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

  • Random thoughts.

    This week has been pretty good with it ending the week where I have found out I’ll end up getting a bonus for the work for the last 6 months of the year which will be nice for when I head overseas – paying for travel insurance along with a bit of spending money. It’ll…

  • AdGuard Safari Extension on macOS and weird rendering behaviour.

    I mentioned it on a previous post about how I was getting strange behaviour when using YouTube even though I had added it to to my allow list. I was going through the AdGuard document regarding how one can create customer filters (link) so what I tried instead was to delete all the websites in…

  • Some random thoughts.

    So there have been a parade of articles come out regarding ‘Project Titan’, an rumoured electric car from Apple, has been shut down (link). I can’t help but get a sense that the whole ‘Project Titan’ has been getting slowly wound down over the last several years with the next generation of CarPlay being announced…

  • Returning to the iPhone.

    Well, after a year of using a Nothing Phone 1 I have decided to move back to using an iPhone and part of that change I have switched carriers to One NZ (formally Vodafone NZ) due to receiving a discount. Long story short I am happy to go back to being 100% in the ecosystem…

  • Thinking about Firefox and other things.

    I’m reading through articles talking about how Mozilla is planning for the future in terms of generating revenue and growing Firefox market share. The thing is, if you want to grow market share then you need to win over the tech enthusiasts, the family member who is ‘good with computers’, the van guard of early…

  • A couple of days off from work.

    I’ve been powering through having a sore throat and coughing because I didn’t have any sick leave left and I’ve used my annual leave for my trip overseas at the end of May so I’ve decided to take two days off to properly recover rather than pushing through and find it hangs around for longer.…

  • Progress is being made.

    Got in contact with mechanic working on my scooter – looks like it is almost ready except the battery needs to be replaced so they were waiting on me to give it the go ahead where they will order it on an overnight courier down from Auckland. I’m not surprised that the battery needs to…

  • End of another week, start of a new week.

    Well, hopefully on Monday I’ll be able to pick up my scooter after having it in the repair shop for the week, I haven’t heard anything back but I hope that means its ready to be picked up but with that being said I haven’t received my vehicle licence yet so I’m going to have…

  • Finally got it all sorted out.

    I decided today was the day to get everything sorted out – new shirts, shoes, socks, undies etc. because I have been putting it off for what seems like years but I’ve finally got that sorted out. The shirt I’ve been wearing to work has gradually fallen to pieces and looks pretty shabby so I’m…

  • The heat, oh the heat.

    The one thing I am always reminded of when living in New Zealand is the fact that although we don’t get high temperatures like they do in Australia what makes it worse in New Zealand is the humidity – no matter how well the air is circulating with the fan on high it is difficult…