+++ Emacs - The Final Verdict +++ | |
Thursday, August 13, 2020 | |
Final Thoughts on Emacs | |
Continued... | |
+++ Emacs - Day 10 +++ | |
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 | |
Emacs - Day 10 | |
Continued... | |
+++ Emacs Day 3 +++ | |
Thursday, August 06, 2020 | |
Emacs - Day Three | |
Continued... | |
+++ Emacs - Day 1 +++ | |
Wednesday, August 05, 2020 | |
My Latest Project - Emacs | |
Continued... | |
+++ Word of the day - Argo +++ | |
Friday, September 20, 2019 | |
Argo. I read this word recently and had no idea what it meant. I saw | |
a movie once called Argot. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Some More Words - Riposte and Mendacious +++ | |
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 | |
A couple more words that I have read lately but wasn't too sure of their | |
meanings. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Word of the Day - Egregious +++ | |
Thursday, June 20, 2019 | |
I'm on a roll with this word thing. I've come across quite a few | |
words where I think I know what they mean, but I have looked up just | |
to make sure. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Continuing the Word Theme +++ | |
Saturday, June 01, 2019 | |
Continuing with the word theme, I was reading an article where a | |
person was described as being misanthropic. Hmmm. I think I know | |
what that means - unsociable? Maybe unkind? Let's check it out. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Word of the Day - Eschew +++ | |
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 | |
Another day, another word. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Word of the Day - Apocryphal +++ | |
Sunday, May 12, 2019 | |
I keep coming back. I said I was finished with gopher. I was wrong. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Goodbye and Farewell +++ | |
Monday, March 25, 2019 | |
I have been pondering my motivation to begin writing on a public forum | |
such as this. I think I started because I was interested in learning about | |
gohper which is something that I had nothing to do with "back in the | |
day." | |
Continued... | |
+++ Trip to USA +++ | |
Thursday, November 29, 2018 | |
Once again it has been a while since I last posted here. Since my | |
last post, I have been lucky enough to travel to the United States. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Practising Mental Health +++ | |
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 | |
It's been quite a while. I've been very busy at work, and trying to | |
do too much in between. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Medical Update +++ | |
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 | |
I've been home now for almost as long as I was away on holidays when I | |
suffered a superficial thrombosis. The blood thinning tablets seem to | |
be doing their job as I haven't suffered a pulmonary embolism due to a | |
part of the clot breaking off in my calf, and travelling via my heart | |
to my lungs. I feel completely normal except for a little lump in my | |
calf that hurts if I push it. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Deep Vein Thrombosis Scare +++ | |
Sunday, May 20, 2018 | |
As some of you know, I have been overseas for the last 7 weeks touring | |
south east Asia including Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. I blogged | |
about it at https://bradmac.id.au/blog | |
Continued... | |
+++ Long Holiday in Southeast Asia +++ | |
Sunday, May 13, 2018 | |
It's been a while since I last posted. I am in Vietnam lying beside a | |
pool sipping on a drink. This is the last week of a 6 week odyssey | |
through southeast Asia starting in Singapore, moving on to Malaysia | |
and finishing up here in Vietnam. I've kept a blog at | |
https://bradmac.id.au/blog if you are interested. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Holidays Soon! +++ | |
Tuesday, April 03, 2018 | |
It's been frantic at work. Normally I have an offsider who shares the | |
workload but he's been absent on a week's leave and some other | |
commitments prior to that and he wasn't replaced. I've got double the | |
workload, and it's monthly reporting time. At times like this I often | |
feel that I'm getting past my time here and retirement sounds pretty | |
good. | |
Continued... | |
+++ The Long Road to Fitness +++ | |
Monday, March 19, 2018 | |
As already phlogged, I have been recovering from a hernia operation | |
