There was an incident involving speed in which a brown fox overtook a lazy dog.

This town has three major railway crossings, all of which will be replaced with an overhead rail line. The existing railway station will also be replaced and a new one built to the east of the town. Further east is a new complex where 32 of 64 new Melbourne trains are stored & maintained. In some of the recovered space will be a small public hospital to ease the load on the major ones in the outer east. All done by 2024 allegedly.

Date & costs will inevitably blow out, of course.

With all those railway works plus the duplication of the southern section of a major (if somewhat neglected) arterial road, it’s going to be traffic hell. The duplication work is scheduled to end in 2025.

Updating software on the 2008 pre-unibody MacBook Pro.

Only USB 1.1 & I ain’t using that!

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1480 photos imported, PowerPhotos app found 420 duplicates. And a manual scan revealled 278 more. So I imported 1480 photos & trashed 698 duplicates.

The plan is to convert the consolidated iPhoto library to a Photos library & import its content to Photos on the MacBook Pro. Hopefully, most will already be on the MBP but I know some are not.

Fired up the old 2003 G4 PowerMac to do something about it having 12 separate iPhoto libraries. I used iPhoto Library Manager to consolidate those 12 libraries into a single new one. It contains 1491 photos & took 8 minutes to export the 1.9 GB file to an external CF card via Firewire 400.

I’m copying the same file to my MacBook Prousing Firewire 400 cable connected to a Firewire 400/800 adapter, a Firewire 800/Thunderbolt adapter & a Thunderbolt 3/Thunderbolt 2 adapter. The copy process, according the the Finder will take 27 minutes.

Tried to make an application using Applescript within Automator on my MacBook Pro but I couldn’t save it as the required Command Line Tools were not present in the Library.
However, they were available on the iMac and when copied across I was able to create a simple app to sleep the Mac. It’s in the Applications folder in my Home folder & in the Dock as well. Clicking on it puts the Mac to sleep.sleep script

Conditionally, yes. You still need to selecvt the explosion timer mode, but it will retain the set timeframe.

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One of the other social media outlets I contribute to (a fork of Mastodon) has added a new feature called “Exploding Toots” for its paid members. Prior to posting, you click (or tap if using the phone app) on a timer icon, then you can determine how long the message stays on the system. See screenshot for time options.

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