I got up at 9:30am this morning and left home at around 9:45am which allowed me plenty of time after I came home to relax, cool down, watch some news on YouTube and then jump into the shower to get prepared for the day. Went into the office today for my second mandatory day in the office but the day went well, not too crazy busy and I was able to enjoy a mexican bean wrap for breakfast this morning along with a mochaccino – which reminds me I really do need to sign up for their coffee club so I can collect points. On Friday I’ll probably go for a slightly longer walk since I would prefer to get my walk in before work than leaving it to after work where I really don’t feel in the mood to do anything other than relax before work. On my days I work from home I might actually squeeze in a few extra kilometres – maybe bump it up to 13.8km with the other benefit of walking during the day the weather is warmer where as late at night the temperature gets down to around 5 degrees celsius which isn’t particularly enjoyable.
On a good side, while I was at work I followed up on my leave request and unfortunately because I put my leae in too late I missed out on taking 30 and 31 May off but I did get 3 and 4 June off which means the remaining three days of the week I’ll be working from home and then I’ll go into my holiday at the beginning of June where I’ll get to follow along with WWDC. I’m excited to hear the under the hood changes given the rumours of version 27 being a ‘Snow Leopard’ like release where there is a focus on delivering on Apple Intelligence while focusing on dealing with the rough edges that many in the online forums have been complaining about since the release of version 26 and the new Liquid Glass design language.
Today was a good day, I woke up at 9:30am and left home for my morning walk at 9:45am, back in around 1 hour and 20 minutes, cooled down, had a shower, got dressed adn then headed out to catch the train into work. I had a great night sleep and it is funny how the body knows when to wake up – for me, it is around 8 hours or so when my body decides that I’ve had enough sleep and I need to get out of bed to start the day. The weather is particularly nice and according to the Metservice the next seven days are going to be fine so I’m going to take advantage of that spell of good weather.
Work was all good and I put through leave for two days before my birthday and two days after so I end up getting 6 days off (my birthday occurs on my ‘weekend’ which is Monday and Tuesday (1 June)), I also put it through for my time off in November when I go to Tasmania for a holiday along side the time off I have already organised for the week of 8 June. I’m unsure whether my November leave will be approved since it is quite a distance into the future but I guess I’m in a habit of getting the leave in early because my previous employers preferred to get as much of a heads up as possible rather than waiting till the last minute.
I got home at around 11pm tonight and the first thing I did was check to see whether my passport was still valid – thank goodness I did because it expired back in January this year so I’m going to head down on my day off on Monday or Tuesday next week to get a photo at the chemist and then organise a passport online through the RealMe portal. I tend to be pretty good with these kinds of things but then again the last time I used my passport was when I went over to Europe in 2024 so it has been a couple of years. I might as well get it sorted out straight away rather than letting it linger in the back of my mind because knowing my luck I’ll suddenly remember close to the holiday and then have to pay a premium to get a passport rushed.
I woke up today expecting Chrome 148 had been released but it appears that it has been pushed off until next week so today I was greeted with an update to version 147.0.7727.138. It was a quick install along with uBlock Origin Lite 2026.426.1536 being updated as well – no regressions noted.. If you haven’t installed it yet I would strongly you suggest that you do so given that quite a number of critical and high rated vulnerabilities have been fixed (link). It is the one thing I always mak sure of, when dealing with customers, that if they’re having issues to make sure they’re running the latest version of Chrome and then pair that up with clearing cookies and cache I tend to find that 99% of the customer’s problems as solved (the other 1% tend to be people using content blockers which canse problem with the company website).
I decided to sleep in today because wanted to catch up on sleep but that didn’t sotp me from getting a 8km power walk in – around 2pm I went for an 8km walk, really got my heart rate up there and completed the whole set it around 1 hour and 17 minutes. At the end of the power walk I had done over 10000 steps with the calories burnt at around 729 calories but generally the reading from such devices they’re not necessarily reliable which is why I don’t count the calories burnt into the calories consumed in the day – basically I stick to being around 200-300 calories under what I need for a day based on my basal metabolism so that any exercise I do is an ‘icing on the cake’ rather than my calorie control in a day being dependent on it.
The UniFi Network Application 10.3.58 has been release however it is currently rolling out gradually however if you switch to release candidate, install it and then switch back to the official release channel then you should be all good to go. The one habit I also like to do is to restart the Cloud Key so that there is a fresh start with the UniFi Network Application freshly booted. After updating it I haven’t noticed any issues and the speed is as fast as usual although I go with Cloudflare because they have a local presence in New Zealand where as I haven’t found any documentation showing that Google has a local presence in New Zealand as so far as running DNS servers in New Zealand (the last time I checked I saw it being resolved by a server located in Australia).
