Robbert

Both my wife’s and my computers are getting pretty old. She was working on an original Microsoft Surface because of her initially doing private practice and needed something small and portable and later doing her Ph.D. But that Surface can’t run Win11 and it is showing its age. Plus we are showing our age. The […]

I have been saying I wanted to make programs myself to replace stuff I did not like. Or as a way to transition away from my current job. I know I can do it but I have always derailed myself thinking I needed something else to be able to do it right. And I am

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.