@literary Bullshit. Of course it matters.
FU Apple. Tried to burn an mp3 CD in iTunes, kept getting an error that some music couldn’t be burned because they were not in mp3 format. Most odd. I had used iTunes to convert them, they showed up as mp3 but in the playlist they were still showing as either purchased or matched aac files.
Easy solution (for me, at least). Out comes the 2005 G4 12” PowerBook. Imported the required music via USB stick. Made a new playlist & burned it to a CD. No problems at all.
#OldStuffCanBeSuperiorToNew
@matigo Wait. There's a rumour getting about of a reduced-price (possibly Retina) MacBook Air in the works. That said, performance-wise, the MacBook Air trails the MacBook.
// @hazardwarning
@JeremyCherfas My mother was the second of six kids, when she announced to her parents that she wanted to stay on at high school until 6th form, her mother asked where the money to support that would come from.
He replied: I already work 6 days per week, I'll just take another job on that last day.
// @hazardwarning
@bazbt3 I recently signed up with the motor registration & licencing authority's online services, in future I'll be able to choose 3, 6 or 12 month car registration periods. These help spread the financial load by separating car insurance & registration costs by several months rather than having to stump up for the lot in one hit.
I found a new use for the Brussels sprout!
It's the answer to one of the security questions: "Which is your least favourite vegetable?"
@JeremyCherfas My mother's father (a wounded veteran of the trenches in France in WW1) was a linotype operator in a newspaper in a small inland city in Victoria, Oz. Each working day he'd cycle from home to the main office & set up the paper there before riding 10 miles northeast to set up the smaller local edition there. Then a trip on the bike of another 35 miles to yet another satellite edition in another town that needed doing.
He'd sustained a leg wound in 1916 and had a slight permanent limp thereafter. He said sometimes he was just too tired & sore to manage the 25 mile ride back to the home town and would catch the train back.
// @hazardwarning
Last week's trial of a loaf of oat sourdough bread has me wanting more of it. I need to find more sales outlets.
Weird behaviour from the MacBook Air, strange permissions requests from Droplr & Dropbox at bootup, Outlook account kept disassociating its password from the Mail app, OneDrive app wasn't recognising its own login details although it was fine in a web browser.
A litany of utter lunacy.
Bit the bullet & restored to an 8-day-old Time Machine backup.
Eventually, and after a restart to settle things, it's all working fine again & I've recovered 6 GB of free space.
“Entrapment: The terrifying but tragically true tale of Trevor’s trapped testicle” by Bill Kearns.
One thing really troubled Don,
Not Vladimir or Kim Jong-un,
Not the economic crisis,
Nor the terrorists of ISIS,
Climate change or cheap fake tan,
Weinstein or the Ku Klux Klan,
Not even nuclear escalation,
But Alec Baldwin’s impersonation . . .