+++ Emacs - The Final Verdict +++
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Final Thoughts on Emacs
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+++ Emacs - Day 10 +++
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Emacs - Day 10
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+++ Emacs Day 3 +++
Thursday, August 06, 2020
Emacs - Day Three
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+++ Emacs - Day 1 +++
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
My Latest Project - Emacs
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+++ Word of the day - Argo +++
Friday, September 20, 2019
Argo. I read this word recently and had no idea what it meant. I saw
a movie once called Argot.
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+++ Some More Words - Riposte and Mendacious +++
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
A couple more words that I have read lately but wasn't too sure of their
meanings.
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+++ Word of the Day - Egregious +++
Thursday, June 20, 2019
I'm on a roll with this word thing. I've come across quite a few
words where I think I know what they mean, but I have looked up just
to make sure.
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+++ Continuing the Word Theme +++
Saturday, June 01, 2019
Continuing with the word theme, I was reading an article where a
person was described as being misanthropic. Hmmm. I think I know
what that means - unsociable? Maybe unkind? Let's check it out.
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+++ Word of the Day - Eschew +++
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Another day, another word.
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+++ Word of the Day - Apocryphal +++
Sunday, May 12, 2019
I keep coming back. I said I was finished with gopher. I was wrong.
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+++ Goodbye and Farewell +++
Monday, March 25, 2019
I have been pondering my motivation to begin writing on a public forum
such as this. I think I started because I was interested in learning about
gohper which is something that I had nothing to do with "back in the
day."
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+++ Trip to USA +++
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Once again it has been a while since I last posted here. Since my
last post, I have been lucky enough to travel to the United States.
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+++ Practising Mental Health +++
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
It's been quite a while. I've been very busy at work, and trying to
do too much in between.
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+++ Medical Update +++
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
I've been home now for almost as long as I was away on holidays when I
suffered a superficial thrombosis. The blood thinning tablets seem to
be doing their job as I haven't suffered a pulmonary embolism due to a
part of the clot breaking off in my calf, and travelling via my heart
to my lungs. I feel completely normal except for a little lump in my
calf that hurts if I push it.
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+++ Deep Vein Thrombosis Scare +++
Sunday, May 20, 2018
As some of you know, I have been overseas for the last 7 weeks touring
south east Asia including Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. I blogged
about it at https://bradmac.id.au/blog
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+++ Long Holiday in Southeast Asia +++
Sunday, May 13, 2018
It's been a while since I last posted. I am in Vietnam lying beside a
pool sipping on a drink. This is the last week of a 6 week odyssey
through southeast Asia starting in Singapore, moving on to Malaysia
and finishing up here in Vietnam. I've kept a blog at
https://bradmac.id.au/blog if you are interested.
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+++ Holidays Soon! +++
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
It's been frantic at work. Normally I have an offsider who shares the
workload but he's been absent on a week's leave and some other
commitments prior to that and he wasn't replaced. I've got double the
workload, and it's monthly reporting time. At times like this I often
feel that I'm getting past my time here and retirement sounds pretty
good.
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+++ The Long Road to Fitness +++
Monday, March 19, 2018
As already phlogged, I have been recovering from a hernia operation
since the 18th of January this year. It has been more painful and
debilitating than I ever expected. Anyway, my hobbies are mucking
around with computers, bike riding and weight lifting. During my
recovery I have not done any bike riding or weight lifting until last
week.
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+++ Coffee Snob Protest +++
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
I was reading through some phlogs today and came across this:
gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/solderpunk/phlog/against-connoisseurship.txt
Solderpunk asserts that Australia and New Zealand are coffee neophytes
and that we have no idea of how to drink coffee. I protest!
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+++ TV Binge +++
Thursday, February 08, 2018
It's been nearly a month since my last post. I've been recuperating
from an inguinal hernia operation. The first week after the operation
I was suffering a fair bit of pain and had to be very careful doing
all normal daily activity. Getting out of bed required pre-planning
and careful execution to avoid too much stress on my abdominal
muscles. Ditto for sitting down on a chair, standing back up again,
even going to the toilet.
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+++ Test of phlogit +++
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
This is a test only - using phlogit instead of mkgopherentry.
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+++ Contact Management with MC and Vim +++
Tuesday, January 23th, 2018
I had a hernia operation last Thursday and am now laid up at home with
some time on my hands. I've been catching up on some phlogs at SDF,
and one in particular has raised my interest - contact managment using
text based files with vim and ranger, written by dbucklin:
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/dbucklin/posts/2018-01-06-ranger-vim-crm.markdown
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Sunday, January 14th, 2018
Two posts in three days - something must be up!
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Friday, January 12th, 2018
It's been a while, but I've got a pretty good excuse. My father died
on 29/12/2017. He was 81 years old. Not a bad innings. He's been
quite ok over Christmas and seemed to be happy, even if he was not
eating much, but did enjoy some red wine.
