Matisyahu's Blog

I had a good sleep in today and when I woke up I found the weather was once again pretty foul weather with it being grey and overcast. I checked my Ikea order out of curiosity and it appears that I had screwed up my order but thankfully I was able to get get the incorrect stuff cancelled and that is on the way and I’ve placed a new order with the correct selection. Truth be known, if I ended up getting it then the worse case scenario is tha tI would have donated my old stuff, ordered the correct stuff I wanted and the world would have moved on without too much drama.

uBlock Origin Lite 2026.711.25 is now available in the Chrome extensions store and I got it quickly installed. There has been an improvement in terms of popup blocking however it hasn’t been an exhaustive testing but so far I haven’t noticed any regressions. I sometimes wonder with how neglected extension support on Safari is that maybe Apple should just throw in the towel and embrace Chrome to avoid lagging behind not just web standards but also extension support.

I guess this is one of the reasons why when I go to Australia in November that I may end up looking at getting an Pixel 11 XL Pro and a Google Watch – preferably from JB Hi-Fi so then I can still get warranty support when I come back to New Zealand. One thing to keep in mind, by the time I go over there I’ll get to see how version 27 of Apple’s platforms turn out and what a refreshed HomePod and Apple TV 4K also turn out like. It is rather unfortunately that the iCloud Business requires you to be an offically a registered business rather than just a matter of setting up an account like you can with Google Workspace.

I’m gradually working through the last two episodes of season 2 and I’m looking forward to the next episode of Silo being made available. There are a few other shows such as Foundation, The Last of Us, Severance, Paradise and a few others that will be making a return although it is kind of sad that there have been some that won’t make a return – Beacon 23, Constellation along with Colony. The last one, Colony, being exceptionally annoying because just at the last season we (the audience) were just starting to find out what the larger ‘grand plan’ the aliens had for humanity.