe from my discount-rate NYTimes games subscription they announce they\u0026rsquo;ve bought Wordle. To resubscribe at the normal rate will double my cost. 🤦🏼‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-01 07:46:25 +0800", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Feb 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/02/01/hours-after-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F02%2F01%2Fhours-after-i.html" }, { "id": 925, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m proud to share that @HemisphericViews podcast is no longer on Spotify because we can\u0026rsquo;t condone the willing spread of misinformation.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-31 13:14:07 +0800", "date": "1:14 p.m. on Jan 31, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/31/im-proud-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F31%2Fim-proud-to.html" }, { "id": 926, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m enjoying playing Chess.com with @mjdescy - a tough opponent! ♟\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-28 20:27:29 +0800", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Jan 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/28/im-enjoying-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F28%2Fim-enjoying-playing.html" }, { "id": 927, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Boosted! 💉\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-28 16:42:48 +0800", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Jan 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/28/boosted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F28%2Fboosted.html" }, { "id": 928, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hemispheric Views Episode 047 appeared like clockwork. One might say, too much like clockwork\u0026hellip; as if we were all living in The Matrix?\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-28 14:16:21 +0800", "date": "2:16 p.m. on Jan 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/28/hemispheric-views-episode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F28%2Fhemispheric-views-episode.html" }, { "id": 929, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you have kids, a great podcast for them is Like You. I\u0026rsquo;ve been a Patreon supporter since they launched, and Noah Glenn does a wonderful job as host.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-26 11:31:12 +0800", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Jan 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/26/if-you-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F26%2Fif-you-have.html" }, { "id": 930, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I did the “thumbs up” ride today. 🚴🏻\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-26 10:20:45 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Jan 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/26/i-did-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F26%2Fi-did-the.html" }, { "id": 931, "type": "post", "title": "Benjamin Canion in Conversation with Jason Burk", "text": "This wide ranging discussion between my son, Benjamin and Jason Burk ranges across a diversity of topics. The conversation touches on the Loch Ness Monster, Scooby Doo, questions as to the intelligence of Hemispheric Views co-host Martin Feld, and ends with a great joke.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-25 17:13:16 +0800", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Jan 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/25/benjamin-canion-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F25%2Fbenjamin-canion-in.html" }, { "id": 932, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is there anything better than an ice-cream truck on a hot summer day?\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-23 19:17:41 +0800", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Jan 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/23/is-there-anything.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F23%2Fis-there-anything.html" }, { "id": 933, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Hemispheric Views logo on the Core Intution website. I love it. Proud to be the sponsor of Episode 498.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-23 18:43:53 +0800", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Jan 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/23/the-hemispheric-views.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F23%2Fthe-hemispheric-views.html" }, { "id": 934, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spent 4 hours in the pool this evening. Loved it, and kids had a blast. 🏊🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-21 23:27:22 +0800", "date": "11:27 p.m. on Jan 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/21/spent-hours-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F21%2Fspent-hours-in.html" }, { "id": 935, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was in one of the old buildings of University of WA today, and came across this beauty of a machine. Dymo Lyfe, @martinfeld\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-20 22:51:31 +0800", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Jan 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/20/i-was-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F20%2Fi-was-in.html" }, { "id": 936, "type": "post", "title": "Crypto Consumes Ridiculous Amounts of Energy", "text": "Crypto Uses Lots of Energy:\n As of this writing, a single transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain eats up the same amount of energy as the average US household in a 77.8-day, or roughly two and a half month, period. Ethereum, though nowhere near as large, still eats up the same amount of energy that a US household does in eight days.  I knew crypto was bad for the environment and used a lot of energy, but look at the scale of consumption. It’s insane. Especially when you add the fact that so much of this is mined in locations where coal is the energy source of the electricity.\nCentralised currency is fine - unless you’re a grifter or a criminal.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-20 22:29:34 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Jan 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/20/crypto-consumes-ridiculous.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F20%2Fcrypto-consumes-ridiculous.html" }, { "id": 937, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had to move furniture today. The temperature was hovering somewhere between 42°C and 47°C. It was not ideal.\n ", "dateiso": "2022-01-19 21:38:09 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Jan 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/19/i-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F19%2Fi-had-to.html" }, { "id": 938, "type": "post", "title": "Things are Fun!", "text": "Sometimes as a Dad you\u0026rsquo;ve got to forget everything else, and just enjoy some quality time with your kid. They\u0026rsquo;re only young once.\nFirstly we went to get a cup of coffee, then travelled a long time looking for a car wash. Car washes are fun!\n Then onto Fremantle where we saw some container ships being unloaded. Big ships are fun!\n Then, we went to a the harbour entrance to watch some recreational boats enter and exit the harbour (and talk to a seagull). Boats are fun!\n ", "dateiso": "2022-01-18 13:52:26 +0800", "date": "1:52 p.m. on Jan 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/18/things-are-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F18%2Fthings-are-fun.html" }, { "id": 939, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently the #10YearChallenge is a thing. Here’s mine. 10 years ago I was already an Apple nerd - but a skinnier one with less grey hair.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-16 22:59:29 +0800", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Jan 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/16/apparently-the-yearchallenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F16%2Fapparently-the-yearchallenge.html" }, { "id": 940, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Season 4 of Cobra Kai done. It’s so bad, it’s good. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-16 20:24:03 +0800", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jan 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/16/season-of-cobra.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F16%2Fseason-of-cobra.html" }, { "id": 941, "type": "post", "title": "Rodman: For Better or Worse, 2019 - ★★★★", "text": "Is the story and life of Dennis Rodman a tragedy or a comedy?\nWatching this film gives me the impression that Dennis himself doesn’t know. I tend towards the former.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-16 12:25:18 +0800", "date": "12:25 p.m. on Jan 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/15/rodman-for-better.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F15%2Frodman-for-better.html" }, { "id": 942, "type": "post", "title": "The Matrix Resurrections, 2021 - ★★★½", "text": "Everything is a loop and we are all sheeple.\nRebooted in a way that reminded me of Star Wars VII, but probably better?\nSo why do I feel empty at the end, and feel the fan service were the best bits?\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-15 13:21:47 +0800", "date": "1:21 p.m. on Jan 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/15/the-matrix-resurrections.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F15%2Fthe-matrix-resurrections.html" }, { "id": 943, "type": "post", "title": "The Matrix Revolutions, 2003 - ★★½", "text": "Why didn’t they call this “The Matrix Battlebots”? I might have watched it sooner. A limp ending to the trilogy that should have stopped at the first movie.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-15 05:13:01 +0800", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Jan 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/14/the-matrix-revolutions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F14%2Fthe-matrix-revolutions.html" }, { "id": 944, "type": "post", "title": "Hemispheric Views on Discord", "text": "Hemispheric Views - Blog - Expanding the Hemispheric Views Discord in 2022!:\n In 2022, we’re pleased to introduce another new channel: #One-Prime-Plus! This space is intended exclusively for our Patreon subscribers as a member benefit, in addition to bonus podcast episodes and our monthly newsletter at oneprimeplus.com.\n At Hemispheric Views HQ, we are continually working to build our community experience. Our Discord is open to all listeners, but Patreon subscribers can get behind the velvet rope.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-14 20:45:02 +0800", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Jan 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/14/hemispheric-views-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F14%2Fhemispheric-views-on.html" }, { "id": 945, "type": "post", "title": "The Matrix Reloaded, 2003 - ★★★", "text": "Don’t ask questions, just go along for the ride. The albino dreadlock dudes were criminally under-utilised.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-14 12:23:12 +0800", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Jan 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/13/the-matrix-reloaded.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F13%2Fthe-matrix-reloaded.html" }, { "id": 946, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Matter offers Kindle support now. Seems my Instapaper subscription may not be renewed\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-14 08:36:20 +0800", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Jan 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/14/matter-offers-kindle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F14%2Fmatter-offers-kindle.html" }, { "id": 947, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s an honour to have a media pass for the Australian NBL on behalf of NBL Pocket Podcast. Tonight I joined the press conference to ask some questions of Hawks Head Coach Brian Goorjian 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-13 21:02:04 +0800", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Jan 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/13/its-an-honour.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F13%2Fits-an-honour.html" }, { "id": 948, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New home screen. 📱\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-12 11:58:59 +0800", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Jan 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/12/new-home-screen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F12%2Fnew-home-screen.html" }, { "id": 949, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wordle 207 5/6\n⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜\n⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜\n⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜\n🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜\n🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩\nThis wasn\u0026rsquo;t going well, until I solved it. I have a complaint about this word, however\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-12 09:17:39 +0800", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Jan 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/12/wordle-this-wasnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F12%2Fwordle-this-wasnt.html" }, { "id": 950, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been doing strength workouts again, after giving them away mid-way through last year. I actually really enjoy lifting weights. Way better than cardio! 🏋🏻‍♀️\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-11 20:35:33 +0800", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Jan 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/11/ive-been-doing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F11%2Five-been-doing.html" }, { "id": 951, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was continuously getting \u0026ldquo;signal is weak\u0026rdquo; messages from Find My with regard to AirTags. I reset the Network Settings in iPhone and now it is working perfectly - tracks, points and finds AirTags.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-11 14:15:45 +0800", "date": "2:15 p.m. on Jan 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/11/i-was-continuously.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F11%2Fi-was-continuously.html" }, { "id": 952, "type": "post", "title": "The Matrix, 1999 - ★★★★★", "text": "It’s kinda perfect. Except for maybe the Oracle who is just a bit annoying.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-11 10:01:07 +0800", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Jan 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/10/the-matrix.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F10%2Fthe-matrix.html" }, { "id": 953, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve bought a discounted annual subscription to Bike Citizens. This stuff usually has limited appeal in an isolated city such as Perth. It would be way better in dense Europe, but I figured I\u0026rsquo;d give it a try anyway. 🚲\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-10 10:16:00 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Jan 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/10/ive-bought-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F10%2Five-bought-a.html" }, { "id": 954, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wordle 204 3/6\n⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩\n🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩\n🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩\nI really nailed this one!\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-09 07:34:46 +0800", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Jan 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/09/wordle-i-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F09%2Fwordle-i-really.html" }, { "id": 955, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Played King of Tokyo. So much fun! Our 6 year old loves to SMASH.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-08 15:35:24 +0800", "date": "3:35 p.m. on Jan 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/08/played-kings-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F08%2Fplayed-kings-of.html" }, { "id": 956, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wordle 203 3/6\n⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛\n⬛🟩🟩🟨🟩\n🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩\nI got lucky.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-08 08:10:32 +0800", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Jan 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/08/wordle-i-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F08%2Fwordle-i-got.html" }, { "id": 957, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: The Highly Sensitive Person by E. Aron 📚 An insight into a personality type that might generally be labelled as shy. I see many links between HSP and Autism. The book\u0026rsquo;s best work is done early; the final third lost me. The interminable fixation on a review of one\u0026rsquo;s childhood was overdone.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-07 22:15:52 +0800", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Jan 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/07/finished-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F07%2Ffinished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 958, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On another day that saw us over 40°C, this iced tea was a refreshing beverage.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-07 21:22:26 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Jan 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/07/on-another-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F07%2Fon-another-day.html" }, { "id": 959, "type": "post", "title": "I’m a Blogger? I’m a Blogger.", "text": "I don’t consider myself to be a ‘blogger’. Yet if I think about it, I’ve had some kind of blog actively running for large portions of my life. Just off the top of my head, I’ve had Blogger, Movable Type, Wordpress, Blot and Micro.blog. On the private side of the equation I’ve also got years worth of entries stored away in Day One.\nUnfortunately some of those posts are lost to the annals of time - which I am sad about.\nBut based on the evidence of use, I am a ‘blogger’.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-07 11:20:34 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Jan 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/07/im-a-blogger.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F07%2Fim-a-blogger.html" }, { "id": 960, "type": "post", "title": "Can we have a Blog-only Search Engine?", "text": "Search Engines and SEO Spam - Initial Charge:\n What I think I want is a search engine that only gave me results from small, independent weblogs.\n More often than not I just want to find information from a normal person that’s writing about something because they care deeply about it. And that’s very difficult to find in search engines today.\n I want the same thing that Mike Rockwell at Initial Charge wants: a search engine focused on nerds who blog about stuff they love. Topics could be far and wide: sport, IT, doll collecting\u0026hellip; I don\u0026rsquo;t care about the topic, but I want to be able to find stuff only from people who are passionate about the topic - not trying to sell something.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-06 13:54:11 +0800", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Jan 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/06/can-we-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F06%2Fcan-we-have.html" }, { "id": 961, "type": "post", "title": "Subscription Services", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s that time of year when many are making lists and undertaking audits of their subscription services.\nI had an old list in Dynalist that was almost complete. I\u0026rsquo;ve updated it and moved it into Craft, where I will attempt to maintain it over time.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-06 09:15:28 +0800", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Jan 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/06/subscription-services.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F06%2Fsubscription-services.html" }, { "id": 962, "type": "post", "title": "Facebook’s Role in Capitol Attacks", "text": "Om Malik:\n Instead of using technology and starting to flag downright criminal behavior, the company hums, and haws. They don’t need an oversight committee — they need a moral compass.\n Am I being silly to suggest that Facebook and Purdue Pharma have much in common?\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-06 00:04:46 +0800", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Jan 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/06/facebooks-role-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F06%2Ffacebooks-role-in.html" }, { "id": 963, "type": "post", "title": "Deleting Social Media", "text": "Colin Devroe is quitting social media:\n I also spend an inordinate amount of time scrolling tweets, clicking links, reading threads, and darting between subjects like a kitten chasing a laser.\n I love this analogy.\n I think the cumulative effect on my brain since 2006 has been that my ability to focus has been effected. Not that I can’t focus. I can sit down and get into flow on a programming project more often than not. But when I’m still, when I’m idle, when I feel like I could be bored at any moment I grab my phone and scroll through Twitter which sends my mind into overdrive on a million topics, timelines, thoughts, and emotions.\n I don’t think this is good for the human brain. I know it isn’t good for my brain.\n My only social media now is Twitter, and that is curated to deliver NBL basketball and little else. I deleted Facebook and Instagram ages ago, and do not miss it.\nFocus is a superpower. Best not to give it away easily.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-05 23:15:03 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jan 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/05/deleting-social-media.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F05%2Fdeleting-social-media.html" }, { "id": 964, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s been cool to see a whole bunch of development happening on and around the micro.blog platform over the past few weeks. May the momentum continue!\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-05 16:15:55 +0800", "date": "4:15 p.m. on Jan 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/05/its-been-cool.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F05%2Fits-been-cool.html" }, { "id": 965, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cribbage night @tinyroofnail\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-04 19:31:30 +0800", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Jan 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/04/cribbage-night-tinyroofnail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F04%2Fcribbage-night-tinyroofnail.html" }, { "id": 966, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I created a castle lady with wombo.art.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-03 23:36:20 +0800", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Jan 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/03/i-created-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F03%2Fi-created-a.html" }, { "id": 967, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m on a The Wallflowers music kick tonight. Listened to the new album. Now back on the classic Bringing Down the Horse - released in 1996. I remember buying the CD and this album is embedded deep in my memories. 🎶\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-03 23:14:31 +0800", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Jan 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/03/im-on-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F03%2Fim-on-a.html" }, { "id": 968, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Go home ants, you’re drunk.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-03 22:20:58 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Jan 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/03/go-home-ants.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F03%2Fgo-home-ants.html" }, { "id": 969, "type": "post", "title": "Self-Reflection", "text": "Today has been one of thought and self-reflection.\nThere are many parts of my self that I’m not entirely happy with. Are we ever happy with ourselves? Probably not. Nevertheless, making an effort to do better must be a form of self-improvement in its own right.\nMy effort ties in neatly with a new year, but this hasn’t anything to do with New Year’s Resolutions. This is more about me trying to become a better version of myself, irrespective of the time of year. The helpful thing about early January is that I’m not working, which frees up time for self-reflection.\nToday I have done some brainstorming. I pulled out my (almost unused) Theme System journal and transitioned my thinking into a theme for the upcoming season — because a year is too long.\nI hope that applying focus to my theme will lead to self-improvement. I’m trying to confront my weaknesses head on and deal with them. What weaknesses? Let’s just say that being the son of a father who had mental health challenges, and being the father of a son with autism, mental health is an issue I deal with on the daily.1\nI can’t change who I was yesterday, but I can strive to be a better version of myself tomorrow. Hopefully this time of introspection and thought will lead to personal growth. The good thing is that it certainly can’t make the situation worse.\nWhen I was a young boy who didn’t want to fall asleep, I would listen to talkback radio: specifically 6PR 882 AM. The evening shift featured Perth radio legend Graham Maybury. I even called in to the show a couple of times, as a kid, such was my devotion. Most nights, at midnight when the show came to an end and I had stayed awake listening, Maybury would play the song, One Day at a Time. This song helped soothe my mind. Now, 30 years on, I think it still holds value.\n Mental health still has many stigmas associated with it, so if this makes you think less of me, read it as such: being the son of a father who had diabetes, and being the father of a son with diabetes, diabetes is an issue I deal with on the daily. Problem solved.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2022-01-03 21:15:18 +0800", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Jan 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/03/selfreflection.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F03%2Fselfreflection.html" }, { "id": 970, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m well out of practice in dealing with people in a group social setting. An opportunity for improvement.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-03 11:08:02 +0800", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Jan 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/03/im-well-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F03%2Fim-well-out.html" }, { "id": 971, "type": "post", "title": "Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2009 - ★★★½", "text": "It's only been on my watch list for a decade, and finally I've seen a typically enjoyable Wes Anderson movie with its delightful art direction and distinctive stable of actors. A lovely movie.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-03 08:32:03 +0800", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Jan 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/02/fantastic-mr-fox.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F02%2Ffantastic-mr-fox.html" }, { "id": 972, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The most epic Jenga game I’ve played. Considering Benji, who just turned 6, was one of the three players — and he didn’t lose — makes it that much more impressive.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-01 21:16:26 +0800", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Jan 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2022/01/01/the-most-epic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2022%2F01%2F01%2Fthe-most-epic.html" }, { "id": 973, "type": "post", "title": "Return \u0026 Recycle Apple Gear", "text": "I tried to return a bunch of old iPads and MacBooks to Apple today. I got $50 for one old iPad. Potentially could have gotten more but the others I\u0026rsquo;d forgotten to charge and couldn\u0026rsquo;t be bothered about it, so I returned them for $0. They wouldn\u0026rsquo;t take the Macs in-store but coming home, I\u0026rsquo;ve discovered I can get $110 each for two 2013 MacBook Pros. Two older machines are recyclable only. To my mind, it\u0026rsquo;s all free money!\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-31 13:26:38 +0800", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Dec 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/31/return-recycle-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F31%2Freturn-recycle-apple.html" }, { "id": 974, "type": "post", "title": "Climbing through the Roof", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been climbing and crawling around my roof space today running ethernet and installing security cameras. It was hot in the roof - after a few minutes I would emerge drenched in sweat. I would estimate it was around 60º up there.\nA few hours after finishing I\u0026rsquo;ve realised that I\u0026rsquo;m not as young as I once was. I got an inkling of that in the roof when climbing through rafters and making sure I only stepped on the beams - and not the gyprock ceiling - my hips and legs weren\u0026rsquo;t loving it. Now the general soreness is setting in. I wonder how I\u0026rsquo;m going to pull up tomorrow. Probably not well.\nThe photo is one I took from the deepest recesses of my roof. We had to get cable from that corner to the other end of the house. Then do that same thing another 3 times. We got the job done. I owe a huge thanks to my mate Daz - without him I couldn\u0026rsquo;t have done it. What a legend.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-30 19:36:00 +0800", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Dec 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/30/climbing-through-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F30%2Fclimbing-through-the.html" }, { "id": 975, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I keep playing around with themes on micro.blog, but I ultimately always seem to return to Marfa. The only problem with it is the way that comments/replies are rendered. Will that element of the template ever be improved? @help\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-30 00:08:35 +0800", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Dec 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/30/i-keep-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F30%2Fi-keep-playing.html" }, { "id": 976, "type": "post", "title": "Configuring my Stream Deck", "text": "This post was originally written in August 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.\nSitting in my OmniFocus task list, and my SkedPal task list, both for two long, has been one item:\n I have been intending to give myself two hours to do some new stuff with my Stream Deck that has been sitting in front of me for about a year.\n After an initial foray upon purchase, it has mostly sat unloved and unused. Plugged in and active, but I would forget it is there, and never use any of its little buttons.\nNo more! Clearly if I wasn’t using it, I hadn’t configured it appropriately for my workflow. Hence, the project assignment to review it. Despite that project I let it sit idle. Defer, defer, defer.\nNow, today, I made progress. New buttons have been configured. The test will be seeing if I stick with it. I crafted some buttons for OmniFocus to apply various stages of kanban process to my tasks, as per this example from Omni Automation. Perhaps this will both establish a use for the Stream Deck and rebuild my love of OmniFocus which I’ve found to be on the wane in recent times (another story for another day).\nOn other screens, I have some nice buttons setup to construct my desktop in ways for different podcasting setups. Unfortunately, I forget to use these, and I even forget what exactly they do and how I have them configured. If I were to start today, they would trigger a Bunch script - but I don’t think they do that at the moment!\nThe best way I have found to leverage the Stream Deck is in partnership with Keyboard Maestro. Having a script in KM is the best and easiest way to build automations which can be triggered via a button press. Don’t use the native/developer created integration though. The KM-link plugin that is available through the Stream Deck app store (for free) is a much more versatile option.\nSo, enough reading, let’s look at some pictures of my current bizarro eternal work-in-progress Stream Deck.\n This is my default page. It needs work. The IFTTT button isn\u0026rsquo;t connected anymore. I never use Pomodoros but I have a button for them. Sigh. The happy calendar is good, though. It is a calendar reminder system that changes colour and has a countdown timer as the meeting draws near. I got this from TJ Luoma over at the Mac Power Users forum. My “media” folder has some music controls and playlist icons. I need one for my Favourites mix. Half the Zoom stuff doesn’t work properly. I gave up bothering to connect my dSLR as a webcam. My podcasts setup page. Maybe I did use Bunch! My OmniFocus kanban management page that I’ve set up over the last couple of days. Right as I’m considering switching from OmniFocus to Things. Nice one, Andrew. Looking at these pages, it’s quite clear I need to dedicate more time to my Stream Deck. It remains an under-utilised asset.\nDo any readers own a Stream Deck? Do you have any great ideas about how to use it? Let me know in the Discord chat room, because any inspiration is helpful.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-29 21:21:53 +0800", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Dec 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/29/configuring-my-stream.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F29%2Fconfiguring-my-stream.html" }, { "id": 977, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A bookmarklet to post a link to micro.blog: Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet – Colin Devroe. This link has been posted with said bookmark. @cdevroe\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-29 10:57:08 +0800", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Dec 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/29/a-bookmarklet-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F29%2Fa-bookmarklet-to.html" }, { "id": 978, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m decommissioning our Apple MacBook Pro (Late 2013). Its had a good life, albeit the last two have been hard as my kid doesn’t show the same care and respect for it as I do. I thank it for its service.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-28 13:47:11 +0800", "date": "1:47 p.m. on Dec 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/28/im-decommissioning-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F28%2Fim-decommissioning-our.html" }, { "id": 979, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The irony of it being super hot and wanting to jump in the pool, but knowing the UV is extreme and I will burn in 10 minutes. Considering… How does this compare with your situation @gaby?\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-28 12:17:21 +0800", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Dec 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/28/the-irony-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F28%2Fthe-irony-of.html" }, { "id": 980, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another day of heat in Perth. Currently 38.5ºC. To truly experience it I\u0026rsquo;m sitting outside, under a patio with a fan. This is the fourth consecutive day over 100ºF. I feel sorry for our plants; by yesterday evening a number of them had burnt and dried out leaves. 🥵\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-28 12:05:15 +0800", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Dec 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/28/another-day-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F28%2Fanother-day-of.html" }, { "id": 981, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Could somebody explain to me why the local council doesn\u0026rsquo;t offer an extra bin run after Christmas? We have an alternating weekly cycle for recycling and general rubbish. I think they should both be collected following Christmas. As it is I\u0026rsquo;m going to be backlogged for a month.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-27 21:35:01 +0800", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Dec 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/27/could-somebody-explain.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F27%2Fcould-somebody-explain.html" }, { "id": 982, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I tried to use the micro.blog markdown importer. I got a success message, but after about 10 minutes there is still no evidence of any of the posts on my micro.blog posts page. Is there something I missed? @help\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-27 20:48:41 +0800", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Dec 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/27/i-tried-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F27%2Fi-tried-to.html" }, { "id": 983, "type": "post", "title": "Hottest Christmas Ever", "text": "These last two days in Perth have broken records for heat. Both Christmas Day and Boxing Day were several degrees over 40ºC. I am immensely thankful that this year, for the first time in my home ownership history, we have a swimming pool. With weather like this, it’s a complete game changer. A benefit of the heat is that upon emerging from the pool, it takes only minutes to be completely dry from the hot air. At which point you are warmed up enough to want to get back in.\nI’ve previously explained on Hemispheric Views Episode 032: It’ll Blow the Roof Off Your House! that our house has evaporative - not refrigerated - air conditioning. On dry heat days like we’ve had, it’s worked well. It keeps the house pleasantly cool.\nSo, despite these two days setting December heat records for Perth, I’ve felt more cool than I have in previous years.\nTomorrow, the forecast is for a mild 39ºC.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-26 22:07:03 +0800", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Dec 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/26/hottest-christmas-ever.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F26%2Fhottest-christmas-ever.html" }, { "id": 984, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Added another 2 years of subscription for canion.omg.lol. Best value profile provider on the internet.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-26 21:35:42 +0800", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Dec 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/26/added-another-years.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F26%2Fadded-another-years.html" }, { "id": 985, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m contemplating migrating my Blot site to micro.blog - and having a single site to rule them all. Should I do it?\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-26 20:26:41 +0800", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Dec 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/26/im-contemplating-migrating.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F26%2Fim-contemplating-migrating.html" }, { "id": 986, "type": "post", "title": "8-Bit Christmas, 2021 - ★½", "text": "What a waste of an opportunity.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-25 12:16:23 +0800", "date": "12:16 p.m. on Dec 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/24/bit-christmas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F24%2Fbit-christmas.html" }, { "id": 987, "type": "post", "title": "Spider-Man: No Way Home, 2021 - ★★★½", "text": "Watched on Friday December 24, 2021.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-25 12:15:56 +0800", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Dec 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/24/spiderman-no-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F24%2Fspiderman-no-way.html" }, { "id": 988, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Merry Christmas! 🎄\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-24 20:10:36 +0800", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Dec 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/24/merry-christmas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F24%2Fmerry-christmas.html" }, { "id": 989, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Ball Boy by Paul Shirley 📚I’m afraid I didn’t love it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-24 10:36:04 +0800", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Dec 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/24/finished-reading-ball.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F24%2Ffinished-reading-ball.html" }, { "id": 990, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dealing with a kid that has autism can be trying. 😞\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-23 23:42:37 +0800", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Dec 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/23/dealing-with-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F23%2Fdealing-with-a.html" }, { "id": 991, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For Benji’s birthday we went to the cinema to see Spider-Man: No Way Home. The boy has been obsessed with Spidey for about the past four years so he was beyond excited. 🎥🍿🕸🎂\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-23 18:22:20 +0800", "date": "6:22 p.m. on Dec 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/23/for-benjis-birthday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F23%2Ffor-benjis-birthday.html" }, { "id": 992, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Benji was really feeling the Christmas spirit in this one. 😂\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-23 10:42:55 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Dec 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/23/benji-was-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F23%2Fbenji-was-really.html" }, { "id": 993, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was great to get out of the house today. I read some of my book, and had a FaceTime call with @burk.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-22 23:15:05 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Dec 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/22/it-was-great.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F22%2Fit-was-great.html" }, { "id": 994, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My bike has been professionally serviced. Once again, I have no excuse not to ride.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-21 14:25:07 +0800", "date": "2:25 p.m. on Dec 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/21/my-bike-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F21%2Fmy-bike-has.html" }, { "id": 995, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While @maique is looking forward to a wet and windy Christmas, I’m looking at this:\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-20 16:47:10 +0800", "date": "4:47 p.m. on Dec 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/20/while-maique-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F20%2Fwhile-maique-is.html" }, { "id": 996, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A year ago today I received my MacBook Air M1. It doesn’t feel I’ve owned it for a year; it still seems brand new in my mind.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-15 22:02:29 +0800", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Dec 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/15/a-year-ago.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F15%2Fa-year-ago.html" }, { "id": 997, "type": "post", "title": "2021 Retrospective", "text": "For the end of 2020 I wrote a retrospective looking at the main events and happenings of the year, broken down by month.\nI figured it would fun to do the same thing again for 2021. I didn\u0026rsquo;t take copious notes over the course of the year, so I\u0026rsquo;m piecing this list together from calendar notes.\nYear Notes Throughout the year I worked on two podcasts, NBL Pocket Podcast and Hemispheric Views. There is no doubt that podcasting has become an integral part of my life. Managing a child with autism means the year is peppered with visits to medical professionals, school meetings, and a whole bunch of other supportive activities. This becomes part of the tapestry of my life, but it is a burden, no doubt. Work events hardly rated a mention, because after many years of doing the same thing it was hard to build enthusiasm for the job this year. It\u0026rsquo;s importance to me has slid down the totem pole. Western Australia was fortunate in that it was isolated from COVID-19. Our State has had zero community transmission and life within our State-sized bubble has been quite normal. January I was still going strong (pardon the pun) with my strength and fitness training. Attended EPW Reawakening 19 wrestling show. February Sold my Kia Sorrento. Final touches of our backyard renovation were being completed. Closing in on the WA State Election, in which my wife was a candidate. Stopped going to the gym due to injury. March Hannah won her Seat in the State Election, becoming a Member of WA Parliament, representing the electorate of Victoria Park as part of the McGowan Labor Government. Celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary. Sold our Ford Territory. April Visited my friend at his house in Bridgetown. Test drove a Nissan Leaf. I did not like it. May Finalised the execution of my Dad\u0026rsquo;s will. Had an eye test and discovered that for the first time in my life, bifocals were required. Visited Parliament House as the husband of a Member. June Celebrated my 44th birthday in a minimal way. In fact, I went to the doctor and filled a skip bin. Attended the NBL Grand Final, featuring my Perth Wildcats losing to Melbourne United. Our swimming pool was commissioned, smack bang in the middle of winter. July Watched the Olympics - mainly the basketball tournament. Had a consultation for surgery on my eyelids, becauase of a genetic condition. Had my first vaccination shot. I got Pfizer. August Saw the Boomers win an Olympic medal for the first time. Traveled to Bunbury for an overnight stay as part of a work event. Had my second Pfizer shot, to be maxxinated. Attended Perth Redbacks finals games in NBL1. September Had surgery to repair my eyelids. Started building a friendship with Nick. Dropped Hannah at the AFL Grand Final at Optus Stadium. I didn\u0026rsquo;t get a ticket. Enjoyed a family vacation in Albany. October Upgraded our home solar system from 3kW to 5kW. Hosted the Hemispheric Views live watch event of Crocodile Dundee. Roamed the streets for Trick or Treat Halloween. I was Patrick Bateman of American Psycho. November Had to drain and restart the pool setup because our contracted maintenance company put the wrong chemicals into the water. This was the event that caused the most anger and anxiety to me throughout this year. Attended EPW Reawakening XX wrestling event. Successfully obtained NBL media accreditation for NBL Pocket Podcast for the 2021/22 season. Did a crossover podcast with The Sport Blokes. December Attended West Tech Fest. Too much crypto. Started some light gym work, trying to avoid the injury problems from last time - even though my shoulders still hurt. Looking Forward to 2022 Reflecting on these notes for 2021, my life had few highlights. Most of the time was taken with household management and caring for our young kids. There\u0026rsquo;s not much to look back on that was fun or exciting, and that\u0026rsquo;s probably why I have struggled a bit with my mental health this year. With no tentpole events through the year, it became a grind of sameness.\nNext year I need to be better at identifying and taking action around doing some things that are for me.\nIf I\u0026rsquo;m particularly brave, I should review my career path as well, because that has stagnated. I\u0026rsquo;m probably due for a new challenge, or else my mind may risk atrophy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-14 08:54:53 +0800", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Dec 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/14/retrospective.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F14%2Fretrospective.html" }, { "id": 998, "type": "post", "title": "The King is Dead; Long Live the King", "text": " Update: 14 December 2021:\n John, a kind reader of this blog emailed me to correct the record regarding the age of these apps. I imply below that Quicksilver predated Launchbar when in fact Launchbar is the oldest of the crop. In my usage, Quicksilver was the first King - it was my gateway drug to this application category. But Quicksilver was not the first.\n A few days ago I noticed that Launchbar was consuming excessive CPU cycles on my iMac. I quit the app and relaunched. Same thing. I rebooted my Mac. Same thing.\nThat was the straw that broke the camel\u0026#x2019;s back.\nI went to the website of Alfred, downloaded the app and purchased the Powerpack immediately.\nAfter perhaps a decade(?) of daily use I was over Launchbar. For the last few years it had seen very little development. The developer was showing it no love - no blog posts, no forums or user community, and its attempt to copy the Alfred \u0026#x2018;workflows\u0026#x2019; feature had fallen flatter than a pancake. Now, I couldn\u0026#x2019;t even rely on it being an efficient system application.\nSo I threw my years of muscle memory in the bin, and I\u0026#x2019;m working with Alfred from this point forward. It\u0026#x2019;s different - and I\u0026#x2019;ve had to tweak a few settings to align with my view as to how an app launcher should work - but it\u0026#x2019;s working. The main adjustment I had to make was to allow for arrow keys to traverse the file structure.\nMy main frustration is that it doesn\u0026#x2019;t seem to automatically include files and folders in the default search when the trigger keys are depressed. Instead I have to type a space to enter into file search mode. I see in the preferences that you can include these in the default search, but the app includes text that seems to be warning me off doing that.\nIt also doesn\u0026#x2019;t have the instant-send feature of Launchbar. While that was neat, I didn\u0026#x2019;t use it so often that I desperate miss it. It was a nicety, but I can live without it.\nWhat I can report about Alfred is that it works without fuss. It is currently using 0.2% of CPU time. It lets me search and act on files. It is fast.\nLaunchbar has been the reigning King since it took crown from Quicksilver. It has now passed the throne to Alfred. Long may it reign.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-14 03:37:00 +0800", "date": "3:37 p.m. on Dec 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/13/the-king-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F13%2Fthe-king-is.html" }, { "id": 999, "type": "post", "title": "Family Entertainment", "text": "This post was originally written in July 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.\nI am a father of two boys. One is 9 (almost 10!) and the other is 5 ½. I work in a fairly flexible capacity whereas my wife has a highly demanding job that has significant variability. Our time as a family is precious, but sometimes difficult to co-ordinate. So when we do have good quality time together, we want to make it count.\nIt’s a challenge to find things to do with as a family that meets all the necessary criteria:\n Entertaining to the children individually. Entertaining to the children mutually. Entertaining for us as parents. Engaging for all of us (ideally). You might think this would be easy. You might have lovely ideas of joyous, considerate play. No. And no.\nThis is (to coin an Australianism) bloody hard.\nWhile the easy answer is electronic, iPads, Nintendo Switch, Netflix, this isn’t necessarily the most appropriate answer. I do have a need to find entertainment that incorporate activity and engagement with all the family members.\nAn extra challenge to throw into the mix is that my eldest has autism. This can make him cantankerous and difficult to get to engage in things that he hasn’t done before or that he doesn’t have confidence in his own ability to do (well, immediately).\nRecently we have gone to a couple of old classics, and some newer classics. We have played some rounds of Uno. The great thing about this is that our 5 year old can play - and sometimes win - with no skill required. He knows colours and numbers and can understand the concept of matching. Sure, Draw Two and Reverse are beyond him, but that’s okay with a bit of parental support.\nWe’ve also played Skip-Bo. To be fair, Hannah and I have enjoyed this more than the kids.\nOther board games have included Settlers of Catan (Junior) and Cards Against Humanity (Family Edition), and Clue-Do (Harry Potter Edition).\nCo-host Jason Burk has also suggested Society of Curiosities. This I am yet to try, but I am keen to give it a go.\nCan you recommend any entertainment options that might suit my family and get them away from their screens for a while longer? I’d appreciate your suggestions. Fire them back to me via the Discord so that others can benefit too! In no time at all, Martin will be having these sort of challenges with Mac. He’s a baby now, but that won’t last long!\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-13 12:52:46 +0800", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Dec 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/13/family-entertainment.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F13%2Ffamily-entertainment.html" }, { "id": 1000, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s cool to see your own feature request that you\u0026rsquo;ve been beta testing forked into the main build. Thanks BusyCal team!\n When dragging tasks from OmniFocus to create events, BusyCal now applies the duration (if any) to the event too.\n — BusyCal 2021.4.3\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-11 08:21:45 +0800", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Dec 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/11/its-cool-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F11%2Fits-cool-to.html" }, { "id": 1001, "type": "post", "title": "Crypto - I Don't Buy the Hype", "text": "Either I\u0026rsquo;m an old man who is shaking his fist at the clouds, or I\u0026rsquo;m a rational person that isn\u0026rsquo;t easily bedazzled and deluded by the madness of crowds. I prefer to think I\u0026rsquo;m the latter. Crypto has captivated the masses, and delivered opportunity to the financial grifters who portray themselves as disciples of a new financial world order.\nI may be missing out on \u0026lsquo;easy wins\u0026rsquo;, trading cryptocurrencies - buying low, selling high. What I know for certain, however, is that I\u0026rsquo;m missing the opportunity to be the last one holding the hot potato when the music stops and the entire Ponzi scheme comes crashing down.\nWherever there is fervour, I see risk. Where a financial instrument is deigned by \u0026ldquo;experts\u0026rdquo; to be capable of changing the world, I see a snake oil salesman wanting to offload empty promises at my expense.\nTo my mind, a crypto asset has no inherent value beyond the hope that somebody thinks it will be worth more, and so will be willing to pay more, so they can on-sell to the next chump who thinks it will also go up. That\u0026rsquo;s not a good recipe for sound investing. That\u0026rsquo;s gambling. Crypto itself has no underlying value. It\u0026rsquo;s not a commodity with underlying value. It has no intrinsic productive value.\nA few days ago I attended the West Tech Fest conference in Perth, and a huge chunk of the day was dedicated to speakers excitedly talking up crypto, memecoins, and other such \u0026ldquo;financial instruments\u0026rdquo;. One person was explaining that the younger (current?) generation are more financially aware with a higher tolerance for financial volatility, and therefore willing to \u0026lsquo;take the risks\u0026rsquo;. I\u0026rsquo;m calling bollocks on all of this. Of course, these statements were also made by an industry insider - a representative of a business that offers a platform for trading crypto. Now why would they be encouraging profligate \u0026ldquo;investment\u0026rdquo; in ridiculous products with no underlying value? As always, this is where I turn to my man, Lester Freamon.\n Further Reading If you\u0026rsquo;re not convinced that crypto is simply an energy-sapping, hype offering that isn\u0026rsquo;t going to deliver any of the amazing things it\u0026rsquo;s zealots say it will, I encourage you to undertake some further reading, and apply some rational economic thought.\nWe\u0026rsquo;ve seen bubbles before. They always work the same way. Sure, some people get rich. Some do okay. But many are hurt, and left holding an, ahem, \u0026ldquo;asset\u0026rdquo; that isn\u0026rsquo;t worth jack. Just because this is a digital item riding the Web3 hype train doesn\u0026rsquo;t mean it\u0026rsquo;s going to end any differently.\nI suggest you read the brilliant work of Stephen Diehl. He has published a number of excellent, considered articles on this topic. Read his work, follow the links and maintain an open mind.\nThere are a number of great quotes in his articles; below I\u0026rsquo;ve extracted just a few of my favourites. Everything Stephen writes is so good though, I encourage you to follow the links and read the full articles.\nOn memecoins: Memecoins are pure greater fool investments, they’re basically a hot potato that people trade hoping to offload it on someone dumber than them who will pay more for it. And the implicit assumption behind the terminal value of these assets is that there’s an infinite chain of fools who will keep doing this forever. Nassim Taleb deconstructed this concept from a quantitative finance perspective in his whitepaper but nevertheless these assets persist because people behave economically irrationally and like lighting money on fire and dumping it into memes regardless of financial sanity. Meme coins like dogecoin exist simply for people to gamble on a fantasy about talking dogs, and bitcoin is a meme token for gambling on a fantasy about living in a cyberpunk dystopia. At the end of the day, memecoins are not that economically distinguishable from Ponzi schemes.1\n On the value of crypto as a valuable commodity: After twelve years of these technologies existing (roughly the same age as the iPhone) there is basically only one type of successful crypto business: exchanges which exist to trade more crypto. 1\n Unlike a gallon of petrol which can be burned for energy, or a kilo of wheat which can be made into bread, or a[n] ounce of gold which can made into jewelery, there is no intrinsic use of a bitcoin. There is nothing inside of a bitcoin that can be used for anything other than to offload it on someone else who will buy it for more than what you paid for it. It is nothing more than a pure greater fool-seeking asset.2\n On crypto as a Ponzi scheme: Crypto assets are the synthesis of a speculative mania and a financial scam built around an opaque technology, phoney populism, with a tolerance for intellectual incoherence at its core. And it is a novel type of a scam, one that we don’t have a precise term of art for. They share the obscured and circular payouts of Ponzi schemes, the cult-like recruiting of multilevel marketing schemes, the ephemeral nature of high-yield investment fraud, and payout mechanics of pyramid schemes but strictly speaking they aren’t exactly like any of the classical scams. 2\n The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n The Intellectual Incoherence of Cryptoassets\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2021-12-10 10:18:53 +0800", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Dec 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/10/crypto-i-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F10%2Fcrypto-i-dont.html" }, { "id": 1002, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, yeah. I can\u0026rsquo;t sleep. What are others doing at 1:30am?\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-10 01:34:36 +0800", "date": "1:34 p.m. on Dec 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/10/so-yeah-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F10%2Fso-yeah-i.html" }, { "id": 1003, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Subscribers (or Hemisphereans) to @hemisphericviews podcast now know about the PhD that @martinfeld is working on. One Prime Plus\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-08 19:42:03 +0800", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Dec 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/08/subscribers-or-hemisphereans.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F08%2Fsubscribers-or-hemisphereans.html" }, { "id": 1004, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: The Process Is the Product by Paul Shirley 📚I had read most of the source material and I love basketball so this was up my alley. A quick read which would be a nice primer for people who have never dug into the world of productive work habits.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-08 10:58:11 +0800", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Dec 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/08/finished-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F08%2Ffinished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 1005, "type": "post", "title": "Chess Kids", "text": "I taught Benji chess today, and he began to understand it immediately We played a couple of games, which led to David becoming interested, so I taught him too.\nThe boys had a good game between each other, with me coaching both of them.\nTonight, Benji is sleeping with the chess set.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-07 23:06:24 +0800", "date": "11:06 p.m. on Dec 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/07/chess-kids.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F07%2Fchess-kids.html" }, { "id": 1006, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have bought the Alfred Powerpack. I am sick of the glacial development pace of Launchbar, and the fact it seemed to be consuming excessive CPU cycles. I wonder if my muscle memory can be retrained?\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-03 15:23:13 +0800", "date": "3:23 p.m. on Dec 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/03/i-have-bought.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F03%2Fi-have-bought.html" }, { "id": 1007, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m a subscriber of Drafts.app although my usage barely scratches the surface. I could probably be using it almost as a Textexpander replacement. I still find it\u0026rsquo;s UI virtually inscrutable though.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-02 21:24:24 +0800", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Dec 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/12/02/im-a-subscriber.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F12%2F02%2Fim-a-subscriber.html" }, { "id": 1008, "type": "post", "title": "EPW Reawakening XX", "text": "Last night our family and and some friends attended Explosive Pro Wrestling’s Reawakening XX show. This is EPW’s showcase annual event. Their Wrestlemania, if you are searching for a comparator.\nAt a sold-out theatre the company put on an amazing show.\nI’ve always enjoyed wrestling and nothing beats being in a venue where everybody who is there “gets it”. No need to put up with the naysayers who talk about wrestling being fake, or silly, or whatever other negative comment they want to throw at it for some reason.\nMake no mistake though, EPW is high-quality. These performers know what they are doing, are well-trained, and take it seriously.\nThe Main Event for this show was a no-DQ situation, so it was more intense than one would normally see, and did push the boundaries. Full credit to the wrestlers because there is no way I would put myself through that kind of pain. Julian Ward defeated Mikey Nicholls for the EPW Championship belt and the kids were very excited to meet him at the conclusion of the event.\nThis is the other great thing about EPW - it’s approachability. Kids getting photos with heroes is totally possible. The venue is a great size so you have an awesome view wherever you sit. It’s brilliant.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-28 22:23:50 +0800", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Nov 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/28/epw-reawakening-xx.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F28%2Fepw-reawakening-xx.html" }, { "id": 1009, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A follow-up article to Hemispheric Views One Prime Plus 016, with additional information from my brother.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-28 20:20:26 +0800", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Nov 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/28/a-followup-article.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F28%2Fa-followup-article.html" }, { "id": 1010, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I nuked and reinstalled my iMac successfully. Although the problem that motivated the reset remains. Clearly a bug in the software (Marked.app).\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-24 23:42:14 +0800", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Nov 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/24/i-nuked-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F24%2Fi-nuked-and.html" }, { "id": 1011, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m about to erase my iMac and reinstall Monterey. @Burk made me do it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-24 15:49:08 +0800", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Nov 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/24/im-about-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F24%2Fim-about-to.html" }, { "id": 1012, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve watched the first two episodes of Dopesick and I’m into it. Looking forward to the chance to watch more.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-22 20:58:25 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Nov 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/22/ive-watched-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F22%2Five-watched-the.html" }, { "id": 1013, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am so bored.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-21 16:27:58 +0800", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Nov 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/21/i-am-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F21%2Fi-am-so.html" }, { "id": 1014, "type": "post", "title": "Gallipoli, 1981 - ★★★★", "text": "Classic Australian movie that makes me sad for the events that occurred.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-21 10:21:38 +0800", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Nov 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/20/gallipoli.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F20%2Fgallipoli.html" }, { "id": 1015, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Flat white alone at the ice skating rink. Parenting is getting easier.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-20 11:58:19 +0800", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Nov 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/20/flat-white-alone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F20%2Fflat-white-alone.html" }, { "id": 1016, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last chance to enter the omg.lol giveaway supported by @HemisphericViews @neatnik @Burk @martinfeld www.craft.do/s/iArBaUJ\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-19 15:39:38 +0800", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Nov 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/19/last-chance-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F19%2Flast-chance-to.html" }, { "id": 1017, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Super proud of the latest episode of @HemisphericViews. Rob from Fastmail was kind enough to join us to discuss ins and outs of the business of email. I also spend some time talking about the YNAB disaster. 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-18 17:21:34 +0800", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Nov 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/18/super-proud-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F18%2Fsuper-proud-of.html" }, { "id": 1018, "type": "post", "title": "Angel-A, 2005 - ★★★", "text": "An interesting approach to a redemption story. It kept me engaged but I didn’t enjoy the conclusion.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-17 11:01:41 +0800", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Nov 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/16/angela.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F16%2Fangela.html" }, { "id": 1019, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anxiety has kicked my arse over the past 24 hours.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-16 13:16:38 +0800", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Nov 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/16/anxiety-has-kicked.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F16%2Fanxiety-has-kicked.html" }, { "id": 1020, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love a business that has a tidy balance sheet.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-15 15:00:15 +0800", "date": "3:00 p.m. on Nov 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/15/i-love-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F15%2Fi-love-a.html" }, { "id": 1021, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A happy Sunday evening.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-14 19:10:03 +0800", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Nov 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/14/a-happy-sunday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F14%2Fa-happy-sunday.html" }, { "id": 1022, "type": "post", "title": "Home Sweet Home Alone, 2021 - ★", "text": "It is just… so… bad.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-13 10:07:16 +0800", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Nov 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/12/home-sweet-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F12%2Fhome-sweet-home.html" }, { "id": 1023, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lest we forget.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-11 22:17:32 +0800", "date": "10:17 p.m. on Nov 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/11/lest-we-forget.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F11%2Flest-we-forget.html" }, { "id": 1024, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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?\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-11 20:06:29 +0800", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Nov 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/11/okay-real-talk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F11%2Fokay-real-talk.html" }, { "id": 1025, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Corridor of Doom. Inspired to take a photo as a result of the @hemisphericviews newsletter article written by @burk\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-11 16:30:24 +0800", "date": "4:30 p.m. on Nov 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/11/corridor-of-doom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F11%2Fcorridor-of-doom.html" }, { "id": 1026, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-10 22:11:28 +0800", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Nov 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/10/isolated-the-source.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F10%2Fisolated-the-source.html" }, { "id": 1027, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-10 21:22:37 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Nov 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/10/we-have-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F10%2Fwe-have-an.html" }, { "id": 1028, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Too cold to swim. Not too cold to dip the feet.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-09 17:24:59 +0800", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Nov 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/09/too-cold-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F09%2Ftoo-cold-to.html" }, { "id": 1029, "type": "post", "title": "Nostalgic November", "text": "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.\nI 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.\nFair to say, I was nervous and apprehensive.\nUntil I discovered Stratego. Our Year 5 classroom had a bunch of games, but Stratego was epic. I made a good friend playing Stratego. I found my place. I loved the game. Before classes started in the morning, we\u0026rsquo;d play Stratego. During rainy lunchtimes when outside play was impossible, we\u0026rsquo;d play Stratego. The winner kept the board, the loser had to shuffle back to the end of the queue of players wanting a turn.\nStratego helped me assimilate into the school and become safe and secure.\nIn the early 2000’s I found a rudimentary online version of Stratego but it didn’t have the same experience as using a real board and pieces.\nFast-forward to now. A few months ago we were on holiday in Albany, Western Australia and we were exploring a toy store in town. On their shelves were boxes of Stratego.\n I looked at the games. I looked at my 10 year old son. I looked back at the games and grabbed a box. Was I buying this game for me, him, or both of us? I like to think the latter, but it was probably the former.\nNow, here we are. Nostalgia has delivered an experience in the present.\n ", "dateiso": "2021-11-07 20:14:56 +0800", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Nov 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/07/nostalgic-november.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F07%2Fnostalgic-november.html" }, { "id": 1030, "type": "post", "title": "The Sad State of Mousing on macOS", "text": "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.\nOn 28 May, I posted to my micro.blog:\n 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. Apple Magic Mouse - ergonomic hell. Why is this so hard?\n Despite Apple sales being higher than ever third party vendors aren’t willing to come to the party to develop decent macOS drivers for their products. So a person can spend a lot of money on new hardware but still struggle to aim a pointer with precision.\nLess than a year ago I bought a Logitech MX Master 3. It is promoted as the most ergonomic, fully-featured non-gaming mouse on the market. From a hardware standpoint it is beautiful. Contoured edges, metallic construction and magnetic resistance make it move beautifully. Until you have to use the Logitech Options software on a Mac. I have tried the Bluetooth connection, I have tried the RF dongle. It doesn’t matter. Either option results in random pointer stutters, entire pauses for seconds and other random tomfoolery. It undermines everything that is good about the mouse.\nIt all got too much for me recently so after speaking to my money spending enabler, Jason Burk, I purchased a Razer Viper Ultimate gaming mouse with docking station. Being a gaming mouse it has multi-coloured LEDs and high frequency tracking, so surely it will be good.\nThe hardware is good. The software? Not so much as dire, but rather non-existent. Razer do not make a version of the software for macOS. So all the goodness is wasted unless you’re on a PC. That being said, I booted into Windows via Boot Camp and the Windows software is a terrible mess as well. It was hundreds of megabytes in size with a UX that made no sense.\nI had packed the mouse back into its box and was ready to return it, when a final search and another discussion with Jason led me down a macOS software rabbit-hole. It turns out there is an open-source community that develops drivers and software for the Razer on mac.\nThis led me to discover the FruityRazer project and Razer macOS - software drivers to control not just the mouse performance but most importantly, the LEDs!\nThere are also two shareware software options, USB Overdrive and SteerMouse. To be honest, I haven\u0026rsquo;t figured out the best combination of all these software options yet.\nWhat I do know, however, is that now the Razer mouse is rock solid. I have a feeling that if I trade out Logi Options for USB Overdrive or SteerMouse that the MX Master 3 will probably be stable as well.\nWhat does this say about the ability or willingness or large corporations to develop decent macOS software? It says they are terrible. What does it say about Apple not being able to develop a good hardware mouse that doesn’t deliver immediate RSI? It says that they are terrible.\nIn all instances, the end-user - us, lose out.\nHow’s that for customer sat, Tim?\n ", "dateiso": "2021-11-07 20:08:05 +0800", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Nov 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/07/the-sad-state.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F07%2Fthe-sad-state.html" }, { "id": 1031, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sorry kid, I don’t have Instagram. I’ve got micro.blog though!\n\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-07 17:49:25 +0800", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Nov 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/07/sorry-kid-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F07%2Fsorry-kid-i.html" }, { "id": 1032, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "File this one under “irony” from the YNAB change log. November 5th, 2021 - You Need A Budget:\n We released a fix to ensure all users are seeing the correct price in their account settings.\n ", "dateiso": "2021-11-06 20:07:13 +0800", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Nov 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/06/file-this-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F06%2Ffile-this-one.html" }, { "id": 1033, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Given the number of sites you maintain @jack your omg.lol could be your most useful property on the web. 😂\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-05 23:31:41 +0800", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Nov 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/05/given-the-number.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F05%2Fgiven-the-number.html" }, { "id": 1034, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-05 23:23:40 +0800", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Nov 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/05/a-new-episode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F05%2Fa-new-episode.html" }, { "id": 1035, "type": "post", "title": "Nostalgic November", "text": "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!\nAs hosts, we each contributed our own piece of nostalgia. This is how mine starts out:\n 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.\nFair to say, I was nervous and apprehensive.\nUntil I discovered…\n You can read the rest of my memory, or check out Martin’s and Jason’s too.\nAt the end of the month we will be sharing all the pieces of memory our listeners have shared with us.\nIf you would like to play along, have a listen to Episode 041 where we introduce the idea, then share with us. Simply send us a quick text, photo or video in one of the following ways: @HemisphericPod on Twitter with #NostalgicNovember; @HemisphericViews on Micro.blog; in our general Discord chat; or by email to hello@hemisphericviews.com.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-04 17:00:11 +0800", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Nov 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/04/nostalgic-november.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F04%2Fnostalgic-november.html" }, { "id": 1036, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What\u0026rsquo;s that noise? Oh, it\u0026rsquo;s a new episode of @HemisphericViews podcast hitting the Internet. OMG! @neatnik @maique\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-04 15:41:55 +0800", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Nov 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/04/whats-that-noise.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F04%2Fwhats-that-noise.html" }, { "id": 1037, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Solid workflow, Andrew. Solid. Can somebody please send help?\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-04 15:10:23 +0800", "date": "3:10 p.m. on Nov 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/04/solid-workflow-andrew.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F04%2Fsolid-workflow-andrew.html" }, { "id": 1038, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Keyboard Maestro making it even easier to meet my needs as a Textexpander replacement. Now with menubar icons for specific groups!\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-03 10:31:11 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Nov 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/03/keyboard-maestro-making.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F03%2Fkeyboard-maestro-making.html" }, { "id": 1039, "type": "post", "title": "YNAB Jumping the Shark", "text": "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.\nI smell an Average Recurring Revenue/Average Revenue per User metric being gamed for an external equity play of some kind.\nWhat they’ve ultimately done, though, is burned their hard won customer loyalty and goodwill. They’ve given a free kick to their competitors. It will be interesting to watch the space and see if anybody steps up to fill the void.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-02 22:23:34 +0800", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Nov 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/02/ynab-jumping-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F02%2Fynab-jumping-the.html" }, { "id": 1040, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Undertaking an edit of @HemisphericViews is no mean feat. But like any hobby, it\u0026rsquo;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.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-01 22:25:20 +0800", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Nov 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/11/01/undertaking-an-edit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F11%2F01%2Fundertaking-an-edit.html" }, { "id": 1041, "type": "post", "title": "Crocodile Dundee, 1986 - ★½", "text": "If you ever think society hasn't progressed in 35 years, watch this movie. You will realise that many social norms have improved.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-01 12:23:27 +0800", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Nov 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/31/crocodile-dundee.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F31%2Fcrocodile-dundee.html" }, { "id": 1042, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trick or Treat! Our family comprises a witch, The Grim Reaper, Joker, and American Psycho, Patrick Bateman. 🎃\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-31 21:05:32 +0800", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Oct 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/31/trick-or-treat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F31%2Ftrick-or-treat.html" }, { "id": 1043, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 30: home 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-31 20:58:20 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Oct 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/31/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F31%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1044, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Static IP locked and loaded. When I realised my ISP had switched to Carrier Grade NAT, I was left with no choice. Also @dsh1705 and @neatnik made me do it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-31 00:08:30 +0800", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Oct 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/31/static-ip-locked.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F31%2Fstatic-ip-locked.html" }, { "id": 1045, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 30: red 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-30 18:06:02 +0800", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Oct 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/30/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F30%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1046, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This memoji login avatar is the fun and whimsy I love to see from Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-30 15:34:54 +0800", "date": "3:34 p.m. on Oct 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/30/this-memoji-login.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F30%2Fthis-memoji-login.html" }, { "id": 1047, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you\u0026rsquo;re an Australian YNAB user, beware their new loans feature. It\u0026rsquo;s a blunt instrument and can\u0026rsquo;t cope with a typical Australian mortgage situation, such as fortnightly payments, offset accounts, interest-only loans, and daily interest calculations.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-30 15:01:21 +0800", "date": "3:01 p.m. on Oct 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/30/if-youre-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F30%2Fif-youre-an.html" }, { "id": 1048, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve got an itch to setup my iMac from scratch. It’s been migrated a few times, and it’s deeply customised. Trying to do the cost:benefit calculus.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-30 08:02:44 +0800", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Oct 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/30/ive-got-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F30%2Five-got-an.html" }, { "id": 1049, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A question for @amit, @jack @twelvety @AndySylvester or any other micro blogger trialing Drummer: can you simply explain the difference between a node that starts with a page icon, and one that has a disclosure triangle? Should the page icon type be reserved for headlines?\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-29 21:41:25 +0800", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Oct 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/29/a-question-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F29%2Fa-question-for.html" }, { "id": 1050, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 29: cycle 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-29 20:51:28 +0800", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Oct 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/29/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F29%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1051, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The logo for Meta (nee Facebook) looks like a pair of kidneys. Are they coming for my kidneys now in some sort of mafia hit job? I wouldn’t put it past them. Do not trust this company.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-29 07:02:46 +0800", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Oct 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/29/the-logo-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F29%2Fthe-logo-for.html" }, { "id": 1052, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog isn\u0026rsquo;t in danger of losing my business but I am enjoying Drummer. It feels like I\u0026rsquo;m writing, not blogging, with no pressure about creating \u0026ldquo;a blog post\u0026rdquo;. I also love that its in the form of an outline which is the purest form of thinking and writing in one.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-28 22:05:37 +0800", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Oct 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/28/microblog-isnt-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F28%2Fmicroblog-isnt-in.html" }, { "id": 1053, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 28: underneath 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-28 21:37:43 +0800", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Oct 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/28/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F28%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1054, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 27: chaos 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-27 20:43:14 +0800", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Oct 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/27/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F27%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1055, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 26: bliss 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-26 20:58:32 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Oct 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/26/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F26%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1056, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A $30 price increase for Disney+. 🤨\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-26 07:21:26 +0800", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Oct 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/26/a-price-increase.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F26%2Fa-price-increase.html" }, { "id": 1057, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "‘Whose day isn’t gonna be better after watching a pink and yellow rosy maple moth fly in super-slow motion?’\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-25 17:08:51 +0800", "date": "5:08 p.m. on Oct 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/25/whose-day-isnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F25%2Fwhose-day-isnt.html" }, { "id": 1058, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 25: gravity 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-25 16:50:45 +0800", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Oct 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/25/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F25%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1059, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 24: connection 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-24 14:19:37 +0800", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Oct 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/24/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F24%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1060, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The @HemisphericViews live event was a blast! Thanks to everyone for joining in on the fun - and the awkward 1980s social norms.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-24 14:09:14 +0800", "date": "2:09 p.m. on Oct 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/24/the-hemisphericviews-live.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F24%2Fthe-hemisphericviews-live.html" }, { "id": 1061, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m excited for our @hemisphericviews Crocodile Dundee live watch event that’s a bonus for our Patreon members. Kicks off in 3 hours. If you want to join in head over to oneprimeplus.com to pledge support and we will send you the link to the live watch! @burk @martinfeld\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-24 07:49:20 +0800", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Oct 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/24/im-excited-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F24%2Fim-excited-for.html" }, { "id": 1062, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love this kid. He never stops talking, though.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-23 16:26:23 +0800", "date": "4:26 p.m. on Oct 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/23/i-love-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F23%2Fi-love-this.html" }, { "id": 1063, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What is with Safari 15 and overly-aggressive caching? I can\u0026rsquo;t trust that I\u0026rsquo;m seeing the canonical website at the moment. As if the tabs weren\u0026rsquo;t enough of a problem!\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-23 14:28:27 +0800", "date": "2:28 p.m. on Oct 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/23/what-is-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F23%2Fwhat-is-with.html" }, { "id": 1064, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 23: meaning 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-23 14:23:06 +0800", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Oct 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/23/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F23%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1065, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to @amit reminding me of his micro.threads app, I\u0026rsquo;ve followed some additional people on micro.blog - some of which I thought I already was following. Got you now!\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-23 13:06:45 +0800", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Oct 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/23/thanks-to-amit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F23%2Fthanks-to-amit.html" }, { "id": 1066, "type": "post", "title": "Free Guy, 2021 - ★★½", "text": "A fun romp with plenty of fan service for gamers and YouTubers. Would have benefited from a shorter runtime through tighter editing.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-23 09:56:57 +0800", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Oct 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/22/free-guy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F22%2Ffree-guy.html" }, { "id": 1067, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hello world from Drummer.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-22 22:10:10 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Oct 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/22/hello-world-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F22%2Fhello-world-from.html" }, { "id": 1068, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m getting @maique in my Porkbun emails.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-22 14:56:17 +0800", "date": "2:56 p.m. on Oct 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/22/im-getting-maique.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F22%2Fim-getting-maique.html" }, { "id": 1069, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I see the usual suspects getting the Drummer vibe\u0026hellip; 😺 @jack @twelvety @amit @pratik\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-22 14:04:50 +0800", "date": "2:04 p.m. on Oct 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/22/i-see-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F22%2Fi-see-the.html" }, { "id": 1070, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 22: rest 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-22 13:22:33 +0800", "date": "1:22 p.m. on Oct 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/22/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F22%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1071, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometime in the last 6 hours Drummer lost a bunch of my edits and customisations. A friendly reminder that this is still beta software that is actively under development!\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-22 06:46:01 +0800", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Oct 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/22/sometime-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F22%2Fsometime-in-the.html" }, { "id": 1072, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh no, what on earth am I doing to myself? Do I have to maintain three blogs now? Micro.Blog, Blot and Drummer\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-21 23:13:50 +0800", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Oct 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/21/oh-no-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F21%2Foh-no-what.html" }, { "id": 1073, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have followed the instructions but I can\u0026rsquo;t get the Drummer glossary to work. Included terms are not being converted. I must be missing something obvious. Can I ping @jack and @amit again?\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-21 22:02:13 +0800", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Oct 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/21/i-have-followed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F21%2Fi-have-followed.html" }, { "id": 1074, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 21: space 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-21 19:42:30 +0800", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Oct 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/21/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F21%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1075, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Once again I find the solution when Corporate IT Helpdesk couldn’t.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-21 17:07:13 +0800", "date": "5:07 p.m. on Oct 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/21/once-again-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F21%2Fonce-again-i.html" }, { "id": 1076, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s been a minute since I last posted to my blog from Ulysses. It’s awesome to be able to pick and choose from a variety of tools to create and share content. Interoperability is great. The open web is great.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-21 12:21:10 +0800", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Oct 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/21/its-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F21%2Fits-been-a.html" }, { "id": 1077, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My playground Drummer instance is at oldschool.scripting.com/andrewcan\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-21 10:03:35 +0800", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Oct 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/21/my-playground-drummer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F21%2Fmy-playground-drummer.html" }, { "id": 1078, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This micro blog may hitherto be referred to as canion.blog. But the old address will probably work as well.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-21 00:06:06 +0800", "date": "12:06 p.m. on Oct 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/21/this-micro-blog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F21%2Fthis-micro-blog.html" }, { "id": 1079, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just registered a domain at Porkbun. They have pigs.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-20 20:34:47 +0800", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Oct 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/20/i-just-registered.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F20%2Fi-just-registered.html" }, { "id": 1080, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 20: sports 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-20 13:48:29 +0800", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Oct 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/20/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F20%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1081, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At @HemisphericViews we\u0026rsquo;ve launched our latest brand extension, Hemispheric Views Tourist Centre/Center. As part of our huge launch, we\u0026rsquo;d like to share with you the beauty of Perth.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-20 11:55:38 +0800", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Oct 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/20/at-hemisphericviews-weve.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F20%2Fat-hemisphericviews-weve.html" }, { "id": 1082, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The micro.blog theme Tufte by @pimoore is incredible. Absolutely gorgeous and befitting of the Tufte design ethos.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-19 17:29:20 +0800", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Oct 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/19/the-microblog-theme.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F19%2Fthe-microblog-theme.html" }, { "id": 1083, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 19: mirror 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-19 16:45:13 +0800", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Oct 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/19/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F19%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1084, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 18: finished 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-18 19:06:22 +0800", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Oct 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/18/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F18%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1085, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought @maique a coffee.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-18 18:27:03 +0800", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Oct 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/18/i-bought-maique.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F18%2Fi-bought-maique.html" }, { "id": 1086, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 17: compass 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-17 11:02:49 +0800", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Oct 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/17/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F17%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1087, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 16: rotation 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-16 20:30:14 +0800", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Oct 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/16/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F16%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1088, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 15: ethereal 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-15 20:57:52 +0800", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Oct 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/15/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F15%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1089, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks @maique for introducing me to the fine folk at omg.lol. Now I\u0026rsquo;ve bought my own account!\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-15 13:38:00 +0800", "date": "1:38 p.m. on Oct 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/15/thanks-maique-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F15%2Fthanks-maique-for.html" }, { "id": 1090, "type": "post", "title": "A Great Day!", "text": "Today has been a great day.\nIt started with an outdoor walk on a beautiful Perth day. I could walk all day with Stephen Fry talking to me. This was the most enjoyable \u0026ldquo;Time to Walk\u0026rdquo; episode I\u0026rsquo;ve listened to.\nThen I made some new connections with people, which might have some awesome ramifications for @HemisphericViews episodes in the future.\nMy new Eero Pro 6 wifi units arrived, so I suffer the ignominy of the D-Link wifi no more.\n And I look forward to a dinner event this evening!\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-15 13:27:00 +0800", "date": "1:27 p.m. on Oct 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/15/a-great-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F15%2Fa-great-day.html" }, { "id": 1091, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 14: wheels 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-14 22:37:12 +0800", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Oct 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/14/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F14%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1092, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 13: animals 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-13 18:35:12 +0800", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Oct 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/13/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F13%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1093, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 12: legend 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-12 17:02:54 +0800", "date": "5:02 p.m. on Oct 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/12/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F12%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1094, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 11: hygge 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-11 19:48:04 +0800", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Oct 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/11/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F11%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1095, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is my drummer effort.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-11 18:32:58 +0800", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Oct 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/11/this-is-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F11%2Fthis-is-my.html" }, { "id": 1096, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had a quick play with Dave Winer\u0026rsquo;s new blogging tool, Drummer. I should like it because I love outlines and blogging by way of an outline makes sense. But I don\u0026rsquo;t love the implementation. Winer\u0026rsquo;s UX for outlining is not for me. Also, is there no support for Markdown?\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-11 18:28:06 +0800", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Oct 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/11/i-had-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F11%2Fi-had-a.html" }, { "id": 1097, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 10: bridges 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-10 18:09:05 +0800", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Oct 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/10/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F10%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1098, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 9: safe 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-09 21:00:48 +0800", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Oct 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/09/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F09%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1099, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 8: twilight 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-08 18:50:36 +0800", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Oct 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/08/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F08%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 7: spice 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-07 12:17:11 +0800", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Oct 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/07/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F07%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1101, "type": "post", "title": "Hocus Pocus, 1993 - ★★★", "text": "Watched on Wednesday October 6, 2021.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-07 09:55:24 +0800", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Oct 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/06/hocus-pocus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F06%2Fhocus-pocus.html" }, { "id": 1102, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 6: street 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-06 16:09:22 +0800", "date": "4:09 p.m. on Oct 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/06/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F06%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1103, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like Heavyweight podcast but I’m not going to install Spotify to listen to it. Au revoir.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-05 21:10:40 +0800", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Oct 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/05/i-like-heavyweight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F05%2Fi-like-heavyweight.html" }, { "id": 1104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 5: toy 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-05 13:15:58 +0800", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Oct 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/05/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F05%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1105, "type": "post", "title": "Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew - The New York Times", "text": "Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew - The New York Times:\n But Facebook’s research tells a clear story, and it’s not a happy one. Its younger users are flocking to Snapchat and TikTok, and its older users are posting anti-vaccine memes and arguing about politics. Some Facebook products are actively shrinking, while others are merely making their users angry or self-conscious.\n It\u0026rsquo;s hard to feel sorry for Facebook.\nActually, I don\u0026rsquo;t feel sorry for them at all.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-05 12:23:53 +0800", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Oct 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/05/facebook-is-weaker.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F05%2Ffacebook-is-weaker.html" }, { "id": 1106, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of my ASUS ZenWifi units has crapped out after only 4 months. A flashing blue light that won\u0026rsquo;t go away even with a reset. I\u0026rsquo;ve eaten the cost and ordered Eeros.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-04 15:50:14 +0800", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Oct 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/04/one-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F04%2Fone-of-my.html" }, { "id": 1107, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 4: sharp 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-04 15:40:56 +0800", "date": "3:40 p.m. on Oct 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/04/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F04%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1108, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 3: majority 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-03 15:54:59 +0800", "date": "3:54 p.m. on Oct 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/03/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F03%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1109, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 2: dark 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-02 15:16:22 +0800", "date": "3:16 p.m. on Oct 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/02/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F02%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1110, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And this article is why, sadly, I’ve been using Edge on my Mac in recent times. Daring Fireball: The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-02 13:46:18 +0800", "date": "1:46 p.m. on Oct 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/02/and-this-article.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F02%2Fand-this-article.html" }, { "id": 1111, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog October photo challenge Day 1: touch 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-01 22:08:40 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Oct 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/10/01/microblog-october-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F10%2F01%2Fmicroblog-october-photo.html" }, { "id": 1112, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Bluff Knoll climb was easier some 15 years ago.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-30 17:56:27 +0800", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Sep 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/30/the-bluff-knoll.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F30%2Fthe-bluff-knoll.html" }, { "id": 1113, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This was the most perfect (double) rainbow I’ve ever seen in my life. 🌈\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-29 19:00:10 +0800", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Sep 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/29/this-was-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F29%2Fthis-was-the.html" }, { "id": 1114, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoyed tasting some whisky at Limeburners.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-28 16:37:47 +0800", "date": "4:37 p.m. on Sep 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/28/enjoyed-tasting-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F28%2Fenjoyed-tasting-some.html" }, { "id": 1115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dog Rock, Albany.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-27 17:48:10 +0800", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Sep 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/27/dog-rock-albany.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F27%2Fdog-rock-albany.html" }, { "id": 1116, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Gap, Albany.\n\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-27 16:43:24 +0800", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Sep 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/27/the-gap-albany.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F27%2Fthe-gap-albany.html" }, { "id": 1117, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 15 and the Find My energy drain hit my new iPhone 13 mini last night. From 80% to 10% battery charge overnight. I hope Apple sort this out because battery drain is the worst kind of bug.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-27 08:48:56 +0800", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Sep 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/27/ios-and-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F27%2Fios-and-the.html" }, { "id": 1118, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This kid gets it. @hemisphericviews\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-26 20:09:17 +0800", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Sep 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/26/this-kid-gets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F26%2Fthis-kid-gets.html" }, { "id": 1119, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising 20: Two Mic Audio Experiment", "text": "In which David and I experiment with a two mic, two headphone studio production. With a guest appearance from Benji.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-25 14:21:44 +0800", "date": "2:21 p.m. on Sep 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/25/two-mic-audio.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F25%2Ftwo-mic-audio.html" }, { "id": 1120, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The internet can be small. I got random help from a stranger via the MailMate mailing list. Turns out said stranger is @PaulGit on micro.blog. Thanks Paul!\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-25 12:12:38 +0800", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Sep 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/25/the-internet-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F25%2Fthe-internet-can.html" }, { "id": 1121, "type": "post", "title": "Dude, Where\u0026#039;s My Car?, 2000 - ★★★★★", "text": "I used to know every line of this movie. Shibby!\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-23 09:30:23 +0800", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Sep 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/22/dude-wheres-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F22%2Fdude-wheres-my.html" }, { "id": 1122, "type": "post", "title": "I Hate Facebook, and You Should Too", "text": "Facebook is a terrible company and I\u0026rsquo;ve felt much better about myself since deleting their products: notably Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. When ditching use of the apps, there is a withdrawal period of 5-8 days, then after that, it\u0026rsquo;s fine. Life goes on. Time is returned to your life. You miss nothing of import. I\u0026rsquo;m still waiting for my \u0026ldquo;Facebook friends\u0026rdquo; to check in and see how I\u0026rsquo;m doing and note they miss my absence\u0026hellip;\nAt what point do we acknowledge that a company is a net negative, and facilitate its end?\nCorey Doctorow has written a great article about the latest horrible news arising from Facebook. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to pull a single quote, but this stood out:\nPluralistic: 22 Sep 2021:\n Everybody hates Facebook, especially FB users. The point of high switching costs, after all, is to increase the pain of leaving so that FB can dole out more abuse to its users without fearing that they\u0026rsquo;ll quit the whole enterprise.\n FB\u0026rsquo;s mission is to increase the size of the shit-sandwich they can force you to eat before you walk away. But they\u0026rsquo;re not mere sadists: shit-sandwiches have a business model: the more hostages they take, the more they can extract from advertisers – their true customers.\n Thanks to @fahrni for bringing the Doctorow post to my attention.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-23 06:13:44 +0800", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Sep 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/23/i-hate-facebook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F23%2Fi-hate-facebook.html" }, { "id": 1123, "type": "post", "title": "Book Tracking Services", "text": "It seems there are an explosion of book tracking platforms all of a sudden, after years of it being a Goodreads monoculture.\nThis is good, because competition.\nThis is bad, because now I\u0026rsquo;m having to update my reading stats on a bunch of sites as I try to figure out which is the \u0026lsquo;good\u0026rsquo; one.\nBy my account, there is:\n Goodreads - nice because it automatically syncs with Kindle, but bad because the website is an early 2000\u0026rsquo;s horror show. Literal - the newest kid on the block with a clean look and nice shelf management. The StoryGraph - has an interesting recommendation engine. Micro.blog - has a rudimentary bookshelf system but can conveniently create micro blog posts from them. ", "dateiso": "2021-09-23 05:58:28 +0800", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Sep 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/23/book-tracking-services.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F23%2Fbook-tracking-services.html" }, { "id": 1124, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Thinking In Systems by Donella Meadows. This has been on my list for ages; time to get into it. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-20 22:11:12 +0800", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Sep 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/20/currently-reading-thinking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F20%2Fcurrently-reading-thinking.html" }, { "id": 1125, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve decided I\u0026rsquo;m going to upgrade my iPhone XR to an iPhone 13 mini. I like the idea of a small, pocketable phone. I am nervous about typing on it because I have larger than average thumbs.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-16 15:41:52 +0800", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Sep 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/16/ive-decided-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F16%2Five-decided-im.html" }, { "id": 1126, "type": "post", "title": "YNAB LaunchBar Actions", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m a huge YNAB fan and a LaunchBar user. I often get jealous of Alfred users because the system of \u0026ldquo;workflows\u0026rdquo; in Alfred seems to have caught on better than LaunchBar\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Actions\u0026rdquo;.\nRighting that wrong has appeared @ptujec on Github. He has a number of LaunchBar Actions, notably two built for YNAB.\nI found a bug in the script, raised an issue on Github and it\u0026rsquo;s already been fixed. Thanks!\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-14 12:40:33 +0800", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Sep 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/14/ynab-launchbar-actions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F14%2Fynab-launchbar-actions.html" }, { "id": 1127, "type": "post", "title": "CPLAY2air Wireless CarPlay Adaptor Review", "text": "Some weeks ago I bought a wireless CarPlay adaptor for my new 2021 Toyota Camry. The Camry support CarPlay but only when connected with a lightning cable.\nMy experience with it to date has been mostly positive, with some caveats. The largest issue I have is its \u0026ldquo;Chinese knock-off\u0026rdquo; software interface. I don\u0026rsquo;t quite know how they are making this whole thing work, and not having had CarPlay before I don\u0026rsquo;t know what earlier generations of the software were like. However, the version that is installed on the CarPlay device has a \u0026ldquo;bootleg\u0026rdquo; feel. For example, native CarPlay has iconography for buttons. The CPlay device has icons within button borders and some of these seem slightly misaligned. I also notice on my podcast app that not all the interface elements seem quite the same, such as the speed of playback.\nThe other weird thing I notice is when playing back voice messages and other interactions with Siri. The volume is much lower than any other audio making it hard to hear. However, I\u0026rsquo;m reticent to blame this solely on the CPlay device. I think it may have something to do with the configuration of the audio in my car system? I don\u0026rsquo;t know, and I\u0026rsquo;m still trying to figure it out.\nAll that being said, the thing works. I keep waiting for it not to work and partly expecting it to fail, or drop the connection, but it works everytime. It supports multiple devices as well, with both my phone and my wife\u0026rsquo;s connected to it. It auto-switches based on last use and whichever device is available.\nFor short trips, I think this thing is great. If I\u0026rsquo;m travelling a longer distance, I\u0026rsquo;m still going to use the lightning cable. Would I buy it again? Yes, I would.\nI also bought a custom-fit Chi charging pad. It\u0026rsquo;s not that great, but is necessary if you want to use the CPlay for a length of time and not kill your phone battery. I have found my phone slips off it too easily unless I put the phone in a case. As these things are designed differently to fit each kind of car, your mileage may vary.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-12 14:13:20 +0800", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Sep 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/12/cplayair-wireless-carplay.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F12%2Fcplayair-wireless-carplay.html" }, { "id": 1128, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ready for his first Eucharist.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-12 12:51:48 +0800", "date": "12:51 p.m. on Sep 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/12/ready-for-his.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F12%2Fready-for-his.html" }, { "id": 1129, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.camp joins the sticker party!\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-11 14:53:41 +0800", "date": "2:53 p.m. on Sep 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/11/microcamp-joins-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F11%2Fmicrocamp-joins-the.html" }, { "id": 1130, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s that time - a new episode of @HemisphericViews has dropped. I practise my singing skills, @Burk enjoys a crunchy roll and @martinfeld kinda praises Microsoft… E037: Teamsception! listen.hemisphericviews.com/037\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-09 16:41:43 +0800", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Sep 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/09/its-that-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F09%2Fits-that-time.html" }, { "id": 1131, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying out the Ink theme on micro.blog. Always good to change the look from time to time.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-08 18:45:16 +0800", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Sep 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/08/trying-out-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F08%2Ftrying-out-the.html" }, { "id": 1132, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The future\u0026rsquo;s so bright, I\u0026rsquo;ve gotta wear shades.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-07 17:27:50 +0800", "date": "5:27 p.m. on Sep 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/07/the-futures-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F07%2Fthe-futures-so.html" }, { "id": 1133, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Honeybee by Craig Silvey. An incredible coming-of-age story of a boy with all the odds stacked against him. Wonderful to read a book set in my home town, too. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-07 12:45:04 +0800", "date": "12:45 p.m. on Sep 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/07/finished-reading-honeybee.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F07%2Ffinished-reading-honeybee.html" }, { "id": 1134, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OneDrive now has a \u0026ldquo;personal vault\u0026rdquo;. A shot across the bows of 1Password. Do Microsoft do more Sherlocking than Apple these days?\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-06 18:28:01 +0800", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Sep 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/06/onedrive-now-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F06%2Fonedrive-now-has.html" }, { "id": 1135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve bought my ticket to “A Voyage Through Time” couch concert by Voyager featuring my guy Alex Canion on bass. $20 - bargain! 🤘🏻 voyager.veeps.com\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-05 22:44:20 +0800", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Sep 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/05/ive-bought-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F05%2Five-bought-my.html" }, { "id": 1136, "type": "post", "title": "Nacho Libre, 2006 - ★★★", "text": "It’s silly but it’s fun. Perfect Friday night movie with the kids.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-04 08:28:20 +0800", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Sep 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/03/nacho-libre.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F03%2Fnacho-libre.html" }, { "id": 1137, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is very cool - @HemisphericViews getting a shout-out from DEVONtechnologies\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-02 12:52:21 +0800", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Sep 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/02/this-is-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F02%2Fthis-is-very.html" }, { "id": 1138, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great to have @HemisphericViews listener @dsh1705 join @Microblog.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-02 10:19:37 +0800", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Sep 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/02/great-to-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F02%2Fgreat-to-have.html" }, { "id": 1139, "type": "post", "title": "Bo Burnham: Inside, 2021 - ★★★½", "text": "This provides a stark reminder of how incredibly uncreative I (and probably most people) am. Through imagination, technology and the support of the Bezos delivery system, Burnham creates something quite amazing within a single room.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-02 10:10:01 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Sep 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/01/bo-burnham-inside.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F01%2Fbo-burnham-inside.html" }, { "id": 1140, "type": "post", "title": "Promising Young Woman, 2020 - ★★★★", "text": "Watched on Wednesday September 1, 2021.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-02 00:21:07 +0800", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Sep 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/01/promising-young-woman.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F01%2Fpromising-young-woman.html" }, { "id": 1141, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the first time in 2 years I have a cold complete with aches, pains and a sore throat. Can we go back to isolation and social distancing so I don\u0026rsquo;t have to deal with these?\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-01 09:42:45 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Sep 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/09/01/for-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F09%2F01%2Ffor-the-first.html" }, { "id": 1142, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I highly recommend Like You podcast for anybody that has youngish children. My kids listen every night as part of their bedtime routine.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-31 08:03:46 +0800", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Aug 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/31/i-highly-recommend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F31%2Fi-highly-recommend.html" }, { "id": 1143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Things are getting serious now. @hemisphericviews\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-30 17:10:01 +0800", "date": "5:10 p.m. on Aug 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/30/things-are-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F30%2Fthings-are-getting.html" }, { "id": 1144, "type": "post", "title": "DevonJimbo", "text": "Episode 36 of Hemispheric Views saw us establish a brand extension - a YouTube channel. I want to call it Hemispheric Toobs, but I think I\u0026rsquo;ve been voted down.\nIn any case, here are two videos in support of Episode 36.\nDevonJimbo FinderJimbo ", "dateiso": "2021-08-29 14:10:28 +0800", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Aug 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/29/devonjimbo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F29%2Fdevonjimbo.html" }, { "id": 1145, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can confirm that my Intel iMac can launch 205 applications and keep on trucking.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-29 12:54:12 +0800", "date": "12:54 p.m. on Aug 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/29/can-confirm-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F29%2Fcan-confirm-that.html" }, { "id": 1146, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Enjoyed watching a game of NBL1 tonight. My team didn’t win but a good outing nonetheless.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-28 22:34:11 +0800", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Aug 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/28/enjoyed-watching-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F28%2Fenjoyed-watching-a.html" }, { "id": 1147, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m at a pub listening to The Unmade Podcast, playing chess online against my brother, and solving a New York Times crossword. I\u0026rsquo;m a total rager.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-28 15:08:23 +0800", "date": "3:08 p.m. on Aug 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/28/im-at-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F28%2Fim-at-a.html" }, { "id": 1148, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this the greatest store/office in Perth? ", "dateiso": "2021-08-27 12:20:35 +0800", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Aug 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/27/is-this-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F27%2Fis-this-the.html" }, { "id": 1149, "type": "post", "title": "Speeding up Google Calendar .ics Subscription Refreshes", "text": "My project of the moment preventing me from going to bed: configuring a Google Calendar script to work, such that it will force GCal to refresh its .ics subscriptions from Fastmail every 15 minutes, rather than the default 12-24 hours. All so then SkedPal can read GCal and have accurate and timely data from which to build my daily task schedule. Why can\u0026rsquo;t SkedPal simply support standard CalDAV?\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-26 23:32:02 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Aug 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/26/speeding-up-google.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F26%2Fspeeding-up-google.html" }, { "id": 1150, "type": "post", "title": "Only Hemispheric Views offers One Prime Plus", "text": "I see that Macstories is introducing new levels of membership:\n TL;DR: Today, we’re announcing the all-new Club MacStories featuring two additional tiers: Club MacStories+ and Club Premier.\n That\u0026rsquo;s all well and good, but always remember that only Hemispheric Views offers One Prime Plus membership. Get yours today!\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-24 11:56:02 +0800", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Aug 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/24/only-hemispheric-views.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F24%2Fonly-hemispheric-views.html" }, { "id": 1151, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Glamorous work travel in regional Western Australia.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-23 17:17:20 +0800", "date": "5:17 p.m. on Aug 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/23/glamorous-work-travel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F23%2Fglamorous-work-travel.html" }, { "id": 1152, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m two episodes into Mr. Corman on AppleTV+ and already it\u0026rsquo;s one of the most impactful, enjoyable shows I\u0026rsquo;ve seen.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-22 21:01:38 +0800", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Aug 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/22/im-two-episodes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F22%2Fim-two-episodes.html" }, { "id": 1153, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s been an expensive weekend. I bought a new TV - LG OLED C1 - then discovered my current Yamaha 375 receiver was too old to drive it, so had to upgrade to a new Denon AVR-X550BT receiver. Fortunately, I\u0026rsquo;d been saving money for a long time in a YNAB category!\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-22 20:08:59 +0800", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Aug 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/22/its-been-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F22%2Fits-been-an.html" }, { "id": 1154, "type": "post", "title": "Camera Comparison", "text": "Today I pulled my old cameras out from storage.\nThis was prompted by my trial of Glass, and the reminder that my Flickr account still exists.\nI haven\u0026rsquo;t had much time to do anything with them, except charge the battery and try to reset them back to a state where they were taking jpegs and letting the camera intelligence do the work.\nIn a sign of how long they\u0026rsquo;ve been sitting around for, every camera needed its clock reset. I also seem to have lost some SD cards - does anybody know where I put them?\nI took two photos with each camera from roughly the same position. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t too scientific, so don\u0026rsquo;t necessarily read too much into the results, but it\u0026rsquo;s kind of interesting.\nMy cameras are (with links to relevant pages at DPReview:\n Panasonic DMC-LX3 Panasonic DMC-GX7 Nikon D7000 iPhone XR Shot 1: Sound Panels LX3 GX7 D7000 XR Shot 2: Tchotchkes LX3 GX7 D7000 XR Findings Each progressive generation gets better at capturing light, leading to brighter images. The iPhone and its computational photography has to be the greatest revolution in photography since the digital camera was born. Keep in mind that I\u0026rsquo;m using an iPhone several generations old, and that some of the greatest advancements since this model have been low light capture.\nIt was nice to pull out the old cameras though, and I think the D7000 and GX7 in particular still offer some value in terms of a change-up from typical iPhone shots.\nAt this point, the LX3 probably needs to be consigned to use only for outdoor shots with reasonable light.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-20 17:46:50 +0800", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Aug 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/20/camera-comparison.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F20%2Fcamera-comparison.html" }, { "id": 1155, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am proud to announce that NBL Pocket Podcast finally has its own home on the web. 🎙 🌏 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-20 14:22:51 +0800", "date": "2:22 p.m. on Aug 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/20/i-am-proud.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F20%2Fi-am-proud.html" }, { "id": 1156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve pulled out my old cameras to have a play. Going to pare things right back: shoot jpg not RAW, use P mode instead of A/S, and see how things turn out. Back to basics. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-20 08:46:56 +0800", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Aug 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/20/ive-pulled-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F20%2Five-pulled-out.html" }, { "id": 1157, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My wife will be jumping off a building in November!\nThe WA Minister for Mines \u0026amp; Petroleum; Energy; Corrective Services was kind enough to draw attention to this fact in Parliament today:\n It\u0026rsquo;s all for a good cause though. Hannah is participating in the Central Park Plunge 2021 in support of Guide Dogs WA.\nIf you\u0026rsquo;d like to support the effort, this is Hannah\u0026rsquo;s fundraising page.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-19 15:59:31 +0800", "date": "3:59 p.m. on Aug 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/19/my-wife-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F19%2Fmy-wife-will.html" }, { "id": 1158, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gloomy and rainy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-19 10:36:46 +0800", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Aug 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/19/gloomy-and-rainy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F19%2Fgloomy-and-rainy.html" }, { "id": 1159, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Exploring Glass encouraged me to revisit Flickr. The latter is technically better (despite the bugs and UC mishmash) but people are active on Glass. If I could have only one, it would still be Flickr. Why can’t that site be more successful? 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-18 21:47:09 +0800", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Aug 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/18/exploring-glass-encouraged.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F18%2Fexploring-glass-encouraged.html" }, { "id": 1160, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Isn’t this the most Microsoft-y thing? Jargon, complexity, and obfuscation. Classic.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-18 00:08:51 +0800", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Aug 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/18/isnt-this-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F18%2Fisnt-this-the.html" }, { "id": 1161, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finished watching Physical on AppleTV+. The first half of the series had me engaged and interested, the second half left me feeling undernourished and somewhat confused.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 21:15:25 +0800", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/17/i-finished-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F17%2Fi-finished-watching.html" }, { "id": 1162, "type": "post", "title": "Tot, redux: iOS Edition", "text": "By way of follow-up to yesterday\u0026#x2019;s review of Tot, I can confirm I\u0026#x2019;ve bought the iOS version.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 21:01:00 +0800", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/17/tot-redux-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F17%2Ftot-redux-ios.html" }, { "id": 1163, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "2005 doesn’t seem all that long ago. (A shared post from Glass.)\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 18:59:31 +0800", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/17/doesnt-seem-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F17%2Fdoesnt-seem-all.html" }, { "id": 1164, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With thanks to @keithpound I’m in at Glass. My username is canion over there, too.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 18:57:24 +0800", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/17/with-thanks-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F17%2Fwith-thanks-to.html" }, { "id": 1165, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have succumbed.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 12:55:24 +0800", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/17/i-have-succumbed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F17%2Fi-have-succumbed.html" }, { "id": 1166, "type": "post", "title": "Tot", "text": "Update: The day after writing this, I bought the iOS version of Tot.\nMy friend and Hemispheric Views podcast co-host Martin Feld is Mr.\u0026#xA0;Default. He likes Reminders. He like Mail.app. He likes Calendar. Not for him the world of OmniFocus, MailMate or Fantastical. No sirree. Keep it simple, keep it made by Apple. Except\u0026#x2026; he uses Tot. I\u0026#x2019;m sure he uses Notes as well, but Tot. Not Drafts.\nI installed Tot on my Mac when it was released, because as with anything made by The Iconfactory, it\u0026#x2019;s worth a look. I didn\u0026#x2019;t get it. It offers a 7 note maximum. It has limited Markdown support. Mostly, though, while the macOS app is free as in beer, the iOS version of the same app is AU$30.99. For a tiny notes app? So my exploration of Tot ended, and I went back to Drafts, and DEVONthink, and iA Writer, and Craft, and the list goes on.\nRecently, I raised again my frustration with my note and file management \u0026#x201C;system\u0026#x201D;. Martin reminded me of Tot. So I\u0026#x2019;ve been giving it another try. This time, my verdict feels quite different.\nThe limitations seem useful. The restrictions seem like helpful guiderails rather than annoyances. This all comes at a time when I\u0026#x2019;ve cancelled my automatic renewal of Drafts - an app I appreciate for its power, but hate because of its interface.\nI\u0026#x2019;ve been using Tot on macOS only over the past few days. At this stage I can\u0026#x2019;t comment on how it works on iOS because I haven\u0026#x2019;t spend the money. I think I will, though.\nI\u0026#x2019;ve written this short article in Tot (yellow page). It\u0026#x2019;s delightful. And, icing on the cake, this is a Mac-Assed Mac app which has full support for all the niceties of macOS, including Services. I love using Brett Terpstra\u0026#x2019;s SearchLink service. Tot loves using it too. After a week of reading about 1Password ditching native code in favour of Electron, the joy of using a native app is sweeter than usual.\nSo Tot. Write in it. Put ephemera in it. Switch between plain text with markdown and rich text. Share it somewhere else. You\u0026#x2019;ve got 7 notes. Use them wisely.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 05:50:00 +0800", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/16/tot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F16%2Ftot.html" }, { "id": 1167, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This Twitter thread (which should be a blog, but anyway) from Rich Siegel regarding Electron on macOS should be required reading for anybody who takes even a vague interest in this stuff.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-16 22:10:54 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Aug 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/16/this-twitter-thread.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F16%2Fthis-twitter-thread.html" }, { "id": 1168, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The situation in Afghanistan is deeply saddening. I think of all the women and children, in particular, who are now going to face extremely difficult lives, with no genuine prospect of relief. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-16 08:56:36 +0800", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Aug 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/16/the-situation-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F16%2Fthe-situation-in.html" }, { "id": 1169, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My sketchnote selfie done after watching the great Sketchnoting session at Micro Camp. @ChrisJWilson @cm\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-14 22:49:58 +0800", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Aug 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/14/my-sketchnote-selfie.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F14%2Fmy-sketchnote-selfie.html" }, { "id": 1170, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Beer in hand.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-14 18:06:14 +0800", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Aug 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/14/beer-in-hand.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F14%2Fbeer-in-hand.html" }, { "id": 1171, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That time my son David got rocked in his pram by Luc Longley. A bunch of Perth people having a chat in Los Angeles.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-14 16:10:50 +0800", "date": "4:10 p.m. on Aug 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/14/that-time-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F14%2Fthat-time-my.html" }, { "id": 1172, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lover’s Lament. ❤️💔\n\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-14 16:05:37 +0800", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Aug 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/14/lovers-lament.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F14%2Flovers-lament.html" }, { "id": 1173, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro Camp is coming! ⛺️\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-13 23:40:27 +0800", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Aug 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/13/micro-camp-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F13%2Fmicro-camp-is.html" }, { "id": 1174, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Weekend plans.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-13 07:41:17 +0800", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Aug 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/13/weekend-plans.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F13%2Fweekend-plans.html" }, { "id": 1175, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In the process of cancelling my renewal for 1Password I noticed they were charging me more than their standard advertised rate. I was paying $5.49 per month, as opposed to their standard $4.99.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-12 21:47:49 +0800", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Aug 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/12/in-the-process.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F12%2Fin-the-process.html" }, { "id": 1176, "type": "post", "title": "The March of Electron: 1Password Edition", "text": "I despise Electron apps. What is the point of having a superior operating system (macOS) if every app that resides on it is nobbled by not supporting basic elements of the underpinning system?\nI see the short-term reason that developers must use: standardised code, cheaper for development, most users don\u0026rsquo;t know/care.\nI also caution about the long-term losses: the damage to brand reputation, the disappointment of \u0026lsquo;power users\u0026rsquo; and the risks that can occur from alienating this group.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s also hard not to see that this switch to Electron came shortly after 1Password accepted a huge venture capital stake. Investors want their returns.\nUsers who do care, such as myself, are the proselytising acolytes, however. I\u0026rsquo;ve recommended 1Password many times over the years, as well as being a paying subscriber of their Families edition more recently, after having bought multiple versions of their earlier standalone apps.\nRui Carmo at The Tao of Mac echoes my sentiments:\n This shift away from fully native apps and the fact that they are removing iCloud support from version 8 in order to enforce the use of their cloud sync service (in an obvious lock-in ploy) was the last straw, so I just downloaded Secrets, paid for the Premium version ($19.99 for each platform) and imported all my 1Password data into it.\n I have access to Secrets for macOS through my Setapp subscription. So I can try this out for a while, and if I like it I\u0026rsquo;m happy to buy the iOS version.\nMy current 1Password subscription is valid through to April next year so there\u0026rsquo;s no immediate pressure for me to shut down the 1Password account.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-12 18:21:24 +0800", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Aug 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/12/the-march-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F12%2Fthe-march-of.html" }, { "id": 1177, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pfizer jab #2 has definitely knocked me around, but totally worth it. I’m getting awesome 5G coverage, I missed a phone call from Bill Gates and the deep State have sent me a manilla folder with mission details inside! What a day! 💉\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-12 13:31:53 +0800", "date": "1:31 p.m. on Aug 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/12/pfizer-jab-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F12%2Fpfizer-jab-has.html" }, { "id": 1178, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m maxinated! Starting to perhaps feel the affects of the second dose of Pfizer, but it\u0026rsquo;s a price worth paying! 💉\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-11 17:16:54 +0800", "date": "5:16 p.m. on Aug 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/11/im-maxinated-starting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F11%2Fim-maxinated-starting.html" }, { "id": 1179, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Standard signage at the Perth COVID vaccination clinic. 💉\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-11 11:01:16 +0800", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Aug 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/11/standard-signage-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F11%2Fstandard-signage-at.html" }, { "id": 1180, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My new R.M. Williams boots getting their inaugural wear.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-10 11:40:44 +0800", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Aug 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/10/my-new-rm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F10%2Fmy-new-rm.html" }, { "id": 1181, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the heck of it I\u0026rsquo;ve installed the demo of Bare Bones' Yojimbo. I bought v2.1 on 26 November 2009 and upgraded to v3.0 on 20 October 2010. Version 4.6 doesn\u0026rsquo;t look to have changed much. The introductory document still refers to iPhoto.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-09 22:21:20 +0800", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Aug 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/09/for-the-heck.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F09%2Ffor-the-heck.html" }, { "id": 1182, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great to do some planning with @martinfeld and @Burk for the special live episode of @HemisphericViews podcast as part of the upcoming Micro.Camp. Get around the event! ⛺️\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-08 14:35:15 +0800", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Aug 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/08/great-to-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F08%2Fgreat-to-do.html" }, { "id": 1183, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m elated. Our Australian Boomers got the monkey off the back and won a bronze medal. 🏀 🥉\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-07 23:19:08 +0800", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Aug 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/07/im-elated-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F07%2Fim-elated-our.html" }, { "id": 1184, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m having one of those “feels like a Friday” nights. Shame it’s Thursday.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-05 21:14:49 +0800", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Aug 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/05/im-having-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F05%2Fim-having-one.html" }, { "id": 1185, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That Olympics basketball game was disappointing. Yet still a chance for Australia\u0026rsquo;s best ever result - bronze up for grabs!\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-05 16:46:51 +0800", "date": "4:46 p.m. on Aug 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/05/that-olympics-basketball.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F05%2Fthat-olympics-basketball.html" }, { "id": 1186, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Extension apps in the macOS menubar may as well be called Tribbles.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-05 09:41:50 +0800", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Aug 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/05/extension-apps-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F05%2Fextension-apps-in.html" }, { "id": 1187, "type": "post", "title": "OmniFocus vs. Things", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m thinking about a transition from OmniFocus to Things. I\u0026rsquo;ve used OF since launch, so this is no trivial matter.\nThis line from a post by micro.blog user @40Tech resonates:\n OmniFocus almost begs you to add projects and contexts.\n I never seem to gain value from contexts/tags, but I add them every time, because nature abhors a vacuum.\nMy main area of doubt is templating. I\u0026rsquo;ve got a nice Drafts template built that populates a standardised OmniFocus project. Does Things offer any form of similar automation?\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-04 17:04:38 +0800", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Aug 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/04/omnifocus-vs-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F04%2Fomnifocus-vs-things.html" }, { "id": 1188, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t love the direction OmniFocus is moving in. SkedPal is full-on and challenging. I’ve never tried Things. Should I?\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-04 10:08:38 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Aug 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/04/i-dont-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F04%2Fi-dont-love.html" }, { "id": 1189, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great job Boomers, taking out Argentina. Now on to meet USA. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-03 22:27:15 +0800", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Aug 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/08/03/great-job-boomers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F08%2F03%2Fgreat-job-boomers.html" }, { "id": 1190, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The FaceTime Centre Stage thing on the M1 iPad is amazing. Used it for the first time today and it was like having an on-site camera man. Mind blowing.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-31 12:13:09 +0800", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Jul 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/31/the-facetime-centre.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F31%2Fthe-facetime-centre.html" }, { "id": 1191, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Time Machine just saved my butt. @HemisphericViews\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-30 13:47:32 +0800", "date": "1:47 p.m. on Jul 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/30/time-machine-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F30%2Ftime-machine-just.html" }, { "id": 1192, "type": "post", "title": "USA Lose Another Basketball Game", "text": "This is what Damian Lillard said after the USA lost to France in their first 🏀 game of the Tokyo Olympics:\n \u0026ldquo;I think that\u0026rsquo;s why a lot of people will make it seem like the end of the world, but our job as professionals and this team and representing our country at the Olympics, we\u0026rsquo;ve got to do what\u0026rsquo;s necessary and we still can accomplish what we came here to accomplish.\u0026rdquo;\n This quote sums up their problem. You shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be aiming to be be professional at the Olympics. You need to be passionate. You need to have an emotional connection about representing your country. That\u0026rsquo;s the difference between USA and the other elite basketball teams at the Olympics, and what gives those other teams their edge. Other teams want to do the best in the name of their country.\nThese players aren\u0026rsquo;t getting paid to be at the Olympics. They\u0026rsquo;re there because they want to passionately represent their country. It\u0026rsquo;s not a job. Being professional isn\u0026rsquo;t the right approach.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-26 17:18:59 +0800", "date": "5:18 p.m. on Jul 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/26/usa-lose-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F26%2Fusa-lose-another.html" }, { "id": 1193, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like this quote. Richard Feynman via the brilliant weekly letter from @rishabh\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-25 08:58:18 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Jul 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/25/i-like-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F25%2Fi-like-this.html" }, { "id": 1194, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve bought Acorn from Flying Meat Software. It\u0026rsquo;s 50% off at the moment. Another tool to hang on the software shadow board.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-24 20:50:37 +0800", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Jul 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/24/ive-bought-acorn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F24%2Five-bought-acorn.html" }, { "id": 1195, "type": "post", "title": "🇯🇵", "text": "Watching the Olympics is making me want to travel to Japan again. Not that it is remotely possible, of course, given our close companion, COVID.\nI love the cleanliness, the order, the food, the hot springs, and the structured culture of the place.\nThe little bit more than one week of my life that I\u0026rsquo;ve spent in Japan was not enough. Hopefully I can find a way to get back there at some point in my life.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-24 12:27:53 +0800", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Jul 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/24/122753.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F24%2F122753.html" }, { "id": 1196, "type": "post", "title": "BBEdit 14", "text": "I want to use and love BBEdit. I bought version 13 with a similar thought and feeling. That purchase seems like it was only a few months ago - in fact, I checked to see if I was eligible for the free upgrade. According to my receipt stored in 1Password, however, my v13 license was acquired on 21 December 2019. Time flies, especially in 2020, the year of our COVID.\nI am not a coder. I don\u0026#x2019;t do any development. I understand the theory of regex and grep but rarely use them. I write an occasional blog article in Markdown, such as this one.\nI have a bunch of well-designed Markdown editors that are purpose-built for writing blogs in Markdown. They have grammar-checks and nice management of links, images and feature great preview modes. They feature typewriter mode. As best I can tell, this is still not implemented in BBEdit 14.\nBut BBEdit is a Mac classic. It can do virtually anything with text (if you know how to drive it). That brings up the real weakness of BBEdit - a lack of support for the new user, and modern tutorials. BareBones, the developers, are old men. They write great documentation1 but offer zero modern promotion and support. The manual is great, but how about a YouTube channel with some tutorials? Where does a beginner start with this application?\nThe features added to BBEdit 14 seem helpful to developers. That\u0026#x2019;s not me. Jason Snell demonstrated some clever manipulation that can be achieved to help produce blogs. I don\u0026#x2019;t know how he did it. He talked about AppleScript, but didn\u0026#x2019;t provide the code. I presume this trick wouldn\u0026#x2019;t work out of BBEdit\u0026#x2019;s box.\nHerein lies the problem with BBEdit. It\u0026#x2019;s great. It\u0026#x2019;s wonderful. It\u0026#x2019;s built for people who already use it and know how to use it. However, I would say this to the team at BareBones: if you\u0026#x2019;re building a software application, perhaps at some point you need to turn an eye to the new users. The ones that might otherwise choose the free Visual Studio Code. The ones who might already use the copy of iA Writer they own, or Drafts, Craft or Ulysses. Users like me?\nI want to use BBEdit. But why should I? Perhaps I shouldn\u0026#x2019;t.\nBareBones 14. I\u0026#x2019;m sure its great. But I can\u0026#x2019;t know, because I\u0026#x2019;m not experienced enough to say.\n The manual for BBEdit runs over 400 pages.\u0026#x21A9;\u0026#xFE0E;\n ", "dateiso": "2021-07-22 20:32:00 +0800", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Jul 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/22/bbedit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F22%2Fbbedit.html" }, { "id": 1197, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m \u0026lsquo;meh\u0026rsquo; about Brisbane winning the Olympics. They\u0026rsquo;re expensive, a security challenge, and the Olympics are in my view an event that has become too large. Is there the same sense of exhilaration about Brisbane winning as there was for Sydney 2000. I don\u0026rsquo;t think so.