October 15, 2015: received a Logitech M558 Bluetooth mouse from the Apple online Store. It's allegedly designed to go for at least 12 months on a pair of alkaline AA cells. Granted, I've not used it daily, as it's paired with the MacBook Air & I normally use the trackpad but I just tested the cells & both are still around 90% of original capacity. I see little reason to dispute the 12 month battery life claim.
Won't do that again in a hurry. Had a chilli dish for dinner, normally I restrict such things to lunch. Woken with a nasty episode of gastric reflux some five hours later. I've got some antacids working & will follow them up with some yogurt. Its calcium content provided extra relief.
Retired the 2400 watt electric kettle to the spare stuff department in the garage. It takes longer to boil water than the induction cooktop does when set to 2100 watts.
There's something nicely bracing about starting the day with a V60-brewed coffee. Strong but smooooth.
Just spent the last 2 hours online, preparing a crossword for the Mac User Group's monthly magazine. It's done via Crosswordlabs.com. In their web app, enter the clue, space, then the answer and go to the next line. When you have enough clues, save a passwrd so you can get to the answers later. Next, hit the Generate button. A crossword grid with your clues is displayed. Keep hitting the Regenerate button until a suitable pattern is shown.
Next, I saved the URL of the page as a bookmark and exported both the clues and the answers as PDFs.
The Clues is a blank grid, so I used Markup to annotate the intersecting rows and columns with common letters. These puzzles can be completed online but I'm not sure if one person's changes are common to all future versions of the puzzle.
@matigo I disagree. They should be anally raped with a coarse sandpaper-covered baseball bat then boiled in oil while still alive.
I have strong feelings on this matter.
I lashed out today and bought another mobile phone to use as a spare. I have also spent $15 for calls & data for that phone, it has a useful 12 month expiry period. It actually has $22 of credit because in the preceding 12 months, I used $23 out of a $30 credit. The unused credit was rolled over into the next 12 month period.
Totally disgusted with the inoperable digital camera I bought on eBay. I also had to pay an excess postage charge because the seller sent it via express post but only paid the standard charge. I've let him know (nicely) of my concerns, if nothing happens by Tuesday, I'll escalate the issue with eBay.
Either way, this scumbag's 100% satisfaction rating on eBay will get a hammering. CUNT.