Remember that time when the president had members of the press gallery scrambling? No, not for the usual reason; they needed access to the “urban dictionary”, to see if the Rosetta Stone to presidential chatter might lie therein. It didn’t, of course.
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Standards are just ideas, in the part of the software world I frequent. I have/had a wonderful little app for displaying my GEDCOM that suddenly stopped working. This was a transfer mechanism, to get data from the PC onto iOS, and my PC version hasn’t changed in close to two decades. I imported the file into another PC program, exported the file back out (in what is called a “standard”) and was able to import back into iOS without a hiccup. On the developer’s site, no mention of anything changed, so I’m going to go with “no explanation available”. And carry on.
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I wasn’t going to watch. But, it’s like they say about train wrecks; you can’t not watch. And so, promptly before noon, I let CBC take me along on their efforts to capture the news. There’s a new sheriff in town. He walks with a real swagger. And then I returned to regular programming. Or in my case, a good movie. After all, you have to balance the ridiculous with the best efforts of Hollywood.
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After a long afternoon, I’m ready to admit the inevitable. We’re not ready to put a Linux machine on the desktops of our neighbours, any time soon.
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I like pie. Raspberry Pi, that is. Have a few, destined to do great things if ever I decide to have a productive day. In fact, this afternoon my first dedicated unit went into play.
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Spent today upgrading one of the PC machines. Now, I’ve done a lot of this sort of thing, through the years. Had to seek answers to a few questions. But, did someone change the industry standards without announcing their intentions?
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Sometime through the night, a sale price was mentioned, in my DAW group. A hint that installing SSD media would turn any pumpkin into a twin-rocket stagecoach. I’m impulsive, and I realized that the new computer here didn’t have any mojo, yet. Time to shop.
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Don’t be fooled. Virtual work is every bit as rewarding as physical, and just as tiring. This evening, I’ve been tasked with cleanup duties, and after several hours, my job is (pretty much) done.
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My bad, for ignoring the recent drop in temperature. The hose stow, which should have taken mere minutes has turned into a multi-part job, due to the ice which has formed IN the hose. Nothing serious; no pressure, but I’ll be letting the whole thing thaw overnight in order to dump the water. Next year, I’ll remember. In past, I didn’t keep the hose on a spool, so the putaway came with a simple blow-it-clear.
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Although I didn’t know the teacher well, the request seemed like a good task for my skill set. Could I write a script that would allow using the classroom computer to pick up email? Sure, but why? Seems that the original script had vanished…
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