Just a follow up to the Safari Technology Preview 242 release that I mentioned earlier – I advised that the wpt.fyi webside hadn’t been updated to include Safari Technology Preview 242 however I noticed that they have no updated it. The score for Safari Technology Preview 242 has gone from 75.4% for Safari Technology Preview 241 to now 85.7% for Safari Technology Preview 242 so it’ll be interesting to see what is in store for future releases and whether we’ll see that gap close even further because at the moment Chrome is currently on 89.1% (it’ll be interesting to see what the numbers will be when Safari 26.5 is released with the platform release of 26.5 (the fourth beta was released within the last day so iit could be possible that we’ll see maybe a release candidate next week and then maybe the final release the week after).
I’ve got my alarm set for 9:30am, I’m going to wake up, leave home for a walk however I am tempted to go for a 10km walk because that would only be around 2km longer than what I currently do. The great thing with getting out before midday is that it avoids the heat and the sun at the peak although i still wear a hat and put on some sunscreen. I did talk about the idea of maybe going for a walk after work but I’ve decided that if I am going to do any extra exercise then I’m probably better off doing it in the morning, having a shower and then heading into work then spending the time after coming home from work on relaxing and getting an early night in bed. My goal is to get at least 8-9 hours worth of sleep.
Regarding upcoming time off from work, I’ve put some leave through for the week of the 8 June however since I can get time off for my birth and my birthday falls on Kings Birthday this year I am going to see whether I can either get 30 May off or maybe 3 June off because my work has the ability to take a day off because of ones birthday. In November I am looking at travelling to Tasmania for a holiday (mum is head over there for a meet up with dad’s old classmates when he was at Duntroon), I’ve had a look at airfares with the best value being one where I go from Wellington to Sydney then from Sydney direct to Tasmania (on an Airbus A220 – the first time I’ve been on such an aircraft) – I’m wanting to get those flights booked early so then I can get them at a reasonable price given that the date is getting close to when the school holidays will start.
Just before I end this post, I was watching a video regarding the ‘enshittification of AI’ and I have to ask the most obvious question, how can you enshittify something that was already shit. As Ed Zitron as noted, the moment when the all you can eat subscriptions disappear and the only way to use their service is via the API then I think people are quickly going to find that AI companies were making many promises and most of them were never delivered. When you have failure rates of 30-40% and you wasts hundeds of thousands of tokens in an attempt to vibe code your way out of a problem then you’ll quickly realise that maybe those humans you got rid of weren’t so expensive after all. We’re slowly seeing companies having that day of reckoning – the same companies who were proudly proclaiming how many people they were going to lay off are rather quiet when they later have to back peddle. What is also amazing is how the corporate culture see employeelayoffs as a signal of ‘good management’ where as in the past the idea of laying off employees as a failure by management because it was seen as a last result rather than it being seen as something to be proud of. Then again when you have management who are far removed from their employees I guess it is easier to employees as simply numbers rather than humans who have lives, families etc.
With parts of the MAGA movement souring on Trump, or at least the online commentariat, there has emerged a conspiracy theory regarding the two assassination attempts on Trump. For the record, I don’t what to see Trump assassinated and that has nothing to do with something noble or altruistic but rather the fact that I don’t want someone like him becoming a martyr. if Trump goes I would sooner it be the form of him choking on a ham sandwich while on the toilet or something equally as embarrassing. Getting back to the conspiracy theory, the claim is that the two attempts are staged which is part of the larger narrative that you’ll see emerge which will be an attempt to divorce Trump from the MAGA movement. The larger narrative will be that Trump either sold out to the ‘deep state’ or that Trump was always part of the ‘deep state’ and the reason why he didn’t do what he is doing now (aka the regime change wars) in the first term was the idea that it was part of the ‘grand plan’ to hold off from regime change wars to the second term to ensure he got two terms.
As a consequence of this narrative (which is emerging out of the online commentariat who are in turn being backed by billionaires with their own political ambitions) the goal is to divorce Trump from the MAGA ideology (assuming there is a coherent MAGA ideology given the various groups whose interests contradict each other eg paleoconservatives who don’t want to be involved in foreign wars teaming up with Christian Zionists and their end times prophecies that necessitate such interventions in global affairs) so whoever ends up emerging for the 2028 primaries will claim that they’re the ‘real MAGA candidate’ who will actually do MAGA instead of selling out or being compromised.