since the 18th of January this year. It has been more painful and | |
debilitating than I ever expected. Anyway, my hobbies are mucking | |
around with computers, bike riding and weight lifting. During my | |
recovery I have not done any bike riding or weight lifting until last | |
week. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Coffee Snob Protest +++ | |
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | |
I was reading through some phlogs today and came across this: | |
gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/solderpunk/phlog/against-connoisseurship.txt | |
Solderpunk asserts that Australia and New Zealand are coffee neophytes | |
and that we have no idea of how to drink coffee. I protest! | |
Continued... | |
+++ TV Binge +++ | |
Thursday, February 08, 2018 | |
It's been nearly a month since my last post. I've been recuperating | |
from an inguinal hernia operation. The first week after the operation | |
I was suffering a fair bit of pain and had to be very careful doing | |
all normal daily activity. Getting out of bed required pre-planning | |
and careful execution to avoid too much stress on my abdominal | |
muscles. Ditto for sitting down on a chair, standing back up again, | |
even going to the toilet. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Test of phlogit +++ | |
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 | |
This is a test only - using phlogit instead of mkgopherentry. | |
Continued... | |
+++ Contact Management with MC and Vim +++ | |
Tuesday, January 23th, 2018 | |
I had a hernia operation last Thursday and am now laid up at home with | |
some time on my hands. I've been catching up on some phlogs at SDF, | |
and one in particular has raised my interest - contact managment using | |
text based files with vim and ranger, written by dbucklin: | |
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/dbucklin/posts/2018-01-06-ranger-vim-crm.markdown | |
Continued... | |
Sunday, January 14th, 2018 | |
Two posts in three days - something must be up! | |
Continued... | |
Friday, January 12th, 2018 | |
It's been a while, but I've got a pretty good excuse. My father died | |
on 29/12/2017. He was 81 years old. Not a bad innings. He's been | |
quite ok over Christmas and seemed to be happy, even if he was not | |
eating much, but did enjoy some red wine. | |
Continued... | |
Friday, November 17th, 2017 | |
Well I've been back at work for a week now and have nearly caught up | |
with everything that wasn't done while I was on holidays. Of course, | |
someone else was delegated to perform my role while I was gone, but it | |
never really works out for many reasons - one of which is because I'm | |
irreplaceable ;-) | |
Continued... | |
Monday, October 23th, 2017 | |
I'm on holidays now! I love holidays. It's not that I hate work, | |
it's just that I like being on holidays a lot better. No deadlines, | |
no-one criticising how I've done things or what I haven't done, not | |
having to get out of bed at 6:15 a.m. The list goes on and on. | |
Continued... | |
Monday, October 16th, 2017 | |
One of my interests in life is weightlifting. It's an unusual sport | |
with only a fairly limited amount of publicity. The only goal is to | |
lift more weight than your opponents. That's it. Simple. It is the | |
test of absolute human physical effort. It's awesome to watch these | |
people lifting incredible weights. | |
Continued... | |
Sunday, October 08th, 2017 | |
I'm sorry to say that I've left SDF. Well, as a web host provider | |
anyway. I've been frustrated with my php pages being unusable for a | |
while now due to regular internal server 500 errors. This was an | |
intermittent thing and I was confident it wasn't my pages causing the | |
errors - they hadn't changed and I had not fiddled with anything such | |
as structure or permissions in my html folder. | |
Continued... | |
Sunday, October 01th, 2017 | |
It's been a hell of a week and into the weekend at work. I was called | |
out to a job at 0105hrs this morning. It's never pleasant having to | |
do that. I've finished and got back home to grab a few hours sleep. | |
Now I'm looking at my todo.txt list. | |
Continued... | |
Sunday, September 24th, 2017 | |
Yesterday was my 57th birthday. We celebrated the day by smoking a | |
3.8kg port butt. My 25 year old son has come home after moving out a | |
couple of years ago - to save up some money to start his own business. | |
