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Back to the grind
Tomorrow, I'll be back to the grind. Today wrapped up a four day weekend for me. I just took Friday and Thursday off for fun ... then spent those two days worrying about a hurricane headed our way that ended up turning right instead of left. So it goes. It was also a low-energy weekend - I felt pretty washed out the last couple of days. Maybe my body was missing work? Still, you might have noticed a bit more activity around here than usual over the past week, from foxes to Apple upgrades. Most of the activity was indoors,…
Continue reading...Oddly Low-key Introduction
If you play in Apple's sandbox, you'll know that today was release day for the latest version of OS X: El Capitan. For a variety of reasons, I decided to upgrade on release day (admittedly after pulling a full, bootable, copy of my system using my favorite tool for the purpose, SuperDuper! Highly Recommended!). An hour or so to pull down the 6 GB download, another 30 minutes or so to apply the new OS, and my Mac Air was rebooting! Happily, I got a login prompt at the far end. That's always a good start. I typed in the…
Continue reading...Foxy
Fox at the roadside This gal was standing in the middle of the road on my back-road drive home today. I gave him a couple of blasts on the horn, which sent him scampering off the right side of the tarmac. But as I pulled up even with that spot, there she was, standing 15 or so feet off the roadway, staring up at me. I stopped, and brought my phone up, opening the camera app. I got the picture. Throughout, I expected the fox to bolt ... but it didn't. The area where I was is a blend of…
Continue reading...About daynotes.com
Carl Sanders wrote: Was wondering why www.daynotes.com was down. The registration for the site expired on 23 September 2015. It's in limbo for a while, then it'll go on the block. Daynotes.com was a domain purchased by, and leading to a website designed by, and originally maintained by Tom Syroid, back in September 1999. By sometime around the mid-naught'ies, Tom dropped off the Internet, and with few exceptions, has not resurfaced. A few times we tried to get the site registration transferred from his name (and with difficulty, since the email address he registered with exists no more), so that…
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