Archives: Notes

  • So has the COVID-19 contact tracing app being explicitly exempted from the meta data and anti-encryption laws or is the gov just hoping we’ll forget they’ve overreached under the name of national security?

  • When cookbook authors call for covering a frypan with a lid, are the naive or optimistic that we won’t use a plate or another frypan?

  • How about we all fess up and stop calling them meat balls and start calling them meat shapes instead?!

  • Work uses Google Meet and when I’ve got a few meetings, I keep the home page on my second screen. To avoid the cycling of backgrounds in my peripheral vision, I use this bookmarklet.

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  • For some reason Mad World makes me think of dying bunny rabbits. 😢

  • Currently reading this ranking of the various Arnott’s biscuits. This has gone too far. And the ranking is wrong.

  • The humble Kingston biscuit has its own Wikipedia page and now I’ve fallen down a hole looking up the entire assorted creams family.

  • As someone who works at a news organisation, you’d really think Anbrew Dolt would have heard about NYC, Italy, the United Kingdom and on countless cruise ships. Maybe he doesn’t read or watch anyone that will employ him either?

  • I included youtube.com/watch?v=cqvVL8IurMw as a sample YouTube URL in a pull request and now every time it gets updated, Gmail embeds a preview in the email. How am I supposed to remain productive under these conditions?!

  • Malcolm Turnbull was a true visionary when it came to the NBN. I mean, that vision hadn’t changed since OzEmail’s early days but a vision is a vision…