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-21 18:49:12 +0800", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Jul 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/21/im-meh-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F21%2Fim-meh-about.html" }, { "id": 1198, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I did the Today at Apple tutorial and drew myself as a Peanuts character.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-20 22:21:14 +0800", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Jul 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/20/i-did-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F20%2Fi-did-the.html" }, { "id": 1199, "type": "post", "title": "BBEdit 14.0", "text": "I barely scratch the surface with my use of BBEdit. I\u0026rsquo;m not a coder. I use it for a bit of Markdown text editing (when I\u0026rsquo;m not using one of the other myriad Markdown apps I own) and for doing other small pieces of text manipulation.\nSo when I saw that v14 was released, I figured I could skip the upgrade. Reading through the features, I was sure I could skip the upgrade.\nThen I read this tidbit from Jason Snell at Six Colo(u)rs:\n But there are some new Markdown features, regardless! Dragging an HTML file or an image into BBEdit will now generate appropriately formatted Markdown. Markdown footnotes are now properly syntax colored, for those monsters who put footnotes in their Markdown.\n Also, a new feature that I inspired makes its debut: BBEdit now lets you attach a script in order to provide control over the text generated when you drop an image file into a BBEdit editing view. In short, I have modified the AppleScript script that I use to upload images to Six Colors so that if I drag an image into my story in BBEdit, the image is automatically resized, uploaded, and the proper HTML is inserted at that point in the document. (It’s magical.)\n Hmm, so I might have to upgrade after all.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-20 21:40:16 +0800", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Jul 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/20/bbedit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F20%2Fbbedit.html" }, { "id": 1200, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?\u0026rdquo;\nSF Gate:\n \u0026ldquo;From this vantage, “Office Space,” the Gen-X slacker paean that came out 20 years ago next month, feels like science fiction from a distant realm. It’s almost impossible to imagine a startup worker bee of today confessing, as protagonist Peter Gibbons does: “It’s not that I’m lazy. It’s that I just don’t care.” Workplace indifference just doesn’t have a socially acceptable hashtag. \u0026quot;\n Office Space was my North Star. How am I so old?\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-18 18:41:39 +0800", "date": "6:41 p.m. on Jul 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/18/link-post-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F18%2Flink-post-why.html" }, { "id": 1201, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like being outside when it’s raining but not cold.\n\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-16 13:06:15 +0800", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Jul 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/16/i-like-being.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F16%2Fi-like-being.html" }, { "id": 1202, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With this much sleep, how is it that I still feel tired and run-down?\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-16 09:51:42 +0800", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Jul 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/16/with-this-much.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F16%2Fwith-this-much.html" }, { "id": 1203, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In the latest episode of @hemisphericviews we learn that I’m an expert in cooling your home, @burk discovers an app that no one has ever heard of and @martinfeld gets hung up on spelling and grammar for a moment (surprise!). Pocket Casts episode link\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-15 16:50:24 +0800", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Jul 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/15/in-the-latest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F15%2Fin-the-latest.html" }, { "id": 1204, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Coffee time. Today it’s that weird Western Australian coffee, “skinny long mac topped up”. Fortunately I’m friendly with the barista else I’d have felt like a complete dick ordering that.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-14 09:24:07 +0800", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Jul 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/14/coffee-time-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F14%2Fcoffee-time-today.html" }, { "id": 1205, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The newest recording of @hemisphericviews is in the can. Or on the SSD. In the iCloud data centre. Look, it’s done, okay?\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-13 23:02:09 +0800", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Jul 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/13/the-newest-recording.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F13%2Fthe-newest-recording.html" }, { "id": 1206, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Vaccination jab 1 of 2. ✅\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-13 15:48:25 +0800", "date": "3:48 p.m. on Jul 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/13/vaccination-jab-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F13%2Fvaccination-jab-of.html" }, { "id": 1207, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Boomers beat USA again! 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-13 11:45:22 +0800", "date": "11:45 p.m. on Jul 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/13/boomers-beat-usa.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F13%2Fboomers-beat-usa.html" }, { "id": 1208, "type": "post", "title": "Another Crack at Git", "text": "Not long ago on this site I stated that I was fed up with git and that I was switching back to Dropbox. I did. It was still infuriating because I refuse to install the Dropbox client for this one measly application.\nSo I\u0026#x2019;m back to git. Instead of using Atlassian\u0026#x2019;s Sourcetree for managing the files on my Mac, this time I\u0026#x2019;m going with GitHub Desktop. I chose Sourcetree the first time around because it was a native Mac app whereas GHD is an Electron app. Problem with Sourcetree was that I didn\u0026#x2019;t like it. Doesn\u0026#x2019;t matter how standards-compliant something is if it\u0026#x2019;s unenjoyable to use. So, despite the Electron-ness of Github, here I am. If you know of something better, let me know. There is an app called Gitfox in Setapp but I remember it didn\u0026#x2019;t wow me when I looked at it previously.\nSo this time I\u0026#x2019;m using GHD and have connected it to BBEdit. Last time I tried to use iA Writer. iA Writer offers a lovely writing environment but I felt I was fighting against it and iCloud sync the whole time. I never quite build the mental model for how it all hooked together. BBEdit is a code editor at its heart and it still a fine, stable writing application. It will do the job just fine.\nOn the iOS side of things I\u0026#x2019;ve reinstalled Working Copy. The problem is which text editor to use. Last effort I was using iA Writer. Do I stick with that? My friend Jason uses Textastic. Maybe that\u0026#x2019;s what I should go with?\nOf course, the thing that none of this software shenanigans solves is actually writing. That\u0026#x2019;s still on me to do.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-12 00:19:00 +0800", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Jul 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/11/another-crack-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F11%2Fanother-crack-at.html" }, { "id": 1209, "type": "post", "title": "DAD | A film about autism and fatherhood", "text": " ", "dateiso": "2021-07-11 23:46:00 +0800", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Jul 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/11/dad-a-film.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F11%2Fdad-a-film.html" }, { "id": 1210, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I\u0026rsquo;ve experienced Lebanese dessert delights from Youssef Sweets. Amazingly delicious. I could become a regular customer.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-11 21:29:35 +0800", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Jul 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/11/today-ive-experienced.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F11%2Ftoday-ive-experienced.html" }, { "id": 1211, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So what you’re telling me is, patrons of @HemisphericViews also get a monthly “Hemispheric News” newsletter? And if I want to get that, plus all the other perks, I simply go to oneprimeplus.com? Amazing!\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-11 10:48:27 +0800", "date": "10:48 p.m. on Jul 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/11/so-what-youre.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F11%2Fso-what-youre.html" }, { "id": 1212, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why do dishwashers take so long?\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-11 10:18:43 +0800", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Jul 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/11/why-do-dishwashers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F11%2Fwhy-do-dishwashers.html" }, { "id": 1213, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was fun to watch Ash Barty win Wimbledon tonight. What a great player. The level of skill needed to play tennis well is crazy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-11 00:21:21 +0800", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Jul 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/11/it-was-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F11%2Fit-was-fun.html" }, { "id": 1214, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was given the most hilarious product tour of Big Mail today by @Burk. Highlight of my day! He needs to do a video recording of it for all to see.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-07 14:55:14 +0800", "date": "2:55 p.m. on Jul 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/07/i-was-given.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F07%2Fi-was-given.html" }, { "id": 1215, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Doing the Switch SD shuffle getting data off two small SD cards in favour of one big one. My attempts to transfer via computer failed, so now I’m switching cards like I’m playing Wings on an Amiga 500 with one floppy drive.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-06 21:00:42 +0800", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Jul 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/06/doing-the-switch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F06%2Fdoing-the-switch.html" }, { "id": 1216, "type": "post", "title": "The Tomorrow War, 2021 - ★★★½", "text": "A fun romp with some requirement on behalf of the viewer to be “hand wavey” about time continuity. Perhaps ran a bit long. I enjoyed it though.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-05 00:24:46 +0800", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Jul 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/04/the-tomorrow-war.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F04%2Fthe-tomorrow-war.html" }, { "id": 1217, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sunset on a drizzly evening.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-01 17:25:15 +0800", "date": "5:25 p.m. on Jul 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/01/sunset-on-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F01%2Fsunset-on-a.html" }, { "id": 1218, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Business is picking up!\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-01 16:59:08 +0800", "date": "4:59 p.m. on Jul 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/07/01/business-is-picking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F07%2F01%2Fbusiness-is-picking.html" }, { "id": 1219, "type": "post", "title": "Three Things Today | tyler.io", "text": "Three Things Today | tyler.io:\n So what is Three Things? Well, it\u0026rsquo;s a calendar that lets you schedule tasks on each day. It\u0026rsquo;s meant to be excruciatingly pragmatic and realistic about how life works. (At least my life.) It literally will not allow you to schedule more than three tasks per day.\n This is a nifty little application. Pick three things. Do them. If you don\u0026rsquo;t, defer them. That\u0026rsquo;s about it. I like it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-28 20:53:34 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Jun 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/28/three-things-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F28%2Fthree-things-today.html" }, { "id": 1220, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seeing as @Burk and @martinfeld have shared their desktops, here\u0026rsquo;s mine.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-28 13:11:53 +0800", "date": "1:11 p.m. on Jun 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/28/seeing-as-burk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F28%2Fseeing-as-burk.html" }, { "id": 1221, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Played Skip-Bo tonight after buying it on a whim today. Hadn’t played it for about 25 years. Backed it up with some Uno. Wholesome family fun.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-27 23:20:40 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Jun 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/27/played-skipbo-tonight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F27%2Fplayed-skipbo-tonight.html" }, { "id": 1222, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve unsubscribed from the Dithering podcast. The reduction to two episodes a week, plus the lack of interesting topics over the past couple of months, led to me the decision to save my money.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-26 19:57:41 +0800", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Jun 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/26/ive-unsubscribed-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F26%2Five-unsubscribed-from.html" }, { "id": 1223, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: So Good They Can\u0026rsquo;t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport 📚. A more realistic approach to finding enjoyment from a working life. I still feel stuck in my career, though.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-26 15:37:58 +0800", "date": "3:37 p.m. on Jun 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/26/finished-reading-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F26%2Ffinished-reading-so.html" }, { "id": 1224, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Introducing Windows 11 | Windows Experience Blog\n At a time when the PC is playing a more central role in our lives…\n This article starts boldly - the PC is more central in our lives? Really? iOS and Android say hi.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-25 20:40:15 +0800", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Jun 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/25/introducing-windows-windows.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F25%2Fintroducing-windows-windows.html" }, { "id": 1225, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I dived into a pool that is 13.6°C. 🥶\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-25 16:56:43 +0800", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Jun 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/25/i-dived-into.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F25%2Fi-dived-into.html" }, { "id": 1226, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Big Mail. Not good. This release looks to be a giant fail. Only have one chance to make a first impression, and they’ve not done well with me.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-24 22:29:34 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Jun 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/24/big-mail-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F24%2Fbig-mail-not.html" }, { "id": 1227, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate migraine days.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-24 10:37:55 +0800", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Jun 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/24/i-hate-migraine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F24%2Fi-hate-migraine.html" }, { "id": 1228, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Excited to have @netnewswire available on iOS with Inoreader syncing. Now I can use it everywhere. Thanks @brentsimmons. Reeder has been good to me, but NNW has my ❤️.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-22 09:21:16 +0800", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Jun 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/22/excited-to-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F22%2Fexcited-to-have.html" }, { "id": 1229, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been trying to use Firefox and while there are elements I like, it\u0026rsquo;s so much slower to load pages than Safari. I have no idea why.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-17 14:28:58 +0800", "date": "2:28 p.m. on Jun 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/17/ive-been-trying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F17%2Five-been-trying.html" }, { "id": 1230, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Have received news that a former colleague of mine passed away a couple of days ago. Rest in Peace, Geoff. He was a great bloke.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-15 09:08:41 +0800", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Jun 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/15/have-received-news.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F15%2Fhave-received-news.html" }, { "id": 1231, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Perth Wildcats 🏀 have made their 9th Grand Final series in 12 years. That is a ridiculous record of success.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-15 08:15:25 +0800", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Jun 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/15/perth-wildcats-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F15%2Fperth-wildcats-have.html" }, { "id": 1232, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have purged my iPad and am setting it up as new.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-11 22:01:35 +0800", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Jun 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/11/i-have-purged.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F11%2Fi-have-purged.html" }, { "id": 1233, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m thrilled to have recorded an NBL basketball podcast with a sports journalist hero of mine, Boti Nagy. So much fun. overcast.fm/+P5TsxZpx\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-09 18:01:52 +0800", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Jun 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/09/im-thrilled-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F09%2Fim-thrilled-to.html" }, { "id": 1234, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I already have a Drafts subscription. Do I need Tot?\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-09 13:24:44 +0800", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Jun 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/09/i-already-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F09%2Fi-already-have.html" }, { "id": 1235, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I woke up in the middle of the night to watch the WWDC live stream with my @HemisphericViews co-hosts and a group of Hemispheric Viewers(?). It was the first time I\u0026rsquo;ve co-watched an Apple Event with friends. Discord made a great platform for it. So much fun.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-08 21:15:10 +0800", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Jun 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/08/i-woke-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F08%2Fi-woke-up.html" }, { "id": 1236, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m booked in for my Pfizer vaccination! Thank you science. 💉\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-08 21:12:11 +0800", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Jun 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/08/im-booked-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F08%2Fim-booked-in.html" }, { "id": 1237, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Without a doubt, the best drawing I’ve ever done. 🖼\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-06 11:47:02 +0800", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Jun 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/06/without-a-doubt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F06%2Fwithout-a-doubt.html" }, { "id": 1238, "type": "post", "title": "Wardrobe Management", "text": "This article originally appeared in the May 2021 Hemispheric News as part of One Prime Plus for the Hemispheric Views podcast. Become a member today!\n What is there to manage about a wardrobe, I hear you say.\n“A lot”, I respond.\nYou’ve got your hanging section, drawers and maybe some open shelving. What goes where, and how do you manage this space effectively and efficiently?\nWhen I was younger, jocks and socks were thrown relatively haphazardly into the top drawer. Now I’m old with a wife and things can’t be as simple as that anymore. Now, I fold jocks. Left over middle, right over middle, then a fold in half. They become a little square of underpant. Now they tesselate and stack. Perfect. Organise by colour. You know it makes sense.\nSocks are folded in half into one another, forming a rectangular shape. I went through a period of high-level sock management; now I’ve reduced it to left-side of the drawer for business, right-side of the drawer for sport.\nWhen does a pair of pants hang, and when is it folded? Do jeans hang? Not in my world. For some reason, jeans are folded and placed on a shelf, but chinos get the hanging treatment. Dress pants? Well, of course they hang. Shorts are folded too.\nI’ve grown to almost be able to fold a shirt like they do in the shops. But not quite. They always end up being a little crooked. Then they are placed in a drawer. In piles. However, with my kids clothes I’ve been taking a different approach. For their clothes I’m employing the Noguchi Filing System. This is something I learnt from my work with the Lean Thinking, and deployed in personal clothing management. Apparently, others have already thought about this.\n How Should You Organize Your Closet? Exactly Like a Computer Organizes Its Memory\n Essentially, clothes get stacked in side-by-side, rather than on top of one another, and always get placed on one side. Naturally, more often used clothing ends up towards one side of the drawer. Eventually, you will know that the kids have grown out of the stuff at the other end of the drawer.\n I don’t consider my wardrobe management to be optimal. There is still work to be done. But I think about it. Which is probably more than most people. Of course, I’m not normal.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-03 11:27:45 +0800", "date": "11:27 p.m. on Jun 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/03/vol-no-may.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F03%2Fvol-no-may.html" }, { "id": 1239, "type": "post", "title": "Legislation Bill 2021", "text": "Do you want to hear my wife talk about a legislation bill to better manage legislation? Then I\u0026rsquo;ve got the video for you!\n ", "dateiso": "2021-06-03 10:40:26 +0800", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Jun 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/03/legislation-bill.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F03%2Flegislation-bill.html" }, { "id": 1240, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m giving Firefox another chance as my default browser. My major concerns issues are: battery impact and lack of Touch ID/Apple Pay support.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-03 09:04:30 +0800", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Jun 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/03/im-giving-firefox.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F03%2Fim-giving-firefox.html" }, { "id": 1241, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The most depressing food court in the world.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-02 09:56:19 +0800", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Jun 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/02/the-most-depressing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F02%2Fthe-most-depressing.html" }, { "id": 1242, "type": "post", "title": "Parasite, 2019 - ★★★½", "text": "Watched on Tuesday June 1, 2021.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-02 03:31:53 +0800", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Jun 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/01/parasite.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F01%2Fparasite.html" }, { "id": 1243, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2021-06-01 16:51:40 +0800", "date": "4:51 p.m. on Jun 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/06/01/165140.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F06%2F01%2F165140.html" }, { "id": 1244, "type": "post", "title": "Hemispheric Views Mentioned in the Wild", "text": "What an honour for the podcast Hemispheric Views I create together with Jason and Martin to be included in Michael Camilleri\u0026rsquo;s podcast queue.\nPodcasts I’m Listening To: Spring 2021:\n Hemispheric Views: Did we need another three-white-guys-talk-about-Apple podcast? Probably not but the difference here is that two of the hosts are Australian. Andrew Canion, Jason Burk and Martin Feld have a great rapport and listening to a tech podcast with more of an international focus is a refreshing change.\n What a thrill to be mentioned!\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-30 15:10:32 +0800", "date": "3:10 p.m. on May 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/30/podcasts-im-listening.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F30%2Fpodcasts-im-listening.html" }, { "id": 1245, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Following the example set by @Burk, I too have expunged TextExpander from my macOS life. The shortcuts I need now live in Keyboard Maestro. Jason put his in Alfred.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-30 15:04:11 +0800", "date": "3:04 p.m. on May 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/30/following-the-example.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F30%2Ffollowing-the-example.html" }, { "id": 1246, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;t work with macOS. Apple Magic Mouse - ergonomic hell. Why is this so hard?\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-28 20:22:29 +0800", "date": "8:22 p.m. on May 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/28/my-kingdom-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F28%2Fmy-kingdom-for.html" }, { "id": 1247, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Solve-A-Mystery Games by Society of Curiosities looks like it could be fun. Thanks @Burk for the recommendation.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-28 16:49:31 +0800", "date": "4:49 p.m. on May 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/28/solveamystery-games-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F28%2Fsolveamystery-games-by.html" }, { "id": 1248, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Contributing members of Hemispheric Views received their special One Prime Plus bonus podcast content today. If you’re curious what you’re missing out on, check out oneprimeplus.com.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-26 21:17:12 +0800", "date": "9:17 p.m. on May 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/26/contributing-members-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F26%2Fcontributing-members-of.html" }, { "id": 1249, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2021-05-26 21:08:51 +0800", "date": "9:08 p.m. on May 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/26/210851.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F26%2F210851.html" }, { "id": 1250, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve also enabled Tap to Click on the iPad Magic Keyboard. The civilised way to click on all Apple trackpad devices.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-25 22:45:19 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on May 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/25/ive-also-enabled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F25%2Five-also-enabled.html" }, { "id": 1251, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve remapped the Caps Lock key to be Escape on my new iPad Magic Keyboard. That seems much more useful.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-25 22:43:30 +0800", "date": "10:43 p.m. on May 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/25/ive-remapped-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F25%2Five-remapped-the.html" }, { "id": 1252, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. 📚 Some good ideas that fortunately I\u0026rsquo;ve already implemented but the book has encouraged me to take it further.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-25 11:08:17 +0800", "date": "11:08 p.m. on May 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/25/finished-reading-digital.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F25%2Ffinished-reading-digital.html" }, { "id": 1253, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Stickers! @hemisphericviews @manton @burk @martinfeld\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-24 12:44:29 +0800", "date": "12:44 p.m. on May 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/24/stickers-hemisphericviews-manton.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F24%2Fstickers-hemisphericviews-manton.html" }, { "id": 1254, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 📚 An interesting book that draws heavily on Thinking, Fast and Slow: Kahneman, Daniel which I also recommend you read. We humans need to apply back-stories to stochastic events in an effort to make sense of the world. This makes events logical and explicable to our mind. Yet if they were so logical, why would we have not predicted them?\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-23 12:53:14 +0800", "date": "12:53 p.m. on May 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/23/finished-reading-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F23%2Ffinished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": 1255, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Installing macOS apps from the Terminal with brew install appname is so much quicker and easier than browsing to a website, finding the download, messing with the .dmg, deleting the .dmg… I love it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-17 21:51:18 +0800", "date": "9:51 p.m. on May 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/17/installing-macos-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F17%2Finstalling-macos-apps.html" }, { "id": 1256, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This looks to be an interesting podcast @jean @Burk overcast.fm\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-15 12:36:22 +0800", "date": "12:36 p.m. on May 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/15/this-looks-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F15%2Fthis-looks-to.html" }, { "id": 1257, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A fresh cut for the little guy. All ready for school photos this week.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-15 12:03:39 +0800", "date": "12:03 p.m. on May 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/15/a-fresh-cut.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F15%2Fa-fresh-cut.html" }, { "id": 1258, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The @hemisphericviews empire has grown to include an Apple Music playlist featuring favourite songs from your three hosts, @martinfeld @Burk. Sorry Spotify listeners - we can\u0026rsquo;t help you.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-14 07:26:33 +0800", "date": "7:26 p.m. on May 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/14/the-hemisphericviews-empire.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F14%2Fthe-hemisphericviews-empire.html" }, { "id": 1259, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How good does this look? @vincent @hemisphericviews\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-13 06:28:37 +0800", "date": "6:28 p.m. on May 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/13/how-good-does.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F13%2Fhow-good-does.html" }, { "id": 1260, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh no. I’ve got a bung eye. 👁💥\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-12 13:21:21 +0800", "date": "1:21 p.m. on May 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/12/oh-no-ive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F12%2Foh-no-ive.html" }, { "id": 1261, "type": "post", "title": "Give People Space", "text": "The Neuroscience of Busyness - Study Hacks - Cal Newport:\n You want more out of your employees? Radically reduce their responsibilities, then leave them alone to execute. You want your small business to grow? Focus your attention on a single target, and give yourself the space to do it better.\n This sounds right to me.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-12 09:18:12 +0800", "date": "9:18 p.m. on May 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/12/give-people-space.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F12%2Fgive-people-space.html" }, { "id": 1262, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What happened to all the Milton Friedman acolytes? The business lobby has fretted for years about national indebtedness. Now it\u0026rsquo;s not an issue. I\u0026rsquo;ve always been a Keynesian so it makes sense to me, but where\u0026rsquo;s the backbone of those that argued tooth and nail for austerity for such a long time?\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-12 08:50:43 +0800", "date": "8:50 p.m. on May 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/12/what-happened-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F12%2Fwhat-happened-to.html" }, { "id": 1263, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s cool when you see your podcast’s colour scheme specifically made available in an app. Thanks @vincent - Gluon is the best!\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-11 21:25:49 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on May 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/11/its-cool-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F11%2Fits-cool-when.html" }, { "id": 1264, "type": "post", "title": "Changing the Mac HD Icon", "text": " Does anyone know where I can get a decent icon file of a MacBook Air (Space Grey)? I want to replace the hard disk icon of Macintosh HD.\n I\u0026rsquo;ve finally been able to get rid of the stupid mechanical disk icon. My Macs don\u0026rsquo;t even have those sort of hard drives. Now I have nice icons that represent the computer I\u0026rsquo;m using.\nSource: Quick Tip: High quality Mac icons are coming from inside your Mac! – Six Colors\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-10 12:25:08 +0800", "date": "12:25 p.m. on May 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/10/changing-the-mac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F10%2Fchanging-the-mac.html" }, { "id": 1265, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The new Gluon app icons are amazing @vincent 🔥🔥🔥\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-10 10:27:03 +0800", "date": "10:27 p.m. on May 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/10/the-new-gluon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F10%2Fthe-new-gluon.html" }, { "id": 1266, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This weekend\u0026rsquo;s obsession has been SkedPal - notably the beta 3 version. It takes over from the previous weekend\u0026rsquo;s router analysis and before that, Craft. Special interests and links with autism. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-09 23:27:10 +0800", "date": "11:27 p.m. on May 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/09/this-weekends-obsession.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F09%2Fthis-weekends-obsession.html" }, { "id": 1267, "type": "post", "title": "SkedPal", "text": "SkedPal - the smart calendar app that schedules your to-do\u0026rsquo;s:\n Do you thrive on schedules and action plans? Tell SkedPal the things you want to do and advanced algorithms will build a smart schedule for you.\n I\u0026rsquo;m digging into this planning software, despite the 🚨 around some elements. Those concerns, namely being:\n the current release v2.9 is creaky and ugly. the beta v3 has been in development for over a year. the last blog post was in mid-2020. the user forums are quiet. No CalDAV support so I have to do a Google two-step into my Fastmail experience. it\u0026rsquo;s expensive. Despite all of these misgivings, I am enjoying using it to schedule my days. It\u0026rsquo;s value proposition is the way it automatically time-blocks days based on all the task criteria while still taking into account your fixed calendar events.\nThis is basically the solution I\u0026rsquo;m looking for. So despite all the misgivings, I might throw my money at the company and see if it works for me.\nAt least as a paying customer I will apparently get access to the beta 3 software.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-08 13:11:46 +0800", "date": "1:11 p.m. on May 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/08/skedpal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F08%2Fskedpal.html" }, { "id": 1268, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " A simple bookmarklet to post links to Micro.blog based on the current page in your desktop browser. Supports text selections.Source: Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet – Colin Devroe\n Seems to work a treat. Thanks @cdevroe.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-07 13:58:21 +0800", "date": "1:58 p.m. on May 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/07/a-simple-bookmarklet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F07%2Fa-simple-bookmarklet.html" }, { "id": 1269, "type": "post", "title": "Announcing Hemispheric Views “One Prime Plus” on Patreon!", "text": "Don’t worry… the regular @hemisphericviews podcast isn\u0026rsquo;t changing, moving or going away! Our new One Prime Plus membership option is simply a sweetener for those who wish to gain extra content and show support for their favourite podcast and its hosts @martinfeld, @Burk and I.\nPledge your support directly from our Patreon site.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-06 12:44:25 +0800", "date": "12:44 p.m. on May 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/06/announcing-hemispheric-views.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F06%2Fannouncing-hemispheric-views.html" }, { "id": 1270, "type": "post", "title": "Maiden Speech of Hannah Beazley MLA, Member for Victoria Park", "text": "My wife has presented her maiden speech to the Parliament of Western Australia, as the Member for Victoria Park.\nIt was an honour to be in the public gallery to watch her deliver this speech. It\u0026rsquo;s been a long journey, but the reward makes it all worthwhile!\n ", "dateiso": "2021-05-05 12:40:49 +0800", "date": "12:40 p.m. on May 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/05/maiden-speech-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F05%2Fmaiden-speech-of.html" }, { "id": 1271, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have such a blast recording @HemisphericViews with @martinfeld and @Burk. A consistent highlight of my fortnight.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-03 23:39:11 +0800", "date": "11:39 p.m. on May 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/05/03/i-have-such.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F05%2F03%2Fi-have-such.html" }, { "id": 1272, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Resistance was futile\u0026hellip; iPad Pro.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-30 22:41:49 +0800", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Apr 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/30/resistance-was-futile.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F30%2Fresistance-was-futile.html" }, { "id": 1273, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m loving my new Asus ZenWifi mesh devices. Way faster than my old Google Wifi. It took an entire weekend of research and a lengthy Craft document with input from @Burk but I’m sure it has paid off. My internet is now the best it can be.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-28 23:04:30 +0800", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Apr 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/28/im-loving-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F28%2Fim-loving-my.html" }, { "id": 1274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As an update to my last post I’ve stress tested my wifi signal and I feel relieved. My crappy router is still crappy and a mesh network is necessary. Money not wasted.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-27 18:30:00 +0800", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Apr 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/27/as-an-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F27%2Fas-an-update.html" }, { "id": 1275, "type": "post", "title": "A New Internet Stack", "text": "My entire internet stack is being rebuilt. I changed ISP. The new ISPs connection uses a different protocol which wasn’t working with my Google Wifi, so I’ve temporarily reverted to my modem/router which has been in bridge-only mode for the past 3 years.\nNow my wifi is faster than it has been in ages. Problem is, I don’t know whether it’s the new ISP or the removal of Google Wifi. So much for A/B testing. I do know that the last few firmware updates for Google wifi have been reported as being terrible for impacting overall speeds.Last night, before this change and after a weekend of research, I ordered the Asus ZenWifi XT8 to replace the Google devices.\nSo Google Wifi was always going in the bin, but now I don’t know whether I’ve set fire to a bunch of 💵 by buying the Asus, when I may have been able to keep the household running on my clunky D-Link DVA-2800 DSL modem/router.\nIsn’t hobbyist computing fun?\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-27 17:46:04 +0800", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Apr 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/27/a-new-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F27%2Fa-new-internet.html" }, { "id": 1276, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So with all my wifi research, I haven\u0026rsquo;t bought any new hardware, but I have signed up to a new ISP. 🤷🏼‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-24 18:39:31 +0800", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Apr 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/24/so-with-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F24%2Fso-with-all.html" }, { "id": 1277, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wifi Options\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-24 09:45:35 +0800", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Apr 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/24/wifi-options.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F24%2Fwifi-options.html" }, { "id": 1278, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m losing confidence in my Google wifi mesh setup. Is Eero any better? If I spend on a network upgrade I’d like for it to be appreciably better.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-24 08:41:55 +0800", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Apr 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/24/im-losing-confidence.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F24%2Fim-losing-confidence.html" }, { "id": 1279, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve got new glasses. I hate getting new glasses. Everything looks wonky through them and there\u0026rsquo;s always that feeling the prescription is wrong. New glasses are an anxiety creation machine.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-23 09:16:05 +0800", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Apr 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/23/ive-got-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F23%2Five-got-new.html" }, { "id": 1280, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks for your post about Daily Notes in Craft, @toddgrotenhuis. I’ve switched to Craft after trying Obsidian, and also being a Dynalist user.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-20 11:48:30 +0800", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Apr 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/20/thanks-for-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Fthanks-for-your.html" }, { "id": 1281, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate slide decks.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-17 23:17:01 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Apr 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/17/i-hate-slide.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F17%2Fi-hate-slide.html" }, { "id": 1282, "type": "post", "title": "Soul, 2020 - ★★★★★", "text": "A beautiful surrealist movie that was pitch perfect. Elements of Mr Holland’s Opus in the story.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-16 07:48:26 +0800", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Apr 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/15/soul.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F15%2Fsoul.html" }, { "id": 1283, "type": "post", "title": "Fixing the Big Sur proxy icon delay globally", "text": "Brett Terpstra:\nI had previously bemoaned the fact that the proxy icon is now hidden behind a hover delay in Big Sur. Listeners of Hemispheric Views will be aware of my love for the macOS proxy icon.\nI am overjoyed to learn that macOS-magic-man Brett Terpstra has found a way to have the proxy icon ready for action without delay. Thank you, sir, for fixing what Apple broke.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-15 21:34:34 +0800", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Apr 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/15/fixing-the-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F15%2Ffixing-the-big.html" }, { "id": 1284, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Look at this wally, repping the @hemisphericviews merch.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-13 12:29:04 +0800", "date": "12:29 p.m. on Apr 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/13/look-at-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F13%2Flook-at-this.html" }, { "id": 1285, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Crap. I think I\u0026rsquo;m getting into Obsidian. Just when I thought I\u0026rsquo;d settled on Dynalist and DEVONthink.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-12 20:44:11 +0800", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Apr 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/12/crap-i-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F12%2Fcrap-i-think.html" }, { "id": 1286, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Donnelly River in the south-west of Western Australia features kangaroos and emus that are not at all fussed with people.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-11 15:03:24 +0800", "date": "3:03 p.m. on Apr 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/11/donnelly-river-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F11%2Fdonnelly-river-in.html" }, { "id": 1287, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had my first drive of a Tesla. It was the Model 3. I want one now.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-11 12:31:08 +0800", "date": "12:31 p.m. on Apr 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/11/i-had-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F11%2Fi-had-my.html" }, { "id": 1288, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve discovered the ability to install GUI-based apps via Homebrew Casks. Saves mucking around with .dmg files, dragging and dropping to the Applications folder. Still fun to learn new things about computing!\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-10 22:58:10 +0800", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Apr 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/10/ive-discovered-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F10%2Five-discovered-the.html" }, { "id": 1289, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Discovered my internet was slow. After factory restores and firmware updates for all my networking devices, I’m back to full speed. I wonder for how long my network had been non-optimal?\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-10 21:46:29 +0800", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Apr 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/10/discovered-my-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F10%2Fdiscovered-my-internet.html" }, { "id": 1290, "type": "post", "title": "My Version of the MacSparky Status Board", "text": "Recently David Sparks has posted a number of blog entries about his status board creation1. This takes the form of a kanban board of significant projects that he manually updates, providing a graphical overview of his work and life.\nI\u0026rsquo;m a big fan of tools based around the lean methodologies, so I was immediately taken by his idea. I\u0026rsquo;ve done similar things in the past, but David inspired me to build one with a new approach.\nHyperPlan is my Preferred Software Whereas David uses OmniGraffle, I have chosen to use HyperPlan. I have previously written about my love of HyperPlan.\nWhat makes HyperPlan great for the construction of a status board is that it is data-driven and dynamic. David takes time each week to edit and change his status board in what is effectively a graphics application. By using HyperPlan, I can change database entries and the software intelligently reconstructs the status board. I have freedom to change the variables I want to \u0026lsquo;pivot\u0026rsquo; the table around.\nI can create and save \u0026lsquo;views\u0026rsquo; of my data, which allow me to construct a status board that has the three key elements of my life: work, family, and me — and elect to view all or some of these. I can focus only on work by hiding the others, or I can view them all together in one kanban board, but still split by these roles.\nThe following image shows the card layout of a status board displaying key projects across all three of my areas of responsibility:\nWhereas this redacted image shows my work projects, and demonstrates how the fields can be shown on each card:\nSystem-based URLs for Contextual Computing HyperPlan has the ability to add hyperlinks to each card. This enables me to adopt David Sparks' contextual computing linking. I am able to add links to OmniFocus projects, Hook references, or DEVONThink locations all within the relevant card. A right-click on the card allows me to jump straight to any of these locations.\nFun and Engaging I appreciate David sharing his thoughts and ideas around the construction of a status board.\nIn building my own, it has been a reminder of how I can make work fun and engaging. The efficiency and pure project-processing of OmniFocus is great, but it doesn’t do visualisation. This status board is nice to look at, easy to update, and allows me to consider how loaded up my life is at any particular point in time.\nI’m going to make this a key part of my personal management approach.\n Project Status Board, More Status Board Details \u0026amp; Useful Complexity\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2021-04-09 23:54:30 +0800", "date": "11:54 p.m. on Apr 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/09/my-version-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F09%2Fmy-version-of.html" }, { "id": 1291, "type": "post", "title": "Alice, 2019 - ★★★★", "text": "Brilliant performances from the cast. An emotionally impactful film.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-05 11:02:04 +0800", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Apr 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/04/alice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F04%2Falice.html" }, { "id": 1292, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cooked perfect steaks on the barbecue tonight. Delicious!\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-03 19:32:14 +0800", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Apr 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/03/cooked-perfect-steaks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F03%2Fcooked-perfect-steaks.html" }, { "id": 1293, "type": "post", "title": "Frenzic", "text": "Frenzic: Overtime – Coming Soon to Apple Arcade • The Breakroom\n All of us here at the Iconfactory have dreamt of creating a sequel to the original Frenzic, which first debuted on the App Store thirteen years ago. Thanks to Apple Arcade, that dream is about to become a reality.\n Has it really been 13 years since Frenzic? I played it constantly on my iPod touch taking the bus to work. Excited to see it returning. I like this new approach from Apple Arcade.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-03 13:07:34 +0800", "date": "1:07 p.m. on Apr 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/03/frenzic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F03%2Ffrenzic.html" }, { "id": 1294, "type": "post", "title": "Back to the Future Part II, 1989 - ★★★½", "text": "Not as tightly managed as the original but still fun. The Almanac is a classic MacGuffin.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-03 10:33:43 +0800", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Apr 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/02/back-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F02%2Fback-to-the.html" }, { "id": 1295, "type": "post", "title": "World Autism Awareness Day", "text": "Today is World Autism Awareness Day.\nOur eldest son, now 9, was diagnosed with autism at age 5. This was young enough for him to benefit from early intervention support which has made a huge difference to his life. It was not, and cannot be, a cure. There is no such thing, nor would I want there to be one. Being on the autism spectrum is part of what makes him, him.\nYet if you suspect your child of having autism, push for an early diagnosis because it unlocks help and support pathways. Most of all, it helps build an understanding of what is going on with your child’s lived experience.\nAutism doesn’t go away. My boy continues to face struggles. Likely, these struggles will impact him throughout life. The effects often appear cyclical. We have good weeks and bad. The last few weeks have been tremendously difficult for him. It has been hard for him getting through a school day, without a rift appearing. It’s hard for us as parents to get the loving and supportive parenting right all the time. It’s not easy for anybody. For our son, emotional disregulation is a daily challenge. We have learned to always be on the lookout for triggers. That might be a loud environment, or too many stimulators inputs, or the need for him to make consecutive decisions.\nWe are sure to get through this current difficult phase, but we have the knowledge that this is a challenge that will always be present for him. Our job as parents is to equip him with the skills and tools necessary to be able to have a good life, whatever the definition of that might be for him.\nWe keep working at that. Days like Autism Awareness Day help remind us of this important task.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-02 14:13:28 +0800", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Apr 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/02/world-autism-awareness.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F02%2Fworld-autism-awareness.html" }, { "id": 1296, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My second trial of HEY is ending and I’m happily retreating to my Fastmail/Sanebox combo.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-02 08:53:34 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Apr 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/02/my-second-trial.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F02%2Fmy-second-trial.html" }, { "id": 1297, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🎙Coming in at less than 7 minutes, a show that’s highly relevant to our situation today. I would go so far as to call it a must-listen. Hemispheric Views 024: The Truth about Big Avocado!\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-01 15:19:26 +0800", "date": "3:19 p.m. on Apr 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/01/coming-in-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F01%2Fcoming-in-at.html" }, { "id": 1298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like the idea of imputation - too many businesses miss this vital component.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-01 13:49:55 +0800", "date": "1:49 p.m. on Apr 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/01/i-like-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F01%2Fi-like-the.html" }, { "id": 1299, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dealing with my 9-year old’s autistic meltdowns is hard. 😓\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-01 08:37:46 +0800", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Apr 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/04/01/dealing-with-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F04%2F01%2Fdealing-with-my.html" }, { "id": 1300, "type": "post", "title": "🔗 Link Post: \"{macro}Dungeon\"", "text": "Game Crafter Deal of the Day:\n \u0026ldquo;Up to 4 players take turns drawing cards and making movements through one of four caves in an attempt to outpace their competitors on the way to the treasure room.\u0026rdquo;\n This board game has been designed by my friend Jason Burk. It\u0026rsquo;s on sale today; grab it while you can!\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-31 08:50:25 +0800", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Mar 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/31/link-post-macrodungeon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F31%2Flink-post-macrodungeon.html" }, { "id": 1301, "type": "post", "title": "Hannah Beazley MLA", "text": "I am immensely proud of my wife, Hannah Beazley, who has been duly elected as a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, representing the District of Victoria Park. As the WA Labor Party won the State Election, she is now a member of our State Government.\nWhile the result was known on the evening of the official polling day on 13 March 2021, the WA Electoral Commission cannot formally declare a result until it has done a full count and exhausted all the preferences of those candidates who did not win. This is a complex system so counting the complete set takes some time, at which point the election is declared.\nFor the District of Victoria Park, that time has come and the result has been officially declared and published.\nVictoria Park was previously held by the State’s outgoing Treasurer, Ben Wyatt. Before him, the seat was held by Premier Geoff Gallop. Now, my wife, Hannah Beazley, has the opportunity to represent the people of Victoria Park in the State Parliament.\nHannah has worked for many years towards this goal. She has previously fought and lost elections, but never given up. Now, she is a winner, and it’s fantastic!\nResult Summaries Western Australian Electoral Commission Results: Victoria Park ABC News: WA State Election Results: Victoria Park ", "dateiso": "2021-03-30 13:24:41 +0800", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Mar 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/30/hannah-beazley-mla.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F30%2Fhannah-beazley-mla.html" }, { "id": 1302, "type": "post", "title": "The Archive", "text": "The Archive owes its heritage to nvAlt, which owes its heritage to Notational Velocity \u0026#x2014; a unique piece of software that broke new ground by integrating new note creation with search in an Omnibar. I\u0026#x2019;m old enough to remember using the original Notational Velocity. The Archive is true to the heritage of the OG, but moves it in a direction specifically suited to the zettelkasten philosophy of note taking.\nWhat\u0026#x2019;s zettelkasten, you ask? It\u0026#x2019;s too much for this software review, but in short it\u0026#x2019;s a note taking methodology that sees the deconstruction of source material broken down into atomic facts/points, expressed in its own words by the note taker, and given a unique reference link such that it can be tied to other items of knowledge held within the corpus of notes.\nA key to the zettelkasten, and thus key to The Archive, is the generation of a Note ID. Upon creation of a new note in The Archive it is given a Note ID which is a concatenation of YEAR MONTH DAY HOUR MINUTE. This ensures that every note can be identified as a unique item, because each note will have a different ID.\nTo tie these notes together, The Archive supports wiki-links, in the form of [[Note ID or Note Title]]. This makes it possible to create a web of notes, where each atomic note can be tied to others: a key requirement of a zettelkasten.\nThe app is a good Markdown citizen, and it supports the streaming API to Brett Terpstra\u0026#x2019;s Marked app. It can also be configured to use an external editor, should you have a preferred one. Given The Archive is quick and efficient, and supports typewriter mode, I don\u0026#x2019;t bother using an external editor.\nThe Archive allows you to generate and keep saved searches in a sidebar. This could be useful if you want to show all notes tagged with a particular #hashtag. I use it to break down my notes into years - by relying on the first element of the Note ID, which is the year.\nA fun element of The Archive is the range of Keyboard Maestro add-ons that have been built for it. My favourites are the ones that search the notes corpus and allow for quick creation of wiki links. Make sure Keyboard Maestro has full disk access to guarantee some of these work, though.\nThe user community has built a range of alternative themes so the app is customisable to a point. It also supports multiple text corpuses (corpi?) but only one can be loaded at a single time. A corpus simply represents a folder of text files in the standard filing system, which means The Archive can be complementary to other Markdown/text editors. It doesn\u0026#x2019;t lock you in. While it doesn\u0026#x2019;t have an iOS app, the ability to work with files stored on a cloud storage platform means it works nicely with unrelated iOS text editors.\nThe Archive can be used as a replacement for nvAlt if that\u0026#x2019;s all you need. It feels more stable than that app. Of course, there is nvUltra in development - but that has had a very long gestation period, whereas The Archive is here and now.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-28 17:49:50 +0800", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Mar 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/28/the-archive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F28%2Fthe-archive.html" }, { "id": 1303, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hit the basketball court for the first time in a long time yesterday. My free throw percentage was better than ever, but three point range was a struggle! 😩🏀\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-28 10:45:40 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Mar 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/28/i-hit-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F28%2Fi-hit-the.html" }, { "id": 1304, "type": "post", "title": "Fastmail", "text": "My mate Jason is digging into Fastmail, and liking what he sees.\nFastmail. Who Knew? - //Jason Burk:\n Recently after a discussion about email on Episode 023 of Hemispheric Views, I dug into the settings and configuration of Fastmail and I was pleasantly surprised by how much more than a simple host they truly are!\n I\u0026rsquo;ve been again trialling Hey for the past week or so, but I still don\u0026rsquo;t think it matches the combination of Fastmail \u0026amp; Sanebox.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-27 14:19:00 +0800", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Mar 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/27/fastmail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F27%2Ffastmail.html" }, { "id": 1305, "type": "post", "title": "We're Gonna Need a Bigger Canal", "text": "Jamie Thingelstad - Container Ship Queue:\n They normally pass 50 ships a day through the canal. With so many backed up, it will be a few days before things get back to normal.\n The linked article includes some cool graphical imagery of the shipping impact of the Panama Suez Canal1 being blocked.\nIt goes to show how fragile our trade system is; and the economic value inherent in the canal.\n My thanks to Steve Snider for pointing out my dopey mistake of calling out the wrong canal. Geography, eh?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2021-03-25 11:17:24 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Mar 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/25/were-gonna-need.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F25%2Fwere-gonna-need.html" }, { "id": 1306, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There’ll be a new episode of Hemispheric Views podcast dropping soon. Best catch up on the last episode then. The episode is named Perthonalities! as we reference people from my home town of Perth, Australia. 49 minutes of top-quality audio enjoyment!\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-25 00:54:47 +0800", "date": "12:54 p.m. on Mar 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/25/therell-be-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F25%2Ftherell-be-a.html" }, { "id": 1307, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m enjoying getting to know @mandaris who sounds like one of the happiest people on Earth. A great episode! pca.st\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-24 16:23:13 +0800", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Mar 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/24/im-enjoying-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F24%2Fim-enjoying-getting.html" }, { "id": 1308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I want an email app that works with standard IMAP, but is well-designed and something different, like Hey. Is that too much to ask?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-22 21:52:22 +0800", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Mar 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/22/i-want-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F22%2Fi-want-an.html" }, { "id": 1309, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A quick test post straight from Ulysses 22 to micro.blog. Awesome to see Ulysses supporting the best blog host on the internet!\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-22 20:31:12 +0800", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Mar 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/22/a-quick-test.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F22%2Fa-quick-test.html" }, { "id": 1310, "type": "post", "title": "Artemis Fowl, 2020 - ★★", "text": "Watched on Sunday March 21, 2021.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-22 09:35:50 +0800", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Mar 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/21/artemis-fowl.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F21%2Fartemis-fowl.html" }, { "id": 1311, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My HEY experiment is not going well. For some reason, forwarding from Fastmail to HEY isn\u0026rsquo;t working. But I can’t be bothered figuring out why.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-21 10:05:49 +0800", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Mar 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/21/my-hey-experiment.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F21%2Fmy-hey-experiment.html" }, { "id": 1312, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The battery of my iPad Pro 2017 has reached that point where it drains rapidly, even in standby. It does everything I need of it, so I could probably get a battery replacement. Or, I could buy the upcoming new iPad Pro or the current iPad Air. Prudent decision versus fun one. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-21 08:24:16 +0800", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Mar 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/21/the-battery-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F21%2Fthe-battery-of.html" }, { "id": 1313, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nMe and my boys. Benji refuses to smile for any photo.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-20 22:16:47 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Mar 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/20/me-and-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F20%2Fme-and-my.html" }, { "id": 1314, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dammit Microbloggers, now I’m trialling HEY again.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-19 22:18:34 +0800", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Mar 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/19/dammit-microbloggers-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F19%2Fdammit-microbloggers-now.html" }, { "id": 1315, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Do you listen to @hemisphericviews podcast? Are you a member of our Discord chat room? You should do both, because at the moment I’m giving away a free license of The Archive for macOS.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-18 21:05:13 +0800", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Mar 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/18/do-you-listen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F18%2Fdo-you-listen.html" }, { "id": 1316, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My wife has a Wikipedia entry. I’m only a tiny bit jealous.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-17 16:31:31 +0800", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Mar 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/17/my-wife-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F17%2Fmy-wife-has.html" }, { "id": 1317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is very clever and helpful - @Hemisphericviews Media Corner reference page. Thanks @Burk. micro.burk.io\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-17 07:52:35 +0800", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Mar 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/17/this-is-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F17%2Fthis-is-very.html" }, { "id": 1318, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Downside of no Covid-19 lockdowns: stuffed nose/cold.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-16 19:49:40 +0800", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Mar 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/16/downside-of-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F16%2Fdownside-of-no.html" }, { "id": 1319, "type": "post", "title": "An Interview with Nick Elam (of Elam Ending Fame) 🏀", "text": "My friend Joe and I had the opportunity to interview Nick Elam, who is the creator of basketball\u0026rsquo;s Elam Ending, for the NBL Pocket Podcast.\nWe are on a mission to bring the Elam Ending to the Australian NBL.\nHaving the opportunity to speak with Nick was a genuine honour. If you like basketball, I think you will like this podcast.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-16 16:47:19 +0800", "date": "4:47 p.m. on Mar 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/16/an-interview-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F16%2Fan-interview-with.html" }, { "id": 1320, "type": "post", "title": "Johnny•Decimal", "text": "Johnny•Decimal: A system to organise projects:\n There are a couple of core concepts, and they’re so simple you’ll wonder why you haven’t thought of them before.\n It’s worth mentioning at this point that all of this is free, and it’s possible to implement it without any additional tools.\n I was introduced to the Johnny Decimal filing system by @jack. I\u0026rsquo;m going to give a go with my own computer document filing. As organised as I think I am, I certainly struggle to find digital files on a more regular basis than I would like.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-16 16:39:38 +0800", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Mar 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/16/johnnydecimal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F16%2Fjohnnydecimal.html" }, { "id": 1321, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m in today’s paper, smooching my wife! ❤️😘\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-14 12:39:07 +0800", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Mar 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/14/im-in-todays.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F14%2Fim-in-todays.html" }, { "id": 1322, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My wife is the incoming Member for Victoria Park in the Western Australian State Parliament!\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-14 00:47:03 +0800", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Mar 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/14/my-wife-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F14%2Fmy-wife-is.html" }, { "id": 1323, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love, love, love creating the @Hemisphericviews podcast with @Burk and @martinfeld. If you haven’t given it a chance, this is a fun one to start with. Performance reviews to pickles,episode 22 has it all.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-11 20:17:02 +0800", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Mar 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/11/i-love-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F11%2Fi-love-love.html" }, { "id": 1324, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not often that I’m awake early enough to hear the kookaburras doing their morning laughs. Such a great sound.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-11 05:44:14 +0800", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Mar 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/11/not-often-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F11%2Fnot-often-that.html" }, { "id": 1325, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That feeling when you wake up at 3:15am to record a podcast interview, then figure it\u0026rsquo;s not worth trying to go back to sleep after it\u0026rsquo;s done. I appreciate what @Burk deals with when we record @HemisphericViews now.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-11 04:51:38 +0800", "date": "4:51 p.m. on Mar 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/11/that-feeling-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F11%2Fthat-feeling-when.html" }, { "id": 1326, "type": "post", "title": "Calendar Hero", "text": "Calendar Hero » tyler.io:\n It sits on your Desktop, below all of your other windows, and\u0026hellip;shows your weekly calendar. It highlights the current day, the current hour of that day, and shows a countdown until your next event.\n That’s it. That’s all I want.\n This is terrific for somebody like me who is guided through life by his calendar.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-08 10:29:49 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Mar 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/08/calendar-hero.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F08%2Fcalendar-hero.html" }, { "id": 1327, "type": "post", "title": "Giraffe at Perth Zoo", "text": "Giraffe\nIt was amazing to be able to see the giraffes at Perth Zoo close-up yesterday. They have big heads!\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-07 20:57:02 +0800", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Mar 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/07/giraffe-at-perth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F07%2Fgiraffe-at-perth.html" }, { "id": 1328, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Egg Face.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-07 12:30:16 +0800", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Mar 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/07/egg-face.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F07%2Fegg-face.html" }, { "id": 1329, "type": "post", "title": "Audio-Technica ATH-M50x", "text": "I bought a set of Audio-Technica ATH-M50x to replace my ageing Bose QuietComfort 15s.\nI\u0026#x2019;d already replaced the earmuffs on the Bose\u0026#x2019;s a couple of times. Now the headphones have the exterior coating of the foam flaking off. I was also getting sick of having to replace the AAA battery on a regular basis.\nMy headphones are basically restricted to desk use only these days, so I was happy to buy new headphones that didn\u0026#x2019;t feature Bluetooth - wiring into my EVO4 audio interface is fine, and in terms of latency and audio quality, preferable.\nSo far, I\u0026#x2019;ve only listened to a bit of music with these new cans. To my ears, they sound great! A crisp, clean and rich sound. As they are monitor headphones, they\u0026#x2019;re not designed to adjust the music, such as adding additional bass or anything. I like this, and I think it suits my needs perfectly.\nI do notice they sit more tightly on and around my ears than the Bose and that the pressure on my ears is stronger than the Bose. I think my ears are getting hotter wearing these. I may find the need to take them off to give my ears some fresh air.\nI need to keep listening to these to see how they perform over a longer time, with a greater variety of music - and when I record podcasts. So far, though, I\u0026#x2019;m giving them two thumbs up.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-07 02:05:59 +0800", "date": "2:05 p.m. on Mar 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/06/audiotechnica-athmx.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F06%2Faudiotechnica-athmx.html" }, { "id": 1330, "type": "post", "title": "Back to the Future, 1985 - ★★★★★", "text": "It’s been years since I’ve seen this movie. The editing is great; no scene is wasted. Christopher Lloyd is slapstick gold. Why don’t they make films like this anymore?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-06 10:42:33 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Mar 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/05/back-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F05%2Fback-to-the.html" }, { "id": 1331, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love this album. It makes my wife contemplate an early death. music.apple.com\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-06 09:52:08 +0800", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Mar 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/06/i-love-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F06%2Fi-love-this.html" }, { "id": 1332, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve settled into a great ’daily notes and other documentation’ system using Dynalist. I\u0026rsquo;ve never had this much consistent success with any app, except for perhaps Day One, which I also still use.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-03 19:55:16 +0800", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Mar 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/03/ive-settled-into.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F03%2Five-settled-into.html" }, { "id": 1333, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 31: ‘defiance’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-03 16:19:21 +0800", "date": "4:19 p.m. on Mar 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/03/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F03%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1334, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This app, TextBuddy makes me giddy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-02 19:54:09 +0800", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Mar 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/02/this-app-textbuddy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F02%2Fthis-app-textbuddy.html" }, { "id": 1335, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How good is this offer? An opportunity to win free stickers from the world’s leading podcast! Hemispheric Views - Blog - Hey everyone! Who\u0026rsquo;s up for a sticker giveaway!?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-02 18:06:53 +0800", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Mar 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/02/how-good-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F02%2Fhow-good-is.html" }, { "id": 1336, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 30: ‘privacy’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-02 12:01:53 +0800", "date": "12:01 p.m. on Mar 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/02/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F02%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1337, "type": "post", "title": "Wall", "text": "Take two at publishing via wall.blot.im. When did this become a thing? Fascinating.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-02 06:36:00 +0800", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Mar 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/01/wall.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fwall.html" }, { "id": 1338, "type": "post", "title": "I Forgot About 1Writer", "text": "I also own 1Writer, which also plugs directly into Dropbox, and is, arguably, a better editor. It\u0026#x2019;s certainly a more fully-featured one.\nYes, I own many text editors. It\u0026#x2019;s the curse of the tinkerer.\nI also forgot that you can pretend a file name with _ in Blot and it won\u0026#x2019;t publish it as a live post. I\u0026#x2019;ve done that with this entry, so ideally it will publish when I\u0026#x2019;m finished and ready - not when I\u0026#x2019;m just getting started.\nSo many different ways to skin this cat.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-02 06:01:49 +0800", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Mar 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/01/i-forgot-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fi-forgot-about.html" }, { "id": 1339, "type": "post", "title": "Posting here using Byword", "text": "I’ve owned Byword for many years. I think it was the first Markdown editor I bought, for both iOS and macOS. I abandoned it a long time ago as well, as it seemed to pale in comparison with other Markdown editors.\nIn looking for an easier way to post to Blot via Dropbox, however, Greg Moore suggested Byword.\nI’ve installed it here on my iPad, and it does connect neatly to Dropbox - bypassing the futzy iOS Files.app interface.\nI’m typing this directly into Byword into my live Blot site. That may not be the ideal workflow - perhaps a non-published draft might be a better option, with the file then dropped in as a finished item. Nevertheless, it’s interesting that a very old tool such as Byword may be the best one for the job.\nThat job being, making it as easy to publish to my Blot site as it is to publish to my micro.blog. If it’s not easy, I won’t do it. That much I know to be true.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-02 05:38:00 +0800", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Mar 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/01/posting-here-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fposting-here-using.html" }, { "id": 1340, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog has been on fire the last few days. I’ve really enjoyed the interactions. Thanks everybody! 🔥 💯 🤚🏻\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-01 22:24:33 +0800", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Mar 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/01/microblog-has-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fmicroblog-has-been.html" }, { "id": 1341, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I do a weekly Australian National Basketball League (NBL) podcast, NBL Pocket Podcast. Today’s episode is out and I think it’s a particularly fun one. 🏀 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-01 16:58:49 +0800", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Mar 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/01/i-do-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fi-do-a.html" }, { "id": 1342, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 29: ‘light’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-01 16:12:43 +0800", "date": "4:12 p.m. on Mar 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/01/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1343, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Alfred on macOS seems to be much more dynamically developed than Launchbar. As a long-time Launchbar user I\u0026rsquo;m wondering if it\u0026rsquo;s time to invest in the Alfred PowerPack and retrain my fingers?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-01 15:56:41 +0800", "date": "3:56 p.m. on Mar 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/03/01/alfred-on-macos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Falfred-on-macos.html" }, { "id": 1344, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A question for the micro.bloggers: What is the website you most often visit, and why? Mine is probably ABC News - Australia because I\u0026rsquo;m old.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-28 17:50:32 +0800", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Feb 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/28/a-question-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F28%2Fa-question-for.html" }, { "id": 1345, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Unexpected events today:\n Credit card details stolen and $1,500 of fraudulent transactions incurred. Our 5-year old boy decided to wander off to fight criminals by himself. Eventually found, thanks to neighbourhood community and police. ", "dateiso": "2021-02-28 16:27:51 +0800", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Feb 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/28/unexpected-events-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F28%2Funexpected-events-today.html" }, { "id": 1346, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 28: I cleaned ‘up’ the front porch. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-28 16:21:19 +0800", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Feb 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/28/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F28%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1347, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m feeling the urge to add a bookmarks manager to my workflow. I already use Instapaper, but now I’m thinking about adding either Pinboard.in or Raindrop.io to the mix.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-28 10:08:04 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Feb 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/28/im-feeling-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F28%2Fim-feeling-the.html" }, { "id": 1348, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 27: ‘pompasetting’. Hemispheric Views is the best podcast in the world. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-27 15:17:15 +0800", "date": "3:17 p.m. on Feb 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/27/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F27%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1349, "type": "post", "title": "MailTrackerBlocker for Mail on macOS", "text": "Block tracking pixels in macOS Mail.app with MailTrackerBlocker for Mail on macOS:\nI generally use MailMate which has pixel blocking built-in, or Fastmail apps which also block tracking. But it\u0026rsquo;s good to have an option for Apple Mail as well.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-27 11:17:37 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Feb 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/27/mailtrackerblocker-for-mail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F27%2Fmailtrackerblocker-for-mail.html" }, { "id": 1350, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 26: My ‘favourite’ sight of today. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-26 14:13:51 +0800", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Feb 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/26/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F26%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1351, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Always a great day when a new episode of @HemisphericViews podcasts drops. In Hemispheric Views 021: Ad Lib! we work without notes. And end up talking about restaurants, neck ties and Mars. It\u0026rsquo;s compelling!\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-25 20:29:15 +0800", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Feb 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/25/always-a-great.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F25%2Falways-a-great.html" }, { "id": 1352, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 25: ‘code’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-25 13:52:54 +0800", "date": "1:52 p.m. on Feb 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/25/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F25%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1353, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 24: ‘baby’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-24 16:04:38 +0800", "date": "4:04 p.m. on Feb 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/24/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F24%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1354, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 23: ‘Banana’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-23 10:02:22 +0800", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Feb 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/23/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F23%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1355, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 22: ‘Spell’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-22 15:52:55 +0800", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Feb 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/22/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F22%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1356, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 21: ‘Colo(u)rs’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-21 14:58:40 +0800", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Feb 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/21/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F21%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1357, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 20: ‘Weather’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-20 17:39:08 +0800", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Feb 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/20/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F20%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1358, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2021-02-19 22:36:44 +0800", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Feb 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/19/223644.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F19%2F223644.html" }, { "id": 1359, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Give the tradie who\u0026rsquo;s been doing hard yakka in your yard all day a beer at the end of it. 🍺\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-19 17:29:24 +0800", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Feb 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/19/give-the-tradie.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F19%2Fgive-the-tradie.html" }, { "id": 1360, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 19: ‘Alive’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-19 16:10:31 +0800", "date": "4:10 p.m. on Feb 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/19/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F19%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1361, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 18: ‘At Home’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-18 17:35:16 +0800", "date": "5:35 p.m. on Feb 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/18/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F18%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1362, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had settled on Dynalist. Now NotePlan 3 has arrived on Setapp. Just when I thought I would be able to settle on a single solution!\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-17 22:49:43 +0800", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Feb 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/17/i-had-settled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F17%2Fi-had-settled.html" }, { "id": 1363, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 17: \u0026lsquo;Still\u0026rsquo; 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-17 11:51:06 +0800", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Feb 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/17/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F17%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1364, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve got Bernie, @HemisphericViews plaque and a Sofa Shop pin from The Unmade Podcast. What a collection!\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-17 11:10:58 +0800", "date": "11:10 p.m. on Feb 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/17/ive-got-bernie.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F17%2Five-got-bernie.html" }, { "id": 1365, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I watched the first 3 episodes of WandaVision. I’m not a Marvel guy by any means, but I enjoyed this show. To be honest I would have been good with it as a simple old fashioned sit-com and nothing more. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-16 22:16:27 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Feb 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/16/i-watched-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F16%2Fi-watched-the.html" }, { "id": 1366, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 16: \u0026lsquo;Erudite\u0026rsquo; 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-16 15:54:28 +0800", "date": "3:54 p.m. on Feb 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/16/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F16%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1367, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 15: \u0026lsquo;Reflection\u0026rsquo; 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-15 18:10:13 +0800", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Feb 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/15/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F15%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1368, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 14: ‘Compassion’. Donating our money from bottle recycling to the Perth Bushfire Relief Fund. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-14 15:42:56 +0800", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Feb 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/14/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F14%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1369, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 13: ‘Make’. I was able to make these acoustic walls today. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-13 18:56:51 +0800", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Feb 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/13/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F13%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1370, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 12: ‘Sporg’. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-12 16:03:37 +0800", "date": "4:03 p.m. on Feb 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/12/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1371, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New episode! Hemispheric Views 020: A Jumper Is a Sloppy Joe! Rate, review, subscribe, tell two friends about it!\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-11 20:26:37 +0800", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Feb 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/11/new-episode-hemispheric.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F11%2Fnew-episode-hemispheric.html" }, { "id": 1372, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 11: ‘Machine’. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-11 12:19:55 +0800", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Feb 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/11/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F11%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1373, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks @vincent for making me aware of the Micro.blog photo challenge ical subscription, and thanks @Burk for making it! cc: @jean @manton\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-11 09:27:00 +0800", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Feb 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/11/thanks-vincent-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F11%2Fthanks-vincent-for.html" }, { "id": 1374, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 10: ‘Energy’. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-10 12:15:04 +0800", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Feb 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/10/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F10%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1375, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As part of a backyard renovation, we are having a large tree lopped and removed today. Our whole family feels terrible and guilty about it. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-10 11:18:46 +0800", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Feb 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/10/as-part-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F10%2Fas-part-of.html" }, { "id": 1376, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 9: ‘Muddy’. When you go tadpoling with the kids. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-09 12:37:08 +0800", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Feb 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/09/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F09%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1377, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 8: ‘Hope’. I hope he doesn\u0026rsquo;t crash. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-08 11:41:45 +0800", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Feb 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/08/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F08%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1378, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 7: ‘Craving’ 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-07 11:55:27 +0800", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Feb 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/07/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F07%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1379, "type": "post", "title": "The Social Dilemma, 2020 - ★★★★★", "text": "Own your content! Pay for services to flip the script.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-07 11:50:24 +0800", "date": "11:50 p.m. on Feb 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/06/the-social-dilemma.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F06%2Fthe-social-dilemma.html" }, { "id": 1380, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 6: ‘Sport’. Basketball has always been a huge part of my life. I’ve moved into a new phase recently, working on an NBL podcast, co-streaming games and participating in post-game press conferences. Life is full of amazing twists and turns. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-06 12:36:10 +0800", "date": "12:36 p.m. on Feb 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/06/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F06%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1381, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 5: ‘Pets’. Fish are as close as we have at the moment. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-05 11:38:01 +0800", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Feb 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/05/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F05%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1382, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Walk with Apple\u0026rdquo;: It\u0026rsquo;s difficult to take life advice from 22-year old Shawn Mendes.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-05 10:05:06 +0800", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Feb 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/05/walk-with-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F05%2Fwalk-with-apple.html" }, { "id": 1383, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went for a walk around the block. Didn\u0026rsquo;t buy coffee from the local organics shop because they had an anti-5G poster in the window.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-04 12:29:03 +0800", "date": "12:29 p.m. on Feb 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/04/went-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F04%2Fwent-for-a.html" }, { "id": 1384, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 4: ‘Layers’ of pants. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-04 12:18:17 +0800", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Feb 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/04/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F04%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1385, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 3: ‘Comfort’. Bur-de-Bur, the teddy I received at my birth. He knows all my deepest secrets. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-03 11:14:20 +0800", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Feb 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/03/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F03%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1386, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 2: ‘Morning Beverage’. I’ve already had two morning beverages, but didn’t see the challenge in time. Hence, empty cup. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-02 10:04:06 +0800", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Feb 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/02/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F02%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1387, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who does Flickr? I use it as a storage location, but I admit I don\u0026rsquo;t have a community over there. Now I\u0026rsquo;ve ditched Instagram, I wish it had more people and everyday photos in addition to the ‘high art' that tends to be its focus.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-02 09:57:10 +0800", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Feb 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/02/who-does-flickr.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F02%2Fwho-does-flickr.html" }, { "id": 1388, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 1: ‘close up’. Apologies for the visage; no face-tuning here. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-01 10:29:57 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Feb 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/02/01/microblog-photo-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F02%2F01%2Fmicroblog-photo-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1389, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;A New Board Game: {macro}Dungeon - //Jason Burk\u0026rdquo;\nJason Burk writing for Burk.io:\n \u0026ldquo;Players can advance in boring one increment moves or strategically build macro sets that can contain up to 5 moves allowing you to jump ahead of the competition.\u0026rdquo;\n My friend Jason has designed and produced a genuine, actual board game that you can buy. He’s invested a lot of time and effort into this.\nInternational shipping is currently a bit expensive, but if you live in the United States, I encourage you to make a purchase.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-31 15:24:31 +0800", "date": "3:24 p.m. on Jan 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/31/link-post-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F31%2Flink-post-a.html" }, { "id": 1390, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here in Western Australia we’ve had a person out in the community who had the UK strain of COVID-19. So we’re all getting a week of lockdown. School was going back tomorrow! 😭\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-31 15:18:22 +0800", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Jan 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/31/here-in-western.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F31%2Fhere-in-western.html" }, { "id": 1391, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good deed for the day: I approached the automated grocery store check-out machine as lady ahead moves on. At least $200 cash had been dispensed and was sitting there. I quickly called her back to get her money: the relief on her face was palpable.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-29 13:05:38 +0800", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Jan 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/29/good-deed-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F29%2Fgood-deed-for.html" }, { "id": 1392, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve checked in with OmniFocus. I have been yak shaving for the past three hours. I think I can now do what I originally intended to do.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-27 14:23:02 +0800", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Jan 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/27/ive-checked-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F27%2Five-checked-in.html" }, { "id": 1393, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I created a Linktree account, because, well, I don\u0026rsquo;t really have a because.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-27 14:20:31 +0800", "date": "2:20 p.m. on Jan 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/27/i-created-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F27%2Fi-created-a.html" }, { "id": 1394, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "ShortcutDetective by Irradiated Software is a great app for finding out which app is eating a keyboard shortcut in macOS. Stupid Logitech Daemon was taking away an important DEVONthink shortcut - and not even using it for anything. Stupid Logitech.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-27 13:47:18 +0800", "date": "1:47 p.m. on Jan 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/27/shortcutdetective-by-irradiated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F27%2Fshortcutdetective-by-irradiated.html" }, { "id": 1395, "type": "post", "title": "Out, 2020 - ★★★★½", "text": "Watched on Tuesday January 26, 2021.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-27 11:14:42 +0800", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Jan 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/26/out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F26%2Fout.html" }, { "id": 1396, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On Australia Day I’m listening to German @ohbananajoe talk to American @jean while drinking Japanese Asahi.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-26 16:52:37 +0800", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Jan 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/26/on-australia-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F26%2Fon-australia-day.html" }, { "id": 1397, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was fun to do another commentary of an NBL game on Twitch tonight. Cairns Taipans hosted Melbourne United. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-25 22:10:26 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Jan 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/25/it-was-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F25%2Fit-was-fun.html" }, { "id": 1398, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does self-promotion have no bounds? @hemisphericviews\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-25 11:56:53 +0800", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Jan 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/25/does-selfpromotion-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F25%2Fdoes-selfpromotion-have.html" }, { "id": 1399, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My brother challenged me to a game of chess. Now I’m challenging you. Start the game here!\n play.chess.com/N6ivZ\n ", "dateiso": "2021-01-24 18:31:45 +0800", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Jan 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/24/my-brother-challenged.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F24%2Fmy-brother-challenged.html" }, { "id": 1400, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to @Burk for providing a method to automate NextDNS updating my non-static IP address. He\u0026rsquo;s a smart cookie.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-21 15:33:27 +0800", "date": "3:33 p.m. on Jan 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/21/thanks-to-burk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F21%2Fthanks-to-burk.html" }, { "id": 1401, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The macOS Finder can be controversial! Where do you stand on it? Listen to @HemisphericViews HVmini and see who you (dis)agree with.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-20 22:38:27 +0800", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Jan 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/20/the-macos-finder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F20%2Fthe-macos-finder.html" }, { "id": 1402, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve disabled my Raspberry Pi \u0026amp; Pi-Hole combo as I try out NextDNS for a while. Early impressions are that it\u0026rsquo;s technically good, but documentation needs work!\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-19 22:13:37 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Jan 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/19/ive-disabled-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F19%2Five-disabled-my.html" }, { "id": 1403, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning I took an Uber into the city, and it was a Tesla. Wow! This afternoon I came home on a bus.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-19 17:46:31 +0800", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Jan 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/19/this-morning-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F19%2Fthis-morning-i.html" }, { "id": 1404, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Turns out Karabiner Elements isn’t so compatible with an M1 Mac. It caused a weird purple flash at shutdown and an OS error message upon boot. This article explains the problem and solution.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-18 23:02:31 +0800", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Jan 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/18/turns-out-karabiner.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F18%2Fturns-out-karabiner.html" }, { "id": 1405, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This water spill looks like Australia and some islands of Indonesia.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-17 11:59:38 +0800", "date": "11:59 p.m. on Jan 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/17/this-water-spill.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F17%2Fthis-water-spill.html" }, { "id": 1406, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Listening to Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon. This album never gets old. 🎶\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-16 23:24:26 +0800", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Jan 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/16/listening-to-pink.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F16%2Flistening-to-pink.html" }, { "id": 1407, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had a heap of fun doing commentary on tonight’s NBL game on Twitch. Provides a reminder as to how well professionals can avoid dead air. Not easy to maintain constant dialogue! 🏀 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-15 23:18:49 +0800", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Jan 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/15/i-had-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F15%2Fi-had-a.html" }, { "id": 1408, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m doing a Twitch commentary live stream of the first NBL game of the season today. Partnering with my podcast friend, Joe Corr, this is the first attempt at live-streaming by the NBL Pocket Podcast empire. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-15 12:55:31 +0800", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Jan 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/15/im-doing-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F15%2Fim-doing-a.html" }, { "id": 1409, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What’s that? I have to go back to work today? Noooooo!!!!\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-11 08:00:13 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Jan 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/11/whats-that-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F11%2Fwhats-that-i.html" }, { "id": 1410, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " kieranhealy.org/blog/arch\u0026hellip;\n I think this is a great explanation.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-11 00:23:31 +0800", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Jan 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/11/002331.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F11%2F002331.html" }, { "id": 1411, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve reactivated Resilio Sync to share content between my iMac and MacBook Air (and possibly my iOS devices). Figured I owned a license, so may as well use it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-10 20:36:01 +0800", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Jan 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/10/ive-reactivated-resilio.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F10%2Five-reactivated-resilio.html" }, { "id": 1412, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Facebook: deleted. WhatsApp: deleted. You\u0026rsquo;re on borrowed time, Instagram.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-10 16:34:10 +0800", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Jan 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/10/facebook-deleted-whatsapp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F10%2Ffacebook-deleted-whatsapp.html" }, { "id": 1413, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve proceeded with a full Facebook account deletion. I previously archived it, but I’m so done with them now. Happy for the account to be trashed.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-08 11:31:39 +0800", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Jan 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/08/ive-proceeded-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F08%2Five-proceeded-with.html" }, { "id": 1414, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I want to say something stupid like, “go home, America, you’re drunk”, but this is more serious than that. How about,“impeach Trump immediately”?\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-07 06:01:06 +0800", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Jan 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/07/i-want-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F07%2Fi-want-to.html" }, { "id": 1415, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got to 87 daily reviews in Readwise before I broke the chain.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-06 17:48:31 +0800", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Jan 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/06/i-got-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F06%2Fi-got-to.html" }, { "id": 1416, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My purchased licenses for BusyCal and BusyContacts ran out. My Setapp subscription to the rescue, with both of those apps included in the bundle!\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-06 14:27:39 +0800", "date": "2:27 p.m. on Jan 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/06/my-purchased-licenses.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F06%2Fmy-purchased-licenses.html" }, { "id": 1417, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had the opportunity to use a Remarkable 2 yesterday. I don’t want one, I don’t want one… Help!!!\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-06 14:23:04 +0800", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Jan 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/06/i-had-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F06%2Fi-had-the.html" }, { "id": 1418, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is there a blogging/publishing platform that allows writing in the form of an outline, besides Little Outliner?\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-04 22:09:30 +0800", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Jan 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/04/is-there-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F04%2Fis-there-a.html" }, { "id": 1419, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Beartown: A Novel by Backman, Fredrik 📚\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-04 16:18:53 +0800", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Jan 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/04/currently-reading-beartown.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F04%2Fcurrently-reading-beartown.html" }, { "id": 1420, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Okay, this is smart. Using a Discourse forum as a blog of sorts. Keeping topics tied together. This eliminates the stupid date-based approach of a blog, without the hassle of a wiki.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-04 15:11:14 +0800", "date": "3:11 p.m. on Jan 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/04/okay-this-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F04%2Fokay-this-is.html" }, { "id": 1421, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Kyle, from Apple Fitness+, is no joke. I tried hard, Kyle, I promise!\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-04 12:40:47 +0800", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Jan 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/04/kyle-from-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F04%2Fkyle-from-apple.html" }, { "id": 1422, "type": "post", "title": "Back to Dropbox with Blot", "text": "About 18 months ago I transitioned the publishing of this site to use Git. It was cool, but overly cumbersome for my needs.\nI avoided posting here because of the overhead that Git created with respect to the publishing process.\nAt the same time, I didn\u0026#x2019;t want to install Dropbox on my computers because of its massive overhead, and I don\u0026#x2019;t use Dropbox for anything else.\nI\u0026#x2019;ve got a solution now though. I can write in any app. On my Mac I can use Commander One (part of Setapp) to remotely connect to Dropbox without the client. On iOS I can install the Dropbox app, but alternatively I can use an action in Drafts, like I\u0026#x2019;m doing here, to write and publish in a single step.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-04 07:43:01 +0800", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Jan 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/03/back-to-dropbox.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F03%2Fback-to-dropbox.html" }, { "id": 1423, "type": "post", "title": "2020 Retrospective", "text": "What are the rules about linking to my own post on another website I own?\nAndrew Canion - 2020 Retrospective:\n For me, the narrative that 2020 was a complete write-off is not fair. A lot happened in 2020 and much of it has been positive and transformational.\n ", "dateiso": "2021-01-03 20:17:00 +0800", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Jan 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/03/121730.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F03%2F121730.html" }, { "id": 1424, "type": "post", "title": "2020 Retrospective", "text": "The general world-view of 2020 is that it was shit. In many ways, I agree. However, living in Perth, Western Australia in 2020 had to have been one to the best outcomes. We have been largely unaffected by COVID-19 in terms of community transmission. We had a period of lockdown as a precautionary measure. However, thanks to a combination of geographic isolation, good government and civil obedience we have been able to continue a relatively good standard of life.\nThe year still seems to have passed by strangely though, without the typical beats that I might expect to see in a year. My mind was foggy about what actually happened in 2020.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve taken the time to reflect on my diary notes and calendar to see what did happen in 2020. I\u0026rsquo;ve excluded the every-day work stuff, and the typical parenting, kid management things that are a standard part of my existence.\nFor me, the narrative that 2020 was a complete write-off is not fair. A lot happened in 2020 and much of it has been positive and transformational. The biggest personal change has been the development of me as a \u0026lsquo;podcaster\u0026rsquo;. I\u0026rsquo;ve listened to podcasts since around 2005 when Adam Curry hosted his Daily Source Code. To now be producing my own podcast content — a mere 15 years later — has been a blast.\nI\u0026rsquo;m also proud to have established a weekly video call with my friends. I\u0026rsquo;m proud that I started it, but more proud of my mates for sticking with it. Every week, from March until now, we\u0026rsquo;ve caught up for a chat. It has strengthened our bonds and been a real highlight of a year that in many other ways has been highlighted with themes of isolation.\nSo, the following list represents my year in summary.\nJanuary Our Standard Poodle, Jeff, died. Holidays at a hotel and a caravan park. My last interstate airline travel for a work conference in Sydney. February Outdoor cinema to see Jumanji: The Next Level. Outdoor evening event at Perth Zoo. Day at a public swimming pool and water slides. March The arrival of COVID in a serious way. Bought my first podcasting gear. Started my own podcast, Keep Practising. Started a weekly COVID video call catch-up with my friends. This continued weekly for the rest of the year. April Cancelled our planned trip to the USA. Took a bush walk in the hills of Perth. May Recorded a podcast with Martin Feld and Lounge Ruminator. June Attended a BBQ with friends. This wouldn\u0026rsquo;t normally rate a mention, but in 2020 that was something! July Transitioned to a new employer, but doing the same work. Watched every game of The Basketball Tournament. Daily podcasts on NBL Pocket Podcast regarding TBT tournament. This kicked off my regular role on NBL Pocket Podcast for the rest of the year. Built a new friendship with the Trotter family. Visited my friend Craig in Bridgetown. August Started taking Benji to my local coffee shop on a regular basis. Committed to regular strength training. September Launched Hemispheric Views podcast. October Vacation in Broome. Committed to a renovation of our backyard, including construction of a swimming pool. November My wife Hannah was confirmed as an endorsed candidate in the upcoming Western Australian State Election. December Death of my Dad, Gary Yates Canion. ", "dateiso": "2021-01-03 11:58:00 +0800", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Jan 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/03/retrospective.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F03%2Fretrospective.html" }, { "id": 1425, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This kid is a little ripper.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-02 23:00:40 +0800", "date": "11:00 p.m. on Jan 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/02/this-kid-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F02%2Fthis-kid-is.html" }, { "id": 1426, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "2021 is go. No expectation that it will be a salve for 2020 but still taking the optimistic approach.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-01 00:18:47 +0800", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Jan 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2021/01/01/is-go-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2021%2F01%2F01%2Fis-go-no.html" }, { "id": 1427, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Did a 20 minute Apple Fitness+ workout. I need heavier dumb-bells. 🏋🏻\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-31 13:43:56 +0800", "date": "1:43 p.m. on Dec 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/31/did-a-minute.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F31%2Fdid-a-minute.html" }, { "id": 1428, "type": "post", "title": "Dynalist as a Tool for Daily Notes", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;ve been consciously taking more and better daily notes. Part of this is to build a greater awareness of what I do and how I spend my time. Part of it is to be able to capture and later resurface information.\nI\u0026#x2019;ve tried a number of various solutions to this. I experimented with Bullet Journaling (with a pen and journal) and using the Cortext Podcast\u0026#x2019;s Theme Journal. However, paper creates too much friction considering that I am usually in front of a screen of some sort and I want digital information in any case. I\u0026#x2019;ve used a range of software, from GoodNotes with an iPad Pencil, DEVONthink with a script to create a daily note everyday, The Archive, Obsidian, and I even trialled Roam Research for a time.\nDEVONthink got the closest in terms of being accessible and leveraging its AI to highlight related notes (a feature that has no peer, to be honest). Yet DEVONthink\u0026#x2019;s text editing is anaemic. No niceties for drafting in Markdown as is my preference. No outlining, which I enjoy and find productive.\nI needed a better solution.\nEverything\u0026#x2019;s an Outline It occurred to me that everything is an outline. Mind map? It\u0026#x2019;s an outline. Kanban board? It\u0026#x2019;s an outline. Chapters and paragraph styles? It\u0026#x2019;s an outline. Diaries and daily notes? It\u0026#x2019;s an outline.\nSo if everything at its essence is an outline, why not use an outliner? So here I am, using Dynalist as my everything capture tool. I decided on Dynalist after a short play with Workflowy. Workflowy is simple but has none of the features I wanted such as Markdown, linking etc. It is too basic for my wants.\nRoam Daily Note The great feature of Roam - as well as being an outliner - is that it automatically creates a \u0026#x2018;Daily Note\u0026#x2019;. This seemingly simple feature reduces the friction of having to create a document, or find a place to put text. Put it in the daily note, at least as a starting point.\nThis is why I created a script in DEVONthink to create a daily note text file at the beginning of each day.\nI wanted to ensure that my Dynalist setup could also have a daily note, but it doesn\u0026#x2019;t come with this feature.\nSteve Zeoli\u0026#x2019;s Daily Note This is where I give thanks to Steve Zeoli at Welcome to Sherwood. He drew my attention to a simple Windows app that can create a list of dates that cover an entire year.1\nI use the date file created from this application to pre-populate a year\u0026#x2019;s worth of nested bullets for my Daily Note outline.\nDynalist Day List\nThe great thing about Dynalist is that I can \u0026#x2018;zoom in\u0026#x2019; (hoist, in old-school outliner lingo) any bullet such that it becomes the header for the page. So I can zoom into a week, or even a single day, and make notes nested under that particular header.\nDynalist supports backlinks and internal Wiki linking, so typing [[ will bring up an active searching letting me link one part of the notebook to another.\nIt also support dates by starting with an !. I sync these dates to a Google Calendar, which I subscribe to via Fastmail where all my calendars live, to give me another view into my dated tasks from other calendar-based applications such as BusyCal and OmniFocus.\nSearch and Discovery I am still in the process of optimising my search settings, but I\u0026#x2019;ve devised a couple that seem to work well. Searches can be saved as a bookmark within Dynalist and they run when click on in the sidebar.\n \u0026#x2018;Open Checkboxes\u0026#x2019; will show my any checkboxes in my outliner that are not checked off: has:checkbox -is:completed \u0026#x2018;Within 1 Month\u0026#x2019; shows me any entries with date elements that are within one month ahead of now: within:1m Exporting Markdown I\u0026#x2019;ve drafted this blog entry in Dynalist (with a couple of detours into Drafts to make use of Brett Terpra\u0026#x2019;s SearchLink service to create Markdown links). The lack of macOS Services support is one big downer with Dynalist.\nThe intent now is to export it as a Markdown file and publish it to the world.\nUnfortunately, getting nice Markdown out of Dynalist wasn\u0026#x2019;t perfect. Exporting as plain text with dashes for indentation was the best I could do. This didn\u0026#x2019;t establish H1, H2 headings and nor did it ensure my graphic was exported. Each paragraph was adorned with a bullet, which doesn\u0026#x2019;t make sense for long-form writing, either.\nIt would appear others feel this pain too, as there are a number of threads about it on the Dynalist forum; with this one summing it up best.\nSo export to markdown is an area that needs some work. Perhaps it isn\u0026#x2019;t optimal for writing pure blog posts, leaving a place for iA Writer in my arsenal.\n I did figure a way to do this on macOS as well, but I can\u0026#x2019;t remember how I did it! I should have taken a note!\u0026#x21A9;\u0026#xFE0E;\n ", "dateiso": "2020-12-29 23:16:15 +0800", "date": "11:16 p.m. on Dec 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/29/dynalist-as-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Fdynalist-as-a.html" }, { "id": 1429, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For any micro.bloggers that play games - even rarely and recreationally like me - there is a Discord server you might like. I think this invite link dies in 1 day, but the channel is Micro.Blog Game Days. discord.gg/7agXe9fG\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-29 18:46:02 +0800", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Dec 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/29/for-any-microbloggers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Ffor-any-microbloggers.html" }, { "id": 1430, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rosé Day. 38°C.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-29 17:49:36 +0800", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Dec 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/29/ros-day-c.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Fros-day-c.html" }, { "id": 1431, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In the last few days I\u0026rsquo;ve been more successful writing daily notes with Dynalist than I have been with any number of previous software options. I think outliners are simply my jam.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-27 23:24:10 +0800", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Dec 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/27/in-the-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F27%2Fin-the-last.html" }, { "id": 1432, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The obituary of Gary Yates Canion.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-27 14:31:26 +0800", "date": "2:31 p.m. on Dec 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/27/the-obituary-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F27%2Fthe-obituary-of.html" }, { "id": 1433, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started playing Animal Crossing. It’s a game of nothing that somehow consumes your time like a ravenous time phantom.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-26 23:32:11 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Dec 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/26/started-playing-animal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F26%2Fstarted-playing-animal.html" }, { "id": 1434, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I need to tidy my study. Make things more accessible, particularly my dSLR which has languished. It used to be a core hobby, now I never touch it. Actually, the whole idea of photography sort of seems like work. The rise of camera phones has devalued photography as its own thing.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-26 17:32:55 +0800", "date": "5:32 p.m. on Dec 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/26/i-need-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F26%2Fi-need-to.html" }, { "id": 1435, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t have the energy to truly investigate Obsidian. It\u0026rsquo;s software that is raved about, but I can\u0026rsquo;t muster the care to try it. Between The Archive, DEVONthink, Dynalist, etc. I already have too many places to take notes. Even if Obsidian could be the one I can\u0026rsquo;t find the drive.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-25 12:01:02 +0800", "date": "12:01 p.m. on Dec 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/25/i-dont-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F25%2Fi-dont-have.html" }, { "id": 1436, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to @joshsullivan, @jack, @twelvety who maintain wikis that I enjoy visiting and reading. Consider me your wiki-lurker. Merry Christmas!\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-24 21:31:23 +0800", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Dec 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/24/thanks-to-joshsullivan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F24%2Fthanks-to-joshsullivan.html" }, { "id": 1437, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Summer evening on the porch.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-23 19:10:17 +0800", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Dec 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/23/summer-evening-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F23%2Fsummer-evening-on.html" }, { "id": 1438, "type": "post", "title": "More Evidence Against Trickle-Down Economic Theory", "text": "Keeping tax low for rich does not boost economy:\nFrom the Department of the Blinding Obvious, which has been consistently challenged by the Department of Vested Interests, comes a new paper demonstrating that Trickle-Down Economics\u0026hellip; wait for it\u0026hellip; doesn\u0026rsquo;t work!\nMajor reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality but do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment, according to new research by LSE and King’s College London. Researchers say governments seeking to restore public finances following the COVID-19 crisis should therefore not be concerned about the economic consequences of higher taxes on the rich.\nThe foundation of an effective and fair progressive tax system is one upon which successful nation\u0026rsquo;s can build. Trickle-down economics can be expressed another way as \u0026lsquo;hollow-out economics\u0026rsquo;.\nVia: Kottke.org: 50 Years of Trickle-Down Economics Didn’t Work\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-22 13:03:28 +0800", "date": "1:03 p.m. on Dec 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/22/more-evidence-against.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F22%2Fmore-evidence-against.html" }, { "id": 1439, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m impressed with Apple Fitness+. The quality of the entire thing - presenters, set design, technology stack. All brilliant.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-21 10:11:54 +0800", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Dec 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/21/im-impressed-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F21%2Fim-impressed-with.html" }, { "id": 1440, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Waking up a sleeping M1 MacBook Air really is fast. Now I understand what Craig Federighi was talking about. Open the lid - bam, ready to go. Guess what, @Burk - my Intel iMac really is trash now.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-20 12:50:40 +0800", "date": "12:50 p.m. on Dec 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/20/waking-up-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F20%2Fwaking-up-a.html" }, { "id": 1441, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My moment of fame on The Unmade Podcast Supporter Role Call\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-20 11:05:35 +0800", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Dec 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/20/my-moment-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F20%2Fmy-moment-of.html" }, { "id": 1442, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Co-host of @HemisphericViews @martinfeld has taken the Milo discussion from our latest podcast episode to a new level. He has released Flavours of Feld, a video demonstrating correct Milo technique. Watch the video, subscribe to the podcast!\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-20 10:49:46 +0800", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Dec 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/20/cohost-of-hemisphericviews.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F20%2Fcohost-of-hemisphericviews.html" }, { "id": 1443, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The screen on my new MacBook Air is never going to be this clean again.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-16 21:55:36 +0800", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Dec 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/16/the-screen-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F16%2Fthe-screen-on.html" }, { "id": 1444, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve got a problem where calendars shared from Fastmail via .ics link to Google Calendar aren’t showing any events in Google. Is Fastmail providing a malformed URL or is GooCal borked?\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-16 21:22:42 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Dec 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/16/ive-got-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F16%2Five-got-a.html" }, { "id": 1445, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Daring Fireball: Ecosia Is Now a Default Search Engine Option for Safari\u0026rdquo;\nJohn Gruber writing for Daring Fireball:\n \u0026ldquo;I actually hadn’t heard of Ecosia before, but their story is interesting enough that I’m giving them a shot.\u0026rdquo;\n If Gruber listened to Hemispheric Views he would have heard about Ecosia on Episode 2 back on 24 September.\nDon’t be like Gruber. Subscribe now!\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-16 19:12:38 +0800", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Dec 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/16/link-post-daring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F16%2Flink-post-daring.html" }, { "id": 1446, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The latest mini-episode from @HemisphericViews talks spiders, Nissan Bluebirds and Gobbledoks. Have a listen. 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-16 16:29:51 +0800", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Dec 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/16/the-latest-miniepisode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F16%2Fthe-latest-miniepisode.html" }, { "id": 1447, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I express my gratitude to the community of micro.blog, so many of whom gave their best wishes to me when I shared the news of my Dad dying. This really is a great neighbourhood of the internet - thank you all. 💕🙌\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-16 10:37:26 +0800", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Dec 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/16/i-express-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F16%2Fi-express-my.html" }, { "id": 1448, "type": "post", "title": "Chrome is Bad", "text": "Chrome is Bad:\n Short story: Google Chrome installs something called Keystone on your computer, which nefariously hides itself from Activity Monitor and makes your whole computer slow even when Chrome isn\u0026rsquo;t running. Deleting Chrome and Keystone makes your computer way, way faster, all the time.\n I\u0026rsquo;ve never been a huge fan of Chrome. Reading this was enough to convince me to uninstall it for good.\nThis website has been published by Loren Brichter, who authored Tweetie way back when. I trust the guy.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-16 00:13:29 +0800", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Dec 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/16/chrome-is-bad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F16%2Fchrome-is-bad.html" }, { "id": 1449, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I didn’t have the best nor closest relationship with my Dad. Today, however, he passed away to be with God and I appreciate the part he played in my life.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-14 19:00:38 +0800", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Dec 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/14/i-didnt-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F14%2Fi-didnt-have.html" }, { "id": 1450, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve cloned logseq to my Github repo. An interesting clone of Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought..\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-14 16:11:28 +0800", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Dec 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/14/ive-cloned-logseq.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F14%2Five-cloned-logseq.html" }, { "id": 1451, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog compatriot @Gaby submitted his desk to @HemisphericViews for review. What do we have to say? @Burk @martinfeld Best listen and find out! 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-10 09:52:04 +0800", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Dec 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/10/microblog-compatriot-gabz.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F10%2Fmicroblog-compatriot-gabz.html" }, { "id": 1452, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The latest episode of The NBL Pocket Podcast is live. If you want an update on the past week of Australian basketball, this is the podcast to listen you want. 🏀🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-08 22:22:29 +0800", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Dec 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/08/the-latest-episode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F08%2Fthe-latest-episode.html" }, { "id": 1453, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Never change, Amazon.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-08 14:30:19 +0800", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Dec 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/08/never-change-amazon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F08%2Fnever-change-amazon.html" }, { "id": 1454, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Kids are occupied, wind isn’t too bad, and heat has died down. It’s nice to be sitting on the front porch now.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-07 16:36:38 +0800", "date": "4:36 p.m. on Dec 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/07/kids-are-occupied.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F07%2Fkids-are-occupied.html" }, { "id": 1455, "type": "post", "title": "HVmini // Craig's Desk", "text": "Are you curious to see how other’s set their desks up? We were @HemisphericViews so we asked listeners to share… and they did! First up is Craig. Follow along with the podcast with best-in-class show notes, including photos. You also get to see how the sausage was made as we share a screenshot of the edited file. Listen, learn, subscribe!\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-07 13:28:06 +0800", "date": "1:28 p.m. on Dec 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/07/hvmini-craigs-desk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F07%2Fhvmini-craigs-desk.html" }, { "id": 1456, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve installed Big Sur on my iMac. So far, all seems well. I went to enable reduce transparency, only to discover I must have had it enabled in Catalina as the setting had transferred over.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-06 20:17:18 +0800", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Dec 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/06/ive-installed-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F06%2Five-installed-big.html" }, { "id": 1457, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Family night at the Victoria Park Family Christmas fair. Great to be out and about.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-04 19:09:20 +0800", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Dec 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/04/family-night-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F04%2Ffamily-night-at.html" }, { "id": 1458, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As usual, things get a bit crazy on @Hemisphericviews: @Burk drinks multiple beverages at once; I go overboard on \u0026lsquo;Media Corner\u0026rsquo;, selecting multiple items; and @martinfeld is shocked to discover that he is actually from the future. Is there an almanac for that? pca.st\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-03 22:40:03 +0800", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Dec 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/03/as-usual-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F03%2Fas-usual-things.html" }, { "id": 1459, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There was the faint sound of an ice cream truck in the distance. Our kids have convinced Mum to take them in the car to track it down!🍦🚑\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-01 15:12:08 +0800", "date": "3:12 p.m. on Dec 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/01/there-was-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F01%2Fthere-was-the.html" }, { "id": 1460, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve stayed up too late playing XCOM2. I can never get enough of that game. 🕹\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-01 00:28:37 +0800", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Dec 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/12/01/ive-stayed-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F12%2F01%2Five-stayed-up.html" }, { "id": 1461, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Let\u0026rsquo;s Fix OmniFocus — Paul Sahner. This is a great article. I hope Omni are reading.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-30 21:44:48 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Nov 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/30/lets-fix-omnifocus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F30%2Flets-fix-omnifocus.html" }, { "id": 1462, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This final microblogvember post shall reinforce and remind me how difficult it is to post in accordance with a pre-determined word every day for a month! But I did it! #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-30 15:21:20 +0800", "date": "3:21 p.m. on Nov 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/30/this-final-microblogvember.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F30%2Fthis-final-microblogvember.html" }, { "id": 1463, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve had quite the pedestrian weekend, to date. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-29 11:46:55 +0800", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Nov 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/29/ive-had-quite.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F29%2Five-had-quite.html" }, { "id": 1464, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2020-11-28 17:02:56 +0800", "date": "5:02 p.m. on Nov 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/28/170256.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F28%2F170256.html" }, { "id": 1465, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I feel I live in one of the few places in the world where a mask has not been required at any point (yet) through the entire coronavirus pandemic. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-28 07:49:07 +0800", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Nov 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/28/i-feel-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F28%2Fi-feel-i.html" }, { "id": 1466, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What am I going to write for today\u0026rsquo;s microblogvember post? It’s a dilemma #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-27 13:03:57 +0800", "date": "1:03 p.m. on Nov 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/27/what-am-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F27%2Fwhat-am-i.html" }, { "id": 1467, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "TheBrain is on sale at the moment. It’s still expensive though. Yet I’m tempted. Even though I feel like DevonThink has me covered. 🤔🤯\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-26 22:56:10 +0800", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Nov 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/26/thebrain-is-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F26%2Fthebrain-is-on.html" }, { "id": 1468, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nothing is so perfect that one can\u0026rsquo;t adjust it to make it a little better. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-26 17:36:57 +0800", "date": "5:36 p.m. on Nov 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/26/nothing-is-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F26%2Fnothing-is-so.html" }, { "id": 1469, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I took a call from a lady in Adelaide today. Wrong number. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-25 17:27:48 +0800", "date": "5:27 p.m. on Nov 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/25/i-took-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F25%2Fi-took-a.html" }, { "id": 1470, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u0026ldquo;No-one gets rich just by working hard.\u0026rdquo;\n — (Royce Kurmelovs, Just Money)\nResurfaced with readwise.io\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-24 23:09:39 +0800", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Nov 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/24/noone-gets-rich.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F24%2Fnoone-gets-rich.html" }, { "id": 1471, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love NBL Pocket Podcast day! pca.st\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-24 16:17:10 +0800", "date": "4:17 p.m. on Nov 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/24/i-love-nbl.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F24%2Fi-love-nbl.html" }, { "id": 1472, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can’t wait to provision a new MacBook Air. I may set it up without Migration Assistant; a completely fresh start for new chip architecture. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-24 14:18:07 +0800", "date": "2:18 p.m. on Nov 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/24/i-cant-wait.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F24%2Fi-cant-wait.html" }, { "id": 1473, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I took photographer more seriously and used a dSLR I would work hard to capture the perfect frame. Now, with iPhone photography I don\u0026rsquo;t invest nearly as much effort, and the results demonstrate that. My photography has regressed. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-23 16:13:38 +0800", "date": "4:13 p.m. on Nov 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/23/when-i-took.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F23%2Fwhen-i-took.html" }, { "id": 1474, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wrote a TextExpander snippet with my pen. It didn\u0026rsquo;t work.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-23 13:34:17 +0800", "date": "1:34 p.m. on Nov 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/23/i-wrote-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F23%2Fi-wrote-a.html" }, { "id": 1475, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "By our State Government closing Western Australia\u0026rsquo;s border we have been spared the worst of the coronavirus. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-22 15:07:42 +0800", "date": "3:07 p.m. on Nov 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/22/by-our-state.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F22%2Fby-our-state.html" }, { "id": 1476, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "By using @LaunchBar 37 × per day, I’ve saved 27h 37m and became The Abbreviator! (since 17 June 2014)\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-21 22:39:14 +0800", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Nov 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/21/by-using-launchbar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F21%2Fby-using-launchbar.html" }, { "id": 1477, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As we head towards December, winter is becoming a distant memory. Next phase of our local weather should be ridiculous heat. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-21 17:41:09 +0800", "date": "5:41 p.m. on Nov 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/21/as-we-head.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F21%2Fas-we-head.html" }, { "id": 1478, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising 19: Podcast Player Roundup", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve trialled a few different podcast player apps over the past few days. This is a short summary of my findings, after trialling Apple Podcasts, Castro, Overcast and Pocket Casts.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-21 14:27:14 +0800", "date": "2:27 p.m. on Nov 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/21/keep-practising-podcast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F21%2Fkeep-practising-podcast.html" }, { "id": 1479, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m enjoying Pocket Casts as a podcast player. I’ve always been aware of it, but never tried it. Now I have, and I think it could be the best of the bunch.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-21 13:17:50 +0800", "date": "1:17 p.m. on Nov 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/21/im-enjoying-pocket.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F21%2Fim-enjoying-pocket.html" }, { "id": 1480, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How cool is this? Thank you @Burk\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-20 22:34:44 +0800", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Nov 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/20/how-cool-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F20%2Fhow-cool-is.html" }, { "id": 1481, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Imagine if Trump decided to quietly fade into obscurity. What a blessing that would be. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-20 16:35:35 +0800", "date": "4:35 p.m. on Nov 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/20/imagine-if-trump.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F20%2Fimagine-if-trump.html" }, { "id": 1482, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Send us your desk photos! Does Jason like his iPhone mini? We talk \u0026lsquo;one more thing\u0026rsquo;. Is TestFlight a cover for iOS demos? Andrew shares one of his weird documents. Surely you begin your week on Monday? And Media Corner! Hemispheric Views 009: You\u0026rsquo;ve Buggered Up Your Quadrants!\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-19 19:14:08 +0800", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Nov 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/19/send-us-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F19%2Fsend-us-your.html" }, { "id": 1483, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My son and I found it possible to fill our scavenger hunt egg carton on our afternoon walk. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-19 18:49:20 +0800", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Nov 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/19/my-son-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F19%2Fmy-son-and.html" }, { "id": 1484, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Apple Podcasts experiment lasted about a day. The device sync is good. Nothing else is. Seems like Overcast is the only show in town for multi-device sync and a sane interface.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-19 18:24:11 +0800", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Nov 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/19/my-apple-podcasts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F19%2Fmy-apple-podcasts.html" }, { "id": 1485, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m taking a look at the default Apple Podcasts app. The library interface is inscrutable. Does this app make sense to others?\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-19 08:25:08 +0800", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Nov 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/19/im-taking-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F19%2Fim-taking-a.html" }, { "id": 1486, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We all have a dependence upon our Earth. How about we stop screwing it up? #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-18 17:51:16 +0800", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Nov 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/18/we-all-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F18%2Fwe-all-have.html" }, { "id": 1487, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My son has given me a bunch of reasons why a train is a cool vehicle. They’re comfortable, they let you travel around, they’re quiet\u0026hellip; #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-17 15:25:37 +0800", "date": "3:25 p.m. on Nov 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/17/my-son-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F17%2Fmy-son-has.html" }, { "id": 1488, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been a computer nerd virtually my entire life. I remember when a computer had 8 kilobytes of memory. Those were the days. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-16 14:31:59 +0800", "date": "2:31 p.m. on Nov 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/16/ive-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F16%2Five-been-a.html" }, { "id": 1489, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Don\u0026rsquo;t forget about micro.blog game days. Details, plus a downloadable .ics file can be found at microgaming.space Come and play! 🕹\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-16 14:14:40 +0800", "date": "2:14 p.m. on Nov 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/16/dont-forget-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F16%2Fdont-forget-about.html" }, { "id": 1490, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Check out the desk of @Burk in the latest episode of Hemispheric Views mini. You could even listen to it on a new HomePod mini, if you wish!\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-16 08:38:37 +0800", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Nov 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/16/check-out-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F16%2Fcheck-out-the.html" }, { "id": 1491, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I was young I loved The Far Side by Gary Larson. Unfortunately his recent reboot hasn’t grabbed me in the same way. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-15 19:29:14 +0800", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Nov 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/15/when-i-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F15%2Fwhen-i-was.html" }, { "id": 1492, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This was our beautiful girl, Indi. @gabz\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-15 04:04:32 +0800", "date": "4:04 p.m. on Nov 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/15/this-was-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F15%2Fthis-was-our.html" }, { "id": 1493, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m contemplating the worth of getting a second HomePod (maxi), putting it into a stereo pair with my existing one. Then removing the receiver, giant speakers, etc. Just simplifying (perhaps?) it all.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-14 20:28:47 +0800", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Nov 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/14/im-contemplating-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F14%2Fim-contemplating-the.html" }, { "id": 1494, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would be happy to watch a spooky movie tonight but I can\u0026rsquo;t think of one. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-14 19:22:16 +0800", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Nov 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/14/i-would-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F14%2Fi-would-be.html" }, { "id": 1495, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This probably explains why I couldn’t get MarsEdit to launch yesterday. Sorry @danielpunkass mjtsai.com\n Apple Server Outage Makes Mac Apps Hang on Launch\n ", "dateiso": "2020-11-14 08:43:52 +0800", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Nov 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/14/this-probably-explains.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F14%2Fthis-probably-explains.html" }, { "id": 1496, "type": "post", "title": "Own Your Content", "text": "Om Malik on Instagram’s Updates:\n I feel sad for photographers who think their future is on Instagram and the social network it brings. They don’t realize that they are there to help sell tchotchkes.  The latest “features” added to Instagram provide a timely reminder that the only safe haven is owning one’s content. A personal website and domain name remains the most reliable way to avoid your content serving as feed stock for a commercial enterprise.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-13 16:49:28 +0800", "date": "4:49 p.m. on Nov 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/13/own-your-content.