I also think we’ll start to see it move beyond the MAGA influencers to regular people who will use it as an excuse to play the victim and then distance themselves from their vote – “oh, we were lied to, Trump is a shitty president and we didn’t vote for this, he betrayed MAGA…I’m all in on MAGA and Trump isn’t MAGA”. These are the same people who voted for George W Bush twice, the sort of people who would talk about ‘freedom fries’, ‘these colours don’t run’ and any criticism of US adventurism overseas was met with ‘why do you hate America’ yet today such people will deny they voted for George W Bush. Mark my words, when Trump’s presidency ends at the end of 2028 and a few years have passed then don’t be surprised when those very same people will claim they either didn’t vote for Trump or they were a victim of Trump.
When these narratives that are created don’t get created organically, they get created for a specific purpose. As the former MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair noted, the whole MAGA movement is carefully managed behind the scenes – the influencers are all coordinated behind the scenes and the narratives that are being put out there are being coordinated to ensure that whatever narrative is being put out there is consistent with whatever the end goals of the billionaire backers. The billionaire backers see Trump as a liability so they’re organising who will be the successor to Trump – who that successor will be, it depends on who will eventually emerge, it may even be an outsider who is outside the political establishment given that JD Vance is too closely associated with the current administration where the obvious will be asked of it him: “why didn’t you do something about it?” the only answer will be shoulders shrugging followed by “fucked if I know”.
I feel the most productive at night – for some reason when I get up I have little energy but like a Greek dance I slowly speed up towards the end of the day. Unsure as the reason for this, maybe my body takes time to ‘wake up’ or something. In the case of today, I woke up today, walked down to the supermarket (which is around 5km), did my shopping, jumped on a bus home and by the time I got home I felt as though I had a lot more energy even though I hadn’t eaten anything other than having a glass of water before leaving to go for the walk.
A bit of a background is that I upgraded my television that I had for over 12 years to a nice new 65inch Samsung television and part of that, when you setup the television, is logging into the Samsung Cloud because the television also acts as a hub for your devices such as security cameras (I have two Arlo cameras on the outside of my home). I was at first scepticla about how useful the Samsung Cloud would be given that I tend to go ‘all in’ on one vendor be it Apple or Google but I wanted to give Samsung a chance before drawing any conclusions. Btw, I’m going to talk about them in the order I purchased and installed them in which is why I setup my television before my phone or watch.
I setup my television and I decided that before setting up my Apple TV 4K that I would give One UI a try given that I’ve tried it at the store but to give ia fair chance I wanted to make sure I was running the latest version. The latest version at the moment of writing this post is 1260 and the model of television I bought was a Samsung QN70F 65″ Neo QLED Smart TV (I bought it from my local PB Tech). After configuring it along with linking the YouTube app to my Google account (I’ve got a Workspace account and I’m on YouTube Premium) and then tested it out seeing how smoothly the YouTube app was, searching, switching between different parts of the app and then playing videos. Unlike the Apple TV 4K the software included with my television supports av1 CODEC along side vp9 which is supported on Apple TV 4K.
Regarding how the over all One UI performs, it is very fast and fluid – in fact I find it a lot more responsive than the Apple TV 4K even with the home screen having a lot more content on display vs the tendency of Apple to have a more minimalise approach. i was concerned that because the home screen on One UI is busier than the tvOS interface that maybe I would find it difficult to navigate but I found that after a bit of practice where I found where things were then everything fell into place. There is support through the app store for TVNZ+, ThreeNow, Neon, Amazon, Netflix etc so if you’re using one of the big streaming services then you should have any issues.
I think the big strength the television does have is the fact that there is a built in web browser although one has to keep in mind that there isn’t the ability to install an adblocker on the browser but other than that I found it pretty good when I want to watch ‘Democracy Now!’ which can be streated through their website. One thing to also keep in mind that you can also use your mobile phone as a keyboard in much the same way you can do that with the iPhone and the Apple TV 4K rather than having to use the remote.
Here are a couple of photos of my television in my lounge room (yeah, I know, I’ve got to move the picture on the wall over to the right so that the television isn’t covering part of it – that is a project I’ve got in the planning stage at the moment):
The second part of moving to the Samsung ecosystem was getting the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra and a four pack of Samsung Smart Tag2 Bluetooth Trackers which I was able to pick up at a good price (bought with the bonus I got from work). Although you can use Google Workspace and Google services with iOS the experience is never as good as running it on an Android device and that kind of makes sense given that the respective platforms are designed from the ground up to integrate into their respective ecosystems.
