2024 posts

Happy Thanksgiving. Had a good Thanksgiving with a long visit to cousin Paul's.…

In Mac OS Sonoma, browsers now require and the OS will ask for the "Local N…

I have deactivated my Twitter account, as of last night. I hadn't posted since…

I sold all my Tesla stock. I've no doubt that it will go up well above what I s…

I voted today and am glad to have gotten that important duty taken care of. I h…

I will be voting for Kamala Harris on Tuesday. I felt a positivity when she too…

I wanted to create some global keyboard shortcuts for launching apps on MacOS. …

This past weekend, I planted the last of four arborvitaes that I bought back in…

Our life is a giant puzzle, with a great many pieces that must be fit together t…

My friend Dwight and wife Grace came up from Texas to visit last week. We hung …

Last Thursday, I got about 4.5 inches of rain at my house (Akron). A good groun…

Yesterday, a storm came through. Knocked some trees down and knocked out power …

Finally getting some decent rain. This past week we had over two inches. I thi…

I am pleased to say that most of the non-blog parts of my site are now served f…

To all wrongdoers, may you see, and atone

R.I.P., Uncle Al. He passed away last week, after a long, tough battle with he…

Firefox allows us to create multiple browser profiles to separate our activitie…

Weird commute home tonight. Thunder, no: fireworks. Car flashing brights. Tre…

I haven't been able to upgrade composer with homebrew to version 2.7.7 (on Intel…

I tend to prefer a GUI like Sequel Pro for looking at database data, but since …

Another bird incident happened today. I was walking my brother's dog, Duncan, w…

Had a weird bird incident the other day. I was going around a turn on a residen…

I'm really happy to see that my larger eastern redbud tree has fully bloomed. …

Yesterday, I got a new phone, a Samsung Galaxy S24. Jade green, ordered from s…

Happy Tax Day, all. Hope you finished in time. I finished mine mostly yesterda…

Eclipse totality has come and gone where I am. Good show, worth the price of a…

Happy Eclipse Day. As I unterstand it, it has recently started over somewhere i…

Reading this weekend about a backdoor introduced to the open source xz project.…

Being stuck on my Moto X has somewhat forced me to use my phone less, which has …

My Moto X phone, a stand-in for my non-functioning Pixel 3a, scared me by force …

My "current" phone (4.5 year old Pixel 3a) may be dead. I now can't …

I went to send a private message on Twitter for the first time in probably 6+ ye…

I've had a single GMail account for over a decade. I've thought of creating a s…

It is only the end of February, but an outsized number of recent days have been …

Furnace went out again. Had to clean out the trap. I was feeling a little uncom…

The weather has been positively spring-like. Some of the bulb plants in my yard…

Vim has a couple ways to run terminal commands from the editor. From ex comman…

So glad the sun came out today. It was quite nice. There were many days of all…

I have been using SSH configuration a lot to make short hostname aliases for si…

As a gift from my brother, I now have a bed frame for my bed. I previously had…

I got new tires for my car Wednesday. General Altimax RT45's. Those are the n…

I'm pleased I don't have to go to the BMV this year for my birthday, as I do on …