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F13%2Fown-your-content.html" }, { "id": 1497, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Challenge for the audience: How old would you guess I am? #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-13 15:19:07 +0800", "date": "3:19 p.m. on Nov 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/13/challenge-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F13%2Fchallenge-for-the.html" }, { "id": 1498, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What’s this? My desk setup is being investigated by @martinfeld and @burk? That’s the topic driving this HVmini - your bite-sized snack of Hemispheric Views podcast goodness.Hemispheric Views 007: HVmini // Battlestations — Andrew\u0026rsquo;s Desk\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-12 21:13:25 +0800", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Nov 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/12/whats-this-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F12%2Fwhats-this-my.html" }, { "id": 1499, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pro \u0026hellip; Air \u0026hellip; Pro \u0026hellip; Air \u0026hellip; Pro \u0026hellip; Air \u0026hellip;\nSend help!!!\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-12 20:31:12 +0800", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Nov 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/12/pro-air-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F12%2Fpro-air-pro.html" }, { "id": 1500, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought some new Brooks shoes on the weekend. Now I\u0026rsquo;m trying to wear them in. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-12 14:45:54 +0800", "date": "2:45 p.m. on Nov 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/12/i-bought-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F12%2Fi-bought-some.html" }, { "id": 1501, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey. HEY. HEY! - //Jason Burk\n In terms of quality of apps and experience using them I would currently rank them: #1) iPadOS #2) iOS #3) Web #8,968) Mac\n I like the ranking as a result of some kind of Electron/web-wrapper Mac app that HEY is using. Mac-assed Mac apps required.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-11 17:54:46 +0800", "date": "5:54 p.m. on Nov 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/11/hey-hey-hey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F11%2Fhey-hey-hey.html" }, { "id": 1502, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have to say that I am mightily excited about the new Apple Silicon Macs. For geeks around the world, this is a great day. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-11 14:30:07 +0800", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Nov 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/11/i-have-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F11%2Fi-have-to.html" }, { "id": 1503, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got home from work today and passed out sleeping for the next 3 hours. Didn’t plan on that. On the bright side, it might help in terms of waking up at 2am to watch the Apple event live.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-10 21:47:52 +0800", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Nov 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/10/i-got-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F10%2Fi-got-home.html" }, { "id": 1504, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "An elderly man driving a car almost crashed into my car today. I had to take immediate and drastic evasive action. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-10 17:15:49 +0800", "date": "5:15 p.m. on Nov 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/10/an-elderly-man.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F10%2Fan-elderly-man.html" }, { "id": 1505, "type": "post", "title": "Hey, look, science works", "text": "Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in first analysis, company reports - The Washington Post\n Vaccine development typically takes many years, even decades. But the coronavirus vaccines have been a rare success story in the response to the virus, able to move forward because of a flourishing of new vaccine technologies, a backbone of prior work on emerging pathogens and a mentality that rarely exists in the world of vaccine development — of governments and companies willing to devote nearly unlimited resources to make sure that a vaccine succeeds.\n While early days, this is encouraging. Isn’t it amazing what science can achieve.\nImagine if the world started trusting science to deal with other issues, like climate change, for instance?\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-09 20:09:21 +0800", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Nov 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/09/hey-look-science.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F09%2Fhey-look-science.html" }, { "id": 1506, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A thing that is a staple of sci-fi movies, but which I don’t think will ever exist, much to my disappointment, is the force field. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-09 15:18:55 +0800", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Nov 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/09/a-thing-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F09%2Fa-thing-that.html" }, { "id": 1507, "type": "post", "title": "My Subscription Services", "text": "Steven Garrity at Acts of Volition writes of the online services he pays for. This prompted me to make my own quick list.\nSome of these links include referral codes, but that\u0026#x2019;s not the motivation driving this post. They do, however, help me out.\nInternet Infrastructure Micro.blog\nWhere I spend a lot of my Internet socialising time. It also hosts my blog, photos and podcast.\n Blot\nAn alternative blog that I set up mainly because I was interested in Blot. I really should be spread across two locations, but what can you do?\n Fastmail\nFor secure and private email and calendars.\n iCloud\nMy cloud storage of choice.\n Software As a Service Textexpander\nI rely on this for some templating. I don\u0026#x2019;t like it\u0026#x2019;s interface. If there was something better, I\u0026#x2019;d switch.\n Inoreader\nSolid RSS reader that has many features I don\u0026#x2019;t use.\n Harmonizely\nThe only online booking system that works well with Fastmail.\n Setapp\nI use enough of the apps provided through Fastmail to make it worthwhile.\n Blackblaze\nI\u0026#x2019;ve been burnt by hard drive failures in the past. I hope never to have to actually ever restore anything.\n YNAB\nI can only afford all these subscriptions because YNAB helps me budget for them.\n Sanebox\nKeeping the clutter from my inbox.\n 1Password\nSecure, unique passwords are mandatory in my world.\n News Australian Financial Review\nGot a 3-month discounted trial.\nUnlikely to continue past this month.\n The Washington Post\nGot a cheap deal.\nUnlikely to continue upon its conclusion.\n The Saturday Paper\nGot a cheap subscription.\nOne of the few places for longer-form Australian journalism.\nI don\u0026#x2019;t love it though, and expect not to continue.\n Entertainment Apple TV+\nStill on the free trial but I\u0026#x2019;ve enjoyed enough of the content that I will stay.\n Apple Music\nI\u0026#x2019;m in the Apple ecosystem and I like being able to call up music from wherever.\nIts playlists are never as good as the ones on Spotify.\n Netflix\nIt\u0026#x2019;s the default.\n Amazon Prime\nHas enough content to keep us onboard.\n Disney+\nGood value for the kids, and The Mandalorian.\n The Unmade Podcast\nI laugh more through this podcast than any other.\n NBL Pocket Podcast\nI am a co-host, so I have to support it!\n Dithering\nAn enjoyable and insightful bite-sized podcast. Pay for the things you want to exist in the world.\n Like You Podcast\nA great relaxation podcast for children. I admire what the creator, Noah, is doing.\n iOS Apps Day One\nI\u0026#x2019;ve been journalling in Day One for many years. I run hot and cold with it, but I enjoy the metadata it captures in addition to my thoughts and memories.\n Drafts\nWhere text starts (when I remember). Used to kick-off OmniFocus templates for work.\n Pzizz\nComing to the end of a 5-year subscription.\nUsed less than I used to, but is still helpful at bedtime.\n AnyList\nReliable shopping list and recipe manager.\nContains a few random other lists as well.\n New York Times Crossword\nBrain food, especially the earlier in the week puzzles!\n 1Blocker\nI don\u0026#x2019;t like Internet ads, and this covers macOS and iOS.\n Headspace\nI had a run of around 150 days, then I just\u0026#x2026; stopped.\n Castro\nThe Inbox has saved me, but I do switch between this and Overcast.\n Other Readwise\nI read a lot. I\u0026#x2019;m using this service to try to help me remember it.\n Flickr Pro\nAn unused subscription. It houses a semi-complete photo archive.\nI don\u0026#x2019;t need this but I have a weird emotional connection to Flickr, despite hardly ever using it.\nI should get rid of this subscription. Life would go on.\n ", "dateiso": "2020-11-08 21:59:56 +0800", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Nov 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/08/my-subscription-services.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F08%2Fmy-subscription-services.html" }, { "id": 1508, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u0026ldquo;Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.\u0026rdquo;\n — Susan Cain, Quiet\nResurfaced with readwise.io\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-08 21:10:07 +0800", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Nov 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/08/spend-your-free.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F08%2Fspend-your-free.html" }, { "id": 1509, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Playing XCOM2, my soldiers constantly put in a bind by those dastardly aliens. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-08 17:23:13 +0800", "date": "5:23 p.m. on Nov 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/08/playing-xcom-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F08%2Fplaying-xcom-my.html" }, { "id": 1510, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been waiting 4 years for this podcast from @gruber and @merlinmann castro.fm\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-08 12:45:44 +0800", "date": "12:45 p.m. on Nov 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/08/ive-been-waiting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F08%2Five-been-waiting.html" }, { "id": 1511, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Congratulations USA! You removed the stain on your country. I’m so happy for you all. Unite around this to build a stronger union. Repair starts now. 🇺🇸 🗳\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-08 08:35:01 +0800", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Nov 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/08/congratulations-usa-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F08%2Fcongratulations-usa-you.html" }, { "id": 1512, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A word a day for microblogvember. Why is it so hard to think of something interesting to say for the word inflate? #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-07 21:01:17 +0800", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Nov 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/07/a-word-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F07%2Fa-word-a.html" }, { "id": 1513, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Attic stash but somehow missing the OG Apple TV that got so hot it could fry an egg.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-07 10:34:41 +0800", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Nov 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/07/attic-stash-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F07%2Fattic-stash-but.html" }, { "id": 1514, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My two go-to options for brain-exercise through puzzling are Good Sudoku and New York Times Crossword. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-06 15:16:32 +0800", "date": "3:16 p.m. on Nov 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/06/my-two-goto.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F06%2Fmy-two-goto.html" }, { "id": 1515, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trump’s attacks on vote counts seem to follow an authoritarian playbook - The Washington Post\n “The Russian mentality is, ‘Whatever truth works for you in that moment is the truth you embrace in that moment,’ ” Farkas said. “Even if you say something different two minutes later, it doesn’t matter. You call on that second truth for your immediate need, and your followers don’t care.”\n This is the most succinct explanation of Trump’s behaviour that I have seen.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-06 10:22:03 +0800", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Nov 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/06/trumps-attacks-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F06%2Ftrumps-attacks-on.html" }, { "id": 1516, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you tried one of our earlier episodes of Hemispheric Views but didn\u0026rsquo;t persist, try the latest one. We\u0026rsquo;re really hitting our stride. I think it\u0026rsquo;s the best yet. Doorbells, reverse sponsorships, Ted Lasso. All that and more in only 45 minutes. @Burk @martinfeld\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-06 09:39:21 +0800", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Nov 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/06/if-you-tried.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F06%2Fif-you-tried.html" }, { "id": 1517, "type": "post", "title": "My letter to Amiga Format", "text": "In the most recent episode of my podcast Hemispheric Views I mentioned the time I was featured in the Workbench section of Amiga Format magazine.\nI loved the Amiga, and I subscribed to Amiga Format in addition to a few other British and Australian Amiga magazines. The highlight of my month was riding my bike to the newsagent to collect my reserved copy.\nI always liked the productivity and system utility applications more than gaming. I was a weird kid like that.\nAmiga Format\u0026rsquo;s Workbench section was the Discourse forum of its day. People would write in with questions (with letters as this pre-dated email) and the magazine experts would publish the question and provide a helpful response. It was this section where I learned so much and to this day, Internet forums are still the best way to learn things.\nIn any case, I recall being stumped on a problem so I wrote in to Workbench asking for some help. I am sure I sent it via Airmail, but even still, getting a letter from Australia to the UK, then into the printing and production cycle resulted in something like a 6-month lead time. I think I had forgotten about it after a couple of months.\nImagine my surprise then, when months later, I see my name in print, in the world\u0026rsquo;s best-selling Amiga magazine. This was huge! It was the April 1992 issue. That would have put me at 14 years old. Maybe I was 13 when I wrote the letter, who knows?\nI kept my huge pile of Amiga magazines for years. Eventually, though, I had to say goodbye. I kept the issue that I was published in for longer, but finally I had to say goodbye to that one also. But I never forgot that I was in the Amiga Format magazine that had Felix the Cat on the cover.\nThat takes me to now. My friend and podcast co-host Jason Burk writes the best show notes in the podcasting business. He found and linked to an entire online archive of Amiga Format magazines. This was what I needed. I found my Felix the Cat cover, and brought up the issue.\nThere it was. Page 209. Workbench. \u0026ldquo;Missing Drawers\u0026rdquo;, from \u0026ldquo;Andrew Canion, Australia\u0026rdquo;. My letter lives on. Article Full Text Missing Drawers From: Andrew Canion, Australia I have been attempting to design my own split image icon for use as a drawer. I have copied the Empty drawer from my Workbench 1.3 disk. I have then split this icon using the IconMerge program on the Extras disk.\nI then edit it with IconEd, and saved the two images back to disk before joining them into one icon with IconMerge again. The actual changing image works fine when I click once, but when I double click to open the drawer itself. I get an error message telling me that the drawer cannot be opened. I\u0026rsquo;m a relative beginner, so tell me in simple terms what am I doing wrong?\n An icon is just a picture to click on. What you\u0026rsquo;re miss- ing is a directory with the same name (in this case, empty). You\u0026rsquo;re clicking on an icon, but your Amiga cannot find anything with the same name. To make a directory from the Shell, type:\n Makedir nameofmydisk:Empty It should work then. For nameofmydisk, put the name of the disk that you\u0026rsquo;re editing icons on. If the name has spaces in it, then you must put double quotes around the whole thing, for example:\n Makedir \u0026quot;Name of my disk:Empty\u0026quot; ", "dateiso": "2020-11-05 16:57:43 +0800", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Nov 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/05/my-letter-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F05%2Fmy-letter-to.html" }, { "id": 1518, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As I age, I reckon I’ll develop a stoop. That\u0026rsquo;s the price for being tall. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-05 10:14:50 +0800", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Nov 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/05/as-i-age.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F05%2Fas-i-age.html" }, { "id": 1519, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve added a TritonAudio Fethead to my audio chain. Without it I had to set my EVO4 audio interface to about 95% gain to support my Rode Procaster. With the Fethead gain is now set at around 45% and the audio sounds much warmer and richer. I’m a fan!\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-05 09:02:51 +0800", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Nov 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/05/ive-added-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F05%2Five-added-a.html" }, { "id": 1520, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looking for a distraction from the US Election? At #HemisphericViews we’ve got you covered. “I Used the Corporate Card!”, our latest podcast episode available for streaming or download now. With @martinfeld and @Burk.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-05 07:18:22 +0800", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Nov 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/05/looking-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F05%2Flooking-for-a.html" }, { "id": 1521, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Electoral College system makes for dramatic counting but I don’t see how it’s fair and supportive of a one vote, one value philosophy.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-04 22:50:59 +0800", "date": "10:50 p.m. on Nov 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/04/the-electoral-college.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F04%2Fthe-electoral-college.html" }, { "id": 1522, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh America, what have you done? 😢\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-04 18:04:13 +0800", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Nov 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/04/oh-america-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F04%2Foh-america-what.html" }, { "id": 1523, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember posts are probably better to be written near the end of the day, when I have some events to reflect upon as I try to fit the word in the post. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-04 09:11:53 +0800", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Nov 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/04/microblogvember-posts-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F04%2Fmicroblogvember-posts-are.html" }, { "id": 1524, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Iraq Sends Independent Observers To Monitor US Election | The Shovel:\n Iraq has sent thousands of independent observers to the US to help build public confidence in the struggling nation’s upcoming election.\n It almost reads as believable.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-03 14:19:56 +0800", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Nov 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/03/iraq-sends-independent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F03%2Firaq-sends-independent.html" }, { "id": 1525, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have remembered that the \u0026lsquo;race that stops a nation’, the Melbourne Cup Horse Race 🐎, was on today. It didn\u0026rsquo;t stop me. I forgot about it entirely and have no interest whatsoever.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-03 13:03:32 +0800", "date": "1:03 p.m. on Nov 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/03/i-have-remembered.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F03%2Fi-have-remembered.html" }, { "id": 1526, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lunchtime workout of mowing the lawn is now complete. 🚜\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-03 12:40:42 +0800", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Nov 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/03/lunchtime-workout-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F03%2Flunchtime-workout-of.html" }, { "id": 1527, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "People who buy into conspiracy theories never fail to astonish me. What happened to critical thinking? #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-03 08:55:36 +0800", "date": "8:55 p.m. on Nov 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/03/people-who-buy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F03%2Fpeople-who-buy.html" }, { "id": 1528, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising 18: US Election", "text": "I voice my anxiety about the forthcoming US election. I worry about the place the United States of America holds in the world, and what might happen to this in the future. I also have concerns about what might happen within the country, irrespective of the result.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-02 14:34:29 +0800", "date": "2:34 p.m. on Nov 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/02/keep-practising-us.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F02%2Fkeep-practising-us.html" }, { "id": 1529, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have anxiety about the US election, and it’s not even my country. I’m fearful that Trump will win. I’m fearful that he will lose and all hell will break loose with the crazy gun totin’ Trump supporters.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-02 11:01:08 +0800", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Nov 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/02/i-have-anxiety.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F02%2Fi-have-anxiety.html" }, { "id": 1530, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s extremely hard to concentrate on things with two kids in the house. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-02 08:27:11 +0800", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Nov 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/02/its-extremely-hard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F02%2Fits-extremely-hard.html" }, { "id": 1531, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is a rainy, dreary day. Perhaps the last rain before the full brunt of summer arrives. #mbnov\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-01 09:06:27 +0800", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Nov 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/11/01/today-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F11%2F01%2Ftoday-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1532, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve spent a little time updating my homepage on the web\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-29 21:01:52 +0800", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Oct 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/29/ive-spent-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F29%2Five-spent-a.html" }, { "id": 1533, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The water was beautifully warm.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-26 14:37:43 +0800", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Oct 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/26/the-water-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F26%2Fthe-water-was.html" }, { "id": 1534, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can anybody recommend a reasonable monitor to be connected to a MacBook Air for business use? i.e. gaming performance not required.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-25 11:24:50 +0800", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Oct 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/25/can-anybody-recommend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F25%2Fcan-anybody-recommend.html" }, { "id": 1535, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Of course my kid’s ancient hand-me-down iPad Air dies 2 months before Christmas and his birthday. The family hand-me-down process is complicated by the A14X iPad Pro not yet existing.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-25 10:20:36 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Oct 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/25/of-course-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F25%2Fof-course-my.html" }, { "id": 1536, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey look! It’s summertime Drew!\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-24 13:09:42 +0800", "date": "1:09 p.m. on Oct 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/24/hey-look-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F24%2Fhey-look-its.html" }, { "id": 1537, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Punching above my weight on Cable Beach, Broome.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-23 20:26:57 +0800", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Oct 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/23/punching-above-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F23%2Fpunching-above-my.html" }, { "id": 1538, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just another day in sunburn paradise. The Booj about to go on a 🐪 ride.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-23 20:21:41 +0800", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Oct 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/23/just-another-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F23%2Fjust-another-day.html" }, { "id": 1539, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Vote Biden. The world doesn’t need 4 more years of this bollocks.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-23 20:19:27 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Oct 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/23/vote-biden-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F23%2Fvote-biden-the.html" }, { "id": 1540, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "TheBrain v12 beta is looking quite amazing. This might be the answer to all my recent explorations for a capture/note-taking application.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-19 21:49:26 +0800", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Oct 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/19/thebrain-v-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F19%2Fthebrain-v-beta.html" }, { "id": 1541, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Again, again, again!\n\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-15 21:13:41 +0800", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Oct 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/15/again-again-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F15%2Fagain-again-again.html" }, { "id": 1542, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh no. I have the hiccups.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-14 22:55:17 +0800", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Oct 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/14/oh-no-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F14%2Foh-no-i.html" }, { "id": 1543, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A Day in the Life #adayinthelife Willagee, Western Australia, 7:22am. Me making school lunches while wearing my Christmas Grinch pyjamas. I\u0026rsquo;ve made genuine friends through blogging. This has had a positive influence on my life.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-14 09:21:01 +0800", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Oct 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/14/a-day-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F14%2Fa-day-in.html" }, { "id": 1544, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Just Money by Royce Kurmelovs 📚\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-13 21:13:33 +0800", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Oct 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/13/currently-reading-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F13%2Fcurrently-reading-just.html" }, { "id": 1545, "type": "post", "title": "Family Getaway - Four Elements Farm Stay", "text": "We spent a few days at Four Elements Farm Stay in the South-West of Western Australia. I relaxed into it quite quickly.\nThe owner of the Farmstay, Pete, offered daily activities for the kids in the morning and the evening. While the ride in the ATV would have been enough, catching marron in the dam was even better.\n\nThese photos don’t do justice to the size of this bonfire. It was pumping out some serious heat. Necessary farm activities can be fun, as well.\n\nThe funniest moment was when we went catching tadpoles (and some baby marron). In the slippery mud, little Benjamin had a suction event. He landed on his butt. Bad news for Dad, who had to carry him a long way home on his shoulders. Showers needed!\n\nThe last day was an opportunity for cart racing. For those who have listened to Episode 3 of Hemispheric Views, this was very “A Race for Bill!”\n\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-13 18:48:20 +0800", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Oct 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/13/family-getaway-four.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F13%2Ffamily-getaway-four.html" }, { "id": 1546, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The micro.blog community is the best! Both @jack and @twelvety have provided me with with thoughtful, genuine feedback about Roam.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-13 18:30:31 +0800", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Oct 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/13/the-microblog-community.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F13%2Fthe-microblog-community.html" }, { "id": 1547, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Kids and their phones these days. What happened to a good old fashioned conversation?\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-12 22:02:55 +0800", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Oct 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/12/kids-and-their.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F12%2Fkids-and-their.html" }, { "id": 1548, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m being drawn towards Roam. I’ve emailed @twelvety for his thoughts, and I imagine @jack must have some too. It’s expensive, but I’m also searching for a really great daily note system and knowledge database combined.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-12 19:41:27 +0800", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Oct 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/12/im-being-drawn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F12%2Fim-being-drawn.html" }, { "id": 1549, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Buying an iMac late last year must go down as one of my best ever computer purchasing decisions. I freakin' love this thing, and timing it for the year of working from home has been perfect.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-08 23:13:35 +0800", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Oct 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/08/buying-an-imac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F08%2Fbuying-an-imac.html" }, { "id": 1550, "type": "post", "title": "Outliners \u0026 Daily Notes", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been considering whether my current DEVONthink daily note is the best system for rapid note taking. Of course there\u0026rsquo;s nothing wrong with it, other than it being super-basic.\nDEVONthink Pros Wikilinking (automatic and manual) to other notes. Integrated into broader DEVONthink Search/See Also system. No-nonsense, no futzing with formatting. DEVONthink Cons No genuine Markdown editing support. No outlining support Just a plain text document. I\u0026rsquo;ve been looking at Dynalist and Workflowy. Yet both cost money and feel kind of clunky - like my hands are flippers. That\u0026rsquo;s because they are web apps living in the Wild West of UIs - no operating system standards holding them to account.\nI still have OmniOutliner Pro, which I\u0026rsquo;ve toyed with once again. Maybe if I keep the OmniOutliner file simple and focused enough, it will do the job. I\u0026rsquo;ve paid for the software. It\u0026rsquo;s available on macOS and iOS.\nI think the last time I tried using OmniOutliner, I over-engineered my outline with columns, formatting, etc. If I keep it simple it may work better.\nOf course, that also means I lose the integrated DevonThink search.\nContinuous CRIMPing1, that\u0026rsquo;s the name of my game.\n CRIMP stands for a make-believe malady called compulsive-reactive information management purchasing. Symptoms include: never being satisfied with your current system of information management; continuously being on the look-out for something newer and better; purchasing every new PIM program you learn about; and secretly hoping you won’t find the perfect PIM, because then you’d have to stop looking for a better one.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2020-10-08 22:49:06 +0800", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Oct 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/08/outliners-daily-notes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F08%2Foutliners-daily-notes.html" }, { "id": 1551, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Hemispheric Views podcast has hit the big time, scoring a guest appearance by the one and only @macgenie. @Burk, @martinfeld and I were honoured to chat with her about micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s upcoming Day in the Life of\u0026hellip; photoshoot, old things in our house and streaming media.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-08 20:32:07 +0800", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Oct 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/08/the-hemispheric-views.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F08%2Fthe-hemispheric-views.html" }, { "id": 1552, "type": "post", "title": "Containers for Change", "text": "Over the past two years my wife has been working at Containers for Change. This is a not-for-profit organisation enabled by the Western Australian Government and funded by the private sector.\nWhen she started it was a start-up organisation working out of a tiny shared office with big plans to get a container deposit scheme (i.e. return drink bottles and cans for cash) up and running across our State.\nA week ago, the scheme launched. It features over 200 locations across the entire State where the public can go to drop off their recyclables. It is supporting new jobs. It is providing another income source for families where every dollar counts. It is reducing landfill and facilitating responsible recycling.\nAs part of the executive team, Hannah has built and managed an amazing team of people. Now, her journey is coming to an end as she moves onto a new challenge. I know she is sad about it and that this has been the highlight of all her career experiences to date.\nAs her husband, I\u0026rsquo;m guilty of not giving enough recognition for the job she has done. But I will write here that she has been amazing. I love her and I\u0026rsquo;m incredibly proud of what she has accomplished.\nWho else can say they were able to put a 5.5 metre tall swan, constructed of steel and 10,000 recyclable bottles into the middle of a Perth pedestrian square? That\u0026rsquo;s an amazing accomplishment, but it\u0026rsquo;s only the most visible accomplishment of 2 years of hard work and other less visible achievements.\nToday I took our two boys to recycle of first batch of containers. They were so proud to be dropping the containers onto the conveyor belt and see them be whisked away and converted into cash.\nSocial enterprise, delivering economic and environmental benefits. Lots of winners; no losers. That\u0026rsquo;s the way to do business.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-08 15:37:41 +0800", "date": "3:37 p.m. on Oct 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/08/containers-for-change.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F08%2Fcontainers-for-change.html" }, { "id": 1553, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "An important breaking news update coming in from Cardboard TV Network. Headlines include Deadpool v Coronavirus. Tune in to find put more.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-07 22:21:48 +0800", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Oct 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/07/an-important-breaking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F07%2Fan-important-breaking.html" }, { "id": 1554, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My brother casually mentioned to me that he had been building up a second brain using the PARA methodology in Notion, supported by Readwise and Instapaper. Does he not realise that I’m the geek of the family? He\u0026rsquo;s getting close to stepping on my turf.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-06 20:29:01 +0800", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Oct 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/06/my-brother-casually.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F06%2Fmy-brother-casually.html" }, { "id": 1555, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think I’m falling down the Dyanalist rabbit hole. I like outliners, and this is so much better than OmniOutliner, which has regressed continuously since version 3.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-06 20:12:23 +0800", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Oct 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/06/i-think-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F06%2Fi-think-im.html" }, { "id": 1556, "type": "post", "title": "Kakistocratic Nepotism", "text": "Biden\u0026rsquo;s next move after Trump\u0026rsquo;s COVID-19 hospitalization - Axios:\n But with Trump in quarantine for the foreseeable future, the campaign is now relying on members of the first family — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka, and Eric and Lara Trump — to carry the torch as part of a new \u0026ldquo;Operation MAGA\u0026rdquo; campaign\u0026hellip;\n Cool, that should go well then.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-05 15:21:57 +0800", "date": "3:21 p.m. on Oct 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/05/kakistocratic-nepotism.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Fkakistocratic-nepotism.html" }, { "id": 1557, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A quick thank you to @sarcassem from the youngest of this home’s podcast listeners.\n\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-04 09:39:27 +0800", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Oct 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/04/a-quick-thank.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F04%2Fa-quick-thank.html" }, { "id": 1558, "type": "post", "title": "Trump Jokes Coming Thick and Fast at The Shovel", "text": "Australia\u0026rsquo;s answer to The Onion is The Shovel. They\u0026rsquo;re having a fun time with the news of Trump contracting COVID-19.\nFrantic Donald Trump Unable To Open Childproof Cap On Bottle Of Hydroxychloroquine:\n Shouting at White House aides to bring him a hammer or an axe, US President Donald Trump was this evening desperately trying to navigate the childproof cap on a bottle of hydroxychloroquine.\n Trump Refuses To Accept Result Of Covid Test | The Shovel:\n US President Donald Trump says he does not accept the validity of the COVID-19 test, saying it was a clear case of mail-in voter fraud.\n Head on over to The Shovel and see what else they\u0026rsquo;re reporting on this important news story.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-02 23:50:15 +0800", "date": "11:50 p.m. on Oct 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/02/trump-jokes-coming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F02%2Ftrump-jokes-coming.html" }, { "id": 1559, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love a good fire.\n\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-02 21:53:44 +0800", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Oct 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/02/i-love-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F02%2Fi-love-a.html" }, { "id": 1560, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If I didn’t have OmniFocus to help manage my work; I’d be screwed. I have no idea how people get through work and life without one. I have so many juggling balls that OmniFocus is the only way.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-02 11:27:27 +0800", "date": "11:27 p.m. on Oct 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/02/if-i-didnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F02%2Fif-i-didnt.html" }, { "id": 1561, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey @ohbananajoe is this effort close enough to “The Walking Dead”? 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-01 20:15:24 +0800", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Oct 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/01/hey-ohbananajoe-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F01%2Fhey-ohbananajoe-is.html" }, { "id": 1562, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My little farmer.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-01 09:23:39 +0800", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Oct 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/10/01/my-little-farmer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F10%2F01%2Fmy-little-farmer.html" }, { "id": 1563, "type": "post", "title": "The Sizzle", "text": "I have a paid subscription to an Australian daily technology newsletter called The Sizzle.\nWhile I\u0026rsquo;ve sometimes already heard the news of the day from other sources, it\u0026rsquo;s the irreverent writing of publisher Anthony \u0026lsquo;@decryption\u0026rsquo; Agius that I really enjoy. Case in point, from Issue 1217:\n Part of me likes the fact a fuckwit can be sued by an MP for mouthing off on social media, but one day I could be that fuckwit so maybe it\u0026rsquo;s not so good.\n ", "dateiso": "2020-09-28 20:20:11 +0800", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Sep 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/28/the-sizzle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F28%2Fthe-sizzle.html" }, { "id": 1564, "type": "post", "title": "YouTube-dl", "text": "My youtube-dl Setup - //Jason Burk:\n There is a utility called youtube-dl that you may or may not have seen mentioned online. Here is a rundown of how I am now using it to manage all my YouTube videos I want to watch\n Thanks to Jason @Burk for the write-up on how to create an offline YouTube library. I\u0026rsquo;ve now implemented it myself. Good stuff.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-28 16:10:07 +0800", "date": "4:10 p.m. on Sep 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/28/youtubedl.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F28%2Fyoutubedl.html" }, { "id": 1565, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had a full range of emotions today. Started bad; ended good. Anxiety can be a pain in the you-know-what.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-28 00:57:19 +0800", "date": "12:57 p.m. on Sep 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/28/had-a-full.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F28%2Fhad-a-full.html" }, { "id": 1566, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole\u0026rdquo;\nAnne Helen Petersen writing for Wired:\nThe first part of this story describes a day of vacuous hell to me. I don’t know how people function that way, but I know many do. Reading the first part of this article makes me happy I’m older.\nLater, we get this gem:\n \u0026ldquo;When you “shoot off a few emails” on a Sunday afternoon, for example, you might convince yourself you’re just getting on top of things for the week ahead—which might feel true. But what you’re really doing is giving work access to be everywhere you are. And once allowed in, it spreads without your permission: to the dinner table, the couch, the kid’s soccer game, the grocery store, the car, the family vacation.\u0026rdquo;\n It’s so true. Work can wait. It might feel it can’t, but actually, it can. Cut out the social media waste during work days and there is plenty of working time within regular hours.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-26 22:31:10 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Sep 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/26/link-post-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F26%2Flink-post-how.html" }, { "id": 1567, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising 17: Exercise", "text": "As I\u0026rsquo;m no longer playing basketball, I\u0026rsquo;ve gotten fat and sore. Exercise seems to be my only option. In Nerd Corner, I talk about new audio configurations and a trial of Hindenburg Journalist.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-26 16:43:22 +0800", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Sep 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/26/keep-practising-exercise.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F26%2Fkeep-practising-exercise.html" }, { "id": 1568, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After a dalliance with Firefox as my core browser, I\u0026rsquo;m finding myself drifting back to Safari 14. I might maintain Firefox as my work browser, though. It\u0026rsquo;s support for containers helps with having to manage two Microsoft 365 accounts.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-26 09:08:46 +0800", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Sep 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/26/after-a-dalliance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F26%2Fafter-a-dalliance.html" }, { "id": 1569, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought more audio hardware. And I don’t think this is the end. Hobbies can get expensive.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-25 23:56:08 +0800", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Sep 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/25/i-bought-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F25%2Fi-bought-more.html" }, { "id": 1570, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The latest episode of Hemispheric Views is live. We talk Portland fires, the latest Apple event, search engines and commemorative coins. Listen and share! 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-24 21:51:38 +0800", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Sep 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/24/the-latest-episode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F24%2Fthe-latest-episode.html" }, { "id": 1571, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My 9 year old told me about the Shortcut he has built to run on his iPad. Proud Dad moment.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-24 09:21:57 +0800", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Sep 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/24/my-year-old.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F24%2Fmy-year-old.html" }, { "id": 1572, "type": "post", "title": "Cortex Animated is Great", "text": "What\u0026#x2019;s better than Cortex Podcast?\nAnimated highlights from Cortex Podcast!\n ", "dateiso": "2020-09-24 04:42:45 +0800", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Sep 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/23/cortex-animated-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F23%2Fcortex-animated-is.html" }, { "id": 1573, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another Hemispheric Views with @burk and @martinfeld is in the can. Releasing in a couple of days. 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-23 00:06:10 +0800", "date": "12:06 p.m. on Sep 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/23/another-hemispheric-views.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F23%2Fanother-hemispheric-views.html" }, { "id": 1574, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-22 15:52:45 +0800", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Sep 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/22/after-hearing-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F22%2Fafter-hearing-the.html" }, { "id": 1575, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Played some Sea of Thieves with @burk. Any other micro.bloggers play?\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-20 17:45:34 +0800", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Sep 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/20/played-some-sea.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F20%2Fplayed-some-sea.html" }, { "id": 1576, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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!\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-16 16:53:08 +0800", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Sep 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/16/my-kia-sorrento.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F16%2Fmy-kia-sorrento.html" }, { "id": 1577, "type": "post", "title": "Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably", "text": "Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably:\nMicrosoft put a server farm at the bottom of the sea and let it run for a few years.\n 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.\n Or will it means data centres are plonked all over the oceans?\n “Our failure rate in the water is one-eighth of what we see on land,” Cutler said.\n “I have an economic model that says if I lose so many servers per unit of time, I’m at least at parity with land,” he added. “We are considerably better than that.”\n Worth following the link to read more detail and see some images of the subsea vessel.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-15 21:55:14 +0800", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Sep 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/15/microsoft-finds-underwater.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F15%2Fmicrosoft-finds-underwater.html" }, { "id": 1578, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So apparently to my kid I appear as a giant angry potato with arms growing out of my ears.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-15 17:20:39 +0800", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Sep 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/15/so-apparently-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F15%2Fso-apparently-to.html" }, { "id": 1579, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising 16: Hemispheric Views", "text": "A quick update on another podcast project I\u0026rsquo;ve been working on with two other friends. Hemispheric Views has launched and we are quite proud of it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-14 16:38:00 +0800", "date": "4:38 p.m. on Sep 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/14/a-quick-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F14%2Fa-quick-update.html" }, { "id": 1580, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t want to brag, but I just had a Tim Tam Slam. @martinfeld @burk\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-11 21:12:59 +0800", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Sep 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/11/i-dont-want.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F11%2Fi-dont-want.html" }, { "id": 1581, "type": "post", "title": "Hemispheric Views is Go!", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;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.\nOur 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.\nI\u0026rsquo;m proud of this first episode and I\u0026rsquo;ve got high hopes for our continuous improvement.\nIf you can find the time to have a listen, that would be amazing. Ideally, you\u0026rsquo;ll enjoy it enough that you will subscribe in your favourite podcast player app, and tell a friend about the show.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-11 11:56:28 +0800", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Sep 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/11/hemispheric-views-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F11%2Fhemispheric-views-is.html" }, { "id": 1582, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-10 22:42:47 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Sep 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/10/get-on-board.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F10%2Fget-on-board.html" }, { "id": 1583, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just a few hours until the Micro.blog gaming session. I look forward to losing badly @burk\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-10 15:49:08 +0800", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Sep 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/10/just-a-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F10%2Fjust-a-few.html" }, { "id": 1584, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;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\u0026rsquo;ve spent in a while.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-07 16:59:03 +0800", "date": "4:59 p.m. on Sep 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/07/ive-upgraded-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F07%2Five-upgraded-to.html" }, { "id": 1585, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Launchbar has been updated. In the release notes it mentions search engine Ecosia. I\u0026rsquo;d never heard of it. Seems a laudable idea.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-06 23:26:38 +0800", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Sep 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/06/launchbar-has-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F06%2Flaunchbar-has-been.html" }, { "id": 1586, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "International Beard Day, you say?\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-05 15:38:24 +0800", "date": "3:38 p.m. on Sep 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/05/international-beard-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F05%2Finternational-beard-day.html" }, { "id": 1587, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been reassessing my note-taking apps again - that\u0026rsquo;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\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-03 23:08:20 +0800", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Sep 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/03/ive-been-reassessing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F03%2Five-been-reassessing.html" }, { "id": 1588, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Am I correct in thinking that each President of the USA leaves a letter in the Oval Office\u0026rsquo;s desk drawer, addressed to the incoming President?\nIf so, I wonder what Trump would write to Biden?\nAnd I wonder how that would compare to the one that Obama left Trump…\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-03 08:59:17 +0800", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Sep 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/03/am-i-correct.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F03%2Fam-i-correct.html" }, { "id": 1589, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great to have the Micro Monday podcast back in the mix. Thanks @macgenie and @agilelisa\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-02 13:33:29 +0800", "date": "1:33 p.m. on Sep 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/02/great-to-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F02%2Fgreat-to-have.html" }, { "id": 1590, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the greatest things I discovered in Japan. Put soy sauce on vanilla ice cream.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-01 20:17:19 +0800", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Sep 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/09/01/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F09%2F01%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1591, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My iPad battery has seen better days and I’ve been contemplating an upgrade. But if the new Apple Silicon laptop is going to be a 12” MacBook Adorable, that might be a better investment. Tricky decisions approaching.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-31 21:57:31 +0800", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Aug 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/31/my-ipad-battery.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F31%2Fmy-ipad-battery.html" }, { "id": 1592, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 31: A photo of a photo depicting love on our wedding day in 2005. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-31 15:20:00 +0800", "date": "3:20 p.m. on Aug 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/31/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F31%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1593, "type": "post", "title": "No, I haven't found a fix for Logitech Mouse Judder", "text": "I recently wondered if I had found the solution to fixing the judder I get from the Logitech MX Master 3 mouse on a Mac.\nTurns out, no, I had not.\nToday the judder has returned.\nIncidentally this is with the Logitech dongle.\nSo frustrating.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-31 13:50:00 +0800", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Aug 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/31/no-i-havent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F31%2Fno-i-havent.html" }, { "id": 1594, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 30: It\u0026rsquo;s generally possible to make a discovery of something weird in the garden. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-30 14:13:54 +0800", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Aug 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/30/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F30%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1595, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 29: grated carrot flake(s) 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-29 13:31:21 +0800", "date": "1:31 p.m. on Aug 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/29/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F29%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1596, "type": "post", "title": "Have I Found a Fix for Logitech Mouse Judder?", "text": "2020-08-31 Update: No, I have not found the fix.\n I mentioned in Episode 15 of Keep Practising that my Logitech mouse was giving me the #$%@s with respect to the amount of judder and unresponsiveness on macOS. This problem exhibited irrespective of whether it was connected to Bluetooth or the Logitech dongle.\nGood news. I may have found a solution. Early days yet, but since applying this fix I haven\u0026rsquo;t experienced the issue again.\nI can\u0026rsquo;t take credit for the fix. That goes to \u0026lsquo;rubytraindriver\u0026rsquo; on Reddit/r/MacOS.\nThe suggestion was to remove, and then re-add, both Logitech Options and Logitech Options Daemon from the Mac\u0026rsquo;s Accessibility options, within the Security \u0026amp; Privacy preferences pane, Privacy tab.\nThis simple - but entirely obfuscated and obscure fix - offers another example of how infuriating the Catalina macOS security model is for users.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not on the Big Sur beta, but I hope that it does better at this stuff than Catalina.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-28 23:13:00 +0800", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Aug 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/28/have-i-found.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F28%2Fhave-i-found.html" }, { "id": 1597, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think I\u0026rsquo;m a full-time Firefox user now.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-28 21:26:33 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Aug 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/28/i-think-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F28%2Fi-think-im.html" }, { "id": 1598, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Aw man. Now I have to wait another whole week for a new Ted Lasso. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-28 20:47:24 +0800", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Aug 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/28/aw-man-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F28%2Faw-man-now.html" }, { "id": 1599, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: emotions 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-28 13:21:07 +0800", "date": "1:21 p.m. on Aug 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/28/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F28%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1600, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The United States is a shitshow right now. I feel for the many good people I know in the country who are having to cope with it all. A pandemic, murderous police, climate change, crumbling social infrastructure\u0026hellip; All being enabled by a crooked kakistocracy. 😢 🇺🇸\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-27 20:35:05 +0800", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Aug 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/27/the-united-states.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F27%2Fthe-united-states.html" }, { "id": 1601, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: This white Australian is overcome with sadness for black Americans. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-27 12:16:32 +0800", "date": "12:16 p.m. on Aug 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/27/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F27%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1602, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: relentless: \u0026ldquo;a patient but relentless taskmaster\u0026rdquo; 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-26 12:06:17 +0800", "date": "12:06 p.m. on Aug 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/26/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F26%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1603, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising 15: The Value of Friendships", "text": "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.\nIn Nerd Corner I vent about the poor connectivity of my Logitech MX Master 3 mouse.\nLike the show? You’re welcome to buy me a coffee as a vote of thanks!\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-25 22:23:28 +0800", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Aug 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/25/if-theres-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F25%2Fif-theres-one.html" }, { "id": 1604, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: hope Jeremiah 29:11 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-25 14:26:49 +0800", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Aug 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/25/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F25%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1605, "type": "post", "title": "Mondo Electronics", "text": "Mondo Electronics is a company I\u0026#x2019;ve helped as part of my job as an Entrepreneurs\u0026#x2019; Programme Growth Facilitator.\nThey were kind enough to say some nice words about the value of the service to their business and me personally.\nWorking with companies like Mondo is what makes my job enjoyable.\n ", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 23:23:34 +0800", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/24/mondo-electronics.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fmondo-electronics.html" }, { "id": 1606, "type": "post", "title": "3 Cheers for Tech Support", "text": "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.\nI 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.\nThere was no obvious setting for this in BusyCal and it was an issue that I hadn\u0026rsquo;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.\nOff 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.\nIt didn\u0026rsquo;t end there, however. Soon after, I received an email saying that they had looked at the issue - agreed it wasn\u0026rsquo;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.\nIt works perfectly. Now, BusyCal will create new event invitations from my preferred domain.\nWhat 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.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 13:02:52 +0800", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/24/cheers-for-tech.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fcheers-for-tech.html" }, { "id": 1607, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: frosty 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 12:02:48 +0800", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/24/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1608, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: graceful 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-23 18:38:30 +0800", "date": "6:38 p.m. on Aug 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/23/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F23%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1609, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ted Lasso is brilliant. Most enjoyable show I\u0026rsquo;ve watched in a long time.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-22 21:17:05 +0800", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Aug 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/22/ted-lasso-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F22%2Fted-lasso-is.html" }, { "id": 1610, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 22: home 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-22 15:46:37 +0800", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Aug 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/22/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F22%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1611, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The other day I was complaing about the lack of extensions in Safari. After hearing about Brett Terpstra @ttscoff talk about Workona I\u0026rsquo;m trialling it in Firefox. This thing is a game-changer. I\u0026rsquo;m loving it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-21 11:51:57 +0800", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Aug 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/21/the-other-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F21%2Fthe-other-day.html" }, { "id": 1612, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-21 11:10:30 +0800", "date": "11:10 p.m. on Aug 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/21/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F21%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1613, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A reminder to my future self: Create email (and other) templates in Textexpander but embrace writing them in Markdown. Then use Brett Terpstra\u0026rsquo;s Markdown Services Tool to convert the template text into rich text prior to sending. This will solve the problem of Textexpander\u0026rsquo;s rich text editor being so flakey and annoying.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-20 22:54:06 +0800", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Aug 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/20/a-reminder-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F20%2Fa-reminder-to.html" }, { "id": 1614, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-20 18:46:09 +0800", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Aug 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/20/i-deleted-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F20%2Fi-deleted-the.html" }, { "id": 1615, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-20 17:43:28 +0800", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Aug 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/20/i-enjoyed-hearing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F20%2Fi-enjoyed-hearing.html" }, { "id": 1616, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 20: change 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-20 16:05:39 +0800", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Aug 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/20/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F20%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1617, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;s tweets 🏀 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-19 23:19:12 +0800", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Aug 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/19/very-little-happening.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F19%2Fvery-little-happening.html" }, { "id": 1618, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 19: Many a ribbon won by my gym trainer in international Ironman Events. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-19 13:32:53 +0800", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Aug 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/19/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F19%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1619, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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! 🏋🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-19 13:18:04 +0800", "date": "1:18 p.m. on Aug 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/19/my-third-visit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F19%2Fmy-third-visit.html" }, { "id": 1620, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This Apple Music radio show with Billie Eilish and her Dad is surprisingly good. music.apple.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-19 07:36:12 +0800", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Aug 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/19/this-apple-music.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F19%2Fthis-apple-music.html" }, { "id": 1621, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-18 19:29:31 +0800", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Aug 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/18/i-hope-safari.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F18%2Fi-hope-safari.html" }, { "id": 1622, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 18: grid with thanks to Black Ink by @danielpunkass 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-18 13:30:27 +0800", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Aug 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/18/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F18%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1623, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 17: cuddly 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-17 16:09:29 +0800", "date": "4:09 p.m. on Aug 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/17/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F17%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1624, "type": "post", "title": "International Mac Nerds", "text": "Martin Feld, Jason Burk and I recorded a \u0026#x2018;pilot episode\u0026#x2019; of a podcast idea we had been germinating.\nMartin has been kind enough to host the episode on his site.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-17 01:51:07 +0800", "date": "1:51 p.m. on Aug 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/16/international-mac-nerds.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Finternational-mac-nerds.html" }, { "id": 1625, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have not listened to this album for a long time\u0026hellip; but it’s still great. 🎶 music.apple.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 20:36:18 +0800", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/16/i-have-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fi-have-not.html" }, { "id": 1626, "type": "post", "title": "Setapp Audit", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been a subscriber to Setapp since it launched. In fact, I participated in a pre-launch user interview to help the MacPaw team develop the offering.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve been a happy customer, and I believe I may be grandfathered into an older plan because I am permitted two seats. This has traditionally been for two Macs, but with Setapp now commencing a formalised iOS offering, I suppose this now makes more sense as a Mac + iPad combination. It\u0026rsquo;s a shame that the second license doesn\u0026rsquo;t include unlimited iOS devices, but that\u0026rsquo;s their business decision to make.\nSetapp is a subscription service, and good financial management suggests that one should occasionally audit subscriptions to ensure a good deal is still being attained.\nTo that end I have completed a quick audit of my Setapp usage.\nIt pretty clearly indicates that I\u0026rsquo;m still getting what I would consider reasonable value. Of course, the longer one subscribes, the more you trend towards \u0026lsquo;should have bought it\u0026rsquo;. But if the major applications release a major paid upgrade, then once again the subscription calculation improves.\nAll up, I will keep Setapp for another year. And start putting money away for the next years subscription straight away using a YNAB category!\n Software Mac App Store Price $AU Use Regularly $414.90 Meeter $12.99 MarsEdit $79.99 NotePlan $46.99 PDFpen $124.99 CleanMyMac X $59.99 Using Direct Licensed Versions BusyCal BusyContacts Use but Also Own iThoughts X Bartender Marked Use Sporadically $225.98 Meta $35.00 Path Finder $36.00 RapidWeaver $129.99 Dropshare $24.99 Use but Could Live Without 89.95 Receipts $89.95 AdGuard Default Folder X iStat Menus Elmedia Player Receipts Diagrams Capto Typeface Installed but Not Using Taskheat Screens Ulysses Tayasui Sketches MindNode Aqualero CleanShot X Permute Gifox SheetPlanner PDF Squeezer GlyphFinder ForkLift Sip World Clock Pro TextSoap Be Focused Photolemur CloudMounter Gemini Noizio Prizmo Squash ", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 13:55:42 +0800", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/16/setapp-audit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fsetapp-audit.html" }, { "id": 1627, "type": "post", "title": "14: Promoting my Other Podcast Projects", "text": "A quick audio interlude to let you know about my other current podcast projects:\n NBL Pocket Podcast A pilot episode with a working title of International Mac Nerds ", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 13:05:01 +0800", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/16/promoting-my-other.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fpromoting-my-other.html" }, { "id": 1628, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: stationary 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 12:21:45 +0800", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/16/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1629, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout 📚\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 12:15:42 +0800", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/16/currently-reading-olive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fcurrently-reading-olive.html" }, { "id": 1630, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had a blast recording an International Mac Nerds podcast with @martinfeld and @burk. We all met one another through micro.blog, so a big thanks to @manton and @macgenie for creating the rendezvous point.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-15 22:32:14 +0800", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Aug 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/15/i-had-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F15%2Fi-had-a.html" }, { "id": 1631, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: silhouette 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-15 12:43:31 +0800", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Aug 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/15/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F15%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1632, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: the boy among the play equipment. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-14 15:53:45 +0800", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Aug 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/14/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F14%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1633, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: I think it\u0026rsquo;s time to clean the filter of our heater. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-13 14:16:50 +0800", "date": "2:16 p.m. on Aug 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/13/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F13%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1634, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising 13: Interview with Patrick Canion", "text": "Andrew is joined by his brother, Patrick Canion to discuss his work and life, most notably how he has made the transition to living in Switzerland after spending his entire working life in Perth, Western Australia.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-12 19:46:47 +0800", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Aug 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/12/keep-practising-interview.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F12%2Fkeep-practising-interview.html" }, { "id": 1635, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: sound 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-12 17:04:26 +0800", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Aug 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/12/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F12%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1636, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: the best way to transport your turtles. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-11 14:47:12 +0800", "date": "2:47 p.m. on Aug 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/11/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F11%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1637, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: Nothing fancy today, just the windows at the front of my home. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-10 14:52:03 +0800", "date": "2:52 p.m. on Aug 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/10/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F10%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1638, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It might be my imagination but this Microblog Photo a Day challenge seems the best yet. Lots of interesting and high quality photos being shared. Thanks @macgenie for coordinating it all.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-09 15:44:51 +0800", "date": "3:44 p.m. on Aug 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/09/it-might-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F09%2Fit-might-be.html" }, { "id": 1639, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: black-and-white 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-09 12:12:49 +0800", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Aug 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/09/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F09%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1640, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Have I only now discovered that when typing URLs in Markdown - I don’t need the //. I can type https:url.com. For how long has this been a thing?\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-09 10:51:18 +0800", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Aug 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/09/have-i-only.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F09%2Fhave-i-only.html" }, { "id": 1641, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: As a parent this makes for a nice view 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-08 18:12:33 +0800", "date": "6:12 p.m. on Aug 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/08/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F08%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1642, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m no fan of WhatsApp but my goodness the group chat I have on it with my mates is brilliant.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-07 21:47:54 +0800", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Aug 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/07/im-no-fan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F07%2Fim-no-fan.html" }, { "id": 1643, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: daytripping 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-07 16:18:16 +0800", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Aug 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/07/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F07%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1644, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How can the input levels of two USB microphones be so different? The Rode Podcaster barely registers a waveform while the Audio Technica ATR-2100x is ready to blow past the point of clipping. Both USB mics. It’s doing my head in trying to level them against one another. 🎙 🎤\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-06 20:19:08 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Aug 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/06/how-can-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F06%2Fhow-can-the.html" }, { "id": 1645, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am so terrible at sticking with a single note taking system. I really tried to consolidate on OneNote\u0026hellip; Then I remember the cool features that NotePlan has that would fit perfectly with what I’m trying to do here\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-06 14:18:45 +0800", "date": "2:18 p.m. on Aug 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/06/i-am-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F06%2Fi-am-so.html" }, { "id": 1646, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: I decided to bisect this PB\u0026amp;J sandwich. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-06 11:32:05 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Aug 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/06/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F06%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1647, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: The pattern on my jumper has a bit of flow to it. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-05 19:36:52 +0800", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Aug 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/05/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F05%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1648, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished reading: Chosen People by Robert Whitlow 📚\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-05 12:45:11 +0800", "date": "12:45 p.m. on Aug 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/05/finished-reading-chosen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F05%2Ffinished-reading-chosen.html" }, { "id": 1649, "type": "post", "title": "Down the Podcasting Microphone Rabbit-hole", "text": "Oh boy, it\u0026rsquo;s happening to me. Some months ago when I made the decision to start doing some podcasting, I did my research and selected the Rode Podcaster microphone as my weapon of choice.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s been working fine for me, but at the same time, I\u0026rsquo;ve never been totally certain that it\u0026rsquo;s the right mic for me. I\u0026rsquo;m an amateur and I\u0026rsquo;m learning as I go but the Podcaster struck me as sounding somewhat \u0026lsquo;thin\u0026rsquo;. Plus the gain from the mic was really low. Research suggests this makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to the end result but it still made me curious about other options.\nThe Podcaster was not cheap so I\u0026rsquo;ve been reticent to spend more money on hardware. Yet I could resist it when I saw a good price on the new Audio Technica ATR 2100-X which is a combination USB/XLR microphone. I\u0026rsquo;m still in the USB world directly connecting to my iMac. I haven\u0026rsquo;t - and at this stage don\u0026rsquo;t want to - go down the preamp rabbit hole.\nToday the ATR-2100x arrived. I\u0026rsquo;ve given it a 45 second test to date, so this doesn\u0026rsquo;t act as a review. What I noticed immediately is that it sounded richer and the gain was definitely higher. However, the dynamic range was therefore more limited compared with the Rode Podcaster. In the test I did, the Podcaster handled it all whereas the ATR-2100x experienced clipping.\nI will keep experimenting and will likely record my next episode of Keep Practising with the new Audio Technica.\nAll this is to say, it appears I may be starting the slippery slide towards becoming an audio gearhead. Send help!\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-05 09:24:25 +0800", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Aug 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/05/down-the-podcasting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F05%2Fdown-the-podcasting.html" }, { "id": 1650, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: Peace walking to my new office looking at Perth CBD. 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-04 12:57:24 +0800", "date": "12:57 p.m. on Aug 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/04/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1651, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 3: Bug 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-03 16:34:56 +0800", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Aug 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/03/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F03%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1652, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Judging by this video my FetchTV DVR is going to have better universal search than AppleTV.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-02 22:45:38 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Aug 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/02/judging-by-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F02%2Fjudging-by-this.html" }, { "id": 1653, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: Floating 📷. This boat once floated around the entire globe. #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-02 14:32:29 +0800", "date": "2:32 p.m. on Aug 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/02/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F02%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1654, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: Up 📷 #mbaug\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-01 16:05:05 +0800", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Aug 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/01/photoblogging-challenge-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F01%2Fphotoblogging-challenge-day.html" }, { "id": 1655, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How on earth is it August already? Weirdest year on record within my life span.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-01 11:36:17 +0800", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Aug 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/08/01/how-on-earth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F08%2F01%2Fhow-on-earth.html" }, { "id": 1656, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you’d like to hear me and a mate talk about NBL basketball 🏀 and team composition leading into the new season, then listen to NBL Pocket Podcast 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-31 22:26:18 +0800", "date": "10:26 p.m. on Jul 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/31/if-youd-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F31%2Fif-youd-like.html" }, { "id": 1657, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Work life.\n\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-31 09:44:13 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Jul 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/31/work-life.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F31%2Fwork-life.html" }, { "id": 1658, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "End of the month and I\u0026rsquo;m \u0026ldquo;YNAB Poor\u0026rdquo;.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-30 12:30:43 +0800", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Jul 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/30/end-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F30%2Fend-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1659, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Want to read: Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout 📚\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-29 22:03:16 +0800", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Jul 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/29/want-to-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F29%2Fwant-to-read.html" }, { "id": 1660, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve linked IndieBookClub to my micro.blog account. Not as many bells and whistles as GoodReads but simple and straightforward to use.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-29 22:01:46 +0800", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Jul 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/29/ive-linked-indiebookclub.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F29%2Five-linked-indiebookclub.html" }, { "id": 1661, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently reading: Chosen People by Robert Whitlow 📚\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-29 21:58:02 +0800", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Jul 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/29/currently-reading-chosen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F29%2Fcurrently-reading-chosen.html" }, { "id": 1662, "type": "post", "title": "Fastmail promotes its own Hey-style methods", "text": "Rethink what email can do for you\n We also let you focus on your workflow by taking care of your privacy, which we protect with features like asking before showing remote images or proxying tracking pixels to keep senders from tracking what you do with your email.\n I can’t help but think this entire Fastmail blog entry has been inspired by HEY.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-25 12:13:46 +0800", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Jul 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/25/fastmail-promotes-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F25%2Ffastmail-promotes-its.html" }, { "id": 1663, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising 12: Wrestling", "text": "I’ve always noticed a distinct intersection between those who like basketball and those who like wrestling. In this episode I discuss my history of watching wrestling. It used to be WWF/WWE, but these days I am more excited by EPW (Explosive Pro Wrestling) - an indie show that operates out of Perth, Western Australia.\nIn Nerd Corner I talk about my recent dalliance with the fundraising/supporter platform Ko-fi.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-23 22:18:14 +0800", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Jul 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/23/221814.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F23%2F221814.html" }, { "id": 1664, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was exciting to see an article of mine linked to my Brett Terpstra. Never had that experience before!\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-17 13:44:43 +0800", "date": "1:44 p.m. on Jul 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/17/it-was-exciting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F17%2Fit-was-exciting.html" }, { "id": 1665, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does anybody have direct experience with Autex Peel ‘n Stick acoustic treatment tiles? I’m contemplating some for my study.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-14 21:41:14 +0800", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Jul 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/14/does-anybody-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F14%2Fdoes-anybody-have.html" }, { "id": 1666, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the heck of it I set up a ko-fi account. I’m sure the revenue will start rolling in any minute now\u0026hellip; 😂💰☕️\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-14 21:35:45 +0800", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Jul 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/14/for-the-heck.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F14%2Ffor-the-heck.html" }, { "id": 1667, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: 12 - Tipping the TBT2020 Winner", "text": "I was bereft not being able to record an NBL Pocket Podcast today. So to assuage my sadness I have brought in my son, David, to provide the hot tip. Who does he think will win the tournament? Tune in and find out!\nBe sure also to check out the daily podcast we\u0026rsquo;ve been recording at the NBL Pocket Podcast. Each day we have broken down the TBT2020 tournament and provided a perspective from the point of view of the Australian NBL.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-14 18:34:22 +0800", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Jul 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/14/keep-practising-tipping.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F14%2Fkeep-practising-tipping.html" }, { "id": 1668, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Recapping the best day yet of the TBT. 🏀 NBL Pocket Podcast\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-10 22:52:53 +0800", "date": "10:52 p.m. on Jul 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/10/recapping-the-best.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F10%2Frecapping-the-best.html" }, { "id": 1669, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m having so much fun recording a daily TBT basketball 🏀 wrap on The NBL Pocket Podcast. I’ve missed hoops, so watching games daily then talking about them is a salve for the soul. Give it a listen!\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-08 22:38:13 +0800", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Jul 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/08/im-having-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Fim-having-so.html" }, { "id": 1670, "type": "post", "title": "Subscribe To NBL Pocket Podcast", "text": "A quick public service announcement to point you towards the NBL Pocket Podcast. Joe has been kind enough to have me on each day as we discuss the events of the TBT from an Australian perspective.\nIf you like basketball be sure to listen and subscribe!\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-06 20:58:20 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Jul 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/06/subscribe-to-nbl.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F06%2Fsubscribe-to-nbl.html" }, { "id": 1671, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So great to talk TBT basketball 🏀 from an Australian perspective. Listen to the NBL Pocket Podcast for the full rundown.🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-05 23:15:53 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jul 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/05/so-great-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F05%2Fso-great-to.html" }, { "id": 1672, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My new employer has provided me with the new iPhone SE. This thing is tiny. Too small in fact. My fingers are too big for this screen and keyboard. So for the first time in my life, I’m running with two phones.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-04 11:22:49 +0800", "date": "11:22 p.m. on Jul 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/04/my-new-employer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F04%2Fmy-new-employer.html" }, { "id": 1673, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m thinking about going all-in with Microsoft Office as a trial, especially focusing on Teams and OneNote. I’ve a tendency to have stuff strewn across apps. Plus it’s a cross-platform solution.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-01 23:59:37 +0800", "date": "11:59 p.m. on Jul 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/01/im-thinking-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F01%2Fim-thinking-about.html" }, { "id": 1674, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been trialling krisp.ai for video conference noise reduction. I\u0026rsquo;ve only used it in my home office where the prevailing noise is a spinning drive array, but I think it\u0026rsquo;s been good? I need to remember to toggle it to test its efficacy.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-01 16:11:41 +0800", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Jul 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/07/01/ive-been-trialling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F01%2Five-been-trialling.html" }, { "id": 1675, "type": "post", "title": "My Last Day with CCI", "text": "Today marks the end of a personal era for me; it is the last day of my employment with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia. I\u0026rsquo;ve worked at CCI for 3 months short of 13 years.\nWhen I arrived, my plan was to stay for no more than 2. This speaks to the opportunities I have enjoyed while with the organisation. Over the time I have worked in Policy, Economics, Membership and the Entrepreneurs' Programme, plus other temporary assignments.\nI have addressed CCI\u0026rsquo;s General Council and the Board, and managed Member Forums and Committees. I have represented the organisation before Federal and State Parliamentary enquiries. I have developed and advocated policy positions, been in the media and analysed government budgets. I\u0026rsquo;m happy that my linkages with CCI are indelibly marked in newspaper articles and the annals of Hansard.\nI have worked with people that invested in me, and trusted me. I owe much to many, including John Nicolaou, Frances Parnell, Dana Mason, Kristian Stratton, Jessica Shaw MLA, Barbara Jerkov and James Pearson: all former CCI colleagues who played various roles in my journey, each in different but valuable ways.\nMost importantly, at CCI I have been provided a platform to help and support the WA business community. It has been my passion to see successful commercial enterprise operate while maintaining a social compact with the community to provide fair and reasonable opportunity, and improve all our lives as a result. Working to support this has kept me engaged throughout my CCI career.\nI am proud to have dedicated 13 years of the one life I have to this organisation. I leave knowing that I will be continuing to deliver the Entrepreneurs' Programme. This is a role I enjoy that is aligned with my passion: supporting local firms in their challenge to grow, succeed, and be part of the fabric of community.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-30 11:41:30 +0800", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Jun 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/30/blog-and-linkedin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F30%2Fblog-and-linkedin.html" }, { "id": 1676, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The birthday present I bought myself arrived today: a Keychron K2 keyboard with Cherry Brown switches. It\u0026rsquo;s delightfully chunky and immediately I\u0026rsquo;ve found myself typing with my wrists up, as my typing teacher taught me on an old typewriter at school.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-29 22:37:24 +0800", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Jun 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/29/the-birthday-present.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F29%2Fthe-birthday-present.html" }, { "id": 1677, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: 11 - Graeme Speak, CEO \u0026 Founder of BankVault", "text": "I welcome a special guest to the show, Graeme Speak of BankVault. BankVault has developed a cybersecurity product that can circumvent security risks such as key logging and man-in-the-middle attacks, by offering passwordless logins.\nAs well as discussing the BankVault product, Graeme discusses his approach to entrepreneurship. We talk about the differences between business in Perth, Western Australia where BankVault has been founded, and San Francisco, California where he is currently based.\nA conversation about the risks and benefits of kitesurfing also ensues.\nGraeme Speak on LinkedIn\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-29 14:07:00 +0800", "date": "2:07 p.m. on Jun 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/29/keep-practising-graeme.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F29%2Fkeep-practising-graeme.html" }, { "id": 1678, "type": "post", "title": "Configuring Preside on iPadOS", "text": "In an earlier post I wrote about how I replicated a HEY-style workflow with other email applications.\nI thought some detail about how I’ve configured my preferred iPadOS email client, Preside to work in a similar way might be in order.\nPreside is an amazing power-user email application for iOS. The application features a myriad of options. The hardest thing about configuring Preside is knowing where the particular setting or customisation might be found within its many nested folders of preferences and settings. What I have found is that my configuration has taken some time and has come together piece-by-piece as I discover another element of Preside’s functionality. Even now, I don’t consider my customisation of Preside done. I’m sure I will continue to tweak it.\nI’m going to focus on my use of Preside on iPad. While Preside works just the same on iPhone, its settings don’t sync across the platforms. It’s been so hard to get the iPad settings right that I don’t even want to try to replicate it on iPhone. But there’s nothing stopping my approach from working on either platform. I beg of developer Rich Waters - please give us some method to sync settings!\nWith that preamble taken care of, on with the show.\nDashboard View My Preside dashboard looks as such:\n You see a number of favourite folders and smart searches across the top. A list view of emails down the left hand sidebar and the email content on the right.\nHow did I get the setup to look exactly this way? I wish I could tell you. Again, with Preside’s settings being so deep, I can’t exactly remember what toggles I flipped to get it looking this way. I’m sorry. I wish I could do better.\nI can only show the following setting screen that shows how I have enabled the smart search folders:\n My Preside Configuration You will note that a number of the folders have ‘snowflake’ icons next to them. That’s a feature of Preside, in that each folder can be assigned a ‘type’. So I’ve assigned each of my SaneBox-managed folders as a context. This means that Preside will check those folders in the same way that it checks the Inbox, meaning my unread counts are up-to-date.\nThis screenshot shows the representation of these folders within my IMAP structure:\n Looking at this, I notice I haven’t configured my Paper Trail as a context. Maybe this is something I need to resolve.\nThe ‘Focus \u0026amp; Reply’ and ‘Set Aside’ buttons along the top bar of my Dashboard are saved searches. They look for emails that have an IMAP tag assigned to them. You might recall in my post about MailMate, I’ve set up a toolbar button that will add these tags to a chosen email. As these tags are synchronised at the server level via Fastmail, Preside can see them, and the tag can be used as a variable in a saved smart search folder, as I’ve done.\nWhat is great about Preside is that it too can apply IMAP tags. I use the ‘lightning bolt’ quick action to do this. I highlight the mail I might wish to ‘Set Aside’ or ‘Focus \u0026amp; Reply’ and choose the ‘Tag’ option. This brings up a picker of IMAP tags that I can apply, so I just choose which one I want to use.\n This is a snapshot into how the ‘Focus \u0026amp; Reply’ smart search was configured:\n And here is an example of how I enabled a SaneBox-managed ‘Paper Trail’ folder to show:\n Desktop Level Email Features on iPad With this configured I feel I’m very close to the holy grail of a macOS level email workflow on iOS.\nI’ve tried many email clients. Some are rudimentary (Outlook). Some are unreliable (Mail.app). Some have opinionated design and callbacks to their own servers (Spark). Some are ridiculously expensive (Superhuman).\nPreside is easily the greatest, most complicated and somewhat ugly email client on iOS. It has grown on me the way an ugly dog might find a way into your heart. You know it isn’t cute, but darn it if it doesn’t sit when it’s told and bring the ball back every time. It’s an email application that can learn new tricks - then you look back and don’t remember how you taught it. I want to give Preside a good old tickle behind the ear.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-28 14:50:26 +0800", "date": "2:50 p.m. on Jun 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/28/configure-preside-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F28%2Fconfigure-preside-on.html" }, { "id": 1679, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, I’ve set up my Hey.com email address on a 14 day trial. ‘canion’ at hey dot com it is.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-27 00:01:05 +0800", "date": "12:01 p.m. on Jun 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/27/well-ive-set.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F27%2Fwell-ive-set.html" }, { "id": 1680, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My friends are enablers, encouraging me to buy Steam games. Shame on them.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-26 17:18:42 +0800", "date": "5:18 p.m. on Jun 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/26/my-friends-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F26%2Fmy-friends-are.html" }, { "id": 1681, "type": "post", "title": "Govt urged to ditch COVIDSafe for GApple", "text": "Govt urged to ditch COVIDSafe for GApple - InnovationAus:\n recently released testing data revealing that upon launch, COVIDSafe logged encounters 25 per cent or less between locked iPhones. After a series of updates and improvements, this figure is now between 25 to 50 per cent.\n A switch to using the official tracing architecture within the Android/iOS platforms seems a sensible move to me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-23 13:54:37 +0800", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Jun 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/23/govt-urged-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F23%2Fgovt-urged-to.html" }, { "id": 1682, "type": "post", "title": "My Random Thoughts from the WWDC Keynote", "text": "These are my thoughts on the 2020 Apple WWDC keynote, presented in the order they occurred as I watched the show.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve not yet read any other feedback so these thoughts are non-affected by groupthink:\nGeneral The stagecraft and direction that Apple puts into these shows is amazing. iOS Widgets on the home screen - finally! The new messages is great but still relies on everybody having iOS. Many of my friends are Android users, so I end up having to rely on WhatsApp. Even my attempts to transition them to Telegram or Signal failed. That\u0026rsquo;s a kick ass wheelchair that lady owns. No new maps for me In Australia. iPadOS Sidebars - like a Mac! Search on the iPad seems like LaunchBar on the Mac, but it will probably be more like Spotlight, that is, not quite as good. The new Pencil and Scribble feature looks great Apple Watch \u0026amp; AppleTV The scientific capability in Apple is incredible; the resources they can plough into movement sensing for exercise, surround sound, etc. is crazy. Home Yes! Adaptive lighting. I\u0026rsquo;ve got some LifX bulbs and that app has dawn/dusk settings, but this looks way better. Is it time for me to get some security video cameras for the house? Whcih ones are best and most future proof? macOS Apple have done translucent menu bars before. I still don\u0026rsquo;t like them. The spaced out menus are ugly. I wish I had friends who lived this perfect Apple experience of sharing ETAs with me, sending memojies, etc. It doesn\u0026rsquo;t happen in my world. I\u0026rsquo;ve been trialling a bunch of different browsers over the past week. Safari might win me back just in time. Apple Silicon Of course it\u0026rsquo;s not called ARM Macs. Apple have built a hell of a competitive moat with Apple Silicon. Talk of Linux virtualisation but not Windows. I reckon that must be gone. ", "dateiso": "2020-06-23 13:12:52 +0800", "date": "1:12 p.m. on Jun 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/23/my-random-thoughts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F23%2Fmy-random-thoughts.html" }, { "id": 1683, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve fully Rogue Amoebafied my Mac with Audio Hijack, Fission, Farrago, Loopback, SoundSource. Send help! // @rogueamoeba\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-22 16:57:45 +0800", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Jun 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/22/ive-fully-rogue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F22%2Five-fully-rogue.html" }, { "id": 1684, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I tried out Otter.ai today which does voice to text transcription, recognising the different speakers. It’s kind of amazing, but I’m not confident of the privacy policy.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-22 15:20:27 +0800", "date": "3:20 p.m. on Jun 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/22/i-tried-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F22%2Fi-tried-out.html" }, { "id": 1685, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: 10 - Why Am I Doing This?", "text": "I consider why I am doing this podcast, and why I gave it the name Keep Practising.\nIn Nerd Corner, I note my disappointment with how Apple has handled the HEY App Store situation, but note my pride in how my article about replicating the Hey workflow in regular apps has been received.\nBrené Brown, Unlocking Us, Episode 1\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-21 13:56:00 +0800", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Jun 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/21/keep-practising-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F21%2Fkeep-practising-why.html" }, { "id": 1686, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wonder if @Fastmail have any idea of the love for them on micro.blog. They should drop in and say hi. In the words of @cheri, we would probably all throw our tech panties at them.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-21 09:20:33 +0800", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Jun 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/21/i-wonder-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F21%2Fi-wonder-if.html" }, { "id": 1687, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I edited my forthcoming podcast with a trial version of Hindenburg Journalist. It took some getting used to coming from Ferrite and it’s direct manipulation with the Apple Pencil. The main missing feature I noticed was ripple delete. I’m tempted to buy a license, though.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-21 00:32:23 +0800", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Jun 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/21/i-edited-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F21%2Fi-edited-my.html" }, { "id": 1688, "type": "post", "title": "Ecamm Live Trial", "text": " ", "dateiso": "2020-06-20 01:55:13 +0800", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Jun 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/19/ecamm-live-trial.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F19%2Fecamm-live-trial.html" }, { "id": 1689, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My home page on the web needs to be redone. But that needs motivation and an idea. I’m devoid of both.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-19 19:56:32 +0800", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Jun 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/19/my-home-page.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F19%2Fmy-home-page.html" }, { "id": 1690, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been playing around with Ecamm Live this afternoon. I have no reason to do a live stream, but it\u0026rsquo;s fun to experiment.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-19 16:21:52 +0800", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Jun 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/19/ive-been-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F19%2Five-been-playing.html" }, { "id": 1691, "type": "post", "title": "Promos", "text": " ", "dateiso": "2020-06-19 04:31:51 +0800", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Jun 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/18/promos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F18%2Fpromos.html" }, { "id": 1692, "type": "post", "title": "Addendum: Replicating Hey.com Features in MailMate", "text": "It has been pointed out by Martin McCallion that I failed to explain how I generated the \u0026ldquo;People Pages\u0026rdquo; view that is inherent within Hey into my own MailMate reconstruction.\nTo do this I created a new Smart Mailbox with the following mailbox filtering criteria:\nFurthermore, in the same mailbox configuration window, but under the \u0026lsquo;Submailboxes\u0026rsquo; tab be sure to select the checkbox to create submailboxes, and choose an appropriate filter. For creating People Pages, I went with the \u0026lsquo;From | Name\u0026rsquo; option.\nMy thanks to Martin for drawing this omission to my attention, and I hope this helps others.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-17 21:02:23 +0800", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Jun 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/17/addendum-replicating-heycom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F17%2Faddendum-replicating-heycom.html" }, { "id": 1693, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was fun and surprising to be listening to the latest episode of Mac Power Users (540) and hear my older review of MailMate mentioned and linked in the show notes.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-17 16:43:27 +0800", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Jun 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/17/it-was-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F17%2Fit-was-fun.html" }, { "id": 1694, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m contemplating shutting down my ad hoc blot.im blog over at canion.me and bringing it all over to micro.blog. Any reason not to do so? Then what do I do with the canion.me domain? Decisions, decisions\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-16 19:22:35 +0800", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Jun 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/16/im-contemplating-shutting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F16%2Fim-contemplating-shutting.html" }, { "id": 1695, "type": "post", "title": "Replicating Hey.com Features in Regular Email Systems", "text": "2021-11-28: I\u0026rsquo;ve updated this post in an effort to correct what were missing images. With thanks to @chrisl_at for letting me know of the problem.\nBasecamp has released their much-anticipated1 take on email, Hey. As a long-time fan of Basecamp and a light user of their Basecamp Personal2 product I was interested to see how they were going to address the issue of email.\nFirst off, Hey looks beautiful. Beyond looks it has a number of interesting features to support a healthier and more efficient email workflow.\nHey is a subscription service and I have no issue with this whatsoever. I already pay for email services, preferring to be a customer of an email service provider, rather than the product itself3. I\u0026rsquo;m a happy user of Fastmail which I use in conjunction with SaneBox, MailMate on my iMac, and Preside on iOS.\nFor my purposes then, I\u0026rsquo;m not looking for an email service that will allow me to migrate away from a free-of-charge provider.\nHerein lies the problem, at least in terms of me being a customer of Hey. Hey is a standalone service. Unlike a typical email provider it doesn\u0026rsquo;t expose an IMAP interface which other apps can use. If it did this, it would probably lose all the pretty add-ons they have built into the system. Furthermore it doesn\u0026rsquo;t allow the use of a custom domain. You get a nice @hey.com email address but you can\u0026rsquo;t BYO a domain name. A key part of my email infrastructure is owning my domain and emails form a component of that. Moving to Hey would mean stepping away from that lovely setup. I like owning @andrewcanion.com and @canion.me.\nFor these reasons I quickly ascertained that Hey was not a product for me.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s not to say that it doesn\u0026rsquo;t have some clever workflows, and it does look pretty. I can\u0026rsquo;t replicate the pretty, but in watching the walkthrough demo by Jason Fried I was fairly certain I could replicate most of the functionality.\nSo to satisfy my own curiosity I worked with the products I already have - SaneBox and MailMate - to see if I could construct a Hey-style workflow.\nLet\u0026rsquo;s step through the way I built my copy-cat workflow.\nTriage - Yes or No Hey lets you select whether new users will be added to your inbox (they call it an \u0026ldquo;Imbox\u0026rdquo; but I\u0026rsquo;m not going there).\nI use SaneBox for this instead. It does the same sort of triage, using machine learning to determine whether a sender is important to you or not. If it thinks they are, it goes to your inbox. If not, it goes to an alternative \u0026ldquo;SaneLater\u0026rdquo; folder.\nI have enabled notifications only for email that lands in my Inbox, so that matches the \u0026lsquo;quiet by design\u0026rsquo; feature of Hey.\nFocus \u0026amp; Reply Within Hey, this is a neat bundle of messages that are tagged to be dealt with later, most ideally in a focused session of email. They sit as a little visual stack at the bottom of the window. I can\u0026rsquo;t match the visuals, but I should be able to match the functionality with MailMate.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve created a new Smart Mailbox, named Focus \u0026amp; Reply that looks across All Messages, and filters as per these conditions:\nNote the keyword designation. MailMate lets you apply keywords to any email. To make this easier, I\u0026rsquo;ve added a keywords toolbar to MailMate, and have it set to showing the two that are relevant to the Hey-style workflow. I have a magnifying glass for Focus \u0026amp; Reply, and a pushpin for Set Aside.\nNow, if I click the icon on any email thread, it is tagged accordingly. I\u0026rsquo;ve enabled a column to show the keywords, so an email might look like this - note the magnifying glass:\nNow only emails that I\u0026rsquo;ve tagged by clicking the magnifying glass will appear in the Focus \u0026amp; Reply smart mailbox.\nSet Aside In Hey, Set Aside is designated for mail that you want to reference later. These emails are also taken away from the Inbox view.\nAs with Focus \u0026amp; Reply, I\u0026rsquo;ve set the pushpin tag to act as the determinant. Together with another Smart Search, I\u0026rsquo;ve got this group of emails configured as such:\nBut to get the workflow where these are \u0026lsquo;out of view\u0026rsquo; in my regular Inbox, I need to configure my Inbox view as well. So I\u0026rsquo;ve created an Unread Inbox, that works on a series of mailboxes and applies a condition to only show unread mail, as such:\nNow if I want to reference my Set Aside email, I can click the relevant Mailbox in the Sidebar.\nThe Feed Hey uses a concept of The Feed almost like a social media scroll of email incorporating newsletters, advisories and all the other non-timely information we get via email.\nI created this with the help of SaneBox. All my The Feed smart folder does is show me the contents of the default SaneBox SaneNews folder. It generally knows what should go in there, and I can train it as I go simply by moving mail into that folder as I see fit.\nPaper Trail The Paper Trail in Hey is for receipts, invoices, and other such transactional information.\nHere, I created a custom SaneBox folder to replicate this feature. As I get receipts and things, I will move a few into this email folder and SaneBox will quickly learn and take care of them for me in the future.\nOther Email For now, I\u0026rsquo;m still using the SaneLater mail folder to catch other less-important email. Looking at Hey, it seems email can only go to the Inbox, The Feed or The Paper Trail.\nSo for now, I\u0026rsquo;ve either got more features, or more confusion. Yet to be determined which that is.\nPeople Pages Hey has a concept of people pages where you can see everything that relates to a single individual.\nMailMate has me covered quite well here although it doesn\u0026rsquo;t look as pretty as what Hey has achieved.\nYou will note from the image of my MailMate sidebar above that I have a People Pages folder. When I expand that, MailMate shows me a folder for each individual sender. Click any of those and only email from that person shows in the main window. The image below shows this, with disguised names for privacy reasons.\nWith that, I\u0026rsquo;ve got a focused view of each person as well.\n2020-06-17: I have created an addendum to this post, providing some more detail as to how to create the People Pages smart mailbox.\nAttachments Hey surfaces attachments and looks to do a great job of this.\nI am sure that MailMate can do some kind of filtering based on attachment content, but I couldn\u0026rsquo;t figure out a combination that would get this to work effectively4.\nHowever, SaneBox offers the option to connect to a cloud storage provider and save email attachments to a folder in that storage. Optionally, it can strip the attachments from the original email.\nI created a connection to OneDrive and now SaneBox is saving email attachments there. To enhance search even further, I\u0026rsquo;m indexing that folder in DEVONthink which unlocks the myriad ways of searching and surfacing that DEVONthink offers, while keeping everything neatly in a folder structure.\nFastmail also offers the ability to save attachments to its storage space. I chose OneDrive because I wanted sync to my local drive. OneDrive was the best option as I have the most storage with it, and I\u0026rsquo;m off Dropbox now that their client has become bloat-ware. That\u0026rsquo;s not to say the OneDrive client for Mac is good - it isn\u0026rsquo;t. If only iCloud Drive was an option\u0026hellip;\nStickies, Notes and Renaming Threads Hey has me beat here. I haven\u0026rsquo;t identified a way to create notes against single emails. However this has never been a problem for me in the past. I use a combination of OmniFocus/Drafts/NotePlan to make notes and this is working for me.\nThe renaming of a thread is nice too, but again, not something I\u0026rsquo;ve ever felt the need for.\nSummary In summary, I think Hey is great. I wish them every success. If it offered the ability to work with my existing infrastructure, I\u0026rsquo;d be tempted. But as it is now the service isn\u0026rsquo;t right for me.\nYet the workflow is solid. By replicating the structure with the combination of tools that I already own/subscribe to I can benefit from the method of work, without the prettiness. I\u0026rsquo;m okay with that.\n At least in my small nerd corner of the internet.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n I\u0026rsquo;ve long intended to write a blog post about my use of Basecamp Personal. One day\u0026hellip;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n Gmail isn\u0026rsquo;t actually free, as in beer, you know?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n If anybody knows how to do this, please let me know. I welcome feedback.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2020-06-16 17:04:00 +0800", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Jun 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/16/replicating-heycom-features.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F16%2Freplicating-heycom-features.html" }, { "id": 1696, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a test of the new prototype embedding system on micro.blog.\nEmbedding microblog posts with Quotebacks manton.orgManton Reecehttps://www.manton.org/2020/06/15/embedding-microblog-posts.html It\u0026rsquo;s great to have new features to play with.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-16 13:54:17 +0800", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Jun 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/16/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F16%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1697, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve got a week that features 3-hour Zoom meetings each day. This article by @rogueamoeba is saving my ears.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-16 08:58:22 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Jun 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/16/ive-got-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F16%2Five-got-a.html" }, { "id": 1698, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I watched the first two episodes of Dear\u0026hellip; on AppleTV+ tonight. The room got very dusty at times. 💦\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-15 23:51:22 +0800", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Jun 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/15/i-watched-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F15%2Fi-watched-the.html" }, { "id": 1699, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been using Microsoft Edge for Mac today, and I\u0026rsquo;m not hating it. I\u0026rsquo;ve gone so far as to download it for iOS as well.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-15 14:37:45 +0800", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Jun 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/15/ive-been-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F15%2Five-been-using.html" }, { "id": 1700, "type": "post", "title": "Happy Birthday", "text": " 2020 wasn\u0026rsquo;t meant to be this way. I have distinct memories of working in government when up-beat policy visions with ambitious names like Towards 2020 and 2020: A Forecast of our Future were being pumped out1. These reports all had a commonality in that 2020 was guaranteed to be great! As long as we did whatever the document was promoting, from its publish date to 2020, things would be brilliant.\nWe must have failed miserably because 2020 is a shit show. On this I think we can all agree.\nIt is within this environment, that today I celebrate(?) my 43rd birthday. Honestly though, I\u0026rsquo;m happy enough to simply celebrate being alive. There have been more worthy souls than I that have had the fortune that I’ve experienced to avoid the range of ways that 2020 is trying to rain death upon us.\nActually, that\u0026rsquo;s unfair to a poor defenceless year. 2020 has nothing against us specifically. Rather we are the architects of our own doom. Whether it be through improper health controls allowing coronavirus to gain a foothold in China, or countries demonstrating a lack of leadership and coordination to corral a community towards effective COVID-19 transmission prevention, or racist hatred leading to people being killed for the skin they\u0026rsquo;re born with, we have created this 2020. This is our reality - not the one that was promoted in the glossy policy brochures in 2003.\nAnd I haven\u0026rsquo;t even mentioned climate change. That doozy is still out there and I don\u0026rsquo;t see our humanity rising to face that challenge in a coordinated way anytime soon. The worst is yet to come.\nA good thing about the past year has been that I have figured out who I am. No more am I self-conscious about the person I am or the way I think and perceive the world. I’m sure this realisation comes to others sooner but for me it has been this 42nd year that has provided me with the answers to my own universe2. This discovery has unlocked confidence in my approach to the world around me. I’ve overcome most vestiges of introversion shyness (except phone calls, I still hate them). Now at 43 years old I feel fully-formed with the confidence to deal with and respond to things I understand, the wisdom to learn about things I don’t, and the confidence to defer to experts without fear of appearing incompetent.\nIn turning 43 it’s not about me anymore. More importantly I\u0026rsquo;ve got two kids - aged 8 and 4 - and they are growing into a world that needs changing. I\u0026rsquo;ve been unsuccessful in making that change happen. Life is a lottery and I didn\u0026rsquo;t win the “become a leader of a country” prize. Look at who did and it appears obvious that it often relies on luck ahead of competence, intelligence or desire.\nSo this final statement I address to my children, and all the others in generations younger than my own. I wish that when you reach your own 43rd birthdays that you have the opportunity to look over the history of your own lives and the society you\u0026rsquo;re in that you can see positive world change.\nJust remember that as you\u0026rsquo;re working on all of your Towards 2050 vision statements, that it doesn\u0026rsquo;t mean shit if you don\u0026rsquo;t take the hard steps towards enacting the change. Learn from us.\n With no prejudice (only a quick Google) I present Exhibit A, Exhibit B and Exhibit C.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n Where would I be without this reference?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2020-06-15 12:42:00 +0800", "date": "12:42 p.m. on Jun 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/15/happy-birthday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F15%2Fhappy-birthday.html" }, { "id": 1701, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does micro.blog support footnotes? I’ve drafted a post and they don\u0026rsquo;t seem to work? cc: @help\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-15 12:30:57 +0800", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Jun 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/15/does-microblog-support.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F15%2Fdoes-microblog-support.html" }, { "id": 1702, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A public thank you to @manton for creating micro.blog. This service allows me to easily activate my creativity whether it be written word, photography, video or audio. All wrapped up around a social fabric. I love it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-15 00:11:15 +0800", "date": "12:11 p.m. on Jun 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/15/a-public-thank.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F15%2Fa-public-thank.html" }, { "id": 1703, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: 09 - Racism is not cool, featuring David Canion", "text": "Today I welcome my son to the show. He wanted to address the issue of racism, which has been on his mind of recent times.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-14 16:07:53 +0800", "date": "4:07 p.m. on Jun 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/14/keep-practising-racism.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F14%2Fkeep-practising-racism.html" }, { "id": 1704, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve trawled the internet searching my own past, collecting the more noteworthy bits. I leave quite the digital exhaust.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-13 16:33:22 +0800", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Jun 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/13/ive-trawled-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F13%2Five-trawled-the.html" }, { "id": 1705, "type": "post", "title": "Marked 2 as teleprompter", "text": "Marked 2 as teleprompter, revisited - BrettTerpstra.com:\n Once you have the theme, you can start prompting just by hitting the ‘s’ key in a Marked preview. That will start autoscroll at the slowest speed. Use left and right arrows to speed up/slow down the scroll speed. (You can also click and drag on the meter that appears in the lower left of the screen.) That’s all there is to it.\n So this is amazing. Love it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-12 12:26:16 +0800", "date": "12:26 p.m. on Jun 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/12/marked-as-teleprompter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F12%2Fmarked-as-teleprompter.html" }, { "id": 1706, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t need Hindenburg Journalist PRO but I want it. For my hobbyist needs though, price puts me right off.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-11 23:32:53 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Jun 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/11/i-dont-need.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F11%2Fi-dont-need.html" }, { "id": 1707, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some great insight into social media models on this episode from @martinfeld overcast.fm\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-11 17:12:23 +0800", "date": "5:12 p.m. on Jun 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/11/some-great-insight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F11%2Fsome-great-insight.html" }, { "id": 1708, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: 08 - Joe from NBL Pocket Podcast", "text": "I am joined by special guest Joe, host of the NBL Pocket Podcast. We talk about Joe’s experience making the podcast that is focused on the Australian National Basketball League.\nWe discuss favourite players and coaches, his best interviews, the NBL product today, and how the league engages with its fan base.\nWe also consider what makes for a quality NBL TV experience.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-11 09:03:03 +0800", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Jun 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/11/keep-practising-joe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F11%2Fkeep-practising-joe.html" }, { "id": 1709, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is me.\n\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-08 11:18:45 +0800", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Jun 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/08/this-is-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F08%2Fthis-is-me.html" }, { "id": 1710, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I signed on as a Patreon of The Unmade Podcast. As I disassociate from big social media I recognise that direct financial relationships between creators and their audience is the best model.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-08 10:13:41 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Jun 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/08/i-signed-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F08%2Fi-signed-on.html" }, { "id": 1711, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Racing cars.\n\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-07 11:26:19 +0800", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Jun 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/07/racing-cars.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F07%2Fracing-cars.html" }, { "id": 1712, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had to visit the dentist today because of a sore gum. Anaesthetic injection and some digging around saw the job done. Now it hurts more than when I went in!\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-05 17:00:03 +0800", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Jun 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/05/i-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F05%2Fi-had-to.html" }, { "id": 1713, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was brilliant to be welcomed as a guest by @martinfeld on his Lounge Ruminator podcast. We dived into our respective histories of computing. So much fun. feldnotes.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-02 08:45:20 +0800", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Jun 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/06/02/it-was-brilliant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F02%2Fit-was-brilliant.html" }, { "id": 1714, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I feel sad for my American friends, who are experiencing so many civic challenges. Change the leader; change the country.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-31 22:10:55 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on May 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/31/i-feel-sad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F31%2Fi-feel-sad.html" }, { "id": 1715, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The latest Lounge Ruminator podcast by @martinfeld is a good one. I agree that being still does result in strange looks from others.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-28 19:10:12 +0800", "date": "7:10 p.m. on May 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/28/the-latest-lounge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F28%2Fthe-latest-lounge.html" }, { "id": 1716, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My son David\u0026rsquo;s eyes lit up when he heard his own voice introduce this podcast. I\u0026rsquo;m proud to be a patr(e)on of the Like You: Mindfulness for Kids podcast.\n\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-26 22:16:35 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on May 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/26/my-son-davids.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F26%2Fmy-son-davids.html" }, { "id": 1717, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: S01, E07 - The Last Dance", "text": "Keep Practising: S01, E07 - The Last Dance.\nI give my thoughts on “The Last Dance”, and remember the time that I met Phil Jackson and Luc Longley.\nI celebrate the big news from the NBL, and specifically the Perth Wildcats.\nIn Nerd Corner this week, I’ve been improving my webcam setup and installing Windows on my iMac.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-26 14:10:05 +0800", "date": "2:10 p.m. on May 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/26/keep-practising-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F26%2Fkeep-practising-s.html" }, { "id": 1718, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Given all the lockdown protocols how the heck have I caught a cold? I feel terrible.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-26 06:49:29 +0800", "date": "6:49 p.m. on May 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/26/given-all-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F26%2Fgiven-all-the.html" }, { "id": 1719, "type": "post", "title": "My Story of Installing Windows with Boot Camp on an External SSD", "text": "The developers of Civilization 6 - and specifically Aspyr who are responsible for the Mac port - have cost me time and money, but have provided me with a sense of satisfaction from being able to complete a new IT project.\nThe latest update to the Civ franchise was deployed to the PC version of the game but not macOS (or Linux). As a result when I tried to play an online game with my friends, no dice. The two versions are now incompatible with one another. Aspyr has said nothing about an ETA for a Mac update.\nProof of Concept I enjoy playing online games with my friends. I enjoy it enough that I was willing to use Boot Camp on my iMac to create a native Windows partition. Boot Camp is annoying in that it only works with internal drives. This had me kicking myself that I saved myself some money when I customised my iMac build - selecting just a 256Gb internal SSD. Ah, hindsight. I definitely should have paid the excessive money for the bigger drive.\nAnyway, I pared down my files, offloading some to my ThunderBay RAID enclosure, and deleting some others so I had enough to create a Windows partition. The Boot Camp system worked well enough, and I was able to install Steam on it, then the PC version of Civ and have a good gaming night with my friends.\nExternal and Better In the cold light of the next day, though, I knew this was an unsustainable solution. By partitioning my internal SSD I had two Operating Systems neither of which had enough breathing space on their respective drives to be happy.\nBy some strange twist of fate and timing, this very same morning my RSS feed contained the exact article I needed to read. Riccardo Mori published an article, one part of which included details of his transition to being a part-time Windows user. He wrote:\n For the past eight days or so, I\u0026#x2019;ve been using my iMac booted into Windows 10 in the Boot Camp installation I managed to perform on an external SSD.\n Hang on. That\u0026#x2019;s what I want to do. How did he do it? I fired off a tweet:\n@morrick In relation to your latest blog, how did you install Boot Camp Windows on an external drive? I was battling with this issue yesterday, and was forced to partition my too small internal SSD. If there\u0026#x2019;s a guide you used, I\u0026#x2019;d appreciate a link. Thanks! \u0026#x2014; andrewcanion (@andrewcanion) May 25, 2020 and Riccardo responded rapidly:\nIt\u0026#x2019;s a bit of a convoluted process I suggest not to carry out in a hurry. In this post I talk about the guide I followed, with several annotations of my own. I hope it helps: https://t.co/xRh4c6erU8 \u0026#x2014; Riccardo Mori (@morrick) May 25, 2020 Note that he provided a link to a previous article of his that provides insight into how to fool Boot Camp into thinking it\u0026#x2019;s installing to an internal drive, when it\u0026#x2019;s actually an external SSD in use.\nI trucked off to my local Officeworks store and bought myself a 500Gb USB-C connected SSD drive.\nI followed along with the steps outlined by Riccardo and the other source material - a slightly out-of-date article written by OWC (incidentally the manufacturers of my aforementioned ThunderBay drive array).\nYou\u0026#x2019;re Not Successful Yet, Mate Things went well, until they didn\u0026#x2019;t. I was on the home stretch as Windows was doing the first part of the install onto the SSD. I forgot the next step though - which was to stop the installation at its reboot point (part of the \u0026#x2018;fooling BootCamp\u0026#x2019; process). I realised too late, and so I had to quit the installation and start over.\nThat created a new problem. The SSD now had a number of NTFS partitions on it, but macOS apparently cannot reinitialise a drive with a very small boot partition such as the one that Windows 10 puts on the drive. Turns out the resolution, as is often the case, is found from the command line. I give credit to Priyank Sharma for detailing precisely how to eliminate this partition problem and get the drive back to a point where I could start over by reinitialising it. Before finding his post, I was worried I had turned my new SSD drive into a small and inelegant paperweight.\nDrive restored, I started over, this time remembering to follow all the steps.\nSuccess, With Thanks to the Open Web I now have an iMac that has its full 256Gb internal SSD to itself for macOS, and a 500Gb external SSD with Windows 10 - what I can now refer to as my \u0026#x2018;gaming rig\u0026#x2019;.\nThe thing that amazes me is that USB-C appears essentially fast enough to facilitate an operating system\u0026#x2019;s data throughput requirements.\nIt\u0026#x2019;s also so great that people document their experiences on blogs across the internet. Without the three articles I have referenced, none of this would have happened. This is what the open web is all about, and why it is so much better than Facebook, et al.\nThe last step in this process is to now wait for a time when my friends want to play Civ again. Come on guys, I\u0026#x2019;m ready!\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-26 06:05:47 +0800", "date": "6:05 p.m. on May 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/25/my-story-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F25%2Fmy-story-of.html" }, { "id": 1720, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In order to play online Civilization 6 with my mates today I’ve had to install BootCamp, install Windows 10, then install Steam and the game. All because the Civ developers have updated the PC version and not the Mac so they are out of sync and won’t talk to each other.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-25 00:00:16 +0800", "date": "12:00 p.m. on May 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/25/in-order-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F25%2Fin-order-to.html" }, { "id": 1721, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our evening view as we relax on the front driveway.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-22 17:48:03 +0800", "date": "5:48 p.m. on May 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/22/our-evening-view.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F22%2Four-evening-view.html" }, { "id": 1722, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Book Recommendation 📚: Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-22 13:53:58 +0800", "date": "1:53 p.m. on May 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/22/book-recommendation-olive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F22%2Fbook-recommendation-olive.html" }, { "id": 1723, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Book Recommendation 📚: The Mote in God’s Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-21 12:52:30 +0800", "date": "12:52 p.m. on May 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/21/book-recommendation-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F21%2Fbook-recommendation-the.html" }, { "id": 1724, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Book Recommendation 📚: Educated, Tara Westover\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-20 13:22:55 +0800", "date": "1:22 p.m. on May 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/20/book-recommendation-educated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F20%2Fbook-recommendation-educated.html" }, { "id": 1725, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Book Recommendation 📚: The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-19 10:22:28 +0800", "date": "10:22 p.m. on May 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/19/book-recommendation-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F19%2Fbook-recommendation-the.html" }, { "id": 1726, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Book Recommendation 📚: Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-18 10:29:47 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on May 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/18/book-recommendation-boy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F18%2Fbook-recommendation-boy.html" }, { "id": 1727, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown | Free to read | Financial Times\u0026rdquo;\nEdward Luce writing for The Financial Times:\n \u0026ldquo;Other scientists have taken note of Bright’s fate. During the Ebola outbreak in 2014, when Obama’s administration sent 3,000 US military personnel to Africa to fight the epidemic, the CDC held a daily briefing about the state of progress. It has not held one since early March. Scientists across Washington are terrified of saying anything that contradicts Trump.\n “The way to keep your job is to out-loyal everyone else, which means you have to tolerate quackery,” says Anthony Scaramucci, an estranged former Trump adviser, who was briefly his White House head of communications. “You have to flatter him in public and flatter him in private. Above all, you must never make him feel ignorant.”\u0026rdquo;\n This brilliant long read article details how the US has essentially become a failed state, led by a megalomaniacal madman.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-17 09:15:34 +0800", "date": "9:15 p.m. on May 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/17/link-post-inside.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F17%2Flink-post-inside.html" }, { "id": 1728, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Colour-a-Day Challenge: (Indigo 📷🌈 (Not exactly indigo)\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 18:39:17 +0800", "date": "6:39 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/16/colouraday-challenge-indigo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Fcolouraday-challenge-indigo.html" }, { "id": 1729, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Daring Fireball: Financial Times Reports the Obvious: Trump Resisted Testing ‘Too Many People’ Lest the Results Spook the Stock Market\u0026rdquo;\nJohn Gruber writing for Daring Fireball:\n \u0026ldquo;The problem isn’t testing, the problem is sick people, and testing is a way to get a handle on the problem. Trump’s stance is like telling your girlfriend not to take a pregnancy test because you don’t want a baby.\u0026rdquo;\n What a great line.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 08:53:55 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/16/link-post-daring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Flink-post-daring.html" }, { "id": 1730, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to this video I have discovered how to use my old Nikon D7000 with 50mm lens as a webcam. Which led me to buying an adaptor to convert a mic boom arm into a dSLR mount. High quality video conferencing coming up.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 00:30:14 +0800", "date": "12:30 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/16/thanks-to-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Fthanks-to-this.html" }, { "id": 1731, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Colour-a-Day Challenge: Blue 📷🌈\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-15 15:08:28 +0800", "date": "3:08 p.m. on May 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/15/colouraday-challenge-blue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F15%2Fcolouraday-challenge-blue.html" }, { "id": 1732, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "COVID-19 has been a boon for improving my friendships. Since the outbreak my closest knit guys have held a weekly group Zoom meeting plus chatting in WhatsApp. The bonds of friendship have been strengthened. I love it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-15 10:50:57 +0800", "date": "10:50 p.m. on May 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/15/covid-has-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F15%2Fcovid-has-been.html" }, { "id": 1733, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Battle of the iOS email heavyweights - BryceWray.com Bryce Wray assesses power-user mobile email apps in an enjoyable review (and references one of my articles 🙂). I’ve been trialling Preside and can vouch for the responsiveness of the developer.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-15 10:12:25 +0800", "date": "10:12 p.m. on May 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/15/battleofthe-iosemailheavyweights-brycewraycom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F15%2Fbattleofthe-iosemailheavyweights-brycewraycom.html" }, { "id": 1734, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Colour-a-Day Challenge: Green 📷🌈\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-14 16:45:20 +0800", "date": "4:45 p.m. on May 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/14/colouraday-challenge-green.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F14%2Fcolouraday-challenge-green.html" }, { "id": 1735, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The number of apps able to post to micro.blog are growing. The native app, Gluon, Drafts, MarsEdit and now the one I’m using here: iA Writer. No excuse not to post.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-14 08:22:50 +0800", "date": "8:22 p.m. on May 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/14/the-number-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F14%2Fthe-number-of.html" }, { "id": 1736, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Colour-a-Day Challenge: Yellow 📷🌈\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-13 21:58:08 +0800", "date": "9:58 p.m. on May 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/13/colouraday-challenge-yellow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F13%2Fcolouraday-challenge-yellow.html" }, { "id": 1737, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: S01, E06 - Life in Isolation", "text": "Keep Practising: S01, E06: I reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted life at home and on Perth more broadly. In \u0026ldquo;Nerd Corner\u0026rdquo; this week, I talk about using Stream Deck in combination with Keyboard Maestro.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-13 00:35:43 +0800", "date": "12:35 p.m. on May 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/13/003509.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F13%2F003509.html" }, { "id": 1738, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Colour-a-Day Challenge: Orange 📷🌈\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-12 13:54:48 +0800", "date": "1:54 p.m. on May 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/12/colouraday-challenge-orange.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F12%2Fcolouraday-challenge-orange.html" }, { "id": 1739, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My wife and our kids were featured in a newspaper article over the weekend as part of Mother\u0026rsquo;s Day.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-11 16:08:00 +0800", "date": "4:08 p.m. on May 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/11/my-wife-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F11%2Fmy-wife-and.html" }, { "id": 1740, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Colour-a-Day Challenge: Red 📷\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-11 16:03:22 +0800", "date": "4:03 p.m. on May 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/11/colouraday-challenge-red.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F11%2Fcolouraday-challenge-red.html" }, { "id": 1741, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Mother’s Day!\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-10 18:18:27 +0800", "date": "6:18 p.m. on May 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/10/happy-mothers-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F10%2Fhappy-mothers-day.html" }, { "id": 1742, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " The details are not the details; they make the product.\n ‒ Charles Eames 💬\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-10 14:48:50 +0800", "date": "2:48 p.m. on May 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/10/the-details-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F10%2Fthe-details-are.html" }, { "id": 1743, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.\n ‒ Frank Tibolt 💬\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-09 10:30:20 +0800", "date": "10:30 p.m. on May 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/09/we-should-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F09%2Fwe-should-be.html" }, { "id": 1744, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.\n ‒ John Glenn 💬\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-08 12:39:17 +0800", "date": "12:39 p.m. on May 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/08/as-i-hurtled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F08%2Fas-i-hurtled.html" }, { "id": 1745, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got a Stream Deck today. Will be fun to see what interesting shortcuts and automations I can concoct with it and Keyboard Maestro.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-07 21:20:03 +0800", "date": "9:20 p.m. on May 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/07/i-got-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F07%2Fi-got-a.html" }, { "id": 1746, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Life is not about finding yourself. It\u0026rsquo;s about creating yourself.\n ‒ George Bernard Shaw 💬\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-07 18:03:11 +0800", "date": "6:03 p.m. on May 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/07/life-is-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F07%2Flife-is-not.html" }, { "id": 1747, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.\u2028— John James Audubon 💬\n ", "dateiso": "2020-05-06 18:35:15 +0800", "date": "6:35 p.m. on May 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/06/a-true-conservationist.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F06%2Fa-true-conservationist.html" }, { "id": 1748, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Big storm here tonight. We’ve had a backyard fence blow down. ⛈\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-05 22:45:49 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on May 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/05/big-storm-here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F05%2Fbig-storm-here.html" }, { "id": 1749, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum, while all the time the presuppositions […] are being reinforced by the limits put on […] the debate.\n — Noam Chomsky 💬\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-05 10:42:39 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on May 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/05/the-smart-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F05%2Fthe-smart-way.html" }, { "id": 1750, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: S01, E05 - Meditation", "text": "Keep Practising: S01, E05: I take on the hippy-dippy topic of meditation, have some follow-up with regards to Australian basketball and introduce a new segment, \u0026ldquo;Nerd Corner\u0026rdquo;.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-04 23:53:24 +0800", "date": "11:53 p.m. on May 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/04/keep-practising-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F04%2Fkeep-practising-s.html" }, { "id": 1751, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve had fun using Ferrite Podcast Studio to edit an upcoming podcast episode. At this stage, I\u0026rsquo;m not sure if it\u0026rsquo;s faster than using a Mac, but it\u0026rsquo;s definitely more fun.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-04 23:43:04 +0800", "date": "11:43 p.m. on May 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/04/ive-had-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F04%2Five-had-fun.html" }, { "id": 1752, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why do we need mounted police in 2020? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) This guy is a classic Aussie. Him saying “crooks” and “coppers” sounds perfect. Love it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-03 08:20:40 +0800", "date": "8:20 p.m. on May 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/03/why-do-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F03%2Fwhy-do-we.html" }, { "id": 1753, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Garage door adjustment is going to be the death of me. Whatever combination of screws I turn, I can\u0026rsquo;t get it right.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-01 15:46:52 +0800", "date": "3:46 p.m. on May 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/05/01/garage-door-adjustment.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F05%2F01%2Fgarage-door-adjustment.html" }, { "id": 1754, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New nerd achievement unlocked: I created a Digital Ocean droplet and spun up an instance of a Discourse Forum today.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-29 16:26:44 +0800", "date": "4:26 p.m. on Apr 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/29/new-nerd-achievement.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F29%2Fnew-nerd-achievement.html" }, { "id": 1755, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Episodes of The Last Dance fly by so quickly. I’m just settling in and then - bam - they’re finished. Such good TV.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-28 23:32:15 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Apr 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/28/episodes-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F28%2Fepisodes-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1756, "type": "post", "title": "Podcast From The Field", "text": "Andrew checks in during a mental state refreshing bushwalk.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-28 16:39:17 +0800", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Apr 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/28/podcast-from-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F28%2Fpodcast-from-the.html" }, { "id": 1757, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been investigating best value podcast editing software for my Mac. Then the penny dropped; the best software isn\u0026rsquo;t on the Mac - it\u0026rsquo;s on iOS, and it\u0026rsquo;s called Ferrite.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-26 23:04:25 +0800", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Apr 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/26/ive-been-investigating.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F26%2Five-been-investigating.html" }, { "id": 1758, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: S01, E04 - Basketball", "text": "Keep Practising: S01, E04: Basketball. Andrew reminisces about his basketball playing days, and provides us with a scouting report on his own game. 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-26 15:38:04 +0800", "date": "3:38 p.m. on Apr 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/26/keep-practising-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F26%2Fkeep-practising-s.html" }, { "id": 1759, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today’s view from the porch could be worse.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-25 14:01:29 +0800", "date": "2:01 p.m. on Apr 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/25/todays-view-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F25%2Ftodays-view-from.html" }, { "id": 1760, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bedraggled Bear.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-25 10:23:27 +0800", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Apr 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/25/bedraggled-bear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F25%2Fbedraggled-bear.html" }, { "id": 1761, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My kid has the best giggles.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-24 20:41:07 +0800", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Apr 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/24/my-kid-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F24%2Fmy-kid-has.html" }, { "id": 1762, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our work had an online Zoom-based quiz game today using Kahoot.it. It was fun and I got bragging rights - came second in the first game, and won the second game. In your face, team! 