Robbert

My home setup is a bit of a beast. Being a software developer an all I have quite the Frankenstein’s monster going on. I have a desktop that is my main computer and it is connected to 3 27″ monitors. When developing software, 3 can be useful. 1 monitor for the development environment, 1 monitor […]

The short answer: I will never vote for any (current) Conservative party because their view for what society should become do not remotely match my view for what Canada should become. The long answer: A lot of what I will say is related to any current conservative party whether it be Canadian, US, or from

Some time ago I bought larger drives for my NAS. Just noticed recently that I forgot to ‘expand’ the capacity once the drives were installed and updated. So for the longest time I was working with 1/4 of the capacity of the drives… Doh. Might be the reason why the drives were chirping so much

The racists feel they can be racist without impunity now that they have a buddy scheduled to be in the Whitehouse again. There were a couple of black students harassed/attacked near campus where we are by some MAGA sporting racists. Nationwide text messages to black students with the message “You have been selected to pick

I honestly did not think there were that many stupid people in the USA. Boy was I wrong. But then I think there is a lot of disinformation that people do not get past. Recently, I was in an Uber with a Chinese driver. I would have thought he would be for Kamala. Nope. He

… it catches Google’s own spam.

For me, I cannot keep everything in my head. I sometimes find I get a bit lazy and I end up doing that. The problem then becomes I am spending so much time refreshing the list of things to do instead of actually getting something done. And that leads to anxiety, lack of motivation to

Back in the South. Wife still continuing with her Ph.D. Spring break is on at the moment and we want to take a small trip just to get away a bit. So I am taking a look at what’s about and noticed something. Almost every destination around here has some sort of ‘Civil Rights’ museum.

Lately, because I have bee away from home for extended periods, I have used Canada Post’s online tools to set up mail forwarding to may folk’s place until we come back. The first few times I could do it without having to visit the post office at all. The second last time they had asked

One thing about software development is that you need to stay organized. A big part of that is tracking your todos, features, bugs, etc. (tasks.) For the longest time I was just using a text editor like notepad++. It worked. The problem with going text only is that sorting the list of tasks is very