suddenly, without noticing anything real different, it's 14 minutes into 2017.
When the Men's Shed group bought the iMac in Oct 2015, it cam with the standard wireless Bluetooth keyboard. I replaced it with one of my two aluminium keyboards & supplied a cheap USB DL DVD burner to make up the price/value difference between the keyboards.
Over the Xmas/New Year break I have the iMac at home for security & updates. I intend reclaiming the aluminium keyboard & replacing it with a white plastic 
keyboard instead. Several users in the Shed say they prefer long-travel keystrokes.
TIL I can edit the white balance of pics taken on my Ricoh R10 digital camera while they're still on the camera/SD card.
One stormy night many years ago, my sister's dog panicked after lightning & thunder and ran away. Several hours later the doctor in the next town (a man my father detested because of claimed lax medical practices) phoned to say the dog was on his back veranda. The two properties are 7 km apart by road.
Under four hours til year's end. Bloody daylight savings- doesn't feel like 8pm.
That was odd. Logged in to a retailer's website to check my account details, was denied permission by the server. So I used a VPN & it worked OK. Now able to access my account without VPN using exactly the same process as when I was denied access.
Been reading a few online reviews of the (now discontinued) evaporative cooler I have had for over 10 years. Most of them mention the whisper-quiet fan.
Clearly they have a very different dictionary to mine. This thing is far from whisper-quiet.
Almost a cool night. Almost. Won't need the evaporative cooler tonight, desk fan on medium speed is fine. In all te years I've had the just-portable evap cooler, I've never run it at its highest fan/pump speed. This thing is big, on top of a wheeled stand, it occupies a space of about six cubic feet.