😂\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-24 18:33:43 +0800", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Apr 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/24/our-work-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F24%2Four-work-had.html" }, { "id": 1763, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got out and shot some basketball hoops today; first time in months. I loved it. Playing basketball is the physical activity that feels perfectly natural to me. My body knows exactly what to do. There’s nothing else like it. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-22 23:19:21 +0800", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Apr 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/22/i-got-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F22%2Fi-got-out.html" }, { "id": 1764, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I watched Episode 1 of The Last Dance and was reminded of why I fell in love with basketball. 90s-era NBA offered genuine competition in what was a small commercial enterprise. Also fashion!\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-21 18:22:41 +0800", "date": "6:22 p.m. on Apr 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/21/i-watched-episode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F21%2Fi-watched-episode.html" }, { "id": 1765, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have no idea as to what represents a \u0026lsquo;good\u0026rsquo; number of downloads for a podcast, but I\u0026rsquo;m excited to have seen 767 for my latest effort. Thanks to everyone who did listen!\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-21 13:42:45 +0800", "date": "1:42 p.m. on Apr 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/21/i-have-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F21%2Fi-have-no.html" }, { "id": 1766, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: S01, E03", "text": "Keep Practising: S01, E03. A potted history of computer gaming.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-19 16:49:04 +0800", "date": "4:49 p.m. on Apr 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/19/keep-practising-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F19%2Fkeep-practising-s.html" }, { "id": 1767, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m falling deep into the audio production rabbit hole. I’ve bought Loopback and Audio Hijack Pro from @rogueamoeba. Anybody want to do a podcast with me?\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-18 00:31:00 +0800", "date": "12:31 p.m. on Apr 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/18/im-falling-deep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F18%2Fim-falling-deep.html" }, { "id": 1768, "type": "post", "title": "Writing for the Web", "text": " Why Word documents are not great for the web, and why plain text files written in \u0026#x2018;Markdown\u0026#x2019; syntax are the way to go when writing anything destined for online delivery.\n Microsoft Word was designed for writing in an era when the finished result would be a printed page. There is still a place for that - and often the printed page is now a generated PDF.\nThe web, however, is of different origins. By its nature, web content needs to be:\nFlexible Semantic Let\u0026#x2019;s consider each in turn. \u0026#x2018;Flexible\u0026#x2019; means that it needs to adjust to the capabilities of the renderer. In the early days, this was a text-based browser versus a graphical one. Nowadays, it\u0026#x2019;s about viewports - how big is the window and screen, or what device is it being displayed upon? The text needs to sensibly fit and flow to whatever display is being used. Word documents only need to look good on the pseudo-page it has been designed for.\nSemantic means that there is meaning within the content. Word has the concept of styles, which few people use. The web uses line definitions, so you can nominate a line to be of \u0026#x2018;Heading 1\u0026#x2019; type, or \u0026#x2018;unordered list\u0026#x2019; type (i.e.\u0026#xA0;bullets). When you do these in Word, you are changing an appearance that is specific to that document. On the web, you can\u0026#x2019;t trust that everybody has the same fonts, resolution, or display capabilities. So instead, you semantically describe the text, and let the end device decide how that will look.\nThat Sounds Complicated, I Don\u0026#x2019;t Want to Write Html I agree, that is complicated, and that is why Markdown was invented - to make writing for the web easier than writing in Word!\nTo write for the web, use a plain text editor. Forget Word - that\u0026#x2019;s not the right tool for the job. There are some brilliant editors available that are optimised for writing Markdown, but you can use the most basic editor, such as NotePad on Windows.\nMy favourite Markdown-focused text editor which is available for all platforms is iA Writer. It\u0026#x2019;s awesome.\nWriting in Markdown The best way to explain Markdown is to show it.\nEach Heading is preceded by a #. So my major headings are written as # My Title. Next level headings are written ## Next Level Heading. Your text stays text. Later, it gets converted and rendered as HTML.\nWant a bullet? Use an asterisk.\n* First point. * Second point. * Third point. becomes\n First point. Second point. Third point. Let\u0026#x2019;s get fancy and add a link. Just type a link to [my website](https://andrewcanion.com) which renders as a link to my website. See, all you did was add brackets and braces. Everything is readable, there\u0026#x2019;s no fancy technology. It\u0026#x2019;s all plain text.\nThe image below is a screenshot of me writing this article in iA Writer. I edit in the left frame, and get a live preview of the rendered article on the right side.\niA Writer in Use\nGoogle Markdown This is not esoteric stuff. This is base-level knowledge for the modern worker. Google \u0026#x2018;markdown\u0026#x2019; and you\u0026#x2019;ll see what I mean.\nThis is your chance to level-up - it\u0026#x2019;s not hard; it\u0026#x2019;s your chance to move with the times.\nI Love It, Tell Me More! There\u0026#x2019;s more to the Markdown syntax than what I\u0026#x2019;ve shown here. This is a nice cheatsheet showing the broader range of syntax available.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-17 20:58:23 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Apr 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/17/writing-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F17%2Fwriting-for-the.html" }, { "id": 1769, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Coffee shop visit with my baby boy.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-16 21:42:10 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Apr 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/16/coffee-shop-visit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F16%2Fcoffee-shop-visit.html" }, { "id": 1770, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m happy I bought a license for Black Ink. It\u0026rsquo;s been great using it in combination with my subscription to the NYTimes crossword. Thanks for making great software, @danielpunkass\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-16 21:31:39 +0800", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Apr 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/16/im-happy-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F16%2Fim-happy-i.html" }, { "id": 1771, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With all the Zoom meetings in our house now, I\u0026rsquo;ve created a Siri Shortcut, “On Air\u0026quot; that turns one of our smart lamps red. No more accidental interruptions!\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-15 10:16:16 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Apr 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/15/with-all-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F15%2Fwith-all-the.html" }, { "id": 1772, "type": "post", "title": "Will Coronavirus Change Society Forever?", "text": "Will our giant monuments to mass transportation soon appear as white elephants dedicated to the god of hubris? Gigantic airports, ocean ports for cruise liners, and all the planes, trains, ships and automobiles that use them - will they all become stranded assets slowly losing the war against entropy?\nWill our stadiums and shopping centres, designed to pack people into shared experiences, point to an irrelevant way of life?\nWill our next generation of people wonder what it was like to have global experiences be the norm, and consider the way we would gather en masse to watch sport and entertainment a strange and incomprehensible way of life?\nAre we moving back to a local lifestyle? Is this the beginning of the end for the global village? Was this era of multi nationalism and free global movement a blip in the history of mankind, rather than part of the continual upward trajectory we had assumed it to be?\nAre we about to enter a modern version of a dark age?\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-13 17:36:27 +0800", "date": "5:36 p.m. on Apr 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/13/will-coronavirus-change.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F13%2Fwill-coronavirus-change.html" }, { "id": 1773, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I’m partaking in another great Easter tradition: the giant yard cleanup and other assorted handyman jobs.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-13 11:12:21 +0800", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Apr 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/13/today-im-partaking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F13%2Ftoday-im-partaking.html" }, { "id": 1774, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good morning. Third morning of backyard tenting, our Easter holiday experience in a time of COVID-19. I can report the birds in our neighbourhood are loud.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-13 08:34:40 +0800", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Apr 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/13/good-morning-third.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F13%2Fgood-morning-third.html" }, { "id": 1775, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: S01, E02", "text": "Keep Practising: S01, E02. In this time of COVID-19 quarantines, I consider the value of social media platforms to my life.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-11 16:11:02 +0800", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Apr 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/11/keep-practising-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F11%2Fkeep-practising-s.html" }, { "id": 1776, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s not Easter without camping. Our COVID-19 response has been to set up in the backyard. David cooks the best marshmallows even though he doesn’t like eating them. So sit near him!\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-11 08:19:25 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Apr 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/11/its-not-easter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F11%2Fits-not-easter.html" }, { "id": 1777, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We played Cards Against Humanity - Family Edition today. 8 year-old loved it, 4 year-old playing with random selection won the game.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-10 16:42:59 +0800", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Apr 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/10/we-played-cards.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F10%2Fwe-played-cards.html" }, { "id": 1778, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My plan to upgrade my webcam from the iMac camera to a digital camera was foiled by both my cameras being too old to support a clean signal sent via HDMI. Seems I\u0026rsquo;m stuck with the rubbish webcam.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-09 19:44:27 +0800", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Apr 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/09/my-plan-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F09%2Fmy-plan-to.html" }, { "id": 1779, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had to pay $138 for 454g of ant killer today - and that\u0026rsquo;s not even COVID-19 pricing! Research indicated that it was the only stuff likely to work for this particular type of critter. Early signs are positive.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-08 19:34:07 +0800", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Apr 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/08/i-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F08%2Fi-had-to.html" }, { "id": 1780, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve cancelled my web host. Now I’ve got my web page hosted on Fastmail. Nice way to save some money.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-08 17:43:20 +0800", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Apr 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/08/ive-cancelled-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F08%2Five-cancelled-my.html" }, { "id": 1781, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was fun to listen to my friend Emily Dickinson speak on the just Steve podcast. 🎙\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-08 09:11:26 +0800", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Apr 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/08/it-was-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F08%2Fit-was-fun.html" }, { "id": 1782, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My 8-year old son is obsessed with US politics, even though he is Australian. I think he has inherited his Poppy’s genes.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-07 09:41:29 +0800", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Apr 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/07/my-year-old.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F07%2Fmy-year-old.html" }, { "id": 1783, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s nice to look at my calendar for tomorrow and see that while I have three client calls, all of them are people I know well enough at this point to consider them friends. Turns a business call into an opportunity to catch up.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-06 22:16:17 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Apr 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/06/its-nice-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F06%2Fits-nice-to.html" }, { "id": 1784, "type": "post", "title": "Keep Practising: S01, E01", "text": "Keep Practising: S01, E01.\nAndrew starts a podcast. As is the cultural norm, this first podcast episode is dominated with talk about podcasting.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 20:02:00 +0800", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/05/keep-practising-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fkeep-practising-s.html" }, { "id": 1785, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families\u0026rdquo;\nCloudflare Blog:\n \u0026ldquo;Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families — the easiest way to add a layer of protection to your home network and protect it from malware and adult content. \u0026quot;\n I used Cloudflare DNS in the past, but more recently have been using OpenDNS to block non-kid-safe content but its relatively slow. Now I’m moving back to Cloudflare.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-02 19:34:55 +0800", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Apr 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/02/link-post-introducing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F02%2Flink-post-introducing.html" }, { "id": 1786, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I recognise all the dodgy security and behavioural issues at Zoom. At the same time, their service has been rock solid helping me get work done during the day, and in touch with family and friends at night.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-01 22:45:13 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Apr 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/04/01/i-recognise-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F04%2F01%2Fi-recognise-all.html" }, { "id": 1787, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "PSA: If your home network goes down, don’t assume it’s the fault of a device. It might just be a dodgy Ethernet cable. Of course, I would realise that straight away and not waste 2 hours diagnosing various other possible causes.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-29 22:58:14 +0800", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Mar 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/29/psa-if-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F29%2Fpsa-if-your.html" }, { "id": 1788, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve rebuilt my Raspberry Pi and am once again avoiding ads, thanks to Pi-hole.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 22:03:22 +0800", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/28/ive-rebuilt-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Five-rebuilt-my.html" }, { "id": 1789, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Furniture rearranging day. We converted a bedroom to a kids activity room, reorganised the layout in the study, and created a second home office desk. I’ve surely had my exercise for today.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 21:37:05 +0800", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/28/furniture-rearranging-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Ffurniture-rearranging-day.html" }, { "id": 1790, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Raspberry Pi died. Already missing Pi-hole ad blocking.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 13:04:09 +0800", "date": "1:04 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/28/my-raspberry-pi.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Fmy-raspberry-pi.html" }, { "id": 1791, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve spent the morning rearranging furniture in my study. After a week of Zoom meetings I discovered the lighting was terrible, making my head look like a tomato. Hopefully this change improves things!\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 10:20:24 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/28/ive-spent-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Five-spent-the.html" }, { "id": 1792, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I never anticipated that I would experience (and hopefully live through) a pandemic in my lifetime. Our lives - and our dominion over the planet - are fragile. We need to come out of this much more aware as a global society.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-22 19:08:25 +0800", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Mar 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/22/i-never-anticipated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F22%2Fi-never-anticipated.html" }, { "id": 1793, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Donald Trump Is a Menace to Public Health\u0026rdquo;\nThe entire article is certainly worth reading. It was hard to pick out excerpts because it’s all so well written.\nAdam Serwer writing for The Atlantic:\n Authoritarian leaders prize loyalty over expertise, and part of the way such leaders determine loyalty is through demanding sycophantic praise from underlings, smoking out those unwilling to bend the knee.\n Democracy can be thought of as a garden; if you don’t tend to it, it doesn’t take long to be overtaken by the weeds of alternative, less-preferred civic models.\n \u0026ldquo;Trumpist media outlets, by contrast, have created a bubble of unreality where nothing but the most effusive praise of Trump is acceptable, where anyone who disagrees with or criticizes the president is part of a grand conspiracy to destroy him, and where the only facts that exist are those that reflect well on the president.\u0026rdquo;\n Having denied that the coronavirus was a major issue for months, the president sought to recast himself as an oracle, and conservative media followed suit, shifting their tone from downplaying the severity of the pandemic to praising the heroic efforts of the president to address it.\n I’m old fashioned in that I like my news to give me the news, not an opinion. Right-wing media is out of control - pretending to be news but actually delivering propaganda.\n The president is a relentless scammer at heart, and even during a pandemic he will attempt to get what he wants while providing as little as possible in return, as though he were trying to save cash by stiffing a contractor.\n This pretty much nails it. Everything is for personal gain; not for the collective good. In Trump’s world, everything is a zero-sum game.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-22 10:24:44 +0800", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Mar 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/22/link-post-donald.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F22%2Flink-post-donald.html" }, { "id": 1794, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” - Washington Post\u0026rdquo;\nHarry Stevens writing for Washington Post:\n If the number of cases were to continue to double every three days, there would be about a hundred million cases in the United States by May.\nThat is math, not prophecy.\n The simulation diagrams in this story provide the best example of how social distancing can be beneficial.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 19:53:53 +0800", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/15/link-post-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Flink-post-why.html" }, { "id": 1795, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I took my kid to the park and we met a lovely family who is new to the neighbourhood. We had a great conversation while our kids played together. We maintained appropriate social distance for a coronavirus world, and the social interaction has improved my mood.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 18:46:30 +0800", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/15/i-took-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Fi-took-my.html" }, { "id": 1796, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If we are all going into quarantine - and potentially seeing reduced personal income - budgeting becomes even more important. I recommend YNAB - I\u0026rsquo;ve been a happy paying customer for years. 💵\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 13:45:22 +0800", "date": "1:45 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/15/if-we-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Fif-we-are.html" }, { "id": 1797, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If we arranged a global agreement whereby the entire world entered isolation for two weeks, essentially pausing everything, would that eliminate the virus and minimise the economic impact?\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-11 21:34:01 +0800", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Mar 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/11/if-we-arranged.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F11%2Fif-we-arranged.html" }, { "id": 1798, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve draped nine towels around my study. It sounds so much nicer in here now. I’m sure the appearance will not gain approval from my wife, however.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-11 11:04:51 +0800", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Mar 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/11/ive-draped-nine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F11%2Five-draped-nine.html" }, { "id": 1799, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Like You:\n Like You is a mindfulness podcast for kids, exploring feelings \u0026amp; encouraging self-esteem through imagination-based exercises.\n I\u0026rsquo;m supporting this podcast on Patreon. Both my boys enjoy the show.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-10 22:41:53 +0800", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Mar 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/10/like-you-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F10%2Flike-you-like.html" }, { "id": 1800, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Given societal concerns about COVID-19, I’ve turned to offering people I had scheduled face-to-face meetings with the option to meet via video conference instead.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-10 16:23:46 +0800", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Mar 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/10/given-societal-concerns.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F10%2Fgiven-societal-concerns.html" }, { "id": 1801, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Should I be more worried about COVID-19 than I am? I can’t help but think about statistically likelihoods and the probability still seems low compared with more mundane disasters. Also, I lived through a bout of swine flu which might be giving me false confidence in my immune system.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-08 09:25:13 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Mar 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/08/should-i-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F08%2Fshould-i-be.html" }, { "id": 1802, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 30: Vision.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-02 12:46:57 +0800", "date": "12:46 p.m. on Mar 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/02/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F02%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1803, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 29: Leap.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-01 20:32:06 +0800", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Mar 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/03/01/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F03%2F01%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1804, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 28: Below.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-29 17:52:36 +0800", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Feb 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/29/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F29%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1805, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 27: Together.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-28 16:50:36 +0800", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Feb 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/28/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1806, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 26: Escape.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-27 17:37:09 +0800", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Feb 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/27/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F27%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1807, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 25: Hurdle.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-26 17:46:22 +0800", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Feb 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/26/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F26%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1808, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now that\u0026rsquo;s more like it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-25 14:33:33 +0800", "date": "2:33 p.m. on Feb 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/25/now-thats-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fnow-thats-more.html" }, { "id": 1809, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 24: Double. Two WD Red drives ready to join the array.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-25 09:23:22 +0800", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Feb 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/25/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1810, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Productivity rating has been at 💯 today. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably crash tomorrow.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-24 23:46:19 +0800", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Feb 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/24/productivity-rating-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F24%2Fproductivity-rating-has.html" }, { "id": 1811, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 23: Station. Going back in time for this one. A younger me excited to be riding the trains of Paris.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-24 20:46:29 +0800", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Feb 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/24/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F24%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1812, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 22: Spectacle.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-23 17:39:14 +0800", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Feb 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/23/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F23%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1813, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 21: Progress.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-22 16:39:30 +0800", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Feb 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/22/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F22%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1814, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 20: Scale.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-21 19:20:28 +0800", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Feb 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/21/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F21%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1815, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve achieved the impossible. I have migrated my wife from Gmail to Fastmail.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-20 22:41:20 +0800", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Feb 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/20/ive-achieved-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Five-achieved-the.html" }, { "id": 1816, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 18: Space. The storage space I had on my NAS is not looking good.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-20 20:03:37 +0800", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Feb 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/20/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1817, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One drive in my NAS reported SMART errors. I replace it. While rebuilding the RAID array with the new disk in place I\u0026rsquo;m notified of major errors on another disk. What are the odds? Will the RAID array be able to rebuild successfully? It\u0026rsquo;s currently at 41%. 😥\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-20 15:56:17 +0800", "date": "3:56 p.m. on Feb 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/20/one-drive-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Fone-drive-in.html" }, { "id": 1818, "type": "post", "title": "🔗 Link Post: \"Boeing 737 Max: debris found in fuel tanks of grounded planes\"", "text": "The Guardian:\n \u0026ldquo;Boeing has ordered inspections of its entire fleet of grounded 737 Max planes after it found debris in the fuel tanks of some of the aircraft, in the latest setback for the US plane-maker\u0026rdquo;\n Boeing seems to have forgotten the key tenets of lean manufacturing, especially the part about fixing problems at the source and not passing faults up the chain.\nIt used to be said that, “if it’s not Boeing, I’m not going”. Nowadays, I feel more comfortable with Airbus.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-19 22:15:50 +0800", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Feb 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/19/link-post-boeing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F19%2Flink-post-boeing.html" }, { "id": 1819, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 18: Oppose.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-19 15:40:14 +0800", "date": "3:40 p.m. on Feb 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/19/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F19%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1820, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mark Ritson is a very impressive presenter. The audience is totally engaged with it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-19 11:01:59 +0800", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Feb 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/19/mark-ritson-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F19%2Fmark-ritson-is.html" }, { "id": 1821, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve added a /reading page to my website to display articles I\u0026rsquo;ve starred in Inoreader, and the books I’ve logged as reading in Goodreads.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-18 21:39:02 +0800", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Feb 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/18/ive-added-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F18%2Five-added-a.html" }, { "id": 1822, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I met a guy who used to work for Nashua. Immediately I recalled the days where if you wanted to secure your quality Amiga 500 warez you would buy Nashua floppy’s.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-18 20:29:37 +0800", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Feb 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/18/i-met-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F18%2Fi-met-a.html" }, { "id": 1823, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the drives in my ancient NAS is dying. I’m going to have to replace it. What I want now though is a ThunderBay RAID enclosure to directly connect. I’m sick of network drives.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-18 20:16:45 +0800", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Feb 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/18/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F18%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1824, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 17: Cool.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-18 15:29:04 +0800", "date": "3:29 p.m. on Feb 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/18/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F18%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1825, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 16: (Spoon) Rest.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-17 15:04:13 +0800", "date": "3:04 p.m. on Feb 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/17/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F17%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1826, "type": "post", "title": "HyperPlan", "text": "Have you ever used a pivot table in Excel, and thought that there must be a better way?\nHave you ever built a Kanban board in Trello but realised you need a second axis?\nHave you ever designed a table in OmniGraffle or PowerPoint and thought there must a more straightforward way?\nI have. So I purchased a license for the Home version of HyperPlan.\nMy Uses to Date I\u0026#x2019;ve owned HyperPlan for just a couple of weeks. Already I\u0026#x2019;ve found a couple of great uses for it:\n I\u0026#x2019;ve built an insightful Kanban status board for my projects. I\u0026#x2019;ve used it in a workshop I facilitated. Initially I captured ideas arising from a brainstorming session. Then we went back through each captured thought and allocated them into groups of categories simply by dragging and dropping. I was doing this by projecting the HyperPlan board onto a big screen. It created a great interactive environment. Features A nice feature of HyperPlan is that it can track multiple properties for each record. You can use any of these properties to act as the x and y vertices of the pivot table constructed, but the chosen property can be changed at any time with the click of a mouse.\nWhat\u0026#x2019;s more, any of the other properties can be displayed on the record card itself, or used to build a colour-coding system.\nData can be displayed in three main ways: as a graphical pivot table, as a graph of data, or in tabular form. The pivot table is home base. New data can be added to any element at any time.\nThe following two images provide an insight into how HyperPlan can build up some detailed insights:\nHyperPlan Kanban Board (text on cards has been redacted)\nHyperPlan Chart counting categories\nJoyful Software I remain a fan of locally-installed software, over web applications that run in a browser. That probably positions me firmly in the \u0026#x2018;old man\u0026#x2019; camp. I don\u0026#x2019;t care. I like leveraging the power of multicore processors running at multiple Gigahertz. I like the app being in its own container - not a browser. So I commend HyperPlan for being a local app.\nUnfortunately, for this Mac user, it\u0026#x2019;s not quite a native app. There are some giveaways in the user interface and user experience that betray its development with a cross-platform environment. It\u0026#x2019;s still better than Electron apps, though. These criticisms are little quibbles, like the text alignment of labels not quite matching with the interface controls, and some non-native iconography.\nI\u0026#x2019;ve reached out to the developer, Andy Brice, about these, and he has been extremely responsive. Buying this software also supports a nice person like this. That\u0026#x2019;s nicer than paying money to a corporate behemoth, or underwriting a valuation for some venture capitalist.\nMy Recommendation Ultimately, HyperPlan is fun to use. It\u0026#x2019;s joyful to see cards whizz around the screen as the pivot parameters are changed. It provides a great visual insight into the dataset in use. I love it. I recommend it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-17 06:33:56 +0800", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Feb 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/16/hyperplan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F16%2Fhyperplan.html" }, { "id": 1827, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A new Blossom Dearie album is on Apple Music. It\u0026rsquo;s lovely.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-16 22:44:58 +0800", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Feb 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/16/a-new-blossom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F16%2Fa-new-blossom.html" }, { "id": 1828, "type": "post", "title": "🔗 Link Post: \"Donald Trump, the view across the pond\"", "text": "Paul J. Miller:\n \u0026ldquo;Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.\nAnd scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.\u0026rdquo;\n Paul offers some thoughts and insights regarding Trump, from a British perspective. I think the Australian view is similar, but members of our society are more likely to say, “well, what else would you expect from a Seppo1?” Disparaging critique is a key element of our culture.\n Seppo, short for septic tank, which rhymes with Yank, which is slang for an American citizen.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2020-02-16 21:24:43 +0800", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Feb 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/16/link-post-donald.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F16%2Flink-post-donald.html" }, { "id": 1829, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 15: Balance.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-16 15:24:59 +0800", "date": "3:24 p.m. on Feb 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/16/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F16%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1830, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 14: Warmth.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-15 15:11:50 +0800", "date": "3:11 p.m. on Feb 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/15/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F15%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1831, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There are some cracking photos on Micro.blog - thanks @macgenie for surfacing them in the Discover tab.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-15 08:05:22 +0800", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Feb 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/15/there-are-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F15%2Fthere-are-some.html" }, { "id": 1832, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 13: Rise.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-14 17:26:45 +0800", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Feb 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/14/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F14%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1833, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was a user of Overcast from launch until last year. I switched to Castro and it\u0026rsquo;s inbox feature to help with podcast overwhelm. Now I\u0026rsquo;m trying Overcast again mainly because of boredom.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-14 07:41:29 +0800", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Feb 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/14/i-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F14%2Fi-was-a.html" }, { "id": 1834, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 12: Attachment.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-13 10:30:59 +0800", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Feb 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/13/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F13%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1835, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched the first episode of Mythic Quest on Apple TV+. Not sold, but not ready to give up, either. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-12 23:20:23 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Feb 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/12/watched-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F12%2Fwatched-the-first.html" }, { "id": 1836, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was able to go lap swimming in my lunch break today. I am so aerobically unfit.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-12 20:19:10 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Feb 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/12/i-was-able.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F12%2Fi-was-able.html" }, { "id": 1837, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 11: Plain.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-12 18:33:48 +0800", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Feb 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/12/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F12%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1838, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 10: Sign.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-11 15:43:16 +0800", "date": "3:43 p.m. on Feb 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/11/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F11%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1839, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 9: Lull.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-10 14:14:31 +0800", "date": "2:14 p.m. on Feb 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/10/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F10%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1840, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am excited to be hosting Mark Ritson at an event next week. Anybody who is mentioned by @gruber is okay with me. I probably won\u0026rsquo;t raise John’s critique with him though.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-10 09:53:11 +0800", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Feb 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/10/i-am-excited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F10%2Fi-am-excited.html" }, { "id": 1841, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 8: Contrast.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-09 11:56:32 +0800", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Feb 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/09/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F09%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1842, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 7: Above.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-08 10:39:34 +0800", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Feb 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/08/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F08%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1843, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 5: Plant. (I see @martinfeld and his fire extinguisher and raise him a fire hose reel.)\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-07 10:56:59 +0800", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Feb 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/07/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F07%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1844, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 5: Hide.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-06 13:26:34 +0800", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Feb 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/06/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F06%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1845, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day 4: Spot.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-05 13:59:41 +0800", "date": "1:59 p.m. on Feb 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/05/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F05%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1846, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 13 is a dumpster fire. My iPhone crashes, hangs and generally craps out on an extremely regular basis. Not having the same issues with iPadOS, interestingly enough.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-04 23:06:06 +0800", "date": "11:06 p.m. on Feb 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/04/ios-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Fios-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1847, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " CARROT Weather\u0026rsquo;s forecast for today\n It’s a nice temperature now the heat of the day has subsided. 🥵\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-04 16:09:19 +0800", "date": "4:09 p.m. on Feb 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/04/carrot-weathers-forecast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Fcarrot-weathers-forecast.html" }, { "id": 1848, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day Three: Reflect.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-04 15:28:54 +0800", "date": "3:28 p.m. on Feb 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/04/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1849, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I previously had an account with meditation app Headspace. Is that still considered the best? I’m seeing some buzz around 10% Happier but it’s considerably more expensive. 🧘🏼‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-03 17:48:57 +0800", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Feb 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/03/i-previously-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F03%2Fi-previously-had.html" }, { "id": 1850, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day Two: Sight.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-03 14:36:57 +0800", "date": "2:36 p.m. on Feb 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/03/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F03%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1851, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "February Photoblogging Challenge, Day One: Open.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-02 17:37:43 +0800", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Feb 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/02/february-photoblogging-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F02%2Ffebruary-photoblogging-challenge.html" }, { "id": 1852, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve just finished an 8-hour Lego building shift. My son better appreciate this in later years.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-02 16:58:48 +0800", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Feb 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/02/02/ive-just-finished.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F02%2F02%2Five-just-finished.html" }, { "id": 1853, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our second boy is entering his Lego play phase. I\u0026rsquo;m thankful my wife colour-coded our massive stockpile of Lego to simplify reconstruction efforts.\n\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-30 21:24:09 +0800", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Jan 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/30/our-second-boy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F30%2Four-second-boy.html" }, { "id": 1854, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am constantly adjusting my app usage for work meetings and facilitation sessions. Today I went back to beautiful basics: iThoughts on 3/4 of the screen, OmniOutliner in 1/4. Capture where possible straight into iThoughts, but use OmniOutliner for parking lot/unrelated notes.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-28 14:37:28 +0800", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Jan 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/28/i-am-constantly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F28%2Fi-am-constantly.html" }, { "id": 1855, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great to have Miles Plumlee in a Perth Wildcats uniform. It’s a pipe dream, but it would be great to get him back for a full season next year. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-25 21:05:24 +0800", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Jan 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/25/great-to-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F25%2Fgreat-to-have.html" }, { "id": 1856, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Clayton Christensen dies at 67 after lifetime of business, spiritual influence - Deseret News\u0026rdquo;\nTad Walsh writing for Deseret News:\n \u0026ldquo;A true disruptive innovation, he taught, first appealed only to a niche market and appeared less attractive than the powerful incumbent it eventually usurped. In fact, the incumbent typically looked down on it as inconsequential until it ate up huge swaths of its market share.\u0026rdquo;\n This article rightly focuses on Christensen\u0026rsquo;s impactful theory of disruption.\nIn my work I often crib Christensen\u0026rsquo;s case study about the utility of a milkshake as part of the \u0026lsquo;jobs to be done\u0026rsquo; theory.\nRest In Peace, Mr Christensen.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-25 08:35:19 +0800", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Jan 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/25/link-post-clayton.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F25%2Flink-post-clayton.html" }, { "id": 1857, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Little America is one of the funniest, heart-warming, enjoyable series I\u0026rsquo;ve seen in a long while. Brilliant stuff. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-21 19:21:14 +0800", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Jan 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/21/little-america-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F21%2Flittle-america-is.html" }, { "id": 1858, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My pre-order of NoteBooks 10 for iOS arrived this morning. This has led me to re-install Dropbox on my Macs so I can experiment effectively. WebDAV syncing sucked too much. DEVONthink remains more powerful, and I have so many other note-taking apps I don\u0026rsquo;t know why I\u0026rsquo;m bothering trialing another one. It\u0026rsquo;s an addiction. An affliction. It\u0026rsquo;s fun; and I\u0026rsquo;m not sure I\u0026rsquo;ll ever be satisfied. At least I\u0026rsquo;ve stuck with the same task manager for years and years.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-20 21:01:56 +0800", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Jan 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/20/my-preorder-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F20%2Fmy-preorder-of.html" }, { "id": 1859, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Middle Age Is Actually Good - The Atlantic\u0026rdquo;\nJames Parker writing for The Atlantic:\n \u0026ldquo;You’re not an apprentice adult anymore. You’re through the disorientation period\u0026rdquo;\n — via Things to Click\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-20 11:49:07 +0800", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Jan 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/20/link-post-middle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F20%2Flink-post-middle.html" }, { "id": 1860, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In this 4-way dogfight, who ya got?\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-16 22:20:11 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Jan 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/16/in-this-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F16%2Fin-this-way.html" }, { "id": 1861, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We are enjoying the quintessential Australian summer caravan park holiday. ", "dateiso": "2020-01-12 20:38:00 +0800", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Jan 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/12/we-are-enjoying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F12%2Fwe-are-enjoying.html" }, { "id": 1862, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Playdate December Update\u0026rdquo;\nPanic writing for Playdate newsletter:\n \u0026ldquo;We’re a smedium-sized crew — 25 people, 5 on Playdate.\u0026rdquo;\n The Playdate gaming device is coming along nicely. Amazing what a small team has achieved, with this device and across other projects.\nI like that Panic aren\u0026rsquo;t taking money in advance and that they are cash flowing the production. It\u0026rsquo;s real business.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-11 20:15:04 +0800", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Jan 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/11/link-post-playdate.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F11%2Flink-post-playdate.html" }, { "id": 1863, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Staycation hotel life. We spent most of the day in the pool but this was a moment of TV time.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-08 21:33:44 +0800", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Jan 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/08/staycation-hotel-life.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F08%2Fstaycation-hotel-life.html" }, { "id": 1864, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Downlink is a great free app for putting satellite images on your Mac Desktop. Now I can look at my country from above.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-07 09:52:17 +0800", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Jan 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/07/downlink-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F07%2Fdownlink-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1865, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Link Post: \u0026ldquo;Girls on Tour in Beirut — Long Distance Call\u0026rdquo;\nEliza Harvey \u0026amp; Geraldine Doogue: Long Distance Call Podcast E88:\n \u0026ldquo;Geraldine and one of her oldest friends (and Eliza\u0026rsquo;s godmother) Mary Ciccarelli are in Beirut for new years celebrations.\u0026rdquo;\n My Mother-in-Law Mary in what I\u0026rsquo;m sure must be her first podcast appearance.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-06 15:11:58 +0800", "date": "3:11 p.m. on Jan 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/06/link-post-girls.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F06%2Flink-post-girls.html" }, { "id": 1866, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The processing of creating a zettelkasten is gelling with me. I\u0026rsquo;m finding it’s clarifying my thinking and helping to capture knowledge in a way that other methods haven\u0026rsquo;t. I\u0026rsquo;m primarily using The Archive, additionally indexed in DEVONthink.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-06 14:58:38 +0800", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Jan 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/06/the-processing-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F06%2Fthe-processing-of.html" }, { "id": 1867, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It has been kind of so many people of micro.blog to reach out after reading about my dog, Jeff. It\u0026rsquo;s a great community to be a part of; thanks everybody!\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-05 22:14:55 +0800", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Jan 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/05/it-has-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F05%2Fit-has-been.html" }, { "id": 1868, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We had to say goodbye to our dog, Jeff, today. As much as I know it was the right thing to do it’s still a sad time. He had a good 12-year run. I’ll never forget Jeffenhausensteinenberg.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-04 20:20:30 +0800", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Jan 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/04/we-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F04%2Fwe-had-to.html" }, { "id": 1869, "type": "post", "title": "Agenda \u0026 NotePlan", "text": "Agenda and NotePlan: two apps that ostensibly do the same thing. They provide a method by which to take notes with regard to meetings, projects and daily happenings.\nDesign Decisions Both apps have been carefully designed but have ended up operating quite differently to one another. Agenda feels practically overwrought. It feels slow in operation, fiddly with a range of sliding panes, non-standard drop-down menus and a hybrid rich-text/markdown environment. Everything that is put into the app is tied up into its proprietary datastore.\nIn use, I often feel as thought I\u0026#x2019;m fighting against Agenda\u0026#x2019;s design. Yet it has the killer feature of being able to link together meetings in a continuous timeline.\nAdditionally, it allows me to attach files, take photos and create a rich tapestry of notes in relation to a project. The only problem is that because the note-taking itself is so obtuse, many of my notes say something like \u0026#x201C;refer to notes taken in OmniOutliner\u0026#x201D;. Not great.\nNotePlan feels lightweight. It feels like I\u0026#x2019;m writing in a straight-forward text field that supports markdown. In essence, behind the scenes this is what is happening. NotePlan creates a\u0026#xA0;.md text file for each day that a note is created and stores it in the file system. It supports tagging which is how project notes can be tied together with the support of a search filter.\nMy Usage I used NotePlan consistently for about 6 months, but realised that I wasn\u0026#x2019;t getting any benefit from the history of notes I had taken. Things were getting lost, rendering the whole use of the app almost pointless.\nSo I purchased Agenda and moved in. This does a better job of enabling the review of notes, but the friction associated with getting data in is the roadblock.\nBoth apps offer feature parity across macOS, iOS and iPadOS.\nHow to Buy NotePlan is available via Setapp or as a standalone purchase. Agenda has a fair freemium/pseudo-subscription model whereby you keep forever the features the app has at that moment, plus anything added in the coming 12 months. If you want features beyond that, you pay once again.\nThe Upshot It\u0026#x2019;s hard to say which is better. They are both great, and both infuriating. I\u0026#x2019;m currently in the Agenda camp, but only just. I continue to look over the parapets to see how the other is performing. I own both, so the barrier to entry is low. Switching costs associated with data migration is the major factor, and that is not much.\nI cannot provide a recommendation to others, but I am interested in alternative views.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-03 04:43:06 +0800", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Jan 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/02/agenda-noteplan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F02%2Fagenda-noteplan.html" }, { "id": 1870, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My 2019 Goodreads Year in Books\n ", "dateiso": "2020-01-02 13:33:00 +0800", "date": "1:33 p.m. on Jan 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/02/my-goodreads-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F02%2Fmy-goodreads-year.html" }, { "id": 1871, "type": "post", "title": "My App Toolkit", "text": "At the beginning of 2020, an update on my current app toolbox. Of course, it is overflowing with too many tools. My ideal state would be to have one centralised repository for everything. Yet each app offers a different set of features and benefits, and scratch particular itches. So I think the unified data store remains off in the distance.\n Purpose iOS Primary iOS Secondary macOS Primary macOS Secondary Best Cross Platform Blot via Git Drafts 1Writer iA Writer Drafts iA Writer Micro.blog Drafts iA Writer MarsEdit Drafts Drafts Report Writing Ulyssess Word Ulysses Word Ulysses Meeting Notes Goodnotes OmniOutliner Curio Agenda OmniOutliner Daily Notes Agenda Goodnotes Agenda Agenda Zettelkasten 1Writer iA Writer The Archive DEVONthink iA Writer Tasks OmniFocus Goodnotes OmniFocus Curio OmniFocus Brainstorming iThoughts OmniOutliner iThoughts Curio iThoughts Other alternatives available include:\n Notebooks DNote Apple Notes Day One (long-term committed use as a personal journal) ", "dateiso": "2020-01-02 06:37:45 +0800", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Jan 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/01/my-app-toolkit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F01%2Fmy-app-toolkit.html" }, { "id": 1872, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve got bloggers' block. I\u0026rsquo;ve got a few ideas for posts but can\u0026rsquo;t summon the motivation to write anything. They continue to sit as drafts, waiting\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-01 22:09:27 +0800", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Jan 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2020/01/01/ive-got-bloggers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2020%2F01%2F01%2Five-got-bloggers.html" }, { "id": 1873, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had migrated away from WhenWorks due to its shutdown. Now I receive an email saying that it’s been acquired by @rosemaryorchard. Wonderful news but now I\u0026rsquo;m financially invested in an alternative scheduling platform. Timing not so good for me, but great news for @macgenie\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-30 09:14:24 +0800", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Dec 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/30/i-had-migrated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F30%2Fi-had-migrated.html" }, { "id": 1874, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Merry Christmas Eve, especially to all my micro.blog friends. 🍻\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-24 17:12:40 +0800", "date": "5:12 p.m. on Dec 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/24/merry-christmas-eve.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F24%2Fmerry-christmas-eve.html" }, { "id": 1875, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Testing the @johnjohnston Flickr linkr bookmarklet. Many years ago, this happened to my office cubicle.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-22 15:03:00 +0800", "date": "3:03 p.m. on Dec 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/22/testing-the-johnjohnston.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F22%2Ftesting-the-johnjohnston.html" }, { "id": 1876, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve gone on a software spending spree. Through Winterfest I bought SpamSieve \u0026amp; BBEdit. On Steam I bought TABS and X-COM 2.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-21 23:33:09 +0800", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Dec 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/21/ive-gone-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F21%2Five-gone-on.html" }, { "id": 1877, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wasn’t going to renew my Flickr Pro subscription but now they’re struggling for cash. It doesn’t fit my workflow these days but I don’t want to see it go away.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-21 15:50:49 +0800", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Dec 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/21/i-wasnt-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F21%2Fi-wasnt-going.html" }, { "id": 1878, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Emerging from the gastro bug. This has been a long 36 hours. Both me and my wife, down for the count.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-21 15:49:19 +0800", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Dec 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/21/emerging-from-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F21%2Femerging-from-the.html" }, { "id": 1879, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Kid Jr claims success. He has passed on his gastro to the rest of the family. What a lad.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-20 07:48:12 +0800", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Dec 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/20/kid-jr-claims.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F20%2Fkid-jr-claims.html" }, { "id": 1880, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Introducing MusicBot: The All-in-One Apple Music Assistant, Powered by Shortcuts\n I poured hundreds of hours of work into MusicBot, which has gained a permanent spot on my Home screen. Best of all, MusicBot is available to everyone for free.\n This Siri Shortcut is amazeballs.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-19 13:15:14 +0800", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Dec 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/19/introducing-musicbot-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F19%2Fintroducing-musicbot-the.html" }, { "id": 1881, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Three new haircuts.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-19 11:23:25 +0800", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Dec 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/19/three-new-haircuts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F19%2Fthree-new-haircuts.html" }, { "id": 1882, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How can a daily The Far Side website finally be launched but not have an RSS feed?\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 23:30:47 +0800", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/18/how-can-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Fhow-can-a.html" }, { "id": 1883, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been enjoying the content of Apple TV+ more than anything recently shown on Netflix. Critics seemed to pan the Apple shows, but I’ve liked For All Mankind, See, and Morning Wars.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 21:44:47 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/18/ive-been-enjoying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Five-been-enjoying.html" }, { "id": 1884, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So great to have swimming weather again. This summer I want to get into swimming for fitness. Pumped that my boy can do it with me. He managed 300 metres yesterday.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 21:38:02 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/18/so-great-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Fso-great-to.html" }, { "id": 1885, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With a 🤮ing kid in the house it’s time to step away for a quick afternoon Nespresso.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 16:18:41 +0800", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/18/with-a-ing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Fwith-a-ing.html" }, { "id": 1886, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since I gave up my Lightroom subscription I’m looking for an iOS based photo editor with good presets. VSCO is good but it doesn’t interact directly with the photo library. Darkroom lets me edit in place but it’s editing doesn’t seem as impactful.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 08:37:30 +0800", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/18/since-i-gave.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Fsince-i-gave.html" }, { "id": 1887, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Economist: Boeing’s misplaced strategy on the 737 MAX\n The number of idle, new MAXes piling up has grown to 400.\n What a disaster of an idea this plane has turned out to be.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 07:25:26 +0800", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/18/the-economist-boeings.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Fthe-economist-boeings.html" }, { "id": 1888, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With recent talk on micro.blog about trying to find international voices, I’ve added the Australian flag 🇦🇺 to my profile blurb. Maybe that will help.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 06:14:04 +0800", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/18/with-recent-talk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Fwith-recent-talk.html" }, { "id": 1889, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished Firewatch last night. I’m besotted with Delilah. 🕹\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-17 08:58:05 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Dec 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/17/finished-firewatch-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Ffinished-firewatch-last.html" }, { "id": 1890, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Aussie micro bloggers make yourself known to @prologic ro be added to his dedicated page\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-15 12:42:47 +0800", "date": "12:42 p.m. on Dec 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/15/aussie-micro-bloggers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F15%2Faussie-micro-bloggers.html" }, { "id": 1891, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hi @davewoodx - awesome to find you on micro.blog. Thanks for your support via Twitter with TV Tune Up. I endorse your app for effective TV calibration.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-14 12:23:22 +0800", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Dec 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/14/hi-davewoodx-awesome.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F14%2Fhi-davewoodx-awesome.html" }, { "id": 1892, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After a couple of years of using Fiery Feeds, I bought the latest version of Reeder, which used to be my go to for RSS. It’s not nearly as full-featured but it’s nice.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-13 21:28:46 +0800", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Dec 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/13/after-a-couple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F13%2Fafter-a-couple.html" }, { "id": 1893, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Daring Fireball: Time\u0026rsquo;s 2019 Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg\n Thunberg really riles up conservatives.\n I was doorknocked by JWs yesterday. They slammed Thunberg, arguing Psalm 37 says we have been given Earth for all time. So apparently we can fuck it up without concern.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-13 14:03:13 +0800", "date": "2:03 p.m. on Dec 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/13/daring-fireball-times.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F13%2Fdaring-fireball-times.html" }, { "id": 1894, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My employer has reduced password age to 45 days - due to cybersecurity insurances policies. I contest that short password durations are worse for security. Better to have a long passphrase and be done with it.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-11 13:05:09 +0800", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Dec 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/11/my-employer-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F11%2Fmy-employer-has.html" }, { "id": 1895, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Daring Fireball: The Information: \u0026lsquo;Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market\u0026rsquo;\n “There’s no easy ability to ID a user.”\n I’m a happy Safari user, falling back to Firefox if required. I avoid Chrome.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-10 21:03:27 +0800", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Dec 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/10/daring-fireball-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F10%2Fdaring-fireball-the.html" }, { "id": 1896, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I connected my HomePod to my Apple TV. The audio quality for television shows is impressive.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-10 09:48:10 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Dec 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/10/i-connected-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F10%2Fi-connected-my.html" }, { "id": 1897, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Float, the Pixar short film on Disney+, tugs all the heartstrings.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-05 22:39:42 +0800", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Dec 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/05/float-the-pixar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F05%2Ffloat-the-pixar.html" }, { "id": 1898, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was a blast participating in the Micro Monday podcast. @macgenie was a great host who kept the conversation flowing.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-03 08:06:52 +0800", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Dec 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/03/it-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F03%2Fit-was-a.html" }, { "id": 1899, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bluey is the greatest kids television show ever made. This article explores the production side of making an animated show.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-02 13:29:23 +0800", "date": "1:29 p.m. on Dec 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/02/bluey-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F02%2Fbluey-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1900, "type": "post", "title": "The Mental Office", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been trawling through some old text files of mine. I came across a note from 2012 that I initially thought was my own, but now recognise it as the work of Shawn Blanc.\nShawn\u0026rsquo;s post highlights issues relating to working from home. He references a podcast that I used to enjoy listening to — the Home Work podcast, hosted by Aaron Mahnke and Dave Caolo1 . I can\u0026rsquo;t find an active link for the podcast. It was last hosted by 5by5. Since the podcast ended Aaron Mahnke has gone on to fame and fortune with Lore and Dave Caolo has moved on to other projects.\nLeveraging the notes posted by Shawn Blanc, I see that the podcast noted working from home as thus:\n Working from home isn’t always about notebooks, apps and office furniture. Much of it happens in the head, between fighting distraction, staying focused and keeping things organised. In this episode, Aaron and Dave chat about leaving work at work (even when it’s in your home) and doing a mind-sweep to keep things clear.\n This is a challenge worth remembering, particularly now in 2019 when ubiquitous networking and powerful mobile devices makes it so easy to do work not only from home, but from anywhere at anytime. There is a clear risk of dedicating too much time to work because it’s possible. Yet this doesn’t make it the right choice. We really need to protect our leisure time.\n My claim to fame in relation to the Home Work podcast was that I once emailed in a question, which the hosts addressed in one of their shows.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2019-12-01 20:32:29 +0800", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Dec 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/12/01/the-mental-office.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F12%2F01%2Fthe-mental-office.html" }, { "id": 1901, "type": "post", "title": "Politics", "text": "Day 30 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nYou thought religion was a dangerous topic? No, I\u0026rsquo;ve left the really dangerous one until last. Today, let\u0026rsquo;s talk politics.\n My origin story I\u0026rsquo;ve been interested in politics since I was 12 or 13 years old. Perhaps influenced by my conservative parents, and having grown up in an Australia where for the length of my memory Labor had been in government, I felt Labor were taking it all for granted.\nI determined that Labor were not for me. The Australian economy was in recession and it felt that our family had been forgotten.\nImpact of education Time moved on and I began to take a different outlook on life. I realised that our family was living on the margins in low-income outer suburbia.\nI did well enough at school that I was able to attend university. This was a foundation for self-improvement and growth. It helped me begin to see there was a broader world beyond that in which I had grown up.\nI came to see that were it not for the efforts of the Labor Party to make university education affordable for everybody irrespective of their family situation, societal status or upbringing, I would never have been able to afford to go to university, even if I was clever enough. I also saw the people who were involved in the Liberal Party - and I knew they were nothing like me. My suburban story was foreign to them.\nThe Labor Party, on the other hand, was full of people that I could relate to, who had similar stories to mine.\nMy involvement in the Labor Party accelerated when I met my future wife, Hannah, who happened to be the daughter of Kim Beazley. He was the Leader of the Labor Party in Australia\u0026rsquo;s national parliament at the time. It\u0026rsquo;s not good for romance if you vote against your girlfriend\u0026rsquo;s father!\nIronically, I didn\u0026rsquo;t meet Hannah through any political connection or event. We met in a nightclub. Those were the days!\nPolitics engrained That was in 1999. Since then I\u0026rsquo;ve been involved in politics in ways and to degrees that my childhood self could never have imagined.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve worked on campaigns, I\u0026rsquo;ve door-knocked, I\u0026rsquo;ve called voters. I\u0026rsquo;ve twice supported my wife as a candidate at State and Federal elections. Unfortunately she was not victorious, despite running excellent campaigns and being generally well-regarded. The big swings that are needed to change a seat in politics simply didn\u0026rsquo;t eventuate.\nIt is easy to get caught up in the game of politics. When that happens to me, I think back on my own story. I believe the purpose of politics is to help communities, and enable people to have a fair and equal opportunity to become the best version of themselves. It\u0026rsquo;s about allowing kids like me living in poor suburbs have a chance to get an education. For me, an education unlocked employment opportunities and life improvements that I would not have ever imagined. It also helped the nation, because being qualified to get higher paying jobs I\u0026rsquo;ve been able to pay a lot more income tax than I otherwise would have.\nGovernments and politicians are servants of the people. When this responsibility is forgotten the system breaks down. When Paul Keating was in charge and the recession was in full swing, I looked at the situation around me and felt forgotten. When I look around now I feel that many, many more are forgotten. That needs to be brought to their attention. If it is, then perhaps they will elect to have a government that will be an effective servant who acts in their best interests.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-30 21:29:02 +0800", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Nov 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/30/politics.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F30%2Fpolitics.html" }, { "id": 1902, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: Over the past 30 days I have been able to integrate the Microblogvember prompts from @macgenie into my daily blogging routine. These micro posts run in parallel with my longer Blogvember posts.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-30 15:32:51 +0800", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Nov 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/30/microblogvember-over-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F30%2Fmicroblogvember-over-the.html" }, { "id": 1903, "type": "post", "title": "Religion", "text": "Day 29 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nMy life has always been connected to religion and it has played a formative role in my upbringing.\nBaptised Anglican, and the son of an Anglican minister, I remember sitting through interminably boring sermons and church services that seemed to go forever. I also remember visiting the church with my Mom and sitting on her lap and steering our car through the parking lot while she dealt with the pedals.\nThen our family transitioned away from Anglicanism towards a Pentecostal approach to religion, and we attended an Assemblies of God church. My memories of that church was that it was more interesting than the Anglican Church. Looking back, I think it drifted further towards the charismatic ‘modern’ approach to Pentecostalism. This was a long time ago, and I was growing through my teen years, so I can’t confirm if that is an accurate assessment - but it is my memory.\nAt this point I drifted away from organised religion.\nLater I married a Catholic girl, so I have become familiar with the yin to the Anglican’s yang. I actually don’t mind the Catholic service - except for all the random sitting and standing, and then some kneeling for good measure. I always just copy the person next to me. Of course, both the Anglicans and Catholics strike fear into the heart of all introverts with their ‘peace be with you’ bit. Really, must we?\n Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had two work meetings divert into topics of religion and churches. This doesn’t worry me at all. What I find interesting is that Australia is a secular country, and rarely in my working life has religion ever come up in a work context before.\n At this time our country is being led by a Prime Minister who declares his faith. What I find unfortunate is that this faith is tied to the Hillsong church business. I cannot abide this organisation. Their ‘prosperity doctrine’ has worked for their founders who have become obscenely rich, and (I believe) powerful behind the scenes despite having no formalised legitimacy. The Hillsong business spreads a message that deviates far from the original word and intention of Jesus. Cherry picking gospel and turning church into a rock concert doesn’t seem the answer to me.\nNow they have the ear of our Prime Minister; and I’m sure they tell their followers that is further evidence of the truth of their mission. I’m not so believing.\n Religion has forever played a part in keeping civilisation in order. It has provided guidelines for appropriate lifestyles when there has been no governance system or rule of law to steer societies.\nReligion has been an enabler of great deeds. Religion has been a driving force for wars and hatred.\nThere is no doubt it is a complex issue. We will either get all the answers at our death, or we won’t.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-29 20:19:18 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Nov 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/29/religion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F29%2Freligion.html" }, { "id": 1904, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Black Friday \u0026amp; Cyber Monday 2019 SaaS Deals Harmonizely is 50% off your first payment. It’s a good WhenWorks alternative. @macgenie\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-29 17:34:21 +0800", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Nov 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/29/black-friday-cyber.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F29%2Fblack-friday-cyber.html" }, { "id": 1905, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I took advantage of Apple’s Black Friday deals to buy a new Apple TV 4K. Then discovered I was only on the Netflix “HD” plan - not the “UHD” plan so had to give them more money. Meanwhile, Apple TV+ and Disney+ offer UHD by default for less than the basic Netflix plan! 📺\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-29 17:20:53 +0800", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Nov 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/29/i-took-advantage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F29%2Fi-took-advantage.html" }, { "id": 1906, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: 29 days into the challenge; 1 day to go. Fantastic!\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-29 09:26:06 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Nov 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/29/microblogvember-days-into.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F29%2Fmicroblogvember-days-into.html" }, { "id": 1907, "type": "post", "title": "Hope", "text": "Day 28 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI hope my children have a good future. Challenges confront them large and small.\nSome of my immediate hopes include:\n they don\u0026rsquo;t fall in with the wrong crowd. they develop deep friendships - the type where you can trust the other with your deepest secrets and fears. they don\u0026rsquo;t fall down a drug vortex. they find fun in their childhood. they muddle through their difficult teen years. Any prior generation to mine could probably stop there. Yet now I feel like our kids are faced with an existential crisis, the likes of which we have never battled before. I fear that the world they grow up in will be damaged and impacted by anthropogenic global warming, that will bring down all sorts of issues. In this sense, I hope:\n their generation can actually recognise and respond to this \u0026lsquo;wicked problem\u0026rsquo;, as economist Ross Garnaut described climate change. they don\u0026rsquo;t experience a dramatically less hospitable world in which to live. they don\u0026rsquo;t experience wars and upheaval resulting from large-scale migration from inhospitable locations and a fight for diminishing resources. they can still eat fish caught from the sea, hoping that they haven\u0026rsquo;t been fished to extinction. It\u0026rsquo;s a worrying world. Some of my hopes for my children I can influence through effective parenting. Others are completely outside of my direct control. All I have is hope.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-28 18:34:28 +0800", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Nov 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/28/hope.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F28%2Fhope.html" }, { "id": 1908, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: Prices of property in Perth went through the roof a few years ago as we experienced a \u0026lsquo;mining boom’. They\u0026rsquo;ve settled down again now but houses are still way more expensive relative to income than they were a few decades prior.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-28 08:47:22 +0800", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Nov 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/28/microblogvember-prices-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F28%2Fmicroblogvember-prices-of.html" }, { "id": 1909, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m falling down the rabbit hole of encrypted internet services. First Keybase for messaging, then Standard Notes for notes and now Tresorit for file storage and secure sharing.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-27 22:46:00 +0800", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Nov 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/27/im-falling-down.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F27%2Fim-falling-down.html" }, { "id": 1910, "type": "post", "title": "Loss", "text": "Day 27 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI get frustrated when I lose something basic, like keys, glasses or my wallet. I have a designated ‘home location’ for these items. Despite that, they still seem to have a tendency to disappear from time to time.\nIt is the most frustrating kind of loss, because I know they have to be around somewhere. But that somewhere could be anywhere. The loss usually seems to occur when I’m in a rush to get out of the house. Murphy’s Law, hard at work.\nApple’s ‘Find My’ service is great for lost devices. Also great for lost spouses - it’s not stalking when you’re married! Unfortunately this service doesn’t work for keys and wallets. I’ve been tempted to buy some tiles, but I’m never feeling the pain of the loss when I’ve considered buying them, so I put it off.\nI’m interested in the rumours about Apple developing a similar tile tracking device. Since I’m already all-in with Apple devices I imagine these would have great integration with everything else in the house. It might even make losing things fun, because no doubt it would integrate with the Find My app and probably make some gentle pinging noise to help me locate the item.\nLosing things will always be annoying but if we can get some cool tech gadgets to offset that, then I’m all for it.\n I literally finished writing this post, got up to put my bag away, and realised my wallet was missing. I found it, but not before suffering a mild anxiety attack. So frustrating,\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-27 20:54:35 +0800", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Nov 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/27/loss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F27%2Floss.html" }, { "id": 1911, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I may not be rich but at least I have my health. (Glass half full, glass half full…!)\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-27 13:49:22 +0800", "date": "1:49 p.m. on Nov 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/27/microblogvember-i-may.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F27%2Fmicroblogvember-i-may.html" }, { "id": 1912, "type": "post", "title": "Shoes", "text": "Day 26 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI’m not a sneaker head by any means. Though there was a period when I was a teenager that I did pay a little more attention to the shoe world, and basketball shoes in particular.\nBasketball Shoes This was the era of Reebok Pumps and the original Air Jordans. When shoes were big and high tops were really high. Fluoro colours were cool. Modern design technology was getting started and companies were testing the limits.\nThe shoe I desired most during this era were the Nike Air Jordan V, in white. The blacks weren’t nearly as good. The white ones featured a silver feather inset on the side, and the way they had a thick side sole with some red flames just made them look brilliant. The mid-cut ankle made them look even more streamlined.1 These shoes were amazing. As much as I wanted them, though, our family budget said no.\nI did ultimately get a pair of Jordans. Unfortunately, they were the Air Jordan VIIs, which were about the ugliest version of Jordan’s released through that era. Oh well.\nMy favourite basketball shoes ever were a pair of blue Reeboks. They were a lightweight material and were low-cut. They were incredibly comfortable. I was obsessed with blue shoes and these ones I got were fantastic. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the name of them at all. I’ve tried searching for them, to no avail. They were the greatest shoes I’ve ever worn, though.\nHaving worn these and many other basketball shoes over the years, I will say that Nike are the least comfortable shoe, while Adidas and Reebok tie for most comfortable.\nDress Boots Outside basketball shoes, I had a pair of Doc Marten 8-holes, that were English-made. In fact, this was around 1997 so I don’t even think they were made anywhere but the UK. In any case, these shoes were absolute hell for about two weeks, ripping my feet up creating many blisters. I pushed through and they became the most comfortable boot I’ve ever owned.\nNow I’m all grown up, and my favourite shoes now are a pair of RM Williams. These are great to wear but I’m going to go out on a limb and say they’re not as comfortable as the DMs.\n I wrote the description of this shoe from memory. I’ve now looked at a photo and I’m impressed by my descriptive accuracy. These shoes were heavily imprinted on my brain.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2019-11-26 21:53:23 +0800", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Nov 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/26/shoes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F26%2Fshoes.html" }, { "id": 1913, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I enjoy reading my micro.blog feed because of the interesting mix of people I get to interact with.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-26 15:35:25 +0800", "date": "3:35 p.m. on Nov 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/26/microblogvember-i-enjoy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F26%2Fmicroblogvember-i-enjoy.html" }, { "id": 1914, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A fresh look for your Microblogs, Twitter and Facebook Feeds – Inoreader\n added a custom parser for Micro.blog JSON feeds extensions.\n Awesome that Inoreader is specifically adding support for micro.blog. @manton\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-26 00:04:39 +0800", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Nov 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/26/a-fresh-look.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F26%2Fa-fresh-look.html" }, { "id": 1915, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I watched the first episode of See and liked it. Not sure why it was so heavily criticised? 📺\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-25 23:49:04 +0800", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Nov 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/25/i-watched-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F25%2Fi-watched-the.html" }, { "id": 1916, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought a UPS for my iMac today. The hardware seems fine but the software is some janky Java thing. I\u0026rsquo;m pretty sure I have to have it running to enable auto-shutdown though - there\u0026rsquo;s nothing standard built in to macOS, right?\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-25 20:55:07 +0800", "date": "8:55 p.m. on Nov 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/25/i-bought-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F25%2Fi-bought-a.html" }, { "id": 1917, "type": "post", "title": "Money", "text": "Day 25 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\n I\u0026rsquo;m all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack\nMoney, it\u0026rsquo;s a hit\nDon\u0026rsquo;t give me that do goody good bullshit\nI\u0026rsquo;m in the high-fidelity first class traveling set\nAnd I think I need a Lear jet\n Pink Floyd, Money\n Money is the great enabler. Its presence enables people to climb out of poverty. Others can build their ego collecting it. Some feel good giving it away. In acting as a proxy for elements of human behaviour and achievement, money allows us to communicate status, success and worth.\nMoney is a human construct. It is a renewable resource. It\u0026rsquo;s a shared fiction that relies on us to all believe for it to work. Fortunately we well and truly believe in it. In fact, we practically worship at its altar. It is the central and universal element upon which all of us must give consideration. Criminals, office workers, paramedics. Whatever one\u0026rsquo;s role in life, money is at the core.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-25 20:03:05 +0800", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Nov 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/25/money.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F25%2Fmoney.html" }, { "id": 1918, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I am glad our kids feel safe and secure in their home. It\u0026rsquo;s sad that many kids must not.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-25 15:04:29 +0800", "date": "3:04 p.m. on Nov 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/25/microblogvember-i-am.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F25%2Fmicroblogvember-i-am.html" }, { "id": 1919, "type": "post", "title": "Infrastructure", "text": "Day 24 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nMany years ago I was employed as an Advisor to our State Government’s Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. This followed previous work in the State Department of Transport and for a large grains cooperative which built, managed and utilised transport and logistics infrastructure.\nInfrastructure is often taken for granted It’s reasonable to suggest that’s when infrastructure is working at its best. When people start talking about traffic or fresh water or power failures it usually means something has gone wrong at an infrastructure level. Not enough road capacity has been built, the desalination plant has failed or the baseload power generator failed to get a steady supply of fuel. There are teams of people across all the various infrastructure providers responsible for ensuring citizens don’t think about them or their service. Mostly, these people do a good job. Infrastructure management relies on effective processes driving preventative maintenance schedules. Combined with regular capital works investment to upgrade, improve and stay ahead of the demand curve, infrastructure ideally stays ahead of demand.\nThe ingenuity of humans, that we are able to build, design and operate infrastructure so effectively is incredible. Additionally we have been able to develop an economic system that incentivises delivery of services. This includes the ability for government to step in as a supplier where market conditions don’t support commercial operations.\nInfrastructure is also the enabler of unrelated money-making projects. Without basics such as power, water and Internet access, Australia couldn’t support the development and operations of companies like Atlassian and Fastmail, to suggest two technology-based business examples. Infrastructure enables these and all other firms to employ people, generate profit, and pay taxes. Infrastructure firms, however, rarely (ever?) are afforded the status that is probably deserving of them. Mike Cannon-Brookes has become a billionaire but I can’t find any CEOs of infrastructure firms that have become billion-dollar poster children for their industry. Rather, infrastructure firms are the staid companies that superannuation firms love to buy shares in, as they deliver a boring, regular dividend stream.\nSo here’s to the infrastructure, and the people that work on it, that makes our lives better each and every day. Please keep up your yeoman’s work\u0026hellip; even if it goes unnoticed and under-appreciated.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-24 23:04:25 +0800", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Nov 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/24/infrastructure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F24%2Finfrastructure.html" }, { "id": 1920, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I used Uber Pool yesterday. It was an enjoyable experience because I was paired up with great people. It\u0026rsquo;s not always bad to be in the company of strangers.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-24 17:58:22 +0800", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Nov 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/24/microblogvember-i-used.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F24%2Fmicroblogvember-i-used.html" }, { "id": 1921, "type": "post", "title": "Toast", "text": "Day 23 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nJohn Siracusa built an empire talking about toasters, but what about the toast?\nI like a slice of toast that is crispy on the outer but remains soft under that toasted exoskeleton. The bread should be a golden brown. I don\u0026rsquo;t want no black bits.\nOnto that toast, slather some butter. It really should be butter. Margarine is a substitute that allows sufficient oiliness to support the subsequent spread of a condiment but in itself doesn\u0026rsquo;t taste good. A nice piece of toast is one that has butter - and only butter - lathered across it. This toast can be eaten as so and should bring some sweet joy to your morning.\nYou don\u0026rsquo;t want two pieces of buttered toast though. That buttered slice is the entree to the second more flavoursome slice. Here you can go two ways. If you want something sweet, run with peanut butter. I think it needs to be crunchy peanut butter and I want it spread on thick. Remember, it still needs butter first. Then get the peanut butter thick and gooey. If you\u0026rsquo;re going to have it go hard, or go home.\nIf you don\u0026rsquo;t fancy the sweet option, then the umami of Vegemite is what you need. The slightly salty, bitter taste of Vegemite is great. Vegemite has had its problems of late, but they do seemed to have reverted back to a better quality more recently. It\u0026rsquo;s not what it once was, but it is showing improvement.\nYou need to be careful not to spread Vegemite too thick. This is the mistake visiting Americans always make. Vegemite is the anti-peanut butter. Spread it thin.\nThose two slices of toast, prepared that way, will get you off to a great start in the morning.\nNow I\u0026rsquo;m hungry.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-23 16:53:50 +0800", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Nov 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/23/toast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F23%2Ftoast.html" }, { "id": 1922, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: A word I never use, but like the sound of, is woebegone.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-23 15:51:14 +0800", "date": "3:51 p.m. on Nov 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/23/microblogvember-a-word.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F23%2Fmicroblogvember-a-word.html" }, { "id": 1923, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m exploring Receipts that comes as part of my Setapp subscription. I think it could replace my current DEVONthink usage for receipt management. Its OCR smarts are great.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-23 12:09:42 +0800", "date": "12:09 p.m. on Nov 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/23/im-exploring-receipts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F23%2Fim-exploring-receipts.html" }, { "id": 1924, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Observations on Android, five years later | Riccardo Mori\n On iOS, what you see on the screen are essentially the contents of an Application folder. On Android, the screen’s real estate is like a Desktop where you put shortcuts (in the Windows sense)\n I’ve never been an Android user but this description finally enabled me to grok the difference in Android’s approach to home screens compared with iOS.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-22 22:49:59 +0800", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Nov 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/22/observations-on-android.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F22%2Fobservations-on-android.html" }, { "id": 1925, "type": "post", "title": "Sport", "text": "Day 22 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve always watching and playing sport. As a kid, I tried most sports that entered my world view. I can remember playing:\n volleyball cricket basketball tennis football (Australian Rules) soccer baseball swimming athletics (I loved high jump, hated running) The sports I really enjoyed were cricket and basketball. If I\u0026rsquo;d had a better experience with cricket, I probably would have stuck at it longer. I loved bowling and would be happy doing it for hours on end.\nThe sport I excelled at was basketball. I was an athletic white guy. I am 6'3\u0026quot; and was able to throw down some good dunks. Although my mates were always frustrated that I seemed happier firing from beyond the three-point line! I maintain I was ahead of my time - look at how the game is played now.\nUnfortunately basketball has taken its toll on my body. I\u0026rsquo;ve got an ankle that won\u0026rsquo;t bend properly, hips that are creaking, and knees that have lost their cartilage so they crack and pop as I climb stairs, misaligned fingers and a thumb that strains with the slightest effort.\nDespite all those injuries and the awareness that things are going to get worse, I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t change anything. I loved playing basketball so much. For me it went beyond a sport; it was a lifestyle. I made so many friends; I have amazing memories of playing with some incredible players and I\u0026rsquo;ve met some impressive people.\nThe two most famous basketball people I\u0026rsquo;ve met are probably Luc Longley and Phil Jackson. Ironically, neither of these encounters came because I was a basketball player. Rather, they came about because my father-in-law was Australia\u0026rsquo;s Ambassador to the United States of America and both me and those basketball celebrities were at a gala \u0026ldquo;G\u0026rsquo;Day USA\u0026rdquo; event.\nNow I\u0026rsquo;m transitioning to the next phase of my sporting life. I am watching my eldest boy try a variety of sports. To date, it seems he is enjoying cricket the most. I wonder what my younger kid will get interested in?\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-22 19:58:27 +0800", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Nov 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/22/sport.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F22%2Fsport.html" }, { "id": 1926, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: My wife likes to fall asleep to the hum of some white noise like a fan. I\u0026rsquo;ve had to get used to it.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-22 12:50:06 +0800", "date": "12:50 p.m. on Nov 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/22/microblogvember-my-wife.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F22%2Fmicroblogvember-my-wife.html" }, { "id": 1927, "type": "post", "title": "Unrequited", "text": "Day 21 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\n adjective\n(of a feeling, especially love) not returned: he\u0026rsquo;s been pining with unrequited love.\n Who set these prompts anyway? That guy should be put to the sword for this one. I can’t think of anything to write about ‘unrequited’.\nA couple of days ago I wrote some thoughts on love. So this post could be those thoughts, unreturned?\nIn searching for some inspiration about what to write about, I did discover that ‘Unrequited’ was the title of an episode of The X-Files. It was also the title of a low-budget movie that doesn’t look very good.\nSorry, that’s all I’ve got.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-21 19:50:57 +0800", "date": "7:50 p.m. on Nov 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/21/unrequited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F21%2Funrequited.html" }, { "id": 1928, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I have no qualms about accepting a hollow victory! A win is a win. Nobody ever talks about hollow losses.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-21 09:22:30 +0800", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Nov 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/21/microblogvember-i-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F21%2Fmicroblogvember-i-have.html" }, { "id": 1929, "type": "post", "title": "Fight", "text": "Day 20 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\n You gotta fight\nfor your right\nto party!\n My thanks to The Beastie Boys for their guest introduction.\nI’m not a fighter; never have been. I recall Jason Bulpitt (may he Rest In Peace) squaring up to me in the school playground one day. I countered by being a smart-arse, running my mouth. Intelligent diatribe was my competitive advantage - not fist fights.\nThis approach to fighting has probably led to my engagement in politics over the years. A focus on the verbal stoush ahead of the physical kind. The kind of fight I might have a chance of winning. Plus, winning can benefit a lot of people.\nPolitical fights can be hard and deflating. They can also be exhilarating and rewarding. That’s why we keep coming back for more. It’s good to fight for a better country.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-20 19:53:10 +0800", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Nov 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/20/fight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F20%2Ffight.html" }, { "id": 1930, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I\u0026rsquo;ve got a bit less than an hour, then I\u0026rsquo;m off to my second meeting of the day.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-20 13:46:17 +0800", "date": "1:46 p.m. on Nov 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/20/microblogvember-ive-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F20%2Fmicroblogvember-ive-got.html" }, { "id": 1931, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My kind of beer. 🍺\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-19 21:00:56 +0800", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Nov 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/19/my-kind-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F19%2Fmy-kind-of.html" }, { "id": 1932, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Which gaming system is better for kids and sometimes adults: Xbox or PlayStation? ❓\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-19 19:51:41 +0800", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Nov 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/19/which-gaming-system.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F19%2Fwhich-gaming-system.html" }, { "id": 1933, "type": "post", "title": "Love", "text": "Day 19 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nLove is a super-complicated topic. I know I love my wife, I love my kids. But truth be told, I don’t know how I know that I love them.\nI know that I love, in a technical sense. Yet I only feel it rarely. To be fair, I do occasionally experience an overwhelming sense of affection that pulls at my insides. This is probably the truest expression of love. But I don’t get that often. Is that a standard, everyday feeling for others? Am I missing what other people experience?\nI wonder if others have a clearer understanding of what love is, or how it feels. Perhaps I’m missing out on the feeling of emotional love. It’s like my rational side gets in the way of my emotional side.\nHeavy stuff. A bit too daunting to think more deeply about at this point.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-19 19:28:57 +0800", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Nov 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/19/love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F19%2Flove.html" }, { "id": 1934, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dolly Parton’s America podcast is awesome. I’ve suffered the Tennessee Mountain Trance myself. castro.fm\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-19 17:21:25 +0800", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Nov 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/19/dolly-partons-america.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F19%2Fdolly-partons-america.html" }, { "id": 1935, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: We have seen our intense hot weather in Perth abate but since it’s not even summer yet, I know it will be back. I look forward to summer through winter, and then it arrives\u0026hellip; it doesn’t live up to the hype!\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-19 09:24:01 +0800", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Nov 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/19/microblogvember-we-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F19%2Fmicroblogvember-we-have.html" }, { "id": 1936, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: It blows me away the things that humans have been able to build. For all our failings, we make some amazing things.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-18 17:06:58 +0800", "date": "5:06 p.m. on Nov 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/18/microblogvember-it-blows.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F18%2Fmicroblogvember-it-blows.html" }, { "id": 1937, "type": "post", "title": "Game", "text": "Day 18 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not a gamer; this month I unsubscribed from Apple Arcade because I wasn\u0026rsquo;t playing any of the games on offer despite a number of them being good. It\u0026rsquo;s an opportunity cost issue. There are only so many hours in a day and I find enjoyment doing other things ahead of gaming\u0026hellip; most of the time.\nI say that because rarely I do become obsessed with a game. My most recent example is Zelda: Breath of the Wild. With that game, I would sneak away with my son\u0026rsquo;s Switch and play it for hours. At first I was making my way through the game naturally. Then as I progressed, I got more serious and downloaded an iOS app to help me track the locations I had been, and which areas I still needed to unlock.\nI continued to upgrade my character, beyond that which was necessary to claim victory over the big boss. I didn\u0026rsquo;t know that at the time of course, but given how relatively easy the final boss battle was, I\u0026rsquo;d say that I had swung the scales significantly in my favour.\nZelda was an epic game. It captured my mind for months. It was an expensive game but on an entertainment per hour basis, was incredibly cheap. I don\u0026rsquo;t know when I will encounter another game that captivates me in that that way but I\u0026rsquo;m sure it will happen, I\u0026rsquo;ll become a gamer for a month or two, then go back to normal non-gamer life.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-18 14:04:05 +0800", "date": "2:04 p.m. on Nov 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/18/game.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F18%2Fgame.html" }, { "id": 1938, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: Bryce Cotton is a superb basketball player for the Perth Wildcats.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-17 15:35:11 +0800", "date": "3:35 p.m. on Nov 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/17/microblogvember-bryce-cotton.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F17%2Fmicroblogvember-bryce-cotton.html" }, { "id": 1939, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cool, I\u0026rsquo;ve set up a Keybase.io account. As is typical with this stuff, I know nobody else who uses it.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-17 10:31:30 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Nov 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/17/cool-ive-set.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F17%2Fcool-ive-set.html" }, { "id": 1940, "type": "post", "title": "Party", "text": "Day 17 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI’m not one for parties; my introversion means I’m diametrically opposed to them.\nHaving said that, I’m actually attending a party this afternoon/evening. It is a 60th birthday celebration though and should be a nice one. It is incorporating a showing of Blade Runner. I haven’t seen that movie in about 20 years, so I’m interested to see my interpretation of it now.\nAnother party issue arising is planning to host a 4th birthday party for our youngest son. Trying to decide what to do for that is a puzzler as well. Do we host it at home, or out somewhere? Who to invite? We don’t have friends who have kids of a similar age, but it won’t be much of a party if he doesn’t have some similar-aged kids around. We need to get moving on the planning so we can get the invites out, but we’re having trouble generating motivation. That’s not good parenting, is it!\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-17 09:33:53 +0800", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Nov 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/17/party.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F17%2Fparty.html" }, { "id": 1941, "type": "post", "title": "Animal", "text": "Day 16 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nOur family might be about to lose our second animal of the year to old age. Our Standard Poodle, Jeff, is not holding up so well. He has developed large cysts under his skin, his teeth are wearing out and now he seems to have hurt his paw.\nEarlier this year we had to say goodbye to our Airedale Terrier, Indi. Her absence seems to have accelerated the decline of Jeff. He relied on her so much to be top dog and I don\u0026rsquo;t think he has been the same since she has been gone.\nI recall a couple of months ago when we were at the dog beach with Jeff, and we saw another Airedale Terrier. Jeff went running up to it, and you could just tell from his body language that he thought it was Indi. A sniff and a closer look confirmed that it was a stranger. If a dog can look deflated, Jeff did in that moment.\nWe bring animals into our lives knowing that it\u0026rsquo;s not forever and that one day we will need to make hard decisions about their future. The knowledge of that, however, doesn\u0026rsquo;t make the reality of the situation any easier.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-16 18:10:00 +0800", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Nov 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/16/animal-day-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F16%2Fanimal-day-of.html" }, { "id": 1942, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: The old proverb is that it pays to be selective. Don\u0026rsquo;t just settle. You can do better than that.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-16 13:20:36 +0800", "date": "1:20 p.m. on Nov 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/16/microblogvember-the-old.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F16%2Fmicroblogvember-the-old.html" }, { "id": 1943, "type": "post", "title": "Renovation", "text": "Day 15 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nAbout three years ago we did a house renovation. We had our kitchen gutted and rebuilt, our bathrooms reconfigured, wood floors sanded and interior walls painted, and a new front deck.\nA huge job already was made bigger because we had to move all of our furniture into storage and move our family into a short-term rental for the duration of the project. It reminded me why I don’t like moving house. Packing is the worst!\nThe renovation grew our mortgage significantly but improved our quality of life. We spend so much time in our home that making it a comfortable environment was worth the investment.\nWe had an excellent builder on the project. I’m no handyman so it was absolutely necessary to employ a professional to do the job right. That’s an element of our renovation for which I hold no regrets. It’s also a standing principle of mine: if you’re not good at something and have no interest in learning the skill, pay somebody to deliver. Money is a resource that can be deployed strategically to save your own frustration and heartache. When it comes to a renovation, if I were doing it myself there would be plenty of both. I’d rather be without the money!\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-15 21:27:17 +0800", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Nov 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/15/renovation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F15%2Frenovation.html" }, { "id": 1944, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I don’t enjoy swimming in bodies of water where I cannot see below my feet, into the murky depths.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-15 15:57:03 +0800", "date": "3:57 p.m. on Nov 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/15/microblogvember-i-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F15%2Fmicroblogvember-i-dont.html" }, { "id": 1945, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I want to remove the www from my andrewcanion.com domain but I somehow have a weird mishmash of redirects to `http(s)://www' that I can\u0026rsquo;t figure out what to change, where. Anything I\u0026rsquo;ve tried to do has broken all access.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-14 21:19:18 +0800", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Nov 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/14/i-want-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F14%2Fi-want-to.html" }, { "id": 1946, "type": "post", "title": "Recycling", "text": "Day 14 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nRecycling is kind of a big deal in our house. Our council runs a three bin system for rubbish management: one bin for food and organics, one for rubbish, and a third for recyclables.\nMy wife Hannah works in the recycling industry. She is the Head of External Relations at Western Australia Return Recycle Renew (WARRRL). This organisation has responsibility for establishing a new container deposit scheme for our State. That will mean that for every drink container brought back to a recycling point, 10 cents is given to the recycler.\nAs well as reducing the amount of waste going to landfill, or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the scheme provides an opportunity for community engagement. I could choose to have my recycled containers benefit an organisation that elects to participate. For instance, if my son\u0026rsquo;s local Scout group gets involved they can use it as a fund-raising measure.\nWestern Australia is a geographically huge State and this is rolling out across it all. Hannah and the entire WARRRL team have been working hard to get this initiative up and running and I am proud of the work they are doing. It will be exciting when the system is ready to launch!\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-14 19:39:00 +0800", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Nov 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/14/recycling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F14%2Frecycling.html" }, { "id": 1947, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: Our poor old dog Jeff has a big lump at the top of his neck.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-14 19:28:50 +0800", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Nov 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/14/microblogvember-our-poor.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F14%2Fmicroblogvember-our-poor.html" }, { "id": 1948, "type": "post", "title": "Beverage", "text": "Day 13 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nMy favourite beverage is coffee. There is no contest. There is not much better than an Australian flat white.\nItalian coffee is great but it\u0026rsquo;s a transitory drink. You get it at the bar, drink it and leave. Don\u0026rsquo;t sit down because it will cost you a fortune.\nAmerican coffee is bad. It\u0026rsquo;s either sweetened and flavoured to the point where its more milkshake than coffee, or its drip-filtered and been sitting in storage for a while.\nAustralian coffee has the quality of the Italian style, but there is a social norm of sitting down at the coffee shop to drink it. Our baristas are great at frothing the milk to achieve micro-foam rather than aerated fluff, and we benefit from a delicious crema when they pour.\nRegarding other beverages, I enjoy sharing a pot of tea at home with my wife. She is addicted to tea and doesn\u0026rsquo;t drink coffee at all. I think that\u0026rsquo;s weird, but there you go. I rarely drink soft drink. Perhaps an occasional Coke Zero. Never in my life have I had a Red Bull or other super-caffeinated beverage. I can\u0026rsquo;t see how they can possibly be good for me.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-13 11:52:30 +0800", "date": "11:52 p.m. on Nov 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/13/beverage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F13%2Fbeverage.html" }, { "id": 1949, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I write this microblog from an event that I have been able to organise. We have a room of people undertaking strategy development and financial forecasting.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-13 11:43:01 +0800", "date": "11:43 p.m. on Nov 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/13/microblogvember-i-write.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F13%2Fmicroblogvember-i-write.html" }, { "id": 1950, "type": "post", "title": "Smells", "text": "Day 12 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nA smell can be a most evocative sense. It can stimulate memory, facilitate calm or revulsion, or provide us with timely information.\nIf I smell new carpet, I am transported back to my Year 1 classroom which had been renovated and new carpet laid. That\u0026rsquo;s an associated formed around 35 years ago. The smell of a basketball stadium: that combination of sweat, dencorub, and timber treatment to this day hastens my heart beat.\nToday I was between meetings so I had the opportunity to park near the beach for a few minutes. As I opened the car window, my olfactory senses were treated to that wonderful scent of salt air traveling on a warm breeze. That is much nicer smell than that of a dirty nappy, which over the past 8 years I\u0026rsquo;ve become far to familiar with.\nA smell I miss is the cooking of roast beef and yorkshire pudding. That was a staple of my childhood diet but I don\u0026rsquo;t have the time or inclination to make it myself these days.\nOf all our senses, I think smell is the most associative. I don\u0026rsquo;t think vision, hearing, touch or taste can transport us back in time or recall memories of a person or place the way a smell can. We should probably take more time out to appreciate our noses.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-12 14:22:39 +0800", "date": "2:22 p.m. on Nov 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/12/smells.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F12%2Fsmells.html" }, { "id": 1951, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: This morning I wanted to stayin bed. Unfortunately, a want was insufficient reason to do so.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-12 11:23:08 +0800", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Nov 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/12/microblogvember-this-morning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F12%2Fmicroblogvember-this-morning.html" }, { "id": 1952, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve watched the first episode of The Spy on Netflix. Highly recommend! 📺\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-11 22:41:53 +0800", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Nov 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/11/ive-watched-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F11%2Five-watched-the.html" }, { "id": 1953, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Arcade games drain battery way too fast. I’m guessing it might be the DRM? Anyway, I’m canceling for a while since I’m not much of a gamer. Maybe Apple will sort it out over time. Apple Arcade games drain battery way too … - Apple Community\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-11 19:37:11 +0800", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Nov 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/11/apple-arcade-games.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F11%2Fapple-arcade-games.html" }, { "id": 1954, "type": "post", "title": "Childhood", "text": "Day 11 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI miss my childhood. It was such a different era; it\u0026rsquo;s hard to recognise my childhood as an experience compared with those of my kids.\nThe memories of my childhood seem like something that should be written off as me looking back through rose-coloured glasses. But I contest that not everything was great and nice, but it really was what retro throwbacks show the 1980s to be.\nSome of my key memories across a relatively wide age range include:\n Leaving the house to ride my bike around the streets without saying where I was going. I didn\u0026rsquo;t know where I was going - how could I tell others? Staying out until dusk then going home to either my own home, or my friend\u0026rsquo;s house for dinner. I think I almost split my time 50:50. Riding our BMX bikes through citrus orchards where dirt bike jumps had been constructed, and getting mega air. Playing pick-up basketball all day, and sweating litres. Playing multi-day games of Monopoly. Leaving it set up to pick up the next day. Climbing trees - but never as well as my friend. Spending hours throwing a ball against a wall, then playing a solid cricket stroke when it bounced back to me. Backyard camping for days (maybe even weeks?) on end. We had a big block, so we could pitch the tent in the back yard and be invisible from the house. Playing a season of Under 13\u0026rsquo;s cricket and being completely isolated by the other boys - and the coach. (Things are much better in this regard now, it seems.) Abseiling, rock climbing and other cool activities at school that probably wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be allowed anymore. I\u0026rsquo;m proud of my childhood. I had enough freedom to be adventurous and I managed to avoid any major dangers. I learnt to know my limits and stay within them. I had a sense of place in my suburb.\nIf I had a time machine, I would happily go back to the early 1980s and do it all again.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-11 16:17:12 +0800", "date": "4:17 p.m. on Nov 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/11/childhood.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F11%2Fchildhood.html" }, { "id": 1955, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I used to touch a basketball every single day. It\u0026rsquo;s now been months since I held one.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-11 10:49:39 +0800", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Nov 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/11/microblogvember-i-used.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F11%2Fmicroblogvember-i-used.html" }, { "id": 1956, "type": "post", "title": "Book", "text": "Day 10 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve made a concerted effort this year to increase my volume of book reading.\nIn 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.\nTo track my reading and add some motivation I set a target on Goodreads.. This has worked because I\u0026rsquo;ve read 23 books against my target of 20 - a target I revised upwards mid-year.\nAnother thing that has helped has been an Audible subscription. I think it\u0026rsquo;s fair enough to consider listening to audiobooks as reading. I\u0026rsquo;m still consuming the story; it actually takes longer than reading the printed version, and it allows me to read in \u0026lsquo;gaps\u0026rsquo; of time, notably driving.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve enjoyed my return to reading. Once more I feel like my mind is being stretched and my imagination activated.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-10 13:31:24 +0800", "date": "1:31 p.m. on Nov 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/10/book.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F10%2Fbook.html" }, { "id": 1957, "type": "post", "title": "Catalina and wifidiagnostics files multiplying like Tribbles", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;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.\nI thought a short-term interim solution would be to set up a Hazel watch script to automatically trash these files as they are created. I\u0026rsquo;ve hit a problem with this as well, because they are system files the user doesn\u0026rsquo;t have adequate permissions to delete them, so Hazel isn\u0026rsquo;t able to do it. I haven\u0026rsquo;t yet figured out how to combine some kind of chmod or chown command within Hazel to get it to change permissions and then delete the files.\nIn searching for a solution on the web, I\u0026rsquo;ve only found one other mention of the problem.\nI have deleted all my wifi settings and rebuilt them. I have deleted a security profile I had. I have toggled the enable/disable diagnostics by option-clicking the wifi menubar icon to see if that might rewrite a .plist file. Nothing has resolved it to date.\nI think this must be an underlying bug in the wifi networking frameworks of Catalina, but that\u0026rsquo;s above my pay grade.\nI hope it\u0026rsquo;s resolved in a future update. For now, it\u0026rsquo;s an annoying bug, and another indicator that Apple\u0026rsquo;s software quality is not where it should be.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-10 12:57:05 +0800", "date": "12:57 p.m. on Nov 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/10/catalina-and-wifidiagnostics.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F10%2Fcatalina-and-wifidiagnostics.html" }, { "id": 1958, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: My son is building a Lego craft at the moment that is designed to go into space.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-10 09:44:14 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Nov 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/10/microblogvember-my-son.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F10%2Fmicroblogvember-my-son.html" }, { "id": 1959, "type": "post", "title": "Television", "text": "Day 9 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nThere 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.\nThis overwhelming choice has led to a strange outcome, in that I’m actually watching less TV than I probably ever have. I feel like the onslaught is overwhelming so I’m just going to close my eyes and block my ears and hum to myself.\nThe competition now is for attention. As all the streaming services vie for our television attention budget, the television budget is being attacked by gaming, web browsing, reading, exercise and whatever else there is to do in recreation time.\nMy sacred cow of TV shows over many years has been Survivor. I would always find time for this show. My wife and I would watch it together. Now, we are 2 seasons behind in that. If we can’t keep up with that show, what hope have I got of ever finishing Season 3 of Stranger Things?\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-09 16:54:22 +0800", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Nov 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/09/television.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F09%2Ftelevision.html" }, { "id": 1960, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: Today\u0026rsquo;s temperature is forecast to hit 38 degrees Celsius. That is the opposite of cold.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-09 12:28:39 +0800", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Nov 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/09/microblogvember-todays-temperature.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F09%2Fmicroblogvember-todays-temperature.html" }, { "id": 1961, "type": "post", "title": "Technology", "text": "Day 8 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nThis week I\u0026rsquo;ve had a massive technology upgrade. I\u0026rsquo;ve moved from a 2013 MacBook Pro (the generation of MacBooks which had great keyboards), to a 2019 27\u0026quot; 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. I was waiting for Apple to return to manufacturing laptops with scissor mechanisms in their keyboards. By the end of October, none of those had come to pass. All the while I was becoming more frustrated with the slowness of my MacBook Pro.\nI bit the bullet and bought the iMac. I\u0026rsquo;ve had a 27\u0026quot; Apple Cinema Display for years, so I\u0026rsquo;m used to a big screen. Yet this is the first time I\u0026rsquo;ve had retina resolution at this size. For my ageing eyes it is incredible. In use the iMac feels much faster with my old machine. I know it\u0026rsquo;s not near the processing grunt of an iMac Pro - but I don\u0026rsquo;t do video, podcasting or programming. For my productivity app usage and a bit of photo editing (and less than I used to do) this is plenty powerful enough for me.\nA quick run of Geekbench on this Mac, compared with what I found in the Geekbench browser for my old laptop, highlights the difference:\n iMac MacBook Pro Single Core 1053 710 Multi Core 4875 1565 It\u0026rsquo;s not all speeds and feeds, though. This new iMac feels nicer, supports newer features such as Sidecar, and has cleared clutter on my desk!\nTechnology upgrade cycle All technology needs a regular upgrade cycle. Technology ages out and the industry moves forward. Inevitably devices need to be changed out. Obsolescence generally occurs before devices fail.\nOver my most recent technology cycle, I\u0026rsquo;ve been depreciating my devices over a longer period. I\u0026rsquo;ve accepted not having the latest and greatest and have upgraded only when there has been a compelling reason.\nFor interest\u0026rsquo;s sake I maintain a spreadsheet to track how long I\u0026rsquo;ve owned major technology assets, and compute \u0026lsquo;life of service\u0026rsquo; and \u0026lsquo;cost per week\u0026rsquo;. Two of our TVs, however, pre-date this spreadsheet, so they are definitely ready for replacement!\nSome highlights from my spreadsheet include:\n Device Service Life Weekly Cost MacBook Pro 5.8 years $5.71 QNAP NAS 6.4 years $3.12 Cinema Display 8.8 years $2.82 Average1 3.6 years $4.50 It all comes back to budgeting Letting the equipment age was fine in itself. Now though, we have a backlog of technology all set for replacement at the same time. The problem is I haven\u0026rsquo;t been reserving cash to replace the depreciated items. I responsibly saved up for the iMac, but other technology has not had a regular savings pattern applied to it.\nWriting this post has prompted me to create a new line item for technology upgrades in my YNAB budget. I\u0026rsquo;ve set a monthly savings goal. This way I\u0026rsquo;ll be able to build my savings to facilitate a household technology refresh. I will keep ploughing money into this category on a monthly basis so that when the next device needs replacing, I\u0026rsquo;ll have the money sitting there waiting to be used. That beats going into debt - and don\u0026rsquo;t even get me started on the scourge of Afterpay! That\u0026rsquo;s a post for another day.\n I\u0026rsquo;ve excluded the brand-new iMac from this calculation.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n ", "dateiso": "2019-11-08 20:53:08 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Nov 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/08/technology.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F08%2Ftechnology.html" }, { "id": 1962, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Kids cricket is winding down as the sun sets. Yay summer! 🏏\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-08 18:42:08 +0800", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Nov 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/08/kids-cricket-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F08%2Fkids-cricket-is.html" }, { "id": 1963, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: A pet peeve of mine is when people describe an asterisk as either an asterix or a star.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-08 08:50:22 +0800", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Nov 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/08/microblogvember-a-pet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F08%2Fmicroblogvember-a-pet.html" }, { "id": 1964, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-07 22:41:32 +0800", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Nov 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/07/watched-episode-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F07%2Fwatched-episode-of.html" }, { "id": 1965, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Over the last 24 hours I\u0026rsquo;ve been running on a brand new 27\u0026quot; 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.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-07 19:16:00 +0800", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Nov 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/07/over-the-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F07%2Fover-the-last.html" }, { "id": 1966, "type": "post", "title": "Work", "text": "Day 7 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nAll in all I have a pretty great job. I\u0026rsquo;ve been doing it for long enough that I feel I have well and truly mastered the fundamentals.\nWith 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.\nDespite all of this I am still working with people, and they can\u0026rsquo;t be automated, and the margin for error is greater than that of machines and systems. As a result, sometimes I have days where I turn up for a scheduled meeting only to find out that they are no longer available or that there was a \u0026lsquo;diary mix-up\u0026rsquo;.\nWhen this happens, I don\u0026rsquo;t get upset. I see it as an opportunity to either recover some bonus free time, or it unlocks the ability to get ahead on some other piece of work.\nI enjoy the responsibility of self-management like this. I think I would struggle having to return to a job that was micro-managed, or doing something that was a small cog in a larger wheel. I like owning the process soup to nuts, and making things work the way I think is best.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-07 19:12:59 +0800", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Nov 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/07/work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F07%2Fwork.html" }, { "id": 1967, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-07 09:12:52 +0800", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Nov 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/07/microblogvember-we-tend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F07%2Fmicroblogvember-we-tend.html" }, { "id": 1968, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-07 00:07:46 +0800", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Nov 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/07/adobe-technical-support.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F07%2Fadobe-technical-support.html" }, { "id": 1969, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-06 13:30:11 +0800", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Nov 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/06/microblogvember-i-take.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F06%2Fmicroblogvember-i-take.html" }, { "id": 1970, "type": "post", "title": "Family", "text": "Day 6 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI 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.\nAs an adult the nuclear family is again the structure we are living in, except now I\u0026rsquo;m the Dad. My two sisters live in the same city, while my brother has recently moved to Switzerland. There\u0026rsquo;s no animosity between any of us, but we simply don\u0026rsquo;t see each other that much.\nMy wife has some family on her side, and those are the people we see the most.\nIn reality, we live our life as a small nuclear family of four. This is generally fine, except for when we would like to have a grown-up night out, or have some respite from children. Without the babysitting potential that comes from an extended family, we have to go to the open market and find a babysitter. That added cost and inconvenience does mean that we don\u0026rsquo;t get out as much as we might like.\nWhile that\u0026rsquo;s not ideal, I also know that we are creating a strong and safe environment for our kids. They don\u0026rsquo;t have any fears of violence, abuse, drunkenness or any of the other things that occur behind closed doors that can lead to the destruction of a loving and peaceful childhood. That is a wonderful gift we are giving them, and I\u0026rsquo;m sure, as adults, they will appreciate that more than not having enough uncles and aunties to visit.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-06 13:24:18 +0800", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Nov 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/06/family.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F06%2Ffamily.html" }, { "id": 1971, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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, \u0026ldquo;no idea\u0026rdquo;. Friendly staff for the win!\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-06 12:23:15 +0800", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Nov 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/06/at-the-checkout.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F06%2Fat-the-checkout.html" }, { "id": 1972, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve escaped from Migration Assistant hell!\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-05 22:19:09 +0800", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Nov 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/05/ive-escaped-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F05%2Five-escaped-from.html" }, { "id": 1973, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m in the midst of Migration Assistant hell.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-05 20:32:25 +0800", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Nov 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/05/im-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F05%2Fim-in-the.html" }, { "id": 1974, "type": "post", "title": "Nature", "text": "Day 5 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nRight 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.\nI visited Queens Gardens in East Perth. Nature was in full bloom. Multiple groups of ducklings were running after their mothers. A group of cygnets were sitting under the shade of a tree. The cygnets were a grey colour, before they grow their unique black feathers; black swans - a feature of Perth’s naturescape.\nThere is a downside to Perth nature, and that is the flies. A few years I have a recollection of our then State government cutting the amount of funding dedicated to fly management by dung beetles. Over the last few years I am convinced that we have more bush flies than we used to. It’s frustrating, but if I want to take the good of nature I suppose I have to accept the bad.\nYou do get used to doing the what I know as the Aussie wave.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-05 13:27:21 +0800", "date": "1:27 p.m. on Nov 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/05/nature.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F05%2Fnature.html" }, { "id": 1975, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve bought an annual subscription to Harmonizely as my replacement for WhenWorks, which is shutting down at the end of 2019.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-05 11:33:45 +0800", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Nov 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/05/ive-bought-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F05%2Five-bought-an.html" }, { "id": 1976, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: When I was a kid my friends and I would typically play sport on the street. Cricket and tennis were the two typical games. I don\u0026rsquo;t see kids doing that anymore.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-05 10:11:25 +0800", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Nov 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/05/microblogvember-when-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F05%2Fmicroblogvember-when-i.html" }, { "id": 1977, "type": "post", "title": "Food", "text": "Day 4 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nOver the past year I\u0026rsquo;ve been enjoying food a bit too much. Concurrently I\u0026rsquo;ve stopped playing sport. This has led to an imbalance in the food in/energy out equation.\nIn turn, I\u0026rsquo;ve seen the growth of a generous belly for the first time in my life. I\u0026rsquo;m not particularly pleased about this. My kid calling me \u0026lsquo;fat Dad\u0026rsquo;, is jesting that cuts a little too close to the bone!\nI\u0026rsquo;ve been trying to do a little more exercise but time is a constant challenge. Plus, if the exercise in question doesn\u0026rsquo;t involve a ball, I have a hard time maintaining interest. While I\u0026rsquo;ve done gym work plenty in the past, I\u0026rsquo;ve never loved it and have a hard time sticking with it.\nWhat I can do instantly is reduce the input side of the equation by changing (and reducing) what I eat. So I\u0026rsquo;ve put myself on a diet. I\u0026rsquo;ve turned to the service of Lite n' Easy to deliver portion controlled, dietician planned meals. The food is okay, albeit somewhat repetitive.\nI miss the more flavoursome fattening food but hopefully the changed diet will pay off over the next few months. I reckon I need to lose about 10kg. That will get me back to what I consider my \u0026lsquo;standard\u0026rsquo; weight. I don\u0026rsquo;t need to lose it all in the next month, but I need to lose it over this next year.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-04 15:59:34 +0800", "date": "3:59 p.m. on Nov 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/04/food.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F04%2Ffood.html" }, { "id": 1978, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Catalina has filled my drive with hundreds of wifi diagnostic files for no apparent reason. Cool.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-04 14:11:20 +0800", "date": "2:11 p.m. on Nov 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/04/catalina-has-filled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F04%2Fcatalina-has-filled.html" }, { "id": 1979, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: If you want to be arithmetically precise, don\u0026rsquo;t say average; instead say mean.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-04 08:46:40 +0800", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Nov 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/04/microblogvember-if-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F04%2Fmicroblogvember-if-you.html" }, { "id": 1980, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Niagara Scow - Wikipedia\nA shipwreck from 100 years ago is still stuck at the top of Niagara Falls. Wow!\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-03 22:43:21 +0800", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Nov 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/03/niagara-scow-wikipedia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F03%2Fniagara-scow-wikipedia.html" }, { "id": 1981, "type": "post", "title": "Failing", "text": "Day 3 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nIt seems that part of the human condition is to view failure as an end in and of itself. I think it’s better to consider it part of the process towards success.\nA life well-lived encompasses a procession of trade-offs. We necessarily fail to do all the things we might want. We can’t be good at everything. We don’t have time to do everything. Are we failing because we don’t manage to do it all? Are we failing because we’re not multi-tasking our way to success?\nThat kind of thinking is probably a path to depression.\n “Failure is not an option.” — A phrase credited to Gene Kranz and Apollo 13, but never said in reality - probably because he knew failure is part of the equation.\n Failing is a trade-off. Failing is inevitable. It’s not possible to achieve the highest goals without accepting failure along the way. We shouldn’t beat ourselves up over our failures, because they are necessary to build success.\nTime is limited. A failure to do something can represent a successful engagement with something else. I think I’m making the case for a Mr. Holland’s Opus approach to life, failure and success. Our greatest success might be hiding behind what was first thought a massive failure.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-03 17:20:00 +0800", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Nov 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/03/failing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F03%2Ffailing.html" }, { "id": 1982, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: I haven\u0026rsquo;t been invited to a fancy dress party in years\u0026hellip; which is good, because I don\u0026rsquo;t really like them.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-03 08:19:04 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Nov 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/03/microblogvember-i-havent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F03%2Fmicroblogvember-i-havent.html" }, { "id": 1983, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microblogvember: When does a mark become a blemish? Is it simply in the eyes of the beholder?\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-02 14:15:14 +0800", "date": "2:15 p.m. on Nov 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/02/microblogvember-when-does.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F02%2Fmicroblogvember-when-does.html" }, { "id": 1984, "type": "post", "title": "Trying", "text": "Day 2 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI’m not a handyman. Never have been. When I was young, I would be roped into helping my stepdad do work around the house or on the car. I dutifully participated despite the boredom. I couldn’t find joy in repairs and construction.\nAs an adult my disinterest in physical work consolidated. Handyman tasks were a burden, made harder by the knowledge that my efforts would not match what could be achieved by paying a professional. I would rather throw money at the problem than attempt a DIY.\nNow I’m a Dad and my son has to build a wooden Kub Kar as part of his Scouts program. At the briefing session I saw the thrill and excitement of other kids\u0026hellip; and other Dads. Meanwhile, I felt dread. Here it was: a construction/woodworking project that I would have to motivate my kid to get involved in. While simultaneously trying to motivate myself.\n This has to become a car. In my boy I can see the same mindset I had as a child. He\u0026rsquo;s not showing any desire to work with tools to build an impressive car. I imagine those other kids with their Dads, working away in the shed to build something great. Meanwhile, we\u0026rsquo;re just trying to build something that will roll.\nI\u0026rsquo;m trying to be a good Dad. I\u0026rsquo;m trying to show interest. I hope my son will try to get engaged in the project.\nWithout skill, effort is all we have.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-02 13:30:04 +0800", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Nov 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/02/trying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F02%2Ftrying.html" }, { "id": 1985, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In addition to Blogvember we also have Microblogvember. Prompts can be the key to success, so get the daily prompt for this project from @macgenie\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-01 23:25:30 +0800", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Nov 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/01/in-addition-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F01%2Fin-addition-to.html" }, { "id": 1986, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back to the Blog – Dan Cohen\nIn this older article, Dan outlines the benefits of blogging, but also the challenge of getting people to see beyond big social media.\n It is psychological gravity, not technical inertia, however, that is the greater force against the open web. Human beings are social animals and centralized social media like Twitter and Facebook provide a powerful sense of ambient humanity—the feeling that “others are here”—that is often missing when one writes on one’s own site.\n People still love the likes.\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-01 23:17:00 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Nov 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/01/back-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F01%2Fback-to-the.html" }, { "id": 1987, "type": "post", "title": "Recollection", "text": "Day 1 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available.\nI must rely on vague and fading recollections to remember anything of my life that happened more than a decade ago. Any key events forward from around 2003, I start to have digital records to draw upon as a memory trigger. For instance, I can say with absolute knowledge that on 17 June 2006, I was playing with our new puppy, Indi. I recall this evening, but only by accessing the metadata of the photos can I know when it actually happened. Earlier this year, Indi died. So much time has passed.\nWith digital records now pervasive, recollection can be supported by hard data. No more complete reliance on a fuzzy memory.\nI remember as a child playing at a friend\u0026rsquo;s house; I remember it seeming absolutely enormous. We spent the day running through the garden, up and down the stairs inside and around the giant lounge room. I can visualise it clearly. But I can\u0026rsquo;t say what year it was, where it was, or why I was there. My recollection of the scene is strong, but the situation is unknown. I don\u0026rsquo;t have the option of reviewing a geotag to be able to revisit the location as an adult. It\u0026rsquo;s a memory and nothing more.\nMy kids will experience a different world. All their life events have been captured, whether through photos, video, audio or journal entries written by their Dad. All those pieces of data have metadata. If they have a recollection in the future, it is likely they will be able to enter the date into their device of the time and bring up the evidence of the memory in glorious detail.\nI wonder, though, if this will make their recollections richer, or whether the reality of the evidence at hand will diminish the richness of their mind\u0026rsquo;s eye?\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-01 15:36:58 +0800", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Nov 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/01/recollection.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F01%2Frecollection.html" }, { "id": 1988, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trick or treat. (But preferably treat, thanks very much.)\n", "dateiso": "2019-11-01 07:32:38 +0800", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Nov 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/11/01/trick-or-treat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F11%2F01%2Ftrick-or-treat.html" }, { "id": 1989, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 31: Ripe.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-31 20:40:40 +0800", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Oct 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/31/inktober-day-ripe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F31%2Finktober-day-ripe.html" }, { "id": 1990, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 30: Catch.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-30 19:24:42 +0800", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Oct 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/30/inktober-day-catch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F30%2Finktober-day-catch.html" }, { "id": 1991, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mobile phones to be banned in WA public schools from 2020 under McGowan Government move - ABC News\n The WA Government will ban students from using mobile phones in public schools in a major push to reduce distraction and focus on learning.\n Bravo! I reckon this is a great move.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-30 14:08:59 +0800", "date": "2:08 p.m. on Oct 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/30/mobile-phones-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F30%2Fmobile-phones-to.html" }, { "id": 1992, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 29: Injured.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-29 20:53:23 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Oct 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/29/inktober-day-injured.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F29%2Finktober-day-injured.html" }, { "id": 1993, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m on the verge of splurging for a new 27” iMac. I’ve been saving for ages but am still nervous. An expensive purchase. But the 2013 MacBook Pro is showing its age.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-29 08:27:17 +0800", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Oct 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/29/im-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F29%2Fim-on-the.html" }, { "id": 1994, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spend so much time farting around with various information capture and management apps, when really, DEVONthink can essentially do it all.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-28 22:35:38 +0800", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Oct 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/28/i-spend-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F28%2Fi-spend-so.html" }, { "id": 1995, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 28: Ride.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-28 20:18:04 +0800", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Oct 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/28/inktober-day-ride.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F28%2Finktober-day-ride.html" }, { "id": 1996, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 27: Coat.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-27 19:05:13 +0800", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Oct 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/27/inktober-day-coat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F27%2Finktober-day-coat.html" }, { "id": 1997, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 26: Dark.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-26 19:20:24 +0800", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Oct 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/26/inktober-day-dark.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F26%2Finktober-day-dark.html" }, { "id": 1998, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great weather for a play at the park.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-26 12:05:46 +0800", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Oct 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/26/great-weather-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F26%2Fgreat-weather-for.html" }, { "id": 1999, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 25: Tasty.