Matisyahu's Blog

I made my move to Firefox a few months ago as my main browser (I had it sitting in the background while I waited for the outcome of what Google were going to do with MV3) on both my computers, MacBook Air M2 (24GB RAM) and Mac Studio M1 Max (32GB RAM), and the over all experience has been pretty good with only Microsoft Skype giving me a message that features are missing but everything else including Google Workspace apps are working great along with the great experience on Android with the icing on the cake being the ability to run uBlock Origin on it (there was a new version released recently, version 1.55 which is available via the Firefox extensions store).

As much as I promote the idea that people should remain politically engaged, sometimes one can get overwhelmed by the avalanche of news with much of designed to get you angry rather than being enlightening. It is important to achieve a balance, yes remained informed but it also important that we don’t get overwhelmed that you end up feeling as though everything is doomed. How does one avoid that? limit yourself to only the bare essential news required and avoid click bait commentary whose focus is on ginning up outrage rather than promote a better understanding of the world. Always remember the golden rule of social media and websites in general – their business model is based on ads and the more they dominate your attention the more money they make so why give them that satisfaction?

I’m going back to work tomorrow, back to a normal 5 day week but thank goodness things have quietened down at work with the whole Christmas and New Years with many families going on holidays over. I’d say that things aren’t really going to get back into full swing until the second half of January when people return from holidays and get ready for the new school year. It’ll be an interesting year with the moving of the office into Wellington along with massive system upgrades, new laptops etc. which will hopefully result in a better customer experience and higher productivity because one is not having to deal with the currency legacy system which is a hodgepodge of systems trying to work together.

I’m gradually constructing a list of things I need to get sorted out because now that I’m in a better financial situation I can deal with the fact that normal things I would purchase have been put on the back burner while other issues too priority, for example, I need new shoes, shirts for work, undies, socks, along with many other things that need to be sorting out. I guess I can chalk 2024 up as year of rebuilding and focusing on getting ready for the future.