I woke up and went through my usual routine after getting up then started working. For lunch today I decided to give the Naked Locals Butter Chickpea Curry at try and it wasn’t too bad although I did add some chilli flakes to add a bit of heat to it. The chickpeas added 12g of fibre to the meal and along with the protein made me feel full until after work I heated up some fish in the oven and had that for dinner. I’ve got the two packets that I used to make the chilli this week and I’ll probably do it again on Monday but I’ll need to remember to take the mince out of the freezer on Sunday so then by the time Monday comes around it’ll be all defrosted. One thing I have learned from last time is to not leave the mince too long in the freezer because I did that a while ago and the mince just came out all dry and horrible – lesson learned as they say.
I finally did it and installed Safari Technology Preview 249 and everything is working well but I’m still finding that the issue I’m having with YouShop hasn’t been fixed. I have reported the issue to Apple but they haven’t gotten around to fixing it nor have they tried to get in contact with me to work through the issue. What I did try after installing it was enabling developer mode and then changing the user agent because I found many years ago that websites would work perfectly fine if you changed the user agent to Chrome. A good example of that was way back when Microsoft launched their Edge browser (the non-Chromium one) there would be certain websites that would break but the moment you changed the user agent to Chrome then they would magically start working – in other words the browser had the ability render the webpage properly but the website was badly designed so it served up crappy web pages when it couldn’t understand what browser was being used.
I finally ordered the two pairs of pants and two tops that I talked about last week and they’ll probably arrive on Monday. The shipment from YouShop in the United States left the warehouse on 5 August and it normally take 7-9 days to arrive in New Zealand. There are some trousers I’ve got in my wardrobe that I’m 95% sure that I’ll donate – I’ve never worn them and I don’t think I will given that they’re really not my style of trousers (I only got them because they were on special at one of those ‘one day. sales’ websites many years ago). The good thing about YouShop is that you pay any of the required GST so when it is sent there is no delays in delivering it.
On 12 August my work place opens up the abiliy to put through Christmas leave – I’m looking at having the 21-29 December off but I’ll be back for New Years where I’ll get time and a half plus a day in lieu. I’m looking forward to travelling to Australia in November and Google is having an announcement on 12 August so I’ll get to see what the release (what ever products will be available in Australia but not in New Zealand) and by the time I go over we’ll already have version 27 of Apple’s paltform release so we’ll see how things are working given that by the time I go overseas it’ll probablt be 27.1 released by then. I’ll take my laptop over so then I can use the free internet at the motel or hotel I am staying at.
When you’re having a debate, argument or discussion and you realise you’re wrong then don’t stubbornly ignore reality and continue debating – accept accept that you’re wrong and move along. Some people think that acknowledging you’re wrong some how gives power to the other person but I’d argue that not acknowledging you’re wrong when you clearly are gives them more power because you’re essentially saying that your ego is more important than getting to the truth. The other benefit of accepting when you’re wrong is that it disarms the other person – the other person is expecting you to fight to the bitter end only to be confronted by someone saying, “you know what mate, you’re right…” and suddenly the other person is left speechless because they probably had planned a whole monologue and now, well, it’s not longer useful.
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