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-25 20:59:00 +0800", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Oct 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/25/inktober-day-tasty.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F25%2Finktober-day-tasty.html" }, { "id": 2000, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 24: Dizzy.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-24 23:24:32 +0800", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Oct 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/24/inktober-day-dizzy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F24%2Finktober-day-dizzy.html" }, { "id": 2001, "type": "post", "title": "Blogvember Prompt List", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve mentioned previously an idea to make November my own Blogvember.\nFrom that idea, @galexa asked if I would have a list of prompts. I hadn\u0026rsquo;t even considered that, but he makes a fair point. If I\u0026rsquo;m using Inktober as my guide, it has prompts, so why not offer them for Blogvember as well?\nSo, I\u0026rsquo;ve put together the following list of prompts. Some will be easy, some might be personal, and some could prove controversial. Doesn\u0026rsquo;t that sounds like a combination of the content you might want to find on a blog?\nThe Blogvember Prompt List Recollection Trying Failing Food Nature Family Work Technology Television Book Childhood Smells Beverage Recycling Renovation Animal Party Game Love Fight Unrequited Sport Toast Infrastructure Money Shoes Loss Hope Religion Politics ", "dateiso": "2019-10-23 21:38:00 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Oct 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/23/blogvember-prompt-list.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F23%2Fblogvember-prompt-list.html" }, { "id": 2002, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 23: Ancient.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-23 20:11:29 +0800", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Oct 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/23/inktober-day-ancient.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F23%2Finktober-day-ancient.html" }, { "id": 2003, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My iPhone has been acting really weird the last couple of days. Losing network, apps failing to load, hanging apps and loss of screen responsiveness. I’ve taken the nuclear option: Erase and Reset. I blame iOS 13.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-23 17:57:32 +0800", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Oct 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/23/my-iphone-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F23%2Fmy-iphone-has.html" }, { "id": 2004, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Incense in a coffee shop. I like it.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-23 09:32:30 +0800", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Oct 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/23/incense-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F23%2Fincense-in-a.html" }, { "id": 2005, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Being Busy Is Eliminating the Joys of Shared Free Time\n To make the most efficient use of their scant time at home, some parents have resorted to using the same enterprise software that organizes their office lives\n We’ve been using Basecamp at home and it’s been a game-changer.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-22 21:19:08 +0800", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Oct 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/22/being-busy-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F22%2Fbeing-busy-is.html" }, { "id": 2006, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I saw a lady wearing a taped-up cardboard box on her head. In the library. Using a computer. Life is interesting.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-22 20:23:23 +0800", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Oct 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/22/i-saw-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F22%2Fi-saw-a.html" }, { "id": 2007, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 22: Ghost.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-22 19:16:14 +0800", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Oct 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/22/inktober-day-ghost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F22%2Finktober-day-ghost.html" }, { "id": 2008, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In the blogging world, this month is Inktober. I am thinking I might challenge myself to make November, Blogvember. August as Blogust would sound better, but I don\u0026rsquo;t wait to wait another 9 months.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-22 16:55:11 +0800", "date": "4:55 p.m. on Oct 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/22/in-the-blogging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F22%2Fin-the-blogging.html" }, { "id": 2009, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My mind keeps circling back to Dave Winer’s blog. I like how he maintains a pithy flow of commentary through the day. I like that he blogs using an Outliner. No wonder it’s the oldest blog in the world.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-22 14:26:26 +0800", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Oct 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/22/my-mind-keeps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F22%2Fmy-mind-keeps.html" }, { "id": 2010, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 21: Treasure\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-21 19:33:06 +0800", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Oct 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/21/inktober-day-treasure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F21%2Finktober-day-treasure.html" }, { "id": 2011, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "WhenWorks, the calendar scheduling service that has been brilliant for me and my clients over the past two years, is closing down. It seems Harmonizely is the next best option as it supports CalDAV and Fastmail.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-21 07:54:12 +0800", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Oct 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/21/whenworks-the-calendar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F21%2Fwhenworks-the-calendar.html" }, { "id": 2012, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My kid is getting in to Pokemon. This has led to my wife and I watching YouTube videos explaining how to play Pokemon: Trading Card Game. Life takes interesting turns.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-20 21:52:55 +0800", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Oct 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/20/my-kid-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F20%2Fmy-kid-is.html" }, { "id": 2013, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 20: Tread.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-20 18:28:42 +0800", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Oct 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/20/inktober-day-tread.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F20%2Finktober-day-tread.html" }, { "id": 2014, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I appreciate @beck and @tjluoma bringing my attention to a Keyboard Maestro script to allow \u0026ldquo;Edit Text in an Alternative App” functionality to the Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-20 16:53:45 +0800", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Oct 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/20/i-appreciate-beck.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F20%2Fi-appreciate-beck.html" }, { "id": 2015, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 19: Sling.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-19 08:09:55 +0800", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Oct 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/19/inktober-day-sling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F19%2Finktober-day-sling.html" }, { "id": 2016, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 18: Misfit.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-19 08:09:24 +0800", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Oct 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/19/inktober-day-misfit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F19%2Finktober-day-misfit.html" }, { "id": 2017, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 17: Ornament.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-17 20:19:26 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Oct 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/17/inktober-day-ornament.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F17%2Finktober-day-ornament.html" }, { "id": 2018, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 16: Wild.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-16 22:03:24 +0800", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Oct 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/16/inktober-day-wild.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F16%2Finktober-day-wild.html" }, { "id": 2019, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been entirely swamped with work. 🙇🏼‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-16 21:43:23 +0800", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Oct 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/16/ive-been-entirely.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F16%2Five-been-entirely.html" }, { "id": 2020, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 15m Legend.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-15 18:15:25 +0800", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Oct 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/15/inktober-day-m.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F15%2Finktober-day-m.html" }, { "id": 2021, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 14: Overgrown.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-14 22:19:23 +0800", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Oct 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/14/inktober-day-overgrown.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F14%2Finktober-day-overgrown.html" }, { "id": 2022, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 13: Ash.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-13 18:09:14 +0800", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Oct 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/13/inktober-day-ash.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F13%2Finktober-day-ash.html" }, { "id": 2023, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 12: Dragon.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-12 15:38:55 +0800", "date": "3:38 p.m. on Oct 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/12/inktober-day-dragon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F12%2Finktober-day-dragon.html" }, { "id": 2024, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 11: Snow.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-11 14:19:52 +0800", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Oct 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/11/inktober-day-snow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F11%2Finktober-day-snow.html" }, { "id": 2025, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 10: Pattern.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-10 17:42:17 +0800", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Oct 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/10/inktober-day-pattern.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F10%2Finktober-day-pattern.html" }, { "id": 2026, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 9: Swing.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-09 19:41:05 +0800", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Oct 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/09/inktober-day-swing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F09%2Finktober-day-swing.html" }, { "id": 2027, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought some NFC stickers to use with HomeKit devices. Now I need tot honk of some clever applications.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-09 18:42:50 +0800", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Oct 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/09/i-bought-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F09%2Fi-bought-some.html" }, { "id": 2028, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fastmail does Snooze\n Not all emails arrive when you’re ready. Hit snooze in Fastmail to bring it back at a better time for you.\n With iOS 13’s Mail being terrible and Fastmail introducing snoozing, I’m using their native client as my primary mail interface.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-08 20:33:14 +0800", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Oct 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/08/fastmail-does-snooze.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F08%2Ffastmail-does-snooze.html" }, { "id": 2029, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 8: Frail.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-08 17:47:23 +0800", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Oct 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/08/inktober-day-frail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F08%2Finktober-day-frail.html" }, { "id": 2030, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Over the last couple of days I\u0026rsquo;ve gone geocaching with the kids and by myself. It\u0026rsquo;s fun; it makes me feel like I\u0026rsquo;m on Survivor hunting down the hidden immunity idol!\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-07 22:08:11 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Oct 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/07/over-the-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F07%2Fover-the-last.html" }, { "id": 2031, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 7: Enchanted.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-07 09:48:25 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Oct 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/07/inktober-day-enchanted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F07%2Finktober-day-enchanted.html" }, { "id": 2032, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 6: Husky.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-06 19:26:40 +0800", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Oct 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/06/inktober-day-husky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F06%2Finktober-day-husky.html" }, { "id": 2033, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 5: Build.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-06 19:01:13 +0800", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Oct 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/06/inktober-day-build.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F06%2Finktober-day-build.html" }, { "id": 2034, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 4: Freeze.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-04 20:29:02 +0800", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Oct 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/04/inktober-day-freeze.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F04%2Finktober-day-freeze.html" }, { "id": 2035, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 3: Bait\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-03 21:42:18 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Oct 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/03/inktober-day-bait.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F03%2Finktober-day-bait.html" }, { "id": 2036, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve re-engaged with Curio for some work projects, and I like it so much. It’s incredibly versatile software.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-03 15:02:36 +0800", "date": "3:02 p.m. on Oct 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/03/ive-reengaged-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F03%2Five-reengaged-with.html" }, { "id": 2037, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inktober Day 2: Mindless.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-02 21:48:23 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Oct 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/02/inktober-day-mindless.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F02%2Finktober-day-mindless.html" }, { "id": 2038, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not an artist, but I’ve had a crack at the Inktober day one challenge: ring.\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-02 21:20:00 +0800", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Oct 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/02/im-not-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F02%2Fim-not-an.html" }, { "id": 2039, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Cortex merch arrived - will it replace my existing mind map system? The Theme System\n", "dateiso": "2019-10-02 14:03:39 +0800", "date": "2:03 p.m. on Oct 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/10/02/my-cortex-merch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F10%2F02%2Fmy-cortex-merch.html" }, { "id": 2040, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m enjoying the native swipe keyboard in iOS 13. I also like the mini keyboard available for iPadOS.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-30 22:53:18 +0800", "date": "10:53 p.m. on Sep 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/30/im-enjoying-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F30%2Fim-enjoying-the.html" }, { "id": 2041, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve not had Dropbox installed for months, and haven\u0026rsquo;t missed it at all. In an earlier time it was indispensable.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-30 20:09:05 +0800", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Sep 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/30/ive-not-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F30%2Five-not-had.html" }, { "id": 2042, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How to \u0026lsquo;Grease the Groove\u0026rsquo; and Exercise Easy - The Atlantic:\n One way to grease the groove is to just do the exercise whenever you think of it.\n I\u0026rsquo;ve put on weight since giving up basketball. I hate the gym. Perhaps \u0026lsquo;greasing the groove\u0026rsquo; might help me lose a few kgs.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-30 10:25:52 +0800", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Sep 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/30/how-to-grease.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F30%2Fhow-to-grease.html" }, { "id": 2043, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "These guys make life fun.\n\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-29 22:44:27 +0800", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Sep 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/29/these-guys-make.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F29%2Fthese-guys-make.html" }, { "id": 2044, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is WeWork A Fraud? | Zero Hedge\n A lot of people could have done what Adam Nuemann \u0026amp; Miguel McKelvey did, they don’t because they’re not prepared to engage in a fraud.\n Putting money into WeWork would be a bad investment.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-28 22:42:09 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Sep 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/28/is-wework-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F28%2Fis-wework-a.html" }, { "id": 2045, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Card of Darkness on Apple Arcade is fun and the drawing and animation is delightful. 🕹\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-28 14:26:11 +0800", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Sep 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/28/card-of-darkness.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F28%2Fcard-of-darkness.html" }, { "id": 2046, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It seems the stock calendar app in iOS 13 might finally be good enough for me.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-27 07:08:31 +0800", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Sep 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/27/it-seems-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F27%2Fit-seems-the.html" }, { "id": 2047, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Grindstone on Apple Arcade is fun. These games are killing my battery, though. 🕹\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-26 22:58:44 +0800", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Sep 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/26/grindstone-on-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F26%2Fgrindstone-on-apple.html" }, { "id": 2048, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m walking through Bulding 402 at Curtin Uni for the first time in about 25 years. Where\u0026rsquo;s the window from where I used to pick up my print jobs?\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-26 09:42:38 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Sep 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/26/im-walking-through.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F26%2Fim-walking-through.html" }, { "id": 2049, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With iOS 13.1 out I\u0026rsquo;ve taken the plunge. I\u0026rsquo;ve also started an Apple Arcade trial, with the micro game reviews from @manton as my guide.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-25 19:54:27 +0800", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Sep 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/25/with-ios-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F25%2Fwith-ios-out.html" }, { "id": 2050, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made a \u0026ldquo;Piggy\u0026rsquo;s got the conch\u0026rdquo; reference in a meeting today and nobody got it. What is the world becoming?\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-24 14:29:13 +0800", "date": "2:29 p.m. on Sep 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/24/i-made-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F24%2Fi-made-a.html" }, { "id": 2051, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After months of enjoyment I’ve now completed Zelda Breath of the Wild. What an amazing game. Possibly the best game I’ve ever played. 🕹\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-22 22:12:40 +0800", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Sep 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/22/after-months-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F22%2Fafter-months-of.html" }, { "id": 2052, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My superpower: ability to get sunburn on a 22 degree day.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-22 16:57:20 +0800", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Sep 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/22/my-superpower-ability.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F22%2Fmy-superpower-ability.html" }, { "id": 2053, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been experimenting with pCloud for online storage. It seems fine. Yet between iCloud and Resilio Sync to my NAS, maybe storage is a solved problem?\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-22 16:04:31 +0800", "date": "4:04 p.m. on Sep 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/22/ive-been-experimenting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F22%2Five-been-experimenting.html" }, { "id": 2054, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This TED talk does a great job of breaking down why neoliberalism is wrong, and what is needed to build a new theory of economics that benefits all.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-21 21:28:51 +0800", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Sep 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/21/this-ted-talk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F21%2Fthis-ted-talk.html" }, { "id": 2055, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought Untitled Goose Game for Switch today. I knew it was published by Panic, but didn’t know it was Australian made. Good to have supported the local industry. 🕹\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-21 18:28:52 +0800", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Sep 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/21/i-bought-untitled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F21%2Fi-bought-untitled.html" }, { "id": 2056, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m showing tremendous restraint by avoiding iOS 13.0 and waiting for 13.1. It’s like I’m a different person!\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-21 12:27:22 +0800", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Sep 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/21/im-showing-tremendous.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F21%2Fim-showing-tremendous.html" }, { "id": 2057, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m home again after my three-day work sojourn to Canberra which took 9 hours of flight time. Australia is big. ✈️\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-19 23:17:54 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Sep 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/19/im-home-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F19%2Fim-home-again.html" }, { "id": 2058, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Apple Watch Series 1 battery has suddenly become incapable of holding a day’s worth of charge. It’s like it knows the Series 5 has been released. ⌚️\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-19 12:58:16 +0800", "date": "12:58 p.m. on Sep 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/19/my-apple-watch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F19%2Fmy-apple-watch.html" }, { "id": 2059, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is The Far Side making a comeback? I was obsessed with these comics as a young teen growing up in the early nineties. Our science teacher would stick a new comic up in his classroom every day. Reading it each morning was the highlight of the day.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-16 20:21:02 +0800", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Sep 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/16/is-the-far.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F16%2Fis-the-far.html" }, { "id": 2060, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great spring weather for a street walk.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-15 09:50:46 +0800", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Sep 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/15/great-spring-weather.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F15%2Fgreat-spring-weather.html" }, { "id": 2061, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First time at the beach for this season. First sunburn too. 🥵 It’s no fun being a complete whitey. 🏄🏼‍♂️ 🏖\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-14 16:32:51 +0800", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Sep 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/14/first-time-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F14%2Ffirst-time-at.html" }, { "id": 2062, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Australia v Spain 🏀 game was epic. Double overtime. Aussies with one day less rest combined with some interesting refereeing did them in. So no gold or silver medal on this journey, but they can still make history by winning a bronze.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-13 20:49:58 +0800", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Sep 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/13/the-australia-v.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F13%2Fthe-australia-v.html" }, { "id": 2063, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity | Vanity Fair\n \u0026hellip;many skeptics have come to see Musk’s stunts—from smoking pot during an interview to calling a diver who helped rescue kids trapped in a Thailand cave a “pedo guy”—as more unhinged than iconoclastic.\n Agreed.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-12 23:17:15 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Sep 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/12/how-elon-musk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F12%2Fhow-elon-musk.html" }, { "id": 2064, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I forgot there was an Apple event today. That’s a new experience for me. Now having caught up, I wouldn’t mind upgrading from my Series 1 Watch. Arcade and TV+ are well-priced. iPhone 11? Meh.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-11 15:15:47 +0800", "date": "3:15 p.m. on Sep 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/11/i-forgot-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F11%2Fi-forgot-there.html" }, { "id": 2065, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m going crazy adding emoji as the first character in my calendar events. Send help!‼️\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-09 18:01:19 +0800", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Sep 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/09/im-going-crazy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F09%2Fim-going-crazy.html" }, { "id": 2066, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Heading into wildflower season. The canola fields were a vibrant yellow but didn’t get a photo of those.\n\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-09 09:16:05 +0800", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Sep 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/09/heading-into-wildflower.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F09%2Fheading-into-wildflower.html" }, { "id": 2067, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The boy and I took a weekend road trip to Hyden, Western Australia to see Wave Rock.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-08 19:57:22 +0800", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Sep 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/08/the-boy-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F08%2Fthe-boy-and.html" }, { "id": 2068, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Police hunt for gang of six men rob Perth\u0026rsquo;s two Apple stores\n Police are on the hunt for a gang of six men wanted over daring smash and grab robberies on Perth\u0026rsquo;s two Apple stores.\n My hometown hitting the news in not such a great way.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-05 20:20:53 +0800", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Sep 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/05/police-hunt-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F05%2Fpolice-hunt-for.html" }, { "id": 2069, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The USA v Turkey 🏀 was bonkers. Turkey missed their opportunities and the US can breathe a sign of relief. Previously, the Brazil v Greece game was almost as good. My Boomers won ugly, with thanks to Joe Ingles.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-03 23:24:21 +0800", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Sep 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/03/the-usa-v.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F03%2Fthe-usa-v.html" }, { "id": 2070, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A fun night at EPW wrestling my 8 year old son. Compared with a year ago, he gets into it so much more now! He even started a chant. But he still feels sad for the wrestlers who lose. 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-01 10:19:13 +0800", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Sep 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/01/a-fun-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F01%2Fa-fun-night.html" }, { "id": 2071, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What does America have against vacation? - The Washington Post\n The United States, on the other hand […] mandates no paid vacation or paid holidays. Zero days.\n This seems crazy to me. Australia mandates 20 days of annual leave plus 10 public holidays. Work life balance is vital.\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-01 09:56:07 +0800", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Sep 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/09/01/what-does-america.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F09%2F01%2Fwhat-does-america.html" }, { "id": 2072, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Living my best life. 🏀📺🏀📺🏀📺\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-31 17:13:42 +0800", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Aug 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/31/living-my-best.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F31%2Fliving-my-best.html" }, { "id": 2073, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The corrupting of democracy - The Economist\n Politics used to behave like a pendulum. When the right made mistakes the left won its turn, before power swung back rightward again. Now it looks more like a helter-skelter. Cynicism drags democracy down.\n Will democracy self-correct?\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-31 07:56:03 +0800", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Aug 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/31/the-corrupting-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F31%2Fthe-corrupting-of.html" }, { "id": 2074, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just one day until the basketball 🏀 World Cup commences. I\u0026rsquo;m excited! Two weeks of my favourite sport. I want the Aussies to do well, but I\u0026rsquo;ll happily watch any two nations play at any time.\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-30 16:01:34 +0800", "date": "4:01 p.m. on Aug 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/30/just-one-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F30%2Fjust-one-day.html" }, { "id": 2075, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Basecamp now offers a free plan, but it’s restricted to 3 projects. I’m excited, but how to ration my projects? And since it’s team-focused, how do I get anybody else (likely my wife!) excited about this?\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-29 22:52:43 +0800", "date": "10:52 p.m. on Aug 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/29/basecamp-now-offers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F29%2Fbasecamp-now-offers.html" }, { "id": 2076, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "TV manufacturers unite to tackle the scourge of motion smoothing - The Verge:\n Vizio’s Director of Product Marketing said that 85 percent of customers don’t bother adjusting their TVs from their out of the box settings.\n This statement. How can people live like that?\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-29 12:43:03 +0800", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Aug 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/29/tv-manufacturers-unite.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F29%2Ftv-manufacturers-unite.html" }, { "id": 2077, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tokyo\u0026rsquo;s Famous Capsule Tower May Not Be Doomed - CityLab\n In the densely packed Tokyo neighborhood of Shinbashi, one building stands out from all the others: the 13-story Nakagin Capsule Tower, completed in 1972. Its two stacks of small metal capsules, each with a signature round window, look more like a collection of washing machines than an apartment complex.\n I can see that time has passed on this concept but I love that it was an idea brought to fruition.\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-27 22:37:11 +0800", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Aug 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/27/tokyos-famous-capsule.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F27%2Ftokyos-famous-capsule.html" }, { "id": 2078, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My current home screen. I don’t love it, but it’s serving the purpose.\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-25 13:59:58 +0800", "date": "1:59 p.m. on Aug 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/25/my-current-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F25%2Fmy-current-home.html" }, { "id": 2079, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh my! The Australian Boomers beat the USA! 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-24 14:35:39 +0800", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Aug 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/24/oh-my-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F24%2Foh-my-the.html" }, { "id": 2080, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The more I see of fintech product offerings, the more convinced I am the gap they are exploiting is a lack of basic financial education together with an unwillingness to forego immediate consumer gratification. That’s not technological advantage, it’s social manipulation.\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-23 14:51:35 +0800", "date": "2:51 p.m. on Aug 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/23/the-more-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F23%2Fthe-more-i.html" }, { "id": 2081, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun game of 🏀 between Australia and USA tonight. Good sportsmanship all around. But where has Joe Ingles' jump shot gone?\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-22 20:27:34 +0800", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Aug 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/22/fun-game-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F22%2Ffun-game-of.html" }, { "id": 2082, "type": "post", "title": "MailMate Review", "text": "I have bought a license for MailMate - a mail application for the Mac. This cost me AU$84. Why pay that kind of money for a mail app, when Apple provide Mail for free, and I have access to a good web app for Fastmail and Outlook for work email?\nI was happy to pay the money because MailMate is excellent artisanal software that offers unparalleled features and power. That money also goes straight to the single developer who has committed to this app for years.\nIf you are looking for beautiful software, MailMate is not for you. If you are looking for simple software, MailMate is not for you. If you are looking for a Markdown-aware, IMAP-compatible, smart rule-centric email powerhouse, MailMate is for you.\nFunctional - not pretty.\nTell Me the Features If you\u0026#x2019;re buying MailMate, you\u0026#x2019;re spending hard-earned dollars to get a mail app that does things that other mail apps do not. From my perspective, these are the features that I got for my money:\n Markdown composer - MailMate lets you compose emails using Markdown, and simultaneously renders a preview of the HTML that will ultimately be sent. I\u0026#x2019;ve always preferred plain text email, mainly because composing HTML email is traditionally a clunky, error-prone affair. Not with MailMate and Markdown. MailMate generates clean HTML and doesn\u0026#x2019;t mangle previous HTML elements that might be within the chain of quoted history. I\u0026#x2019;ve used more bullets, bold text and headings in the last month than I have in the last 10 years. Send Later - Included in the recipient header area is an optional field that accepts natural language input for expressing when an email should be sent. So go ahead, write those emails at 11pm at night, but be kind to your recipient and schedule them to be sent at 9am. Custom Keybindings - MailMate is a good Mac citizen and features a full complement of keyboard shortcuts. The user can take this a step further by defining custom keybindings. I apply the FastMail web app shortcuts but you can just as easily add Gmail keybindings. This provides single-trigger actions to invoke common tasks. Tagging - Going beyond flagging, the ability to tag emails with custom labels (including emoji \u0026#x1F64C;\u0026#x1F3FB;) adds a layer of workflow management to email. For instance, I have waiting for (\u0026#x1F503;) and action (\u0026#x2757;) tags that I apply to particular emails. Combining these with MailMate\u0026#x2019;s superpower - Smart Folders - unlocks further abilities. Smart Folders - MailMate embraces smart folders. These represent on-demand searches of your entire email archive. The app encourages these to be used as the primary interface to your email, to the point where I keep my IMAP folders tucked away, and instead rely on a series of smart folders to surface and hide email according to my needs. Combined with the aforementioned tagging, this can be great for showing, for example, emails that I\u0026#x2019;m waiting on a reply that are more than 2 weeks old. Your imagination is the limit for smart folders because the amount of searchable elements included is bonkers. Filter to your heart\u0026#x2019;s content.\n Custom columns and views - each view - whether a Smart Folder or a regular IMAP folder, can have its own view and columns displayed. This can be helpful in a Smart Folder to identify which IMAP folder the email in question actually lives in, or which email account it originated from. I like that it can also show the correspondents within the email exchange (not simply who it came from). App integrations - MailMate is extensible which allows it to connect to third-party apps, such as OmniFocus, DEVONthink and BBEdit, among others. Should I Bother? If you have a Gmail account and generally use the web app or your phone to deal with email, no, you shouldn\u0026#x2019;t buy MailMate.\nIf you have multiple email accounts1, and you want to centralise your email world into a single location and benefit from the features I outlined above, then yes, you should buy MailMate.\nSure, but What Do Others Think? There are two brilliant reviews out there that provide alternative impressions of MailMate:\n Bryce Wray wrote about his impressions of the app. Gabe Weatherhead wrote a review about how he uses MailMate. So, now you have three differing insights into MailMate, which may assist your decision-making process.\n To use Exchange/Office 365 email, you need to be able to access it via IMAP. Check that your administrator hasn\u0026#x2019;t disabled it.\u0026#x21A9;\u0026#xFE0E;\n ", "dateiso": "2019-08-22 19:14:03 +0800", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Aug 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/22/mailmate-review.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F22%2Fmailmate-review.html" }, { "id": 2083, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inhaling the beautiful aroma of this giant lemon-scented eucalyptus before it is cut down in the name of “development”.\n\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-22 09:40:31 +0800", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Aug 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/22/inhaling-the-beautiful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F22%2Finhaling-the-beautiful.html" }, { "id": 2084, "type": "post", "title": "WeWork's IPO: The Triumph Of Hype Over Fundamentals", "text": "WeWork\u0026rsquo;s IPO: The Triumph Of Hype Over Fundamentals:\n “We Dedicate This To The Energy Of We – Greater Than Any One Of Us But Inside Each Of Us,” says the banner page of WeWork’s IPO document. I mentally added another “e” to We, and hastily moved on before I cracked up.\n Sometimes it is perfectly appropriate to use toilet humour.\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-21 14:58:16 +0800", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Aug 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/21/weworks-ipo-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F21%2Fweworks-ipo-the.html" }, { "id": 2085, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Work just provided me with an iPhone XR. Which means I’m on the Animoji bandwagon now. Watch out!\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-16 12:44:35 +0800", "date": "12:44 p.m. on Aug 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/16/work-just-provided.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F16%2Fwork-just-provided.html" }, { "id": 2086, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There’s a sense of spring in the air. Birds are chirping and we have a blue sky and a gentle breeze.\n\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-11 15:32:57 +0800", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Aug 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/11/theres-a-sense.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F11%2Ftheres-a-sense.html" }, { "id": 2087, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My wife’s iPhone XR was lost/stolen. Somehow Find My iPhone was disabled. How was this done with FaceID and passcode required for access? Carrier has blocked IMEI so it\u0026rsquo;s essentially a brick at this point, as best I can tell.\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-10 09:42:14 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Aug 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/10/my-wifes-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F10%2Fmy-wifes-iphone.html" }, { "id": 2088, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Economist: America’s social-media addiction is getting worse:\n FACEBOOK users in America spend about 42 minutes a day on the social-media platform.\n I\u0026rsquo;m so happy not to be an active user of the Facebook platform anymore. Ditching it and Twitter has salvaged much time.\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-09 20:49:25 +0800", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Aug 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/09/the-economist-americas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F09%2Fthe-economist-americas.html" }, { "id": 2089, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Boys on Prime Video is worth watching. Funny, gruesome and thought-provoking all in one.\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-07 21:38:38 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Aug 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/07/the-boys-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F07%2Fthe-boys-on.html" }, { "id": 2090, "type": "post", "title": "Stoicism", "text": "It seems I can\u0026#x2019;t spend any time on the Internet at the moment without coming across insights, thoughts and video on the philosophy of stoicism.\nWhile this could be a product of frequency bias, I claim some modicum of defence because I learned about stoicism in detail in 2011 during my time studying at the Cranlana Colloquium.\nI have enjoyed rediscovering and reminding myself of the stoic philosophy. It\u0026#x2019;s a mental model that makes sense to me and can help ward off the feeling of helplessness in a complex and not entirely well-functioning or well-governed world.\nThe Stoic Manifesto Stoics attempt to be guided by logic and reason rather than fleeting worldly gratification. The practice of Stoicism supposedly allowed people to lead more peaceful, rational lives.\nA Stoic and a\u0026#x2026; Romantic?\nI appreciate the stoic\u0026#x2019;s view of the world, as long as it doesn\u0026#x2019;t veer too far into fatalism1. I\u0026#x2019;ve always favoured the concept of logical thought (i.e.\u0026#xA0;Doctor Spock) ahead of irrational behaviour (i.e.\u0026#xA0;Captain Kirk). Yet because I\u0026#x2019;m not Vulcan, I often fail to live up to the ideals of stoicism. Let\u0026#x2019;s call it a work in progress. When I prevail in taking the stoic approach I find myself less riddled with stress and anxiety, and am generally happier about my lot in life.\nBoiling It Down The easy 1, 2, 3 of stoicism may be presented as:\nIf you can change it, it doesn\u0026#x2019;t deserve your worry. Go ahead and make the change. Just do it! If you can\u0026#x2019;t change it, it doesn\u0026#x2019;t deserve your worry. You can\u0026#x2019;t fix it, so why stress?2 If you worry about it anyway, you are simply inviting it to tyrannise and traumatise you, indefinitely. Rumination is the worst. I don\u0026#x2019;t like the idea of stoicism being used as a argument in favour of \u0026#x2018;do nothing\u0026#x2019; for monumental challenges, such as climate change. I can\u0026#x2019;t change the heating climate directly, but I can make active changes such as shopping smarter, flying less, and being generally responsible. Other individuals can do more, dependent on their position in society. It\u0026#x2019;s not a free pass to do nothing.\u0026#x21A9;\u0026#xFE0E;\n The Alfred E. Neuman approach: \u0026#x201C;What, me worry?\u0026#x201D;\u0026#x21A9;\u0026#xFE0E;\n ", "dateiso": "2019-08-07 19:21:59 +0800", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Aug 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/07/stoicism.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F07%2Fstoicism.html" }, { "id": 2091, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My thanks to the flu which has enabled me to sleep night and day for the past three days. 😷\n", "dateiso": "2019-08-05 18:46:10 +0800", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Aug 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/08/05/my-thanks-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F08%2F05%2Fmy-thanks-to.html" }, { "id": 2092, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OmniGroup Adopting Apple’s Standard iOS Document Browser\nAnd the people rejoiced!\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-31 21:59:23 +0800", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Jul 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/31/omnigroup-adopting-apples.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F31%2Fomnigroup-adopting-apples.html" }, { "id": 2093, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve just bought and installed Better on macOS and iOS. I\u0026rsquo;ve used 1BlockerX until now, but I’m interested to see if this other app is, indeed, Better.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-31 21:51:24 +0800", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Jul 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/31/ive-just-bought.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F31%2Five-just-bought.html" }, { "id": 2094, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m nearing the end of my MailMate trial, and I think it\u0026rsquo;s going to be a case of \u0026ldquo;take my money\u0026rdquo;. It’s really good.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-30 10:46:34 +0800", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Jul 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/30/im-nearing-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F30%2Fim-nearing-the.html" }, { "id": 2095, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m experimenting with disabling Fastmail spam filtering, and instead using SpamSieve on my Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-28 14:01:44 +0800", "date": "2:01 p.m. on Jul 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/28/im-experimenting-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F28%2Fim-experimenting-with.html" }, { "id": 2096, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This game was a lot of fun.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-28 12:34:53 +0800", "date": "12:34 p.m. on Jul 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/28/this-game-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F28%2Fthis-game-was.html" }, { "id": 2097, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There are a few things I don’t like about MailMate but there are many things I do. I imagine I will end up buying a license at the end of my trial period.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-25 22:11:24 +0800", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Jul 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/25/there-are-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F25%2Fthere-are-a.html" }, { "id": 2098, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day One has embedded itself into my life. I\u0026rsquo;ve been writing in it since November 2011 and have over 1,500 entries. That must be the longest contiguous piece of work I\u0026rsquo;ve created.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-24 21:47:45 +0800", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Jul 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/24/day-one-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F24%2Fday-one-has.html" }, { "id": 2099, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott:\n Whenever you stumble upon an interesting thought on another site, write about it and link to it.\n I stumbled across this article, and I liked it. It outlines why the IndieWeb should really just be the web.\nAs a result of finding this article on this website, I\u0026rsquo;ve subscribed to its RSS feed, so I\u0026rsquo;ll automatically get future content delivered to me. This is what makes the open web so great.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-23 21:04:10 +0800", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Jul 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/23/into-the-personalwebsiteverse.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F23%2Finto-the-personalwebsiteverse.html" }, { "id": 2100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Achieve a state of flow. Nek minnit, have to stop to go to a meeting.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-23 10:17:37 +0800", "date": "10:17 p.m. on Jul 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/23/achieve-a-state.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F23%2Fachieve-a-state.html" }, { "id": 2101, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My iPad has been hit by that weird bug where Spotlight search slows to a crawl. After attempting random voodoo solutions, I’ve now gone for the nuclear erase and restore option.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-20 11:17:27 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Jul 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/20/my-ipad-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F20%2Fmy-ipad-has.html" }, { "id": 2102, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m experimenting with the iOS app, Secure Shellfish, for SSH/SFTP. It works great, but I don’t really have a need for it.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-16 21:49:57 +0800", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Jul 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/16/im-experimenting-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F16%2Fim-experimenting-with.html" }, { "id": 2103, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Early morning park play.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-16 09:17:05 +0800", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Jul 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/16/early-morning-park.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F16%2Fearly-morning-park.html" }, { "id": 2104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have upgraded my micro.blog account from monthly to annual payments. A no brainer deal!\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-15 12:52:25 +0800", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Jul 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/15/i-have-upgraded.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F15%2Fi-have-upgraded.html" }, { "id": 2105, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve bought Calendar Paste for iOS to see if it will help with time blocking. First downside - no iCloud sync, which feels like table stakes these days.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-11 12:53:40 +0800", "date": "12:53 p.m. on Jul 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/11/ive-bought-calendar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F11%2Five-bought-calendar.html" }, { "id": 2106, "type": "post", "title": "A Guide to Using YNAB to Support NDIS Self-Managed Budgeting", "text": "As a self-managed user of Australia\u0026#x2019;s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) it is necessary to budget, account for, and forecast expenditure over the 12-month period of the funding agreement.\nThe typical way to do this budgeting would be with a spreadsheet, laid out in the typical fashion with columns of months and rows of accounts. This is how I assumed I would do it. Yet as I got stuck into the job of building my spreadsheet I realised how much I no longer enjoy working in spreadsheets.\nMy feelings for Excel\nFor a period of my early career, Excel was life. But that was a different time, and a different me. I ain\u0026#x2019;t got no time for Excel now. I\u0026#x2019;m over it.\nLeveraging Ynab What I do have is a subscription to YNAB which happens to be the most effective personal budgeting tool I have ever used.\nI thought it would be worthwhile to see if I could extract more value from my YNAB subscription by creating a budget specifically for managing NDIS expenditure.\nMy Venn Diagram\nThis is a niche solution for a niche problem. The Venn Diagram of people who are self-managed participants of the NDIS and use YNAB must be vanishingly small. But perhaps, one of those people might stumble across this post and find it helpful.\nBuild the Framework The following is a guide explaining how YNAB can be configured to support the budgeting and accounting tasks associated with a self-managed NDIS plan.\nCreate a new YNAB budget file specifically for NDIS budgeting and expenditure. Within that budget, create Category Groups to match relevant NDIS funding descriptors. Within the Category Groups built at Step 2, create Categories for each service provider expected to be used through the life of the NDIS Plan.[^Remember that more providers can be added later, if necessary, so no pressure to get this completely accurate at the start.] Create On-Budget Accounts for each of the relevant NDIS support budgets.[^There are three potential budgets: core budget, capacity building budget, and capital budget.] The NDIS requires that funding be expended for the purpose it is granted, so the creation of specific accounts prevents leakage across allocations. Inflow the funding received from the NDIS for each support budget into its associated YNAB account. This will become the starting balance from which to budget for the year. Well done, your YNAB framework is ready!\nEstablish and Run the Budget Now, you can build your budget using the standard YNAB approach of giving each dollar a job, but in the context of NDIS expenditure.\nBased on quotes, service agreements and your own preference, allocate your total NDIS budget value across your service providers. Ensure that the subtotal for each Category Group matches the sum allocated to its YNAB account.\nAs services are delivered and invoices paid, input them as expenses within the relevant account (Core Supports/Capacity Building/Capital), assigning the supplier as the YNAB Payee, and the Category as the relevant provider you created as a Category. This is hard to explain, but easy to do.\nFor bonus points, you can choose to highlight the cleared icon once a rebate is received from the NDIS back into your transaction account.\nThe Result Following these steps will leave you in the enviable position of having up-to-date figures that can readily display:\n overall expenditure expenditure per NDIS budget group funds remaining per NDIS budget group budget allocations per service provider, but with the added ability to dynamically rebalance your budget using YNAB\u0026#x2019;s built-in move money feature - as long as you only move it within YNAB\u0026#x2019;s Category Groups to maintain the integrity of the NDIS support budget allocations. You also gain full access to the YNAB reports to more deeply analyse your expenditure should you wish.\nNotes Remember, this is not a budget for your bank account. If you make payments and/or receive reimbursements the bank accounts transactions are not specifically recorded in this YNAB budget. Use your everyday YNAB budget for that. The YNAB system relies on maintaining the To Be Budgeted figure at $0.00. Keep it at this and you will not go over budget. ", "dateiso": "2019-07-11 05:53:18 +0800", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Jul 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/10/a-guide-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F10%2Fa-guide-to.html" }, { "id": 2107, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought Working Copy for iOS tonight. I only use git for Blot publishing but the app is so good it deserves all the support it can get.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-10 22:56:35 +0800", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Jul 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/10/i-bought-working.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F10%2Fi-bought-working.html" }, { "id": 2108, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I watched the first two episodes of Black Mirror season 5 tonight. I enjoyed them both. They seem more focused on people and relationships than some of the earlier episodes that get highly involved in ‘future tech’.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-09 22:55:30 +0800", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Jul 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/09/i-watched-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F09%2Fi-watched-the.html" }, { "id": 2109, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hello gastro, my old friend. 🤮\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-08 08:24:22 +0800", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jul 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/08/hello-gastro-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F08%2Fhello-gastro-my.html" }, { "id": 2110, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Economist: The global crisis in conservatism\n At its best conservatism can be a steadying influence. It is reasonable and wise; it values competence; it is not in a hurry. Those days are over. Today’s right is on fire and it is dangerous.\n I’m not a conservative but I understand why some are. The Economist explains the damage the rise of the far right is inflicting on conservative politics and, by extension, effective democracy.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-07 22:53:26 +0800", "date": "10:53 p.m. on Jul 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/07/the-economist-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F07%2Fthe-economist-the.html" }, { "id": 2111, "type": "post", "title": "Rainy Day Escapades", "text": "\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-05 12:38:16 +0800", "date": "12:38 p.m. on Jul 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/05/rainy-day-escapades.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F05%2Frainy-day-escapades.html" }, { "id": 2112, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lunchbox motivation.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-05 08:06:44 +0800", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Jul 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/05/lunchbox-motivation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F05%2Flunchbox-motivation.html" }, { "id": 2113, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not a bad place to stop for a coffee meeting. Good weather for mid-winter, too.\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-02 13:06:55 +0800", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Jul 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/02/not-a-bad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F02%2Fnot-a-bad.html" }, { "id": 2114, "type": "post", "title": "Kerry O’Brien’s powerful Logies speech 2019 - YouTube", "text": "Kerry O\u0026#x2019;Brien\u0026#x2019;s powerful Logies speech 2019 - YouTube\n", "dateiso": "2019-07-01 21:44:38 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Jul 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/07/01/kerry-obriens-powerful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F07%2F01%2Fkerry-obriens-powerful.html" }, { "id": 2115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "NetNewsWire is such a great app. Fast, responsive and nice to look at. Syncing with Inoreader can\u0026rsquo;t come fast enough. @brentsimmons\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-29 16:52:25 +0800", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Jun 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/29/netnewswire-is-such.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F29%2Fnetnewswire-is-such.html" }, { "id": 2116, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the first time I have ever put a sticker on one of my devices. @burk\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-29 16:06:23 +0800", "date": "4:06 p.m. on Jun 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/29/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F29%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 2117, "type": "post", "title": "James Shelley on Busyness", "text": "I have both written about and noted upon the false value of busyness within our societal norms.\nOne of my favourite independent writers, James Shelley has published an interesting take on the same topic. He cites many references, including one of my favourites, Thorstein Veblen, he of the famous Veblen Goods economic paradox.\nJames puts a focus on busyness as status symbol:\n we need to appear busy because we all know that valuable people are busy people. When we tell others that we are working all the time we are ‘implicitly suggesting that we are sought after, which enhances our perceived status.’\n So claiming to \u0026lsquo;be busy\u0026rsquo; is virtue signalling our perceived value to the world. It has little to do with the actual work, but the importance of the person to whom the work is attached.\nIn my articles, I determined that busyness is not a badge of honour, but should be seen as a cry for help. James arrives at a similar conclusion. He explains that busyness should be perceived as one being overcommitted, unclear or unable to prioritise and eliminate.\n The alternative to being busy is having clear priorities about what constitutes the highest value, triaged within strict parameters, and then defiantly walking away from everything else that falls below the threshold.\n This is not something to be celebrated, so let\u0026rsquo;s not. We need to find a new definition of personal value. James has a good idea for this, but I\u0026rsquo;m not going to spoil the surprise. Go read his article and find out what he suggests!\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-28 11:19:35 +0800", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Jun 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/28/james-shelley-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F28%2Fjames-shelley-on.html" }, { "id": 2118, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Big thanks to Jason @burk for sending micro.blog shwag all the way to Australia.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-27 18:50:08 +0800", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Jun 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/27/big-thanks-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F27%2Fbig-thanks-to.html" }, { "id": 2119, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to David\u0026rsquo;s help at @blot I now have a cool tags view of my posts on that site.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-27 16:15:17 +0800", "date": "4:15 p.m. on Jun 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/27/thanks-to-davids.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F27%2Fthanks-to-davids.html" }, { "id": 2120, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A new look, logo, and website for Fastmail\n Today, we launched a refreshed look for Fastmail, with a new logo, app icon, colors, and website.\n I like the new typeface. The envelope keeps reminding me of a crown though, which is weird.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-25 21:23:58 +0800", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Jun 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/25/a-new-look.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F25%2Fa-new-look.html" }, { "id": 2121, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog successfully imported my Instagram archive. This site is fast becoming my life stream. I’m owning my content.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-25 20:44:43 +0800", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Jun 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/25/microblog-successfully-imported.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F25%2Fmicroblog-successfully-imported.html" }, { "id": 2122, "type": "post", "title": "Nobody Wants to Buy Vocus", "text": "Vocus\u0026#x2019; share performance over 3 years\nPoor Vocus, it must be in bad shape.\nFrom Bill Bennett:\n Last week Australian energy company AGL withdrew its A$3 billion takeover offer for Vocus. This came only two weeks after Swedish private equity firm EQT halted its $3.3 billion transaction.\n Bill goes on to reflect that as currently structured, Australia\u0026#x2019;s broadband market may not enable companies to make a reasonable profit:\n All of which says bad things about the state of retail telecommunications. The private equity investors have looked and seen there is no quick path to profit.\n More patient, longer-term investors like AGL, who have access to the magic formula of adding power sales to a broadband subscription don\u0026#x2019;t think it looks viable either.\n The Australian telecommunications industry reminds me of how our aviation industry was in the 1980s and 1990s. Carriers would arrive, make losses, destroy shareholder value, and disappear. Now, instead of aeroplanes, it\u0026#x2019;s communication networks.\nSame as it ever was.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-25 05:06:49 +0800", "date": "5:06 p.m. on Jun 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/24/nobody-wants-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F24%2Fnobody-wants-to.html" }, { "id": 2123, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m experiencing the existential crisis that is all too familiar to many a blogger\u0026hellip; what goes on this blog of mine and what goes on the other blog of mine? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-24 21:45:49 +0800", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Jun 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/24/im-experiencing-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F24%2Fim-experiencing-the.html" }, { "id": 2124, "type": "post", "title": "Atlassian declares 'The M\u0026A process is broken'", "text": "Atlassian is an interesting company that possibly doesn\u0026rsquo;t get the kudos it might deserve. As an Australian, I have admiration for seeing one of ours hit it big internationally. Atlassian and Canva are probably the only two Australian companies that immediately spring to mind as having won big in the international IT space.\nI\u0026rsquo;m impressed that Atlassian continue to walk the walk in regard to their world-view and values. This is evident in their now public approach to mergers and acquisitions. They are trying to reduce the angst and power imbalance and increase the fairness and focus on outcomes.\nFrom their blog post announcing the release of a new public term sheet to support merger and acquisition deals:\n one thing has become very clear to us about the M\u0026amp;A process – it’s outdated, inefficient, and unnecessarily combative, with too much time and energy spent negotiating deal terms and not enough on what matters most: building great products together and delivering more customer value.\n There is plenty of ego in the IT world. The \u0026lsquo;bro\u0026rsquo; culture permeates, and it promotes ego and \u0026lsquo;winning\u0026rsquo;, rather than value creation and shared successes.\n In an effort to reduce this unnecessary friction and increase trust, we’re doing something that, to our knowledge, no company has done before: we’ve crafted a new M\u0026amp;A term sheet and we’re making it public.\n So much time is wasted through replicated effort. The software world is built on the reuse of frameworks. Not having to re-invent the wheel each time a new project begins is how great advancements are realised. What Atlassian are doing here is providing a fundamental public framework for mergers and acquisitions. Spend less time, money and effort doing things that have been done before and instead focus on getting the deal done and realising the value that prompted the M\u0026amp;A in the first place.\n The reality is that because of the leverage that many buyers exert over sellers, certain “market” terms have evolved to buyers’ advantage, even though, based on the data, it’s simply not necessary.\n Another example where pure laissez-faire markets are wonderful in theory and damaging in reality. Market power is a thing that is readily exerted. This creates a culture of \u0026lsquo;winners\u0026rsquo; and \u0026lsquo;losers\u0026rsquo; where the real focus should be on having the reason for coming together create a win for all. This doesn\u0026rsquo;t need to be a zero-sum game.\nI hope this new approach to M\u0026amp;As catches on, and less money is spent on wasteful lawyer fees and negotiation and everybody can end up with a better outcome at the end of the process. The market will be better off, customers will benefit, and the stakeholders to the deal will both be better off with less of the angst, stress and ill-feeling that can arise at the end of a protracted M\u0026amp;A process.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-21 10:08:00 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Jun 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/21/atlassian-declares-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F21%2Fatlassian-declares-the.html" }, { "id": 2125, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks for your kind words, micro.bloggers. On a day when our dear pet left us, it’s nice to have positive responses. So different - and so much better - than the snark I might expect on other networks. I love this place.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-20 19:07:59 +0800", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Jun 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/20/thanks-for-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F20%2Fthanks-for-your.html" }, { "id": 2126, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today we said goodbye to our gorgeous Airedale Terrier, Indi. Loyal friend for 14 years. She will be missed.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-20 09:48:17 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Jun 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/20/today-we-said.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F20%2Ftoday-we-said.html" }, { "id": 2127, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve decided that I\u0026rsquo;m not going to renew my Lightroom subscription when it comes due. I\u0026rsquo;ve just gone through and brought all the photos that were on the Adobe Cloud back to my local NAS. I just don\u0026rsquo;t do enough photography anymore to justify the expense.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-19 16:29:40 +0800", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Jun 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/19/ive-decided-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F19%2Five-decided-that.html" }, { "id": 2128, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "He’s almost over the flu now.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-19 12:33:59 +0800", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Jun 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/19/hes-almost-over.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F19%2Fhes-almost-over.html" }, { "id": 2129, "type": "post", "title": "OpenDNS \u0026 Dynamic IPs", "text": "I have changed my DNS provider to OpenDNS. I have been using CloudFlare DNS and have nothing but praise for its speed and stability. However, with kids in the house, I need the additional network filtering and site-blocking that OpenDNS can deliver.\nFor OpenDNS to work it needs to be kept abreast of my home\u0026#x2019;s IP address. My ISP doesn\u0026#x2019;t provide1 a static IP. While my dynamic IP doesn\u0026#x2019;t change often, any change that does occur prevents the OpenDNS filtering from working. What\u0026#x2019;s more, it\u0026#x2019;s a non-visible problem. There are no error messages that pop up alerting of a problem. The filtering just stops working.\nOpenDNS know this. They offer an app that runs in the background to monitor and update the OpenDNS service with the current dynamic IP address. However, that app isn\u0026#x2019;t nice. What\u0026#x2019;s more, I don\u0026#x2019;t like the idea of the network filtering being dependent on a laptop device that might not always be available on the network to perform the update.\nEnter Raspberry Pi I have a Raspberry Pi that provides ad-blocking throughout my home network with the brilliant Pi-Hole. Given it\u0026#x2019;s already important role in my network configuration, I decided the Pi should also be responsible for monitoring any changes to my dynamic IP address.\nA bit of research led me to discover that ddclient was the tool for the job. It\u0026#x2019;s not installed by default on the Pi, but can be installed through the GUI package manager or on the terminal with:\nsudo apt-get install ddclient\nOnce installed, I progressed to follow this solid step-by-step guide on how to configure ddclient with OpenDNS.\nSuccess The end result is that I now have ddclient running as a daemon process on the Raspberry Pi. It launches upon reboot and checks my IP address every 1 hour.\nThe best part is that I don\u0026#x2019;t have to run the very ordinary OpenDNS Updater app on my Mac.\n That is, I\u0026#x2019;m too cheap to pay for.\u0026#x21A9;\u0026#xFE0E;\n ", "dateiso": "2019-06-19 06:48:00 +0800", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Jun 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/18/opendns-dynamic-ips.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F18%2Fopendns-dynamic-ips.html" }, { "id": 2130, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, this is a good reason to completely leave Google. It\u0026rsquo;s not sending me 2FA codes to my devices, and my attempt at recovery failed. So, I guess no more access to my Google account?\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-18 20:51:00 +0800", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Jun 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/18/well-this-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F18%2Fwell-this-is.html" }, { "id": 2131, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks @cleverdevil for your “On This Day” extension for micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-18 20:17:53 +0800", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Jun 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/18/thanks-cleverdevil-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F18%2Fthanks-cleverdevil-for.html" }, { "id": 2132, "type": "post", "title": "Slaughterhouse-Five", "text": "Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut My rating: 4 of 5 stars\nI read this because it seems one of those books that should be read before one dies. So it goes. The worldview (universe view?) of the Tralfamadorian\u0026rsquo;s resonated with the reading I have done recently on stoicism. Perhaps that was always as it was meant to be?\nI am glad to have read this book. but will have to contemplate more on what it means for me, who is currently living in an existence in a different era. View all my reviews\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-18 13:48:11 +0800", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Jun 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/18/slaughterhousefive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F18%2Fslaughterhousefive.html" }, { "id": 2133, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yes! I got my Hugo/Netlify site up and running. I\u0026rsquo;ll go run my victory lap now.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-18 10:08:11 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Jun 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/18/yes-i-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F18%2Fyes-i-got.html" }, { "id": 2134, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was defeated by the combination of Hugo, git and Netlify. C’est la vie.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-17 21:26:00 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Jun 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/17/i-was-defeated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F17%2Fi-was-defeated.html" }, { "id": 2135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve discovered this site by Bryce Wray. I have no idea if it\u0026rsquo;s already widely known, but it\u0026rsquo;s new to me. I like the writing.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-17 12:32:17 +0800", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Jun 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/17/ive-discovered-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F17%2Five-discovered-this.html" }, { "id": 2136, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I succumbed and bought iA Writer for macOS.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-16 22:16:00 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Jun 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/16/i-succumbed-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F16%2Fi-succumbed-and.html" }, { "id": 2137, "type": "post", "title": "So Many Markdown Editor Options", "text": "The search for the right Mac Markdown editor is like a quest for the Holy Grail. There are many options, but finding the ideal fit is a challenge.\nIt got to the point where I had to do an audit of the options that exist on my computer, and consider which one might be best for my needs.\nThe list I came up with is, in potential order of preference:\n MultiMarkdown Composer (currently free version) This offers live preview with synchronised scrolling, works with the file system directly and is designed specifically for Markdown writing. The downside is the editing environment just feels slightly \u0026#x2018;off\u0026#x2019;. I do like the keyboard commands and the way it pastes in links. $23.00 upgrade. BBEdit (with Keyboard Maestro BBEdit Markdown additions) (currently free version) Solid as a rock text editor. I\u0026#x2019;m not a programmer, so many of the features are lost on me. With the Keyboard Maestro additions it can deal with Markdown formatting with keyboard shortcuts elegantly. No typewriter mode. Doesn\u0026#x2019;t carry forward markdown lists, as I\u0026#x2019;m finding writing this post. Has built-in git support. $75.14 The Archive A fork of nvAlt, this is an app I use for my zettelkasten notes, and other bits and pieces. The markdown editing is okay, but it doesn\u0026#x2019;t play well with links on the clipboard. Drafts Where text starts. Also where text stays in a database which is not great for easy git management. DEVONthink The new version 3 has much better Markdown support, but it\u0026#x2019;s still rudimentary when it comes to editing. Limited keyboard support makes this better for looking at Markdown than writing in it. I\u0026#x2019;m going to buy the new version anyway. NotePlan I\u0026#x2019;m using this for my daily notes. While it has a section for generic notes, I\u0026#x2019;m not going to incorporate this into a wider writing workflow. Byword It\u0026#x2019;s really old, and while it still works, it\u0026#x2019;s starting to show its age. I don\u0026#x2019;t like the way I need to switch views to preview the markdown. Ulysses Uses a custom variant of Markdown (Markdown XL) by default. Keeps everything in it\u0026#x2019;s own library so not great for git management. Every time I try to use this app for general Markdown editing I end up getting frustrated. Curio Good for project-based Markdown notes, but not good for file-based writing and editing. Notebooks (requires Dropbox) The Notebooks editor is quite nice. Unfortunately, I\u0026#x2019;m in the process of ditching Dropbox, and it uses Dropbox as its fundamental sync engine, so it\u0026#x2019;s a non-starter. A special mention:\n iA Writer I don\u0026#x2019;t have iA Writer on my Mac, but I do have it on iOS where it frustrates me by not having TextExpander integration. Micro.blog feedback indicates that it is great on the Mac, though, so let\u0026#x2019;s add this as a strong contender. $50.00 Picking a Winner I thought I would end up choosing BBEdit. That\u0026#x2019;s why I typed this post in the app. But in usage, I think the winner might be MultiMarkdown Composer.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-16 18:25:13 +0800", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Jun 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/16/so-many-markdown.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F16%2Fso-many-markdown.html" }, { "id": 2138, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey micro.blog friends, you’re a coercive bunch! I think I’m going to have to run with iA Writer! Is there a way to get x-callback URLs to render as tapable links though?\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-16 16:51:41 +0800", "date": "4:51 p.m. on Jun 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/16/hey-microblog-friends.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F16%2Fhey-microblog-friends.html" }, { "id": 2139, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m getting the hang of using git from the terminal now.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-16 10:59:22 +0800", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Jun 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/16/im-getting-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F16%2Fim-getting-the.html" }, { "id": 2140, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m really in the mood for shaking up my apps. Now I\u0026rsquo;m looking at Mailmate for email. It\u0026rsquo;s an app I\u0026rsquo;ve known about for years, but now I\u0026rsquo;m genuinely interested.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-15 23:57:13 +0800", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Jun 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/15/im-really-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F15%2Fim-really-in.html" }, { "id": 2141, "type": "post", "title": "42: The Meaning of Life", "text": " \u0026ldquo;The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.\u0026rdquo;\n \u0026ndash; Douglas Adams\nIn that case, I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to true enlightenment because today is my 42nd birthday.\nI was fortunate to be born in Australia. We didn\u0026rsquo;t have much growing up. Raised by a mother whose husband returned to the USA without his wife and four children, we benefited from the generosity of the country\u0026rsquo;s social safety net to keep our heads just above water.\nLife went on, I enjoyed my education and saw it as a pathway to something bigger. The nation helped me once again with its low-cost loan system to support students in the costs of attending university. Without the ability to defer these subsidised university fees until I was employed, I would not have gained a Bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in Economics and Law.\nAt 22 I met my wife, Hannah, through a random chance encounter during a night out. We hit it off and things grew from there. As it turned out, my wife is the daughter of the man who at the time was Leader of the Federal Opposition party, and who had served with distinction as a Minister in the famous Hawke government.\nThe fact that I, a boy who grew up with not much, should be thrust into this very different world, is a measure of the egalitarian potential of our nation. It has led to a whole range of circumstances that seem unimaginable from my perspective of a boy from a low-income family.\nIn 2005 we married. Since then we have owned and operated a small business and had two wonderful children. Over the years we have had had medical emergencies and fun and sadness. We exist most happily when we have a project to focus upon.\nI played basketball until I was 40, at which point my knees and hips said, \u0026ldquo;enough\u0026rdquo;, and I was forced to give up my favourite sport.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve always been interested in computing and technology. This interest persists even as I\u0026rsquo;m no longer the young whipper-snapper.\nMy hair is greying, my wrinkles are deepening, my belly is expanding. I am a family man who values his wife and children over and above his job, a career, or professional reputation.\nI see the potential in Hannah to participate in the body politic of our nation. The country that held me close, lifted me up, and gave me the chance to build resilience in my youth and explore my potential in adulthood.\nSo here I sit in the foyer of middle age, full of interest for the future.\nThis is my 42.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-15 09:48:46 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Jun 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/15/the-meaning-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F15%2Fthe-meaning-of.html" }, { "id": 2142, "type": "post", "title": "1Writer \u0026 Working Copy", "text": "This is a post written in 1Writer and to be published via Working Copy on iOS.\nFiles Integration Is Great! Now I\u0026#x2019;m editing this file in iA Writer as it is linked with Working Copy\u0026#x2019;s instance of my file through iCloud and Files app.\nI wish iA Writer supported TextExpander.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-15 04:13:14 +0800", "date": "4:13 p.m. on Jun 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/14/writer-working-copy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F14%2Fwriter-working-copy.html" }, { "id": 2143, "type": "post", "title": "Will I End up Buying BBEdit?", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;ve always had a version of BBEdit on my Mac. For a while it was TextWrangler, but now it\u0026#x2019;s back to BBEdit (unregistered). It\u0026#x2019;s one of those apps I don\u0026#x2019;t use very often, but when I want a pure Mac text editing experience, I know I can rely on it.\nBBEdit can do a whole bunch of things that I don\u0026#x2019;t understand and have no need for.\nBut it is working very nicely as an integrated text editor for GitHub Desktop, and I feel like I might now benefit from the \u0026#x2018;unlocked\u0026#x2019; version of BBEdit.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-15 03:49:00 +0800", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Jun 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/14/will-i-end.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F14%2Fwill-i-end.html" }, { "id": 2144, "type": "post", "title": "Cloned to GitHub", "text": "So now I have cloned my Blot repository into Github and am using Github desktop on the Mac. As this is editing via Github I have no idea how or if my edits here will make it to my site.\nThe nice thing about Github Desktop is it allowed me to easily open this whole project/site into BBEdit.\nUpdate At first this didn\u0026#x2019;t work, but it was simply because I\u0026#x2019;d forgotten to add the .md suffix to the file in BBEdit. So this stopped Blot\u0026#x2019;s renderer from creating the HTML version. At first I thought the file hadn\u0026#x2019;t uploaded. It had, but it was not showing on the web.\nSo this section has been added as an edit, which I should be able to push and commit as a new version of the same file.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-15 03:22:28 +0800", "date": "3:22 p.m. on Jun 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/14/cloned-to-github.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F14%2Fcloned-to-github.html" }, { "id": 2145, "type": "post", "title": "Git Test 2", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;m going to try to share it over to Working Copy for publishing via Git.\nWish me luck.\niOS Integration I\u0026#x2019;ve opened this file in iA Writer from the Working Copy files provider for the version stored on Blot.\nWhat happens now?\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-14 22:52:04 +0800", "date": "10:52 p.m. on Jun 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/14/git-test.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F14%2Fgit-test.html" }, { "id": 2146, "type": "post", "title": "Dropbox Is Bloating, So Move to Git", "text": "This is literally a test post using Git instead of Dropbox. I have no idea what I\u0026#x2019;m doing with Git, but what could go wrong?\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-14 21:47:58 +0800", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Jun 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/14/dropbox-is-bloating.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F14%2Fdropbox-is-bloating.html" }, { "id": 2147, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some time ago I purchased a license for Resilio Sync. I use it only occasionally but it also could make a fine replacement for Dropbox.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-14 21:26:02 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Jun 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/14/some-time-ago.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F14%2Fsome-time-ago.html" }, { "id": 2148, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I ain’t got no time for this new bloated Dropbox garbage. I don\u0026rsquo;t use Dropbox for that much already - might be time to let it go. The one thing I will need to figure out though is how to publish to @blot with Github.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-14 13:20:15 +0800", "date": "1:20 p.m. on Jun 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/14/i-aint-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F14%2Fi-aint-got.html" }, { "id": 2149, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I feel emotionally drained after watching Bob Hawke\u0026rsquo;s memorial service. What a magnificent Prime Minister he was for our nation. I\u0026rsquo;m honoured to at least say that I met him a number of times.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-14 11:20:46 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Jun 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/14/i-feel-emotionally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F14%2Fi-feel-emotionally.html" }, { "id": 2150, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve borrowed a book from the public library, this copy of which has not been borrowed by anybody before me. It feels wonderfully decadent to have access to a brand new book for free. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-13 21:32:26 +0800", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Jun 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/13/ive-borrowed-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F13%2Five-borrowed-a.html" }, { "id": 2151, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hanging out with the kid.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-13 18:10:57 +0800", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Jun 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/13/hanging-out-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F13%2Fhanging-out-with.html" }, { "id": 2152, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m trialling DevonThink 3 beta, and the side bar workflow is weird. I know what they were trying to do in terms of making it more like Mail, but the new structure has made me much less efficient.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-12 22:41:09 +0800", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Jun 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/12/im-trialling-devonthink.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F12%2Fim-trialling-devonthink.html" }, { "id": 2153, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting SSL encryption on micro.blog was a heck of lot easier than with my previous hosting provider. I\u0026rsquo;m feeling pretty good about this transition.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-12 10:37:03 +0800", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Jun 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/12/getting-ssl-encryption.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F12%2Fgetting-ssl-encryption.html" }, { "id": 2154, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It seems like my reconfigured web services are working. Homepage at andrewcanion.com and blog with micro.blog. Micro.blog for the win!\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-11 11:19:33 +0800", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Jun 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/11/it-seems-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F11%2Fit-seems-like.html" }, { "id": 2155, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve just signed up for a paid micro.blog account and this is my first post to it. I think this could be the way out of my Wordpress quagmire.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-10 23:54:23 +0800", "date": "11:54 p.m. on Jun 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/10/ive-just-signed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F10%2Five-just-signed.html" }, { "id": 2156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "DNS reconfiguration tasks are the purgatory of the Internet.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-10 22:30:13 +0800", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Jun 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/10/dns-reconfiguration-tasks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F10%2Fdns-reconfiguration-tasks.html" }, { "id": 2157, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@brentsimmons NetNewsWire is great, thanks for bringing it back to life. I understand why Feedly is next on the sync list, but can I request Inoreader support after that?\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-10 17:48:09 +0800", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Jun 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/10/brentsimmons-netnewswire-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F10%2Fbrentsimmons-netnewswire-is.html" }, { "id": 2158, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m proud of myself - I just debugged somebody else’s Javascript code, and I’m not even a programmer. Now it works as intended.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-10 12:19:18 +0800", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Jun 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/10/im-proud-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F10%2Fim-proud-of.html" }, { "id": 2159, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@jamesshelley I am checking in with you as I have enjoyed your writing in the past. Your website now seems in some bit of disrepair. I hope you are still out there and doing well.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-09 23:17:25 +0800", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Jun 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/09/231725.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F09%2F231725.html" }, { "id": 2160, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@joejenett I think I fixed it with the help of this resource - so this post is a test!\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-09 23:05:31 +0800", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Jun 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/09/joejenett-i-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F09%2Fjoejenett-i-think.html" }, { "id": 2161, "type": "post", "title": "Uber’s Path of Destruction - American Affairs Journal", "text": "Uber’s Path of Destruction - American Affairs Journal:\nSince it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But the widespread belief that it is a highly innovative and successful company has no basis in economic reality. An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets. Its costs are simply much higher than the market is willing to pay, as its nine years of massive losses indicate.\nEnjoy the Uber ride while it lasts because at this rate the service won't be around in the future. Ultimately, the tune will stop playing on this game of musical chairs. ", "dateiso": "2019-06-08 09:19:02 +0800", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Jun 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/08/ubers-path-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F08%2Fubers-path-of.html" }, { "id": 2162, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think I might try ditching Fantastical in favour of the stock calendar app on iOS. I’m fed up with Fantastical not supporting travel time, and by using Drafts I should still be able to add events using natural language.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-07 21:40:13 +0800", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Jun 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/07/i-think-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F07%2Fi-think-i.html" }, { "id": 2163, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m having to upgrade to the 2Tb iCloud tier for our family. My wife takes too many photos!\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-07 21:26:49 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Jun 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/07/im-having-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F07%2Fim-having-to.html" }, { "id": 2164, "type": "post", "title": "Read-it-Later with...", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;ve used Instapaper relatively consistently since Marco Arment introduced it. Was that a decade ago now?\nOccasionally I\u0026#x2019;ve stopped using it, or toyed with other services like Pocket, or Safari\u0026#x2019;s Reading List feature. In the end, however, I\u0026#x2019;ve always gone back to Instapaper.\nDespite that usage, I\u0026#x2019;ve never been interested in any of the service\u0026#x2019;s \u0026#x2018;power user\u0026#x2019; features. They\u0026#x2019;ve always felt disjointed from my larger workflows. My Instapaper history is an island of data that is unconnected from my other information, which is primarily kept in DEVONthink.\nThe End of Instapaper At this point, I\u0026#x2019;m giving up on Instapaper. The finally nail in the coffin was the realisation of just how hard it was to get my data out of Instapaper. The RSS feed it provides is truncated, and links back to the Instapaper version and not the original article. So all my reading was excised from all my knowledge held in DEVONthink.\nFortunately, DEVONthink makes available a script that works in version 2.x (and not yet beta 3.0) that is able to create PDF versions of an Instapaper archive, using a CSV list of links available from Instapaper.\nI was able to run this last night. It took about 3 hours to pull down over 2,000 articles. Now, these all exist within DEVONthink.\nThis experience has convinced me that I need a better way to manage my reading list such that I keep available my archive for more immediate use.\nThe Benefits If this new process works, the benefits will be:\nOne less app/service to deal with. Ubiquitous access via system-level extensions. An integrated corpus of information that can be better leveraged for future purposes. Finding a Better Read-It-Later Workflow My new workflow is still a work-in-progress.\nI am going back to basics and plan to use Safari\u0026#x2019;s in-built Reading List feature. This has the benefit of being universally available across all Apple platforms. This will serve as my queue. From there I can push articles deemed worthy of keeping to DEVONthink for long-term archival.\nSafari\u0026#x2019;s Reading List, combined with its Reader view, should be sufficient enough for most purposes. It doesn\u0026#x2019;t work offline, which was a key feature of Instapaper\u0026#x2026; but let\u0026#x2019;s be realistic. When am I ever offline?\nWhen importing to DEVONthink I will most likely save it as a clutter-free web archive or Markdown. I can do this using the share sheet on iOS and the DEVONthink clipper/share extension with macOS.\nDEVONthink 3 (currently in beta) offers a simple \u0026#x2018;Reading List\u0026#x2019; feature similar to Safari\u0026#x2019;s, but it seems a bit underwhelming at this stage. The iOS version is older and doesn\u0026#x2019;t have this feature at all. It is unlikely that I will adopt this element into my workflow at this time.\nBreaking Down the Steps So, in summary, these are the workflow steps:\nIdentify article at source generally through Safari or Fiery Feeds. Push the article to the system-level Safari Reading List. Read the article in Safari, optionally using Reader View. Capture article into DEVONthink using the share sheet, share extension/browser extension/clipper. Leverage DEVONthink\u0026#x2019;s \u0026#x2018;Groups\u0026#x2019; feature to save the article to the correct location and the \u0026#x2018;See Also\u0026#x2019; feature to find similar information. ", "dateiso": "2019-06-07 17:00:40 +0800", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Jun 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/07/readitlater-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F07%2Freaditlater-with.html" }, { "id": 2165, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ctrl-Cmd-G has to be about the best feature in the new version 3 of DEVONthink. It\u0026rsquo;s the equivalent of Cmd-O in OmniFocus.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-07 14:38:42 +0800", "date": "2:38 p.m. on Jun 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/07/ctrlcmdg-has-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F07%2Fctrlcmdg-has-to.html" }, { "id": 2166, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I updated the details of my technology stack.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-07 11:57:25 +0800", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Jun 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/07/i-updated-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F07%2Fi-updated-the.html" }, { "id": 2167, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was just able to successfully extract over 2000 articles from Instapaper into DevonThink using an AppleScript. Now I can search and leverage my reading history. I’m going to cease using Instapaper now, and consolidate around DevonThink.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-06 21:03:43 +0800", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Jun 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/06/i-was-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F06%2Fi-was-just.html" }, { "id": 2168, "type": "post", "title": "Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”", "text": "Via Ars Technica:\nMicrosoft said it was removing periodic password changes from the security baseline settings it recommends for customers and auditors. After decades of Microsoft recommending passwords be changed regularly, Microsoft employee Aaron Margosis said the requirement is an “ancient and obsolete mitigation of very low value.” I use 1Password to reduce my own security risk by allowing it to automatically generate random passwords as required, but I\u0026rsquo;m not most people.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s good to see one of the industry giants admitting to the risks posed by security theatre and changing its best-practice recommendations for password management.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-06 11:19:57 +0800", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Jun 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/06/microsoft-says-mandatory.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F06%2Fmicrosoft-says-mandatory.html" }, { "id": 2169, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have ploughed hours of time into Zelda and I still feel that I\u0026rsquo;m only just scratching the surface.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-05 23:32:35 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Jun 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/05/i-have-ploughed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F05%2Fi-have-ploughed.html" }, { "id": 2170, "type": "post", "title": "Getting Back in the Swing", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s not particularly easy getting into the swing of work after an extended absence. Today is my first day with my legs back under the desk after enjoying an extended break.\nThis is a time of reacquainting myself with things. Picking up projects and tasks that have laid idle for some time, waiting for my return. Checking in on others and hoping that progress has been made in my absence.\nThis first day back has not been productive in the sense that tangible and visible work has not been completed. Nevertheless, it\u0026rsquo;s given me a chance to refamiliarise myself with the job. I\u0026rsquo;ve got some fresh perspectives on how I want to do the work, so I\u0026rsquo;ve been able to think on how those might be incorporated.\nOf course, I\u0026rsquo;ve also had that lovely job of reading through hundreds of emails that have built up. Fortunately, with the help of Sanebox, my inbox had been automatically sorted into groups ranging from \u0026lsquo;totally useless\u0026rsquo;, through \u0026lsquo;probably not useful\u0026rsquo; ending in \u0026lsquo;aged, but still probably worth reading\u0026rsquo;. This made me email triage job quick and easy. At the same time, I was able to unsubscribe from some mail that was clearly junk.\nSo, today is the day where my engine has been started, and left to idle gently while it warms up. Over the next couple of days, I would expect I might be able to get out of the driveway. We shall see.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-04 15:47:48 +0800", "date": "3:47 p.m. on Jun 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/04/getting-back-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F04%2Fgetting-back-in.html" }, { "id": 2171, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I dislike my current home screen.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-02 20:43:20 +0800", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Jun 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/02/i-dislike-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F02%2Fi-dislike-my.html" }, { "id": 2172, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Beautiful weather for my first time at Perth’s new stadium. This place is magnificent.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-02 15:15:39 +0800", "date": "3:15 p.m. on Jun 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/02/beautiful-weather-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F02%2Fbeautiful-weather-for.html" }, { "id": 2173, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Discovering the thrill of books.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-01 15:42:44 +0800", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Jun 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/06/01/discovering-the-thrill.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F01%2Fdiscovering-the-thrill.html" }, { "id": 2174, "type": "post", "title": "How Differential Gears Work", "text": "Watching things like this remind how little I know.\n ", "dateiso": "2019-06-01 06:01:52 +0800", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Jun 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/31/how-differential-gears.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F31%2Fhow-differential-gears.html" }, { "id": 2175, "type": "post", "title": "Drafts for Link Posts", "text": "canion.me\n I\u0026#x2019;ve been noodling around trying to figure out the most effective way to write and publish onto this Blot-powered page, especially from iOS, but also recognising that I do also use macOS.\n The answer is always Drafts, isn\u0026#x2019;t it? That app that I keep trying to incorporate into my workflow, and then keep forgetting about.\nThanks to @vasta and galexa I should be able to develop a better/faster/more efficient process.\nIn fact, this post has been written in Drafts, utilising its share sheet extension as suggested.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-01 03:31:36 +0800", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Jun 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/31/drafts-for-link.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F31%2Fdrafts-for-link.html" }, { "id": 2176, "type": "post", "title": "Link Posts and Blot", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;ve been noodling around trying to figure out the most effective way to write and publish onto this Blot-powered page, especially from iOS, but also recognising that I do also use macOS.\nThis is theoretically easy, since Blot just needs a file to exist in a Dropbox folder. Where I\u0026#x2019;ve found some problems, though, is in the production of link blog posts. Recent experimentation on my other blog using MarsEdit and its lovely Safari extension for the creation of link posts has made me more frustrated with my current workflow for link posts here on Blot.\nWhile a work in progress, this is the process I have developed to \u0026#x2018;simplify\u0026#x2019; publishing a link post:\nWrite the file in Notebooks app. Invoke a TextExpander .link shortcut to prepare the file metadata and paste the contents of a clipboard (that would contain the URL of the page to be shared) into a prepared Markdownified URL. Rename the automatically generated filename to one suitable name for Dropbox. Consider use of TextExpander .ds shortcut. Copy and paste/drag and drop quoted content from original webpage. Add additional commentary. Invoke the share sheet and select a Siri Shortcut. Choose the Blot Post shortcut. Select where within my Dropbox Blot structure to save the file. Not as seamless as a Safari extension, but probably easier than what I\u0026#x2019;ve been doing to date. If anybody can suggest improvements, I\u0026#x2019;m all ears.\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-01 03:19:00 +0800", "date": "3:19 p.m. on Jun 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/31/link-posts-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F31%2Flink-posts-and.html" }, { "id": 2177, "type": "post", "title": "The Steep Drop in Britain’s Coal Usage", "text": "The Steep Drop in Britain’s Coal Usage:\nIn Britain, the birthplace of the industrial revolution, no coal has been used to produce power for the last 11 days. Coal is on the decline. This is market forces at work, not simply ideology.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-31 13:57:06 +0800", "date": "1:57 p.m. on May 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/31/the-steep-drop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F31%2Fthe-steep-drop.html" }, { "id": 2178, "type": "post", "title": "Seven West Media Buys Remaining Stake in Community Newspaper Group in Wa ➜", "text": " Print and television giant Seven West Media has taken control of Community Newspaper Group in a deal that gives the company increased control over the West Australian media landscape, but has brought fears more jobs could be lost.\n The deal brings several of Perth\u0026#x2019;s major suburban newspapers under the same company that owns The West Australian and Sunday Times newspapers, and top-rating TV news destination Seven News.\n Well, this is depressing. As if our local media scene was not already enough of a monoculture.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-28 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on May 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/28/seven-west-media.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2Fseven-west-media.html" }, { "id": 2179, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve spent the last few days in Albany, in the southwest of Western Australia. I haven\u0026rsquo;t been here for years. I had a memory of loving it, and I can confirm I do love it.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-26 22:39:22 +0800", "date": "10:39 p.m. on May 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/26/ive-spent-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F26%2Five-spent-the.html" }, { "id": 2180, "type": "post", "title": "Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction", "text": "Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction:\n Horizontal reading rules the day. What I do when I look at Twitter is less akin to reading a book than to the encounter I have with a recipe\u0026#x2019;s instructions or the fine print of a receipt: I\u0026#x2019;m taking in information, not enlightenment. It\u0026#x2019;s a way to pass the time, not to live in it. Reading\u0026#x2014;real reading, the kind Birkerts makes his impassioned case for\u0026#x2014;draws on our vertical sensibility, however latent, and \u0026#x201C;where it does not assume depth, it creates it.\u0026#x201D;\n This article provides an interesting insight into the value that reading can offer the mind; how it can engage in a way that the shallows of the internet\u0026#x2019;s social platforms cannot (and will not, because they\u0026#x2019;re optimised for engagement, not consideration).\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-23 04:03:12 +0800", "date": "4:03 p.m. on May 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/22/reading-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F22%2Freading-in-the.html" }, { "id": 2181, "type": "post", "title": "Misanthropic Me", "text": "How can so many watch and enjoy inane, superficial television shows? Why does the population focus more on sporting events than geopolitical disasters? Why is consumerism celebrated and the rise of social media \u0026#x2018;influencers\u0026#x2019; followed with such passion?\nI feel as though our civilisation is being incessantly dumbed down. Our attention is the commodity that every company, every \u0026#x2018;influencer\u0026#x2019;, every entertainment option wants to attract, and competition is fierce. Rather than recognise the value of our attention, we seem willing to give it away for little to nothing in return. I would like for us elevate ourselves and dedicate our focus and attention on things of genuine importance. Yet we prefer being closeted by the warm embrace of ignorance, simplification and superficiality.\nIt\u0026#x2019;s tempting to resign myself as a misfit within our society. To disconnect from others. To adopt a misanthropic view of the world. To think about ways in which I might step out of the society in which I find myself.\nThis, however, would be the choice of weakness on my behalf. Instead, I need to dig in and find ways to stay interested in the world. I need to find others who are similarly frustrated by the banality of everyday life and engage intelligently with them. I need to find outlets of interest that will help me cope with the frustration of being part of a society, swathes of which I don\u0026#x2019;t identify with nor understand.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-22 18:21:00 +0800", "date": "6:21 p.m. on May 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/22/misanthropic-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F22%2Fmisanthropic-me.html" }, { "id": 2182, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m enjoying having MarsEdit available on Setapp.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-22 10:47:57 +0800", "date": "10:47 p.m. on May 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/22/im-enjoying-having.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F22%2Fim-enjoying-having.html" }, { "id": 2183, "type": "post", "title": "Keyboard Maestro Field Guide", "text": "Keyboard Maestro Field Guide | MacSparky Field Guides:\nWith Keyboard Maestro, you can automate just about anything. In addition to teaching you all of the mechanics of Keyboard Maestro, this course includes a number of walkthroughs of automation workflows you can use, download, or alter to automate your own Mac. Keyboard Maestro is one of the Mac apps, alongside other automation tools Hazel and Textexpander, that ensure I get 40 hours of work done each week with about 30 hours of effort.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-22 10:43:55 +0800", "date": "10:43 p.m. on May 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/22/keyboard-maestro-field.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F22%2Fkeyboard-maestro-field.html" }, { "id": 2184, "type": "post", "title": "MarsEdit on Setapp", "text": "I have previously written about trialling MarsEdit but ultimately the app didn\u0026rsquo;t stick.\nNow MarsEdit has been made available as part of my Setapp subscription, so I\u0026rsquo;m able to give it another go, this time as a paying customer. This post is being written and published using MarsEdit.\nIt will be interesting to see if the software establishes itself as a consistent part of my blogging workflow. The big challenge is that there are so many great writing apps on macOS (and iOS), so competition is intense.\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-20 16:34:07 +0800", "date": "4:34 p.m. on May 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/20/marsedit-on-setapp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F20%2Fmarsedit-on-setapp.html" }, { "id": 2185, "type": "post", "title": "Monthly Review April 2019", "text": "What Went Well at Home? Not having to go to work each day has allowed me to really find a rhythm in terms of household management. I could really get used to being a house-husband. What Went Well at Work? Another month of not being there\u0026#x2009;\u0026#x2014;\u0026#x2009;thanks Long Service Leave! Interestingly, I am not missing it at all. Clearly, I have a good mental balance between work and life. Highlights Meeting and catching up with a range of interesting people from all walks of life. This includes old friends, people I hope to be new friends, business people, artists and politicians. It\u0026#x2019;s been a busy social month. Visiting my mom with the two boys and sleeping not in her house, but in the tent with them. Watching Hannah deliver awesome oratory performances in front of a large group of people. Participating in media with Hannah and the boys, and having the opportunity to do a TV interview. My Media Diet Game of Thrones. Star Trek Discovery. I loved this second series, and am disappointed it\u0026#x2019;s over. My son and I finished Mario World Odyssey together on the kid-friendly difficulty level. I finished Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. Such a good game. I hope they make another. I started playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This could take up a lot of my time. My Passion Project I stepped away from projects this month, and just concentrated on keeping the house running and having some fun. The ultimate project - Australia\u0026#x2019;s Federal Election, is being held on 18 May. If you\u0026#x2019;re an Australian voter and live in the electorate of Swan, vote 1 Hannah Beazley! ", "dateiso": "2019-05-01 17:32:00 +0800", "date": "5:32 p.m. on May 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/01/monthly-review-april.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F01%2Fmonthly-review-april.html" }, { "id": 2186, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Zelda Breath of the Wild is addictive!\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-01 13:40:51 +0800", "date": "1:40 p.m. on May 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/05/01/zelda-breath-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F05%2F01%2Fzelda-breath-of.html" }, { "id": 2187, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I met some new people today who were just brilliant folk. Hit it off with them immediately. It’s not often that you get to make ‘new friends' through random chance.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-26 20:36:42 +0800", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Apr 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/26/i-met-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F26%2Fi-met-some.html" }, { "id": 2188, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Easter bunny related news: I finished Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. What a great game.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-21 15:50:13 +0800", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Apr 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/21/my-easter-bunny.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F21%2Fmy-easter-bunny.html" }, { "id": 2189, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Easter treats.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-21 01:01:05 +0800", "date": "1:01 p.m. on Apr 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/21/easter-treats.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F21%2Feaster-treats.html" }, { "id": 2190, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Apple Store visit was a huge success today. My capable Genius confirmed my iPad discolouration patch, and replaced the iPad with a new one on the spot. Best part about that is I get a new battery!\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-15 15:32:18 +0800", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Apr 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/15/my-apple-store.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F15%2Fmy-apple-store.html" }, { "id": 2191, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Adobe Rush for iOS is good. Some bugs in places, but it’s helping me to edit together video successfully.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-12 14:36:11 +0800", "date": "2:36 p.m. on Apr 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/12/adobe-rush-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F12%2Fadobe-rush-for.html" }, { "id": 2192, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@martinfeld You’ve been fireballed!\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-12 07:10:09 +0800", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Apr 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/12/martinfeld-youve-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F12%2Fmartinfeld-youve-been.html" }, { "id": 2193, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My iPad Pro has developed a ‘lighter’ splotch on the screen, just a bit above the home button. I keep thinking it’s a smudge, but it’s definitely the screen. Now I can’t unsee it. Must be upgrade time. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-11 22:01:06 +0800", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Apr 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/11/my-ipad-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F11%2Fmy-ipad-pro.html" }, { "id": 2194, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think @martinfeld really knocked it out of the park with this post. Apple and the Craftsmen – Lounge Ruminator\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-10 12:52:59 +0800", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Apr 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/10/i-think-martinfeld.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F10%2Fi-think-martinfeld.html" }, { "id": 2195, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "RSS reader update: Reeder is too ancient, its panels don’t look nice on a portrait iPad and it has slow sync. Unread is pretty but there is so much swiping and long-tapping needed to do anything. I might be slinking back to Fiery Feeds.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-10 09:34:16 +0800", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Apr 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/10/rss-reader-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F10%2Frss-reader-update.html" }, { "id": 2196, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@martinfeld i just saw that John Siracusa has faved your rumination in Instapaper. A brush with nerd fame!\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-10 09:32:03 +0800", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Apr 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/10/martinfeld-i-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F10%2Fmartinfeld-i-just.html" }, { "id": 2197, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After using Fiery Feeds for some time, I’m doing an audit and testing other RSS apps again. Fiery Feeds seemed to be using a lot of battery. So far, Unread is winning.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-09 23:09:31 +0800", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Apr 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/09/after-using-fiery.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F09%2Fafter-using-fiery.html" }, { "id": 2198, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That was fun, spending $672 on car maintenance, with news of more expenses to come soon.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-08 16:43:21 +0800", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Apr 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/08/that-was-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F08%2Fthat-was-fun.html" }, { "id": 2199, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was great to be out in the bush with our old girl Indi.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-06 07:28:30 +0800", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Apr 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/06/it-was-great.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F06%2Fit-was-great.html" }, { "id": 2200, "type": "post", "title": "Monthly Review March 2019", "text": "The third entry in this series, reviewing my month that was.\nWhat Went Well at Home? I started Long Service Leave, which is a benefit that becomes available after working for a single employer for 10 years. This time off has been wonderful so far. I have not at all missed work. I\u0026#x2019;ve disconnected my email accounts, am not answering calls, and am entirely disassociated from my normal work world. It\u0026#x2019;s extremely refreshing. Having time away from work has freed me up to knock off a bunch of items from my \u0026#x2018;to do\u0026#x2019; list. I went to a retro musical bingo event. I, along with the others at my table, dressed up in suitable \u0026#x2019;80\u0026#x2019;s retro gear\u0026#x2019;. I was wearing double-denim, high-top sneakers and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt. We arrived to discover our group was the only one who went to the effort to dress up. We didn\u0026#x2019;t care though, still having a good time. I\u0026#x2019;ve been doing a lot more cooking, and trying to enjoy it. What Went Well at Work? Not being there! Highlights Going swimming at beach for many mornings, just before it becomes too cold to do so. I discovered that I really do enjoy a swim in the ocean, particularly at a beach that offers change room facilities, for changing before getting back in the car to head home. Attended a Town Hall session with the Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten. More importantly, my wife Hannah Beazley gave the introductory speech, and she was brilliant. My Media Diet Continued watching Star Trek: Discovery, season 2. Read The Tattooist of Auschwitz. My NBL team won the championship, beating Melbourne United 3 games to 1. This was their 9th championship overall. I finally finished reading Toll. My Passion Project This month has been about winding down my work mentality. It has also been about supporting my wife in the run-up to the Federal election campaign - vote Hannah Beazley for Swan! ", "dateiso": "2019-04-06 04:06:53 +0800", "date": "4:06 p.m. on Apr 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/05/monthly-review-march.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F05%2Fmonthly-review-march.html" }, { "id": 2201, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Further investigations into my missing wedding ring are leading to the unfortunate conclusion that my 3-year old boy flushed it down the toilet. He will be hearing about this when he’s older.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-03 19:25:39 +0800", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Apr 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/03/further-investigations-into.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F03%2Ffurther-investigations-into.html" }, { "id": 2202, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I seem to have lost my wedding ring. Oh no.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-03 14:05:47 +0800", "date": "2:05 p.m. on Apr 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/03/i-seem-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F03%2Fi-seem-to.html" }, { "id": 2203, "type": "post", "title": "World Autism Awareness Day", "text": "Today, 2 April, is World Autism Awareness Day.\nWear light blue to show your support and understanding.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-02 16:25:51 +0800", "date": "4:25 p.m. on Apr 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/04/02/world-autism-awareness.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F04%2F02%2Fworld-autism-awareness.html" }, { "id": 2204, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@martinfeld Your latest rumination on travel as work resonated with me. Not that I do it, but that I also think it’s a trap. Wage growth is already anaemic, why provide additional labour at no charge?\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-28 19:57:33 +0800", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Mar 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/28/martinfeld-your-latest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F28%2Fmartinfeld-your-latest.html" }, { "id": 2205, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As of today I’ve been off Twitter for one year. My life is better for it!\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-28 19:13:18 +0800", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Mar 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/28/as-of-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F28%2Fas-of-today.html" }, { "id": 2206, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I shaved off the beard I had been growing for months and now have regrets.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-25 22:44:00 +0800", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Mar 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/25/i-shaved-off.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F25%2Fi-shaved-off.html" }, { "id": 2207, "type": "post", "title": "OmniOutliner as a Daybook", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;ve recently taken to using OmniOutliner as a daybook/Bullet Journal. I don\u0026#x2019;t actively follow the bullet journal methodology, although the more I think about it, the more useful it seems.1\nTraditionally, I\u0026#x2019;ve not been one to record daily events as they occur and make notes about all the little things. More recently, however, I\u0026#x2019;m finding that I want to recall something that happened earlier, or a decision that was made, or an event. Whether this is memory loss caused by ageing, or wisdom gained through experience, I\u0026#x2019;m not sure. Whatever the reason, I know I want to keep some sort of minimal journal.\nThis journal needs to be separate and different from my task list. Nor do I want it to be my knowledge archive/zettelkasten. Those are different things that need different treatment. How I take care of those things is a story for another day.\nOmniOutliner I\u0026#x2019;ve owned copies of OmniOutliner Professional for the longest time but haven\u0026#x2019;t ever made full use of it. It has always presented itself as too fiddly. The fact that it\u0026#x2019;s not that great at exporting has been a problem as well, in that I put a bunch of stuff in, but have trouble exporting it to a format that works for others.\nFor this purpose, however, OmniOutliner seems very well suited. This data doesn\u0026#x2019;t need to go any further than me.\nGetting Started (With a Little Help From My Friends) Steve Zeoli from Welcome to Sherwood was kind enough to kickstart my project by sending me a text file that has an outline of every day and date of the year. This was my starting point. Pasting this into OmniOutliner gave me a basic outline.\nNow, within each day, I can nest commentary and notes. Just little tidbits and things I might need to know or refer back to. I can use it as a 43 Folders style bring-up system, nesting attachments or notes within the day they will be needed. I\u0026#x2019;ve done this with my tickets for EPW Goldrush2.\nA sample entry from my OmniOutliner Daybook\nOmniOutliner syncs across macOS and iOS using its own OmniPresence sync server. While I would prefer if it worked natively with iCloud Drive, in reality it doesn\u0026#x2019;t really matter.\nOmniOutliner allows for multiple columns, so I have been able to create a few \u0026#x2018;metadata\u0026#x2019; columns to support my notes. I\u0026#x2019;m still experimenting here, but at the time of writing, I\u0026#x2019;ve got pop-up selectors for Type (task, note, event), Activity (major project areas) and Context (action, waiting). While not wanting to replicate a task manager, having a few bits of extra data allows me to leverage the real power of OmniOutliner, which is filtering and focusing.\nFiltering \u0026amp; Focusing Using OmniOutliner, I can focus on just a single day, hiding all other 364 days. Or I can focus on the upcoming month. Or a selection of non-contiguous days.\nFurthermore, I can filter based on the criteria of the columns. So if I just want to see the lines I have tagged the note to be an action, I can do that. Or I can combine the filtering and focusing to show me events in the next month. It\u0026#x2019;s all quite fun.\nWhat\u0026#x2019;s more, all this filtering and focusing can be done on both platforms: iOS is an equal citizen with macOS.\nHot Tip: Change the File Format to a Bundle If you are planning to keep a number of file attachments within your OmniOutliner document, and sync them efficiently, I highly recommend changing the default file save format. By default it saves as a \u0026#x2018;flat file\u0026#x2019; which works better for non-OmniPresence syncing. But this means that each minor save results in the entire file - and attachments - being re-saved and re-synced. This is not very efficient.\nChanging to the \u0026#x2018;bundle\u0026#x2019; format allows the app to save using the macOS package file format. This then only syncs the changed elements, and leaves the various file attachments untouched and so they don\u0026#x2019;t sync each time.\nOther Options There are plenty of options available to do a similar job, and I\u0026#x2019;ve tried them all!\nWith Steve\u0026#x2019;s date file, it was easy to try incorporating it into each application. They all have strengths and weaknesses, of course.\nSome of these include:\n TheBrain - really fun software to use, but it was a resource hog on my laptop and it\u0026#x2019;s just too expensive (both initially and then a subscription) when I already own viable alternatives. DEVONthink - this can do the job, but it\u0026#x2019;s just too clunky for continuous quick text entry. Notebooks - I couldn\u0026#x2019;t find a nice way to integrate this app for this purpose. Paper \u0026amp; Pen - I\u0026#x2019;m a tech-addict! I am sure my use of this daybook will ebb and flow, and I will probably change my approach as time goes on.\nHowever, I can say that this system has made quick logging of events and noteworthy items doable through the day, and I believe I will get value back from it over time.\n I\u0026#x2019;m so wedded to OmniFocus as a trusted source of actions, I think it might be almost impossible to move away from it at this point.\u0026#x21A9;\u0026#xFE0E;\n Yes, wrestling is awesome. Having a 7-year old son that I can take along allows me to indulge my own pleasures without judgment!\u0026#x21A9;\u0026#xFE0E;\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-25 22:42:52 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Mar 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/25/omnioutliner-as-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F25%2Fomnioutliner-as-a.html" }, { "id": 2208, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On iOS, iA Writer may look better, Ulysses may seem better, but 1Writer actually is better!\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-25 20:11:56 +0800", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Mar 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/25/on-ios-ia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F25%2Fon-ios-ia.html" }, { "id": 2209, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Somebody needs to tell the tightly-wound petrol station guy that if I reverse into the spot, I am not entering the station from the wrong direction. I’m just a good driver.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-25 18:23:54 +0800", "date": "6:23 p.m. on Mar 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/25/somebody-needs-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F25%2Fsomebody-needs-to.html" }, { "id": 2210, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a post purely to test whether my Inoreader rule matching is working. If it is, certain others will receive this post by email.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-25 14:04:41 +0800", "date": "2:04 p.m. on Mar 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/25/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F25%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 2211, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You are not supposed to get locked out of your own car with a keyless entry fob\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-25 10:48:59 +0800", "date": "10:48 p.m. on Mar 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/25/you-are-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F25%2Fyou-are-not.html" }, { "id": 2212, "type": "post", "title": "democratic capitalism’s future : democracy journal", "text": "democratic capitalism\u0026#x2019;s future\u0026#xA0;: democracy journal\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-23 21:56:12 +0800", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Mar 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/23/democratic-capitalisms-future.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F23%2Fdemocratic-capitalisms-future.html" }, { "id": 2213, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to @joshsullivan for reminding me about CloudMounter on Setapp I had given up on OneDrive for sync because of its poor performance on Mac, but this might be a good solution!\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-22 13:38:43 +0800", "date": "1:38 p.m. on Mar 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/22/thanks-to-joshsullivan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F22%2Fthanks-to-joshsullivan.html" }, { "id": 2214, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Carrot on the pulse with Apple’s strategy.\n CARROT Weather's forecast for today 😝 ", "dateiso": "2019-03-21 11:00:55 +0800", "date": "11:00 p.m. on Mar 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/21/carrot-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F21%2Fcarrot-on-the.html" }, { "id": 2215, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hit a roadblock with my v7 of Keyboard Maestro. I needed a feature from v8 so pulled the trigger on an upgrade. I live just a couple of minutes away from the developer in Australia but still had to pay in US $! That’s the global economy for you!\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-20 15:33:49 +0800", "date": "3:33 p.m. on Mar 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/20/i-hit-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F20%2Fi-hit-a.html" }, { "id": 2216, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is our 14th wedding anniversary! Time flies! 💏💍🎊\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-19 10:20:50 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Mar 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/19/today-is-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F19%2Ftoday-is-our.html" }, { "id": 2217, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love annual leave. Second day in a row at the beach with no guilt.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-19 10:02:28 +0800", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Mar 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/19/i-love-annual.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F19%2Fi-love-annual.html" }, { "id": 2218, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spent the morning at the beach with only myself for company. It was glorious. Floating in flat water, looking up at an azure sky.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-18 11:03:46 +0800", "date": "11:03 p.m. on Mar 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/18/i-spent-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F18%2Fi-spent-the.html" }, { "id": 2219, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I continue to watch and hope that Voodoopad will rise from the dead. Development seems glacial and communication to users is not great on their forum, though.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-16 11:49:31 +0800", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Mar 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/16/i-continue-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F16%2Fi-continue-to.html" }, { "id": 2220, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I previously bought Postbox v3 and have been offered a discount to upgrade. They\u0026rsquo;re now on version 6 and offering a ‘lifetime license' upgrade. Any users of Postbox out there? Any recent feedback on the software?\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-15 15:31:51 +0800", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Mar 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/15/i-previously-bought.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F15%2Fi-previously-bought.html" }, { "id": 2221, "type": "post", "title": "Boeing 737 MAX", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;ve been brought up on the phrase, \u0026#x2018;If it\u0026#x2019;s not Boeing, I\u0026#x2019;m not going\u0026#x2019;.\nThe 737 MAX situation puts a real dent in that theory.\nThis article by The Air Current, via John Gruber, provides a well-written view of what has happened. Given my interest in lean manufacturing theory, I particularly like this quote:\n The 737 assembly line in Renton, Wash. is a marvel of lean manufacturing. The line inches forward little-by-little as assembly proceeds. Born from Toyota\u0026#x2019;s production methods, the process is one of continual improvement. It\u0026#x2019;s what made the 737 the lifeblood of Boeing in the first place and why this crisis, taken to its most extreme, could threaten the company\u0026#x2019;s very existence. But the assembly line also comes with a tool called an Andon cord. The cord empowers all employees to pull it and stop the line if something is amiss or requires investigation and needs fixing. The rest of the world has already pulled it.\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-15 04:23:32 +0800", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Mar 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/14/boeing-max.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F14%2Fboeing-max.html" }, { "id": 2222, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It seems I might be drifting back to Ulysses for my writing, despite its Markdown foibles. The ability to publish to Wordpress and have an External folder linked to Blot, with great cross-platform syncing, is very nice.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-14 20:37:34 +0800", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Mar 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/14/it-seems-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F14%2Fit-seems-i.html" }, { "id": 2223, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@twelvety Is there a way I can get your email address? I would like to reach out to you about something.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-14 20:21:35 +0800", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Mar 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/14/twelvety-is-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F14%2Ftwelvety-is-there.html" }, { "id": 2224, "type": "post", "title": "‘I’m Busy’ Isn’t a Badge of Honour", "text": "It’s common within Australian business culture for people, when asked the question of ‘How are you going?’, to respond with something along the lines of, ‘I’m really busy’, or ‘flat out’.\nThis might be a reflexive response to avoid having to provide a more substantive answer, or it may be bluster to hide the fact they are anything but busy. Mostly, I think the response is given in the belief that “busy-ness” implies importance, worth and value. I think this is misguided.\nWhen I hear somebody say they are busy, I tend to interpret it as:\n I don’t know how to delegate, so I’m doing everything myself. I’m disorganised and can’t structure my days. I’ve failed to prioritise and eliminate extraneous activity. I’ve actually got nothing to do, but I don’t want anybody to find out. Being busy is not a badge of honour. It’s a cry for help. Either you’ve got too much going on, or not nearly enough. Either way, there’s going to be a lack of focus on the projects and activities that really matter, and deliver true value.\nCustomers don’t pay for busy-ness; they pay for value provided. A customer doesn’t care how much work went into something; they care if it solves their problem.\nIf you find yourself busy all the time, don’t accept it, and don’t feel good about it. Identify how to eliminate, automate or simplify the tasks that are eating away your days. Gain back some time that can be put to better use, such as long-term planning, blue-sky thinking, or relaxing by the pool.\nPeople are not machines. Our lives should be balanced. Sacrificing some busy time for a chance to pursue enjoyment, self-development, or diversification is a trade worth making. If you’re not busy, these alternative activities will fill your time in productive ways and build knowledge and capability over time. If you’re too busy, rebalancing and jettisoning the things that don’t add value will help you to concentrate on the things that matter.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-14 13:07:55 +0800", "date": "1:07 p.m. on Mar 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/14/im-busy-isnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F14%2Fim-busy-isnt.html" }, { "id": 2225, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I put my name down to volunteer at the school canteen this morning. I’m breaking down the gender norms - I was the only guy on the list.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-14 09:02:45 +0800", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Mar 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/14/i-put-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F14%2Fi-put-my.html" }, { "id": 2226, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When reconstructing a soup your wife has previously made, don\u0026rsquo;t get the ratios wrong. Using too much broth, thereby not leaving enough for future servings, will get you in trouble.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-13 11:40:08 +0800", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Mar 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/13/when-reconstructing-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F13%2Fwhen-reconstructing-a.html" }, { "id": 2227, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I cannot sleep. So frustrating.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-13 00:37:22 +0800", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Mar 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/13/i-cannot-sleep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F13%2Fi-cannot-sleep.html" }, { "id": 2228, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The more I use Notebooks app, the more impressed I am. It destroyed Agenda in my head-to-head test. It’s much nicer on iOS than DEVONthink is. Very impressive software.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-11 23:31:54 +0800", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Mar 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/11/the-more-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F11%2Fthe-more-i.html" }, { "id": 2229, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Modern Trap of Feeling Obligated to Turn Hobbies Into Hustles\n The cult of busyness is one of the most toxic aspects of our culture, but it’s also a defense mechanism. I hate that in working society the default response to a question of how one is, is so often, “busy”.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-11 21:20:04 +0800", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Mar 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/11/the-modern-trap.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F11%2Fthe-modern-trap.html" }, { "id": 2230, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@martinfeld I enjoyed your latest rumination on hyphens. I don’t always get it right, but I try.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-10 07:27:54 +0800", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Mar 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/10/martinfeld-i-enjoyed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F10%2Fmartinfeld-i-enjoyed.html" }, { "id": 2231, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My holiday plan sounds like a Tinder profile: long walks on the beach, exercise, reading\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-08 09:31:46 +0800", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Mar 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/08/my-holiday-plan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F08%2Fmy-holiday-plan.html" }, { "id": 2232, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Tim Apple”. Carrot is up with the latest Trump news!\n CARROT Weather's forecast 🤣 ", "dateiso": "2019-03-07 12:58:43 +0800", "date": "12:58 p.m. on Mar 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/07/tim-apple-carrot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F07%2Ftim-apple-carrot.html" }, { "id": 2233, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dice Roll: The Phantom Gambler\n And just like that, the man won over $1.5 million. He calmly filled the empty suitcase with his winnings, exited Binion’s into the desert afternoon, and drove off. It was the largest amount ever bet on a dice roll in America. ", "dateiso": "2019-03-06 20:53:52 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Mar 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/06/dice-roll-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F06%2Fdice-roll-the.html" }, { "id": 2234, "type": "post", "title": "Park Within the Lines", "text": "Park within the lines.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-06 04:28:37 +0800", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Mar 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/05/park-within-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F05%2Fpark-within-the.html" }, { "id": 2235, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Knowing Mark, this doesn’t surprise me, but it does impress me! Off-duty Premier Mark McGowan becomes unexpected hero in stingray accident\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-05 22:24:25 +0800", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Mar 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/05/knowing-mark-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F05%2Fknowing-mark-this.html" }, { "id": 2236, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That moment when you show up to the event you are hosting\u0026hellip; only to realise it’s on tomorrow.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-05 08:45:11 +0800", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Mar 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/05/that-moment-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F05%2Fthat-moment-when.html" }, { "id": 2237, "type": "post", "title": "Gingerbread House Cubicle", "text": "Roaming through my Flickr history, I came across this gem.\nWe really smashed the Christmas decorating out of the park this year, as my cubicle was transformed into a gingerbread house.\nGingerbread House Cubicle ", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 07:42:51 +0800", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/03/gingerbread-house-cubicle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F03%2Fgingerbread-house-cubicle.html" }, { "id": 2238, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just found this photo of my desk from 2008! I am still using the keyboard today. Apple used to have the ability to make long-lived keyboards.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 07:31:03 +0800", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/04/just-found-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2Fjust-found-this.html" }, { "id": 2239, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One last visit to Wikitown, then off to bed. It\u0026rsquo;s past midnight!\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-04 00:02:26 +0800", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Mar 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/04/one-last-visit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F04%2Fone-last-visit.html" }, { "id": 2240, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been typing away on the keyboard form my 2013 MacBook Pro tonight. I love this keyboard. No failing keys to be found on this workhorse.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-03 23:19:23 +0800", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Mar 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/03/ive-been-typing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F03%2Five-been-typing.html" }, { "id": 2241, "type": "post", "title": "Bluey", "text": "One of the joys of parenting is being exposed to children\u0026#x2019;s television. Much of it is as you would expect, which is to say, execrable.\nA new Australian Show, Bluey, bucks the trend. It successfully encapsulates typical family life within modern Australia.\nThis article with the show\u0026#x2019;s creator goes into great detail about what makes the father character particularly great:\n Equally refreshing is\u0026#xA0;Bluey\u0026#x2019;s take on fatherhood. Bandit is a laid-back but resourceful dad who\u0026#x2019;s heavily involved in the day-to-day childcare. In his home office, he sits on a yoga ball at his desk because, as he explains to Bluey, \u0026#x201C;I wrecked my back changing your nappies\u0026#x201D;. From cleaning to washing to school runs, Bandit navigates the drudgery of household life with calm assurance. \u0026#x201C;He\u0026#x2019;s actually really competent,\u0026#x201D; Brumm says. \u0026#x201C;He\u0026#x2019;s a good dad.\u0026#x201D;\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-03 20:52:12 +0800", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Mar 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/03/bluey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F03%2Fbluey.html" }, { "id": 2242, "type": "post", "title": "Testing Flickr", "text": "Just trialing an embed from Flickr, as I determine whether to re-activate my Pro account.\n_DSC0038.jpg ", "dateiso": "2019-03-03 07:16:26 +0800", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Mar 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/02/testing-flickr.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F02%2Ftesting-flickr.html" }, { "id": 2243, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This video shows a dramatic difference in rainfall coverage in Broome, WA. www.abc.net.au/news/2019\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-03 07:03:38 +0800", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Mar 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/03/this-video-shows.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F03%2Fthis-video-shows.html" }, { "id": 2244, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Jason Kottke runs about the best and most popular link blog on the web. This one featuring Freddy Mercury\u0026#x2019;s vocal doppelg\u0026#xE4;nger, however, is one I have to share.\n ", "dateiso": "2019-03-03 05:33:06 +0800", "date": "5:33 p.m. on Mar 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/02/jason-kottke-runs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F02%2Fjason-kottke-runs.html" }, { "id": 2245, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Many years ago I was right into photography. I shot RAW, edited carefully, and posted to Flickr as a Pro member. Now I’m trying to decide if I should get a Pro subscription to Flickr once more, and try to rediscover that past hobby.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-02 22:13:00 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Mar 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/02/many-years-ago.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F02%2Fmany-years-ago.html" }, { "id": 2246, "type": "post", "title": "Monthly Review — February 2019", "text": "The second entry in a series, reviewing my month that was.\nWhat Went Well at Home? I am still aware of my Year of Fun and applying the philosophy to my thinking. My son started a new year at a new school. He has settled in well, and we are very happy with our decision to move him to a different school. I met up for drinks with an old school friend; somebody I haven\u0026#x2019;t seen for 25 years. It\u0026#x2019;s incredible how a common link, such as a school history, can eliminate the sense of talking to a stranger. We happily chatted the evening away. What Went Well at Work? I\u0026#x2019;m going on annual leave soon, so this has been a month where I\u0026#x2019;ve had to plan my wind-down, so that I can step away and not having upset clients and work left in limbo. I\u0026#x2019;ve been very happy with the way I\u0026#x2019;ve managed this wind-down project. Things should finish up very neatly with no loose ends. I helped set up a colleague with a new project, which they appreciated greatly. Highlights I took David to our second EPW indie wrestling show. David loved it once again, and has already been talking about the next show. It seems this may become a standing father/son date. I\u0026#x2019;m cool with that! I resigned from my role of Director at Midlas. After almost 4 years of service, it was time to step away. Celebrating the birthday of a friend by playing basketball on a rooftop court in the CBD. Participated in a busy bee cleaning the grounds of the local Scout Hall. My Media Diet Continued watching Star Trek: Discovery, season 2. Watched the first season of Travelers on Netflix. Created by the same guy who did Stargate SG-1 which is one of my all-time favourite shows. NBL basketball finished its regular season, with my home team Perth Wildcats finishing on top of the ladder. Into the play-offs for the 33rd straight year! Toll by Matt Gemmell, languished unread for no real reason. My Passion Project Continued writing on my wiki through the month, including a regular daily journal. Had a realisation that I\u0026#x2019;ve been journalling in Day One for 6 years, with over 1,000 entries. It\u0026#x2019;s a sneaky constant in my writing system. ", "dateiso": "2019-03-01 20:35:00 +0800", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Mar 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/03/01/monthly-review-february.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F03%2F01%2Fmonthly-review-february.html" }, { "id": 2247, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In Western Australia, our swans come in black.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-28 23:15:17 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Feb 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/28/in-western-australia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F28%2Fin-western-australia.html" }, { "id": 2248, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@joshsullivan What did the iA Writer folk say that sent you looking at alternatives?\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-28 22:53:43 +0800", "date": "10:53 p.m. on Feb 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/28/joshsullivan-what-did.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F28%2Fjoshsullivan-what-did.html" }, { "id": 2249, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " “We had some options, but at this time we decided not to do any of the options,” Trump said. I love it when the US President talks proper.