I’ve setup the phone and updated to the latest version – the whole experience with One UI 8.5 is rock solid and the updates came through smoothly. There are a few preinstalled apps such Spotify but they can easily be uninstalled. I’ve pretty much stuck with the tock apps that Samsung included and added any missing Google apps – Google Wallet doesn’t come preinstalled out of the box so I can only assume that the image that they use for the phone also targets markets which have Samsung Pay because in New Zealand we just have Google Pay and Apple Pay. There isn’t anything remarkable about the phone that other reviewers haven’t covered already but it is a solid phone if you need an Android phone but the Pixel isn’t available in your market.
I setup the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra and although it does come with LTE support out of the box I’m with a carrier I’m with doesn’t support it (well, technically it is the ‘cheap and cheerful’ sub brand to the main brand (Spark) which does support eSIM for the watch) but it isn’t a main issue since I mainly use it just for workig out. The GPS is pretty accurate with the distance being measured matching the distance if one were to jump into a car and measure it that way or logging into Google Maps to do the same thing. The calorie count is a bit iffy because there are so many factors involved you tend to find that regardless of the brand that there is an inaccuracy from single digits all the way to 20-30%. For me, the main focus is about the number of steps, heart rate and keeping track of my time with the goal being that as long as I stick to 6km per hour then that gets my heart rate up to where it needs to be.
Overall I’m fairly happy with the change. Regarding AirDrop and Android, it is working well although the downside is that you cannot transfer directories so what I’ve found is that I’ve uploaded my music backup and music collection to the cloud and then on my phone I then downloaded it via the Samsung Files app from my Google Drive to my phone. Funny enough, since I’ve got a 1Gbps internet connection the speed of downloading it from Google Drive to my Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is about the same (slightly faster funny enough from the Google Drive) if I copied the files to my phone via USB cable using OpenMTP.
Regarding the applications I run on my phone, I use Pocket Cast for podcasts because even though I have YouTube Premium I find the podcast functionality of Google Music pretty lousy – 9to5Mac Happy Hour for example that appears in YouTube Music hasn’t been updated since 2020 so you’ll need to add the RSS feed manually to YouTube Music and even then if there is a change in the RSS feed you have to manually find the new address then add it where as Pocket Casts, Spotify and other podcast providers take care of that in the background. I really wish that Google would bring back their old podcast software because that was exactly what worked – simply design without any clutter. The other piece of software that is a must is dbPowerAmp because the YouTube Music is really bad at dealing with large music libraries on local storage not to mention basic things like navigating by tapping on Artists then album is non existent. All the other software is exactly the same as I had on my iPhone such as Reddit, BlueSky etc.
After having a nasty week of bad weather it is good to see the start of a new week which will mean geting back into a routine again – I’ve set my alarm and I know it’ll be difficult for the first couple of days but getting into a good routine will mean that everything else falls into place. I’ve set the alarm to 9:30am and in the morning (although I may push it back to 10:30am depending how I feel when I turn off the light and close my laptop) I’m going to head down to the supermarket to pick up some groceries with the $75 voucher from work plus the $15 voucher I got by accumulating points as I shopped.
I’ve been following the whole AI hype cycle and it appears that reality is setting in – the idea of ‘all you can eat’ subscriptions are not economically viable and as Ed Zitron noted on a recent podcast regarding the need to move to a system where you pay as you go. The problem is, at least as far as I see it, the move to a pay as you go model might make sense if the models were actually good enough to the point that you don’t waste tokens.
The problem is that there are examples of companies blowing through a whole years budget in a matter of a few months – the end result is something that doesn’t actually save money the moment you start paying as you use it and that is something that companies are quickly facing. I can’t help but get the feeling that many of the AI companies were hoping that their technology would become so critical that businesses would be willing to pay through the nose for it but the reality is that if the numbers don’t add up then aren’t going to keep paying for it.
I think what you’re going to find is that after the hype dies that down we’ll see that eventually it’ll be primarily aimed at businesses, AI companies will probably eventually jettison chat just as they jettisoned video creation on demand because it is too costly and has no chance of actually turning a profit given how much they would need to charge vs how much organisations are willing to pay. I wouldn’t be surprised if you end up having a developer tools with preconfigured set of commands that call an API to ensure that the least amount of tokens are used when when completing the command rather than relying on a wordy prompt.
