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"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

  • Things are going well: Focused and positive outlook.

    I had work today from home where I’ve decided to set aside two days, Friday and Saturday, as my fasting days – not a complete absence of food but instead having a meal replacement for both breakfast and dinner. I thought I wouldn’t be able to get through it believing the hunger would become unbearable…

  • More lifestyle changes are in order.

    I’ve got the lifestyle change in terms of what I eat sorted out now I am focusing on fine tuning what I consume – my vice being Pepsi Max (and soft drink in general (the sugar free variety)) and although there are arguments for and against sugar free soft drinks I have found that I…

  • Grocery shopping and back to work on Wednesday.

    Headed down to the local Pak ‘n Save and did my fortnightly grocery shopping and I was quite surprised at the number of people down at the store, a lot more than I expected. Normally when people come back from the Christmas and New Years break there is a bit of an upsurge in spending…

  • Could we get some perspective please?

    Oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth by ‘Tik Tokers’, the crying, the lamentations, the over the top histrionics when users of the Tik Tok app find that US users have been blocked and behaving as if it came out of nowhere (it has since come back online in the US resulting in another round…

  • Github is a great resource.

    I’ve been relaxing and reading through Github to see what my favourite projects are up to – WECG discussion minutes are always a good read especially if you have an interest in the development of the Declarative Net Request API. It’ll be interesting to see what will happen between now and June 2025 when enterprise…

  • Improvements maybe on their way.

    I was reading through the latest minutes from the WECG where ‘Issue 744: Proposal: A DNR rule type to intercept top-document navigation’ (link) was discussed – long story short, at the moment if you click on a play button on some video sharing websites it’ll also open up a window but in the window it’ll…

  • Feeling a little bit better.

    Still got a sore throat and coughing but I feel a whole lot better than I did a few days ago – the last time I had this I ended up pushing through with the end result being that it took longer to recover vs had I just taken the time off from work and…

  • Still feeling lousy, taking time off from work.

    I woke up this morning with a splitting headache and sore throat (resulting in a croaky voice and difficulty speaking without eventually needing to cough heavily) so I thought it would be best to have today off to recover. After waking up, I then checked to see whether Google had released an update for Chrome…

  • Back to work on Wednesday.

    Relaxing in bed and getting ready to head into the office on Wednesday – back to work after a month off recovering from my accident and time off for my grandma’s memorial service. I an tempted to work from home but given that I have been out of the office for around a month I…

  • Arrived back at home.

    The memorial service was a nice experience – catching up with cousins I hadn’t seen in years along with seeing friends of the family I haven’t seen in years (the reason for not having seen them in years is because I live in Wellington and they live at the other end of the country). It…