Matisyahu's Blog

I bought some take away on Saturday night and it didn’t sit well in my stomach – I tried to soldier on the next day at work but I had to take the rest of the day off. I made sure I drank lots of water to ensure I didn’t get dehydrated but after having a rest for the remainder of the day plus a good night sleep I felt a whole lot better the next day. I’ll chalk that up on my list of restaurants I won’t order food from in the future.

Regarding the on going saga regarding the Ministry of Health (link), what I think will happen, and this is purely speculation on my part, is something similar to what happened with the train service in Wellington – the infrastructure will remained owned by the government and the staff will be reemployed by the health provider. This is all goes back to the ideology by those on the right that ‘the private sector can do it better’. I’ll be interesting to see whether NZ First objects given their anti-privatisation or whether the few trinkets that Luxon have been thrown their way will keep them quiet.

A series of releases for AdGuard on Chrome has fixed quite a few bugs making it more reliable (there wasn’t a Chrome update last week probably due to the whole Thanksgiving holiday occurring in the United States) particularly when it comes to those video sharing websites where clicking on play will open up a new window or stopping random windows from opening when clicking on link that should load another page on the website. I have to admit, I was a bit of a naysayer believing that MV3 would never be as good at blocking ads as MV2 but so far with AdGuard on Chrome so it appears I’ve been happily proven wrong.

We’re not at the start of Christmas season and I’m deciding what to get my nieces – I’ll probably do what I do every year and that is either giving them cash or a voucher for a department store. I think I am at at that point in my life that I don’t know what kids want so it is easier to give them cash or voucher then let them make that decision. I am tempted to get mum a new computer monitor because what she has now is horrible but I’ll see what PB Tech has on sale.