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John's visit

August 04, 2009

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John visited and we had great fun eating lamb

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Roadtrip - Tassie by ferry in a 1974 144 Volvo

Drive to MelbourneBe boring if I just said - well it was a 700km drive so what! But it was.
Bugger
Mileages were ineresting;
At holbrook it was getting    11.8 l/100km (what a shit measurment)
Launceston    10.57 l/100km
sat on 100 to 110 prefered 103kmp
Ferry I'm boring and love the ferry. Sleep and food is great. We were on level 1 with the 144 as my wife (the owner) requested.
First on last off and no caravans to booggy with.

Performance Faultless I cant see why people buy new cars. Sorry wait till electic is worth having. Till then a decent 1970's car will do.

HP Pavilion X360 Manjaro XFCE Edition (17.1.4)

Installed several distros on this duo core machine and it dies with most when Dropbox and Insync start up.
With Ubuntu and most gnome desktops its slow.
So I put Manjaro XFCE Edition (17.1.4) on after trying Netrunner rolling.
Strangely the Plasma desktop did not suck resources but is not to my liking.
So I installed the XCFE version then added Mate and Cinnamon.
I like both but in my situation Cinnamon is the best as the indicators for Dropbox and Insync both work "out of the box".
As ever I also added Scrivener 2.9 running under wine. No issues.
Zotero_standalone.
Vivaldi - Browser of choice. Not a resource hog.

So far so good.

Also found a great Ever-note client for Linux in Tusk https://klauscfhq.github.io/tusk/

#deletefacebook - some feelings

#deletefacebook Last night I followed Musks lead and deleted my facebook account. Second time.
First time was because I had been the coordinator of an international group and I had several hundred "friends" who I only knew thru the group.
This time its for a lot of reasons but was triggered by the Cambridge Analytical scandal.

Reasons;
I wasn't reading any more. Just sucking up the feed each day."The Guardian" and "the conversation" were sources to repost.I got a buzz from "likes".It took time from my day.It was insidious and reinforced my own opinions.It was polarising. The quality of my communication diminished. What will I miss?
Easy communication. Communication with old friends for whom I have no emails.Information sources and selling opportunities. What will I have to do to achieve the same level of communication is use email more and also a range of apps - sites - Linkedin - Gumtree - Skype G+ and so on.

Never again will I let one compa…

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