Had a good day to day apart from the first customer being one of those people who need help but aren’t willing to help themselves – you can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink. The one thing I learned, don’t let them get under your skin, advise the customer that you’re going to end the call and then end it – I’m not there to be someone’s emotional soundboard nor should any other customer service operator be a soundboard for people who have ‘big feelings’ and ‘big emotions’. I started the day by getting up at 11am and on Sunday I’ll push it back to 10am so then I’ll get into a good routine where on Monday and Tuesday I’ll get up at 10am (so I can go for a morning walk) then when I go back to work on Wednesday I’ll set my alarm to 9:30am so then I can get some exercise in before work.
Probably the main benefit of getting up at a decent time in the morning and going for a walk means that you can squeeze it in before work when the sun is out and the weather isn’t as cold although when I do work from home I’ll still go for a walk later on at night but there won’t be that pressure if it is particularly cold. I am interested in getting some gloves or mittens because I have a nice big and warm hoodie although some gloves to keep my hands warm will make going for a walk at high a lot more enjoyable.
It is funny how the small things that make all the difference and the one thing I really like about Keep is how the title of the note is seperate from the content like they’re two separate fields. Although I do have a bit of a preference for native applications I’ve also come to accept that in this day and age that web browsers are the run time engine of the internet in much the same way that .NET and Java were sold with the promise of ‘write once, run everywhere’ (when in reality there was the old joke ‘write once, debug everywhere’) where as modern web standards have actually delivered where .NET and Java failed.
I had a productive day today – not too busy which meant I was able to catch up on some paper work, some training modules I needed to get finished by May so I am now al up to date. I’ve been keeping the heater going during the day because the weather has once again been very cold but it looks like over the next week things are going to get a bit nicer. I’m going to an early night in bed tonight so I can get up a little bit earlier and then eventually get myself back into my normal routine on Monday next week but I’ll do it gradually as to avoid over promising and not being able to carry it through.
Safari Technology Preview 242 was released recently (link) and there are plenty of bug fixes as well as features being added as part of bringing it into compliance with the latest web standards. I’m waiting for the latest Web Platform Test (link) which tests browsers against an agreed set of standards that the major browser vendors have all agreed to work towards. Once again Safari is trailing behind the competition but that could be partially due to the fact that Apple sometimes develops stuff behind closed doors and then merges it with the project later on which is where you sometimes will get a major release of Safari followed by a big leap forward in features being implemented then followed by those changes appearing in the Technology Preview as well.
Ubiquiti has released in their early access channel UniFi Access Point (all U7 and E7 models) 8.6.7 which fixes up issues reported in particularly those related to MLO. For me, I don’t have it enabled on my access point because I really don’t see much of a purpose given that even if I could connect to the router at 2.5Gbps I would be limited to the backhaul capacity which is 2.5GBps back to the gateway. All my devices are making use of 6GHz although my television is connected via 5GHz. The new television is rock solid and I haven’t had any problems connecting at 5GHz and utilising WPA3 encryption.
I am currently working on a review of my television and a few other devices along with how they integrate into the Samsung Cloud ecosystem but that is a work in progress. It’ll probably be finished on Monday but I want to collect as much notes as I can along with being able to upload a photo of how it looks in my lounge room. at 65 inches it is substantially bigger than my old television which was 49 inches (I was able to give it away free of charge since I would sooner it find a new home where it can be used rather than it being turned into e-waste).
After having many days of wind and rain there is now a suddenly drop in temperature down to 6 degrees celsius with the temperature in Lower Hutt reported as feeling as though it was 4 degrees celsius. For dinner I had some steamed vegetables and fish with hollandaise sauce over the top that I had left over from a previous meal. I’ve got the heater going in my bedroom – set to 20 degrees celsius to keep at least the main area where I stay during the day a lot warmer where I can wear socks, tshirt and tracksuit pants while still remaining warm. I’m going to get back into going for a walk on Monday next week once the weather gets back to normal but in the meantime I am ensuring I get a decent night sleep along with having a balanced diet including plenty of vegetables.
uBlock Origin Lite 2026.422.1301 has been released and is now available at the Apple App Store along with the Microsoft Edge extensions store however it is waiting to be approved on the Chrome webstore. The release date is normally 1-2 days and so far on Chrome the previous version has been functioning well although the new update does fix some regressions. An update for Chrome was also released which updated it from 147.0.7727.102 to 147.0.7727.117 and at the time of writing this blog the security fixes are noted which is an indication that whatever has been fixed Google want to ensure that a large number of people have installed the update before giving any details (link).
