We all know that feeling. You know you should get some exercise, but you just don’t feel like it. If you don’t feel up to it, that means your body is telling you to take it easy, right? Well… sometimes yes, sometimes no. Most weekday mornings I get out for a brisk walk of around […]
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Sony WH-1000XM4 Noise Cancelling Headphones by Steven Goetz
I have been promising this review to Allison for 6 months and I don’t think Allison ever thought she’d see it. First, the problem to be solved. I wanted a good, quality set of headphones that I could use for things like watching TV at night while others in my family are sleeping. I also […]
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It all started with a trip to the doctor; I don’t even remember what for. Had I noticed the red splotch on my back? No. We should consult with a skin specialist. OK. It’s benign but could become a problem, we should remove it. OK. We’ll have to cut it out. Ohhhkay! I was sitting […]
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I recently purchased a new desk for my study, which I reviewed in a separate submission. If you heard or read that, you may recall I said my old desk was 1.2 m long and the new one is 1.8 m long. Sitting in the centre of the desk, each end is now 300 mm […]
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Loctek Standing Desk With a lot more working from home lately — I’ll let you figure out why — I discovered that my study (you North Americans may call it a den) just wasn’t a nice place to work for an 8-hour day. Part of that was not having much room to move — it […]
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In April 2019, my wife and I embarked on our first overseas trip together in 21 years, to celebrate my 50th birthday. We spent a week in Singapore followed by a few days in Melbourne, Australia on the way home. One evening, a few days into the trip, I started to realise I was already […]
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Back in March I took part in CCATP Lite #675 about working from home, along with Allison and the pod-daughter, Lindsay Tondee. We had so much fun discussing our different experiences that there was a whole section of content I had notes for that we just didn’t have time to get into. I’d like to […]
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When I bought my Apple Silicon-powered MacBook Pro in late 2020, I wasn’t sure what I’d do with my 2018 Mac mini. My overriding thought was it would be useful to keep around as a server, but… what would it serve? I’ve traditionally sold all my old Macs to help defray the cost of my […]
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In late 2020 AgileBits, the folks behind 1Password, published a blog post entitled Randomness (or things humans do poorly). It’s a fascinating article on randomness in computers, but near the beginning is this paragraph. As I’ve alluded to with the title of this post, humans are notoriously terrible at creating randomness. You’ll doubtless have heard […]
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Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways, Allister from New Zealand here, once again, with a review of a geeky tool that will let you flex your Taming the Terminal muscles. On an episode of the Upgrade podcast Jason Snell talked about an open source utility called BitBar. This utility puts customisable information in the macOS menu bar […]
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