The journal refills I've been using for the last year no longer seem to be available. I think I've just spent over an hour trying to find something suitable to replace them. Unfortunately, I think it may have worked out cheaper to buy multiple notebooks rather
After handwriting a journal now for more than 700 consecutive days, I've really come to appreciate how spending that time slowing down has helped me. And I've been trying to make more notes in notebooks, rather than using my phone. Today, rather than writing the shopping
Today I received a reminder that Ulysses was going to renew in January. I believe that's another £39 a year I can save. First question, then, how can I achieve a preview in Kate for Markdown documents? Well, it turns out, easily, using the Document Preview plugin. Granted,
I've been toying with the idea of having a photo of something each day in my handwritten journal. And I wasn't really sure how best to do it. And then, the other day, the Kodak P300R appeared. KODAK Mini 3 Retro P300RPrint high-quality photos, straight from
I am not even remotely ready this year. I hadn't even started picking up the few things I'd intended to get until today. Thankfully, I haven't exactly got much to get. But wow, I am so over Christmas. Mind you, I'm not
Something came up today regarding the topic of monitoring employee performance. An example was the average first response time to a support request. Now, I absolutely understand why you'd want to monitor these things to improve the service. However, my concern here is that if I'm
I often find it interesting looking back at my previous posts to see what people are still reading. It's more surprising than anything. By far, the most read one week on week is Firefox 141.0 Release - Disable The AI Tab Grouping. That is followed closely by
While I was reading my feeds this evening, this post popped up from Robert Alexander on his blog alexsci.com. The post is titled “Discovering the indieweb with calm tech”. In it, he mentions an interesting extension called “StreetPass for Mastodon” which discovers mastodon accounts for the websites you visit
Most of my spare time this morning was spent working on getting things more aligned within Actual Budget. I think I've got some very basic initial steps done. Next, I need to start reading more about Templates. And keep tweaking my categories. Today also marks the 700th consecutive
What a week. It hasn't been bad, but wow, it was relentless! I cannot wait for a bit of downtime. It's been raining heavily all day today, so I didn't get to go out for my usual lunchtime walk. Instead, I spent some time
I was speaking with a friend earlier today about games that have taken a long time to arrive. He'd just received a copy of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. I've never played a single Metroid game. That should probably change. But, it did make me think about
There's a lot of noise out there about what price the Steam Machine will be, and that they have mentioned it will be closer to PC pricing. One such article is from Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/valve-finally-confirms-leaked-steam-machine-price-rumors/ During the November 22 Friends Per Second podcast