On the issue of politics, it is shocking at the number of people who have convinced themselves that the biggest boosters of Trump are now having ‘buyers regret’ because that assumes that their boosting of Trump was sincere in the first place. At the end of the day these Trump boosters are changing their tune because there is a vibe shift taking place and they’re preparing their business for what comes after Trump and they want to be ready when that day comes. The problem is with such a business plan is this – the internet never forgets and the whole parasocial relationship that gets built up between the audience and the influencer is based around the perception of that person being genuine but ultimately that whole brand of authenticity is undermined when the audience can see a shift not based on a genuine change but instead as a business calculation.
With how horrible the weather is I decided to stay and work at home instead and I’ll do the same on Thursday as well because the temperature is dropping with more rain on the way. The forecast on the Metservice website says the weather could improve on Friday onwards but the problem is that the weather is so unpredictable so I guess it is a matter of playing it by ear. I’m staying in tonight, had some comfort food to keep me warm as well as having the heater on – I generally prefer holding off on putting the heater on until June or July at the earliest but I’m not going to freeze myself for the sake of saving a few bucks. On a good side, at least my home as double glazed windows and plenty of insulation which keeps the warmth in without having a big electricity bill.
Once again we have some tech dude bros convincing themselves that they’re modern day philosophers by putting out a book with this post over on Twitter (I refuse to call it ‘X’) getting a lot of attention in the mainstream media (link). Having read through the post it is amazing how it is a toxic mixture of playing the victim, creating strawman and rhetoric which amounts to what can be described as (quoting the song ‘Psycho Killer’ by the Talking Heads) “You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything”. It reminds me of Juche, repetitious and getting high on one’s own farts. It also reminds me of the never ending whinging by far too many entitled New Zealanders who claim that there is a ‘tall poppy syndrome’ when in reality the problem is that far too many who get to the top end up acting like arrogant pricks and then get surprised that the unwashed masses aren’t worshipping the ground they walk on.
For example, the 10th point is the prime example of projection. I simply don’t see the sort of cult of personality or hero worship that exists on the right appearing on the left when it comes to people treating Trump rallies like some sort of religious pilgrimage, the purchasing of ‘relics’ in the form of merchandise, the imitation of what the ‘great leader’ does by wearing a bandage on ones ear etc The cult like behaviour within the Republican Party isn’t new, we still have people worshipping Reagan even though outside of cult of believers he was a horrible president or those who selectively quote Barry Goldwater while ignoring that he enabled those who eventually become the basis on which the modern Republican Party cult of personality is built.
Then there is the 9th point where the establishment tears down anyone who is left of centre – the Washington Post for example published 16 negative articles in a space of 24 hours attacking Bernie Sanders but something tells me that author of the book aren’t too concerned about things like that. Something tells me that the author of the book aren’t interested in giving those further left of centre a fair go given that the establishment are more than happy to sane wash Trump when it suits their agenda or rehabilitate the image of a politician or public official after a sufficient amount of time has past. The establishment never attacks those who do what the establishment want, the only reason why the establishment doesn’t like Trump isn’t a matter of policy substance but one of presentation – if the exact same things were being done by someone who could form a coherent sentence then mark my words the mainstream media would fall in line, bending over backwards to defend the administration – anyone remember MSNBC over 10 years ago when Trump ordered a strike and commentators quoted lyrics Leonard Cohen song and claiming that at that moment Trump had become presidential? I’m always reminded of what George Carlin said: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.”
I’m waiting for a delivery from the United Kingdom but I was silly enough to choose UPS rather than going through DHL which I normally would. The estimated time is 7-10 business days and the package hasn’t landed in New Zealand but I wonder whether it has been delayed given that normally parcels coming to New Zealand from the United Kingdom and Europe tend to go through Dubai but given what is happening over there I wonder whether it has been diverted through the United States meaning it is bouncing across the United States and then down to New Zealand.
On a side note, I woke up this morning and there wasn’t a Chrome update so it’ll probably get released on Thursday (Wednesday New Zealand time). When it comes to the next update for Apple’s platforms, a couple of days ago Apple released 26.5 Beta 3 with speculation being that the final release will be around in May but keeping in mind that such speculation is based on the schedule of previous x.5 updates being released. On a good side I have organised time off in June starting on the 8th so I can spend some time chilling out at home, following the WWDC keynote although as I’ve said in past blog posts my main focus is on ‘Platform State of the Union’ that goes into more technical details than what the keynote does.
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