\napple.news/AZE20WkTm\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-28 22:25:24 +0800", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Feb 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/28/we-had-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F28%2Fwe-had-some.html" }, { "id": 2250, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you wanted to keep generalised daily work notes, would you choose OmniOutliner, Day One, or something else entirely? #askmicroblog\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-27 19:49:24 +0800", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Feb 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/27/if-you-wanted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F27%2Fif-you-wanted.html" }, { "id": 2251, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s a building!\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-26 19:58:00 +0800", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Feb 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/26/its-a-building.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F26%2Fits-a-building.html" }, { "id": 2252, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our Studio Neat Mark One pens arrived today. The knock mechanism is rougher than I hoped but the ink flow is superb and it feels nice in the hand.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-25 20:13:22 +0800", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Feb 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/25/our-studio-neat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F25%2Four-studio-neat.html" }, { "id": 2253, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Point Walter sandbar.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-25 17:50:39 +0800", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Feb 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/25/point-walter-sandbar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F25%2Fpoint-walter-sandbar.html" }, { "id": 2254, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👍🏻 evening.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-25 01:56:52 +0800", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Feb 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/25/evening.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F25%2Fevening.html" }, { "id": 2255, "type": "post", "title": "Spending Annual Leave Wisely", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve got some annual leave time from work coming up. I\u0026rsquo;m not going away on a holiday. It\u0026rsquo;s going to be time spent at home supporting the family.\nDespite there being a lack of travel and adventure tied to this leave, I still need to make sure I construct a plan for the time. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to get to the end of it and be confronted with a return to work, only to realise I\u0026rsquo;ve wasted my leave not doing much besides noodling around on the computer for no meaningful outcome.\nA recent post from David Sparks about Intentionality aligns well with this thinking. I also like his idea of using a birthday as a personal annual review day. That\u0026rsquo;s clever. With my birthday being smack-bang in the middle of the year, it also can work as a half-year review.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-23 21:12:24 +0800", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Feb 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/23/spending-annual-leave.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F23%2Fspending-annual-leave.html" }, { "id": 2256, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I mean, come on!\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-22 23:53:03 +0800", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Feb 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/22/i-mean-come.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F22%2Fi-mean-come.html" }, { "id": 2257, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Selfie time!\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-21 21:09:03 +0800", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Feb 21, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/21/selfie-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F21%2Fselfie-time.html" }, { "id": 2258, "type": "post", "title": "Imposter Syndrome", "text": "I have a tendency to suffer Imposter Syndrome.\nAt times when it strikes, it\u0026#x2019;s important to remember that while your own knowledge seems obvious, other people don\u0026#x2019;t share your brain. As such, sharing your information can deliver genuine insight and help.\nThis is why, in TheBrain, I keep these two nodes linked.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-20 22:18:09 +0800", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Feb 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/20/imposter-syndrome.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F20%2Fimposter-syndrome.html" }, { "id": 2259, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@joshsullivan @jack Do you guys cut and paste your wttr weather updates into TiddlyWiki, or does it run within the page itself?\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-20 20:42:26 +0800", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Feb 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/20/joshsullivan-jack-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F20%2Fjoshsullivan-jack-do.html" }, { "id": 2260, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This episode of Reply All - The Founder - about Paul Le Roux is incredible. overcast.fm\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-18 21:12:10 +0800", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Feb 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/18/this-episode-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F18%2Fthis-episode-of.html" }, { "id": 2261, "type": "post", "title": "Kids Grow Fast", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;ve been cleaning up my hard drive, and came across this meme I generated a couple of years ago. This was my boy then. Now he\u0026#x2019;s 3 years old, looks different, and I wonder where the time went.\nI still think this is funny, though.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-18 06:17:38 +0800", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Feb 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/17/kids-grow-fast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F17%2Fkids-grow-fast.html" }, { "id": 2262, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nice day to shoot some hoops. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-16 20:17:46 +0800", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Feb 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/16/nice-day-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F16%2Fnice-day-to.html" }, { "id": 2263, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hit the basketball court today, after about 6 months of not even touching a ball. I actually had good shooting touch, but man, my back is sore! 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-16 19:33:10 +0800", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Feb 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/16/i-hit-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F16%2Fi-hit-the.html" }, { "id": 2264, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Digging into Notebooks app and discovering that it might be an excellent replacement for read it later services like Instapaper and Pocket. Being able to create a task list based on document counts is really interesting.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-15 23:29:32 +0800", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Feb 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/15/digging-into-notebooks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F15%2Fdigging-into-notebooks.html" }, { "id": 2265, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@joshsullivan I bought Notebooks for iOS today which you recommended earlier. Now I need to figure out a workflow/use case between it, Devonthink and TheBrain. Noting you use a similar stack of software it would be great to hear how you tie them all together.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-15 22:28:42 +0800", "date": "10:28 p.m. on Feb 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/15/joshsullivan-i-bought.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F15%2Fjoshsullivan-i-bought.html" }, { "id": 2266, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I discovered this podcast from 2016 featuring macdrifter talking DevonThink and a bit of Tinderbox.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-15 11:32:15 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Feb 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/15/i-discovered-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F15%2Fi-discovered-this.html" }, { "id": 2267, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m enjoying Travelers on Netflix. 🍿📺\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-14 21:38:45 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Feb 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/14/im-enjoying-travelers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F14%2Fim-enjoying-travelers.html" }, { "id": 2268, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Welcome @beck (Beck Tench) to micro.blog! It\u0026rsquo;s awesome to see you here. cc: @twelvety\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-14 08:33:03 +0800", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Feb 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/14/welcome-beck-beck.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F14%2Fwelcome-beck-beck.html" }, { "id": 2269, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This has been a great evening of futzing around with my computer and, of course, updating my wiki.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-12 22:30:03 +0800", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Feb 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/12/this-has-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F12%2Fthis-has-been.html" }, { "id": 2270, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Further to my question about app options for taking quick jots, I\u0026rsquo;ve compiled a summary of findings to date. Thanks to @cm @kaa @teisam @twelvety. I’m almost surprised I didn\u0026rsquo;t end up discovering Evernote (c.f Cortex podcast)\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-12 20:36:32 +0800", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Feb 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/12/further-to-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F12%2Ffurther-to-my.html" }, { "id": 2271, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What\u0026rsquo;s the best method to simulate “grab a scrap of paper and start writing” (such as jotting a number on a phone call, etc.) using a Mac? I have a million apps, and none seem right for this. DEVONthink has a jotter with kb shortcut, but the interface doesn\u0026rsquo;t feel right. Ideas?\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-12 14:00:27 +0800", "date": "2:00 p.m. on Feb 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/12/whats-the-best.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F12%2Fwhats-the-best.html" }, { "id": 2272, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m in my happy place.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-12 09:26:41 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Feb 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/12/im-in-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F12%2Fim-in-my.html" }, { "id": 2273, "type": "post", "title": "Zettelkasten", "text": "Putting this here as a method of recording the fact that the concept of zettelkasten and leveraging software to create an effective collection of zettels is taking up an unreasonable portion of my brain space.\nThe parallel problem is that there are too many intriguing options that offer possible solutions, and I can\u0026#x2019;t settle on one. Probably my wiki has been my most comprehensive effort, but I have also loved TheBrain. It is expensive, but the content stays private. Of course, there\u0026#x2019;s my old reliable DEVONthink. I\u0026#x2019;m hopeful that VoodooPad makes a great comeback, but there\u0026#x2019;s much radio silence from developer Plausible Labs. I had a look at Tinderbox, but as interesting as it looks, I don\u0026#x2019;t think I\u0026#x2019;ll end up working so well with that one.\nAt this stage, the wiki is free, but has editing friction. TheBrain is expensive, but is quick and fun to create visual links.\nAw man, I can\u0026#x2019;t decide nor settle.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-11 07:15:48 +0800", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Feb 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/10/zettelkasten.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F10%2Fzettelkasten.html" }, { "id": 2274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A winning situation: the family down the street have a kid the same age as ours. The kids now go to the same school and are becoming friends. The Dad visits today, and we have a conversation about Star Wars v Star Trek. My kind of neighbours!\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-10 22:56:46 +0800", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Feb 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/10/a-winning-situation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F10%2Fa-winning-situation.html" }, { "id": 2275, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@twelvety Can you convince me that I don\u0026rsquo;t need to start investigating Tinderbox?\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-10 12:50:34 +0800", "date": "12:50 p.m. on Feb 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/10/twelvety-can-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F10%2Ftwelvety-can-you.html" }, { "id": 2276, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m in a quandry about the beard I have grown. I\u0026rsquo;m getting slightly annoyed by it, but it represents months of investment that I will probably never undertake again, should I shave it off.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-10 08:13:46 +0800", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Feb 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/10/im-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F10%2Fim-in-a.html" }, { "id": 2277, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was an interesting thing to be doing some research, and then think, “Hmm, I\u0026rsquo;m sure @twelvety has written on that. Let me check his wiki.” And bang, there it is.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-09 20:09:11 +0800", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Feb 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/09/it-was-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F09%2Fit-was-an.html" }, { "id": 2278, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working from my second public library in one day. I love community resources.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-06 13:11:33 +0800", "date": "1:11 p.m. on Feb 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/06/working-from-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F06%2Fworking-from-my.html" }, { "id": 2279, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Office Space 20th anniversary: Behind the scenes of the cult classic\n The oral history of Office Space: Behind the scenes of the cult classic I have watched this movie more than any other in my life. ☕️\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-05 16:53:57 +0800", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Feb 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/05/office-space-th.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F05%2Foffice-space-th.html" }, { "id": 2280, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Adam Tinworth savages Mark Zuckerberg\u0026rsquo;s Facebook anniversary post.\n And what's important to us? Your data. Which we can monetize. Dumb fucks. Many, many truthbombs.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-05 16:28:21 +0800", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Feb 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/05/adam-tinworth-savages.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F05%2Fadam-tinworth-savages.html" }, { "id": 2281, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A pathetic zero content post because I can’t think of anything to say but want to keep my streak alive. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-04 22:38:49 +0800", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Feb 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/04/a-pathetic-zero.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F04%2Fa-pathetic-zero.html" }, { "id": 2282, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@jack I\u0026rsquo;ve had pi-hole running on my network for about 6 months. I love it!\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-04 10:45:20 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Feb 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/04/jack-ive-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F04%2Fjack-ive-had.html" }, { "id": 2283, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Let Year 2 begin. #firstdayofschool\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-03 22:03:32 +0800", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Feb 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/03/let-year-begin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F03%2Flet-year-begin.html" }, { "id": 2284, "type": "post", "title": "Roald Dahl's Work Environment", "text": "Roald Dahl’s books brought me hours of enjoyment when I was a child. There was little that could top the excitement of reading one of his books that would, of course, be illustrated by Quentin Blake. He created a world into which I could immerse myself, no matter how fantastical the setting might be.\nNow, via Jason Kottke, I\u0026rsquo;ve had an opportunity to see, in the video embedded below, the environment in which Dahl worked, and to him him speak of the mindset needed to create such amazing works of fiction.\n There are concepts arising in this video that have started to again be considered relevant in today’s modern world as being helpful in improving productivity and performance.\nHighlights from this short clip include:\n The need to immerse himself, for around 4 to 5 hours per day, in the work, and be away from other things. This reflects perfectly the concept of 'deep work' as recently brought into public consciousness by Cal Newport. It takes time, focus and the avoidance of distraction to reach a zone of high productivity. This place is rare in the modern workplace. Making time for extended periods of focus can represent a huge competitive advantage over the competition. The simplicity of the tools. No computers, typewriters, productivity methods. Just paper, pencil, a basic desk and a thermos of tea. The tools don't make the work. They are, however, customised to his needs. The necessity for play. Play is again considered relevant and useful in improving productivity and well-being. Dahl spends time with friends playing snooker on a regular — and scheduled — basis. I have no doubt it released stresses from his mind and left him fresh to focus on writing when it was time to do so. The smoking. Okay, so that was an unknown negative at the time. We're doing better on that count. ", "dateiso": "2019-02-03 15:18:04 +0800", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Feb 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/03/roald-dahls-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F03%2Froald-dahls-work.html" }, { "id": 2285, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When you go to the wrestling, it’s important to embrace the experience.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-02 22:53:01 +0800", "date": "10:53 p.m. on Feb 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/02/when-you-go.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F02%2Fwhen-you-go.html" }, { "id": 2286, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought Castro, but I think I\u0026rsquo;m going to be heading back to Overcast.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-02 13:02:51 +0800", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Feb 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/02/i-bought-castro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F02%2Fi-bought-castro.html" }, { "id": 2287, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@twelvety If it’s a hobby that you enjoy, don\u0026rsquo;t beat yourself up about it.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-02 12:13:28 +0800", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Feb 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/02/twelvety-if-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F02%2Ftwelvety-if-its.html" }, { "id": 2288, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m about two-thirds through the audiobook of Educated by Tara Westover. It is such an amazing, but heart-wrenching story. Incredible to think it is a memoir from our modern era.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-02 08:38:53 +0800", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Feb 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/02/im-about-twothirds.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F02%2Fim-about-twothirds.html" }, { "id": 2289, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Writing on a wiki seems easier than publishing a blog post. I feel a latent pressure for a blog post to be of a certain quality and style. A wiki is just continuous editing and improvement.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-01 20:55:37 +0800", "date": "8:55 p.m. on Feb 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/02/01/writing-on-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F02%2F01%2Fwriting-on-a.html" }, { "id": 2290, "type": "post", "title": "Owning Your Content", "text": "Social media is a vacuum, sucking up content by others and monetising it for themselves.\nWe don\u0026#x2019;t have to play that game. This is what the IndieWeb is about \u0026#x2014; having our content remain ours, not making money for poorly behaved mega-corps.\nPhil Nunnally on Ben Norris on owning your content expresses this well:\nPhil:\n The experience of owning the content here is sprawling to other ways I can own, refactor, and share more stuff that I used to keep to myself or surrender to others.\n Ben:\n I just resonate so much with the mission that Manton has, and his belief of the importance of owning our content, and being, in some ways, good stewards of ourselves and our thoughts and our creative output. Don\u0026#x2019;t give it to someone, don\u0026#x2019;t turn it over. Own it and keep it and make it available to share on your own terms.\n ", "dateiso": "2019-01-31 22:29:35 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Jan 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/31/owning-your-content.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F31%2Fowning-your-content.html" }, { "id": 2291, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the millions (and millions!) of fans tracking development of my wiki… I present to you\u0026hellip; an RSS feed! 🙏\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-31 21:42:38 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Jan 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/31/for-the-millions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F31%2Ffor-the-millions.html" }, { "id": 2292, "type": "post", "title": "Monthly Review — January 2019", "text": "In the first of what may \u0026#x2014; or may not \u0026#x2014; be a regular series, this is a review of my past month.\nWhat Went Well at Home? The first month of my self-anointed Year of Fun went well. I remembered the theme as I went about my days and it helped create a better attitude and a happier daily mood. Summer school holidays are almost done. Our family has survived intact which must be considered a win! A staycation weekend was a welcome reprieve for Hannah and I. We rarely get the opportunity to enjoy each other\u0026#x2019;s company without children, so this break was a blessing. What Went Well at Work? January is always a slow month for work. I managed to use the time effectively to ensure I\u0026#x2019;m not carrying forward a backlog into the rest of the year. Highlights A visit to Perth Observatory where we viewed the night sky. Our son had a ball. The Australia Day Fireworks were impressive. My Media Diet Watched the first two episodes Star Trek: Discovery, season 2. Already it is better than the inaugural season. Bohemian Rhapsody was an enjoyable movie that compelled my wife and I to play Queen music on the drive home. NBL basketball continues to bring me enjoyment. Reading Toll by Matt Gemmell. Listening to the audiobook of Educated by Tara Westover. My Passion Project Assessing and engaging with knowledge management software, notably TheBrain and my own DokuWiki. ", "dateiso": "2019-01-30 23:15:00 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jan 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/30/monthly-review-january.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F30%2Fmonthly-review-january.html" }, { "id": 2293, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I keep checking my friends’ Wikis to look for the latest updates. I think I’m addicted.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-30 18:18:24 +0800", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Jan 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/30/i-keep-checking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F30%2Fi-keep-checking.html" }, { "id": 2294, "type": "post", "title": "I’m a sucker for some visible infrastructure.", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;m a sucker for some visible infrastructure.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-30 04:45:54 +0800", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Jan 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/29/im-a-sucker.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F29%2Fim-a-sucker.html" }, { "id": 2295, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@twelvety I love your most recent wiki journal. Some cracking one-liners within!\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-29 21:13:35 +0800", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Jan 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/29/twelvety-i-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F29%2Ftwelvety-i-love.html" }, { "id": 2296, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After enjoying Vegemite for 40 years, the new ownership group have destroyed it by changing the texture. Today I bought the ripoff OzEmite and it\u0026rsquo;s more like Vegemite than Vegemite. Sad times for an Australian.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-29 18:02:41 +0800", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Jan 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/29/after-enjoying-vegemite.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F29%2Fafter-enjoying-vegemite.html" }, { "id": 2297, "type": "post", "title": "Journaling", "text": "Derek Sivers has published a post about journaling. This is a timely insight as I have been on a bent exploring tools for capturing my own thoughts, including the use of a personal wiki, DEVONthink and TheBrain.\nDerek says:\n For each subject that you might have ongoing thoughts about, start a separate \u0026#x201C;Thoughts On\u0026#x201D; journal.\n He goes on to explain:\n Sometimes I think I have a new thought on a subject, so I open up the file and write it down, then afterwards I see I had that same thought a year ago and had forgotten about it.\n This is a great use of a wiki, that can be tended to and developed. Each page can represent an idea which can be built upon over time, and it can cross-reference other online sources if need be.\nMy only problem is that while most of my thoughts can live comfortably in a wiki in the public domain, some probably shouldn\u0026#x2019;t. This leads me to a solution such as TheBrain, or more boringly, a text file.\nTheBrain excels at making the connections, but taking notes is its area of greatest weakness.\nI\u0026#x2019;ve used Day One for my regular journal for many years. While I\u0026#x2019;ve tried expanding its use into other areas of journaling, I forget that I\u0026#x2019;ve set them up, and so it hasn\u0026#x2019;t become a habit.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-29 04:54:00 +0800", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Jan 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/28/journaling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F28%2Fjournaling.html" }, { "id": 2298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now we’re talking!\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-28 11:25:55 +0800", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Jan 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/28/now-were-talking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F28%2Fnow-were-talking.html" }, { "id": 2299, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@twelvety You bought Tinderbox? Man, you are in deep. I look forward to hearing more about it. That is one app I’ve never quite understood.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-27 09:15:28 +0800", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Jan 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/27/twelvety-you-bought.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F27%2Ftwelvety-you-bought.html" }, { "id": 2300, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This season of Star Trek: Discovery is already better than the last.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-26 10:45:57 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Jan 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/26/this-season-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F26%2Fthis-season-of.html" }, { "id": 2301, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve spent a little time delving into a bit of economic theory today. It’s been so long since I’ve involved myself in that, it’s hard to believe that I hold a Bachelors degree in Economics. The achievement of that qualification was a long time ago.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-25 12:36:50 +0800", "date": "12:36 p.m. on Jan 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/25/ive-spent-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F25%2Five-spent-a.html" }, { "id": 2302, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am grateful for micro.blog. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to find people that share with me a similar Venn Diagram of interests, but through micro.blog I\u0026rsquo;ve surfaced a number of them. Thanks to @manton and @macgenie.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-25 08:29:37 +0800", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jan 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/25/i-am-grateful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F25%2Fi-am-grateful.html" }, { "id": 2303, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love this quote from @twelvety about the benefits of using a wiki:\n […]it’s like swirling hot chocolate around in a mug: By keeping everything visible and mixed in and active, the good stuff doesn’t settle to the bottom where it can’t be enjoyed. ", "dateiso": "2019-01-25 08:16:52 +0800", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Jan 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/25/i-love-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F25%2Fi-love-this.html" }, { "id": 2304, "type": "post", "title": "Reassurances", "text": "She looks out of the window, into the evening grey, and wonders where he went.\nThe wind was blowing. It added to her sense of foreboding, as she wondered when he would come back. Would he come back? Of course he would.\nBefore he left, he had mumbled something under his breath, something about there never being enough.\n\u0026#x2018;Enough what?,\u0026#x2019; she thought while continuing to gaze out of the window, trying to push her feelings of worry away.\nTheir relationship had always been rocky. Between the arguments there were periods of joy and laughter, but never enough. Recently, though, things between them had been good. Why would he leave? Why now?\nShe stood. Walking on bare feet through the too quiet house she arrived at their bedroom. It was as it had been that morning. The bed unmade. They only made the bed when guests were visiting. Despite her having slept alone the past two nights, this habit hadn\u0026#x2019;t changed.\nThe closet door was open, and it was full of his clothes.\nShe pulled open his chest of drawers. Underwear scattered through one of the drawers. Socks in another. Nothing missing. He wouldn\u0026#x2019;t leave behind all his things, surely. He didn\u0026#x2019;t have enough money to buy a new wardrobe of clothes.\nShe sat on the edge of the bed, the unmade blanket creating a slightly uncomfortable bulge beneath her thighs.\n\u0026#x2018;Why am I so worried that he won\u0026#x2019;t come back?,\u0026#x2019; she wondered. \u0026#x2018;He\u0026#x2019;s entitled to go out without telling me his movements. I\u0026#x2019;m being silly. He\u0026#x2019;ll be back soon enough.\u0026#x2019; She knew it was not a solid rationale.\nShe got up and walked to the lounge room. Turned on the television and switched to the 24-hour news channel.\n\u0026#x2018;If something terrible has happened, it would make the news,\u0026#x2019; she thought, despite knowing that if anything bad had happened, police would notify her probably before a newscast.\n\u0026#x2018;Never being enough\u0026#x2026;\u0026#x2019; What did he mean? What was he thinking?\nThe two days that had passed since he mumbled those words before walking out of the front door felt longer. \u0026#x2018;I should notify the police,\u0026#x2019; she told herself firmly, as if trying to will herself to take action. But that would be admitting there was a problem, that he might not be coming back, so she restrained herself from making the call.\nInstead of seeking help, she reassured herself by murmuring, over and over, \u0026#x2018;He\u0026#x2019;ll be back, he\u0026#x2019;ll be back. As soon as he has found enough, he\u0026#x2019;ll be back. I\u0026#x2019;m enough. He\u0026#x2019;ll be back.\u0026#x2019;\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-23 04:52:00 +0800", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Jan 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/22/reassurances.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F22%2Freassurances.html" }, { "id": 2305, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It appears that Fastmail have fixed my problem with Google Calendar invitations. It would be nice if they would reply to/close my support ticket. 🤷‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-22 16:40:02 +0800", "date": "4:40 p.m. on Jan 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/22/it-appears-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F22%2Fit-appears-that.html" }, { "id": 2306, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had the opportunity to visit Perth Observatory last night and look at stars, nebulae, the moon and other celestial bodies. I was taken by this control panel for a telescope that used to take images with glass plates.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-22 11:57:16 +0800", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Jan 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/22/i-had-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F22%2Fi-had-the.html" }, { "id": 2307, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had no idea about this aspect of Nepalese culture:\n She became a goddess at three years old, but when puberty hit, it was back to an anonymous life in the suburbs. via ABC News\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-20 08:00:01 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Jan 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/20/i-had-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F20%2Fi-had-no.html" }, { "id": 2308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Scouts Australia have rebranded. I like the story driving the brand redesign but I’m not completely convinced about the standalone logo.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-20 07:48:31 +0800", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Jan 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/20/scouts-australia-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F20%2Fscouts-australia-have.html" }, { "id": 2309, "type": "post", "title": "The Productivity Nerd’s Dilemma", "text": "This is the problem with being slightly obsessive about productivity and writing apps. Which one of the many similar apps is the best? Never mind that the definition of best is likely to change depending on need.\nNot even in this screenshot are Bear which I have a subscription for, and Agenda which I try from time to time!\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-20 00:32:17 +0800", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Jan 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/19/the-productivity-nerds.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2Fthe-productivity-nerds.html" }, { "id": 2310, "type": "post", "title": "Summer", "text": "It feels like summer has finally arrived. This morning was spent at Point Walter on the banks of the Swan River. We met with some old friends and ate sausages in a bun; a classic picnic favourite.\nMeanwhile, our two kids with their two kids paddled and played in the river.\nAs the day warmed up to around 37 degrees, it was time to get in from the suns rays. The rest of today has been spent relaxing quietly at home; as we wait for the cooling \u0026#x201C;Fremantle Doctor\u0026#x201D; afternoon breeze to bring some relief from the heat.\nThese are all elements of a traditional Perth summer day. The stuff from which childhood memories are made.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-19 23:14:05 +0800", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Jan 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/19/summer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2Fsummer.html" }, { "id": 2311, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yuzool Themes updated their Feed Stack for Rapidweaver. Now the RSS feed on my home page that shows my recent posts works once more. Goodo!\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-19 16:27:46 +0800", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Jan 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/19/yuzool-themes-updated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2Fyuzool-themes-updated.html" }, { "id": 2312, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just another day in Perth.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-19 10:25:05 +0800", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Jan 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/19/just-another-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2Fjust-another-day.html" }, { "id": 2313, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Loving the work of @fhlostonparadiseduo with @hannahbeazley4swan at @the_belmont_tavern\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-19 02:46:45 +0800", "date": "2:46 p.m. on Jan 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/19/loving-the-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F19%2Floving-the-work.html" }, { "id": 2314, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "To all those who told me to just suck it up and buy iA Writer on the Mac, I think you are right. I’ve used the demo for a couple of hours and it has made me forget about MultiMarkdown Composer.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-17 22:39:12 +0800", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Jan 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/17/to-all-those.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F17%2Fto-all-those.html" }, { "id": 2315, "type": "post", "title": "Australian Politics Is the Best", "text": "A fish kill of this scale from algal bloom is a serious issue.\nI give full credit to Jeremy Buckingham for bringing it to our attention in this way.\n ", "dateiso": "2019-01-15 20:39:55 +0800", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Jan 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/15/australian-politics-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F15%2Faustralian-politics-is.html" }, { "id": 2316, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "2009 v 2019: Italy v Staycation. #10yearchallenge #2009vs2019\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-15 07:06:16 +0800", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Jan 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/15/v-italy-v.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F15%2Fv-italy-v.html" }, { "id": 2317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Fastmail Account is not receiving calendar invitations sent to my custom domain from Google or iCloud. Office 365 invitations work. So far, I’ve been unimpressed with their support, which has gone downhill since my last experience. Am I going to have to change providers? 😫\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-14 23:33:29 +0800", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Jan 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/14/my-fastmail-account.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F14%2Fmy-fastmail-account.html" }, { "id": 2318, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I convinced my wife to use DEVONthink. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-14 19:25:58 +0800", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Jan 14, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/14/i-convinced-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F14%2Fi-convinced-my.html" }, { "id": 2319, "type": "post", "title": "Pi-Hole Really Is Fantastic", "text": "I\u0026#x2019;ve had Pi-Hole running on our home network for several months. It has been so reliable over this time that I have reached a point where I almost forget that it\u0026#x2019;s there.\nTaking a belt and suspenders approach, I also use 1Blocker on Mac and iOS.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-13 17:08:30 +0800", "date": "5:08 p.m. on Jan 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/13/pihole-really-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F13%2Fpihole-really-is.html" }, { "id": 2320, "type": "post", "title": "Phil Nunnally’s “Hotbrain” ➜", "text": " Sometimes, in meetings, I have to scribble down a non-work-related thought or question to hunt down later just to get it out of my head so I can pay attention to what\u0026#x2019;s going on in person.\n Phil nails the exact problem I have right now, as I trial using The Brain, consider how it fits into my existing usage of DEVONthink Pro, and consider whether I persist with my Wiki.\nIf the Australian dollar wasn\u0026#x2019;t so weak against the US dollar right now, I\u0026#x2019;d probably just purchase The Brain to relieve myself from the cogitation.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-12 23:15:11 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jan 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/12/phil-nunnallys-hotbrain.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F12%2Fphil-nunnallys-hotbrain.html" }, { "id": 2321, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ask Micro.blog: Does anybody know of text editors that support the Dokuwiki syntax? I\u0026rsquo;ve found Textastic and nothing else - not even BBEdit or Atom.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-12 19:17:57 +0800", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Jan 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/12/ask-microblog-does.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F12%2Fask-microblog-does.html" }, { "id": 2322, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pursuant to my theme of fun I am having a great time mucking about with my wiki!\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-10 21:10:02 +0800", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Jan 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/10/pursuant-to-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F10%2Fpursuant-to-my.html" }, { "id": 2323, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@twelvety Regarding your Plex server on Raspberry Pi, does yours connect to a NAS for the media? I’ve got a 3B+, but all my media is on an old QNAP NAS. I can’t figure out how to connect the Pi to the media drive over the network, so I have to keep Plex running on my MacBook.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-10 18:15:23 +0800", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Jan 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/10/twelvety-regarding-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F10%2Ftwelvety-regarding-your.html" }, { "id": 2324, "type": "post", "title": "2019 - Looking Ahead", "text": "I enjoy listening to the podcast, Cortex. CGP Grey approaches topics in a thoughtful way and Myke Hurley is a wonderful conversationalist. One of their tropes I enjoy is listening to them talk about their yearly \u0026#x2018;themes\u0026#x2019;. The two eschew New Year\u0026#x2019;s resolutions in favour of establishing a thematic target for their year ahead.\nOver the last few years I have played along, although historically I have tended to arrive at a handful of areas of focus, as opposed to a single theme.\nFor 2019 I wanted to simplify and be guided by a a single theme myself \u0026#x2014; no excuses.\nAfter some thought, I have determined that 2019 will be my \u0026#x201C;Year of Fun\u0026#x201D;.\nIn practical terms, this means that I want to find fun and enjoyment in everyday life. It doesn\u0026#x2019;t mean I\u0026#x2019;m going to engage party central each day of the week, but it does mean that I want to take a positive mindset into the day and find ways to maximise my enjoyment.\nI will concentrate on doing things I enjoy. I will carve out time for hobbies and recreation. I will sneak turns with my son\u0026#x2019;s new Nintendo Switch. I will enjoy conversations with both my boys. Even the boring things, I will try to embrace with a positive approach. It might be difficult to make ironing fun, but at least I can try not get depressed about having to do it.\nThere\u0026#x2019;s no doubt that this year will be defined by what happens in my wife\u0026#x2019;s life. This will create familial stress. It will make the kids anxious. What\u0026#x2019;s the best defence against stress? Laughter. Find the fun! I can take a positive mindset into this adventure and realise that it\u0026#x2019;s a unique and interesting journey, that few people have the opportunity to experience. So I shall live it to the fullest.\nBonus Round A further challenge I want to set myself, which is related to my year of fun, is to learn. I want to challenge my brain in new ways this year. I want to keep my grey matter in good order by pushing it to work through learning. I\u0026#x2019;m still thinking through some ideas as to what I want to set as my learning goals. I have a few ideas \u0026#x2014; nothing incredibly earth-shattering \u0026#x2014; that I think will be interesting to pursue.\nHow does learning relate to fun? It does because I think learning is fun. I like the feeling of having my mind enter a flow state, where it is engaged and concentrating on absorbing and synthesising new information.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-10 05:36:04 +0800", "date": "5:36 p.m. on Jan 10, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/09/looking-ahead.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F09%2Flooking-ahead.html" }, { "id": 2325, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It has been interesting to experiment with a constructing a personal wiki but I am sure that as a single user I am better served putting this information into DEVONthink. It is less fiddly and better able to bubble-up related information - but I can’t share the information. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-09 21:05:30 +0800", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Jan 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/09/it-has-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F09%2Fit-has-been.html" }, { "id": 2326, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After earlier discussion here on micro.blog I can report that I have paid for and switched to Castro for podcasts. I like its queue, but I don’t think its EQ is quite as good and I miss iPad support and multi-device sync. It looks great and operates well though.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-09 19:29:46 +0800", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Jan 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/09/after-earlier-discussion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F09%2Fafter-earlier-discussion.html" }, { "id": 2327, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Listening to @jack talk on the Micro Monday podcast about avoiding snow to date, while I sit by the resort pool. 😝\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-08 12:13:46 +0800", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Jan 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/08/listening-to-jack.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F08%2Flistening-to-jack.html" }, { "id": 2328, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got a couple of levels into Mario \u0026amp; Rabbids on the switch, before my son decided he needed to play.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-06 12:24:38 +0800", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Jan 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/06/i-got-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F06%2Fi-got-a.html" }, { "id": 2329, "type": "post", "title": "Jack Baty's Wiki", "text": "Jack Baty is a great member of the Indieweb community. He continually tinkers with online tools and services. His latest experiment is in publishing a wiki - specifically a TiddlyWiki instance he has set up at Rudimentary Lathe.\nJack\u0026#x2019;s enthusiasm has inspired me to throw up my own wiki to play around with\u0026#x2009;\u0026#x2014;\u0026#x2009;even though I have a local installation of DEVONthink that does a perfectly fine job of capturing and managing my knowledge and notes.\nI didn\u0026#x2019;t have a super quick and easy way to install TiddlyWiki on my web host, but I did have the option to one-click create a DokuWiki. So I\u0026#x2019;ve done that and published it at my domain.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-06 07:53:00 +0800", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Jan 6, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/05/jack-batys-wiki.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F05%2Fjack-batys-wiki.html" }, { "id": 2330, "type": "post", "title": "Federated Wiki Is a Strange Beast ➜", "text": "After seeing a micro.blog post by Frank McPherson about the Federated Wiki, I took a look at it.\nCreated by Ward Cunningham, who happens to be the inventor of the original wiki, the Federated Wiki system appears designed with a more fluid, attractive front-end, supported by the concept that each author should host their own content, rather than relying on a central \u0026#x2018;owner\u0026#x2019; of the content - who could go away and take your content with them.\nI get the ideal, but I find the implementation confusing. Despite its allure, I don\u0026#x2019;t think this system is for me.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-05 16:06:00 +0800", "date": "4:06 p.m. on Jan 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/05/federated-wiki-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F05%2Ffederated-wiki-is.html" }, { "id": 2331, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Summer sunshine. Out with @hannahbeazley4swan. Thanks for the hat, @yasmin_ivie\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-03 19:06:59 +0800", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Jan 3, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/03/summer-sunshine-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F03%2Fsummer-sunshine-out.html" }, { "id": 2332, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A quick test to ensure that in-line micro.blog names are working, thanks to @smokey.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-02 13:11:47 +0800", "date": "1:11 p.m. on Jan 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/02/a-quick-test.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F02%2Fa-quick-test.html" }, { "id": 2333, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m on a bit of a spirit quest to find my ideal Markdown editor on Mac. I\u0026rsquo;ve tried BBEdit, Typora, Multimarkdown Composer and Atom with plugins. What do others use?\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-02 12:31:00 +0800", "date": "12:31 p.m. on Jan 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/02/im-on-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F02%2Fim-on-a.html" }, { "id": 2334, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had a WordPress plugin or some other customisation that parsed micro.blog usernames. It now appears not to be working, but I can’t remember what it was in order to fix it!\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-01 17:28:25 +0800", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Jan 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/01/i-had-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F01%2Fi-had-a.html" }, { "id": 2335, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My thanks to @amit for helping me get @blot webmentions sorted.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-01 16:29:19 +0800", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Jan 1, 2019", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2019/01/01/my-thanks-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2019%2F01%2F01%2Fmy-thanks-to.html" }, { "id": 2336, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I keep forgetting to appropriately time stamp my Blot posts so they play nice in the micro.blog timeline. My 2018 Review - canion.me\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-31 15:39:56 +0800", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Dec 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/31/i-keep-forgetting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F31%2Fi-keep-forgetting.html" }, { "id": 2337, "type": "post", "title": "My 2018 Review", "text": "In recognition of the end of another year \u0026#x2014; 2018 being my 41st on our good planet Earth \u0026#x2014; this is a short retrospective on the major events that have impacted my life this year.\nThe year seemed to go by quickly. Off the top of my head, it\u0026#x2019;s hard to think of anything monumental that occurred. Reflecting upon my list below, it can be described as a year of optimisation. Nothing much new or novel; just me making what was already out there work a little better.\n\u0026#x1F912; Health Retired from basketball: I started playing when I was 9, now at 41 my body told me it was time to stop. Bad knees and ankles combined with a stiffening back all played their part, but it was the diagnosis of developmental hip dysplasia that ended it for me.\n Diagnosed with hip dysplasia: What started as a pulled hip muscle from a crazy effort to climb into the driver\u0026#x2019;s seat of a car from the passenger side escalated into diagnosed hip dysplasia that apparently I\u0026#x2019;ve had from birth. The medicos were incredulous that with the severity of my dysplasia, that I\u0026#x2019;ve never noticed it before now, nor had any major serious injuries. At least I now know why even as a kid I found it uncomfortable to sit cross-legged on the floor. Got semi-serious about gym \u0026#x2014; but not serious enough: With no basketball to fall back on for exercise, and the need to rehabilitate my hips I got serious about gym work for the first time in more than a decade. I still don\u0026#x2019;t love it, and I\u0026#x2019;ve lost some momentum in the back-end of this year. I need to establish a better structure for committing to it in 2019. \u0026#x1F6E0; Work Improved methods and systems: I reviewed and improved a large range of my work processes, which has made me more efficient, and it has freed up time to spend on the more creative elements of my work. This benefits me and my clients\n Improved automation: I don\u0026#x2019;t have a personal assistant, so I leverage the ability to create automations to make my work life easier.\n Director and Treasurer of a not-for-profit: There were some interesting challenges, and I grew in my ability to respond with confidence and self-assurance. \u0026#x1F468;\u0026#x200D;\u0026#x1F469;\u0026#x200D;\u0026#x1F466;\u0026#x200D;\u0026#x1F466; Family Made strides in autism management: My 7-year old has diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder. I have learnt much about coping with the challenges this brings. Politics: my wife is running to become a Member of Parliament in the 2019 Federal Election. This effort takes up a considerable amount of shared family time. \u0026#x1F939;\u0026#x1F3FB;\u0026#x200D;\u0026#x2642;\u0026#xFE0F; Hobbies Assessment of hobbies: I took the time to take stock of my hobbies. I\u0026#x2019;m not sure it delivered clear tangible results, but it grew my level of awareness about how I was spending my time. Elimination of social media: I deleted my Twitter account. I disengaged from Facebook. I won back a bunch of time, lost background anxiety, and have not missed them at all. A return to indieweb ideals: I\u0026#x2019;ve always been a fan of the traditional web. I have never given up on following individual sites through RSS. This year I engaged with micro.blog, started this blot site, and continued to maintain my homepage and blog regularly. Hearthstone: I became slightly addicted to this game despite being lazy about the deck-building element. I\u0026#x2019;m happy enough to play with random sets. I\u0026#x2019;m close to being over this game now, which I\u0026#x2019;m sure will please my wife.\n Audible books: After realising I wasn\u0026#x2019;t feeding my brain enough nutritional content, I took up an Audible subscription and have successfully worked through a range of fiction and non-fiction books. I never seem to have time to sit and read, but I can find time to listen to somebody read to me. Meditation: I continue to undertake mindfulness meditation on a semi-regular basis.\n Explosive Pro Wrestling: Ever since I was a kid I\u0026#x2019;ve loved wrestling. I watched WWF through the Hulk Hogan era, then WWE through its Attitude era. This year I discovered Perth\u0026#x2019;s own wrestling show, EPW. I took my boy to their end of year event, where we had ringside seats. I loved every second of it, as did he. It was so much fun to reconnect with a sport that I\u0026#x2019;ve always loved to watch. \u0026#x1F468;\u0026#x1F3FC;\u0026#x200D;\u0026#x1F4BB; Personal Indoor skydiving: Skydiving is not something I\u0026#x2019;ve wanted to do, but I did have an opportunity this year to participate in indoor skydiving. It was fun, but it lacked the heart-stopping exhilaration that I\u0026#x2019;m sure jumping out from a plane would deliver.\n Vacations: Yallingup \u0026#x2014; a rainy pre-winter break in WA\u0026#x2019;s beautiful south-west. Bridgetown \u0026#x2014; a great chance to stay with my best mate at his farm.\n Bali \u0026#x2014; champagne taste on a beer budget. Jurien Bay \u0026#x2014; creating sand and sun summer holiday memories for our kids. Grew a beard: I\u0026#x2019;ve grown a beard once before in my life. The one I have now is longer than that the previous one. This is unchartered territory. ", "dateiso": "2018-12-31 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Dec 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/31/my-review.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F31%2Fmy-review.html" }, { "id": 2338, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just overheard my 7 year old boy explaining how a payday loan company that is advertising on TV is a bad thing. He said they give you money but then you have to give them thousands more back later. Parenting win!\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-29 08:11:12 +0800", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Dec 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/29/i-just-overheard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F29%2Fi-just-overheard.html" }, { "id": 2339, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-12-28 17:56:05 +0800", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Dec 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/28/175605.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F28%2F175605.html" }, { "id": 2340, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The boy received a Nintendo Switch for Christmas. Dad approves of Super Mario Odyssey.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-26 14:49:42 +0800", "date": "2:49 p.m. on Dec 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/26/the-boy-received.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F26%2Fthe-boy-received.html" }, { "id": 2341, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Boxing Day in Western Australia and it’s overcast and not hot. What an outrage. I want my money back.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-26 08:31:12 +0800", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Dec 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/26/boxing-day-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F26%2Fboxing-day-in.html" }, { "id": 2342, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Merry Christmas micro.blog friends!\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-25 10:31:18 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Dec 25, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/25/merry-christmas-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F25%2Fmerry-christmas-microblog.html" }, { "id": 2343, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "10:30am. Already tuckered out.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-24 18:38:00 +0800", "date": "6:38 p.m. on Dec 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/24/am-already-tuckered.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F24%2Fam-already-tuckered.html" }, { "id": 2344, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is frightening. Even should the tower be declared safe (and I don’t think it will be) who would live in it now? Sydney Opal Tower apartment building evacuated after reports of cracking noises - ABC News\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-24 17:34:21 +0800", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Dec 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/24/this-is-frightening.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F24%2Fthis-is-frightening.html" }, { "id": 2345, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been an Overcast user since it launched, but feeling a little bored by it. Wondering if Castro might be worth a try. Do people have thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-24 14:30:39 +0800", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Dec 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/24/ive-been-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F24%2Five-been-an.html" }, { "id": 2346, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Living the holiday dream.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-23 22:58:15 +0800", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Dec 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/23/living-the-holiday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F23%2Fliving-the-holiday.html" }, { "id": 2347, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Onward!\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-22 01:24:56 +0800", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Dec 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/22/onward.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F22%2Fonward.html" }, { "id": 2348, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not a bad place to be.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-22 01:24:06 +0800", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Dec 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/22/not-a-bad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F22%2Fnot-a-bad.html" }, { "id": 2349, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I miss playing basketball 🏀. I was good at it and now I’m just old and decrepit.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-21 21:59:18 +0800", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Dec 21, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/21/i-miss-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F21%2Fi-miss-playing.html" }, { "id": 2350, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m getting itchy to restructure my web properties. Trying to sort out how best to use my website, Wordpress blog, Blot blog and Micro.blog in a way that makes sense and plays to each of their strengths.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-21 16:41:37 +0800", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Dec 21, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/21/im-getting-itchy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F21%2Fim-getting-itchy.html" }, { "id": 2351, "type": "post", "title": "V8 Day", "text": "V8day\nIt\u0026#x2019;s difficult to be a fast driver when it\u0026#x2019;s been a decade since the last time you\u0026#x2019;ve driven a manual transmission car.\nThat\u0026#x2019;s my excuse and I\u0026#x2019;m sticking with it.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-21 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Dec 21, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/21/v-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F21%2Fv-day.html" }, { "id": 2352, "type": "post", "title": "In Customer Service, Genuine Interactions Matter", "text": "Our family recently travelled to Bali for a holiday break. It was a week of relaxation at the tail end of a year that has been pretty crazy, and a 2019 that we expect will be even more hectic.\nWhen you travel with kids, conversations can move in varied and interesting directions. Our 7-year old boy took a particular interest in the toilets that were installed throughout the hotel we were staying. The brand — TOTO — is one seen all over the world, but less so in Australia. He was enthralled by the features: from automatic flushing with infrared sensors, to in-built bidets. Even the design of the loos was novel to him. He was fascinated. Next he realised that TOTO had also been responsible for the all of the tapware as well. Incredible!\nAs a responsible Dad, I kept the toilet banter going, egging him on to explain to me further what he loved about them. I tried to add some interesting educational angles as well. I suggested that as a Japanese company, TOTO probably took great care in their manufacturing processes. I explained how Japan was the cradle of modern manufacturing methods, and how the Toyota Production System changed the world. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure he bought into my lesson on lean thinking, though. I will have to try again in the future.\nOver the length of our stay, our conversations escalated to the point where I suggested we contact TOTO directly to let them know what great work they were doing with their toilet design. He took to that idea! So we did it. My son wrote an email to TOTO Customer Service, noting how impressed he was with their toilets, and expressing his desire to have them installed in our house as well.\nI figured that would be the end of it. I didn\u0026rsquo;t expect to hear back, or if we did, I assumed it would be a boilerplate response. After a few days, we did in fact receive a reply, and it was a wonderful, personal email from TOTO’s Senior Manager of Customer Service. In the email, she expressed gratitude for my son\u0026rsquo;s kind words, and also offered to send him some tokens of appreciation if we could provide our mailing details.\nWe replied, and for fun, included a photo of David and I enjoying ourselves in Bali. A few more conversational emails bounced back and forth between TOTO and ourselves, and they asked if we could send a photo of David with his items once they arrived.\nWithin the next few week, we received an express mailed package from TOTO in Atlanta, to us in Perth, Australia. Just this concept alone was enough to blow my son’s mind. As promised, we sent another photo back with David holding onto the gifts he had been sent, and this was acknowledged by TOTO with thanks. I see two key lessons in all of this:\n Always embrace crazy conversations with your kids. They’re fun, and you never know where they might end up. Genuine customer service — not selling — is the key to building great brand equity. I might never buy a TOTO toilet. My son might never buy a TOTO toilet. But I think both of us will be TOTO brand ambassadors from this point forward. Not because we were sent some trinkets, but because we had a genuine human interaction. We connected with a person who was obviously engaged enough in their own job to engage positively with us. If that employee is happy, then the company must have something going for it, and that’s the kind of company I want to see succeed. From a business perspective, customer service shouldn’t be about hitting sales targets or avoiding bad press. It should be about working to have people care about your brand. So thanks TOTO, for bringing fun and joy to me and my son’s lives, and for making sure this particular Bali holiday will have a very strange and unique anchor memory.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-20 20:46:37 +0800", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Dec 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/20/in-customer-service.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F20%2Fin-customer-service.html" }, { "id": 2353, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With the help of Be Focused I cranked out the Pomodoro sessions today. Achieved everything I wanted to, and more. It’s satisfying to end the day with a high productivity quotient.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-19 19:09:00 +0800", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Dec 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/19/with-the-help.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F19%2Fwith-the-help.html" }, { "id": 2354, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Best Santa ever.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-18 21:04:32 +0800", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Dec 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/18/best-santa-ever.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F18%2Fbest-santa-ever.html" }, { "id": 2355, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m experimenting to see if I can eliminate my use of Bear, moving its notes into DEVONthink Pro. This would save me a subscription charge and lessen the “within which app did I save that information?” problem.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-15 23:19:15 +0800", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Dec 15, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/15/im-experimenting-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F15%2Fim-experimenting-to.html" }, { "id": 2356, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would love for one of my micro.blog followers to take advantage of my Backblaze coupon. You get a month free. I\u0026rsquo;ve been a happy customer for a couple of years now.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-12 14:26:44 +0800", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Dec 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/12/i-would-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F12%2Fi-would-love.html" }, { "id": 2357, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trevor Noah is one funny man. His “Son of Patricia” show on Netflix is great.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-04 21:16:09 +0800", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Dec 4, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/04/trevor-noah-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F04%2Ftrevor-noah-is.html" }, { "id": 2358, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve done my bit for quality journalism: I bought an annual subscription to Crikey plus their bonus offering at the moment: 3-month subscriptions to The Monthly and The Saturday Paper.\n", "dateiso": "2018-12-01 19:30:36 +0800", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Dec 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/12/01/ive-done-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F12%2F01%2Five-done-my.html" }, { "id": 2359, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-11-24 14:47:31 +0800", "date": "2:47 p.m. on Nov 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/24/144731.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F24%2F144731.html" }, { "id": 2360, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Work has generously provided me with a Linkedin Learning (formerly Lynda) account. So now, on what should I educate myself?\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-22 22:12:28 +0800", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Nov 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/22/work-has-generously.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F22%2Fwork-has-generously.html" }, { "id": 2361, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When your kid gets hold of your phone.\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-13 05:47:40 +0800", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Nov 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/13/when-your-kid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F13%2Fwhen-your-kid.html" }, { "id": 2362, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Workout complete. #fatfit\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-11 16:22:51 +0800", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Nov 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/11/workout-complete-fatfit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F11%2Fworkout-complete-fatfit.html" }, { "id": 2363, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Durham’s $1 Million Plan to ‘Nudge’ Drivers Out of Cars\n “This is simply giving you the opportunity to make a different choice,” he said. “Feel free to make any choice you want.” Behavioural Economics in action.\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-10 20:11:56 +0800", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Nov 10, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/10/durhams-million-plan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F10%2Fdurhams-million-plan.html" }, { "id": 2364, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had the opportunity to tour Google’s Sydney HQ today. An interesting environment, but not one I’d enjoy working in day in, day out.\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-08 20:09:12 +0800", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Nov 8, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/08/i-had-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F08%2Fi-had-the.html" }, { "id": 2365, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A nice place to have a beer today.\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-08 06:41:38 +0800", "date": "6:41 p.m. on Nov 8, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/08/a-nice-place.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F08%2Fa-nice-place.html" }, { "id": 2366, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I ran the thought experiment as to which new Apple computer I would buy to replace my 2013 MacBook Pro. End result: wait for the next release of the iMac which will feature a T2 chip amongst its upgrades, and use my current iPad Pro as my laptop.\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-06 22:14:51 +0800", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Nov 6, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/06/i-ran-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F06%2Fi-ran-the.html" }, { "id": 2367, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "EPW Wrestling! Let’s go!\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-03 19:22:20 +0800", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Nov 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/03/epw-wrestling-lets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F03%2Fepw-wrestling-lets.html" }, { "id": 2368, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using my iPhone 8+ with a Microsoft foldable keyboard at a coffee shop, writing in Ulysses, is an extremely pleasant way of working.\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-02 09:36:44 +0800", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Nov 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/02/using-my-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F02%2Fusing-my-iphone.html" }, { "id": 2369, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pi-Hole is doing good work blocking ads on my home network.\n", "dateiso": "2018-11-01 14:38:57 +0800", "date": "2:38 p.m. on Nov 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/11/01/pihole-is-doing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F11%2F01%2Fpihole-is-doing.html" }, { "id": 2370, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Zombie!\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-31 17:44:18 +0800", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Oct 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/31/zombie.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F31%2Fzombie.html" }, { "id": 2371, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton was outstanding. I listened on Audible and both the story and the performance were brilliant. A must read.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-31 14:35:45 +0800", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Oct 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/31/boy-swallows-universe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F31%2Fboy-swallows-universe.html" }, { "id": 2372, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My first Raspberry Pi project has been successful. I’ve got Pi-Hole running as a network-level ad blocker benefiting every device on my network while also having my Google WiFi pucks apply their ‘adult site’ blocking.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-30 20:53:54 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Oct 30, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/30/my-first-raspberry.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F30%2Fmy-first-raspberry.html" }, { "id": 2373, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the joys of having a good ol’ southern boy with us - he makes a mean sweet tea!\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-30 04:11:26 +0800", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Oct 30, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/30/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F30%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2374, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s Raspberry Pi night. Mine arrived today. Soon as the kids are in bed, I get to have a play.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-29 19:53:31 +0800", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Oct 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/29/its-raspberry-pi.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F29%2Fits-raspberry-pi.html" }, { "id": 2375, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve finally got my CV on my website displayed in a timeline format that I have long wanted.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-25 21:35:51 +0800", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Oct 25, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/25/ive-finally-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F25%2Five-finally-got.html" }, { "id": 2376, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I simplified my home page on the Internet. These changes always take more time to complete than anticipated.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-25 14:41:22 +0800", "date": "2:41 p.m. on Oct 25, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/25/today-i-simplified.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F25%2Ftoday-i-simplified.html" }, { "id": 2377, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seeya Bali. Benji out!\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-23 03:52:13 +0800", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Oct 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/23/seeya-bali-benji.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F23%2Fseeya-bali-benji.html" }, { "id": 2378, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just managing to cope.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-22 00:47:07 +0800", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Oct 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/22/just-managing-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F22%2Fjust-managing-to.html" }, { "id": 2379, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I took the boy jet skiing today. I thought we would be driven around, right up until the driver got off and told me how to start it. 15 minutes later I’m a jet ski pro! Got to love Bali.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-21 21:17:56 +0800", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Oct 21, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/21/i-took-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F21%2Fi-took-the.html" }, { "id": 2380, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This Bali holiday is just what I needed. Relaxation, swimming, massage, sleep. All things I’ve been short on in my real life.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-20 08:27:26 +0800", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Oct 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/20/this-bali-holiday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F20%2Fthis-bali-holiday.html" }, { "id": 2381, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The face of a champion.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-20 02:45:48 +0800", "date": "2:45 p.m. on Oct 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/20/the-face-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F20%2Fthe-face-of.html" }, { "id": 2382, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another day, another pizza.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-20 02:25:00 +0800", "date": "2:25 p.m. on Oct 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/20/another-day-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F20%2Fanother-day-another.html" }, { "id": 2383, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday we met a lovely family who also had two boys of similar ages to ours. The four kids played for hours. They were nice enough to take a photo so all four us could be in it.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-18 16:07:26 +0800", "date": "4:07 p.m. on Oct 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/18/yesterday-we-met.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F18%2Fyesterday-we-met.html" }, { "id": 2384, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Juice is “delicious”.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-17 18:32:43 +0800", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Oct 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/17/apple-juice-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F17%2Fapple-juice-is.html" }, { "id": 2385, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not bad at all.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-17 17:28:39 +0800", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Oct 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/17/not-bad-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F17%2Fnot-bad-at.html" }, { "id": 2386, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Travelling in Indonesia so I’ve got the TunnelBear VPN cranking. It’s a solid product.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-16 13:32:58 +0800", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Oct 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/16/travelling-in-indonesia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F16%2Ftravelling-in-indonesia.html" }, { "id": 2387, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Travelling companion.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-15 16:23:37 +0800", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Oct 15, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/15/travelling-companion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F15%2Ftravelling-companion.html" }, { "id": 2388, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Springtime has arrived.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-14 22:10:15 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Oct 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/14/springtime-has-arrived.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F14%2Fspringtime-has-arrived.html" }, { "id": 2389, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve just got my Indieweb on and got OwnYourGram set up, so Instagram posts now get cross-posted to my website.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 21:36:21 +0800", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/13/ive-just-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Five-just-got.html" }, { "id": 2390, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a post being made through Quill, after signing in via an Indieweb authorisation. ", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 21:06:38 +0800", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/13/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 2391, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Investors’ cash drained for big Bux lifestyles | The West Australian\n Withdrawal after withdrawal of other people’s investments channelled from a pool of up to $100 million raised in the name of a money transfer phone application that went nowhere. It amazes me how consistently people fall for those scams.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 09:13:57 +0800", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/13/investors-cash-drained.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Finvestors-cash-drained.html" }, { "id": 2392, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Klaus has done it again at his new Productivity Tips site - this one is an amazing Workflow to help fling files into DEVONthink.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-12 21:23:24 +0800", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Oct 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/12/klaus-has-done.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F12%2Fklaus-has-done.html" }, { "id": 2393, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have successfully guided myself into 2 weeks of holiday time with nothing appearing in my OmniFocus forecast for the entire period of my break. Planning victory!\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-12 16:19:05 +0800", "date": "4:19 p.m. on Oct 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/12/i-have-successfully.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F12%2Fi-have-successfully.html" }, { "id": 2394, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s great to have NBL basketball back. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-11 19:29:04 +0800", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Oct 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/11/its-great-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F11%2Fits-great-to.html" }, { "id": 2395, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lunch. #straya\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-10 20:58:10 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Oct 10, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/10/lunch-straya.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F10%2Flunch-straya.html" }, { "id": 2396, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI’m Qi-charge enabled now.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-10 08:37:36 +0800", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Oct 10, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/10/im-qicharge-enabled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F10%2Fim-qicharge-enabled.html" }, { "id": 2397, "type": "post", "title": "The Blot/Microblog Community", "text": "This website is powered by Blot.im.\nI also have an account at micro.blog. Those posts originate from my Wordpress instance running on my \u0026#x201C;main\u0026#x201D; site, andrewcanion.com.\nI like having this blot site, with my thinking being that it\u0026#x2019;s for random ephemera and other bits and bobs that aren\u0026#x2019;t as \u0026#x201C;important\u0026#x201D; as those posted on my \u0026#x201C;proper\u0026#x201D; blog.1\nOn a whim, I reached out to the Micro.blog community (at least that part of the community that I have connections with) in an attempt to find others who also have Blot-hosted sites. I wanted to see what others are doing with theirs.\nThis led to an interesting conversation, with some great nuggets of information shared around. The award, however, has to go to John Philpin for his compiled list of users and their sites.\nIt\u0026#x2019;s this kind of co-operation amongst strangers that makes the internet fun again.\n All these air quotes are a bit ridiculous, really.\u0026#x21A9;\u0026#xFE0E;\n ", "dateiso": "2018-10-09 23:55:05 +0800", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Oct 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/09/the-blotmicroblog-community.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F09%2Fthe-blotmicroblog-community.html" }, { "id": 2398, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ask Micro.blog: Is there an effective way to find sites running on blot.im infrastructure?\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-08 21:30:45 +0800", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Oct 8, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/08/ask-microblog-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F08%2Fask-microblog-is.html" }, { "id": 2399, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "getting paperless in sales part one\nAn interesting combination of Siri Shortcuts with DEVONthink and Airmail.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-07 10:44:55 +0800", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Oct 7, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/07/getting-paperless-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F07%2Fgetting-paperless-in.html" }, { "id": 2400, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I watched Baby Driver. I didn’t love it.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-05 22:55:11 +0800", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Oct 5, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/05/i-watched-baby.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F05%2Fi-watched-baby.html" }, { "id": 2401, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In macOS Mojave I\u0026rsquo;ve built a macro using Keyboard Maestro to automatically switch between Light and Dark modes for day and night, respectively, since Apple failed to incorporate that obvious feature themselves.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-01 21:09:37 +0800", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Oct 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/10/01/in-macos-mojave.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F10%2F01%2Fin-macos-mojave.html" }, { "id": 2402, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Matt Langford - Shortcut for micro.blog link posts\n here is a shortcut that will help in sharing link posts to micro.blog Running this Shortcut script as a test.\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-29 17:46:54 +0800", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Sep 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/29/matt-langford-shortcut.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F29%2Fmatt-langford-shortcut.html" }, { "id": 2403, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m looking forward to the NBL v NBA games coming up this week. Such a shame my Perth Wildcats will be without their starting centre, Angus Brandt. We needed that unit, who has a build like Aaron Baynes. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-25 19:34:07 +0800", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Sep 25, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/25/im-looking-forward.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F25%2Fim-looking-forward.html" }, { "id": 2404, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Royal Show!\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-22 04:44:40 +0800", "date": "4:44 p.m. on Sep 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/22/royal-show.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F22%2Froyal-show.html" }, { "id": 2405, "type": "post", "title": "A Successful Day at the Office", "text": "It was great to be able to provide business advice and support to an iconic Perth business - Scott Print, as part of my work as a Business Adviser with the Entrepreneurs' Programme.\n\\ An article detailing the work we did together, and their experience as a customer, is also available.\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-19 10:27:21 +0800", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Sep 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/19/a-successful-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F19%2Fa-successful-day.html" }, { "id": 2406, "type": "post", "title": "Success at the Day Job", "text": "It was great to be able to provide business advice and support to an iconic Perth business - Scott Print, as part of my day job.\n An article about the work we did together as part of the Government\u0026#x2019;s Entrepreneurs\u0026#x2019; Programme is also available.\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-19 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Sep 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/19/success-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F19%2Fsuccess-at-the.html" }, { "id": 2407, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love operating system update day. Beforehand, I’m all like, “I’ll wait a few days to avoid any zero-day risks”. Then on release morning I rush around in a giddy haze updating all the things.\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-18 19:15:09 +0800", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Sep 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/18/i-love-operating.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F18%2Fi-love-operating.html" }, { "id": 2408, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nBeer at Petition, Perth.\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-16 13:18:54 +0800", "date": "1:18 p.m. on Sep 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/16/beer-at-petition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F16%2Fbeer-at-petition.html" }, { "id": 2409, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ben Thompson really smashes it out of the park with this analysis at stratechery.com. So well written, and so accurate. It’s always more profitable to be a shareholder than a customer.\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-13 22:41:58 +0800", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Sep 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/13/ben-thompson-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F13%2Fben-thompson-really.html" }, { "id": 2410, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My iPhone 8 Plus Product(Red) is still nice and new to me. I have no desire or need to upgrade to an iPhone X variant. My wife, on the other hand, who is still rocking the iPhone 6S might be interested!\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-13 18:19:56 +0800", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Sep 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/13/my-iphone-plus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F13%2Fmy-iphone-plus.html" }, { "id": 2411, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m addicted to Hearthstone. Are there any players in the micro.blog community?\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-06 23:05:46 +0800", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Sep 6, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/06/im-addicted-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F06%2Fim-addicted-to.html" }, { "id": 2412, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have bought a licence for BusyContacts, so I expect it will now be made available on Setapp any moment now…\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-03 22:28:14 +0800", "date": "10:28 p.m. on Sep 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/03/i-have-bought.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F03%2Fi-have-bought.html" }, { "id": 2413, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I played a few levels of Starcraft tonight. Been about 20 years since my last game and I still remembered it perfectly. Took me back to the days of LAN parties.\n", "dateiso": "2018-09-01 23:11:52 +0800", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Sep 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/09/01/i-played-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F09%2F01%2Fi-played-a.html" }, { "id": 2414, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have to give credit to @manton and @macgenie - I think micro.blog is the nicest, most value-additive internet community I’ve ever been a part of. They have established a great culture.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-29 23:29:26 +0800", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Aug 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/29/i-have-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F29%2Fi-have-to.html" }, { "id": 2415, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve hardly used Lightroom this year, but after trialling the photo apps in Setapp, I think I\u0026rsquo;m going to stick with it Creative Cloud for another year.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-29 13:59:18 +0800", "date": "1:59 p.m. on Aug 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/29/ive-hardly-used.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F29%2Five-hardly-used.html" }, { "id": 2416, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Design is everywhere. www.washingtonpost.com\n The Washington Post: Why your favorite bench might be there to thwart a terrorist attack ", "dateiso": "2018-08-29 08:38:42 +0800", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Aug 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/29/design-is-everywhere.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F29%2Fdesign-is-everywhere.html" }, { "id": 2417, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can’t get a good Dropbox workflow for writing in iA Writer. I keep going back to Byword because of its simple integration with Dropbox. The iA Writer approach of using the Files interface is just too clunky.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-28 11:45:08 +0800", "date": "11:45 p.m. on Aug 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/28/i-cant-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F28%2Fi-cant-get.html" }, { "id": 2418, "type": "post", "title": "Allowance for Ynab ➜", "text": "This iOS app, Allowance, is the first application I have seen using the new YNAB API. It\u0026#x2019;s quite a helpful little app, just bringing front and centre a small selection of budget categories.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-28 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Aug 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/28/allowance-for-ynab.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F28%2Fallowance-for-ynab.html" }, { "id": 2419, "type": "post", "title": "Don’t Be an Ugly Parent", "text": "I am impressed with Mark Dickel\u0026#x2019;s take on how parents should behave when engaging with their children\u0026#x2019;s sport.\n \u0026#x201C;I love watching you play.\u0026#x201D;\n This is what I now say to my kids after every game I watch them play.\n I do not critique their play or discuss the game with them. Or talk with them about who played well or how many points they scored. Only \u0026#x201C;I love watching you play\u0026#x201D;.\n When I was taking my boy to Aussie Hoops - a basketball skills program for little kids starting out - there were already parents \u0026#x201C;coaching\u0026#x201D; from the sidelines.\nJust let kids have fun.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-28 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Aug 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/28/dont-be-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F28%2Fdont-be-an.html" }, { "id": 2420, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mission Impossible: Fallout ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ boxd.it\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-24 22:52:07 +0800", "date": "10:52 p.m. on Aug 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/24/225207.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F24%2F225207.html" }, { "id": 2421, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mission Impossible: Fallout is a great movie. So much fun.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-24 20:57:31 +0800", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Aug 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/24/mission-impossible-fallout.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F24%2Fmission-impossible-fallout.html" }, { "id": 2422, "type": "post", "title": "library guy", "text": "library guy\nProps to this guy who showed up at the library this morning and ripped out a thermos, coffee mug, an old laptop and - best of all - a huge external clacky keyboard.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-24 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Aug 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/24/library-guy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F24%2Flibrary-guy.html" }, { "id": 2423, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mission Impossible: Fallout was awesome. Now enjoying a post movie 🍺\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-24 05:55:42 +0800", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Aug 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/24/055542.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F24%2F055542.html" }, { "id": 2424, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The other day I signed up for Audible. 25 years ago while delivering pizza for a job, books on cassette tape were my sanity. Now I’m going to rebalance my listening: reduce podcasts and increase books.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-23 22:51:45 +0800", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Aug 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/23/the-other-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F23%2Fthe-other-day.html" }, { "id": 2425, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m having some fun on Mastodon. Interacting with people I would never have come across on any other social network.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-23 22:42:51 +0800", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Aug 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/23/im-having-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F23%2Fim-having-some.html" }, { "id": 2426, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This dude has brought a thermos, an old laptop and a giant external clacky keyboard to the library. He is ready to rock and roll.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-23 18:04:47 +0800", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Aug 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/23/this-dude-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F23%2Fthis-dude-has.html" }, { "id": 2427, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two peas in a pod.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-23 04:53:38 +0800", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Aug 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/23/two-peas-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F23%2Ftwo-peas-in.html" }, { "id": 2428, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hi @potatowire! Great to see you here.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-22 21:29:06 +0800", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Aug 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/22/hi-potatowire-great.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F22%2Fhi-potatowire-great.html" }, { "id": 2429, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve just set up an account on a Mastodon instance. It feels much more like Twitter than micro.blog. That\u0026rsquo;s not a knock on micro.blog which I see more as being a social RSS reader.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-22 14:15:46 +0800", "date": "2:15 p.m. on Aug 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/22/ive-just-set.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F22%2Five-just-set.html" }, { "id": 2430, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just finished the book Changer by @mattgemmell. A really fun read!\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-21 21:42:00 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Aug 21, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/21/i-just-finished.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F21%2Fi-just-finished.html" }, { "id": 2431, "type": "post", "title": "Personal Finance Should be Part of Core Education", "text": "I believe personal finance should be a core subject taught to our children at school. We should teach how to manage and budget money, the concepts of savings and compound interest, and the risks of credit and deferred payment. Finance and money management education should be threaded through each year of schooling. I think it would offer more practical value - and a better return on investment - than some of the traditional subjects taught.\nAn opinion piece in The Age by Liora Miller, “Is PayPass the enemy of the young?” reflects on some of the risks of tap and go payments, especially for young people.\n Australian Tax Office research this year reveals that only one in five Australians still prefer using cash for purchases. Last week I bought lunch from a sandwich shop. I paid with cash. The look of surprise on the server’s face was clear; to the point where we both made a joke about the rarity of somebody paying with ‘real money’ as opposed to PayPass tap and go. In Australia, tap and go is essentially the default.\n Cash use in Australia has fallen by a third in a period of six years. That’s about how long tap and go transactions have been available, and I would think the next third of cash usage will decline more rapidly than another six years.\nWhen I use tap and go, I take the extra step of entering the transaction into YNAB on my phone. YNAB’s direct bank import features don’t work with Australian banks but I consider that a feature because entering each transaction keeps me connected to my money and my budget. I recognise, however, that I’m an outlier. Most people are not taking a similar extra step - it’s spend and forget.\n A cashless society in the near future appears to be an inevitability. We need to focus on ensuring young people understand the implications of deferred payment. This is the key point of the article, but unfortunately, Miller fails to suggest how this might happen. This brings us back to my initial premise: that we as a society need to get serious about financial literacy.\nI am Treasurer and Director of Midlas, a not-for-profit organisation that offers financial counselling as one of its key community support services. The government provides funding support to enable Midlas to offer this service. Yet demand is outpacing supply, and this is a common refrain across all the providers of financial counselling.\nAs great as it is that government provides financial support to assist organisations such as Midlas help people in financial stress, the policy settings are wrong. Just like medicine, where spending on prevention is cheaper and more effective than spending on a cure, spending on financial education would be more effective and deliver greater good than spending on help after the damage is done. Avoiding financial stress would lessen the prevalence of issues that often stem from financial stress, such as illness and poor mental health, relationship damage, homelessness, and drug and alcohol abuse. Not only would this benefit the individual but it would help broader society who share the negative impact of these societal problems.\nThrough us, the government needs to get serious about teaching our kids about personal finance and money management. The growth of tap and go is a lead indicator of a problem that may come to bite us in years to come. We should act before personal indebtedness becomes a national plague.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-20 10:12:40 +0800", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Aug 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/20/personal-finance-should.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F20%2Fpersonal-finance-should.html" }, { "id": 2432, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve added a page detailing some of my most important software tools. Tools - canion.me\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-19 13:33:09 +0800", "date": "1:33 p.m. on Aug 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/19/ive-added-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F19%2Five-added-a.html" }, { "id": 2433, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Much gnashing of teeth about Twitter knobbling 3rd party apps. While I think Twitter is nuts to do that, I don’t care since I quit the service months ago and don’t miss it a jot.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-17 17:37:46 +0800", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Aug 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/17/much-gnashing-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F17%2Fmuch-gnashing-of.html" }, { "id": 2434, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had to stop the car to let these guys cross the road today.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-17 15:08:12 +0800", "date": "3:08 p.m. on Aug 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/17/i-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F17%2Fi-had-to.html" }, { "id": 2435, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I went to bed earlier and had a solid night’s sleep. My mother will be pleased to hear this. 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-17 07:53:57 +0800", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Aug 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/17/i-went-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F17%2Fi-went-to.html" }, { "id": 2436, "type": "post", "title": "Why I’m Giving up on Ulysses ➜", "text": "Seems I\u0026#x2019;m not the only one having similar thoughts about Markdown editing, and the place that Ulysses does or does not have in the workflow.\nChuq von Rospach reflects on his own experience.\nI also had no idea that Jason Snell had also raised this Markdown obfuscation issue, but now it makes me feel smart.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-16 07:00:00 +0800", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Aug 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/15/why-im-giving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F15%2Fwhy-im-giving.html" }, { "id": 2437, "type": "post", "title": "Finding the Right Markdown Editor Is Hard", "text": "I thought Ulysses would be the best. It has a beautiful appearance, is full-featured, gets many positive reviews, and I already have ownership (or at least subscription access) of it thanks to being a subscriber to Setapp.\nI\u0026#x2019;ve been using Ulysses to draft the text of work reports that I ultimately layout in Word for traditional print publication, and it has performed that task admirably with a hefty library of words built-up within its overall library.\nWith its support for Markdown and a direct connect service for publishing via Wordpress, I figured Ulysses would work well for blogging. I have persisted with it for some time, but the obfuscated Markdown finally lost me. When writing for the web, markup matters. Links matter. Getting these integrated with the text quickly and easily matters. I was finding that Ulysses just made this too hard. Finally, when I tried to leverage Brett Terpstra\u0026#x2019;s SearchLink service, Ulysses would mangle the link entirely. That was the last straw; I had to search for alternatives.\nI own Byword on macOS and iOS and tried going back to that; but for whatever reason it just feels old and unloved. There\u0026#x2019;s no joy in using that app, I\u0026#x2019;m afraid.\nI was recommended to have a look at Typora for the Mac, which looks beautiful. I think it could be my preferred option on macOS. There\u0026#x2019;s no iOS version though.\nI have long known that the other \u0026#x2018;famous\u0026#x2019; option in the realm of Markdown editors is iA Writer. I\u0026#x2019;ve watched it from afar over the years, but I gave up on them when they developed that terrible \u0026#x2018;workflow\u0026#x2019; approach to the app. I figured they had jumped the shark and stopped following the app\u0026#x2019;s development.\nRecent research, however, brought me back to have a new look at iA Writer. It seemed to tick all the boxes\u0026#x2009;\u0026#x2014;\u0026#x2009;not the least of which was that Markdown code elements were not obfuscated when drafting text.\nMy research encouraged me to purchase iA Writer and try it for myself, so I have bought the iOS version. Writing this piece is my first trial-run with the app. So far, colour me impressed. It is simple and elegant. As I type it feels as though the words are just pouring out from the caret in a very satisfying way.\nIn drafting this text, I have been impressed with the keyboard shortcuts of iA Writer, especially in getting Markdown links into the app. I can even just put the cursor within a word - not actually select it - and with a Cmd-K it wraps that word and pastes the URL from my clipboard. Being on iOS I can\u0026#x2019;t use the SearchLink service, but this at least makes the copy/paste dance bearable.\nUnfortunately, despite this great first impression on iOS, I\u0026#x2019;m not so excited about is paying AU$8 for the iOS version and then looking over and seeing they are charging AU$48 for the equivalent iA Writer for Mac. That is a heck of a price differential for the same app just residing on a different platform. I think any text editing I do with iA Writer will be limited to iOS. This will negate some of the iCloud sync benefits, which is a bummer because having the same library of text anywhere, on any device, is basically table stakes at this point.\nFurthermore, with Dropbox access being through the iOS Files app - albeit integrated into iA Writer, I just had a heck of a time trying to move this very file from iCloud to Dropbox. I ultimately had to do it from the Files app in iOS. Maybe I\u0026#x2019;m missing something? To publish to this blog on Blot.im, though, I just need to place a file in Dropbox. It\u0026#x2019;s a shame that there is not more direct integration with Dropbox, but I understand it is an API deprecation issue, so I can\u0026#x2019;t really blame iA Writer for this\u0026#x2009;\u0026#x2014;\u0026#x2009;but it does make things more cumbersome.\nWhere to from here? I\u0026#x2019;m not sure. Of course, the greatest thing about writing in Markdown is that it is just plain text. I can write it with any app. So I can continue to bounce around to my heart\u0026#x2019;s content, trying and experimenting to find the best app and the most efficient workflow. And if that isn\u0026#x2019;t hobbyist computing at its finest, then what is?\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-16 06:35:00 +0800", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Aug 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/15/finding-the-right.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F15%2Ffinding-the-right.html" }, { "id": 2438, "type": "post", "title": "Value Curve of Service Delivery", "text": "It was recently reported and brought to my attention that Elon Musk had issued a memo to the staff of Tesla. I’m no Musk acolyte, but within his commentary there can be found some good stuff. Within this particular memo Musk highlighted a number of productivity boosting tips. One tip jumped out at me because it is aligned with how I explain to my customers the way I aim to deliver the Business Evaluation service of the Entrepreneurs’ Programme. This is fundamental to how I work to be respectful of their time commitment.\nElon Musk was reported as writing:\n Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get rid of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short. The aim of my engagement with my customers is not to prove myself, or the worth of the service, by hanging around for hours and hours on end. If something can be achieved in two hours rather than four, then it’s bad business to take the four hours. If the work needs four hours, then I will commit that time. I won’t commit six.\nWhat I say to my customers is that I want to stay with them for as long as I am delivering genuine value that is over and above the time, effort and person-hours they are committing to the process. Once I see the value they are receiving is tapering off, then I will wrap things up. The last thing I want to do is overstay my welcome, using up their time when they could be doing something else that could contribute more to their business success.\nJust as Musk implored his staff to keep meetings short, so I remind and encourage myself to only use as much time is necessary – and no more.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-14 20:54:28 +0800", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Aug 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/14/value-curve-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F14%2Fvalue-curve-of.html" }, { "id": 2439, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@vasta Not sure if you have been otherwise notified, but I reflected on your blogging experience.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-14 14:24:05 +0800", "date": "2:24 p.m. on Aug 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/14/vasta-not-sure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F14%2Fvasta-not-sure.html" }, { "id": 2440, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@danielpunkass Does Black Ink support crosswords from the Washington Post? I can\u0026rsquo;t figure out a valid subscription URL.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-14 12:59:45 +0800", "date": "12:59 p.m. on Aug 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/14/danielpunkass-does-black.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F14%2Fdanielpunkass-does-black.html" }, { "id": 2441, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning required a coffee pick-me-up.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-14 09:06:02 +0800", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Aug 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/14/this-morning-required.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F14%2Fthis-morning-required.html" }, { "id": 2442, "type": "post", "title": "Blogging As an Exercise in Thought", "text": "Micro.blog has introduced me to a number of new bloggers I would never have otherwise discovered. These are smart, intelligent people going about their lives in another part of the world, completely unrelated to me. Yet the way they think, communicate and share ideas online is very familiar.\nA recent connect is Sameer Vasta — Vasta on micro.blog — a resident of Ontario, Canada. He claims to overuse the discretionary comma, a problem that I too, face on a regular basis.\nJust over a month ago, Sameer celebrated 20 years(!) of blogging. His post to recognise this milestone was great. I’ve picked out a couple of comments that resonated with me. Of course, I encourage you to read the entire post.\n For me, blogging has always been about thinking out loud, and about allowing my thoughts and ideas to evolve and grow, through time, out in a public sphere where I’m connected to others who are thinking out loud and growing, too. For me, blogging has always had a small b.\n This approach to blogging throws down the gauntlet before me. I have a tendency to want my blog posts to be ‘fully baked’ before publishing. Sameer’s construction is to present blogging as a continuous process - not an end product.\n I’ve begun talking about my blog as my “thought space,” as well, after reading a short reflection by Om a few weeks ago\n As this canion.me site is new, I don’t have a defined purpose for it yet. I started it to satisfy a hobbiest’s itch. Perhaps encapsulating it as my ‘thought space’ might be a good use of the domain.\n If someone asks me what my blog is about, now, I’m going to tell them it is my thought place, it is a conversation with myself and with others, and that it is my way of getting better at writing the truth. That’s what it has been for twenty years, and that’s what I hope for it to be for at least another twenty.\n I’ve blogged in the past, previously for a number of years at twosittingducks.com (no longer up, and rest in peace Movable Type). Now I have blogs at blog.andrewcanion.com and here at canion.me plus a micro.blog.\nDespite my renewed enthusiasm for the medium, I can only dream of blogging consistently for 20 years. However, I would like to think that the blogging I do from this point forward is how Sameer describes it; an opportunity to think and ruminate publicly and thus be open to discourse with others. That will ideally allow my thoughts to grow and develop, without being stuck inside an echo chamber. If that can occur, my blogging will be a more successful enterprise than present-day social media offers.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-14 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Aug 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/14/blogging-as-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F14%2Fblogging-as-an.html" }, { "id": 2443, "type": "post", "title": "Use of Mental Models in Parenting ➜", "text": " This is where mental models can help. As in any other area of your life, developing some principles or models that help you see how the world works will give you options for relevant and useful solutions. Mental models are amazing tools that can be applied across our lives. Here are five principle-based models you can apply to almost any family, situation, or child. These are ones I use often, but don\u0026#x2019;t let this limit you\u0026#x2014;so many more apply!\n From The Farnham Street Blog, a thoughtful look at how the use of mental models can provide a more strategic approach to wrangling those children.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-14 05:57:36 +0800", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Aug 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/13/use-of-mental.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F13%2Fuse-of-mental.html" }, { "id": 2444, "type": "post", "title": "franklin day", "text": "franklin day\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-14 04:51:14 +0800", "date": "4:51 p.m. on Aug 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/13/franklin-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F13%2Ffranklin-day.html" }, { "id": 2445, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I know Ulysses is the markdown darling but the way it handles markdown links is a pain in the butt. I just want a simple inline view that is compatible with Terpstra’s SearchLink service. I’ve had to fall back to Byword to make it work.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-14 00:20:58 +0800", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Aug 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/14/i-know-ulysses.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F14%2Fi-know-ulysses.html" }, { "id": 2446, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@jack Quick question if I may: how do you get YouTube video embeds to work on Blot.im? I see you’ve done it - I must be missing something obvious\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-13 16:31:32 +0800", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Aug 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/13/jack-quick-question.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F13%2Fjack-quick-question.html" }, { "id": 2447, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve just had a cortisone injection into my hip. After suffering a labral tear and having pain for a few months I really hope this will help. After the doctor finished the injection he told me “it was one of the more difficult ones”. He was also using an iPad for MRI - amazing!\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-13 09:58:20 +0800", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Aug 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/13/ive-just-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F13%2Five-just-had.html" }, { "id": 2448, "type": "post", "title": "kids", "text": "kids\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-13 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Aug 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/13/kids.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F13%2Fkids.html" }, { "id": 2449, "type": "post", "title": "This is such a handy use for TextExpander.", "text": "This is such a handy use for TextExpander. It\u0026#x2019;s these simple but delightful elements related to using a Mac that make it so much fun, and productive.\nThanks to David Sparks and the new Automators podcast for this video guide.\n ", "dateiso": "2018-08-13 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Aug 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/13/this-is-such.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F13%2Fthis-is-such.html" }, { "id": 2450, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What\u0026rsquo;s better than one website? Two websites! So now I can be found at andrewcanion.com and at canion.me. I\u0026rsquo;ve doubled my nerd.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-12 17:08:01 +0800", "date": "5:08 p.m. on Aug 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/12/whats-better-than.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F12%2Fwhats-better-than.html" }, { "id": 2451, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I couldn’t resist the lure of a new domain name; canion.me is mine. Now what to do with it?\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-12 09:38:12 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Aug 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/12/i-couldnt-resist.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F12%2Fi-couldnt-resist.html" }, { "id": 2452, "type": "post", "title": "Hello World", "text": "I created a new domain, canion.me and now I\u0026#x2019;ve scratched another curiosity itch by setting up a Blot instance.\nBlogging by putting stuff into a Dropbox folder? Sounds like fun.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-12 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Aug 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/12/hello-world.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F12%2Fhello-world.html" }, { "id": 2453, "type": "post", "title": "Teens Racking up Thousands in Debt While Parents Unaware", "text": " Thirteen per cent of families even had to delay paying a bill or cut back spending on necessities to compensate for children\u0026#x2019;s purchases.\n — ABC News\nI am incredibly grateful that my Mum ensured I had financial literacy at a young age. We were poor but that didn\u0026#x2019;t stop me from learning the value of money. I\u0026#x2019;ve always been hyper-aware of money management, to the point of risk aversion.\nI was also fortunate enough that I didn\u0026#x2019;t grow up in an era of intangible in-app purchases.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-12 08:00:00 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Aug 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/12/teens-racking-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F12%2Fteens-racking-up.html" }, { "id": 2454, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-08-11 23:42:56 +0800", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Aug 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/11/234256.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F11%2F234256.html" }, { "id": 2455, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not a gamer by any means but I just got hooked playing Marvel Strike Force on iOS for far too long.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-11 23:23:55 +0800", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Aug 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/11/im-not-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F11%2Fim-not-a.html" }, { "id": 2456, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After listening to the latest episode of The Omni Show, I’m now researching every tiki bar in Perth. I’ve only ever been to one and that was about 9 years ago.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-09 21:38:03 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Aug 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/09/after-listening-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F09%2Fafter-listening-to.html" }, { "id": 2457, "type": "post", "title": "Calendar Management for Productivity \u0026 Sanity", "text": "I lean heavily on my diary to plan ahead, guide me through my days, and establish a rhythm to my life. The type of work I do has a tendency to drift towards haphazard if not controlled, so a calendar helps me establish and maintain order.\nThe problem I’ve faced in more recent times is having an overabundance of calendars I need to refer to before being able to commit to something. In simpler times, if I had a gap between 9am and 5pm, it was available to be taken up by a meeting. With the added complexity of kids and a wife who has an even more complex and random schedule than my own, things have reached a point where I need to check about 5 different calendars before I could confirm if I actually had availability for a meeting, irrespective of whether there was a gap in my calendar.\nThis year I made a personal pact to get better at managing this uncertainty. I’ve considered how I could build a system that works better for me and my family, while maintaining flexibility for my clients. Many of the methods I’ve adopted are not new ideas; in fact, some are a blast to the past when people used paper day-runners and had a personal assistant (secretary?) who would prepare things on their behalf. Alas, I have neither of those, so I have leveraged my skills in process design and automation.\nFollowing is an outline of my diary management workflow as it has developed to date. It remains a work in progress and I expect it will continue to change.\nStructure I started by establishing clear and non-negotiable days for which I was available for visiting and meeting with clients. I refer to these as “External” days. The remaining days were locked in as days to spent at the office - my “Internal” days. These days are consistent every week, to help with that rhythm.\nWhen visiting clients a lot of time is lost in transit. By collating these visits into a fewer number of days, I reduce my transit downtime, and have the opportunity to fill those days more effectively.\nMy “Internal” days facilitate getting into a flow state more often because they aren’t broken up by meetings and appointments. Again, a more productive outcome.\nFor calendaring, I rely on BusyCal on the Mac and Fantastical on iOS.\nTechnology - WhenWorks My next area of improvement was in the way I was booking the meetings with clients on my “External” days. I had been spending too much time and effort bouncing emails back and forth, doing the ‘availability exchange’ - trying to find a time that works for me and them. I needed to find a better way that was efficient but respected the impact of items on my other calendars.\nI started with a trial of Calendly. This cloud-based service provides a method for people to book a meeting time that is subject to the parameters I set. Calendly was good, but had its drawbacks. I use FastMail for email/calendars/contacts and it uses standards-compliant IMAP/CalDAV/CardDAV protocols. Unfortunately, Calendly wants to only work well with Office 365/GSuite/iCloud. My employer provides me with an Office 365 account so I could still make use of the service, but it meant that I had to remember to replicate my Fastmail calendars to Office 365. It worked, but it never felt simple and seamless.\nEnter, WhenWorks. After trialling this for just a couple of weeks, I have purchased an annual subscription. WhenWorks is fundamentally an iOS app that is supported by a cloud-based booking platform. By running on my device it improves on Calendly because it can access all my calendars, irrespective of what platform they reside upon. WhenWorks can take into consideration the impact of every single calendar when making times available for others to book.\nWhenWorks is simply brilliant. It looks great and offers a full range of options without being overwhelming. Most importantly, my clients have used it without any problems whatsoever.\nAutomation - TextExpander For the first half of this year I have been using saved email templates in Cloze to correspond with clients and ask them to select a meeting time using my Calendly service.\nNow with my change to WhenWorks, I’m moving away from Cloze and back to using TextExpander to send email using Mail.app instead. With TextExpander I can make a few choices upon snippet execution that lets me customise a boilerplate email. This way the email the client receives is quickly and efficiently tailored to the type of meeting we will have, and will prompt them to schedule a meeting using the appropriate WhenWorks meeting template relevant to that meeting type.\nCredit to David Sparks for providing some of the tools that helped me get this up and running quickly and easily.\nRoutine \u0026amp; Preparation - OmniFocus \u0026amp; Daily Papers The last step is incredibly low-tech, but has made a profound difference to my state of mind at the beginning of each day. It is not a new approach. It is common sense. It is simple. But it requires discipline.\nI have set a daily repeating task in OmniFocus that commences at 4pm and is due at 5pm, prompting me to prepare for my next day’s meetings. That’s it; a simple prompt.\nThis prompt, however, ensures I remember to gather the various documents, information and whatever else I need to have ready to be successful for the events of the next day. Sometimes this process takes 2 minutes, sometimes the full hour.\nSince doing this, I’ve found I don’t have stress the next morning, suddenly realising that I’ve got a meeting first thing that I have not prepared for. It creates a calm state of mind for the evening, knowing that I’m ready for the next day. It enables my mind to cogitate on what I have coming up, such that when events unfold I find myself better prepared and ready to roll than I otherwise would have been.\nFinal Thoughts Each of these elements is fairly straightforward in and of themselves. Bringing them all together, though, has improved my flow, and has largely resolved the problem of double-booking and calendar mixups.\nOf course this stuff is never done, and it will change with workload and circumstance. For now, however, I feel like it has gotten me closer to the concept of ‘mind like water’ than I was previously.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-06 16:29:04 +0800", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Aug 6, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/06/calendar-management-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F06%2Fcalendar-management-for.html" }, { "id": 2458, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just found this archived screenshot from my Google Reader account before it shut down.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-04 16:33:01 +0800", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Aug 4, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/04/just-found-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F04%2Fjust-found-this.html" }, { "id": 2459, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@amit Your work on Micro.threads is amazing!\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-03 22:25:30 +0800", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Aug 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/03/amit-your-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F03%2Famit-your-work.html" }, { "id": 2460, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Searching for hobbies\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-03 20:53:12 +0800", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Aug 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/03/all-work-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F03%2Fall-work-and.html" }, { "id": 2461, "type": "post", "title": "Searching for Hobbies", "text": " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. It’s very easy to spend time focusing on work. It has a tangible reward - income! It provides an emotional response - we might love it or hate it (or even just feel meh about it). And, for many, it defines who we are.1\nI’ve been taking stock, and have realised that I need to add some more variety to my days. I do my work, I look after my kids, and despite us sometimes being ships passing in the night, I share time with my wife. What has gone missing though, is a third interest. What else can I do? How else can I bring some interest, variety and further meaning to my life?\nI don’t want to be passing time here on our earth, responsibly moving projects and tasks forward without having some fun and spontaneity along the way.\nIt’s clear what my answer must be - I need to find some hobbies!\nIdeally, these hobbies will stretch me out of my comfort zone. While I have always been enjoyed technology and basketball, I should move outside these domains to see if I can find something else that is fun and different.\nI’ve drafted a list of ideas, with ideas ranging from board games to cooking. I plan on experimenting across a range of areas to see if anything grabs me. And because you can’t manage what you don’t measure, I will try to keep a journal in Day One to track any major hobby events and record my thoughts and impressions of things I try.\nI hope I find a new and interesting activity to engage with, but even if I don’t, it will be an interesting life experiment.\n This concept of work defining who we are is particularly weird. The work we produce is a product, not a state of being. By defining ourselves by our work we are limiting our potential. The work we do should be a combined result of our skills, traits and personality. The work is achieved because of who we are; it is not who we are. Have I just buried the lede in this footnote? ↩\n ", "dateiso": "2018-08-03 20:33:52 +0800", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Aug 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/03/searching-for-hobbies.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F03%2Fsearching-for-hobbies.html" }, { "id": 2462, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A great quote from a post about web bloat:\n You know how building wider roads doesn’t improve commute times, as it simply encourages people to drive more? It’s that, but with bytes and bandwidth instead of cars and lanes. The Bullshit Web\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-03 16:02:53 +0800", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Aug 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/03/a-great-quote.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F03%2Fa-great-quote.html" }, { "id": 2463, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Boojamin.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-03 05:01:39 +0800", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Aug 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/03/boojamin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F03%2Fboojamin.html" }, { "id": 2464, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve bought an annual subscription for WhenWorks. Already today my meeting scheduling has been so much easier. They just need to support UTC dates on their website.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-02 13:17:16 +0800", "date": "1:17 p.m. on Aug 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/02/ive-bought-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F02%2Five-bought-an.html" }, { "id": 2465, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve just updated my /now page.\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-02 09:34:45 +0800", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Aug 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/02/ive-just-updated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F02%2Five-just-updated.html" }, { "id": 2466, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@smokey I just added your script to my functions.php file. Let\u0026rsquo;s see if this message reaches you…\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-02 09:31:47 +0800", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Aug 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/02/smokey-i-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F02%2Fsmokey-i-just.html" }, { "id": 2467, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@manton Do micro.blog hosted blogs offer \u0026lsquo;pages\u0026rsquo; as well, that aren\u0026rsquo;t specifically a blog? It seems like your page has them - is that standard?\n", "dateiso": "2018-08-02 08:12:13 +0800", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Aug 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/08/02/manton-do-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F08%2F02%2Fmanton-do-microblog.html" }, { "id": 2468, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My next adventure in workflow optimisation: I’ve installed SaneBox. I don’t get copious email so not sure I need it, but that’s what trials are for, right?\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-31 21:27:37 +0800", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Jul 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/31/my-next-adventure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F31%2Fmy-next-adventure.html" }, { "id": 2469, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After hearing from my micro.blog friends, I\u0026rsquo;ve decided to go ahead and upgrade to the TextExpander subscription service.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-31 11:15:10 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jul 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/31/after-hearing-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F31%2Fafter-hearing-from.html" }, { "id": 2470, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back on board with TextExpander. I’m still running the non-subscription version, and I see no compelling reason to “upgrade”.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-30 23:20:01 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Jul 30, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/30/back-on-board.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F30%2Fback-on-board.html" }, { "id": 2471, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "✈️ time. From Perth to Canberra. From mild to freezing cold. Here we go!\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-24 14:52:21 +0800", "date": "2:52 p.m. on Jul 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/24/time-from-perth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F24%2Ftime-from-perth.html" }, { "id": 2472, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have a hip labral injury. Physio and strength conditioning underway; and I\u0026rsquo;m back at the standing desk.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-23 14:37:57 +0800", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Jul 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/23/i-have-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F23%2Fi-have-a.html" }, { "id": 2473, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s go time.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-21 02:37:47 +0800", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Jul 21, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/21/its-go-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F21%2Fits-go-time.html" }, { "id": 2474, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is insightful, and again Jobs was well ahead of the curve. daringfireball.net\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-18 18:47:15 +0800", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Jul 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/18/this-is-insightful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F18%2Fthis-is-insightful.html" }, { "id": 2475, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been trialing WhenWorks for scheduling meetings and have been quite impressed. I think I prefer it over Calendly. Now I just need to convince my employer to pay for my subscription.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-17 16:29:53 +0800", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Jul 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/17/ive-been-trialing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F17%2Five-been-trialing.html" }, { "id": 2476, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m falling into the trap of spending more time figuring out how best to automate OmniFocus - using Workflow, Drafts, Taskpaper, scripting, etc - than I am spending actually doing the work specified by the OmniFocus tasks.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-17 10:31:06 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Jul 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/17/im-falling-into.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F17%2Fim-falling-into.html" }, { "id": 2477, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m impressed with my wife’s ability to make this “zombie” birthday cake for our boy’s 7th. It was a hit with all the kids.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-15 21:10:56 +0800", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Jul 15, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/15/im-impressed-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F15%2Fim-impressed-with.html" }, { "id": 2478, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just got my first Internet connected LIFX lightbulbs. I’m addicted. 💡\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-13 13:41:17 +0800", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Jul 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/13/i-just-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F13%2Fi-just-got.html" }, { "id": 2479, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had my first CarPlay experience today, driving a hire car. I definitely want it in the next car I own. Although Apple Maps in regional areas 👎🏻. Good that Google Maps will be supported in the next version!\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-12 19:03:44 +0800", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Jul 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/12/i-had-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F12%2Fi-had-my.html" }, { "id": 2480, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Western Australian desert from the air.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-12 07:47:46 +0800", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Jul 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/12/western-australian-desert.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F12%2Fwestern-australian-desert.html" }, { "id": 2481, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Burrup Peninsula is really quite beautiful.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-11 19:46:49 +0800", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jul 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/11/the-burrup-peninsula.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F11%2Fthe-burrup-peninsula.html" }, { "id": 2482, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rest In Peace, Bill. You were a top bloke and I will always remember our Jacobs Ladder climbs together. You set a cracking pace! 🍻 Police find body believed to be missing 76-year-old William Wayne - ABC News)\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-08 22:00:22 +0800", "date": "10:00 p.m. on Jul 8, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/08/rest-in-peace.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F08%2Frest-in-peace.html" }, { "id": 2483, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-07-07 05:14:41 +0800", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jul 7, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/07/051441.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F07%2F051441.html" }, { "id": 2484, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That moment when you read an old forum post, think that the question is interesting, and then realise it was yours from years earlier. User Forum — DEVONtechnologies • View topic - Link documents together?\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-06 17:04:41 +0800", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Jul 6, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/06/that-moment-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F06%2Fthat-moment-when.html" }, { "id": 2485, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been digging into DevonThink tonight. There’s so much that piece of software can do, it’s easy to forget how it can be used. It’s been a nice solid session of nerding out.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-05 23:57:35 +0800", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Jul 5, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/05/ive-been-digging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F05%2Five-been-digging.html" }, { "id": 2486, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Credit to Tim Nahumck’s iOS Home Screens post for motivating me to rethink my setup.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-05 08:42:42 +0800", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Jul 5, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/05/credit-to-tim.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F05%2Fcredit-to-tim.html" }, { "id": 2487, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s an interesting combination of art and science, thinking about how to layout a new iPad home screen. I’m still not leveraging the iOS 11 dock and multitasking abilities as well as I would like to.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-04 14:34:30 +0800", "date": "2:34 p.m. on Jul 4, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/04/its-an-interesting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F04%2Fits-an-interesting.html" }, { "id": 2488, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just watched the most insane 🏀 brawl. Australian Boomers @ Philippines. Had been getting chippy, then a hard foul suddenly escalated to the Philippines bench clearing and smashing Aussies all over the place. Disgusting display. Can’t believe they’ll be hosting the World Cup.\n", "dateiso": "2018-07-02 22:04:28 +0800", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Jul 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/02/i-just-watched.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F02%2Fi-just-watched.html" }, { "id": 2489, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-07-01 03:46:45 +0800", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Jul 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/01/034645.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F01%2F034645.html" }, { "id": 2490, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-07-01 03:46:44 +0800", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Jul 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/01/034644.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F01%2F034644.html" }, { "id": 2491, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-07-01 03:46:43 +0800", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Jul 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/01/034643.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F01%2F034643.html" }, { "id": 2492, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-07-01 03:46:42 +0800", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Jul 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/01/034642.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F01%2F034642.html" }, { "id": 2493, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-07-01 03:46:41 +0800", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Jul 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/07/01/034641.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F07%2F01%2F034641.html" }, { "id": 2494, "type": "post", "title": "In Flow", "text": "Some days the work just flows. Tasks feels easy, decisions are made, words transfer from the brain to the keyboard with nary a pause; and engaging with people makes you realise the world is full of interesting characters.\nThese days of flow are generally few and far between. We structure our days such that we have no breathing room. Alternatively, we don’t structure anything and drift through without a clear and achievable goal in mind. If we can happen to find the Goldilocks Zone between those two extremes, and establish a mindset that is engaged yet relaxed, well, I think that’s where the magic happens.\nMost days, of course, the work doesn’t flow. Things are a grind and stuff fails to work out as intended.\nSo the days where flow occurs; embrace it, because there’s no guarantee it will be back tomorrow. Get the most out of this rare and elusive asset!\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-29 15:09:56 +0800", "date": "3:09 p.m. on Jun 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/29/in-flow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F29%2Fin-flow.html" }, { "id": 2495, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just received some quality support from Fastmail. Makes me happy to be a paying customer.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-28 22:04:07 +0800", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Jun 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/28/i-just-received.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F28%2Fi-just-received.html" }, { "id": 2496, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I seem to be perpetually organising.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-28 20:34:43 +0800", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Jun 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/28/i-seem-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F28%2Fi-seem-to.html" }, { "id": 2497, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Loafy.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-28 01:39:31 +0800", "date": "1:39 p.m. on Jun 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/28/loafy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F28%2Floafy.html" }, { "id": 2498, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very cool that my brother has written a book, More Than Money. I’m enjoying the read.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-24 22:06:11 +0800", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Jun 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/24/very-cool-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F24%2Fvery-cool-that.html" }, { "id": 2499, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Flaked out.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-24 04:57:06 +0800", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Jun 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/24/flaked-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F24%2Fflaked-out.html" }, { "id": 2500, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We decided the cat was named Steven.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-23 06:13:17 +0800", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Jun 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/23/we-decided-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F23%2Fwe-decided-the.html" }, { "id": 2501, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Earaches all throughout the house. Isn’t the combination of winter and kid germs fun?\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-22 23:03:26 +0800", "date": "11:03 p.m. on Jun 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/22/earaches-all-throughout.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F22%2Fearaches-all-throughout.html" }, { "id": 2502, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Drink time. Sure it’s weird and green, but she seems happy!\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-19 17:55:52 +0800", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Jun 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/19/drink-time-sure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F19%2Fdrink-time-sure.html" }, { "id": 2503, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When your birthday dinner finishes with cups of tea all round, you know you’re getting old.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-18 06:00:00 +0800", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Jun 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/18/when-your-birthday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F18%2Fwhen-your-birthday.html" }, { "id": 2504, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last night we were out for dinner and ended up at the casino playing roulette. For the heck of it my wife and friend put chips on the date of my birth - 15. That spin, it turned up 15! 100 to 1 odds! We should have placed more chips on the turn!\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-17 16:07:02 +0800", "date": "4:07 p.m. on Jun 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/17/last-night-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F17%2Flast-night-we.html" }, { "id": 2505, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For my birthday my wife upgraded me from my work-issued iPhone SE to an iPhone 8 Plus Product (Red). What an upgrade; finally I’m using iPhone apps as they are intended. And my hands which can palm a basketball are much happier with the bigger keyboard.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-16 16:53:13 +0800", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Jun 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/16/for-my-birthday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F16%2Ffor-my-birthday.html" }, { "id": 2506, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-06-16 00:26:09 +0800", "date": "12:26 p.m. on Jun 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/16/002609.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F16%2F002609.html" }, { "id": 2507, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-06-16 00:26:08 +0800", "date": "12:26 p.m. on Jun 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/16/002608.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F16%2F002608.html" }, { "id": 2508, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy birthday me. I made it through another year. 41 years young.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-15 11:26:49 +0800", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Jun 15, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/15/happy-birthday-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F15%2Fhappy-birthday-me.html" }, { "id": 2509, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’d typed a huge note into Agenda for iOS, when the app crashed and lost everything. I’m likely heading back to Bear sooner than anticipated with that kind of performance.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-11 21:48:58 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Jun 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/11/id-typed-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F11%2Fid-typed-a.html" }, { "id": 2510, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was fun to put the kids to bed tonight with a couple of “telling stories”. Of course, they were the main characters in the stories and accomplished a number of heroic deeds, besting both Rory the Dinosaur and an Evil King!\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-11 20:20:19 +0800", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Jun 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/11/it-was-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F11%2Fit-was-fun.html" }, { "id": 2511, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s easy to go down the rabbit hole following guidance documents on the Australian Tax Office website. What starts as a simple administrative tax task leads to high-level introspection and doubt about one\u0026rsquo;s correctness.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-10 22:13:04 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Jun 10, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/10/its-easy-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F10%2Fits-easy-to.html" }, { "id": 2512, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My next software experiment is Agenda. Might it find a place somewhere between DevonThink, Bear, OmniFocus and BusyCal - or will it wither on the vine?\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-10 21:07:50 +0800", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Jun 10, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/10/my-next-software.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F10%2Fmy-next-software.html" }, { "id": 2513, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My kid is best friends with my best friend’s kid. That makes for good times!\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-09 21:41:40 +0800", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Jun 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/09/my-kid-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F09%2Fmy-kid-is.html" }, { "id": 2514, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had a great basketball fitness session today. Really got the blood pumping!\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-09 14:49:30 +0800", "date": "2:49 p.m. on Jun 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/09/had-a-great.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F09%2Fhad-a-great.html" }, { "id": 2515, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That mode where you are doing every other bit of work except for that one thing you really should be doing.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-08 12:46:44 +0800", "date": "12:46 p.m. on Jun 8, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/08/that-mode-where.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F08%2Fthat-mode-where.html" }, { "id": 2516, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying out the app uBar which was just added to Setapp. I\u0026rsquo;m conflicted as it seems useful, but makes my Mac feel a bit too much like Windows for my liking.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-07 21:36:08 +0800", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Jun 7, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/07/trying-out-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F07%2Ftrying-out-the.html" }, { "id": 2517, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Has Overcast been Sherlocked? Apple’s Podcasts app continues to demonstrate integration benefits, but until they enhance their app and can compete with Smart Speed and other niceties, I’ll just have to live without the benefit of those deep platform hooks.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-05 21:06:13 +0800", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Jun 5, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/05/has-overcast-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F05%2Fhas-overcast-been.html" }, { "id": 2518, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I played basketball today. I couldn’t makes midrange shot to save myself, but I was about 45% from 3 metres beyond the three-point line. Go figure.\n", "dateiso": "2018-06-02 20:24:30 +0800", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jun 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/06/02/i-played-basketball.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F06%2F02%2Fi-played-basketball.html" }, { "id": 2519, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What winter?