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Friday, November 17th, 2017
Well I've been back at work for a week now and have nearly caught up
with everything that wasn't done while I was on holidays. Of course,
someone else was delegated to perform my role while I was gone, but it
never really works out for many reasons - one of which is because I'm
irreplaceable ;-)
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Monday, October 23th, 2017
I'm on holidays now! I love holidays. It's not that I hate work,
it's just that I like being on holidays a lot better. No deadlines,
no-one criticising how I've done things or what I haven't done, not
having to get out of bed at 6:15 a.m. The list goes on and on.
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Monday, October 16th, 2017
One of my interests in life is weightlifting. It's an unusual sport
with only a fairly limited amount of publicity. The only goal is to
lift more weight than your opponents. That's it. Simple. It is the
test of absolute human physical effort. It's awesome to watch these
people lifting incredible weights.
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Sunday, October 08th, 2017
I'm sorry to say that I've left SDF. Well, as a web host provider
anyway. I've been frustrated with my php pages being unusable for a
while now due to regular internal server 500 errors. This was an
intermittent thing and I was confident it wasn't my pages causing the
errors - they hadn't changed and I had not fiddled with anything such
as structure or permissions in my html folder.
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Sunday, October 01th, 2017
It's been a hell of a week and into the weekend at work. I was called
out to a job at 0105hrs this morning. It's never pleasant having to
do that. I've finished and got back home to grab a few hours sleep.
Now I'm looking at my todo.txt list.
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Sunday, September 24th, 2017
Yesterday was my 57th birthday. We celebrated the day by smoking a
3.8kg port butt. My 25 year old son has come home after moving out a
couple of years ago - to save up some money to start his own business.
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
I've been having some issues with my PHP pages throwing internal
server errors on my pages at bradmac.freeshell.org This is one of
those irritating intermittent faults that comes and goes. I'm pretty
sure it's not my pages causing the issues as I haven't done anything
to them for a couple of weeks. The problem with SDF is it is pretty
much run by one person - the mysterious smj. He seems pretty choosey
to whom he replies to on bboard. I've posted a couple of times on
bboard and got no response - but my PHP pages did start working for a
day, then started having error messages again the next. I posted
again on bboard and again the problem was fixed. I'd like some
feedback on what the problem was.
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Friday, September 08th, 2017
Continuing with my father's health issues, he got home from hospital
the day before yesterday. My mother was quite nervous about this, but
luckily my brother from England was here for a 2 week holiday and is
with them for a couple more days before heading home.
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Saturday, September 02th, 2017
So it's been extremely busy at work and I haven't had much time to do
what I want to do. I had planned to take part in a fund raising
bicycle ride in September. A nice 100km jaunt. One does not just get
on one's bike and ride 100km. A little training must be partaken to
achieve the necessary level of fitness. I had good intentions, but
have only been able to do a 50km ride once every second week. Not
enough. It was causing me stress knowing I was not going to be
prepared. I've had to withdraw - which is sad.
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Wednesday, August 23th, 2017
My father had a fall last week and ended up in hospital - where he
still remains. He ended up with a terrible case of pneumonia, which
on top of his congestive heart failure led to the situation last week
where he nearly died.
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Friday, August 18th, 2017
My father nearly died yesterday. He's 82 years old next month. He
lives at home in Mansfield, a country town in Victoria, Australia with
my mother. They are self sufficient but dad has really slowed down
since he turned 80. His health has been up and down over the last
couple of years and we've thought he was gone for sure more than once.
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Sunday, August 13th, 2017
One of my passions in life is bike riding. Today I rode 70km with a
couple of work colleagues. The ride was along an old railway line in
south eastern Victoria, Australia, which has been converted into a
rail trail. We started at Leongatha and rode 35km to Fish Creek via
Koonwarra, Meeniyan, Stony Creek and Buffalo. Had lunch at the pub
then turned around to head back. Had a bit of a head wind and it was
a long climb out of Fish Creek (not steep, but went on for about 7km).
Had a coffee and caramel slice in Meeniyan. We were all feeling quite
fatigued by Koonwarra, and the last 10km was pretty hard.
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
We are implementing a new surveying system at work - moving from 2D
total survey stations to 3D lidar scanning. We are using proprietory
software to process the point cloud. I want to learn more about how
point cloud processing works. I'm looking for open source software
that runs on Linux to play with at home.
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Monday, August 07th, 2017
While talking about mental health, I thought I'd mention a couple of
techniques that have helped me get over some low level anxiety and
poor mood.
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Saturday, August 05th, 2017
Ok. So I've made it to my second phlog. So far, so good. I am 57
years old next month. My workplace ran a retirement seminar the other
day. I'm not sure it was what I thought it would be. I imagined talk
about tranisition to retirement strategies at work, financial
planning, investment advice - stuff like that. Well, it wasn't like
that at all. The focus was on retiring with good mental health. You
need to have your mental health in order before you retire. The
statistics on male suicide rates in Australia are frightening. The
rate for retirees is on the bad end of the scale.
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Thursday, August 03th, 2017
My First Phlog.
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