Matisyahu's Blog

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).