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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

Ugh… I have been saying this over the last few years. Just a serious lack of motivation and procrastination on my part killing any momentum. However, this year, I am going to make a much more serious effort to stop slacking off. Mainly because I find my future at the company I currently work for

Marathon drive back from Alabama to Vancouver. Before we left I checked the weather along the route. It was predicted to have snowfall around Oregon which was troubling me so I wanted to beat that at all costs. In the end no snow anywhere along the route. Fine by me. Although Oregon, the whole state,