Matisyahu's Blog

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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Category: Personal

  • It is cold, miserable and rainy.

    I was hoping to get my power bills under control after having to have my heater turned on more often than I ideally wanted but it appears that mother nature must have shares in Meridian Energy which explains the current weather. I went for a walk last night but not tonight because the weather is…

  • Finally getting myself motivated and organised.

    I’ve finally got my act together and ordered a proper case for my phone after rocking along with this el cheapo one I picked up when I bought the phone. The problem is that the plastic holder that the phone sits in, the plastic is cracking, the corners are chipped – long story short the…

  • Follow up with my experimenting with iCloud.

    I mentioned previously about experimenting with iCloud custom domain hosting and getting around the 3 aliases per domain by making use of subdomains thus a theoretical 15 aliases if one were to use a domain plus 4 subdomains. When experimenting it found a few problems with the idea with the first being that there were…

  • It has arrived.

    I made a blog post not too long ago about waiting for uBlock Origin Lite to appear in the App Store and within a few hours of making that post it suddenly appeared. I’ve installed it on my Mac, copied the settings over from when I had it installed on Chrome and started using it…

  • You learn something new every day.

    The one thing I found limiting about iCloud custom domain support was the limit of three aliases per domain but I could never get my head around the idea of how to setup a subdomain so then the number of aliases can be 15 in total (3 aliases per domain/subdomain). There is a difference regarding…

  • DeGoogling is harder than I had predicted.

    With all the kerfuffle occurring regarding Trump and his administration there has been a trend developing of decoupling from the United States or more specifically United States based technology giants in favour of domestic providers of cloud services. There is the ‘European Alternatives’ website (link) that I mentioned before which provides a pretty good list…

  • Those cupboards are looking empty.

    Finished work today at 10pm but I stayed online to finish off some emails to make life easier for the team who come in the morning and have to pick up where I left off. When I worked in fast food (sometimes referred to as ‘quick service restaurant’) one of the rules that was consistent…

  • I may as well have a rest tonight.

    Finished work and decided that I’ll reward myself with a relaxing time at home watching Real Time with Bill Maher (yeah, I know, he can be a mixed bag) and then afterwards I’ll watch a few episodes of the Sandman which has been pretty good so far and I’m also going to see if I…

  • Because they never really believed what they said.

    I was watching a video from David Pakman today regarding: Let’s face it, the people who used ‘don’t tread on me’ and ‘you take take it from my cold dead hands’ rhetoric along with the usual spiel about ‘big government’ were never sincere declarations of deeply held beliefs – how do we know that? these…

  • Finally some good weather.

    Finished work tonight and went for a 12.8km walk tonight and after I came back I could feel it in my legs but it felt good having gotten some exercise after being locked inside for the past few days thanks to the weather. In the mean time the addition of chia seeds has really helped…