News August 2023

As we return to new normal with COVID-19 becoming endemic, I thought I would provide a brief update. Throughout the lockdowns I went to many more virtual concerts. I very much enjoyed the ones by John McCutcheon. I also have put more stuff on SoundCloud. My latest is a cover of a Judy Small song [...]

News Personal and professional

I have been so busy lately that I have not been a regular presence on any social network or blog. I'm still here, yes yes, I'm here... as the sondheim song says. I continue to work for AUT as an electronic notetaker 2-3 days a week. This makes me a little money but, more importantly, [...]

My Digitisation project

I Have talked here before about my digitisation project and the software I use to make it possible. I recently took this up again. I have imported all my CD audiobooks on to my Mac. It is amazing to me that I read so much trash when I was younger. Now I read mostly nonfiction. [...]

Social Networks and Other Old Junk

So in 2015 I wrote a blog post. It was about social networking and how there were so many and I wanted certain things to happen. surprisingly, not much has changed since then. I still want something that will post across a bunch of accounts. There are too many social networks and it just gets [...]

New Year,, New me?

Hello to everybody after such a long time I am updating this blog to tell you what is going on. Last year I took a day job to make a bit of extra money. I returned to my alma mater, AUT, to work as a notetaker. I had done the same job while I was [...]

Be My Eyes

I have just got a new computer, another Mac from Apple. I spent the past few days setting it up. This is run of the mill stuff — I migrated all my content over from my old Mac. But there were some messages that VoiceOver, the built-in screenreader that comes with Mac OS wouldn’t read. This post [...]

My Geographical

I want to share with you all about my Geographical to Sydney. What I didn’t tell you was I was going to see a friend and was abandoned to my own devices by friend for most of the week I was gone. On Sunday April 2, I walked a mile up the Pacific Highway to [...]

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