Windows is perishing, so…

ROWING up in the 1980s, Microsoft was mostly irrelevant, but by the 90s it was everywhere. Now it’s going away gradually. It tries to hide the mass layoffs; it’s fashionable now…

Silent layoffs are still layoffs.

Since last reboot

oming up next week is a meaningful (to me anyway) milestone. It’ll be 1000 days of uptime on my laptop:

roy@bubi:~$ uptime
 06:37:35 up 990 days, 21:49,  3 users,  load average: 9.03, 8.29, 8.10

I’m tempted to do a reboot after 10000, but don’t quite see the point doing so.

“Pissing it down…”

AME or match highlights (10+ minutes) have been published for United’s win and the impact of the very heavy rain here can be seen towards the end. This is rain we’re happy about as it’ll help fill up reservoirs and it helps water plants everywhere. If only it was more equally split across weeks… this year was probably the driest summer since 2018 or maybe even drier than that.

Tomorrow it’ll be more of the same. Arsenal plays at nighttime.

Look ma, no Facebook!

allery has been installed in this site since 2012 or 2013. This past week it passed 8 million views for pertinent pages, now clocking at 8012k.

Gallery is hardly maintained anymore, so the gallery we have installed here will need format-shifting and exporting some day.

Relief for Carrick.

ive them another 20 minutes, maybe it’ll be more.

Only half an hour after I mentioned this season’s first goal (Bruno Fernandes) United scored 3 more goals in this drizzly local weather.

Who else?

reat to see this season’s first goal from Manchester United, but will there also be a first win? The first match was a very major disappointment and Ipswich should not be difficult to beat at home (Old Trafford).

For the time being, Manchester City still leads the league and the next match (against Coventry) should be straightforward.

Why stop?

asks and sanitisers are still available here in large quantities. Being masked isn’t something to feel shy about. In some countries, masks are still common and were common before COVID-19.

Masks and test kits are “back on shopping lists amid signs of Covid-19 resurgence in S. Korea” and I too was still masked this morning because in crowded places there are all sorts of airborne diseases and besides, masks keep us warm and help improve privacy (as long as many other people also wear masks).

Never make fun of masked people; they might simply recognise risks (better than others) and some are immunocompromised.  Add your comment(s) |  Send this to a friend