Category: Personal

  • I mentioned earlier about adding a declarative net request filter for websites that you want to allow ads on – I’ve just realised that I made it a whole lot more complex than it is meant to be but I had a good reason. Normally when you click on the extension icon in the toolbar…

  • Went to the work get together to catch up with work mates, share a few drinks and to round off the line there was a free dinner so I hung around for a couple of hours then on the way to the bus stop I picked up a few things then caught the bus home.…

  • Normally on Friday I start at 1:30pm but I’ll be starting at 9:00am because I’ve got an event to attend that the social club has organised for the night down at the local pub/restaurant. I had a good walk after work today, 11.6km at a brisk pace at around the same length of time as…

  • End of another day – the day at work was pretty much drama free which is the way I like it and then afterwards I went for an 11.6km walk which took around 1 hour and 57 minutes. Before I leave hope I set my timer so that when I come back I have record…

  • I went for a lvery long walk tonight – 17.4km (it took 2.55 hours to complete so if I round it up to 3hours then my speed of walking is 5.8kmph). I don’t know how many calories were burnt but given that I’ve indulged a bit on my break and on my birthday I needed…

  • Went and had brunch at the local cafe with the family – eggs bene with extra poached eggs along with a bowel of mochaccino. After enjoying that nice start to the day I popped down to the mall to get my drivers licence redone however I find it difficult to use those eye testing gizmos…

  • uBlock Origin Lite for Chrome has been updated to 2025.619.2143 however the ‘Allow List’ has been removed so if you do wish to add a list of websites that you want to exclude from having content blocking to it then you’ll need to open up the settings in uBlock Origin Lite, put a tick next…

  • I had work today which wasn’t so bad – the morning was quiet but in the evening it started to get a bit busy but it’ll be interesting to see whether it is busy tomorrow with the Matariki public holiday result in a quiet day because families are going away to take advantage of the…

  • Well, the wheels are in motion to sort out the ‘impulse buy’ yesterday but in the process of tidying up iCloud I came across ‘Codes’ in ‘Passwords’ then it struck me that I didn’t need to sue third party authentication apps because Apple already has it built in. I feel like such a fool purchasing…