\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-31 21:26:21 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on May 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/31/what-winter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F31%2Fwhat-winter.html" }, { "id": 2520, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Driving through Bassendean where we owned our first home and being reminded how pretty this area is. Our kids, who never knew this area, would probably love living here.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-31 09:43:41 +0800", "date": "9:43 p.m. on May 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/31/driving-through-bassendean.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F31%2Fdriving-through-bassendean.html" }, { "id": 2521, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The kid doesn’t mind a lollipop.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-26 14:56:27 +0800", "date": "2:56 p.m. on May 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/26/the-kid-doesnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F26%2Fthe-kid-doesnt.html" }, { "id": 2522, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My 6 year old is into Roblox. Should I be concerned?\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-22 20:47:16 +0800", "date": "8:47 p.m. on May 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/22/my-year-old.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F22%2Fmy-year-old.html" }, { "id": 2523, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m loving Cobra Kai. Hannah is not convinced.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-17 21:15:32 +0800", "date": "9:15 p.m. on May 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/17/im-loving-cobra.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F17%2Fim-loving-cobra.html" }, { "id": 2524, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just suggested to the owner of this Mercedes who parked on Hackett Drive that it might be an idea to pull forward and allow room for another whole car.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-16 23:58:07 +0800", "date": "11:58 p.m. on May 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/16/i-just-suggested.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F16%2Fi-just-suggested.html" }, { "id": 2525, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I notice that VoodooPad has recently been updated. This was such a great app many years ago, and then was left to wither on the vine when Plausible Labs owned it.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-13 11:07:47 +0800", "date": "11:07 p.m. on May 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/13/i-notice-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F13%2Fi-notice-that.html" }, { "id": 2526, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On my flight home, I watched The Shape of Water.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-11 22:31:21 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on May 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/11/on-my-flight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F11%2Fon-my-flight.html" }, { "id": 2527, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I watched Lady Bird and liked it.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-09 17:19:15 +0800", "date": "5:19 p.m. on May 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/09/i-watched-lady.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F09%2Fi-watched-lady.html" }, { "id": 2528, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Airports. Where alternative economies exist.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-09 10:55:39 +0800", "date": "10:55 p.m. on May 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/09/airports-where-alternative.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F09%2Fairports-where-alternative.html" }, { "id": 2529, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m off to Brisbane today. There’s nothing quite like a 5-hour cross-continent flight in economy class to make you question your life choices.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-09 08:02:05 +0800", "date": "8:02 p.m. on May 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/09/im-off-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F09%2Fim-off-to.html" }, { "id": 2530, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our front room is really starting to transition into a great adult space. Tonight I discovered we had a decanter, which is perfect for scotch. A glass of scotch with chill music playing on HomePod makes for a nice environment as we head into the winter months.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-08 22:20:57 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on May 8, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/08/our-front-room.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F08%2Four-front-room.html" }, { "id": 2531, "type": "post", "title": "The Challenge of Social Engagement on the Indie Web", "text": "An Independent Web that is More Social than ‘Social Media’\nJames Shelley:\n \"When Riley posts something on Facebook, there is almost always feedback. Riley’s friends often click an innocuous-looking ‘like’ button that serves as a low-cost, high-value social signal that reinforces Riley’s use of the platform. By contrast, Riley has no guarantee that sharing their thoughts on a personal blog would reach much of an audience at all.\" This quote encapsulates the problem that the Indie-web movement has yet to fully resolve. While micro.blog is a great step in the right direction, it still doesn\u0026rsquo;t provide that immediacy of connection - and that endorphin hit of a \u0026lsquo;like\u0026rsquo; or a \u0026lsquo;retweet\u0026rsquo; that social media is able to provide.\nI encourage you to read the rest of the article; it is well-written and effectively articulates the challenge.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-07 20:05:38 +0800", "date": "8:05 p.m. on May 7, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/07/the-challenge-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F07%2Fthe-challenge-of.html" }, { "id": 2532, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Exercise fail. I pulled a hamstring.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-05 13:10:58 +0800", "date": "1:10 p.m. on May 5, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/05/exercise-fail-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F05%2Fexercise-fail-i.html" }, { "id": 2533, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fruit smoothie time.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-04 10:05:34 +0800", "date": "10:05 p.m. on May 4, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/04/fruit-smoothie-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F04%2Ffruit-smoothie-time.html" }, { "id": 2534, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The fortnightly YNAB is done. Dollars have been given their jobs.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-03 21:55:46 +0800", "date": "9:55 p.m. on May 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/03/the-fortnightly-ynab.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F03%2Fthe-fortnightly-ynab.html" }, { "id": 2535, "type": "post", "title": "Congratulations Governor Kim Beazley", "text": " The Honourable Kim Beazley AC sworn-in as 33rd Governor of Western Australia It was an absolute honour to attend the official swearing in ceremony of my father-in-law, The Hon Kim Beazley AC, as the 33rd Governor of Western Australia. The night featured great speeches, a military parade and a reception event. An unimaginable, once-in-a-lifetime experience for me and I have no doubt that Governor Beazley will excel in the role.\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-02 22:56:15 +0800", "date": "10:56 p.m. on May 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/02/congratulations-governor-kim.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F02%2Fcongratulations-governor-kim.html" }, { "id": 2536, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not something you get to experience every day - your Poppy being sworn in as Governor of Western Australia. Although David was more interested in watching the soldiers prepare to march than look at the camera!\n", "dateiso": "2018-05-01 21:57:53 +0800", "date": "9:57 p.m. on May 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/05/01/not-something-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F05%2F01%2Fnot-something-you.html" }, { "id": 2537, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now being the proud owner of a HomePod, I’ve been giving the native Podcasts app another try. Its UI/UX is a mess and I miss Smart Speed and gradual speed controls from Overcast, but it’s nice to have a native, synced experience across all Apple hardware.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-30 22:35:45 +0800", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Apr 30, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/30/now-being-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F30%2Fnow-being-the.html" }, { "id": 2538, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At the local bush forever site.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-30 10:09:22 +0800", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Apr 30, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/30/at-the-local.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F30%2Fat-the-local.html" }, { "id": 2539, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The HomePod has received a bad rap based on Siri/smart home stuff. But if you want a voice controlled speaker that sounds great, it\u0026rsquo;s hard to criticise. I\u0026rsquo;m not into smart home stuff, and I’m stoked with the HomePod. Although I wish I could use Overcast for podcasts natively.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-28 21:17:11 +0800", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Apr 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/28/the-homepod-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F28%2Fthe-homepod-has.html" }, { "id": 2540, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The boys made some new friends at the park this evening, and did not want to come home!\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-28 04:22:12 +0800", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Apr 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/28/the-boys-made.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F28%2Fthe-boys-made.html" }, { "id": 2541, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Okay, so I succumbed and bought an Apple HomePod. So far, I\u0026rsquo;m loving it. Sound is awesome and Siri has been fine for what I need. Its ability to hear me say \u0026ldquo;Hey Siri\u0026rdquo; from anywhere and over whatever it is playing is crazy.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-27 10:29:27 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Apr 27, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/27/okay-so-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F27%2Fokay-so-i.html" }, { "id": 2542, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve never received mail from Ukraine 🇺🇦 before! Happy birthday Setapp!\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-27 10:07:14 +0800", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Apr 27, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/27/ive-never-received.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F27%2Five-never-received.html" }, { "id": 2543, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Dad and David’s bus adventure\u0026rdquo; from CanionCast on Anchor\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-26 17:45:29 +0800", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Apr 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/26/dad-and-davids.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F26%2Fdad-and-davids.html" }, { "id": 2544, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Elizabeth Quay selfie.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-26 04:11:04 +0800", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Apr 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/26/elizabeth-quay-selfie.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F26%2Felizabeth-quay-selfie.html" }, { "id": 2545, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "He had to call his broker. More bad news about AMP led to an arbitrage opportunity.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-26 02:10:26 +0800", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Apr 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/26/he-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F26%2Fhe-had-to.html" }, { "id": 2546, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Legacy Bear enjoying a day out with his owner.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-25 22:02:45 +0800", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Apr 25, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/25/legacy-bear-enjoying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F25%2Flegacy-bear-enjoying.html" }, { "id": 2547, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I didn’t make it to an ANZAC Day dawn service, but I just heard an Air Force fly-by from home. Lest we forget.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-25 06:21:25 +0800", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Apr 25, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/25/i-didnt-make.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F25%2Fi-didnt-make.html" }, { "id": 2548, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Loaded up. David doing the photography.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-24 02:20:40 +0800", "date": "2:20 p.m. on Apr 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/24/loaded-up-david.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F24%2Floaded-up-david.html" }, { "id": 2549, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finished reading Thinking, Fast and Slow. It\u0026rsquo;s clearly the benchmark book about behavioural economics and is more interesting than the Keynesian textbooks that formed the basis of my economics degree. The only downside was the final section, which dragged just a bit. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-24 00:29:10 +0800", "date": "12:29 p.m. on Apr 24, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/24/i-finished-reading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F24%2Fi-finished-reading.html" }, { "id": 2550, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still thinking about Wild Wild Country. I’d love to know what happened to some of the people who were on the ranch. Did they become Grandparents? Did they go back to living ordinary lives?\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-23 13:30:39 +0800", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Apr 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/23/still-thinking-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F23%2Fstill-thinking-about.html" }, { "id": 2551, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow, Wild Wild Country is a tour de force of documentary production. I remember Bhagwan and Sheela from TV reports as a kid, but this told the larger story in such a compelling way.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-22 22:55:43 +0800", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Apr 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/22/wow-wild-wild.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F22%2Fwow-wild-wild.html" }, { "id": 2552, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate that feeling of knowing there was something you wanted to say to somebody, but can\u0026rsquo;t for the life of you remember what it was. So it just nags at the back of the mind, teasing you.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-22 18:26:24 +0800", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Apr 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/22/i-hate-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F22%2Fi-hate-that.html" }, { "id": 2553, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Had an awesome day in the city with Mr. 6 year old. We followed our noses all day, which led to a series of great experiences. With no pressure to meet an agenda it seemed we were more open to accept experiences from the world, and the world delivered.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-19 22:58:13 +0800", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Apr 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/19/had-an-awesome.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F19%2Fhad-an-awesome.html" }, { "id": 2554, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In Apple Store Perth and even the demo MacBook Pro has a dodgy ‘n’ on its keyboard.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-19 14:11:46 +0800", "date": "2:11 p.m. on Apr 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/19/in-apple-store.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F19%2Fin-apple-store.html" }, { "id": 2555, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Firefox for iOS seems really fast and I like its tracking protection. But not being able to set is as a default browser is such a pain (iOS issue; not their fault). Does anybody else bother trying to use it full time?\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-18 18:47:30 +0800", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Apr 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/18/firefox-for-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F18%2Ffirefox-for-ios.html" }, { "id": 2556, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI’m no artist, that’s for sure.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-17 08:09:41 +0800", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Apr 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/17/im-no-artist.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F17%2Fim-no-artist.html" }, { "id": 2557, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Don\u0026rsquo;t anticipate the worst; it might just work out better than that.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-16 18:29:20 +0800", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Apr 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/16/dont-anticipate-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F16%2Fdont-anticipate-the.html" }, { "id": 2558, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It was fun to volunteer to hit a free throw in a ‘triple or nothing’ scenario at basketball fitness training today. Nothing but net; saved everybody some running. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-14 20:58:40 +0800", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Apr 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/14/it-was-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F14%2Fit-was-fun.html" }, { "id": 2559, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "3 years ago today I was at the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. I want to go back!\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-12 23:30:25 +0800", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Apr 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/12/years-ago-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F12%2Fyears-ago-today.html" }, { "id": 2560, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tried using the native Apple Podcast app again, mainly because of its Apple TV app. The experiment lasted less than 24 hours. Skip controls in-car pushed to new episode, not forward a few seconds, no smart speed is a huge loss, and interface is way too spartan. Back to Overcast.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-12 21:14:25 +0800", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Apr 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/12/tried-using-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F12%2Ftried-using-the.html" }, { "id": 2561, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I knocked my presentation out of the park! Thanks for the well-wishes from the micro.blog community!\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-12 18:37:40 +0800", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Apr 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/12/i-knocked-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F12%2Fi-knocked-my.html" }, { "id": 2562, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog is building something special, and I’m happy to be a part of the community.\n A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter ", "dateiso": "2018-04-11 14:13:01 +0800", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Apr 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/11/microblog-is-building.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F11%2Fmicroblog-is-building.html" }, { "id": 2563, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve done two practice runs of a 30 minute talk I\u0026rsquo;m delivering tomorrow. Each run through has been very different, but both have finished exactly on time. Let\u0026rsquo;s hope that at the actual event I am as effective with my time management.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-11 13:37:05 +0800", "date": "1:37 p.m. on Apr 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/11/ive-done-two.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F11%2Five-done-two.html" }, { "id": 2564, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So happy to be back into reading, and out from social media. This afternoon I had an unexpected wait. I didn’t read Twitter. I opened the Kindle app and read a book. Turned a frustration into an opportunity.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-09 22:22:42 +0800", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Apr 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/09/so-happy-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F09%2Fso-happy-to.html" }, { "id": 2565, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Argh, kernel panic crash.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-09 10:46:35 +0800", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Apr 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/09/argh-kernel-panic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F09%2Fargh-kernel-panic.html" }, { "id": 2566, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My boy is having fun with the say command in Terminal, and learning some text editing principles at the same time.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-08 09:26:06 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Apr 8, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/08/my-boy-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F08%2Fmy-boy-is.html" }, { "id": 2567, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My boy made me a bookmark. It makes me smile each time I start to read.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-07 21:26:21 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Apr 7, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/07/my-boy-made.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F07%2Fmy-boy-made.html" }, { "id": 2568, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished another session of Full Court Fitness. Not as ruined as last time, but I still worked really hard. Despite the physical exertion, there’s nothing much better than being on a basketball court. 🏀\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-07 14:11:54 +0800", "date": "2:11 p.m. on Apr 7, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/07/finished-another-session.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F07%2Ffinished-another-session.html" }, { "id": 2569, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seems like I picked a good time to delete Twitter. I was never a fan of their native app, and now third party apps are being hobbled.\n The looming end for third party Twitter apps www.loopinsight.com ", "dateiso": "2018-04-07 07:38:59 +0800", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Apr 7, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/07/seems-like-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F07%2Fseems-like-i.html" }, { "id": 2570, "type": "post", "title": "Replacing Social Media", "text": "I joined both Facebook and Twitter many years ago, when they were technical ideas, as opposed to advertising machines driven by algorithms.\nPart of the reason for joining in the first place was for me to reserve my namespace. Just like gold rushes of old, it’s always important to claim your username before somebody else jumps in before you and puts their stake in the ground. While Twitter and Facebook took off, I also had my namespaces at long-forgotten sites like Pownce, Myspace and Technorati.\nThe Halcyon Days Over the following years, my engagement with Twitter and Facebook increased. Facebook was great for retaining connections with people I knew IRL while on Twitter I built a list of followers that I didn’t know, but whose insights and commentary I enjoyed. This ultimately revolved around my two greatest hobbies: basketball and the Apple IT ecosystem. From around 2011-2015 really were the salad days of these two services.\nThe problem for them (not me), however, was that I wasn’t paying the bills. Nor were any of the other users. We know how this story goes. As per the trope, if you’re not the customer, you’re the product. There was a realisation that I was certainly the product - being sold as advertising fodder by these services that needed revenue to keep the lights on, and investors invested.1\nAddiction Over time, these services added dopamine to my day. The nefarious social engineering tweaks they built to maintain my engagement were difficult to defeat. Likes, comments, shares, retweets. All these things built in a way that tries to make you feel like you are valued by your audience, but which are all just further measures to build an advertising profile of each of their human products. But it kept me coming back.\nMy usage continued to grow until a series of events made me question what the hell I was doing. Firstly, most of the Facebook people I realised I either saw in real life — which was much more satisfying — or I never saw them, and didn’t have space in my life to genuinely care about them. The algorithm would occasionally surface them to my feed, then they would bubble down again to be forgotten. On Twitter, there was growing awareness (and evidence) of the hate, vitriol, bile and mistreatment of people, both inside and outside my personal feed.\nDownfall As the services became politicised, they became weaponised. Intolerance grew, they became echo chambers, and the value of what was being expressed was minimised. From link bait to listicles and lame videos, both services were serving up nothing but empty calories. I realised that I was using my most valuable resource — my time — on two services that were giving me nothing back in return for my investment.\nHence, the decision to withdraw my namespace claims. I have deactivated Facebook. I have deleted Twitter.\nReversion What is great is that I don’t feel I have lost anything. I feel just as informed, and I actually feel calmer. I don’t have this buzz in the back of my brain, like an itch I can’t scratch, knowing that I need to check my feeds. It has freed up the time to do more productive things. I’ve been reading actual books again. I have watched TV shows and movies with full focus.\nIt’s been great to have more free time to invest in activities that provide mental nourishment, rather than the fast food diet I had become used to with social media. Ironically, I think I had it more right 10 years ago, before the age of social media, where this is exactly what I would do. I would read, learn, converse. I didn’t like, share and tweet. But I think, on balance, I was all the better for it. I’m enjoying this rebalancing I’m going through now, and I hope that it continues.\n If you want evidence of just how much you are the customer, be sure to download the document from Twitter that shows just what information they have on you, and how you are linked with a range of brands and services for marketing towards. It’s kind of chilling.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2018-04-03 15:34:28 +0800", "date": "3:34 p.m. on Apr 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/03/replacing-social-media.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F03%2Freplacing-social-media.html" }, { "id": 2571, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very proud of my father-in-law; being named Governor of WA is a tremendous honour and caps a great career. Kim Beazley named new governor of WA, capping distinguished career for ex-Labor leader - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-03 14:31:50 +0800", "date": "2:31 p.m. on Apr 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/03/very-proud-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F03%2Fvery-proud-of.html" }, { "id": 2572, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve just set up my router to use Cloudflare’s new DNS service 1.1.1.1. It will be interesting to see if I notice any speed improvement over my ISPs DNS servers.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-03 11:18:29 +0800", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Apr 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/03/ive-just-set.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F03%2Five-just-set.html" }, { "id": 2573, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ boxd.it\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-03 08:22:38 +0800", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Apr 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/03/guardians-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F03%2Fguardians-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2574, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hello Internet is the best podcast. I love all the lore that has built up around it; from Tims to flags to tennis balls to postcards. So great.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-01 22:21:35 +0800", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Apr 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/01/hello-internet-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F01%2Fhello-internet-is.html" }, { "id": 2575, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So good that the latest update for Apple TV supports frequency switching. I’ve been waiting a long time for that improvement.\n", "dateiso": "2018-04-01 21:38:39 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Apr 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/04/01/so-good-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F04%2F01%2Fso-good-that.html" }, { "id": 2576, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve never stopped loving (and using) RSS. It’s the best, and I use Inoreader. RSS Readers Are Due for a Comeback | WIRED\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-31 13:09:11 +0800", "date": "1:09 p.m. on Mar 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/31/ive-never-stopped.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F31%2Five-never-stopped.html" }, { "id": 2577, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In exchange for quitting Facebook and Twitter, I’ve decided to put that time to more productive reading. Today I’ve started reading Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith, after hearing an episode of Cortex podcast where Grey and Myles wax lyrical about it. 📚\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-31 12:50:31 +0800", "date": "12:50 p.m. on Mar 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/31/in-exchange-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F31%2Fin-exchange-for.html" }, { "id": 2578, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2018-03-31 03:04:19 +0800", "date": "3:04 p.m. on Mar 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/31/030419.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F31%2F030419.html" }, { "id": 2579, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Knocked out 18 holes of golf with my brother this morning. Not a bad way to start the Easter break.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-30 11:44:05 +0800", "date": "11:44 p.m. on Mar 30, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/30/knocked-out-holes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F30%2Fknocked-out-holes.html" }, { "id": 2580, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This article presents, using mathematical principles, the role of luck in determining success. I’ve had my share of luck so I’m not complaining, but there are plenty whose ego leads them to believe it’s “all them”. The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-29 20:44:47 +0800", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Mar 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/29/this-article-presents.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F29%2Fthis-article-presents.html" }, { "id": 2581, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Exercise session complete. I hate Turkish Getups.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-29 17:14:27 +0800", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Mar 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/29/exercise-session-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F29%2Fexercise-session-complete.html" }, { "id": 2582, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "26 degrees, no wind, and kookaburras laughing. Environmental perfection.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-23 12:26:28 +0800", "date": "12:26 p.m. on Mar 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/23/degrees-no-wind.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F23%2Fdegrees-no-wind.html" }, { "id": 2583, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve just disabled micro.blog cross-posting to Facebook. I don’t even want them getting my second-hand content.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-21 22:32:31 +0800", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Mar 21, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/21/ive-just-disabled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F21%2Five-just-disabled.html" }, { "id": 2584, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve created mail rules that filter bulk and computer-sent email into a “Machine Mail” folder. My inbox is seeing a lot less action now, which is for the better.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-21 16:30:24 +0800", "date": "4:30 p.m. on Mar 21, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/21/ive-created-mail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F21%2Five-created-mail.html" }, { "id": 2585, "type": "post", "title": "Deprioritising Facebook", "text": "A few months ago I stopped using Facebook. I deactivated my account, deleted the Facebook apps from my iOS devices, and went cold-turkey. I have subsequently had to reactivate my account because of the need to engage with some groups that exist only on Facebook, but I continue to ignore my timeline.\nIt has been a great change for the better. Facebook adds a huge weight of nothing. It’s empty calories. It uses up time that could be better spent elsewhere. I haven’t missed any news; I don’t feel less engaged with the world. To the contrary, actually. I feel more engaged. I don’t crave the little dopamine hits of likes and comments. I’m still writing and recording aspects of my life, but now they are feeding content that I own, whether it’s on my own microblog, or in my Day One journal, or (heaven forbid) through one-on-one conversations.\nIt surprised me just how easily I was able to ‘kick the habit’ of using Facebook. I thought I would miss it. As if to emphasise just how hollow the platform is, I’ve not had any of my myriad followers reach out to check if I’m still alive since my departure! That point highlights the disconnected connectedness Facebook promotes. Sure, you ‘like’ somebody’s post, but do you remember it 30 seconds later? Would you notice if it were not there? The evidence would suggest not, and that spot in the timeline would just be filled by something else.\nIf I could dump the Facebook platform entirely I would. As it is, I will use it as little as possible, and only as required for specific functional tasks. I am not willing to gift my attention to Facebook, for it to leverage into profit. My hours on this planet are too valuable to give you them for free.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-20 19:41:38 +0800", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Mar 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/20/deprioritising-facebook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F20%2Fdeprioritising-facebook.html" }, { "id": 2586, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I enjoyed the micro.blog podcast featuring @modernlittleme overcast.fm\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-20 18:36:52 +0800", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Mar 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/20/i-enjoyed-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F20%2Fi-enjoyed-the.html" }, { "id": 2587, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "13 years married today. Still just as happy as the day we wed.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-19 22:26:58 +0800", "date": "10:26 p.m. on Mar 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/19/years-married-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F19%2Fyears-married-today.html" }, { "id": 2588, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like playing music through Apple TV because I can visually choose songs and playlists. For me, this is a key weakness of voice controlled speakers, like HomePod.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-16 22:10:13 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Mar 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/16/i-like-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F16%2Fi-like-playing.html" }, { "id": 2589, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I enjoyed my morning gym workout! What am I becoming? I still have Kermit arms though.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-15 07:59:33 +0800", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Mar 15, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/15/i-enjoyed-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F15%2Fi-enjoyed-my.html" }, { "id": 2590, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two exercise sessions today - gym and then basketball. Tomorrow morning I\u0026rsquo;m at the gym again - but it\u0026rsquo;s at 6:30am. Yikes!\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-14 22:09:37 +0800", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Mar 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/14/two-exercise-sessions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F14%2Ftwo-exercise-sessions.html" }, { "id": 2591, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really like being a Fastmail customer, but it’s frustrating to miss out on third party service integrations that are available for Office 365 and GSuite.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-13 19:33:37 +0800", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Mar 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/13/i-really-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F13%2Fi-really-like.html" }, { "id": 2592, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I fell asleep on the couch earlier tonight. Now I can’t fall asleep in bed. I got the process wrong.\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-12 23:20:13 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Mar 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/12/i-fell-asleep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F12%2Fi-fell-asleep.html" }, { "id": 2593, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "5:40pm, it’s 32 degrees, chicken kebabs on the barbie and a beer in hand. Things could be worse. 🇦🇺\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-12 17:42:44 +0800", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Mar 12, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/12/pm-its-degrees.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F12%2Fpm-its-degrees.html" }, { "id": 2594, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It feels good to be back on the fitness train with a combination of strength, cardio and basketball workouts. Nice to give my endorphins something to do once again. With thanks to Kate at The Endurance Movement and Adam at Full Court Fitness. 40 is the new 30!\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-07 13:37:06 +0800", "date": "1:37 p.m. on Mar 7, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/07/it-feels-good.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F07%2Fit-feels-good.html" }, { "id": 2595, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My new Steelcase Gesture chair has arrived. Oh my, luxury seating. 💺\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-07 12:14:27 +0800", "date": "12:14 p.m. on Mar 7, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/07/my-new-steelcase.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F07%2Fmy-new-steelcase.html" }, { "id": 2596, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The one time I forget to save while playing XCOM, is exactly the time the game chooses to crash. Bah!\n", "dateiso": "2018-03-05 22:29:22 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Mar 5, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/03/05/the-one-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F03%2F05%2Fthe-one-time.html" }, { "id": 2597, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working at the local library today. Really trying to lock down into some deep work, but it’s a struggle at the moment.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-28 12:08:08 +0800", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Feb 28, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/28/working-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F28%2Fworking-at-the.html" }, { "id": 2598, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog has enabled me to find (and follow and subscribe) to so many great, new (to me) voices.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-26 20:46:13 +0800", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Feb 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/26/microblog-has-enabled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F26%2Fmicroblog-has-enabled.html" }, { "id": 2599, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two charity organisation door knockers in one day. I have a policy of never signing up to unsolicited offers. At least the second lot were nice people.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-26 16:05:08 +0800", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Feb 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/26/two-charity-organisation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F26%2Ftwo-charity-organisation.html" }, { "id": 2600, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m in the midst of an RSS service showdown: Feedly v Inoreader. Leaning towards Inoreader despite being able to access Feedly for free on a grandfathered plan.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-26 14:53:21 +0800", "date": "2:53 p.m. on Feb 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/26/im-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F26%2Fim-in-the.html" }, { "id": 2601, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Book Review: The Organised Mind, Levitan, Daniel J. 📚 Is it a summation of basic physiological facts, repetition of productivity methods from elsewhere, or anecdotes that don’t seem authentic? Up to Chapter 6, it’s all of those. Beyond that, I don’t know, as I stopped reading.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-25 22:48:59 +0800", "date": "10:48 p.m. on Feb 25, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/25/book-review-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F25%2Fbook-review-the.html" }, { "id": 2602, "type": "post", "title": "XCOM: Enemy Unknown 🕹", "text": "I bought XCOM: Enemy Unknown last night on a recommendation from a friend. I’m not a gamer, and I know this is an old game. I also know my late 2013 MacBook Pro is not built for gaming, but it was just able to render the graphics usefully (medium settings, lower res). The game was so fun! I’m not a highly skilled player, but it has me wanting more. It has been years since I really got into a computer game; StarCraft was probably the game I recollect as the last one I played to death, and that was about 20 years ago.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-25 07:25:23 +0800", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Feb 25, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/25/xcom-enemy-unknown.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F25%2Fxcom-enemy-unknown.html" }, { "id": 2603, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So I went ahead and recorded a little trial podcast. \u0026ldquo;First Podcast Friday\u0026rdquo; from CanionCast on Anchor:\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-23 20:57:29 +0800", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Feb 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/23/so-i-went.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F23%2Fso-i-went.html" }, { "id": 2604, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Writing versus Speaking. I have a predeliction for writing, but have an urge to at least try to record a podcast. What to do?\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-23 16:21:01 +0800", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Feb 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/23/162101.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F23%2F162101.html" }, { "id": 2605, "type": "post", "title": "Writing versus Speaking", "text": "If I have the option to communicate through text or voice, I’m choosing text every time.\nI don’t love writing; it’s not a passion. I’m more happy working with numbers, to be honest. What I am definitely not, though, is a talker.\nIn writing, I feel that I can more eloquently express my views. In conversation I never quite feel as agile, by comparison. It takes a lot of focus to think on my feet and maintain the flow. Add to that, the little voice in my head that is always there in the background, questioning whether the person I’m talking to is listening, if they care at all, or are they bored out of their brain. Talking comes with pressure!\nWhen I write, however, it comes out much more formally than when I speak. I struggle to achieve a relaxed tone in my writing (as this article may attest!). I also have no indication as to whether my words have ever been read — conversations don’t have that issue.\nIronically, so much of my work relies directly on my ability to have conversations with clients. There is a discerning factor, though. In these instances, I prefer to consider myself an empathic listener and interpreter. The more I listen, the more I can understand. If I’m talking, I’m not getting to the root of the issues and concerns of the firms I am trying to help. Sure, I will add some value through some suggestions, ideas and stories, but that tends to come more easily.\nThen I go away and write some outcomes and actions!\nPodcasting Podcasting has definitely gone mainstream now. There is nothing in technology more reliant on voice and speaking than podcasting. Blogging I’m comfortable with - it’s writing. Podcasting? I have been a happy listener for years, but have never been a producer.\nA new version of the app Anchor has been released for iOS and Android. The app has had a pivot with its focus now being the generation of short, simple podcasts. I’ve downloaded it, but haven’t yet had a play. I will probably try recording a few podcasts, but I have strong doubts that any of my efforts would be any good.\nI really don’t like the sound of my own voice. I feel bad for people who have to listen to it normally, so to record myself and have to listen to my own voice in an extended recording is confronting in the extreme. I’m also not sure that I could maintain a coherent and interesting structure while speaking. Writing is different. You can plan, outline, edit, rewrite. Voice recording requires a lot more editing effort to achieve the same, and I’m no audio engineer.\nI don’t own any professional podcasting equipment. I don’t have a good mic. If I started a podcast it would be rudimentary at best. Then again, that makes me sound like the target market for Anchor.\nFinally, but probably foremost, there is the issue of content. What to talk about? What to say? Why would anybody bother to listen?1\nSo I may, or may not, trial a podcast. I might record it, hate the result and delete it. Or it may turn out okay and I might share it to my blog. Who knows? I don’t know!\n To be fair, all these questions could just as easily be levelled at this blog, but here I am, typing away.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2018-02-23 16:16:18 +0800", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Feb 23, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/23/writing-versus-speaking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F23%2Fwriting-versus-speaking.html" }, { "id": 2606, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really do not understand Omni Automation. This is why I\u0026rsquo;m not a programmer. I can\u0026rsquo;t even get it to work when I follow the documented steps.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-22 21:32:36 +0800", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Feb 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/22/i-really-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F22%2Fi-really-do.html" }, { "id": 2607, "type": "post", "title": "Choosing an RSS Sync Service", "text": "I’m reviewing my RSS service options to make sure I’m using the right one for me. I was a customer of Feedwrangler for a couple of years, and for the past year or so I’ve used Feedly. Now I’m trialling Inoreader, but I’m not sure I’d actually use the features of their paid account. Feedbin is too expensive for me, due to currency conversion.\nI wonder if the micro.blog community have thoughts on what is the best service?\nI’m grandfathered into a Feedly account that supports more than 100 feeds at no charge, but I’m willing to pay if it means I get a better service as a result. Is there anything out there that is genuinely better than a free, unlimited subscriptions Feedly account?\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-20 23:29:16 +0800", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Feb 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/20/choosing-an-rss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F20%2Fchoosing-an-rss.html" }, { "id": 2608, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning I had a gym session with Kate at The Endurance Movement. It\u0026rsquo;s been a long time since I have done serious exercise, and the sled almost killed me. Now, a few hours later, my body feels good. Back on Friday.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-20 13:46:42 +0800", "date": "1:46 p.m. on Feb 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/20/this-morning-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F20%2Fthis-morning-i.html" }, { "id": 2609, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just discovered our Google Home was running a timer with 10 weeks and 2 days remaining. Our 6 year old kid has been experimenting, clearly.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-18 23:04:26 +0800", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Feb 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/18/i-just-discovered.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F18%2Fi-just-discovered.html" }, { "id": 2610, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Public Service Announcement: The Wood Brothers have released a new album\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-18 22:45:47 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Feb 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/18/public-service-announcement.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F18%2Fpublic-service-announcement.html" }, { "id": 2611, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Quickly listened to a HomePod at an Apple Store today. Only had about a minute of listening because my 2 year old was not as interested, but it really did sound great.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-17 14:06:52 +0800", "date": "2:06 p.m. on Feb 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/17/quickly-listened-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F17%2Fquickly-listened-to.html" }, { "id": 2612, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sonos One is $299. HomePod is $499. Sonos offers multiple integrations; HomePod is Apple Music or nothing. Reports suggest there is little between the two in terms of sound quality. Which is the better deal overall?\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-14 21:06:08 +0800", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Feb 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/14/sonos-one-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F14%2Fsonos-one-is.html" }, { "id": 2613, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s not the speed that matters, it’s the energy. Brady Haran’s Numberphile video explains, through easy and elegant math, why speed kills.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-14 00:04:34 +0800", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Feb 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/14/its-not-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F14%2Fits-not-the.html" }, { "id": 2614, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I went for a bike ride this morning after a long time out. Was great to just get some relaxing exercise. Must do it more often.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-11 12:56:51 +0800", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Feb 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/11/i-went-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F11%2Fi-went-for.html" }, { "id": 2615, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m backyard camping with the boy tonight. A beautiful still night, currently 20 degrees, and I can hear his gentle breathing as he sleeps. This is a fun part of parenting.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-10 23:32:38 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Feb 10, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/10/im-backyard-camping.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F10%2Fim-backyard-camping.html" }, { "id": 2616, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Saw the HomePod in the flesh today. It sounds great, and is satisfyingly heavy. But I am still aware of all the cons, notably Siri’s incompetence. I still kind of want it, but AUD$499 is not cheap.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-10 13:54:08 +0800", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Feb 10, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/10/saw-the-homepod.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F10%2Fsaw-the-homepod.html" }, { "id": 2617, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Those who fancy themselves leaders should welcome counterpoint views, as debate leads to better outcomes. Having a room of \u0026lsquo;yes folk\u0026rsquo; does not a leader make.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-09 14:50:55 +0800", "date": "2:50 p.m. on Feb 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/09/those-who-fancy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F09%2Fthose-who-fancy.html" }, { "id": 2618, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love Overcast but I am being tempted by Apple’s basic Podcasts app because of Siri integration and its ubiquity across devices. I really hope Apple enable SiriKit etc. for third party apps soon.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-09 10:45:56 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Feb 9, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/09/i-love-overcast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F09%2Fi-love-overcast.html" }, { "id": 2619, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This xkcd is the truth. The bag struggle is real.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-08 09:26:36 +0800", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Feb 8, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/08/this-xkcd-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F08%2Fthis-xkcd-is.html" }, { "id": 2620, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh no! My employer is moving us to Android phones. Guess I’m buying an iPhone and will be carrying two handsets now. My entire workflow is constructed around iOS apps. Android is a non-starter for me.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-06 18:07:30 +0800", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Feb 6, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/06/oh-no-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F06%2Foh-no-my.html" }, { "id": 2621, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had glandular fever months ago. Even now, on some days the fatigue and my throat glands flare up and kick my butt. Today has been one of those days. 💤\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-05 17:26:37 +0800", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Feb 5, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/05/i-had-glandular.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F05%2Fi-had-glandular.html" }, { "id": 2622, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The kid is leaving home.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-03 22:10:28 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Feb 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/03/the-kid-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F03%2Fthe-kid-is.html" }, { "id": 2623, "type": "post", "title": "iPad Home Screen, 3 February 2018", "text": "I always find it interesting to see what apps people have on their iPad home screens, and how they have things arranged. So in the spirit of reciprocation, this is my iPad home screen at the moment.\nI\u0026rsquo;m never entirely satisfied with my app layout, but this is what I\u0026rsquo;m running with now. I still don\u0026rsquo;t feel like I\u0026rsquo;m using the dock as efficiently as I could be.\nThat ChatMateforWhatsApp icon drives me mad with its ellipses. Couldn\u0026rsquo;t they just call it ChatMate? I also have an over abundance of email apps, but each one has different strengths.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-03 21:03:33 +0800", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Feb 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/03/ipad-home-screen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F03%2Fipad-home-screen.html" }, { "id": 2624, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just updated my /now page\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-03 20:50:08 +0800", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Feb 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/03/just-updated-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F03%2Fjust-updated-my.html" }, { "id": 2625, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had to buy a new printer today. There’s never any joy in buying a printer. The only good thing is that I no longer have to deal with the hassle of an inkjet as this time I chose a colour laser; the Brother HL-3170CDW. Doesn’t that name just roll off the tongue?\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-02 22:44:50 +0800", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Feb 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/02/i-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F02%2Fi-had-to.html" }, { "id": 2626, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a wonderful post by Brent Simmons, that eloquently sums up why I like the open web, and why I miss the way it used to work. inessential: Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-02 18:02:29 +0800", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Feb 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/02/what-a-wonderful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F02%2Fwhat-a-wonderful.html" }, { "id": 2627, "type": "post", "title": "Sisyphus’ Notetaking App", "text": "I am always searching for the perfect notes app, and the best way to integrate that into my workflow. I’m not sure I have found the former and I haven’t achieved the latter, but I keep trying. It’s ultimately a Sisyphean task, because there’s always another note taking app just around the corner which will constitute a new way of working with it. Nevertheless, I try.\nWith our proliferation of devices it’s no longer enough to have a decent desktop-based notetaking process. Access needs to be ubiquitous, and that means cloud sync. While a few years ago that would limit the candidates significantly, nowadays sync is the price of entry. When the iPhone arose and syncing was hard, the best option was Simplenote. This app used its own sync engine to provide lightning fast sync. I had a large number of notes in Simplenote, but it was convoluted getting them on my Mac, which required Dropbox and NVAlt - an app which I love the concept of but it never really grew on me.\nNowadays there are an abundance of options, such as Apple Notes, OneNote, Notability, OmniOutliner, and the list goes on. The problem with this is fragmentation. Taking notes is one thing, finding them again later is quite another. If I don’t have all my notes in one location, they may as well be lost. Plus that location needs to be available wherever I am and whatever device I have to hand. Spotlight search is useful, but I want to know where that note is, and I don’t want to have to trawl through search results to find it.\nFor the moment I have settled on Bear for notes. It syncs reliably across iOS and macOS, it supports Markdown syntax and can export into a variety of formats. It also looks really pretty.\nDespite my use of Bear, I haven’t totally solved the fragmentation problem. I continue to use Goodnotes for handwritten notes taken with my Apple Pencil, DEVONThink Pro for reference material, and Ulysses for long-form writing. So stuff remains scattered.\nAnd so my stone rolls back down the hill\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-01 20:26:07 +0800", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Feb 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/01/sisyphus-notetaking-app.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F01%2Fsisyphus-notetaking-app.html" }, { "id": 2628, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m awake earlier than usual and the house is quiet. That is a rare treat.\n", "dateiso": "2018-02-01 06:10:14 +0800", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Feb 1, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/02/01/im-awake-earlier.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F02%2F01%2Fim-awake-earlier.html" }, { "id": 2629, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently in the midst of a blue blood super moon with an eclipse. That could double as a pretty cool sounding drink order. 🍸\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-31 21:46:35 +0800", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Jan 31, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/31/currently-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F31%2Fcurrently-in-the.html" }, { "id": 2630, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love my kids, but the fact that there is just one more day left of summer school holidays fills me with pure, unadulterated joy.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-29 19:30:26 +0800", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Jan 29, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/29/i-love-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F29%2Fi-love-my.html" }, { "id": 2631, "type": "post", "title": "Personal CRM Software", "text": "I’ve been experimenting with CRM software, as much to help manage my personal life and friendship groups as my work. Cloze seems the best option I’ve found so far. Unfortunately, it’s a fairly expensive proposition for something that won’t actively generate me money. HubSpot CRM is free, but the product itself seems pretty average. You get what you pay for, I suppose.\nWhen I start looking around the web for software, I also get a bit disappointed that I chose to go with Fastmail for my email service. While all these CRM services have native integrations for GSuite and O365, poor standards-compliant Fastmail gets left behind. I’ve been able to get IMAP email to work, but not contacts and calendars.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-27 23:23:46 +0800", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Jan 27, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/27/personal-crm-software.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F27%2Fpersonal-crm-software.html" }, { "id": 2632, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Australia Day evening with family. 🇦🇺\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-26 19:39:18 +0800", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Jan 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/26/australia-day-evening.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F26%2Faustralia-day-evening.html" }, { "id": 2633, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🇦🇺 Happy Australia Day. 🇦🇺\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-26 14:02:24 +0800", "date": "2:02 p.m. on Jan 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/26/happy-australia-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F26%2Fhappy-australia-day.html" }, { "id": 2634, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really want to like and be excited by the Apple HomePod, but it’s not doing it for me. I already have an AppleTV connected to great Energy speakers for Apple Music. I have Siri in a multitude of other places, and a Google Home mini. Don’t think I have a place for the HomePod.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-26 13:45:51 +0800", "date": "1:45 p.m. on Jan 26, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/26/i-really-want.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F26%2Fi-really-want.html" }, { "id": 2635, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Despite this being the era of peak TV, I’ve never been less interested in watching TV.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-22 19:45:43 +0800", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Jan 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/22/despite-this-being.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F22%2Fdespite-this-being.html" }, { "id": 2636, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Question: Herman Miller Embody or Steelcase Gesture for only 2/3rd of the price of the Embody?\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-19 13:48:29 +0800", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Jan 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/19/question-herman-miller.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F19%2Fquestion-herman-miller.html" }, { "id": 2637, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "LED desk backlighting installed.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-19 10:25:14 +0800", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Jan 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/19/led-desk-backlighting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F19%2Fled-desk-backlighting.html" }, { "id": 2638, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was at the library with my kid today, and serendipitously saw The Organized Mind on the shelf, so picked it up. I wonder if it will be any good? 📚\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-18 23:15:07 +0800", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jan 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/18/i-was-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F18%2Fi-was-at.html" }, { "id": 2639, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wrote the first draft of this blog post in my notebook this morning, sitting on the bank of the Swan River. I think that’s what pushed my mind in the direction of the topic I wrote about.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-17 21:51:18 +0800", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Jan 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/17/i-wrote-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F17%2Fi-wrote-the.html" }, { "id": 2640, "type": "post", "title": "Take Time to Breathe", "text": "Life can get overwhelming. Work to do, dinners to cook, kids to care for, relationships to tend. Trying to do it all can be fatiguing. I have found this to be particularly true over this current long school holiday break, where the presence of children and their needs are incessant, but the other parts of life still need to be managed.\nTrying to balance it all is not easy, and I don’t believe there is any magic bullet that will solve it all. There are only ever going to be 24 hours in a day. So I think the best response to the pressure comes down to 3 main things1:\n Scheduling: maximising the efficient use of time. Accepting: there’s no such thing as perfection. Breathing: maintaining mental health through awareness of the bigger picture. Scheduling Planning and scheduling can ease the mental burden. By making an agreement with yourself to do certain things at specified times there is clear evidence that time is being utilised to effect and things are getting done. At these times there is no need to worry about all the other things that aren’t getting done in the moment because at least you are doing something.\nPersonally this year I am trying to improve the structure of my scheduling. I am establishing days as either internal or external. Internal days are dedicated to working on the tasks I have recorded in OmniFocus, following the general Getting Things Done approach to task management. I will also use this time for internal meetings, planning and the like. External days will be available for me to get out on the road, visiting clients, following up business development opportunities, and networking.\nI have taken my management of External days one step further by setting up a Calendly account. This service allows me to permit clients to book meetings with me directly, subject to my availability. Calendly knows the days I have set as External, and it knows when the slots I have made available are taken up, preventing them from being double-booked. Much time and effort was wasted last year mucking about with the to and fro of trying to coordinate meeting dates, so I hope this more automated approach will ease the burden.\nAccepting I am the type of person that wants everything to go just as according to plan. Of course, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. I have to accept the foibles of humanity and roll with the punches when things don’t go the way I wanted.\nThis is why planning methodology has moved away from ‘waterfall’ to ‘agile’ — because nothing works as intended, so change the plan rather than pretending that perfection is about to occur.\nBreathing In the chase for productivity at the micro-level, it is easy to lose context. Really, in the grand scheme of things, it’s highly likely that none of what we are doing actually matters that much. Now, this is not me promoting nihilism, because what we do does matter to those in our circles. What I am saying is that there are going to be few times where there is not sufficient slack in the timeline to pause; to take a time-out. In this moment, breathe.\nGo outside, take a walk, talk to a friend, pray, meditate — just do something different and unrelated to the task. Taking a break will freshen the mind and offer an opportunity to perceive that larger context. The thing that was causing stress may suddenly not seem quite so significant afterwards.\nUltimately, having a sound and stable mind will allow a focus on scheduling and facilitate acceptance of what can and cannot be achieved. It’s a virtuous circle.\n Because any good list worth it’s salt has 3 things. Not 2, not 4. Three.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2018-01-17 21:44:37 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Jan 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/17/take-time-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F17%2Ftake-time-to.html" }, { "id": 2641, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not quite the perfect crime.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-17 06:03:19 +0800", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Jan 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/17/not-quite-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F17%2Fnot-quite-the.html" }, { "id": 2642, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m being tempted by another productivity app, Agenda, despite having a pretty solid workflow at this stage. I like its premise of linking tasks, notes, calendars within a timeline.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-16 19:47:31 +0800", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Jan 16, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/16/im-being-tempted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F16%2Fim-being-tempted.html" }, { "id": 2643, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I was younger I used to devour 📚. Now it has taken forever to work my way through this short one. I blame kids (and iPad). My library wants it back soon so I have to find time to finish reading it.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-14 08:13:12 +0800", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Jan 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/14/when-i-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F14%2Fwhen-i-was.html" }, { "id": 2644, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am so over my cheap office chair that must be near its 10th birthday. Very tempted to have a massive upgrade to a Herman Miller Embody Chair\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-13 21:03:29 +0800", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Jan 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/13/i-am-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F13%2Fi-am-so.html" }, { "id": 2645, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The pressure to make the first page of my new Panobook count\u0026hellip; 😰\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-11 13:54:49 +0800", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Jan 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/11/the-pressure-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F11%2Fthe-pressure-to.html" }, { "id": 2646, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I tried to take a standard photo of Booj but he insisted on the selfie!\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-11 03:37:28 +0800", "date": "3:37 p.m. on Jan 11, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/11/i-tried-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F11%2Fi-tried-to.html" }, { "id": 2647, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m curious how many micro.blog users know one another in real life? Is that a thing?\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-06 17:28:24 +0800", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Jan 6, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/06/im-curious-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F06%2Fim-curious-how.html" }, { "id": 2648, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When a camel thinks your hairy leg is a salt lick. Goober calf.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-04 22:58:54 +0800", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Jan 4, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/04/when-a-camel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F04%2Fwhen-a-camel.html" }, { "id": 2649, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I recently bought a 3-pack of Google Wifi devices to upgrade improve my failing home WiFi. After installing and using for a while, I have some thoughts.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-04 20:25:14 +0800", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Jan 4, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/04/i-recently-bought.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F04%2Fi-recently-bought.html" }, { "id": 2650, "type": "post", "title": "Google Wifi", "text": "For months my home WiFi has been less than satisfactory. Dropouts, slow connections, complete failures to connect, router reboots required, and so on.\nI have a slightly more complicated than average setup but it’s nothing so extreme that I should have had such annoying problems. I don’t live in an area with a lot of competition for WiFi spectrum and my hardware is all of the non-cheap variety.\nI have tried different configurations from using my ISP provided D-Link DVA-2800 (the worst modem/router I have used in my life) as a single WiFi router, then in conjunction with the device I have used constantly for a number of years — my Airport Extreme ac (the tower one). I have variously extended this with an Ethernet backhaul to a second, older Apple Time Capsule (the one that looks like a Mac Mini) and I have tried an approach where the D-Link has operated in bridge mode with the Airports acting as the router.\nNo approach has been that great, and none have solved the problems I outlined earlier.\nMy pain points The constant problems I faced with all of these different approaches were:\n poor coverage, with 5GHz only working within a small radius, and failing coverage entirely at the extremities of my house and garden. failure of devices to roam across two routers with the same SSID. This is a known problem with consumer grade WiFi that doesn’t offer intelligent roaming. My devices would hang on to a weak signal from one access point as opposed to switching over to a closer, stronger point. This problem was especially noticeable with MacBooks. slow initial connections (again mainly with MacBooks) as they searched and connected to the best available signal. I have a feeling there is a software bug in there somewhere as well, because toggling WiFi off/on on the laptops would often then result in a speedy connection. general frustrations with setting up. The D-Link interface is an abomination. The Airport software is much better, but it always seemed to take a bunch of clicks to get anywhere, and as with a lot of Apple stuff, it was short on diagnostics. Given all these problems, I decided it was time for a change. Many of the podcasts I listen to feature ads for the Eero mesh WiFi product. This advertising is useless to me as far as selling me their product because they don\u0026rsquo;t retail in Australia. It did, however, get me interested in the idea of a mesh network, and helped push me into the arms of Eero’s competitor1.\nIn Australia, the best option seemed to be the Google Wifi 3-pack. I pulled out my wallet and bought a pack for AU$399. Not cheap but my hope was that lowering my blood pressure with less frustration made it a good investment.\nSetting it up In my case, the setup was not quite as simple as Google makes it out to be. This may be my own fault, because I probably overthink things, to be honest. I knew I still needed a router to transfer my NBN Fibre-to-the-Node (and then copper to the house) connection. This meant I had to keep my horrible D-Link to act as the modem. With my Apple Airport, I had the D-Link set to bridge mode and the Airport took on the task of the primary router and DHCP server. This obviated the need to ever deal with the D-Link software.\nI went with this same setup with Google Wifi, but no success. It couldn’t establish a connection to my ISP through DHCP, as required.\nTo resolve this problem, I had to go back to my D-Link and take it out of bridge mode. I had to have it act as both a modem and a router (but disable its WiFi) and have it farm an IP address to the primary Google Wifi point. This is frustrating because it creates a “double-NAT” situation that seems unavoidable. Two devices, both creating a pool of IP addresses. The Airport wins here, as it was able to manage the DHCP connection with my ISP just fine.\nUp and running So now with this configuration my D-Link establishes the Internet connection while Google Wifi manages the internal WiFi and ethernet network. From this point it was smooth sailing. The Google Wifi app is quite good, apart from feeling very out of place on iOS due to its Android Material design aesthetic. It’s also weird to have to rely on a mobile app with no way of accessing the Wifi units through a computer. Finally, no iPad app - just a scaled iPhone app. Come on, Google, you can do better than that. While the Airport Utility looked prettier, Google Wifi gave me more control.\nThe network quality that Google Wifi delivers is excellent. I’ve been able to use ethernet to create a wired backhaul to the second device that sits near our TV, and I have some strategically placed switches to extend my ethernet network for fixed devices. That each Google point only has a single ethernet jack is a little disappointing, but not really surprising given the typical home market it is aiming at. I have the third device in my bedroom. This one is not using Ethernet backhaul, but leverages the ‘mesh’ approach that is the whole point of the system anyway.\nSince installation the WiFi throughout (and outside) the house has been fast and flawless. I am mostly able to connect to a 5GHz ac signal and roaming happens silently and easily. I don’t notice connections slowing down or failing. Whenever and wherever I open a MacBook it establishes an instant connection, whereas it used to take ages and would still sometimes fail.\nNetspot results A Netspot signal-to-noise quality comparison may indicate I haven’t experienced much change in overall signal quality with the change to Google Wifi, other than the Google Wifi result perhaps being a little ‘smoother’ and without a single hotspot near the router.\nBut it’s the lack of problems with handoffs and roaming that are the real story here. That and the fact that I can more often use a 5GHz ac connection that was previously limited to inside my study.\n[caption id=\u0026ldquo;attachment_404\u0026rdquo; align=\u0026ldquo;alignnone\u0026rdquo; width=\u0026ldquo;2007\u0026rdquo;]Signal to noise heatmap with two Apple Airports[/caption]\n[caption id=\u0026ldquo;attachment_405\u0026rdquo; align=\u0026ldquo;alignnone\u0026rdquo; width=\u0026ldquo;1642\u0026rdquo;]Signal to noise heatmap with Google Wifi[/caption]\nYou will have to excuse my variation in measuring points - this was not an entirely scientific method.\nConclusion Overall, I’m happy with the purchase. Once I got everything set up and working correctly it’s been a hassle-free experience. The initial experience, though, was sketchy.\nI’d love to know if anybody has had success having a Google Wifi setup connect to an NBN connection directly through a bridged modem like my Apple Airport could. While it isn’t really a problem, the knowledge that I have a non-optimal configuration with two NAT devices operating is annoying to me.\nWould I recommend this product to others? Yes, absolutely. I also think that most other people would have a much more successful plug and play experience than me. This is the curse of the tinkerer.\n An unintended consequence, I would imagine. Podcasts are global, so if you are going to advertise on them, maybe consider having a global approach to retail.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2018-01-04 20:10:27 +0800", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Jan 4, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/04/google-wifi.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F04%2Fgoogle-wifi.html" }, { "id": 2651, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s been fun to find some great new (to me) voices on micro.blog. My RSS reader has a bunch of new blog subscriptions to track. It\u0026rsquo;s almost like the great days of Google Reader.\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-04 08:50:48 +0800", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Jan 4, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/04/its-been-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F04%2Fits-been-fun.html" }, { "id": 2652, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve updated my /now page\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-03 20:38:12 +0800", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Jan 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/03/ive-updated-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F03%2Five-updated-my.html" }, { "id": 2653, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A great tip in here about using Workflow to create a site specific brower for iOS apps. Now I have Instagram for iPad! Using Workflow as a Site-Specific Browser - Initial Charge\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-03 20:35:18 +0800", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Jan 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/03/a-great-tip.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F03%2Fa-great-tip.html" }, { "id": 2654, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Took the kid and Sensei Wu for a coffee today. #latergram\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-03 06:33:59 +0800", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Jan 3, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/03/took-the-kid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F03%2Ftook-the-kid.html" }, { "id": 2655, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Okay, I\u0026rsquo;m giving Drafts another chance in my workflow. Maybe it will stick this time\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2018-01-02 22:01:58 +0800", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Jan 2, 2018", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2018/01/02/okay-im-giving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2018%2F01%2F02%2Fokay-im-giving.html" }, { "id": 2656, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-12-29 19:08:10 +0800", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Dec 29, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/29/190810.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F29%2F190810.html" }, { "id": 2657, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lunch at the Lobster Shack.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-27 16:27:22 +0800", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Dec 27, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/27/lunch-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F27%2Flunch-at-the.html" }, { "id": 2658, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Having a slow boxing day\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-25 22:32:46 +0800", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Dec 25, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/25/having-a-slow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F25%2Fhaving-a-slow.html" }, { "id": 2659, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not a bad Christmas when you can finish the evening with views liked this.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-25 21:49:46 +0800", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Dec 25, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/25/not-a-bad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F25%2Fnot-a-bad.html" }, { "id": 2660, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sudoku has become my holiday pastime of choice after it was explained to me how to play. Last summer was crosswords; now it’s all about the numbers.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-24 23:51:13 +0800", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Dec 24, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/24/sudoku-has-become.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F24%2Fsudoku-has-become.html" }, { "id": 2661, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@cdevroe Thanks for the link reference. Does us both remembering Adam Curry and Senseo (and maybe Roger Smalls?) mean we have to go sit in the old man corner together?\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-23 13:39:32 +0800", "date": "1:39 p.m. on Dec 23, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/23/cdevroe-thanks-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F23%2Fcdevroe-thanks-for.html" }, { "id": 2662, "type": "post", "title": "My Mac Apps of the Year", "text": "With a hat tip to Gabe Weatherhead at MacDrifter who put together his list of favourite Mac applications for 2017, I am following suit.\nThird party apps are what make a platform great. Despite the macOS ecosystem perhaps not being as vibrant as it once was, it is still served by a wonderful cohort of professional and hard-working developers. Even though I’ve bought their apps, I sometimes feel I owe them more because using their software is what makes using my Mac both fun and productive.\nThere’s a long tail of apps I use beyond those included in this list. Yet these I have detailed below are those I used extensively in 2017 and that I value and enjoy. These are the apps that I would most miss if they suddenly went away.\n1Password for Families Online security is no joke. It’s easy to dismiss password hygiene as tin-foil hat material, but when you think how much of our lives are conducted online, I don’t want a veneer of security — I want an ironclad guarantee. 1Password guarantees I can have unique complex passwords for every site that I maintain an account. I have no idea what any of these passwords are. But I do know my password to unlock 1Password. After that, it’s nothing but ⌘-\\ to long me in anywhere.\n1Password for Families | US$4.99 per month\nOmniFocus I’ve waxed lyrical about OmniFocus before. Without this app there is no way I would be able to keep all my balls in the air. As much as parts of its design frustrate me, and the pace of its development is glacial, it works. Every day it delivers value by making my life easier. There are sexier to-do apps out there, but OmniFocus is rock solid.\nOmniFocus Pro | US$79.99\nLaunchbar My wife doesn’t have Launchbar installed on her MacBook. So when I try to use it, I feel lost. After years of use Launchbar feels an extension of the operating system and is completely engrained in my muscle memory. I switched to Launchbar years ago after Quicksilver became unstable and I’ve stayed ever since. I know others swear by Alfred, but I’m definitely a Launchbar guy.\nLaunchbar | US$29\nBear I love this app even though I do have to work hard to find a truly worthwhile use for it. I definitely underuse Bear, but I really like it. For the emotional response, I’m keeping it in my list. But there is still a nagging feeling that between Apple Notes, Ulysses and DevonThink Pro, I really shouldn’t need this app. But it is really nice.\nBear | US$14.99 per year\nUlysses My key authoring application in which I write blog posts, work reports and other bits and pieces. For report writing as part of my day job Ulysses has this year supplanted Scrivener. For my blogging, Ulysses has withstood challenges from Bear and MarsEdit. It is a wonderful writing app and I enjoy that I have access to it through my Setapp subscription. If I didn’t have Setapp, I would subscribe to Ulysses directly without a moment’s hesitation.\nUlysses | AU$54.99 per year\nDEVONthink Pro The archive. The place I keep all my reference, research and archival material. I don’t use it for all that it can do; for instance I don’t create documents in DEVONthink despite it having the ability to do so. But for archiving, storing and searching, nothing beats it.\nDEVONthink Pro | AU$104.13\nStockMarketEye This is a cross-platform Java app, so it’s ugly as sin. It’s also about the only share market application available for Mac. Fortunately it works well and gives me all the information I need to track my portfolio.\nStockMarketEye | US$99.95\nReeder I have never given up on RSS, even through the dark days after the Google Reader shutdown. I love the independent web and follow a range of sites religiously. On the Mac Reeder is the best way to do this.\nReeder | US$9.99\nPDF Expert PDF Expert has replaced Preview for PDF viewing and editing. Preview’s editing toolbars have always been inscrutable to me whereas PDF Expert makes sense. The bugginess that was introduced to the PDF engine in MacOS Sierra was the final nail in the coffin and ensured my switch to PDF Expert.\nPDF Expert | US$65.99\nBusyCal While the native Mac calendar app has improved, I still prefer having more power and flexibility to manage my calendars. While Fantastical always gets the glory as the sexy third party calendar option, BusyCal blends in and does the job quietly and effectively. I use this app daily. Its ability to save and restore different calendar sets give me helpful insights into my scheduled life.\nBusyCal | US$49.99\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-21 22:16:20 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Dec 21, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/21/my-mac-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F21%2Fmy-mac-apps.html" }, { "id": 2663, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve had a play with MarsEdit, but I don’t think that it is right for me. I\u0026rsquo;ve written a quick overview of my experience.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-20 13:02:31 +0800", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Dec 20, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/20/ive-had-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F20%2Five-had-a.html" }, { "id": 2664, "type": "post", "title": "Trialling MarsEdit", "text": "I am writing this post in MarsEdit. MarsEdit is an app that I have always wanted to use, but never really have found a place for it. Now, with the new version released I thought I’d download it and give it a spin as part of the 14-day trial developer Daniel Jakult offers.\nRecently I have been writing blog entries in Ulysses, which is great in that it uses iCloud for syncing and has clients for the Mac and iOS. So writing can be done anywhere. It also has a Wordpress publishing engine so I don’t need to mess around to get my words on the web. Finally, Ulysses uses a flavour of Markdown which I am becoming much more proficient in using. Of course, I also already have a licence for Ulysses as part of my Setapp subscription.\nMarsEdit is a much more traditional blogging platform. It defaults to rich text, it is Mac only, and it is more ‘feature rich’ than Ulysses. It offers a two-way connection to Wordpress, meaning it can download an archive blog posts in addition to simply publishing which is the limit of the Ulysses offering. With my current workflow, if I need to make an edit to a published post I have to go to Wordpress on the web and make the change. From that point on, my local copy on Ulysses is out of date; there is no concept of syncing - it just publishes. MarsEdit is fully sync-compliant so I can fix those pesky mistakes and maintain a single source of truth.\nI do wish it had an iOS application, though. I imagine its code base is too entrenched in the Mac world to easily transition it to iOS, but it would be great to have a synced solution. This is where Ulysses excels - I can pick up the writing from where I left off from any device.\nThe other thing is typing in rich text. While ‘normal’ people prefer this (think users of Microsoft Word, which is rich text throughout) for blogging I do tend to prefer using plain text and Markdown. The code is apparent, I know what is happening, and it is easy to read. My experience with rich text transitions to HTML is that things go wonky. Of course, MarsEdit can edit in plain text and apply a Markdown filter, but it doesn’t seem like its natural mode of operation.\nAs I write this, I have been stumped as to how to add a footnote without resorting to pure HTML. In Ulysses with Markdown, this is an easy thing to do. In MarsEdit, it’s not apparent.\nUsing MarsEdit for this post has been an interesting adventure, but at this stage and for the type of blogging I do, I don’t think this app is for me.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-20 12:55:56 +0800", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Dec 20, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/20/trialling-marsedit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F20%2Ftrialling-marsedit.html" }, { "id": 2665, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How did you spend your Monday night? I spent mine reorganising cables in the TV cabinet. Living large.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-18 23:22:51 +0800", "date": "11:22 p.m. on Dec 18, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/18/how-did-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F18%2Fhow-did-you.html" }, { "id": 2666, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back working at the library today. My crappy work-supplied Microsoft Surface lasted about an hour before the battery died. Meanwhile, my iPad and trusty 2013 MacBook Pro are still going strong. I have to use Windows for one insane VB-based Word template. It’s terrible.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-18 10:24:51 +0800", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Dec 18, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/18/back-working-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F18%2Fback-working-at.html" }, { "id": 2667, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Considering an upgrade to Google Wifi. Currently I’m relying on an AirPort Extreme and a second AirPort Time Capsule. I have Ethernet backbone but the wireless handoffs are unreliable. Wondering if a mesh network would make a meaningful difference.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-16 22:39:57 +0800", "date": "10:39 p.m. on Dec 16, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/16/considering-an-upgrade.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F16%2Fconsidering-an-upgrade.html" }, { "id": 2668, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I only gave up on Facebook last week but I’ve missed it not a bit and have recovered time that is being put to better use. www.theverge.com\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-12 09:23:03 +0800", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Dec 12, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/12/i-only-gave.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F12%2Fi-only-gave.html" }, { "id": 2669, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Man about town.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-09 04:23:37 +0800", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Dec 9, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/09/man-about-town.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F09%2Fman-about-town.html" }, { "id": 2670, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“If they hadn’t provided me with a ☕️ stat, I was prepared to blow the joint up.”\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-07 17:59:55 +0800", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Dec 7, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/07/if-they-hadnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F07%2Fif-they-hadnt.html" }, { "id": 2671, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just updated my /now page.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-07 12:02:53 +0800", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Dec 7, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/07/just-updated-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F07%2Fjust-updated-my.html" }, { "id": 2672, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Selfie fun in the city.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-07 07:15:28 +0800", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Dec 7, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/07/selfie-fun-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F07%2Fselfie-fun-in.html" }, { "id": 2673, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Makers vs. Managers discussed at Farnam Street Blog. I’m predominantly a maker, and those long time blocks needed to reach deep focus are critical and generally under-appreciated by others.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-06 21:02:50 +0800", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Dec 6, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/06/makers-vs-managers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F06%2Fmakers-vs-managers.html" }, { "id": 2674, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve bought Braintoss for iOS as an adjunct to OmniFocus. I just discovered the ISBN search it offers: take a photo of an ISBN and it provides you an email with the name and synopsis of the book. Pretty cool!\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-05 13:46:12 +0800", "date": "1:46 p.m. on Dec 5, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/05/ive-bought-braintoss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F05%2Five-bought-braintoss.html" }, { "id": 2675, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just deactivated my Facebook account. Just so sick of the combination of junk and negativity. I don\u0026rsquo;t need that.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-05 12:05:55 +0800", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Dec 5, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/05/i-just-deactivated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F05%2Fi-just-deactivated.html" }, { "id": 2676, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been a FastMail customer for almost a year. Now I\u0026rsquo;m finally transferring contacts sync to them and shutting down iCloud contacts sync.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-04 21:00:55 +0800", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Dec 4, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/04/ive-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F04%2Five-been-a.html" }, { "id": 2677, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had a sandwich for breakfast, a steak for lunch, and now I\u0026rsquo;m eating cereal for dinner. The whole world has gone topsy-turvy.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-04 17:30:54 +0800", "date": "5:30 p.m. on Dec 4, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/04/i-had-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F04%2Fi-had-a.html" }, { "id": 2678, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Date night so we went to see Thor Ragnarok. I had no expectations going in and knew nothing of it having not seen any Marvel movies for a while. But I’m giving it 👍🏻👍🏻 up.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-03 21:52:15 +0800", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Dec 3, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/03/date-night-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F03%2Fdate-night-so.html" }, { "id": 2679, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Early into this book recommended by @manton but so far I’m enjoying the thought exercise.\n", "dateiso": "2017-12-02 18:48:58 +0800", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Dec 2, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/12/02/early-into-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F12%2F02%2Fearly-into-this.html" }, { "id": 2680, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think it might be time for Apple to implement something akin to Microsoft’s old ‘trustworthy computing’. This High Sierra security flaw is an abrogation of their responsibility towards secure computing.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-29 16:31:39 +0800", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Nov 29, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/29/i-think-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F29%2Fi-think-it.html" }, { "id": 2681, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just got a Google Home Mini as a reward for shopping at Woolworths. The Google Assistant really kicks Siri’s butt. This is where ecosystem lock-in is so frustrating. My music is with Apple Music, my calendars are with Fastmail, so I miss some of the benefits.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-29 10:32:50 +0800", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Nov 29, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/29/i-just-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F29%2Fi-just-got.html" }, { "id": 2682, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Australia.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-27 21:25:19 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Nov 27, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/27/australia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F27%2Faustralia.html" }, { "id": 2683, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve discovered a number of new (to me) independent voices through micro.blog. It’s good to find and follow new blogs.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-26 07:39:03 +0800", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Nov 26, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/26/ive-discovered-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F26%2Five-discovered-a.html" }, { "id": 2684, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy Booj from above.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-26 02:23:17 +0800", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Nov 26, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/26/happy-booj-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F26%2Fhappy-booj-from.html" }, { "id": 2685, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "All Jeff, all the time.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-26 02:21:53 +0800", "date": "2:21 p.m. on Nov 26, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/26/all-jeff-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F26%2Fall-jeff-all.html" }, { "id": 2686, "type": "post", "title": "Podcast Addiction", "text": "I listen to a lot of podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for more than 10 years, way before they were mainstream. I used to load podcasts onto my work-supplied IBM ThinkPad1 and drive to work with it open on the passenger seat, playing podcasts. This was before I owned an iPod, let alone an iPhone. I think I may have been listening to Adam Curry at the time - there weren’t that many podcasts out there, and his was one of the first.\nSince that time, I’ve never given up my podcasts habit. In fact, it’s gotten worse. Overcast, my current podcast player of choice says that I’ve saved 197 hours with Smart Speed (a setting that eliminates small pauses within normal speech). That’s 8.2 days saved via a very small tweak. So how many days worth of my life have I dedicated to podcast listening? I am glad I can’t find out!\nMy podcast listening trends have changed over the years. I had a multi-year phase with Leo Laporte’s network, listening to MacBreak Weekly, The Daily Giz Wiz and This Week in Tech. Now I don’t listen to any of them. The ‘indi’ podcasts I replaced the Laporte shows with have now themselves grown to be pretty big businesses in their own right.\nListening to podcasts is really a continuation of something I have done since I was little. Since I was about 5 years old I have fallen asleep listening to spoken word. Initially it was books on tape. Then I spent years listening to Graham Mayberry’s show on Perth local radio. Then I graduated to falling asleep to BBC World Service. Listening to speech has been a huge part of my life, and now podcasts provide an awesome delivery method far better than radio or cassette tape!\nMy subscriptions today My podcast subscriptions today are a straight representation of my interests. I have a lot of technology subscriptions, a few basketball ones, politics and world news and some light entertainment. Looking at the overall list, I’m not sure how I manage to listen to them all. But I carve out time. Mainly it’s when I’m driving or doing some menial task around the house.\nOn micro.blog I saw recently that others had shared their podcast lists, including:\n Colin Devroe Jeena Gregor Love In the spirit of participation, these are my current podcast subscriptions, broken down into genre:\nTechnology Accidental Tech Podcast - The best podcast for Apple news and speculation. Cortex - I listen just because I enjoy the banter and wonderful voices of CGP Gray and Myke Hurley. Fundamentally Broken - a couple of dudes talk about tech and American life. In Depth - Trialling this one, a couple of dudes talking Apple technology. Mac Power Users - Not quite sure why I still persist with this; I never learn anything new and Katie Floyd’s really strong US accent is a struggle to listen to, but I haven’t unsubscribed yet. Nerds on Draft - I skip the bit where they talk American beer, but I stay for the interesting take on technology. Is it just me who thinks that Gabe Weatherhead sounds like Kermit the Frog (no offence intended!)? The Omni Show - Not sure this will stick around, as it is a podcast talking to employees at The Omni Group. Release Notes - Two software developers talk about the business of software. The Talk Show - John Gruber talks about Apple and other things. Welcome to Macintosh - a produced podcast that details interesting historical facts about the Apple ecosystem. News \u0026amp; Politics From Our Own Correspondent - BBC journalists tell human stories of things they see while on assignment. The Party Room - The best podcast about Australian politics. Trace - much like Serial, this is delving into an unsolved murder in Australia. The World of Business - Just not the same since Peter Day left/retired(?). I only stay subscribed in the hope of hearing his voice again. Arts \u0026amp; Entertainment 99% Invisible - Roman Mars has the greatest voice, and this show’s research into design and culture is amazing. Back to Work - Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin dispense ‘wisdom’. Hello Internet - Hilarious show that is hard to pigeonhole, but it’s the best ‘two dudes talking’ podcast out there. Planet Money - Sometimes interesting takes on the world of finance and economics. Reconcilable Differences - a couple of nerdy dudes have a general conversation. Reply All - Some great journalism occurs here, covering the world of internet culture. Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell delves into historical episodes and challenges assumptions. The Unmade Podcast - A funny show featuring crazy ideas for podcasts that never get made. You Need A Budget - A short one to keep me abreast of what’s going on the world of the SaaS app, You Need a Budget. Sports Aussie Hoopla - Features interviews with Australian basketballers. The Bill Simmons Podcast - Not as good as it was years ago, as it has become too ‘Hollywood’ focused for my liking. I used to love it for the sports coverage. The Dribble Podcast - My local news outlet has a weekly show with Greg Hire, a player for my team, the Perth Wildcats. Ozhoops Radio - a rundown of results in the National Basketball League. The Ringer NBA Show - A very annoying show with annoying hosts, but there is the occasional bit of good coverage. Yes, an IBM Thinkpad - even before Lenovo bought the brand and IBM got out of the hardware game. It was a long time ago.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-11-25 19:41:57 +0800", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Nov 25, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/25/podcast-addiction.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F25%2Fpodcast-addiction.html" }, { "id": 2687, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I succumbed to one Black Friday offering, but only because I’ve had this on my wish list for about a year: the Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker (with Australian plug).\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-25 13:32:14 +0800", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Nov 25, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/25/i-succumbed-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F25%2Fi-succumbed-to.html" }, { "id": 2688, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve used Scrivener for a number of years to write work reports, but as an experiment I’m going to transition to Ulysses. The weird treatment of Markdown in Scrivener for iOS was the last straw. Ultimately my reports have to go to a Word template but Markdown helps the process.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-24 22:47:31 +0800", "date": "10:47 p.m. on Nov 24, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/24/ive-used-scrivener.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F24%2Five-used-scrivener.html" }, { "id": 2689, "type": "post", "title": "Dealing with Illness", "text": "A few months ago I was unfortunate enough to contract Glandular fever and I am still suffering the effects of it now. The virus started out as what appeared to be the flu, but after I couldn’t shake the feeling of fatigue and general malaise for weeks after the flu symptoms ended I decided to go the doctor. Subsequent blood tests confirmed the glandular fever diagnosis. Normally this is a virus associated more with teenagers, so I am surprised to have contracted it at the ripe old age of 40.\nThe impact this illness has had on my ability to work effectively has been significant. Beyond the physical problems it has been a struggle to establish mental focus and remain concentrated on a task. I have had periods of forgetfulness and an incoherent mind. Making this worse from a working perspective is that there are not any external symptoms of the problem. This can make it hard for others to appreciate the truth that I am struggling to function. In a consulting environment, it becomes hard to step away from work when there aren’t any visible health problems.\nManaging customer expectations The client-focused consulting work that I do is not particularly conducive to long periods of leave linked to sickness. My work is a conduit for the success of other people’s goals and I need to fit in with their operational timelines. I engage with companies on the premise that our work will be done in a timely fashion. Often I am fitting my work around other projects they have on the go so any delays I create can have other knock-on effects. To suddenly need to take a lengthy break because of an illness that is not visibly apparent - but is impacting my mental state considerably - is a difficult thing.\nManaging expectations in these circumstances is a challenge, because I don’t even know what I can promise in terms of timelines. The best I have found I can do is to be upfront and honest about the situation, and trust there will be a level of empathy from the client I am working with.\nManaging self-imposed pressures Even harder than managing the expectations of others are managing the expectations I place on myself. I’m self-motivated and I structure my projects and set deadlines to ensure I stay on track and maintain momentum. Having an illness that impacts my ability to meet these deadlines is a frustration that can tend to eat away at me.\nI worry that I’m letting others down, and the feeling of ‘falling behind’ is not one I like. I have to take time to remind myself that I can’t always work with maximum efficiency; that I’m a living being who will have ups and downs. I need to let go, give myself time to recover and be assured that I will be able to catch up at a later point.\nUltimately, I just need to accept that stuff will just have to wait, and sometimes there is nothing that can be done about that.\nPhone messages Finally, a note on voicemail. They are the bane of my existence even in normal circumstances. When I’m sick, and a number of them bank up, it’s even worse. Seriously, voicemail is terrible, and it should be banished. With so many other options for communication, why is voicemail still a thing?\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-24 11:55:42 +0800", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Nov 24, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/24/dealing-with-illness.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F24%2Fdealing-with-illness.html" }, { "id": 2690, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-11-23 23:57:34 +0800", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Nov 23, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/23/235734.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F23%2F235734.html" }, { "id": 2691, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working from the public library today. Makes me feel like a student again. Nice to be around people but know I’m not going to be interrupted as may happen in the office.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-22 10:24:39 +0800", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Nov 22, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/22/working-from-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F22%2Fworking-from-the.html" }, { "id": 2692, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What takes visual precedence; the jacarandas or the pile of junk?\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-20 10:11:10 +0800", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Nov 20, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/20/what-takes-visual.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F20%2Fwhat-takes-visual.html" }, { "id": 2693, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just pulled the pin and subscribed to Adobe Lightroom. No excuse not to start using the DSLR again now. Gotta get my money\u0026rsquo;s worth!\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-19 17:03:37 +0800", "date": "5:03 p.m. on Nov 19, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/19/just-pulled-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F19%2Fjust-pulled-the.html" }, { "id": 2694, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-11-19 00:32:31 +0800", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Nov 19, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/19/003231.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F19%2F003231.html" }, { "id": 2695, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-11-19 00:32:29 +0800", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Nov 19, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/19/003229.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F19%2F003229.html" }, { "id": 2696, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Glandular fever has really knocked me around today. The brain and body have out been really lethargic. Can’t wait to see the back of this lingering virus.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-15 20:41:33 +0800", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Nov 15, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/15/glandular-fever-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F15%2Fglandular-fever-has.html" }, { "id": 2697, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m trying the new version of Firefox. I haven’t used Firefox in years. It seems pretty good and perhaps might surpass Chrome as my secondary browser. It is still nowhere near as fast as Safari, though.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-15 08:19:20 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Nov 15, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/15/im-trying-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F15%2Fim-trying-the.html" }, { "id": 2698, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Busy updating my website because what else am I meant to do on a Sunday night?\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-12 22:17:50 +0800", "date": "10:17 p.m. on Nov 12, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/12/busy-updating-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F12%2Fbusy-updating-my.html" }, { "id": 2699, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "hbear and @billshortenmp at Bert Hawke dinner 🍴\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-10 04:37:36 +0800", "date": "4:37 p.m. on Nov 10, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/10/hbear-and-billshortenmp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F10%2Fhbear-and-billshortenmp.html" }, { "id": 2700, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve just set up my own ‘/now’ page.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-09 21:45:42 +0800", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Nov 9, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/09/ive-just-set.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F09%2Five-just-set.html" }, { "id": 2701, "type": "post", "title": "Home Network Architecture", "text": "Tonight I’ve sketched out my basic IT storage system and the cloud services I use on a regular basis. Ensuring that my storage network all hangs together with everything accessible from multiple devices and platforms while also maintaining redundancy through an appropriate backup strategy is not easy. I think I have my bases covered but it’s not particularly simple.\nDespite the complexity it remains a problem worth worrying about. I don’t ever want to stress about losing data. Photos especially are memories that cannot be recreated so I really want to make sure I’ve got them secured in multiple locations, while also ensuring that an accidental deletion in one location will not replicate that deletion across the entire network.\nCloud sync services My cloud sync services; iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive, all provide mechanisms to make data available across multiple devices. iCloud of course also offers additional photo sync services, and sync of device settings.\nMy work lives in OneDrive because corporations and Microsoft.\nNone of these should be considered a true backup because deletions replicate and there is limited version management. I see these as a sync platform only, and never rely on them as a backup.\nI am annoyed by the number of cloud services I am having to use. It would be great to have a single sync service to rule them all. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s going to be happening anytime soon.\nOther cloud services OmniPresence is a service that keeps documents made by OmniGroup synced between macOS and iOS. I wish I could ditch it, but I’m not entirely confident that moving these files to iCloud will work, so I continue to have it running.\nAdobe Creative Cloud is a service I’m not taking full advantage of because I still prefer the Lightroom Classic and managing photos from local storage.\nLocal storage I have a Network Attached Storage for mass storage of data, which is primarily photos and video. This is necessary because my local Mac hard drive is a relatively tiny SSD which almost always seems on the verge of filling up.\nLocal backups I maintain a few local backups:\n a Time Machine backup that is stored on my NAS. a SuperDuper! clone of my MacBook’s drive. If something goes wrong I can boot from this clone and run from that external drive, or recover files as necessary. a USB hard drive that connects to my Mac, and with the help of Chronosync, ensures that photos are copied from my NAS to this storage that is seen as a drive locally connected to my Mac1. The last resort Backblaze is my backup of last resort. If anything goes horribly wrong, I should be able to retrieve data from this location. Backblaze operates to ensure that my MacBook, and any locally attached drives, are backed up to their cloud storage, which includes all the data that is also stored across the cloud services such as Dropbox and OneDrive.\nAll this might seem like overkill but there is no way that I want to risk losing data that I can’t get back. The little bit of effort, and the little bit of money to pay for the software and services I consider a worthwhile exchange for peace of mind.\n This enables me to essentially achieve a backup of my NAS to Backblaze, a hack made necessary as they don’t support the backup of network attached storage.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-11-06 22:57:47 +0800", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Nov 6, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/06/home-network-architecture.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F06%2Fhome-network-architecture.html" }, { "id": 2702, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nothing beats an afternoon snooze. 💤\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-06 20:49:40 +0800", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Nov 6, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/06/nothing-beats-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F06%2Fnothing-beats-an.html" }, { "id": 2703, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I cannot get Mac OS 10.13.1 to successfully install. I’ve tried the direct download, I’ve cleared out failed/empty APFS snapshots, and no matter what I do, the install fails to take. I get left at a black screen and the machine just hangs. I wish I’d never updated to High Sierra.\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-04 22:31:18 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Nov 4, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/04/i-cannot-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F04%2Fi-cannot-get.html" }, { "id": 2704, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Horrorgram. #halloweencostume #latergram\n", "dateiso": "2017-11-03 05:59:33 +0800", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Nov 3, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/11/03/horrorgram-halloweencostume-latergram.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F11%2F03%2Fhorrorgram-halloweencostume-latergram.html" }, { "id": 2705, "type": "post", "title": "A Place for Everything", "text": "Over the past five years I’ve spent a lot of time learning the fundamental philosophies of a production system known as lean. I’ve read books and articles, I’ve taken a study tour to see lean in action in Japan. I’ve developed lean guides for business, and coached companies in the theory and implementation. Yet despite all of this, I still consider myself a beginner1.\nMost of my lean work has been in relation to the manufacturing sector but the principles can also be applied to healthcare, food preparation, administration, and software development, to name a few. IT has even created further derivations such as kanban and agile.\nLean origins Toyota is the company that can be credited for originally demonstrating the value of lean through their own Toyota Production System. Implemented with the help of Edward Deming after World War II, the company has embraced the lean philosophy of continuous improvement ever since. The company is now the gold standard with respect to lean implementation.\nThe theory of lean is much like an onion: there are many layers to it (and implementing it might sometimes make you cry!) Trying to emulate the Toyota Production System at the outset is an effort not worth taking, but any company can do implement some simple elements without too much trouble if they commit.\nThe best way to start To get started I recommend following the exact same advice my Grandma used to give:\n “a place for everything and everything in its place” Yes, it’s as easy as that.\nThis concept represents one of the basic tenets of 5S. 5S is all about keeping things neat and orderly within the context of a lean workplace. Make sure if you take something, use something, or move something, that it gets put back once it has served its purpose. This approach will make it easier for your future self or somebody else to find a thing in the future. It will prevent the need to buy another thing because you couldn’t find the original thing. It will reduce stress and anger when you can’t find the thing you need at the time you need it.\u2028Simply make sure everything has a home and that it always lives at home when not in use. Good tip, Grandma.\n In lean of course, maintaining a ‘beginner’s mind’ is a good thing as it keeps you open to new ideas and opportunities for improvement.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-10-30 20:52:31 +0800", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Oct 30, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/30/a-place-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F30%2Fa-place-for.html" }, { "id": 2706, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "According to my 6 year old son, the angels ‘respawned’ Jesus after he died on the cross. Too much Minecraft?\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-25 10:44:53 +0800", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Oct 25, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/25/according-to-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F25%2Faccording-to-my.html" }, { "id": 2707, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Little photographer.\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-24 19:09:56 +0800", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Oct 24, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/24/little-photographer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F24%2Flittle-photographer.html" }, { "id": 2708, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seriously contemplating buying a subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud for Photographers. New products may have put most people off but it built interest for me. It would also provide an impetus for me to get back into ‘proper’ photography.\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-24 15:53:23 +0800", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Oct 24, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/24/seriously-contemplating-buying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F24%2Fseriously-contemplating-buying.html" }, { "id": 2709, "type": "post", "title": "Micro Blogging", "text": "Twitter continues to descend into a morass of bad behaviour while simultaneously floundering in search of a viable business model that might deliver a return for the billions in capital it has consumed1. The future of Twitter does not look bright, either socially or financially. As a result, I am experimenting with other platforms for expressing my random and (inconsequential?) thoughts.\nFacebook, while having a more profitable and successful business model, is still yucky for a bunch of other reasons. These are predominantly centred around the fact that all of the content is just grist for their sales model. Facebook is a classic walled garden, and the business depends on keeping you active and contained within their domain.\nOne of the things that got me interested in the internet in the early-to-mid 1990’s was the open-ness of it all. Anybody could publish anything, and it was all equally accessible. The Internet removed the barriers created by Bulletin Board Systems and Compuserve and delivered an open, level playing field. Since then, we have gone full circle, and now we are providing our content free of charge, directly to private companies like Twitter and Facebook (including Instagram) which they are then able to monetise for their own benefit.\nMicro.blog Manton Reece has built an interesting alternative to these closed systems. With the help of Kickstarter funding, he created micro.blog. This is a system designed to allow the publishing of short posts, in the same style as tweets, but built upon a foundation of open access. In my instance, I can post an entry at micro.blog. Through the magic of RSS, micro.blog makes available a content feed but the material is actually being published and hosted via my own Wordpress blog. For the time being, I have set up a separate page from this blog to display my micro.blog entries.\nOf course, this is far from a mainstream approach. It’s not nearly as easy as setting up a new Twitter account. There is only a relatively small, pretty nerdy community using micro.blog at the moment. Of course, that’s also how Twitter started, back when it was good.\nCross-posting Discoverability of content becomes the challenge when working outside the established networks. For the moment, I still have my micro-blog entries cross-posting to Facebook and Twitter. If I didn’t do that, it’s likely that nobody 2 would be able to enjoy my witty repartee. While cross-posting is not ideal, at least I’m only providing those sites with links that track back to my own content - I’m not just feeding their machines. If I quit the service, or if they fail, I will still have my content in my possession, at my own hosted site.\nThe Open Web This concept of my content being mine, and to have it accessible outside the walled gardens created by the Internet behemoths that are private companies with their duty to act in the interests of shareholders - not users, is the essence of the open web.\nBeing able to link to content with direct URLs, and to have that content able to be indexed by search engines, is part of the open web also.\nOf course there are still financial transactions and business relationships involved but they are apparent. I pay a hosting company money. In exchange they provide me with storage space, access to a web server and a connection to the Internet. There is no middle-man, no other services are trying to monetise or advertise against my content. It’s pure and straightforward. The content remains mine, to do with as I wish.\nFinally, of course, noodling around with all of this is also a really great hobby.\n On 26 December 2013, Twitter was valued at US$39.9 billion. On 20 October 2017, it’s valued at US$13.2 billion.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; As opposed to a tiny few.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-10-23 21:35:45 +0800", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Oct 23, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/23/micro-blogging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F23%2Fmicro-blogging.html" }, { "id": 2710, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just hanging out.\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-22 13:12:26 +0800", "date": "1:12 p.m. on Oct 22, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/22/just-hanging-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F22%2Fjust-hanging-out.html" }, { "id": 2711, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-10-21 22:20:35 +0800", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Oct 21, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/21/222035.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F21%2F222035.html" }, { "id": 2712, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just had to visit the Coca Cola Australia website to understand all the variants of Coke. Surely if that’s necessary, your product marketing is a fail? Their new livery is terrible too.\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-21 20:37:06 +0800", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Oct 21, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/21/i-just-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F21%2Fi-just-had.html" }, { "id": 2713, "type": "post", "title": "Part 3: My Business Philosophy", "text": "This is the final of a three-part series focused on explaining my business philosophy. Parts One and Two are also available.\nOn my home page I call out my personal business philosophy:\n Andrew's business philosophy is built upon the value of mutual respect, the skill to leverage process for continuous improvement, and the ability to ultimately achieve self-actualisation. Self-Actualisation My philosophical statement finishes with the rather grand sounding ambition of achieving self-actualisation. I will elucidate what self-actualisation is and why I consider it so important that I place it as the anchoring element of my philosophy.\nEtymology The concept of self-actualisation was brought into broad awareness when it was presented as the pinnacle of Abraham Maslow\u0026rsquo;s Hierarchy of Needs.\nMaslow\u0026rsquo;s rationale was based upon the understanding that only after the more immediate human needs are taken care of, is there capacity to focus effort on what brings us satisfaction and joy.\n Maslow explicitly defines self-actualisation to be \"the desire for self-fulfilment, namely the tendency for the individual to become actualised in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.”1 Fortunately, in my country and its society there is a reasonable (but not guaranteed) chance to achieve the lower rungs of Maslow\u0026rsquo;s hierarchy. This unlocks the potential to aim for and potentially achieve that final goal of self-actualisation.\nBuilding a framework I don\u0026rsquo;t see self-actualisation as an end-point; as the win achieved at the conclusion of a life-long progression up the hierarchy of needs. I believe we can reach the point of self-actualisation early and often, but what it is represented by will change over time. As we move through the stages of our life, commencing with childhood, then into the teens, marriage, career building, parenting, middle age and senior citizenship, different experiences will facilitate the goal.\nThe degree to which we are realising self-actualisation is likely to ebb and flow over time. Building a framework for our life that supports personal growth and improvement will help ensure a reasonable chance of reaching periods of self-actualisation even as we deal with the trials and tribulations thrown at as by life.\nWithout a structure and a consistent philosophical and ethical approach to life to fall back upon in challenging times it is less likely that consistent self-actualisation will be achievable.\nMeasuring success Society has a tendency to measure success by outward facing and tangible measures such as wealth, fame and status. I prefer to think about success as the achievement of one’s potential and the personal joy imbued from doing what makes us happy. Precisely what the activity is that delivers said joy will vary as we grow and change. Exactly what it is matters less than the feeling it provides.\nAt one point of my life, playing basketball delivered a feeling of self-actualisation. Then later it was finding flow in a work assignment. Now it is linked to experiences of successful parenting. I am sure it will be other things later. None of these achievements are important to others2 but that doesn\u0026rsquo;t mean I am not being successful in my own right. If we are seeking external validation it will a frustrating and largely unrewarding experience, because that\u0026rsquo;s not delivered with any regularity.\nThe journey is the reward There is no prize for \u0026lsquo;winning life\u0026rsquo;. External plaudits cannot be the arbiter of a life well-lived. We have been gifted a single life which even at the most optimistic is probably going to span less than 100 years. Against the timeline of humanity we are but granted a short window of opportunity. To bring meaning and purpose to our time on the planet we may as well participate with an aim of achieving joy and self-satisfaction.\nIt doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter how many symbols of success we collect along life’s journey. The true measure should be our own happiness and fulfilment. Recognising each day as a gift to be enjoyed and maximised is a path towards self-actualisation. Find your joy, wherever it may be.\nBringing the philosophy together So, ultimately, I like to think that in respect of my business philosophy:\n Mutual respect will help avoid many worries, anger and pettiness that can derail us as we build a career and/or a business. Establishing a process for continuous improvement will free our mind to focus on truly meaningful work, rather than busy work. By adopting a respectful approach to others and having a focus on always getting better, a person can grow self-confidence, self-satisfaction and their enjoyment of life in its entirety, which will form a pathway towards achieving self-actualisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; Apart from my kids, who at this point assign no value to this. I hope the payoff will come much later.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-10-21 14:38:13 +0800", "date": "2:38 p.m. on Oct 21, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/21/part-my-business.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F21%2Fpart-my-business.html" }, { "id": 2714, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just taught the Apple Store staff that you can fold an iPad Smart Keyboard such that the keyboard isn’t visible. I could get a job!\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-20 13:05:19 +0800", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Oct 20, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/20/i-just-taught.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F20%2Fi-just-taught.html" }, { "id": 2715, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tesla is apparently struggling to get lean manufacturing working. Doesn’t matter how good the product is if the company can’t make it.\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-16 14:05:13 +0800", "date": "2:05 p.m. on Oct 16, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/16/tesla-is-apparently.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F16%2Ftesla-is-apparently.html" }, { "id": 2716, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a great resource to discover the true relative size of different countries The True Size.\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-13 09:40:19 +0800", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Oct 13, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/13/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F13%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 2717, "type": "post", "title": "Part 2: My Business Philosophy", "text": "This is the second of a three-part series focused on explaining my business philosophy. Part One is also available.\nOn my home page I call out my personal business philosophy:\n Andrew's business philosophy is built upon the value of mutual respect, the skill to leverage process for continuous improvement, and the ability to ultimately achieve self-actualisation. Leverage Process for Continuous Improvement I am a big believer in the value of process. This can be the big, organisational processes that dictate how companies do things, like build a component, or undertake customer service, or issue a refund. Or process can be an individual’s personal to-do list that helps them to get things done on a daily basis. Ideally the latter should represent a subset of the former but I think we are probably some way from that ideal being standard practice.\nWhen processes are documented they provide an anchor point as to the way things are done now. That’s not to say that it is the way things will always be done. In fact, changes to processes should be welcomed. However, a documented process enables everybody involved to have a shared understanding of how things should be done. If something goes wrong it should be evident where the process broke down. That can enable improvements to improve efficiency and simplify things for those involved.\nEmbrace change A process should never be considered a finalised product. Stagnation is the enemy of improvement. No way of work should be considered beyond reproach. No process should be sacrosanct.\nA current process is merely the way in which one group of people at one point in time thought would be the best way to achieve an outcome. With new information, new technology, changed inputs, or changes in customer demand, there might be a need to change the process to achieve a better — or just different — outcome. Go ahead, make the change. The only way to drive improvement is to change stuff. Otherwise, you already know what you’re going to get before even starting. Repeating this approach of making and trialling small changes, over and over again, is how to achieve better outcomes.\n Trial and error and small incremental improvements are the crux of continuous improvement. Once a process of documenting processes and updating this documentation upon each change is established a traceable (and reversible) process history is created. In software development, this is standard practice - managing versions and being able to compare code differences is a key element of development and debugging.\nMore generalised process management can benefit from a similar approach. Make a change and see if it works. If things get better after the change, stick with it. If things get worse, revert the changes and try something different.\nProcess at a personal level At a personal level I implement process management for my own work. I rely primarily on OmniFocus to manage standard operating procedures for projects that are repetitive in nature. I use project templates that enable a framework to guide work that is similar in nature. As I learn and discover better ways of doing things I refine and improve my templates.\nThis makes my work more effective in the short-term because I don’t have to think about the how/when/where’s of the repetitive work elements. Instead I can focus my energy on doing great work on the value-adding elements of the project that matter to my clients.\nFacilitating creativity At first blush, the concept of defined processes can seem staid and boring. In actuality it is freeing. Defined and documented processes allows people to forget about thinking about the steps to achieve a goal and instead allows them to focus on using their skills and expertise to add value to create a better end product.\nProcess doesn’t restrain creativity; it unleashes it. For this reason it forms the key middle component of my personal business philosophy.\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-09 20:19:58 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Oct 9, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/09/part-my-business.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F09%2Fpart-my-business.html" }, { "id": 2718, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🤓\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-09 17:28:36 +0800", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Oct 9, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/09/172836.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F09%2F172836.html" }, { "id": 2719, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Front garden. #spring #bluesky #nofilter\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-08 00:44:32 +0800", "date": "12:44 p.m. on Oct 8, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/08/front-garden-spring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F08%2Ffront-garden-spring.html" }, { "id": 2720, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a really great video about human psychology and imposter syndrome. youtu.be/ypXwioZXU\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-05 22:26:17 +0800", "date": "10:26 p.m. on Oct 5, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/05/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F05%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 2721, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s the final Bintang. #bali\n", "dateiso": "2017-10-01 00:59:30 +0800", "date": "12:59 p.m. on Oct 1, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/10/01/its-the-final.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F10%2F01%2Fits-the-final.html" }, { "id": 2722, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chair chill. #booj\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-30 21:32:51 +0800", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Sep 30, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/30/chair-chill-booj.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F30%2Fchair-chill-booj.html" }, { "id": 2723, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On a hot date with this chick. #bali #envy\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-30 04:45:35 +0800", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Sep 30, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/30/on-a-hot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F30%2Fon-a-hot.html" }, { "id": 2724, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just one day left. 😩\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-29 19:21:52 +0800", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Sep 29, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/29/just-one-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F29%2Fjust-one-day.html" }, { "id": 2725, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still relaxing.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-29 17:38:34 +0800", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Sep 29, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/29/still-relaxing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F29%2Fstill-relaxing.html" }, { "id": 2726, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On this holiday I’ve been reading Deeprak Chopra’s Life After Death. A very thought-provoking read which I recommend to all. We are all going to go through it someday.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-28 11:47:50 +0800", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Sep 28, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/28/on-this-holiday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F28%2Fon-this-holiday.html" }, { "id": 2727, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m on holiday, enjoying this location all the while hoping that the volcano of Mt Agung doesn’t blow\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-26 20:33:32 +0800", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Sep 26, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/26/im-on-holiday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F26%2Fim-on-holiday.html" }, { "id": 2728, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Building maps based on time needed to get there. Mapbox Blog.\nThe live interactive map is great.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-22 14:17:04 +0800", "date": "2:17 p.m. on Sep 22, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/22/building-maps-based.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F22%2Fbuilding-maps-based.html" }, { "id": 2729, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My MacBook/iPhone/iPad setup has just been featured at The Sweet Setup. My thanks to them for allowing my setup to grace their site.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-18 23:11:12 +0800", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Sep 18, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/18/my-macbookiphoneipad-setup.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F18%2Fmy-macbookiphoneipad-setup.html" }, { "id": 2730, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This article by Riccardo Mori provides a fantastic representation of my own thoughts on iPhones 8 and X. I like that he doesn\u0026rsquo;t take the \u0026ldquo;tech blogger\u0026rdquo; view of thinking an annual hardware refresh is appropriate user behaviour.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-18 19:33:34 +0800", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Sep 18, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/18/this-article-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F18%2Fthis-article-by.html" }, { "id": 2731, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As somebody with super white skin, I love Spring. It\u0026rsquo;s my summer; I can enjoy the warmth of the sun without suffering 3rd degree burns.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-18 12:25:34 +0800", "date": "12:25 p.m. on Sep 18, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/18/as-somebody-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F18%2Fas-somebody-with.html" }, { "id": 2732, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not loving the iPhone X. If I was going to buy a new iPhone, I think I would choose the iPhone 8 Plus. As it stands in reality, I\u0026rsquo;m sticking with my work-supplied iPhone SE.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-14 23:08:00 +0800", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Sep 14, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/14/im-not-loving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F14%2Fim-not-loving.html" }, { "id": 2733, "type": "post", "title": "Part 1: My Business Philosophy", "text": "This is the first of a three-part series focused on explaining my business philosophy.\nOn my home page I call out my personal business philosophy:\n Andrew's business philosophy is built upon the value of mutual respect, the skill to leverage process for continuous improvement, and the ability to ultimately achieve self-actualisation. Mutual Respect To make progress in this world we need teamwork and co-operation. High performing teams are built around trust and respect for one another.\nEven in a competitive environment there can be mutual respect. If you are beaten by a better performer, there is value in recognising their success and then using that as motivation to improve your own performance. Winners should stay humble and respect the competition that may not have succeeded this time, but might get the better of them next time around. Staying humble helps build respect.\nManagerial respect If a manager wants to get the most out of their employees, I believe they need to demonstrate respect and understanding for those they are asking to undertake the work. Acting with respect will build trust in leadership. Without trust it is difficult to achieve anything great. Time and and focus will be lost to people questioning what ulterior motives are in play, what forces might be working against them, and how to move into a position to win. More time is spent focused on self-preservation than on achieving team success. In such an environment it is unlikely that the team will be high-performing.\nA manager who respects their employees is likely to create a team with better camaraderie, better stability and a desire to deliver great outcomes.\nEmployee respect Employees need to understand that their managers may be seeing the situation from a different vantage point. After climbing the organisational tree, the view from that altitude often looks very different. Much like a general might take to an elevated vantage point to survey the field, a manager may have a perspective on things that can\u0026rsquo;t be perceived at ground level.\nAn employee needs to appreciate and understand that the manager is likely to be balancing multiple competing pressures, and have respect for that challenge confronting their manager. This respect through understanding will help both parties.\nRespectful reciprocity A manager and an employee; co-workers and colleagues; buyers and sellers; all of these relationships rely on mutual respect to operate effectively. Each is a participant in a process chain. Mutual respect is about working to make the life of others a little easier, and a little better. This establishes a positive reciprocal relationship. If somebody is respectful towards me it is likely I will treat them with respect in return. Everybody enjoys a better experience.\nI believe that demonstrating respect for colleagues is the foundation for all other elements of business. If you don’t treat others with respect, it’s unlikely you will go far. Others aren\u0026rsquo;t likely to be willing to go out of the way to provide help and support if you haven\u0026rsquo;t been respectful on the way through. Nobody gets to wherever they are alone. We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before. Acting with respect offers a chance for others to stand on ours.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-14 11:49:38 +0800", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Sep 14, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/14/part-my-business.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F14%2Fpart-my-business.html" }, { "id": 2734, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been actively avoiding the Mac rumour sites because I don\u0026rsquo;t want to spoil my own surprise for the iPhone event. I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t want to be the Apple employee who leaked the information. I wonder if he\u0026rsquo;ll ever get another job anywhere again.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-11 22:35:19 +0800", "date": "10:35 p.m. on Sep 11, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/11/ive-been-actively.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F11%2Five-been-actively.html" }, { "id": 2735, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been in the flow of writing. I look at the clock and realise that two hours has passed by.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-10 23:08:25 +0800", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Sep 10, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/10/ive-been-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F10%2Five-been-in.html" }, { "id": 2736, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gave up on the cruddy D-Link DVA-2800 router. Demoted it to bridge status and brought my AirPort Extreme back into service.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-10 16:49:56 +0800", "date": "4:49 p.m. on Sep 10, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/10/gave-up-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F10%2Fgave-up-on.html" }, { "id": 2737, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just added JSON feed to my blog, despite the fact that I don\u0026rsquo;t think I have any RSS subscribers. But I must be ready for the impending hordes.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-10 09:00:11 +0800", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Sep 10, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/10/just-added-json.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F10%2Fjust-added-json.html" }, { "id": 2738, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spring appears to be arriving in my front garden.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-09 13:25:23 +0800", "date": "1:25 p.m. on Sep 9, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/09/spring-appears-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F09%2Fspring-appears-to.html" }, { "id": 2739, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seems like spring may have arrived.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-08 23:06:40 +0800", "date": "11:06 p.m. on Sep 8, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/08/seems-like-spring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F08%2Fseems-like-spring.html" }, { "id": 2740, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m mucking around with blog template themes again. Trying to find a nice clean format that will look good for longer posts and micro blogs alike.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-08 20:57:54 +0800", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Sep 8, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/08/im-mucking-around.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F08%2Fim-mucking-around.html" }, { "id": 2741, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s been fun to discover some new (to me) bloggers through micro.blog and in so doing, revitalise my RSS reader.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-08 20:37:44 +0800", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Sep 8, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/08/its-been-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F08%2Fits-been-fun.html" }, { "id": 2742, "type": "post", "title": "The Business of Glengarry Glen Ross", "text": "I love the movie Glengarry Glen Ross. I’ve never seen the stage play, but the movie seems to be a faithful translation and its actors are all top shelf, so I’m willing to accept it as canonical1.\nDespite the dated nature of the film’s setting, much continues to ring true about the circumstances in which the protagonists find themselves. Desperate times, leading to desperate measures, with each character dealing with the same adversity in their own varied ways.\nThis could be considered an accurate reflection of the human condition when people are put within an organisational structure that is essentially a manufactured construct with appointed \u0026lsquo;leaders\u0026rsquo; and abstracted hierarchy. Each person has their own motivation and varying degrees to which they will go to get what they want. At some point, teamwork will collapse as individuals strive to assert themselves and \u0026lsquo;win\u0026rsquo;, putting self before team. It becomes a case of the prisoner\u0026rsquo;s dilemma.\nBesides the deep conflict that propel the movie, there are some other scenes that also neatly capture smaller elements of working life. When I’m talking to somebody on the phone to schedule a meeting, I’m sometimes ever so tempted to pause and say, “Oh Grace, would you mind checking my schedule”, just to proffer the illusion that it’s more than just me and BusyCal managing the load.\nAlec Baldwin’s performance as the slick sales consultant rings true, and as much as it is a comedic moment, the enjoyment is almost excruciating given the truth behind the message. It is one that sticks with me and even does help from time to time in reality. That lesson, “A. B. C. - Always Be Closing”. Sometimes this forms part of my internal monologue when I\u0026rsquo;m talking to people!\nThe Glengarry Leads Ultimately, what everybody in the movie wants is possession of the Glengarry leads. The good leads. In my work, I also want the Glengarry leads. I want introductions to the firms that are going to understand what my offer is, sign up, and work in a positive way through to conclusion.\nIt would be great for management to dish out some of those good leads. Don’t hold them back, share them out! This is where I think reality diverges from the plot of the movie. More often than not, I think reality is that management doesn’t actually have any Glengarry leads. They might have a nice stack of cards that look like they\u0026rsquo;re going to be great leads but if you were to examine them there may be a good chance they are more Glen Ross than Glengarry. Really, the promise of the Glengarry leads is simply a motivational method to drive sales of whatever dreck does exist. \u0026ldquo;Deal with what we\u0026rsquo;ve got, and then you will get something better\u0026rdquo;, is a fairly basic motivational ploy.\nThe problem is that better doesn’t necessarily exist; at least not in the hands of management. If you really want the Glengarry leads, you’d best go out and find them yourself.\n Despite the addition of the non-theatrical Alec Baldwin scene.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-09-06 22:12:03 +0800", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Sep 6, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/06/the-business-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F06%2Fthe-business-of.html" }, { "id": 2743, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ice cream, check. Blanket, check. Bunny, check. Okay, we\u0026rsquo;re good to go.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-06 18:25:23 +0800", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Sep 6, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/06/ice-cream-check.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F06%2Fice-cream-check.html" }, { "id": 2744, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Diving deep into website development minutiae now: favicon generation.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-05 22:04:16 +0800", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Sep 5, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/05/diving-deep-into.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F05%2Fdiving-deep-into.html" }, { "id": 2745, "type": "post", "title": "Internet Services Worth Paying For", "text": "On the Internet there is a weird user expectation that everything should be free. Over the past couple of years I\u0026rsquo;ve been bucking this trend and have determined that spending a bit of money on what is both a hobby and an integral part of my existence in our modern, connected world is something I\u0026rsquo;m willing to throw a bit of money towards.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t want to be the product; I want to be the customer. Paying money for a service to avoid my usage being a vector to sell advertising is a trade-off I am happy to make.\nThe other nice thing about paying for services is that it facilitates access to genuinely useful customer support. As a paying customer companies tend to care a little more about ensuring satisfaction. Having problems solved by a system administrator instead of wasting my own time futzing about can make a subscription worthwhile. I value my time, and where money can buy time, I\u0026rsquo;m in.\nI thought I\u0026rsquo;d take a quick audit and look at the areas online where I am willingly paying money in favour of a free option.\nCiao Google The biggest change was a move away from many Google services. While Google offers its GSuite as a paid option (and a pretty good one at that), I elected to go a different route.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve always preferred native apps and have never loved the Gmail web interface. As a free service it\u0026rsquo;s fine but if I\u0026rsquo;m paying real money I don\u0026rsquo;t want to be spending it on something I don\u0026rsquo;t enjoy using.\nIf I were an Android user, the Google situation might be more compelling. On iOS, however, there always seems to be a little friction between what Google wants and what Apple is prepared to give.\nSo I bid adieu to Google, and took my business elsewhere.