Almost a decade ago

his year I added some pounds, both muscles and fats. I think I overindulge when it comes to food, but I also take supplements and work out more than in past years.

As I approach the age of 45 I don’t feel too guilty about weight gain as long as I am both healthy and happy.

20 years ago or even 30 years ago my goals were different. Nowadays I focus on using my mind, not my body, as I don’t do many physical jobs.

he heavy traffic is mostly from bots, but the frequent blogging seems to have paid off and this month brought a lot of activity – to the point where I had to increase bandwidth thresholds.

SSL, schestowitz.com:

* Not viewed traffic includes traffic generated by robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes.

No SSL, schestowitz.com:

* Not viewed traffic includes traffic generated by robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes.

20+ years ago it looked very, very different.

Not good enough for (Manchester) City

here is now a video of today’s match. “The 21 shots fired on Saturday was the most efforts they have had on goal at home without scoring since 23 attempts against Tottenham in November 2024,” BBC notes.

Unlucky there. Like in the PSG match, City did enough to deserve a better outcome, but in football what counts are goals, not chances.

What a shame. Let’s hope Liverpool can beat Arsenal tomorrow, leaving City on top of the league.

Gone by so fast

oday “Sweepy” (formerly “Sleepy”, but she sweeps seeds a lot so the name changed) brought the partner. I think it’s the first time. It’s not hard to know it’s the partner because they kissed.

The birds are getting increasingly dependent on human-supplied seeds because tomorrow it is November already. It’s still not cold though, I nearly decided to sunbathe again (same as yesterday), but eventually decides not to because of plumes at the distance. Besides, I’d rather write articles than sleep while listening to Discman.

Tonight it’ll be the time kids ask for sweets, so Rianne purchased some packs of treats. I’ll need to keep the volume down (music) to hear when they knock.

Hard to believe it’s already end of October. On October 31^st at this time of day last year the trial was over already.

The real aim is Software Freedom

he Linux kernel is increasingly leaning towards cargo cults like slop.

The issue isn’t how Linux is developed per se. It’s a matter of trust. As it stands at the moment, Linux promotes all sorts of lockdown mechanisms that go against the goals of GNU.

We need to talk more about GNU in order for the GNU Project’s philosophy to be widely understood and broadly appreciated.

“Free software” as a term is OK. If it helps, “Software Freedom” helps emphasise it is about freedom.

Good squad though

oday we went past the stadium ahead of the important (and surely very difficult) match. Judging by the last such match (a few days ago, same teams, same stadium), Brighton will be a very potent rival.

Brighton wants ‘revenge’ after getting knocked out.

There are many people in Town today (the weather must have contributed to that, it’s nice and sunny after a very hazy start) and even hours before the match they already have their stadium ‘pilgrimage’.

A strong, firm win against Brighton will send a message. Manchester City is #1 and it deserves to be there.

So we must all carry on talking about it

his afternoon I published this timely reminder of what happened a year ago. I then carried on with the latest series:

These issues are inherently technical, but Garrett refuses to even say a word about the latest UEFI catastrophe. This is not a mistake or some mental glitch. It is a deliberate decision made by him.

One reader said, “good work, but keep pounding on technical matters for the benefit of the spectators so they know this is about ICT and not a personal grudge.”

It was always about ICT, but Garrett is a geneticist who can write some C code, he’s not an ICT person. He’s into social engineering, that’s the only engineering he can do. He cannot even fix his own laptop!