Ahhh, a very handy tip: TipBITS: Quickly Access App Updates in iOS 13
on the Home screen, tap and hold the App Store icon and choose Updates from the contextual menu
Now this is clever. A subset of the population isn’t online, and some of them are older people, a group that advocacy organisation Grey Power serves. GP are now placing a monthly 2-page ad in the local free paper instead of printing a magazine. Bigger audience, lower costs. 👍
Key lime pie! Hey Mark! Do you fancy some? What do you mean, you can’t get it round here? That cafe down the street has the best pie I’ve ever tasted. Stick the address in your phone so you remember it. It’s frightening really how easy it is to forget such things.
mbnov Week 1.
A good start:
… optimistic a day would come soon when Māori were no longer pulled over in a car simply because police were suspicious they had done something wrong.
just because you’re Māori sitting in a Porsche or a Maserati doesn’t mean they have the right to pull you over.
One of the local pheasants was posing beautifully. I took a photo through the window to avoid frightening it. Then I tried opening the door for a clearer shot, and sure enough…
mbnov 07-Nov-19: frightening
You have to be careful where you stick your hands while weeding at this time of year — the manuka are in bloom and the bees love them. Also in bloom and good fodder for the bees are the cabbage trees with their sweet, sweet scent.
mbnov 06-Nov-19: stick
Feedback to Apple today re Siri obliterating an in-progress timer:
This keeps catching me out: I use Siri to set perhaps a 30 minute timer on my watch. A short time later I’m maybe making a cup of tea so I ask Siri to set a 3 minute timer. Siri obligingly creates the new timer but obliterates the timer that was already in progress. PLEASE don’t let that happen. Either overtly fail the new timer or have Siri explain the problem and ask me what to do.
Nearby are 2 lakes. Sometimes there’s deafening croaking. I believe it’s the introduced Southern Bell frog.
The sound’s loudest at the eastern edge, where a small pohutukawa tree is in bloom — spot red blossoms in centre of the photo. Also a cabbage tree is in bloom.
When it comes to professionals, paid to write, and editors, paid to edit, I get picky and persnickety about the details of writing. How on earth can anything be “surrounded on one side”? Newspaper article text:
Police emergency tape surrounded one side of the property.
I was excited to try out Icro for Mac — the feature list has things like saving your reading position and boy, I want that so much! Unfortunately the font is so tiny I just can’t read it. The screenshot shows Icro on the left and Manton’s Micro.Blog client on the right. @icro 😢
They dig holes and burrows, dig up plants, eat new shoots. But these mainly baby rabbits are boinging all over the grass, being far too cute. Most are brown, but there’s an adult black rabbit who is perhaps the descendant of an escaped pet. 🐇
Forget Guy Fawkes; here’s something we could be remembering in New Zealand every 05 November: 5 November is 138 years since 1600 armed troops invaded Parihaka village.
All part of the British campaign to dispossess Māori of their lands.
I’m getting a few things done around the place — slowly. Today I planted the Granny Smith apple tree, and emptied one compost frame into the garden beside it. I also managed to buy a bottle of hydrogen peroxide Pour n Go water tank treatment and added it to the water tank.
I often post photos taken from our house. Here’s one taken of our house from the street. It’s the more distant, white-coloured and slightly elevated house. It’s actually about 200 metres from where I was standing to take the photo.
mbnov 05-Nov-19: street
Mother or villain? How Māori women offenders are portrayed in news reporting
Pākehā women are portrayed as harmless fraudsters and drug addicts, Māori women are depicted as dangerous killers, kidnappers and thieves. None of which is reflected in real-life conviction rates.
Guy Fawkes' backyard fireworks: Will they stay or will they go?
Fireworks went on sale on Saturday and Fire and Emergency spokesman Mike Shaw said crews had attended more than 40 related incidents since then.
I vote for banning them from sale to the public.
This season of the Flash has taken a disconcerting turn with the whole notion of The Flash having to die to save the world. In Ep 604 he comes up with the line that “’I’ll always be with you, even after I’m gone”. 🤷🏽
My quest to buy chemicals to treat our drinking water tank was unsuccessful — they just sold out (or whatever). I’ll try elsewhere tomorrow. Meanwhile I bought some water for making green tea and it tastes much better!
For days I’ve been troubleshooting why our shower stinks like a toilet when we run hot water. There could be many reasons. But, today I noticed the kitchen water also stinks, which probably means our rainwater tank has a problem. 😒 Off to get chemicals…
mbnov 04-Nov-19: mean
Folks with school-age kids will definitely want to show them this 7 minute video: In Your Face Explosive Chemistry!!.
Watch the scientist light her hand on fire, breathe fire, make a ‘volcano’ and create fog, while explaining the chemistry behind it.