\nMy Paid Providers Mail \u0026amp; Calendars: Fastmail. I evaluated Office 365, GSuite and Zoho when making the choice. I only wanted really good email and calendars; I didn't need online storage, office applications, and other bolt-on services. I like that Fastmail is an Australian firm and that it has a focus on standards compliance. Domain registration: Zuver. The little brother of VentraIP. It is a great no-frills option, and they were having a product sale when I signed up. Web hosting: VentraIP. Another Australian company that offers great support service. Their servers are fast and I am provided a web hosting solution that is perfect for my needs. Personal finance: YNAB. Our family is in the best financial position of all time thanks largely to YNAB. No arguments about money in our home! The cost of this service is a pittance compared with the value (both monetary and stress relief) it has delivered. Password security: 1Password for Families. The best security is not even knowing your own passwords. I am totally willing to pay to ensure all my online accounts (plus credit card details, etc.) are unique, random and locked down. It's peace of mind. Entertainment: Netflix and Spotify. I'm hardly a special snowflake here, right? Broadcast media is dead to me. Photo Storage: iCloud 50Gb. Apple has me over a barrel here. Despite maintaining local backups, the ubiquity of photos being available to all my devices is too good not to take up. Bits and Bobs I also pay for a few other subscription apps and online services but I don\u0026rsquo;t consider them to be part of my \u0026ldquo;infrastructure\u0026rdquo; so am not going to list them all here.\nThe Customer is the One Who Pays Money makes the world go around. It pays employee wages, funds infrastructure acquisition and incentivises the implementation of new ideas. I\u0026rsquo;d rather be a direct customer paying my own way, and helping companies do good work than rely on the largesse of search and banner advertising to underwrite my online activity.\nWhile I pay the bills, I call the shots. This is true in all business, and online services shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be seen any differently.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-04 23:39:48 +0800", "date": "11:39 p.m. on Sep 4, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/04/internet-services-worth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F04%2Finternet-services-worth.html" }, { "id": 2746, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In preparation for the deluge of web traffic I will no doubt achieve, I\u0026rsquo;ve just successfully connected my site to Cloudflare and Railgun. Overkill for the win! Major kudos to my web host, VentraIP for a bit of support along the way.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-04 21:08:30 +0800", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Sep 4, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/04/in-preparation-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F04%2Fin-preparation-for.html" }, { "id": 2747, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s a hard luck life.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-04 20:47:24 +0800", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Sep 4, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/04/its-a-hard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F04%2Fits-a-hard.html" }, { "id": 2748, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Starting to enjoy the concept of micro blogging. Even created a simple URL at micro.andrewcanion.com\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-04 16:36:04 +0800", "date": "4:36 p.m. on Sep 4, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/04/starting-to-enjoy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F04%2Fstarting-to-enjoy.html" }, { "id": 2749, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Father\u0026rsquo;s Day; here featuring The Booj.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-03 23:25:42 +0800", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Sep 3, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/03/fathers-day-here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F03%2Ffathers-day-here.html" }, { "id": 2750, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@manton Does a username have to be at the beginning of a post for the user to be notified, or can it be within the text of a micro.blog post?\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-02 22:23:07 +0800", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Sep 2, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/02/manton-does-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F02%2Fmanton-does-a.html" }, { "id": 2751, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@matthew Thanks for the MicroBlog for Mac app. I\u0026rsquo;m interested to watch as it develops.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-02 22:13:55 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Sep 2, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/02/matthew-thanks-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F02%2Fmatthew-thanks-for.html" }, { "id": 2752, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Going to Bunnings with a 21 month old kid is a challenge. Not once did Benjamin want to go where I needed to go.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-02 12:37:13 +0800", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Sep 2, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/02/going-to-bunnings.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F02%2Fgoing-to-bunnings.html" }, { "id": 2753, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Father\u0026rsquo;s Day breakfast at school with obligatory selfie. Loved my bow tie!\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-01 23:32:27 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Sep 1, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/01/fathers-day-breakfast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F01%2Ffathers-day-breakfast.html" }, { "id": 2754, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Going to Bunnings with a 21 month old kid is a challenge. Not once did Benjamin want to go where I needed to go.\n", "dateiso": "2017-09-01 21:38:08 +0800", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Sep 1, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/09/01/going-to-bunnings.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F09%2F01%2Fgoing-to-bunnings.html" }, { "id": 2755, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting a pair of custom made RM Williams boots really softens the blow of turning 40.\n", "dateiso": "2017-08-31 06:34:35 +0800", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Aug 31, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/31/getting-a-pair.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F31%2Fgetting-a-pair.html" }, { "id": 2756, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hello world! My first micro.blog post. I\u0026rsquo;m on the cutting edge of social networking on the open web.\n", "dateiso": "2017-08-29 21:25:55 +0800", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Aug 29, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/29/hello-world-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F29%2Fhello-world-my.html" }, { "id": 2757, "type": "post", "title": "DNS Drama", "text": "The internet relies on DNS servers that do the dirty work of translating human readable domain names to something that makes sense to a device on a network, which is where you see four sequences of numbers separated by a period.\nI have been updating my homepage at andrewcanion.com such that it displays the three latest blog posts I have published by leveraging the RSS feed generated by Wordpress. RSS feeds provide a method for other sites and services to subscribe to the work of the site offering the feed. Each new entry is included in the RSS feed, and for my homepage, I grab the latest three entries for prominent display.\nWhat should have worked, didn’t I had assumed that this would all work well until I stumbled across a strange problem. My site would only occasionally load and display the article entries contained within the feed. Other times the articles would not display, instead pausing in a state of permanent loading. I tried the site across a number of devices, and a number of browsers to eliminate a problem existing at the device level. As they all exhibited the same issue I presumed the problem must be occurring at a deeper level of the network.\nI examined the source code of my site and it appeared to be fine. I checked to make sure the Yahoo API that grabbed the RSS feed and translated it for use on my home page was still active, and it was.\nNext I tried connecting to the site through a VPN, which makes it appear that my point of origin was somewhere other than through my own internet connection. When using a VPN the site loaded every time. This was great to discover, as it moved me another step closer to the identifying the problem.\nThat problem had to be related to my ISP (or in the new nomenclature of Australia’s NBN, my RSP). Somehow, that provider must have been causing a problem because when I routed around them with the VPN (on any device) my site loaded completely. Yet when I visited the site on any of my devices that didn’t connect through the VPN there was a problem.\nMy theory is that my RSP is aggressively caching content to attempt to reduce global bandwidth consumption and that this is preventing my RSS feed from updating correctly. If my caching theory isn’t correct, then it must be some other shenanigans they are up to at the network level, no doubt to reduce their bandwidth bill.\nApplying the fix To resolve the problem I needed to reduce my reliance on my provider’s infrastructure. That meant transitioning to a different DNS provider rather than using the default, which is the DNS server of my RSP. I chose to connect to OpenDNS. Basically this means I have traded in the internet lookup tables that came with my broadband subscription in favour of an offering from a third party whose primary business it is to provide good DNS. Through the nature of their product and their business model they are incentivised to provide excellent DNS services. It is their core business. For my RSP, however, the provision of DNS services is a necessary sideline and their key driver is not to deliver excellent routing, but rather to use it as a point of leverage to reduce their own bandwidth costs to improve the profitability of their company.\nAs soon as I switched to OpenDNS my site loaded perfectly in every browser, on every device. My detective work had paid off and my willingness to not accept the defaults has improved the situation.\nThe only potential downside I was worried about was that OpenDNS might be a little slower to resolve sites simply because the distance to their server might be further than the default DNS server. I needn’t have worried though, because if anything, I think it might be a little bit faster.\nThe lesson Companies all share an incentive to maximise profitability. How they go about achieving this can vary greatly depending on their product and their business model. My internet provider only needs to provide a service that is ‘good enough’ for the majority of normal customers that want to browse the web and check Facebook. If they can deliver that to satisfaction and save some money on the back-end with caching and other network tricks, they’ll do it, even if it creates some edge-case problems.\nI’m an edge-case and I wanted excellent DNS services. To get these I had to go to a company that is incentivised to provide quality DNS management. For them, only by delivering on that promise can the business generate revenue and grow its own profitability.\nThe character of Lester Freeman sums this up in this slightly NSFW scene from The Wire.\n Follow the money.\n", "dateiso": "2017-08-27 21:23:42 +0800", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Aug 27, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/27/dns-drama.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F27%2Fdns-drama.html" }, { "id": 2758, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-08-27 00:56:38 +0800", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Aug 27, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/27/005638.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F27%2F005638.html" }, { "id": 2759, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-08-27 00:56:37 +0800", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Aug 27, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/27/005637.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F27%2F005637.html" }, { "id": 2760, "type": "post", "title": "Mindfulness Meditation", "text": "I’m not one for new year’s resolutions but at the beginning of this year I decided to try incorporating mindfulness meditation into my life. This was an idea brought about by a feeling that I was living life in a semi-permanent state of anxiety; feeling the pressure of the now and the next thing to be done that was sneaking up behind that. I figured that some mindful meditation might offer a way in which I could carve out some time to intentionally slow myself down and try to alleviate some of that perceived stress.\nTo facilitate the practice of meditation, I found Headspace. After enjoying the free trial I subscribed to an annual plan. Since my purchase, I’ve also discovered (but haven’t tried) a free, Australian equivalent, Smiling Mind.\nAs somebody who had never traversed the path of mindfulness and meditation, I had no idea what to do, how to do it, nor what to expect from it. The great thing about Headspace is that it assumes this is the case for its new users. The app provides a helpful introductory course that helps guide one into the technique and its potential benefits.\nFor the first few months, I was intentional about carving out 10-15 minutes each day for the exercise. Within a couple of weeks I found it had a positive impact on my state of mind, and each day I looked forward to the time where I could intentionally sit and do nothing. However, life being what it is, after about five months I found I was going days without meditating, and the habit that had been forming once again dissipated.\nIn the last few weeks, I’ve made another conscious effort to undertake a session of meditation each day and once again I am enjoying the benefits it confers. Now, heading towards the end of August, my total meditation time recorded in the Headspace app is at about 1,000 minutes1 which equates to a bit less than 17 hours.\nIn these days of hyper-connectivity and a constant barrage of (often self-inflicted) interruptions, we are lacking quality time for ourselves. It’s hard to ‘unplug’ from the world. In response, taking a few minutes out of each day to dedicate to my own peace of mind seems a sensible investment. The greater sense of calm I feel after a mindfulness meditation session helps with focus thereafter and so the time ‘lost’ to the meditation activity is quickly made up through increased productivity. Plus, nobody is so important that they can’t be incommunicado for 15 minutes, especially me!\n although some of those minutes belong to my kid who enjoyed listening to a session as he fell asleep at night.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-08-22 19:51:18 +0800", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Aug 22, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/22/mindfulness-meditation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F22%2Fmindfulness-meditation.html" }, { "id": 2761, "type": "post", "title": "Love of the Open Web", "text": "While I’ve grown up on the Internet, I also remember the pre-internet era well and spent most of my formative years there. I was a kid who was able to get a modem and connect it to the text-only world of Bulletin Board Systems and Usenet (when Usenet was a service for discussion, not just binaries). I spent hours exploring these worlds, finding like-minded people, and expanding my horizons as to what computers could enable by way of communication and engagement.\nI was so excited on the day I got my own internet-based email address, until I realised I had nobody to email.1 Nevertheless, it was still a thrill to have the possibility of contacting anybody else in the world who may also have happened to have an email address. The open nature of email was really the first indicator of the power of the open internet.\nAs time went by, I kept up with the technology of the time. I remember skipping accounting classes at university because I was having more fun in the Unix labs browsing the web with Lynx. Later in my uni career, I would be skipping classes and browsing the web with an early version of Netscape Navigator. It was slow, but it was the future and I wanted a piece of it. The only web sites that were around at that point were really published by other geeks and there was a real sense of open exploration of what could be achieved. I still have memories of the early IMDB site, and even then the amount of information available was astounding.\nThe next port of call for me on my journey through the open web was blogging. I operated a since-departed (photo)blog that managed to gain a bit of traction and traffic over the few years that I ran it. This was back when hand-coding and CSS tweaking was a necessity, and there was no thought of, or need for, responsive design. Eventually though, I got tired of the whole thing and shut it down. I kept a text archive of the posts which I still have somewhere, and little bits of it remain at the Internet Archive. Sometimes, though, I wish I had been a better archivist of my own work even if just so I could look back on it from time to time.\nAfter this time the web became ‘socialised’, in that all the action was on various social media platforms, be it MySpace(!), Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… the list goes on. The problem with all of these sites, though, is they are not open. Far from it; their motivation is to keep both you and your content captive to their walled garden so they can sell advertising based on your eyeballs.\nThese sites do not reflect the open web that I’ve always loved. I miss the days of easily-shareable content, where all that was required was a URL. I really wish that content wasn’t so reliant on companies as content platforms and that so much of the content wasn\u0026rsquo;t published simply as a means of monetising the attention of others.\nThis is why I am particularly interested in the currently-in-development micro.blog service. This appears to have the potential of offering the best of both worlds: the ease of use of social media, but with the open web philosophy that I so appreciate. Unfortunately I wasn’t part of the original Kickstarter project, so I don’t have any early access. I have, however, signed up to be notified and am following the developers RSS feed closely to watch it’s development. I really hope that it gets some genuine traction, and that this can lead to real-world success.\nI know that we can\u0026rsquo;t go back to the way things were. The internet will never again be the Wild West, inhabited only by the zealot explorers. Now it\u0026rsquo;s a platform for everybody, and the commercial money isn\u0026rsquo;t going away anytime soon. Yet I will keep my RSS reader and maintain the search for those independent voices that I can follow who create and deliver interesting, independent content.\n Even before social media, the network effect was still relevant.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-08-19 13:48:14 +0800", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Aug 19, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/19/love-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F19%2Flove-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2762, "type": "post", "title": "On Charlottesville, VA", "text": "I am not an American, but my father and my siblings were born and lived in the USA. I have visited the country a number of times. I have spent time in Virginia, notably Lexington, which is about 70 miles away from Charlottesville, the town that has been tragically in the news this past week. While I don’t have the level of connection to the place that a United States citizen has, I do watch with interest and feel that I have at least some level of understanding of the American psyche.\nFrom my perspective, what I saw in Charlottesville was a collection of white men who have been radicalised to the point of fanaticism and enabled by political leadership to intimidate and strike fear in others to their own ends. In a modern country it should never be reasonable for civilians to put on body armour and walk the streets with automatic machine guns. Carrying Nazi flags, performing Nazi salutes, and walking with burning torches1 echoes many sad and inglorious historical moments, from Hitler and WW2 to the KKK and acceptance of slavery (and the power imbalance in favour of white people that that confers).\nI can only imagine what would have happened if non-white people had walked the streets similarly armed and garbed. I think there would have been an even more extreme response; which in itself highlights a level of underlying, unspoken racism that permeates the culture. I can\u0026rsquo;t help but think that if roles were reversed, and it were black people carrying machine guns in the street, that it would be seen as an uprising. Based on recent US police behaviour it might also have been possible the police would have been willing to shoot to kill.\nNext we have the horrible situation of a young man driving a car at speed into a laneway filled with people. Such behaviour cannot be condoned and the fact that some are attempting to mount excuses and justifications is frightening in itself, particularly if they believe their own professions. That was an act of terrorism, fuelled by hate, which i assume was itself fuelled by the fear of losing power and relevance in society. As far as I can tell, that man, and his equivalents, are fearful that their position in the world is being disrupted and their reactionary response is to imbibe hate and act with extreme prejudice.\nAs for the President, I am of the view that he has incited and encouraged this vein of hate, then turned a blind eye to the subsequent despicable actions of his acolytes. It took him three days to speak out against the actions (via a prepared speech), and then a day later he couldn’t live with that being his official position so he backtracked, showing his true colours. That he should be President of the USA is an entirely strange and sad situation.\nA key reason (but not the root cause) for this uprising is said to be in honour and respect of General Lee, a man of regard for Southerners. Yet times change, and who we should and do venerate must also change. The problem is, enacting that change means rebalancing the power relationship amongst the citizens of the United States, and particularly the South. As a result those threatened most by such change2 and who are most at risk of \u0026lsquo;losing\u0026rsquo; as a result of any rebalancing are lashing out with extreme aggression in a sad and sorry attempt to maintain the status quo.\nChange will happen. The clock cannot be turned back. Time and culture moves ever forward, even though this Charlottesville incident represents a step back. In the end I believe the tide of change will win out. I genuinely hope that tide brings equivalency to all citizens of the United States, irrespective of the colour of their skin, and that peace wins out.\n Albeit tiki torches that look like they were bought at Lowe's and probably made in China.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; That is, white men.\u0026#160;\u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-08-16 20:07:08 +0800", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Aug 16, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/16/on-charlottesville-va.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F16%2Fon-charlottesville-va.html" }, { "id": 2763, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s Daddy and the Booj.\n", "dateiso": "2017-08-14 03:26:03 +0800", "date": "3:26 p.m. on Aug 14, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/14/its-daddy-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F14%2Fits-daddy-and.html" }, { "id": 2764, "type": "post", "title": "Subscription Pricing for Apps", "text": "The corner of the internet that I inhabit has been up in arms about yet another app, Ulysses, switching to a subscription-based pricing model. From the perspective of the developers trying to build a successful business this probably makes a lot of sense. The business analyst in me applauds them for finding an approach that will smooth revenue flows and help fund future development.\nBut changes like this can have unintended, or at least unforeseen, consequences. To my mind, the key question is how many users will switch over to this model? The developers may discover the addressable market shrinks considerably as their app will suddenly have a lot less appeal to hobbyists who are not earning revenue through their use of the app. They will probably sell subscriptions to authors and professional bloggers, but will that offset the losses? Did the developers truly understand the size of the market who would be willing to play for on-going use of the software?\nUser Centricity I fear that developers are not taking a user-centric view to the subscription conundrum. Subscription revenue no doubt looks great in spreadsheet models with its recurring revenue. However, let\u0026rsquo;s apply the \u0026lsquo;job to be done\u0026rsquo; approach to this issue, from the perspective of the end-user. I suggest that the job to be done is to provide a mechanism that will let me take notes that are ubiquitously available, and write occasional blog posts to be published to Wordpress. Boiled down further, the job to be done is text editing and organising.\nSo my choice is not to subscribe to Ulysses or not. My choices range from open source text editors, to Apple Notes, to a word processor, or an alternative subscription-based product. If I didn\u0026rsquo;t want to blog, I could get by with a paper notebook and a pen.\nIt also creates a further issue in that it will reduce the likelihood that I will bounce between a number of apps. Up until now, I had decided to use Ulysses for blogging, Bear for notes, Scrivener for work reports, and DEVONThink for research and storage. I\u0026rsquo;ve paid for all of these apps.\nWith subscriptions becoming more prevalent, I will have to reduce my app consumption because I don\u0026rsquo;t want to be on the hook every month for apps that I may not use. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to reduce my personal free cash flow by paying a swathe of subscriptions, particularly for apps that are essentially supporting a hobby that generates no income. I will become more selective in my software choice. My overall long-term expenditure on software may decline. If many users have the same opinion, then the overall market activity is going to decline. The outcome becomes worse for all developers.\nAs I said earlier, unintended consequences.\nMy Choice This whole subscription brouhaha has led me to review my note-taking writing structure, and I\u0026rsquo;ve decided to rely on another subscription app I pay for, Bear. Those developers charge less for a very similar product, and they were up-front about the software being subscription-based from the outset. In my opinion, Bear has a nicer look and better reflects Markdown styles. The only thing I lose is direct-to-blog publishing. However, I can pretty easily copy or export text in Markdown or HTML, both of which can be directly pasted into the Wordpress CMS.\nBy choosing another subscription-based product, I demonstrate that I\u0026rsquo;m not entirely against recurring costs. But if I can have one recurring cost rather than two, then I\u0026rsquo;m all for that.\nMy situation is a real-world example of user-side app rationalisation that I think is likely to occur at scale, with the onset of subscription pricing.\n", "dateiso": "2017-08-12 22:31:56 +0800", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Aug 12, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/12/subscription-pricing-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F12%2Fsubscription-pricing-for.html" }, { "id": 2765, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Opened my Lego case for the first time in 30 years. Last thing I built still in there. #timecapsule #lego #masterbuilder\n", "dateiso": "2017-08-12 20:43:19 +0800", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Aug 12, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/12/opened-my-lego.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F12%2Fopened-my-lego.html" }, { "id": 2766, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wouldn\u0026rsquo;t eat lasagne but was happy to smash the yoghurt himself.\n", "dateiso": "2017-08-12 03:44:06 +0800", "date": "3:44 p.m. on Aug 12, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/12/wouldnt-eat-lasagne.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F12%2Fwouldnt-eat-lasagne.html" }, { "id": 2767, "type": "post", "title": "The Business Speedometer", "text": "Trying to run a business without useful and accurate performance information is like trying to drive a car without a speedometer. Sure, you will be able to guesstimate how fast you are going, and sometimes you’ll even get it right. You might even get away with a bit of speeding! Most of the time though, you will be driving at the wrong speed. You will either not be taking full advantage of the car’s performance or you’ll get a speeding ticket.\nIn a business sense, running a company without timely and accurate performance reporting may deliver occasional success, but it’s not a recipe for long-term sustainability. A lack of insightful reports detailing costs, sales, productivity and profitability generated through effective data capture at the source is likely to result in a lack of insight about what is critical to the company’s success.\nCosts and Pricing Production costs and pricing can be deceptive. Clearly, a firm must ensure ensure that the price they charge the customer accounts for the costs of the people and equipment directly involved in the production process. That price, however, also needs to have a sufficient margin attached to it such that it encompasses a share of all other cost overhead of the business, from rent and electricity, to paying for accounting and staff training. Furthermore, it has to incorporate a profit margin that will enable the business to retain some earnings for future investment and deliver a dividend to the investors/owners. Suddenly, the per unit price being charged needs to be much higher than may have initially been thought.\nWithout accurate information it can be easy to lose track of how effective this balance between price and cost is. Cross-subsidisation of profits across activities and products is another challenge. Soon enough, it can be almost impossible to understand what profit is being generated from each element of work. This can result in a situation occurring where both people and machinery are busy but the company loses money anyway. To avoid this frustrating eventuality, a business needs to ensure it is capturing and collating business information that will generate alerts at the time such a situation arises. Otherwise the problem will remain hidden and by the time it is discovered it will be too late to react with impact. Now the business is chasing its tail with the next piece of work not only having to cover all the standard costs but also make up for the losses incurred by the earlier work.\nIdentify Issues at the Source If problems are only identified when complete revenue and expenditure figures are entered and aggregated within end of month financial reports, it is too late. Management needs to stay ahead of the game. A good manager needs to ensure that the business is capturing information throughout the production process, and that this information is able to deliver insights about the productivity, performance and profitability of its activities at any point in time.\nJust as the job of a car’s speedometer is to provide real-time feedback, a business also needs to be able to read and react to its own (as close to) real-time performance. Without this structure the business is not being put in the best position to succeed, irrespective of any other activities underway.\n", "dateiso": "2017-08-07 21:41:46 +0800", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Aug 7, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/07/the-business-speedometer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F07%2Fthe-business-speedometer.html" }, { "id": 2768, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spotted the office plaque of my old school friend.\n", "dateiso": "2017-08-05 22:38:18 +0800", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Aug 5, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/05/spotted-the-office.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F05%2Fspotted-the-office.html" }, { "id": 2769, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-08-05 17:39:32 +0800", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Aug 5, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/08/05/173932.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F08%2F05%2F173932.html" }, { "id": 2770, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Haircut, check. 18 month vaccination, check. Not one cry during the jabs. Check!\n", "dateiso": "2017-07-31 21:08:49 +0800", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Jul 31, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/07/31/haircut-check-month.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F07%2F31%2Fhaircut-check-month.html" }, { "id": 2771, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Brrrr. Canberra!\n", "dateiso": "2017-07-20 05:43:21 +0800", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Jul 20, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/07/20/brrrr-canberra.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F07%2F20%2Fbrrrr-canberra.html" }, { "id": 2772, "type": "post", "title": "Entropy in Business", "text": "Entropy is the loss of energy in a system to the point that it is no longer available for doing mechanical work. It is the reversion to mean; nature’s effort to return everything to stasis.\nEntropy is occurring everywhere, all around us. It is a fact of our life. Companies are fighting entropy as well. Without concerted effort and capital being invested, and ensuring there is talent deployed throughout all levels of the business, the expectation is they will wither and die. People working within companies are also fighting their own entropic decline. Over time, people get bored, burnt out or generally lose interest in their job, which can lead to a decline in performance.\nTo fight entropy in business you need new inputs of energy. This can come from bringing new employees into the firm, who have new ideas and ways of thinking that can jolt the business and offer new opportunities. The business can find new products and markets and establish challenging goals to feed motivation and drive performance. Another option is investing in business improvement and better systems to automate work, thereby transferring the risk of entropy to machines and information technology, and away from individuals.\nThe laws of nature define that entropy cannot be defeated, but we as humans have become very adept at fighting it. Within companies, the fight against entropy also rages, and its the job of the board and management to set a direction and focus effort towards initiatives that will motivate the organisation to continue to battle to keep it at bay. The problem is that entropy is incessant. Companies need to continually guard against its debilitating effects, or suffer the inevitable consequence of decline.\n", "dateiso": "2017-07-12 21:44:17 +0800", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Jul 12, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/07/12/entropy-in-business.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F07%2F12%2Fentropy-in-business.html" }, { "id": 2773, "type": "post", "title": "Comments are Enabled", "text": "So as an experiment, I have enabled comments for the site. I\u0026rsquo;m not totally convinced that it\u0026rsquo;s a good idea, and fear that managing spam may outweigh any possible benefits. Nevertheless, in true scientific fashion, let\u0026rsquo;s run the experiment.\nAs for the real readers, play nice, okay?\n", "dateiso": "2017-07-03 23:09:36 +0800", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Jul 3, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/07/03/comments-are-enabled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F07%2F03%2Fcomments-are-enabled.html" }, { "id": 2774, "type": "post", "title": "Turning my Kid into a Meme", "text": "My lovely wife took a humorous photo of our son having a babyccino, a classic drink in Australian coffee shops these days, purpose designed for the little ones.\nThe photo was super-cute and funny in its own right, but I couldn’t resist turning it into an image macro meme. I like to think it makes a funny photo into something just a little better.\n\n", "dateiso": "2017-07-03 20:08:52 +0800", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Jul 3, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/07/03/turning-my-kid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F07%2F03%2Fturning-my-kid.html" }, { "id": 2775, "type": "post", "title": "Now You CV Me", "text": "In a further effort to establish andrewcanion.com as a genuinely useful resource for all things pertaining to me, I have now included a page dedicated to showcasing my curriculum vitae.\nI was looking at my current CV a few days ago which still exists as a Word document based upon a custom design I cooked up about 15 years ago. Since it\u0026rsquo;s creation I\u0026rsquo;ve just continued to add to and tweak the design rather than build a new document. This \u0026lsquo;lazy man\u0026rsquo; approach has been made easier by not actually moving jobs very often. Turns out, staying put has some advantages!\nMy CV, though, was an artefact of a paper-based era. I wanted to have something that was more dynamic, and a little more design-oriented that could offer some visual queues about the relevant stages of my career to date.\nThe de facto place for online CVs in the work world that I occupy is LinkedIn, so of course I keep my record of employment there. It\u0026rsquo;s where recruiters, acquaintances and stickybeakers all go to check out your professional bonafides. The cold hard truth is, however, that LinkedIn is just another social network funded by venture capital that is leveraging your information and privacy to sell advertising and \u0026lsquo;premium\u0026rsquo; memberships. So if I\u0026rsquo;m promoting myself, I also want to be able to do that on a site which I own and control completely, and that isn\u0026rsquo;t using my information to make money for others.\nSo the first version of my self-hosted CV is now online. I\u0026rsquo;m sure I will continue to tweak and adjust it, but that\u0026rsquo;s part of the fun. It\u0026rsquo;s a resumé and a creative outlet all rolled into one.\n", "dateiso": "2017-07-02 17:37:37 +0800", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Jul 2, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/07/02/now-you-cv.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F07%2F02%2Fnow-you-cv.html" }, { "id": 2776, "type": "post", "title": "Day One Goes Subscription", "text": "So Day One has become the next software application to adopt a subscription pricing model. This app developer has monkeyed around with its price/product offering for some time, and Day One has always been towards the expensive end of the curve for what could harshly be described as a glorified text editor. I guess it was inevitable they would ultimately end up converting to a subscription model in an effort to smooth revenue flow. Currently the developer is stating it will continue to support the current app and won\u0026rsquo;t force a move to the subscription version, but there is no doubt the first foot has fallen. At some point, I\u0026rsquo;m sure the other shoe will drop and it will be subscription or bust!\nI\u0026rsquo;m not against subscription-based business models for software. I pay subscription fees for YNAB, Setapp, 1Password, Fastmail, Headspace, and maybe some others. I am willing to pay for software that I use and enjoy, and that satisfies my own price/value decision matrix.\nDay One\u0026rsquo;s announced subscription seems expensive, especially when converted to Australian dollars. Expensive enough that rather than happily paying to carry on with an app I have used for more than 4 years, I am instead casting around for alternatives. The best and most immediate alternative I can see is to move my journaling to Ulysses. I\u0026rsquo;ve found a Workflow, ah, workflow that auto-populates date, time and location into a neat header box so the journal entry has a basic level of context. What I would lose from Day One is the pretty and additional metadata and the journaling-specific user interface. Photo import can be replicated, albeit perhaps not quite as seamlessly. The major problem with Ulysses is that it just doesn\u0026rsquo;t feel like a journaling app - at least not yet. Maybe I would get used to it in that context with time?\nAs mentioned, I\u0026rsquo;ve used Day One consistently for four years, and it has gained enough of a mental grip on me that I might miss it were I to migrate. Still, there is a limit to the number of subscriptions my budget can handle. When I have other, fully paid apps just waiting to be used, it becomes difficult to justify paying yet more money on an on-going basis.\nI\u0026rsquo;m probably still on the fence right now, but Ulysses may be taking the lead\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2017-06-29 23:41:09 +0800", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Jun 29, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/29/day-one-goes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F29%2Fday-one-goes.html" }, { "id": 2777, "type": "post", "title": "The Weekly Plan", "text": "I consider the two fundamental resources in work planning to be:\n The calendar The to-do list The calendar represents the hard landscape: events that are non-negotiable, time-based and require you to be doing a certain thing, at a certain time, at a certain place, possibly with another certain person. If it\u0026rsquo;s in the calendar, it\u0026rsquo;s a certainty. Calendar entries are commitments to yourself and possibly others.\nThe to-do list is used to track tasks needed to be done to move the ball forward. The list is potentially filled with a lot of items that may not necessarily be linked with one another. They are commitments to yourself, but they are not tied to being done at a particular time and don’t generally require the involvement of others. I use OmniFocus for managing my task list, but it really doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter what is used, as long as there is a trusted location to track everything to be done.\nAs a general rule, I’m not a fan of putting tasks onto calendars. I think they are two distinctly different things that should exist in their own dedicated spaces. However, like any good rule, there are times when this rule should be broken.\nLeveraging multiple calendars The beauty of using modern electronic calendar systems is they support multiple calendars. The classic and most obvious application of this is creating seperate work and home calendars. In addition to these staples, however, it can be helpful to create a weekly plan calendar.\nEach calendar\u0026rsquo;s visibility can be toggled on and off, depending on the needs of the moment.\nUsing the weekly plan calendar can facilitate the addition of tasks onto a calendar view without gunking up your regular calendars that represent real physical events and commitments. This leads to the next step: time blocking and setting commitments for your future self.\nTime blocking The purpose of time blocking is to help establish a plan for a forthcoming period of time and build accountability for your time. The idea is to create work sessions that are linked directly to items on your task list. Transferring tasks to a calendar and applying estimated timeframes in the form of a timed calendar entry can help build a visual map of work to be done. Visualisation is a great tool to help identify whether your to-do list is realistically achievable in the time available. It can also help enforce urgency by indicating how potentially little time is available for meaningful work. Finally, it can be a reward system. If you get ahead of your schedule, you\u0026rsquo;ve earned yourself some relaxation time, safe in the knowledge that you aren\u0026rsquo;t falling behind!\nMy approach I generally reserve the time blocking approach for when I have a lot going on, and I\u0026rsquo;m starting to feel overwhelmed by it all. Ideally, at the start of the work week I will set aside half an hour, and look at my calendar of commitments. These are the scheduled events with other people that are locked in (usually weeks in advance) and that I need to fit all my other work around.\nThe next step is identifying the tasks that represent the \u0026lsquo;big rocks\u0026rsquo; that I need to progress. What projects need to move forward this week? What are the tasks that need large sessions of time to get into a flow?1\nOnce I understand what time slots I have available for task-based work, I start creating related events on my weekly plan calendar, filling my days more completely. I need to take some care here though. I\u0026rsquo;m not an automaton, so it is important not to schedule every last minute of time. Doing that is just setting myself up to fail. In any week, unexpected things are bound to arise and time will be needed for this stuff, in addition to the general administrative tasks of email, communications, management issues, and so on.\nWith the weekly plan calendar populated and tessellated with my other calendars, I end up with a clear picture of my work week. At any point of time I know what I can and should be working on. I know that if I stick to the plan I set for myself, I will be closer to my goals at the end of the week than I was at the beginning. It\u0026rsquo;s a practical approach to personal accountability.\nThe overhead of doing this planning is not always worth the effort, but when lots is happening and it feels like control is being lost, this is a great way to reassert your plans and ensure that the important is not being overwhelmed by the urgent.\nWriting is a great example of this - you can't really do it for 30 minutes here and there; you need a solid chunk of several hours. \u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-06-26 11:07:20 +0800", "date": "11:07 p.m. on Jun 26, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/26/the-weekly-plan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F26%2Fthe-weekly-plan.html" }, { "id": 2778, "type": "post", "title": "Moving to Ulysses", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve decided to go all-in with Ulysses for my writing. I\u0026rsquo;ve been a Scrivener user for the longest time, but writing in Markdown is now more relevant to me than rich text, and Ulysses makes writing in this format easy and enjoyable. Ulysses' iCloud sync is also much less annoying than Scrivener\u0026rsquo;s modal Dropbox sync.\n", "dateiso": "2017-06-25 22:29:35 +0800", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Jun 25, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/25/moving-to-ulysses.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F25%2Fmoving-to-ulysses.html" }, { "id": 2779, "type": "post", "title": "Hardware Decisions are Hard", "text": "In the aftermath of Apple\u0026rsquo;s WWDC conference and an almost unprecedented number of new pieces of hardware have been released at what is theoretically a software development conference, I get to do some imaginary shopping.\nFor the past 18 months, Apple\u0026rsquo;s hardware lineup has been so out of date (except for iPhone, of course) that I\u0026rsquo;ve not even wanted to buy anything with imaginary money. They\u0026rsquo;ve righted the ship now, but in doing so are almost listing to the other side. Now it\u0026rsquo;s so difficult to identify the perfect device, I\u0026rsquo;m paralysed by choice.1\nmacOS With regard to the Mac lineup, the 5K iMacs with P3 panels and Kaby Lake processors represent the first time I\u0026rsquo;ve been tempted by a desktop computer in about a decade. Combining this with extended iPad use as a mobile platform could actually work, come iOS 11.\nBut laptops are still the most flexible option. The MacBook (Adorable) is becoming competitive and is so diminutive, but it is still hamstrung by having a single port and when stacking price against performance, perhaps a MacBook Pro is the better option. The MacBook (Escape) is probably the pick here. Touchbar seems like a dead end that the market nor developers are excited by. Yet only the Touchbar models have TouchID which is a useful feature.\nSo, in terms of macOS, the most sensible use for my imaginary money is to keep it in my pocket and instead wander over to the iOS table, and see if this is an easier decision. My existing 2013 MacBook Pro has a few more years left in it, anyway.\niOS This is the Apple cash cow platform, so what have they got to sell me? In terms of iPhones, I\u0026rsquo;m not even looking. Work provides me with an iPhone SE which is a form factor I quite like for basic tasks, and I\u0026rsquo;m not about to absorb another phone contract. Anyway, this is not an iPhone release event, so let\u0026rsquo;s move to iPad.\niPad I\u0026rsquo;ve been a believer in iPad since it was released and I put in my pre-order as soon as the online store switched to pre-sale. I\u0026rsquo;ve been wanting to upgrade my iPad Air, and the first compelling reason to do that was the iPad Pro 12.9\u0026quot; (1st gen). But then the iPad Pro 9.7\u0026quot; was released and everything got out of sync with what model had what features. I knew the sensible thing to do was wait for the next revision.\nMy waiting has paid off, because these are the devices I\u0026rsquo;ve dreamed of. Beautiful 120Hz ProMotion displays, accelerated Pencil sampling and come iOS 11, proper support for multitasking. Yes, I want one! But which one? The 10.5\u0026quot; looks to be everything I could want, until I realise it doesn\u0026rsquo;t support two full screen iPad apps side-by-side. One of them has to use the iPhone view controller. That does not fit with my productivity needs.\nSo it looks like it falls to the iPad Pro 12.9 (2nd gen). This has all the power I want, but I will be trading off couch comfort. Where is my Goldilocks iPad?!\nMissing the four quadrant product matrix When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and started its turnaround, one of the first things he did was rationalise the product line down to a four quadrant matrix. It was simple: on one axis, professionalconsumer, on the other axis, laptopdesktop. Here was enough breathing room between each of the specs and the prices of these machines that it became quite easy to choose which was for you.\nNow, as Apple\u0026rsquo;s product line expands, they have a much larger matrix. This has resulted in overlaps across price, capability and function. Is the iPad a suitable laptop replacement; or is a laptop a necessary complement to an iPhone?\nWith my imaginary money, I think my decision is to keep my MacBook Pro and replace my ageing iPad Air with an iPad Pro 12.9\u0026quot;. That should be enough to keep me going for the next year or two, at which point solving the computer problem will be a more pressing problem which I hope, by that time, has a more apparent solution.\nThey have become a perfect example of the theory of paradox of choice. \u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-06-20 10:40:49 +0800", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Jun 20, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/20/hardware-decisions-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F20%2Fhardware-decisions-are.html" }, { "id": 2780, "type": "post", "title": "More Productive on a Mac", "text": "A good tradesman values his tools, and generally has a preference for one piece of equipment over another.\nIn my trade, the computer I use is my primary tool. My tool of choice is a Mac. I am able to be so much more productive on a Mac because it’s the tool I know inside out. Over years I have customised how the operating system works, added on various tools, and generally made it work even better for me than it does out of the box.\nUnfortunately, in my organisation Windows remains king. My employer doesn’t have a formalised Bring Your Own Device policy, but at least in recent years they have made WiFi available for staff, although it is firewalled from the main networks.\nCorporate IT versus innovation Employees are assigned Windows-based equipment to staff, and only company-issued hardware is supported by IT. Only their Windows devices are able to connect and authenticate directly with the official network. These devices are also completely locked down so the user cannot install or customise these platforms to suit their own needs or abilities. This is based on the assumption that a worker will only ever want Microsoft Office, and the overriding preference for corporate IT to make their job easier.\nI think this approach stifles of innovation. The use of applications that go beyond Office can allow for employees to discover more creative solutions to problems. If the only tool you have is Word/Excel/Powerpoint, then every problem has to be resolved in the same limited way. Yet I love mind-mapping with iThoughts, then using OPML to move the concepts between a map and an outline in OmniOutliner. I am faster using Launchbar than the Mac’s Finder (and infinitely quicker than using Windows Explorer!). I have Keyboard Maestro1 and Hazel managing the system and moving files and folders around automatically on my behalf. I write long-form business reports in Scrivener. Then, I can use all the hooks across the Apple ecosystem to establish synchronicity with an iPad 2. All of this customisations represents innovation that makes me more efficient, but all of it is in circumvention of corporate IT. If I limited myself to a Windows PC I would be worse at my job. I wouldn’t be happy if my carpenter was forced to use a junky Ozito saw for all his work, and I don’t see why knowledge workers are so often limited in the same way.\nFirms need to move with the times With the move to more cloud services, firms have the opportunity to release the reins on device management. Establishing and supporting a Bring Your Own Device policy becomes much easier when the device simply becomes a node connecting to cloud storage, email, and so on. If a company doesn’t support an employee’s efforts to expand their creativity and efficiency, they are likely to lose their most productive and creative people.\nAlso, consider the next generation of workers that have been brought up on phones running mobile operating systems. If a business doesn’t effectively support a multi-device, syncing approach, they may find that younger workers truly struggle to manage.\nWritten by a Perth developer who lives just a few minutes away from me. \u0026#8617; Unfortunately, corporate IT strike again with the iPhone. They installed an MDM profile that prevents all use of iCloud - even for syncing of preferences and settings. \u0026#8617; ", "dateiso": "2017-06-19 10:16:40 +0800", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Jun 19, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/19/more-productive-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F19%2Fmore-productive-on.html" }, { "id": 2781, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That way!\n", "dateiso": "2017-06-13 00:32:24 +0800", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Jun 13, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/13/that-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F13%2Fthat-way.html" }, { "id": 2782, "type": "post", "title": "Personal Kanban", "text": "What is Kanban? Traditional Kanban boards are used in manufacturing and other production environments to help visualise the flow of work and bring to attention any potential backlogs or other issues that might impact upon efficiency or productivity. When I travelled to Japan a few years ago as part of a study tour on lean manufacturing, I witnessed all sorts of kanban boards in operation to help provide factories with necessary production information. The essential premise of a kanban board is to demonstrate the flow of work along the value chain of production. At the fundamental level, the kanban board starts with a column for ‘work to be done’, then one for ‘work in progress’, before the work task exits the value chain as ‘completed’ work. Visually, a simple kanban board will have these elements drawn as columns on a whiteboard with a series of sticky notes representative of each element of work. As the work progresses, the sticky note is physically moved along the kanban board.\nKanban boards can be used more broadly than in just manufacturing environments. More recently, software development has adopted many of the processes and tools of lean manufacturing, including kanban boards, in the design and implementation of agile, scrum and other team-based development methodologies.\nPersonal Kanban I have an interest in kanban at a more atomic level - that is, how can the use of kanban boards help an individual to understand and visualise their own personal workflow. For knowledge work, understanding where somebody is at with work projects and having a grasp as to whether the situation is under control, or at risk, can be hard. I’ve recently been reviewing my own productivity management system to see if I can better implement personal kanban myself, to help me understand just how much work I have at any one time, and how my own ‘backlog’ is looking.\nMy Technical Implementation I previously wrote about OmniFocus and how that brilliant application keeps me on track. Into that I have now created some kanban contexts, and tied these to a kanban perspective. [caption id=\u0026ldquo;attachment_52\u0026rdquo; align=\u0026ldquo;alignnone\u0026rdquo; width=\u0026ldquo;214\u0026rdquo;]My OmniFocus kanban contexts[/caption]\nThis helps me work on my task list by seeing my backlog of items, seeing what is currently active, and being able to work on them to completion.\nWhile OmniFocus is excellent, one of its key weaknesses is reporting and data presentation. It helps manage work brilliantly, but it doesn’t do so well at providing context. Not a management report is to be seen, other than being able to create any combination of list.\nTo help with visualisation, I’ve had to turn elsewhere. I have recently revised a few Trello boards that I use to help visualise my workflow, simplifying the board design and ensuring there was a very clear ‘left to right’ flow. In the process of updating Trello, I investigated a few other online kanban boards (namely Kanban Tool and LeanKit) to ensure there wasn’t a better option for me, but the best experience remains Trello.\nMy final step was to really nerd out by leveraging the hard work of Jan-Yves Ruzicka who has built a Ruby library called Omniboard. If you have the capability to install Ruby, and the MacOS developer tools, Omniboard can create a fantastic graphical presentation of your OmniFocus data. This is output as a single, stand-alone HTML file which can be saved to Dropbox and thereby made accessible from any device at any location.\n[caption id=\u0026ldquo;attachment_51\u0026rdquo; align=\u0026ldquo;alignnone\u0026rdquo; width=\u0026ldquo;1163\u0026rdquo;]OmniFocus data presented in Omniboard[/caption]\nTo fully automate the process, my final task was to have Keyboard Maestro executes a shell command to update the Omniboard file on a regular basis. This ensures I have a regularly updated personal kanban board based on the activity and progress I have recorded in OmniFocus.\nThe Point Being? The ultimate outcome of all this tinkering is that I now have: a tactical view of my to-do list in OmniFocus; a visual representation of my workflow in Omniboard; and independent high-level strategic kanban boards operating separately in Trello. If clarity of information is important to managing workloads, then I am now in a much better place than before implementing these changes. You may not wish to go this deeply down the rabbit hole, but I have found it any interesting exercise in designing a workflow system that not only helps me get stuff done, but let’s me see how much capacity I have to get more stuff done. ", "dateiso": "2017-06-12 12:27:32 +0800", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Jun 12, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/12/personal-kanban.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F12%2Fpersonal-kanban.html" }, { "id": 2783, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Friday afternoon in the park.\n", "dateiso": "2017-06-09 04:03:02 +0800", "date": "4:03 p.m. on Jun 9, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/09/friday-afternoon-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F09%2Ffriday-afternoon-in.html" }, { "id": 2784, "type": "post", "title": "Budgeting and YNAB", "text": "I’ve always been a money tracker. I still have ledger books from when I was 14 years old, with my handwriting tracking my money in and out. I would reconcile it to my bank savings account with little ticks.\nI think I learned this habit watching my Mom as she would carefully manage the family finances at the kitchen table.1 There was never enough money to go around (not that I was aware of that at the time), so much of my Mom’s job was timing cheque payments, deferring bills, and calculating how much, if any, might be left over for the week. Such was life for a divorced mother of four living on not much more than a pension and without any support from her former husband and father of the aforementioned children.2\nAs I grew and got my first part-time job, my money-tracking ways continued. Each week I would record my income, and understand how much money I had available to get me through to the next week.\nI got a bit older, graduated university and got a real job. By this point I had graduated to electronic money tracking. For a short while I used Microsoft Money, before settling on Quicken and using it for years. Each year, they would release a mediocre upgrade and I would pay the license fee to keep using it. Year after year that software got worse.\nI got married and we took a traditional approach to finance by merging our money. What was mine was hers, and what was hers was mine. Fortunately, my money tracking addiction could continue since while my wife is financially aware, she didn’t have a compelling urge to record and reconcile the way I did!\nEventually Quicken became so terrible that I couldn’t bring myself to pay for it anymore. This was a dark time. There was no compelling software to adopt so I rolled my own Excel spreadsheet and used that. This was probably the first time since my ledger books that I wasn’t recording transactions. Instead, I tried to take a high-level approach by using a budgeting/forecasting model. It felt like it was working at the time but in hindsight we fell into a bit of a financial hole without realising it. We were relying on future income to cover past expenditure - what is referred to as ‘riding the credit card float’.\nAbout 3 years ago, I realised that my carefully managed spreadsheet was busy work that was actually not helping us meet our goals. I did another software review and this time I found the application that changed everything: YNAB (short for You Need a Budget). YNAB took me back to my roots. It required transaction monitoring and was backed by a ledger that needed to be reconciled. But the magic trick of YNAB is that first and foremost, it is a budgeting system. As much as I had tracked money for all those years, and generated my income and expenditure reports, it was always backwards looking. I was auditing what had already happened, but not making commitments about what my money should do in the future. YNAB completely changed my perspective on personal finance management.\nYNAB is all about giving jobs to the money you have on hand right now. You budget that available cash down to zero, then stop. You don’t live on the credit card float. You don’t plan to spend more than you have. You allocate the money to a series of planned expenditures, and then track progress against that. If you overspend you get immediate feedback and can adjust your budget through reallocation - as YNAB says, you ‘roll with the punches’.\nWhile this seems like short-term budgeting, it actually facilitates long-term goal realisation. You suddenly realise how finite your cash supply is, especially after accounting for those recurring bills and putting money aside for the big annual bills3. With the little amounts that are left over after setting money aside for the necessities, you can make some hard decisions about what you want to do with that discretionary cash.\nSince using YNAB we have never been in a more solid financial position. We can pay all our bills as and when they fall due (even the big ones). We can save and invest for our family’s future. We can set aside money for fun.\nThe best thing of all, though, is that we do not fight about money. We have no nagging money stress between us. We share our income, we share our expenses, and we share our savings goals and spending intentions.\nAfter having managed my money very carefully for almost 30 years, this is the best it’s ever been. I endorse YNAB wholeheartedly. Get it, use it, love it!\nThis was the pre-computer era, when every task people did was so much more visible. ↩ I will never cease to appreciate how my Mom was able to keep it together under such difficult circumstances. ↩ Think insurance, school fees, council rates. All the 'oh, crap' moments! ↩ ", "dateiso": "2017-06-02 21:48:09 +0800", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Jun 2, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/02/budgeting-and-ynab.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F02%2Fbudgeting-and-ynab.html" }, { "id": 2785, "type": "post", "title": "A Recent Customer Story", "text": "I recently worked with Asterisk Information Security on their Entrepreneurs' Programme Business Evaluation. Asterisk provide information security advice, services and infrastructure to other companies.\nThe owners are dedicated to their craft and are really working hard to grow and improve their company. Through the Business Evaluation process we dug deep into their business model and identified a number of ways to improve the business even further. What’s more, is the Entrepreneurs' Programme also provided them with $20,000 of government funding to help make their plans a reality.\nOur work has been so successful that we wrote up a case study of our engagement with the business.\nIf you think your Australian firm would benefit from this free of charge service, please don’t hesitate to contact me.\n", "dateiso": "2017-06-01 11:05:24 +0800", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Jun 1, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/06/01/a-recent-customer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F06%2F01%2Fa-recent-customer.html" }, { "id": 2786, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Park contemplation.\n", "dateiso": "2017-05-31 21:06:36 +0800", "date": "9:06 p.m. on May 31, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/05/31/park-contemplation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F05%2F31%2Fpark-contemplation.html" }, { "id": 2787, "type": "post", "title": "Canion’s everywhere", "text": "The Canion family’s website game is strong. My brother has launched his new website at http://patrickcanion.com/.\nIf you’re looking for a Canion on the Internet, between Patrick and I, we’ve got you covered.\n", "dateiso": "2017-05-31 12:10:59 +0800", "date": "12:10 p.m. on May 31, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/05/31/canions-everywhere.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F05%2F31%2Fcanions-everywhere.html" }, { "id": 2788, "type": "post", "title": "Fastmail", "text": "I was one of the first on the Gmail bandwagon. Back when the only way to get an account on the service was to receive an invitation code from somebody else already using it. I remember desperately asking around my networks, until I finally found somebody who was able to supply me with a code - I was in!\nHaving an @gmail.com address was a point of pride. You were a cool kid with a cool email address, and not one of those sad hotmailers, embarrassing yahooligans, or a joker advertising your local ISP. Using Gmail was also transformational. It was probably the first web app that was genuinely better than desktop software. It was fast, had quick keyboard shortcuts, huge storage (1Gb at launch!), and of course your email archive gained the power of Google search.\nTimes were good. Google kept adding features, making the service better. It added storage so you really could just archive email. But over time, Gmail began to acquire cruft. It became less efficient and it started to frustrate me. The tagging system impacted IMAP compatibility and caused annoyances syncing with local mail clients.\nThe most frustrating aspect for me was it\u0026rsquo;s half-hearted approach to supporting custom domain names. Early on, it seemed as though Gmail were onboard with people using custom domains. As time passed though, the business imperative took over and they shifted full custom domain support to their GSuite paid service. So my @andrewcanion email would generally reveal its true Gmail nature, which annoyed me.\nA couple of months ago, I decided enough was enough. It was time for a change. I wanted to find an email service that supported custom domains, that would support proper IMAP, offer push email, that would respect my privacy and not sell advertising based on my email, and be a reliable and good service. All of this necessitates payment, and at this stage of my life, I\u0026rsquo;m okay with that.\nAfter reviewing a few options, including GSuite, Office 365, Zoho and Rackspace, I ultimately chose Fastmail. Their service ticked all the boxes and offered one extra bonus - they are an Australian company. So I could buy local (albeit in US dollars).\nSo far, the service has been brilliant. Their web app is great, their documentation brilliant, and their customer service quick and accessible. It\u0026rsquo;s amazing how much better a service can be when you are a real, paying customer.\nI\u0026rsquo;m at the point now where I actually want more email! I don\u0026rsquo;t think I\u0026rsquo;ve ever said that before.\nIf you are looking to upgrade your email experience, I highly commend Fastmail. If you use my referral code to sign up, you also get a discount. I am sure you will not be disappointed.\n", "dateiso": "2017-05-20 21:50:39 +0800", "date": "9:50 p.m. on May 20, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/05/20/fastmail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F05%2F20%2Ffastmail.html" }, { "id": 2789, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What happens when Dad does the washing. Sorry @hbear - honest mistake. #cashmereshrinks\n", "dateiso": "2017-05-17 20:50:08 +0800", "date": "8:50 p.m. on May 17, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/05/17/what-happens-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F05%2F17%2Fwhat-happens-when.html" }, { "id": 2790, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Loving the latest Lego. Good things happen when you eat lots of vegetables.\n", "dateiso": "2017-05-12 22:08:55 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on May 12, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/05/12/loving-the-latest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F05%2F12%2Floving-the-latest.html" }, { "id": 2791, "type": "post", "title": "OmniFocus", "text": "I have a vision of myself without the support of OmniFocus. I’d be wandering around in a semi-permanent state of confusion, wondering what the heck I should be doing with my time and trying to keep all the ‘to-do’s’ of my life active and remembered in my brain. The stress of it all would be horrible!\nInstead, I have OmniFocus. This application acts as my external brain, keeping all my various projects and tasks ordered, across all my areas of responsibility. It syncs across my Mac, iPhone and iPad so that I can know what I should (and can) do at any point in time. It keeps me on track with my work, bringing up tasks to do at the right time, and keeping them out of my sight when there’s nothing I can do to move the project forward.\nI have been on the OmniFocus bandwagon for years, but I’ve been on the “Getting Things Done” bandwagon for even longer. I think I started using that way of managing my work in about 2003. Now, I can’t imagine working, living or thinking about my stuff to be done in any other way.\nI have been an active user of OmniFocus since before it was OmniFocus, and was instead just a user-generated add-on for OmniOutliner. The app is just so fantastic to use. Of course, it does have it’s foibles, and the biggest problem is aligned with the biggest problem of GTD in general these days, which is ubiquitous context. When GTD was developed, you went to your office to handle paperwork, and your computer desk to ‘do email’. Smartphones hadn’t been invented and if you wanted to sync data, it probably involved a serial cable between your computer and your Palm Pilot.\nThis created physical barriers that prevented you from doing stuff, which the methodology termed context. (Un)fortunately, now we can pretty much do anything anywhere, rendering the concept of context almost obsolete. While people have tried to use other axes such as energy or mindset, there’s nothing as good as the essentially redundant physical context. OmniFocus, for better or worse, continues to cling to that context mode.\nNevertheless, that can be worked around, and it still offers a fantastic view of your life in task form. Look at what’s urgent, look at what you can do now, look at what you are waiting on to be able to progress - it can slice and dice your tasks in any way you need.\nI couldn’t live without it. I don’t want to live without it. I don’t want to have to keep all my thoughts juggled in my head - that’s crazy! My brain is for value-adding, not remembering stuff!\n", "dateiso": "2017-05-11 12:48:35 +0800", "date": "12:48 p.m. on May 11, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/05/11/omnifocus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F05%2F11%2Fomnifocus.html" }, { "id": 2792, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First ever babycino was a hit. Thanks @little_olive_leaf_cafe #latergram\n", "dateiso": "2017-05-02 01:38:21 +0800", "date": "1:38 p.m. on May 2, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/05/02/first-ever-babycino.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F05%2F02%2Ffirst-ever-babycino.html" }, { "id": 2793, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hanging out.\n", "dateiso": "2017-05-02 01:31:09 +0800", "date": "1:31 p.m. on May 2, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/05/02/hanging-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F05%2F02%2Fhanging-out.html" }, { "id": 2794, "type": "post", "title": "The challenge of choice", "text": "Following on from my thoughts about Setapp, and now having all this extra software choice in my life, is that I now have to confront the challenge of choice.\nFor many, many, years I have been using OmniFocus to manage my life - keeping all my work and personal projects and tasks safe and sound. I was using OmniFocus before it was even an app - back when it was a series of OmniOutliner scripts put together by Ethan Schoonover to replicate this magical GTD (Getting Things Done) philosophy that had entered the world not all that long before. So I’ve got a long-term relationship with OmniFocus. I love it. But as with any relationships, there are hurdles and things that you really wish were different. I wish OmniFocus had graphical elements, like visual timelines and kanban boards. I wish it had better abilities as an information/document manager. I wish it would move away from the arcane view of ‘contexts’ which in this modern, connected, mobile world are not nearly as useful as they were in David Allen’s 2001 world where he could walk to the park and suddenly not be able to answer email.\nSo, Setapp has some alternative apps. One in particular, Pagico, looks nice. It has some interesting file management concepts. It has a visual timeline. Maybe I could get to like this? But, hang on, I have a decade of history with OmniFocus. The switching cost - not in dollars - but in time and effort is huge. OmniFocus has inertia, muscle memory and comfort in its favour. How can Pagico compete with that? So I’ve tried using Pagico, and it looks pretty on the surface. But underneath it feels a bit… brittle. The sync engine is weird and the mobile apps feel pretty terrible anyway. The interface seems slow. I am struggling to trust the app.\nMaybe I should just stick with OmniFocus…\nOkay, so let’s go with another choice. I’ve used Scrivener for many years and more recently have been using it heavily as the starting point for the report writing I have to do for my work, before it is transferred into a CMS or Word file. I like Scrivener, but it is big and heavy for what I need. So now, with Setapp, I have Ulysses. This is an app that I’ve followed but not ever felt compelled to buy since I had Scrivener already. Now, though, I can give it a chance.\nSo I have to learn a new app, remember to always write in Markdown, and then hope that I can easily get the text out of Ulysses in a format that I can use it in for its final form. Yes, Markdown is great but bureaucratic government systems don’t grok it, okay?\nSo I’ve got to deal with another app choice, and now potentially have my stuff spread across two different word processors. But, of course, I’ve built an ecosystem around Scrivener across macOS and iOS - but Setapp only gives me the macOS version of Ulysses.\nThe list goes on, and I guess this is capitalism at its finest. There is never the tool to use. Wherever a successful product is built, others quickly join the party. This is not something that is limited to software - this happens throughout the economy. Some of these apps are really good, and some come with their own idiosyncrasies. My challenge is to decide which of all the flawed products, speaks most to me. Which of these apps has been designed most in the way that my brain works, and which have flaws that least often affect me? This is the challenge of choice. I think I might just need to look on the bright side, and realise that this is all just grist for the mill of a software tinkerer, indulging his hobby.\n", "dateiso": "2017-04-29 15:11:04 +0800", "date": "3:11 p.m. on Apr 29, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/04/29/the-challenge-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F04%2F29%2Fthe-challenge-of.html" }, { "id": 2795, "type": "post", "title": "Setapp", "text": "Tonight I installed Setapp on my Mac. This service provides a wide range of full version software in exchange for US$9.99 per month. There is no escape from software as a service, and I appreciate the challenge that software developers face trying to earn an income and support a living with the old “full version plus upgrades” pricing model.\nA couple of the applications in the Setapp bundle I have been eyeing off for a while; some I have wanted but not enough to pay for; and some I’ve no use for. The only downside is that many of the ‘highlight’ apps I have previously bought independently, so I’m missing the good deal on those ones.\nI admire MacPaw for having the idea and the temerity to build this kind of store, and to attract a wide range of developers into it. I wish everybody involved the best of luck. Apple’s own Mac App Store is a cesspit of garbage apps (and sandboxing restrictions) that has never really worked for me, or it seems, quality developers. Perhaps Setapp can be subscription software done right.\nIf you’d like to sign up to Setapp yourself and give this service a try, I’d be much obliged if you did so using my Setapp referral link. Thanks!\n", "dateiso": "2017-04-28 22:55:56 +0800", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Apr 28, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/04/28/setapp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F04%2F28%2Fsetapp.html" }, { "id": 2796, "type": "post", "title": "Back on the website wagon?", "text": "Many years ago I started a Movable Type blog when the web was young, and doing such things was hard.\nThen a young upstart named Wordpress arrived, and I couldn\u0026rsquo;t resist its modern design and dynamic database structure. I transitioned, and spent hours monkeying with CSS to get things looking just right.\nThen the web became social, and I gave up on blogs. The big shift was to micro-updates and photoblogs and pseudo-conversations through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, respectively.\nGradually, the web became corporatised around these big brands.\nMeanwhile, I was still loyal to reading blogs through RSS feeds and my Feedwrangler account (valé Google Reader). These blogs were where I got my web nutrition, not the vacuous Facebook shares and fleeting Twitter exchanges. Blogs belonged to people. They were hosted at personal domains and the work was their own. I used to be one of those people.\nTime has moved on, and Movable Type and Wordpress are still out there, but I don\u0026rsquo;t have the time to invest like I used to, nor the interest to dig in, nor the will and desire to set up on a large-scale web host. So I am trialling a new approach. This time, using RapidWeaver and its very simple blog module. It seems too simple. It seems like I will find myself frustrated by its \u0026lsquo;simple\u0026rsquo; approach. But that is probably all I need. I don\u0026rsquo;t intend to blog every day. I don\u0026rsquo;t even expect to have a readership.\nThis is just a hobby for me; a rekindling of something I used to do when I was younger, and when time was more available.\nLet\u0026rsquo;s see how we go.\n", "dateiso": "2017-04-27 22:13:46 +0800", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Apr 27, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/04/27/back-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F04%2F27%2Fback-on-the.html" }, { "id": 2797, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Jeff!\n", "dateiso": "2017-04-21 19:48:19 +0800", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Apr 21, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/04/21/jeff.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F04%2F21%2Fjeff.html" }, { "id": 2798, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can\u0026rsquo;t believe we are kidless. Enjoying the North-Canion wedding. #northcanion\n", "dateiso": "2017-04-15 03:28:12 +0800", "date": "3:28 p.m. on Apr 15, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/04/15/cant-believe-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F04%2F15%2Fcant-believe-we.html" }, { "id": 2799, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pumped to be collecting the car after its scheduled service.\n", "dateiso": "2017-04-11 01:00:30 +0800", "date": "1:00 p.m. on Apr 11, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/04/11/pumped-to-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F04%2F11%2Fpumped-to-be.html" }, { "id": 2800, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just your typical Friday night in the couch.\n", "dateiso": "2017-04-07 03:43:34 +0800", "date": "3:43 p.m. on Apr 7, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/04/07/just-your-typical.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F04%2F07%2Fjust-your-typical.html" }, { "id": 2801, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Benji and I enjoyed a bike ride yesterday, and we had time for a pit stop at @little_olive_leaf_cafe #chif #booj #latergram\n", "dateiso": "2017-04-05 07:21:53 +0800", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Apr 5, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/04/05/benji-and-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F04%2F05%2Fbenji-and-i.html" }, { "id": 2802, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Do you remember when you used to make \u0026ldquo;holiday friends\u0026rdquo;? #moopers #holiday #swimmingpool\n", "dateiso": "2017-04-02 02:19:49 +0800", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Apr 2, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/04/02/do-you-remember.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F04%2F02%2Fdo-you-remember.html" }, { "id": 2803, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Having kids is really starting to pay off with the housework. #outsourcing #chif #booj\n", "dateiso": "2017-03-24 20:49:15 +0800", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Mar 24, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/03/24/having-kids-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F03%2F24%2Fhaving-kids-is.html" }, { "id": 2804, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Successfully offloaded another job. #moopers #airedaleterrier\n", "dateiso": "2017-03-17 23:26:21 +0800", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Mar 17, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/03/17/successfully-offloaded-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F03%2F17%2Fsuccessfully-offloaded-another.html" }, { "id": 2805, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "End of day chill out time.\n", "dateiso": "2017-03-15 03:41:17 +0800", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Mar 15, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/03/15/end-of-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F03%2F15%2Fend-of-day.html" }, { "id": 2806, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-03-10 04:03:09 +0800", "date": "4:03 p.m. on Mar 10, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/03/10/040309.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F03%2F10%2F040309.html" }, { "id": 2807, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-03-10 04:03:08 +0800", "date": "4:03 p.m. on Mar 10, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/03/10/040308.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F03%2F10%2F040308.html" }, { "id": 2808, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-03-10 04:03:03 +0800", "date": "4:03 p.m. on Mar 10, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/03/10/040303.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F03%2F10%2F040303.html" }, { "id": 2809, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2017-03-10 04:02:52 +0800", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Mar 10, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/03/10/040252.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F03%2F10%2F040252.html" }, { "id": 2810, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Morning caffeine hit.\n", "dateiso": "2017-03-04 17:23:50 +0800", "date": "5:23 p.m. on Mar 4, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/03/04/morning-caffeine-hit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F03%2F04%2Fmorning-caffeine-hit.html" }, { "id": 2811, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Hey Dad, thanks for taking me out to get a coffee and a stop at the park, but I\u0026rsquo;d really just prefer a nap right now.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2017-02-04 19:10:54 +0800", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Feb 4, 2017", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2017/02/04/hey-dad-thanks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2017%2F02%2F04%2Fhey-dad-thanks.html" }, { "id": 2812, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Park time.\n", "dateiso": "2016-11-26 22:45:37 +0800", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Nov 26, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/11/26/park-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F11%2F26%2Fpark-time.html" }, { "id": 2813, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sugar rush. Puffin Fresh donuts are still better, though. #krispykreme\n", "dateiso": "2016-11-17 23:53:48 +0800", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Nov 17, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/11/17/sugar-rush-puffin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F11%2F17%2Fsugar-rush-puffin.html" }, { "id": 2814, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Way to a kid\u0026rsquo;s heart. #krispykreme\n", "dateiso": "2016-11-17 23:51:02 +0800", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Nov 17, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/11/17/way-to-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F11%2F17%2Fway-to-a.html" }, { "id": 2815, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mojito o\u0026rsquo;clock.\n", "dateiso": "2016-11-13 22:10:28 +0800", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Nov 13, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/11/13/mojito-oclock.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F11%2F13%2Fmojito-oclock.html" }, { "id": 2816, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lunchtime at the office.\n", "dateiso": "2016-10-11 21:32:03 +0800", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Oct 11, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/10/11/lunchtime-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F10%2F11%2Flunchtime-at-the.html" }, { "id": 2817, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Half way point of today\u0026rsquo;s ride.\n", "dateiso": "2016-09-25 02:40:38 +0800", "date": "2:40 p.m. on Sep 25, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/09/25/half-way-point.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F09%2F25%2Fhalf-way-point.html" }, { "id": 2818, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Burning time at the chemist. #moopers\n", "dateiso": "2016-09-02 01:33:44 +0800", "date": "1:33 p.m. on Sep 2, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/09/02/burning-time-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F09%2F02%2Fburning-time-at.html" }, { "id": 2819, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two different lifestyle choices.\n", "dateiso": "2016-08-30 02:37:26 +0800", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Aug 30, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/08/30/two-different-lifestyle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Ftwo-different-lifestyle.html" }, { "id": 2820, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Brothers in arms.\n", "dateiso": "2016-08-28 05:34:49 +0800", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Aug 28, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/08/28/brothers-in-arms.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fbrothers-in-arms.html" }, { "id": 2821, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "All hail the ascension. David will be surprised in the morning.\n", "dateiso": "2016-08-16 07:38:11 +0800", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Aug 16, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/08/16/all-hail-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F08%2F16%2Fall-hail-the.html" }, { "id": 2822, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Park life. I think Benji is now entering his \u0026ldquo;big head\u0026rdquo; phase of growth!\n", "dateiso": "2016-08-16 04:25:41 +0800", "date": "4:25 p.m. on Aug 16, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/08/16/park-life-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F08%2F16%2Fpark-life-i.html" }, { "id": 2823, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Besties throwing back to the 80\u0026rsquo;s. @fitfuelwa\n", "dateiso": "2016-08-07 02:10:36 +0800", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Aug 7, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/08/07/besties-throwing-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F08%2F07%2Fbesties-throwing-back.html" }, { "id": 2824, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pretty sky this morning. #nofilter\n", "dateiso": "2016-08-02 18:56:39 +0800", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Aug 2, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/08/02/pretty-sky-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F08%2F02%2Fpretty-sky-this.html" }, { "id": 2825, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t always sit on a chair\u0026hellip; But when I do, I lounge. #chif\n", "dateiso": "2016-08-02 03:35:19 +0800", "date": "3:35 p.m. on Aug 2, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/08/02/i-dont-always.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F08%2F02%2Fi-dont-always.html" }, { "id": 2826, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just a touch chilly for those of us at the playground not running around. #chif\n", "dateiso": "2016-07-31 00:35:27 +0800", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Jul 31, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/07/31/just-a-touch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F07%2F31%2Fjust-a-touch.html" }, { "id": 2827, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Celebrating the haircut with a biscuit. David won over his barber Frank Barbarich with his great behaviour in the chair.\n", "dateiso": "2016-07-26 06:47:10 +0800", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Jul 26, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/07/26/celebrating-the-haircut.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F07%2F26%2Fcelebrating-the-haircut.html" }, { "id": 2828, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Banana!\n", "dateiso": "2016-07-11 02:25:52 +0800", "date": "2:25 p.m. on Jul 11, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/07/11/banana.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F07%2F11%2Fbanana.html" }, { "id": 2829, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Where\u0026rsquo;s my Uber?\n", "dateiso": "2016-07-09 03:40:27 +0800", "date": "3:40 p.m. on Jul 9, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/07/09/wheres-my-uber.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F07%2F09%2Fwheres-my-uber.html" }, { "id": 2830, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Park life.\n", "dateiso": "2016-06-01 01:34:57 +0800", "date": "1:34 p.m. on Jun 1, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/06/01/park-life.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F06%2F01%2Fpark-life.html" }, { "id": 2831, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Being the teacher.\n", "dateiso": "2016-05-24 20:49:58 +0800", "date": "8:49 p.m. on May 24, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/05/24/being-the-teacher.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F05%2F24%2Fbeing-the-teacher.html" }, { "id": 2832, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nightie night #Chif #gumnut\n", "dateiso": "2016-05-10 05:56:30 +0800", "date": "5:56 p.m. on May 10, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/05/10/nightie-night-chif.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F05%2F10%2Fnightie-night-chif.html" }, { "id": 2833, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Playtime in the park after a haircut. #daddyday #moopers\n", "dateiso": "2016-05-10 05:48:48 +0800", "date": "5:48 p.m. on May 10, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/05/10/playtime-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F05%2F10%2Fplaytime-in-the.html" }, { "id": 2834, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Doin' work, complete with (pretend) security badge.\n", "dateiso": "2016-05-10 01:00:16 +0800", "date": "1:00 p.m. on May 10, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/05/10/doin-work-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F05%2F10%2Fdoin-work-complete.html" }, { "id": 2835, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Major cheese from Moopers.\n", "dateiso": "2016-04-30 19:04:15 +0800", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Apr 30, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/04/30/major-cheese-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F04%2F30%2Fmajor-cheese-from.html" }, { "id": 2836, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lamo time on a random excursion with Daddy.\n", "dateiso": "2016-04-23 22:46:48 +0800", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Apr 23, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/04/23/lamo-time-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F04%2F23%2Flamo-time-on.html" }, { "id": 2837, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Building at the Lego Brickman Experience #lego #brickman\n", "dateiso": "2016-04-15 02:16:56 +0800", "date": "2:16 p.m. on Apr 15, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/04/15/building-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F04%2F15%2Fbuilding-at-the.html" }, { "id": 2838, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Morning ride coffee break. #trek #coffee\n", "dateiso": "2016-04-08 17:37:47 +0800", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Apr 8, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/04/08/morning-ride-coffee.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F04%2F08%2Fmorning-ride-coffee.html" }, { "id": 2839, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Light sabre mayhem!\n", "dateiso": "2016-03-19 18:28:53 +0800", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Mar 19, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/03/19/light-sabre-mayhem.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F03%2F19%2Flight-sabre-mayhem.html" }, { "id": 2840, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Unsettled sleep tonight. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2016-03-08 07:51:23 +0800", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Mar 8, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/03/08/unsettled-sleep-tonight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F03%2F08%2Funsettled-sleep-tonight.html" }, { "id": 2841, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Morning tea break at the local.\n", "dateiso": "2016-03-05 17:47:06 +0800", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Mar 5, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/03/05/morning-tea-break.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F03%2F05%2Fmorning-tea-break.html" }, { "id": 2842, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Car wash.\n", "dateiso": "2016-02-10 19:46:12 +0800", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Feb 10, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/02/10/car-wash.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F02%2F10%2Fcar-wash.html" }, { "id": 2843, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And\u0026hellip; He\u0026rsquo;s out.\n", "dateiso": "2016-01-19 22:06:35 +0800", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Jan 19, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/01/19/and-hes-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F01%2F19%2Fand-hes-out.html" }, { "id": 2844, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Took my boy to golf today.\n", "dateiso": "2016-01-09 23:23:44 +0800", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Jan 9, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/01/09/took-my-boy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F01%2F09%2Ftook-my-boy.html" }, { "id": 2845, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Park treasure hunt complete with #Tennessee cowboy hat.\n", "dateiso": "2016-01-08 18:24:48 +0800", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Jan 8, 2016", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2016/01/08/park-treasure-hunt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2016%2F01%2F08%2Fpark-treasure-hunt.html" }, { "id": 2846, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Proud moment seeing my boy stay with his sick friend for about 20 minutes at a park party today. #lovemyboy\n", "dateiso": "2015-12-12 03:24:49 +0800", "date": "3:24 p.m. on Dec 12, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/12/12/proud-moment-seeing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F12%2F12%2Fproud-moment-seeing.html" }, { "id": 2847, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Puter the elf has decided to do a little toy dumpster diving tonight. #elfontheshelf #dadisonit @hbear\n", "dateiso": "2015-12-11 06:07:06 +0800", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Dec 11, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/12/11/puter-the-elf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F12%2F11%2Fputer-the-elf.html" }, { "id": 2848, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sunset drink at Matso\u0026rsquo;s.\n", "dateiso": "2015-11-23 02:02:47 +0800", "date": "2:02 p.m. on Nov 23, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/11/23/sunset-drink-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F11%2F23%2Fsunset-drink-at.html" }, { "id": 2849, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Afternoon parking.\n", "dateiso": "2015-11-07 23:53:17 +0800", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Nov 7, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/11/07/afternoon-parking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F11%2F07%2Fafternoon-parking.html" }, { "id": 2850, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s wet! #fleetwoodmac\n", "dateiso": "2015-10-30 04:37:43 +0800", "date": "4:37 p.m. on Oct 30, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/10/30/its-wet-fleetwoodmac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F10%2F30%2Fits-wet-fleetwoodmac.html" }, { "id": 2851, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seen whales? Check. Driven the boat? Check.\n", "dateiso": "2015-10-02 21:08:56 +0800", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Oct 2, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/10/02/seen-whales-check.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F10%2F02%2Fseen-whales-check.html" }, { "id": 2852, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Summer is coming! Despite it being windy today David couldn\u0026rsquo;t resist the beach.\n", "dateiso": "2015-09-19 07:53:26 +0800", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Sep 19, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/09/19/summer-is-coming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F09%2F19%2Fsummer-is-coming.html" }, { "id": 2853, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David still loving the hat he got from Stages West at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. @ipaulgram @hbear\n", "dateiso": "2015-09-11 23:20:43 +0800", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Sep 11, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/09/11/david-still-loving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F09%2F11%2Fdavid-still-loving.html" }, { "id": 2854, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Father\u0026rsquo;s Day fun at daycare.\n", "dateiso": "2015-09-06 19:07:57 +0800", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Sep 6, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/09/06/fathers-day-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F09%2F06%2Ffathers-day-fun.html" }, { "id": 2855, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My special Father\u0026rsquo;s Day treat. A round of golf followed by a beer at the 19th.\n", "dateiso": "2015-09-06 00:08:36 +0800", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Sep 6, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/09/06/my-special-fathers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F09%2F06%2Fmy-special-fathers.html" }, { "id": 2856, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Football Head.\n", "dateiso": "2015-08-29 02:30:22 +0800", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Aug 29, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/08/29/football-head.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F08%2F29%2Ffootball-head.html" }, { "id": 2857, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dog or kid. Either way, our lounge is a mess.\n", "dateiso": "2015-08-20 04:02:49 +0800", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Aug 20, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/08/20/dog-or-kid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F08%2F20%2Fdog-or-kid.html" }, { "id": 2858, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Exploring.\n", "dateiso": "2015-08-14 19:29:57 +0800", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Aug 14, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/08/14/exploring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F08%2F14%2Fexploring.html" }, { "id": 2859, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A perfect blue sky. #nofilter\n", "dateiso": "2015-08-14 19:28:55 +0800", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Aug 14, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/08/14/a-perfect-blue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F08%2F14%2Fa-perfect-blue.html" }, { "id": 2860, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gnomeville\n", "dateiso": "2015-08-02 01:16:57 +0800", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Aug 2, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/08/02/gnomeville.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F08%2F02%2Fgnomeville.html" }, { "id": 2861, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s Captain Hook!\n", "dateiso": "2015-07-03 03:47:30 +0800", "date": "3:47 p.m. on Jul 3, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/07/03/its-captain-hook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F07%2F03%2Fits-captain-hook.html" }, { "id": 2862, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just wandering past this Melbourne icon. #lunapark\n", "dateiso": "2015-07-01 01:09:09 +0800", "date": "1:09 p.m. on Jul 1, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/07/01/just-wandering-past.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F07%2F01%2Fjust-wandering-past.html" }, { "id": 2863, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "alexcanionmusic is bringing it at Travelodge East Perth.\n", "dateiso": "2015-06-26 03:03:32 +0800", "date": "3:03 p.m. on Jun 26, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/06/26/alexcanionmusic-is-bringing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F06%2F26%2Falexcanionmusic-is-bringing.html" }, { "id": 2864, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watch out!\n", "dateiso": "2015-06-06 02:24:55 +0800", "date": "2:24 p.m. on Jun 6, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/06/06/watch-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F06%2F06%2Fwatch-out.html" }, { "id": 2865, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The things you find in your kid\u0026rsquo;s school bag. #precioustreasures\n", "dateiso": "2015-06-01 16:50:03 +0800", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Jun 1, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/06/01/the-things-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F06%2F01%2Fthe-things-you.html" }, { "id": 2866, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey, I\u0026rsquo;m workin' here. #9to5 #whitecollar\n", "dateiso": "2015-05-31 02:22:36 +0800", "date": "2:22 p.m. on May 31, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/05/31/hey-im-workin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F05%2F31%2Fhey-im-workin.html" }, { "id": 2867, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve gone FULL AMERICAN for my coffee this morning. My Nespresso machine is looking at me with a \u0026ldquo;what the F$\u0026amp;@?\u0026rdquo; look on its face. #americano\n", "dateiso": "2015-05-27 17:47:50 +0800", "date": "5:47 p.m. on May 27, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/05/27/ive-gone-full.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F05%2F27%2Five-gone-full.html" }, { "id": 2868, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ladder spin.\n", "dateiso": "2015-05-23 21:58:37 +0800", "date": "9:58 p.m. on May 23, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/05/23/ladder-spin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F05%2F23%2Fladder-spin.html" }, { "id": 2869, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Telephone graveyard.\n", "dateiso": "2015-05-21 19:07:48 +0800", "date": "7:07 p.m. on May 21, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/05/21/telephone-graveyard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F05%2F21%2Ftelephone-graveyard.html" }, { "id": 2870, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bigfoot.\n", "dateiso": "2015-05-07 23:07:18 +0800", "date": "11:07 p.m. on May 7, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/05/07/bigfoot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F05%2F07%2Fbigfoot.html" }, { "id": 2871, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sleepy travelling.\n", "dateiso": "2015-05-07 22:46:27 +0800", "date": "10:46 p.m. on May 7, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/05/07/sleepy-travelling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F05%2F07%2Fsleepy-travelling.html" }, { "id": 2872, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Travelling in style with a stop in the Qantas First Lounge at LAX. Unfortunately, not flying First as well!\n", "dateiso": "2015-05-07 20:45:32 +0800", "date": "8:45 p.m. on May 7, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/05/07/travelling-in-style.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F05%2F07%2Ftravelling-in-style.html" }, { "id": 2873, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Feet in the fountain.\n", "dateiso": "2015-05-05 14:30:29 +0800", "date": "2:30 p.m. on May 5, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/05/05/feet-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F05%2F05%2Ffeet-in-the.html" }, { "id": 2874, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There\u0026rsquo;s a boy out there. Not a bad view from the front porch.\n", "dateiso": "2015-05-02 15:46:30 +0800", "date": "3:46 p.m. on May 2, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/05/02/theres-a-boy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F05%2F02%2Ftheres-a-boy.html" }, { "id": 2875, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The battle of Buzz v Zerg.\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-29 15:33:21 +0800", "date": "3:33 p.m. on Apr 29, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/29/the-battle-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F29%2Fthe-battle-of.html" }, { "id": 2876, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Walking the corridors\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-29 10:11:44 +0800", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Apr 29, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/29/walking-the-corridors.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F29%2Fwalking-the-corridors.html" }, { "id": 2877, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Riding the car seat at luggage check in time.\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-29 10:09:00 +0800", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Apr 29, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/29/riding-the-car.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F29%2Friding-the-car.html" }, { "id": 2878, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David loves the ferry boat that provides transport between our hotel and the Downtown Disney area. #nofilter\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-26 19:37:18 +0800", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Apr 26, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/26/david-loves-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F26%2Fdavid-loves-the.html" }, { "id": 2879, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bowling up a storm at Splitsville. #dadwon\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-25 15:41:30 +0800", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Apr 25, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/25/bowling-up-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F25%2Fbowling-up-a.html" }, { "id": 2880, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David rings the Surrey Bike bell as Mum and Dad do the peddling!\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-25 08:16:57 +0800", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Apr 25, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/25/david-rings-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F25%2Fdavid-rings-the.html" }, { "id": 2881, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just waking up. #mickeymouse\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-24 04:44:37 +0800", "date": "4:44 p.m. on Apr 24, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/24/just-waking-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F24%2Fjust-waking-up.html" }, { "id": 2882, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Prepping for the Disney night parade and fireworks show. #longday #secondwind #posttantrum\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-21 20:33:55 +0800", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Apr 21, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/21/prepping-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F21%2Fprepping-for-the.html" }, { "id": 2883, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dixie Stampeding in Pigeon Forge\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-11 14:20:16 +0800", "date": "2:20 p.m. on Apr 11, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/11/dixie-stampeding-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F11%2Fdixie-stampeding-in.html" }, { "id": 2884, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Panera Bread and superheroes in Baltimore. On the lookout for Bunk. #thewire\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-08 12:03:11 +0800", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Apr 8, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/08/panera-bread-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F08%2Fpanera-bread-and.html" }, { "id": 2885, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2015-04-06 09:42:30 +0800", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Apr 6, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/06/094230.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F06%2F094230.html" }, { "id": 2886, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The end of a long Easter Sunday sees David pass out at the dinner table. He was laughing and talking 30 seconds earlier.\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-05 16:10:16 +0800", "date": "4:10 p.m. on Apr 5, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/05/the-end-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F05%2Fthe-end-of.html" }, { "id": 2887, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another night, another hotel on our much longer than anticipated journey to Washington DC. Tonight we are staying in luxury at the Grand Hyatt at Dallas Fort Worth. A much better outcome than had been feared. Sad part is David telling us he wants to go home! #superheroboy\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-02 21:45:23 +0800", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Apr 2, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/02/another-night-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F02%2Fanother-night-another.html" }, { "id": 2888, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Story time at the airport. Coming to the end of an unscheduled 9 hour layover in Sydney after our connecting plane was delayed. David has been super!\n", "dateiso": "2015-04-02 02:07:54 +0800", "date": "2:07 p.m. on Apr 2, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/04/02/story-time-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F04%2F02%2Fstory-time-at.html" }, { "id": 2889, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Swimming in the river, lagoon style.\n", "dateiso": "2015-03-15 04:43:11 +0800", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Mar 15, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/03/15/swimming-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F03%2F15%2Fswimming-in-the.html" }, { "id": 2890, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A boy and his dog. Both love a swim.\n", "dateiso": "2015-03-15 04:42:27 +0800", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Mar 15, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/03/15/a-boy-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F03%2F15%2Fa-boy-and.html" }, { "id": 2891, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Giant jellyfish!\n", "dateiso": "2015-03-13 23:32:17 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Mar 13, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/03/13/giant-jellyfish.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F03%2F13%2Fgiant-jellyfish.html" }, { "id": 2892, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The boy still has some basic hairdressing techniques to sort out yet. #VSCOcam\n", "dateiso": "2015-03-08 05:39:51 +0800", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Mar 8, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/03/08/the-boy-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F03%2F08%2Fthe-boy-still.html" }, { "id": 2893, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Now, here\u0026rsquo;s my point of view on the issue.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2015-03-07 04:05:31 +0800", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Mar 7, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/03/07/now-heres-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F03%2F07%2Fnow-heres-my.html" }, { "id": 2894, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Evening bubble time.\n", "dateiso": "2015-03-02 01:55:18 +0800", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Mar 2, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/03/02/evening-bubble-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F03%2F02%2Fevening-bubble-time.html" }, { "id": 2895, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inspecting the spiders that have taken up residence in Lord Forrest\u0026rsquo;s robes, while the moon shines down.\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-28 04:57:01 +0800", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Feb 28, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/28/inspecting-the-spiders.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F28%2Finspecting-the-spiders.html" }, { "id": 2896, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just a little bit excited.\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-28 04:55:34 +0800", "date": "4:55 p.m. on Feb 28, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/28/just-a-little.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F28%2Fjust-a-little.html" }, { "id": 2897, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Daddy and David went to the \u0026ldquo;morial\u0026rdquo; at Kings Park today.\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-28 04:54:39 +0800", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Feb 28, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/28/daddy-and-david.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F28%2Fdaddy-and-david.html" }, { "id": 2898, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Freshly groomed. #airedale\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-25 19:54:33 +0800", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Feb 25, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/25/freshly-groomed-airedale.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F25%2Ffreshly-groomed-airedale.html" }, { "id": 2899, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Evening vino. Love the trees in my suburb. #nofilter #dusk\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-22 03:32:44 +0800", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Feb 22, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/22/evening-vino-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F22%2Fevening-vino-love.html" }, { "id": 2900, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That chair looks like an egg! #interiordesign #nanunanu\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-22 03:30:18 +0800", "date": "3:30 p.m. on Feb 22, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/22/that-chair-looks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F22%2Fthat-chair-looks.html" }, { "id": 2901, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David watching the traffic. Daddy watching Parliament House and remembering the old days. #cv\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-22 01:03:49 +0800", "date": "1:03 p.m. on Feb 22, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/22/david-watching-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F22%2Fdavid-watching-the.html" }, { "id": 2902, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David\u0026rsquo;s current favourite toy is one I think @alexcanionmusic would approve of. A \u0026ldquo;Metal Tours\u0026rdquo; bus. #rockon #futureroadie\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-21 19:22:08 +0800", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Feb 21, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/21/davids-current-favourite.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F21%2Fdavids-current-favourite.html" }, { "id": 2903, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is nothing more fun than playing in the Poppy Car.\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-21 18:46:16 +0800", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Feb 21, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/21/there-is-nothing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F21%2Fthere-is-nothing.html" }, { "id": 2904, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pirate Captain David with his trusty parrot sailing the seven seas. #VSCOcam #kingspark\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-19 06:48:52 +0800", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Feb 19, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/19/pirate-captain-david.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F19%2Fpirate-captain-david.html" }, { "id": 2905, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The little artiste at work.\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-17 06:55:01 +0800", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Feb 17, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/17/the-little-artiste.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F17%2Fthe-little-artiste.html" }, { "id": 2906, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My #bluecollar boy keeping it real and leading with his chin. #bluey\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-10 07:23:18 +0800", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Feb 10, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/10/my-bluecollar-boy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F10%2Fmy-bluecollar-boy.html" }, { "id": 2907, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just a boy and his stingray.\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-06 23:32:31 +0800", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Feb 6, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/06/just-a-boy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F06%2Fjust-a-boy.html" }, { "id": 2908, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Loving the exercise ball.\n", "dateiso": "2015-02-05 16:38:38 +0800", "date": "4:38 p.m. on Feb 5, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/02/05/loving-the-exercise.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F02%2F05%2Floving-the-exercise.html" }, { "id": 2909, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If anybody\u0026rsquo;s cooking a lamb roast, I can provide the rosemary. #australiaday #gardening\n", "dateiso": "2015-01-26 02:26:12 +0800", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Jan 26, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/01/26/if-anybodys-cooking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F01%2F26%2Fif-anybodys-cooking.html" }, { "id": 2910, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Australia Day watchdogs. #australiaday #beach #park\n", "dateiso": "2015-01-25 19:35:03 +0800", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Jan 25, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/01/25/australia-day-watchdogs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F01%2F25%2Faustralia-day-watchdogs.html" }, { "id": 2911, "type": "post", "title": "{title}", "text": "{body}\n{extended}\n", "dateiso": "2015-01-21 12:10:49 +0800", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Jan 21, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/01/21/title.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F01%2F21%2Ftitle.html" }, { "id": 2912, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Desk jockey.\n", "dateiso": "2015-01-14 20:56:36 +0800", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Jan 14, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/01/14/desk-jockey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F01%2F14%2Fdesk-jockey.html" }, { "id": 2913, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Evening garden work. #lovesummer\n", "dateiso": "2015-01-10 03:27:47 +0800", "date": "3:27 p.m. on Jan 10, 2015", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2015/01/10/evening-garden-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2015%2F01%2F10%2Fevening-garden-work.html" }, { "id": 2914, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Worn out puppies.\n", "dateiso": "2014-12-26 18:22:01 +0800", "date": "6:22 p.m. on Dec 26, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/12/26/worn-out-puppies.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F12%2F26%2Fworn-out-puppies.html" }, { "id": 2915, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Passed out mid-sandwich.\n", "dateiso": "2014-12-22 22:09:39 +0800", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Dec 22, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/12/22/passed-out-midsandwich.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F12%2F22%2Fpassed-out-midsandwich.html" }, { "id": 2916, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Indoctrination\n", "dateiso": "2014-12-20 22:08:42 +0800", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Dec 20, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/12/20/indoctrination.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F12%2F20%2Findoctrination.html" }, { "id": 2917, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rancho relaxo in Poppy\u0026rsquo;s car\n", "dateiso": "2014-12-19 16:50:12 +0800", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Dec 19, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/12/19/rancho-relaxo-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F12%2F19%2Francho-relaxo-in.html" }, { "id": 2918, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David loves playing in Poppy\u0026rsquo;s car.\n", "dateiso": "2014-12-19 16:40:09 +0800", "date": "4:40 p.m. on Dec 19, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/12/19/david-loves-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F12%2F19%2Fdavid-loves-playing.html" }, { "id": 2919, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chillaxing while Mum exercises. @hbear\n", "dateiso": "2014-12-17 01:01:43 +0800", "date": "1:01 p.m. on Dec 17, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/12/17/chillaxing-while-mum.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F12%2F17%2Fchillaxing-while-mum.html" }, { "id": 2920, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying to see out into the night from a lot train carriage is a challenge.\n", "dateiso": "2014-12-13 16:11:31 +0800", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Dec 13, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/12/13/trying-to-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F12%2F13%2Ftrying-to-see.html" }, { "id": 2921, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The empty streetscape view from my Sydney dinner location. #tableforone\n", "dateiso": "2014-12-01 00:31:49 +0800", "date": "12:31 p.m. on Dec 1, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/12/01/the-empty-streetscape.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F12%2F01%2Fthe-empty-streetscape.html" }, { "id": 2922, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Backyard Saturday.\n", "dateiso": "2014-11-22 00:49:58 +0800", "date": "12:49 p.m. on Nov 22, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/11/22/backyard-saturday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F11%2F22%2Fbackyard-saturday.html" }, { "id": 2923, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey, I\u0026rsquo;m workin' here.\n", "dateiso": "2014-11-17 22:37:52 +0800", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Nov 17, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/11/17/hey-im-workin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F11%2F17%2Fhey-im-workin.html" }, { "id": 2924, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At the station.\n", "dateiso": "2014-11-17 02:58:05 +0800", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Nov 17, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/11/17/at-the-station.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F11%2F17%2Fat-the-station.html" }, { "id": 2925, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Puffed out.\n", "dateiso": "2014-11-15 00:47:27 +0800", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Nov 15, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/11/15/puffed-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F11%2F15%2Fpuffed-out.html" }, { "id": 2926, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just a dot on the grass.\n", "dateiso": "2014-11-15 00:17:28 +0800", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Nov 15, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/11/15/just-a-dot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F11%2F15%2Fjust-a-dot.html" }, { "id": 2927, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our boy loves Dolly Parton, and especially the song Old Friends with Kenny Rogers. Eating Vegemite on toast while watching. #countryftw @hbear\n", "dateiso": "2014-11-10 15:49:39 +0800", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Nov 10, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/11/10/our-boy-loves.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F11%2F10%2Four-boy-loves.html" }, { "id": 2928, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inspecting the work.\n", "dateiso": "2014-11-07 02:51:11 +0800", "date": "2:51 p.m. on Nov 7, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/11/07/inspecting-the-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F11%2F07%2Finspecting-the-work.html" }, { "id": 2929, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Post game with the championship banners. #redarmy. #needmorewilbur\n", "dateiso": "2014-10-24 16:27:10 +0800", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Oct 24, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/10/24/post-game-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F10%2F24%2Fpost-game-with.html" }, { "id": 2930, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2014-10-15 19:14:20 +0800", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Oct 15, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/10/15/191420.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F10%2F15%2F191420.html" }, { "id": 2931, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Curtain of doom.\n", "dateiso": "2014-10-11 00:19:36 +0800", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Oct 11, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/10/11/curtain-of-doom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F10%2F11%2Fcurtain-of-doom.html" }, { "id": 2932, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "3 kids, 3 dogs. What could go wrong?\n", "dateiso": "2014-10-03 20:11:54 +0800", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Oct 3, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/10/03/kids-dogs-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F10%2F03%2Fkids-dogs-what.html" }, { "id": 2933, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting my sandgroper on. #wa #stubby\n", "dateiso": "2014-09-19 03:32:58 +0800", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Sep 19, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/09/19/getting-my-sandgroper.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F09%2F19%2Fgetting-my-sandgroper.html" }, { "id": 2934, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Jeffenhausensteinenberg.\n", "dateiso": "2014-09-16 08:05:21 +0800", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Sep 16, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/09/16/jeffenhausensteinenberg.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F09%2F16%2Fjeffenhausensteinenberg.html" }, { "id": 2935, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who needs an Watch when I\u0026rsquo;ve got this old favourite back on my wrist.\n", "dateiso": "2014-09-15 18:50:55 +0800", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Sep 15, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/09/15/who-needs-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F09%2F15%2Fwho-needs-an.html" }, { "id": 2936, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At the vet. Possible broken toe. :-(\n", "dateiso": "2014-09-11 18:53:40 +0800", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Sep 11, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/09/11/at-the-vet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F09%2F11%2Fat-the-vet.html" }, { "id": 2937, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Feeding the pony\n", "dateiso": "2014-09-06 18:15:08 +0800", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Sep 6, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/09/06/feeding-the-pony.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F09%2F06%2Ffeeding-the-pony.html" }, { "id": 2938, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David was excited to find flowers that were Mummy\u0026rsquo;s @hbear favourite colour.\n", "dateiso": "2014-09-01 07:59:01 +0800", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Sep 1, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/09/01/david-was-excited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F09%2F01%2Fdavid-was-excited.html" }, { "id": 2939, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Growing up fast.\n", "dateiso": "2014-08-27 08:29:00 +0800", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Aug 27, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/08/27/growing-up-fast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F08%2F27%2Fgrowing-up-fast.html" }, { "id": 2940, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rainy adventure.\n", "dateiso": "2014-08-21 01:44:41 +0800", "date": "1:44 p.m. on Aug 21, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/08/21/rainy-adventure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F08%2F21%2Frainy-adventure.html" }, { "id": 2941, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Muddy puddles (and a few weeds)\n", "dateiso": "2014-08-18 18:13:31 +0800", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Aug 18, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/08/18/muddy-puddles-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F08%2F18%2Fmuddy-puddles-and.html" }, { "id": 2942, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Park time.\n", "dateiso": "2014-08-15 23:18:30 +0800", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Aug 15, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/08/15/park-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F08%2F15%2Fpark-time.html" }, { "id": 2943, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bookends to my Saturday\n", "dateiso": "2014-08-09 03:26:12 +0800", "date": "3:26 p.m. on Aug 9, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/08/09/bookends-to-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F08%2F09%2Fbookends-to-my.html" }, { "id": 2944, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cheezels are just the best!\n", "dateiso": "2014-08-05 03:42:11 +0800", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Aug 5, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/08/05/cheezels-are-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F08%2F05%2Fcheezels-are-just.html" }, { "id": 2945, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2014-07-30 22:05:37 +0800", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Jul 30, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/30/220537.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F30%2F220537.html" }, { "id": 2946, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More insomnia.\n", "dateiso": "2014-07-30 09:29:14 +0800", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Jul 30, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/30/more-insomnia.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F30%2Fmore-insomnia.html" }, { "id": 2947, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It be pirating time.\n", "dateiso": "2014-07-28 03:38:17 +0800", "date": "3:38 p.m. on Jul 28, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/28/it-be-pirating.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F28%2Fit-be-pirating.html" }, { "id": 2948, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happily wearing pyjamas and doggie slippers while visiting cousins.\n", "dateiso": "2014-07-25 07:43:27 +0800", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Jul 25, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/25/happily-wearing-pyjamas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F25%2Fhappily-wearing-pyjamas.html" }, { "id": 2949, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sitting on Mrs Macquarie\u0026rsquo;s Chair.\n", "dateiso": "2014-07-22 23:04:34 +0800", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Jul 22, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/22/sitting-on-mrs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F22%2Fsitting-on-mrs.html" }, { "id": 2950, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve got mail.\n", "dateiso": "2014-07-15 03:09:33 +0800", "date": "3:09 p.m. on Jul 15, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/15/ive-got-mail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F15%2Five-got-mail.html" }, { "id": 2951, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think I might be a little busy for a while.\n", "dateiso": "2014-07-07 21:05:48 +0800", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Jul 7, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/07/i-think-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F07%2Fi-think-i.html" }, { "id": 2952, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Beach fun\n", "dateiso": "2014-07-05 04:20:44 +0800", "date": "4:20 p.m. on Jul 5, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/05/beach-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F05%2Fbeach-fun.html" }, { "id": 2953, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Freedom!\n", "dateiso": "2014-07-04 19:25:37 +0800", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Jul 4, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/04/freedom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F04%2Ffreedom.html" }, { "id": 2954, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "#vscocam\n", "dateiso": "2014-07-02 16:18:12 +0800", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Jul 2, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/07/02/vscocam.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F07%2F02%2Fvscocam.html" }, { "id": 2955, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At least we won the basketball Grand Final.\n", "dateiso": "2014-06-30 05:34:27 +0800", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Jun 30, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/06/30/at-least-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F06%2F30%2Fat-least-we.html" }, { "id": 2956, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nutella time\n", "dateiso": "2014-06-25 21:39:48 +0800", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Jun 25, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/06/25/nutella-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F06%2F25%2Fnutella-time.html" }, { "id": 2957, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pirate magnets\n", "dateiso": "2014-06-19 18:05:29 +0800", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Jun 19, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/06/19/pirate-magnets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F06%2F19%2Fpirate-magnets.html" }, { "id": 2958, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two rocky Rotto boat rides in one day!\n", "dateiso": "2014-06-17 05:08:39 +0800", "date": "5:08 p.m. on Jun 17, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/06/17/two-rocky-rotto.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F06%2F17%2Ftwo-rocky-rotto.html" }, { "id": 2959, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In front of the heater.\n", "dateiso": "2014-06-14 04:29:48 +0800", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Jun 14, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/06/14/in-front-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F06%2F14%2Fin-front-of.html" }, { "id": 2960, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Meccano!\n", "dateiso": "2014-05-31 21:00:37 +0800", "date": "9:00 p.m. on May 31, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/05/31/meccano.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F05%2F31%2Fmeccano.html" }, { "id": 2961, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nature play!\n", "dateiso": "2014-05-31 02:22:28 +0800", "date": "2:22 p.m. on May 31, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/05/31/nature-play.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F05%2F31%2Fnature-play.html" }, { "id": 2962, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Guard dog.\n", "dateiso": "2014-05-30 18:00:51 +0800", "date": "6:00 p.m. on May 30, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/05/30/guard-dog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F05%2F30%2Fguard-dog.html" }, { "id": 2963, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I found some good Italian coffee in Shinegawa.\n", "dateiso": "2014-05-18 02:45:58 +0800", "date": "2:45 p.m. on May 18, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/05/18/i-found-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F05%2F18%2Fi-found-some.html" }, { "id": 2964, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2014-05-14 19:35:50 +0800", "date": "7:35 p.m. on May 14, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/05/14/193550.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F05%2F14%2F193550.html" }, { "id": 2965, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh yeah. Vital camping gear has arrived! #survivor\n", "dateiso": "2014-04-26 19:03:03 +0800", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Apr 26, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/26/oh-yeah-vital.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F26%2Foh-yeah-vital.html" }, { "id": 2966, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David watching a video of himself playing, as opposed to playing. #meta\n", "dateiso": "2014-04-23 19:23:51 +0800", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Apr 23, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/23/david-watching-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F23%2Fdavid-watching-a.html" }, { "id": 2967, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chops\n", "dateiso": "2014-04-22 04:31:46 +0800", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Apr 22, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/22/chops.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F22%2Fchops.html" }, { "id": 2968, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Freshly groomed with teddy bear ears.\n", "dateiso": "2014-04-22 04:29:18 +0800", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Apr 22, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/22/freshly-groomed-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F22%2Ffreshly-groomed-with.html" }, { "id": 2969, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Groomed with bows\n", "dateiso": "2014-04-22 00:18:13 +0800", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Apr 22, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/22/groomed-with-bows.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F22%2Fgroomed-with-bows.html" }, { "id": 2970, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2014-04-21 01:32:15 +0800", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Apr 21, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/21/013215.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F21%2F013215.html" }, { "id": 2971, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our 2.75 year old may have OCD. he didn\u0026rsquo;t just collect his eggs, he organised them.\n", "dateiso": "2014-04-19 17:15:56 +0800", "date": "5:15 p.m. on Apr 19, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/19/our-year-old.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F19%2Four-year-old.html" }, { "id": 2972, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We are geared up for Championship #6! #redarmy #28straight #nblfinals\n", "dateiso": "2014-04-11 01:54:18 +0800", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Apr 11, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/11/we-are-geared.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F11%2Fwe-are-geared.html" }, { "id": 2973, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2014-04-06 20:16:05 +0800", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Apr 6, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/06/201605.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F06%2F201605.html" }, { "id": 2974, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dad is cooking dinner for the boy tonight. #balanceddiet #protein\n", "dateiso": "2014-04-02 02:35:35 +0800", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Apr 2, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/04/02/dad-is-cooking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F04%2F02%2Fdad-is-cooking.html" }, { "id": 2975, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Grown-up trampolining.\n", "dateiso": "2014-03-30 01:48:58 +0800", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Mar 30, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/03/30/grownup-trampolining.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F03%2F30%2Fgrownup-trampolining.html" }, { "id": 2976, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Old school dinner. Shepherd\u0026rsquo;s pie. #thermomix\n", "dateiso": "2014-03-29 03:31:00 +0800", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Mar 29, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/03/29/old-school-dinner.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F03%2F29%2Fold-school-dinner.html" }, { "id": 2977, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun in Freo\n", "dateiso": "2014-03-19 20:03:39 +0800", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Mar 19, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/03/19/fun-in-freo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F03%2F19%2Ffun-in-freo.html" }, { "id": 2978, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Roar!\n", "dateiso": "2014-03-17 17:40:47 +0800", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Mar 17, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/03/17/roar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F03%2F17%2Froar.html" }, { "id": 2979, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ready for St Patrick\u0026rsquo;s Day!\n", "dateiso": "2014-03-16 20:27:11 +0800", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Mar 16, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/03/16/ready-for-st.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F03%2F16%2Fready-for-st.html" }, { "id": 2980, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "30 holes of golf at Kalgoorlie in one day.\n", "dateiso": "2014-03-14 18:43:05 +0800", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Mar 14, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/03/14/holes-of-golf.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F03%2F14%2Fholes-of-golf.html" }, { "id": 2981, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yeah\u0026hellip; So if you could just go ahead and print that, that would be great. #officespace\n", "dateiso": "2014-03-03 23:05:19 +0800", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Mar 3, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/03/03/yeah-so-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F03%2F03%2Fyeah-so-if.html" }, { "id": 2982, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Morning moon\n", "dateiso": "2014-02-17 14:28:41 +0800", "date": "2:28 p.m. on Feb 17, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/02/17/morning-moon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fmorning-moon.html" }, { "id": 2983, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Breakfast time\n", "dateiso": "2014-02-09 15:44:24 +0800", "date": "3:44 p.m. on Feb 9, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/02/09/breakfast-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F02%2F09%2Fbreakfast-time.html" }, { "id": 2984, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think she\u0026rsquo;s trying to tell me something\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-31 15:41:04 +0800", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Jan 31, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/31/i-think-shes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F31%2Fi-think-shes.html" }, { "id": 2985, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Toy Story\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-29 02:57:42 +0800", "date": "2:57 p.m. on Jan 29, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/29/toy-story.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F29%2Ftoy-story.html" }, { "id": 2986, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today\u0026rsquo;s drink is a Moscow Mule, served by our good friend Penguin. @hbear\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-27 00:41:59 +0800", "date": "12:41 p.m. on Jan 27, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/27/todays-drink-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F27%2Ftodays-drink-is.html" }, { "id": 2987, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2014-01-23 20:44:58 +0800", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Jan 23, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/23/204458.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F23%2F204458.html" }, { "id": 2988, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lunch at a place I\u0026rsquo;ve never been before.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-23 19:49:41 +0800", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Jan 23, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/23/lunch-at-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F23%2Flunch-at-a.html" }, { "id": 2989, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David very happy about his exciting day.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-23 06:48:44 +0800", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Jan 23, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/23/david-very-happy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F23%2Fdavid-very-happy.html" }, { "id": 2990, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The office calendar is up, complete with office style bulldog clip/paper clip hanging mechanism.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-21 17:24:38 +0800", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Jan 21, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/21/the-office-calendar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F21%2Fthe-office-calendar.html" }, { "id": 2991, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Morning coffee on the back lawn.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-18 13:57:18 +0800", "date": "1:57 p.m. on Jan 18, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/18/morning-coffee-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F18%2Fmorning-coffee-on.html" }, { "id": 2992, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Carrying the weight of the world.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-16 16:36:17 +0800", "date": "4:36 p.m. on Jan 16, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/16/carrying-the-weight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F16%2Fcarrying-the-weight.html" }, { "id": 2993, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Free the bears, @hbear! #teddyzoo or #teddyprison\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-15 06:01:25 +0800", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Jan 15, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/15/free-the-bears.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F15%2Ffree-the-bears.html" }, { "id": 2994, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh no, I melted the Varoma\u0026hellip; #thermomix #thermofail\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-14 04:48:18 +0800", "date": "4:48 p.m. on Jan 14, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/14/oh-no-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F14%2Foh-no-i.html" }, { "id": 2995, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cleaning out the study and found this. Not too much use these days.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-13 15:41:50 +0800", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Jan 13, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/13/cleaning-out-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F13%2Fcleaning-out-the.html" }, { "id": 2996, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Summer has its benefits\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-10 00:39:19 +0800", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Jan 10, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/10/summer-has-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F10%2Fsummer-has-its.html" }, { "id": 2997, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back into summer fun.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-08 18:17:58 +0800", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Jan 8, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/08/back-into-summer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F08%2Fback-into-summer.html" }, { "id": 2998, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Beer and liquorice all sorts at Qantas Club Sydney. Just what is needed after 3 legs of flight with a fourth to come.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-06 17:09:46 +0800", "date": "5:09 p.m. on Jan 6, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/06/beer-and-liquorice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F06%2Fbeer-and-liquorice.html" }, { "id": 2999, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "", "dateiso": "2014-01-05 13:32:08 +0800", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Jan 5, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/05/133208.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F05%2F133208.html" }, { "id": 3000, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It might be a version of the Blue Oyster, but I\u0026rsquo;m enjoying the music with @hbear\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-03 18:56:10 +0800", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Jan 3, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/03/it-might-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F03%2Fit-might-be.html" }, { "id": 3001, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Stop it Santa, you\u0026rsquo;re drunk.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-03 12:50:12 +0800", "date": "12:50 p.m. on Jan 3, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/03/stop-it-santa.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F03%2Fstop-it-santa.html" }, { "id": 3002, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "About 3 inches.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-03 12:47:49 +0800", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Jan 3, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/03/about-inches.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F03%2Fabout-inches.html" }, { "id": 3003, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Beautiful snow. @hbear and I went for an evening stroll.\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-02 19:37:40 +0800", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Jan 2, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/02/beautiful-snow-hbear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F02%2Fbeautiful-snow-hbear.html" }, { "id": 3004, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Let it snow\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-02 13:51:27 +0800", "date": "1:51 p.m. on Jan 2, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/02/let-it-snow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F02%2Flet-it-snow.html" }, { "id": 3005, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chillin'\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-02 08:19:32 +0800", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Jan 2, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/02/chillin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F02%2Fchillin.html" }, { "id": 3006, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mini Boom\n", "dateiso": "2014-01-01 12:54:45 +0800", "date": "12:54 p.m. on Jan 1, 2014", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2014/01/01/mini-boom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2014%2F01%2F01%2Fmini-boom.html" }, { "id": 3007, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here I come!\n", "dateiso": "2012-07-03 00:42:22 +0800", "date": "12:42 p.m. on Jul 3, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/07/03/here-i-come.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F07%2F03%2Fhere-i-come.html" }, { "id": 3008, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dog walk time II\n", "dateiso": "2012-05-06 01:50:22 +0800", "date": "1:50 p.m. on May 6, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/05/06/015022.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F05%2F06%2F015022.html" }, { "id": 3009, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dog walk time II\n", "dateiso": "2012-05-06 01:50:22 +0800", "date": "1:50 p.m. on May 6, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/05/06/dog-walk-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F05%2F06%2Fdog-walk-time.html" }, { "id": 3010, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dog walk time!\n", "dateiso": "2012-05-06 01:49:18 +0800", "date": "1:49 p.m. on May 6, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/05/06/014918.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F05%2F06%2F014918.html" }, { "id": 3011, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Chillin'\n", "dateiso": "2012-04-27 21:56:18 +0800", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Apr 27, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/04/27/chillin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F04%2F27%2Fchillin.html" }, { "id": 3012, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Andrew\n", "dateiso": "2012-04-13 18:49:32 +0800", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Apr 13, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/04/13/andrew.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F04%2F13%2Fandrew.html" }, { "id": 3013, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David\n", "dateiso": "2012-04-13 18:47:37 +0800", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Apr 13, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/04/13/david.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F04%2F13%2Fdavid.html" }, { "id": 3014, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Indi\n", "dateiso": "2012-04-13 18:46:23 +0800", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Apr 13, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/04/13/indi.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F04%2F13%2Findi.html" }, { "id": 3015, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Jeff\n", "dateiso": "2012-04-13 18:44:16 +0800", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Apr 13, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/04/13/jeff.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F04%2F13%2Fjeff.html" }, { "id": 3016, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Media lockdown notification\n", "dateiso": "2012-04-11 20:00:27 +0800", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Apr 11, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/04/11/media-lockdown-notification.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F04%2F11%2Fmedia-lockdown-notification.html" }, { "id": 3017, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Quarter past 7\n", "dateiso": "2012-04-08 04:16:17 +0800", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Apr 8, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/04/08/quarter-past.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F04%2F08%2Fquarter-past.html" }, { "id": 3018, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "End of a big day\n", "dateiso": "2012-03-29 04:31:14 +0800", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Mar 29, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/03/29/end-of-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F03%2F29%2Fend-of-a.html" }, { "id": 3019, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy!\n", "dateiso": "2012-03-27 02:59:18 +0800", "date": "2:59 p.m. on Mar 27, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/03/27/happy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F03%2F27%2Fhappy.html" }, { "id": 3020, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My name is Andrew so I got a free Boost\n", "dateiso": "2012-03-12 22:25:01 +0800", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Mar 12, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/03/12/my-name-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F03%2F12%2Fmy-name-is.html" }, { "id": 3021, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Runny nose, but still happy!\n", "dateiso": "2012-03-12 16:58:19 +0800", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Mar 12, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/03/12/runny-nose-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F03%2F12%2Frunny-nose-but.html" }, { "id": 3022, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lovely day for a swing\n", "dateiso": "2012-02-27 16:37:31 +0800", "date": "4:37 p.m. on Feb 27, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/02/27/lovely-day-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F02%2F27%2Flovely-day-for.html" }, { "id": 3023, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dream feed\n", "dateiso": "2012-02-24 07:18:01 +0800", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Feb 24, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/02/24/dream-feed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F02%2F24%2Fdream-feed.html" }, { "id": 3024, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Milk Drunk\n", "dateiso": "2012-02-12 02:50:11 +0800", "date": "2:50 p.m. on Feb 12, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/02/12/milk-drunk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F02%2F12%2Fmilk-drunk.html" }, { "id": 3025, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Queuing for Little Roy\n", "dateiso": "2012-02-10 03:55:19 +0800", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Feb 10, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/02/10/queuing-for-little.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F02%2F10%2Fqueuing-for-little.html" }, { "id": 3026, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Jeff by Night\n", "dateiso": "2012-02-07 06:26:47 +0800", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Feb 7, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/02/07/jeff-by-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F02%2F07%2Fjeff-by-night.html" }, { "id": 3027, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "San Fran beer\n", "dateiso": "2012-01-02 18:08:56 +0800", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Jan 2, 2012", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2012/01/02/san-fran-beer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2012%2F01%2F02%2Fsan-fran-beer.html" }, { "id": 3028, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oranges; juicy and delicious\n", "dateiso": "2011-12-25 19:31:22 +0800", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Dec 25, 2011", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2011/12/25/oranges-juicy-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2011%2F12%2F25%2Foranges-juicy-and.html" }, { "id": 3029, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My little man\n", "dateiso": "2011-12-22 14:51:04 +0800", "date": "2:51 p.m. on Dec 22, 2011", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2011/12/22/my-little-man.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanion.blog%2F2011%2F12%2F22%2Fmy-little-man.html" }, { "id": 3030, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sleepy baby\n", "dateiso": "2011-12-18 08:05:07 +0800", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Dec 18, 2011", "permalink": "https://canion.blog/2011/12/18/sleepy-baby.html", "timelinelink": 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