Continued... | |
Wednesday, September 13th, 2017 | |
I've been having some issues with my PHP pages throwing internal | |
server errors on my pages at bradmac.freeshell.org This is one of | |
those irritating intermittent faults that comes and goes. I'm pretty | |
sure it's not my pages causing the issues as I haven't done anything | |
to them for a couple of weeks. The problem with SDF is it is pretty | |
much run by one person - the mysterious smj. He seems pretty choosey | |
to whom he replies to on bboard. I've posted a couple of times on | |
bboard and got no response - but my PHP pages did start working for a | |
day, then started having error messages again the next. I posted | |
again on bboard and again the problem was fixed. I'd like some | |
feedback on what the problem was. | |
Continued... | |
Friday, September 08th, 2017 | |
Continuing with my father's health issues, he got home from hospital | |
the day before yesterday. My mother was quite nervous about this, but | |
luckily my brother from England was here for a 2 week holiday and is | |
with them for a couple more days before heading home. | |
Continued... | |
Saturday, September 02th, 2017 | |
So it's been extremely busy at work and I haven't had much time to do | |
what I want to do. I had planned to take part in a fund raising | |
bicycle ride in September. A nice 100km jaunt. One does not just get | |
on one's bike and ride 100km. A little training must be partaken to | |
achieve the necessary level of fitness. I had good intentions, but | |
have only been able to do a 50km ride once every second week. Not | |
enough. It was causing me stress knowing I was not going to be | |
prepared. I've had to withdraw - which is sad. | |
Continued... | |
Wednesday, August 23th, 2017 | |
My father had a fall last week and ended up in hospital - where he | |
still remains. He ended up with a terrible case of pneumonia, which | |
on top of his congestive heart failure led to the situation last week | |
where he nearly died. | |
Continued... | |
Friday, August 18th, 2017 | |
My father nearly died yesterday. He's 82 years old next month. He | |
lives at home in Mansfield, a country town in Victoria, Australia with | |
my mother. They are self sufficient but dad has really slowed down | |
since he turned 80. His health has been up and down over the last | |
couple of years and we've thought he was gone for sure more than once. | |
Continued... | |
Sunday, August 13th, 2017 | |
One of my passions in life is bike riding. Today I rode 70km with a | |
couple of work colleagues. The ride was along an old railway line in | |
south eastern Victoria, Australia, which has been converted into a | |
rail trail. We started at Leongatha and rode 35km to Fish Creek via | |
Koonwarra, Meeniyan, Stony Creek and Buffalo. Had lunch at the pub | |
then turned around to head back. Had a bit of a head wind and it was | |
a long climb out of Fish Creek (not steep, but went on for about 7km). | |
Had a coffee and caramel slice in Meeniyan. We were all feeling quite | |
fatigued by Koonwarra, and the last 10km was pretty hard. | |
Continued... | |
Thursday, August 10th, 2017 | |
We are implementing a new surveying system at work - moving from 2D | |
total survey stations to 3D lidar scanning. We are using proprietory | |
software to process the point cloud. I want to learn more about how | |
point cloud processing works. I'm looking for open source software | |
that runs on Linux to play with at home. | |
Continued... | |
Monday, August 07th, 2017 | |
While talking about mental health, I thought I'd mention a couple of | |
techniques that have helped me get over some low level anxiety and | |
poor mood. | |
Continued... | |
Saturday, August 05th, 2017 | |
Ok. So I've made it to my second phlog. So far, so good. I am 57 | |
years old next month. My workplace ran a retirement seminar the other | |
day. I'm not sure it was what I thought it would be. I imagined talk | |
about tranisition to retirement strategies at work, financial | |
planning, investment advice - stuff like that. Well, it wasn't like | |
that at all. The focus was on retiring with good mental health. You | |
need to have your mental health in order before you retire. The | |
statistics on male suicide rates in Australia are frightening. The | |
rate for retirees is on the bad end of the scale. | |
Continued... | |
Thursday, August 03th, 2017 | |
My First Phlog. | |
Continued... | |