Economic self-harm
Why does a country with more than enough wealth to provide us all with a decent life insist on creating an unemployed underclass? That’s harmful for those who are forced into poverty and for the rest of us too.
MacOS Catalina Photos weirdness
When Apple dropped Aperture I switched to Adobe Lightroom for processing and managing photographs. One benefit is that Lightroom works with files stored in standard Finder locations rather than buried in a proprietary database. A disadvantage is that many MacOS applications, especially those from Apple, do not recognise and access images other than those from Photos, the Apple application. That...
Lest we remember?
It’s that time of year again when Australians engage in our annual culture war about the war we don’t admit happened. For many, national identity is tied to a foundation myth associated with a war in which we invaded a peninsula on the other side of the world. We know little or nothing about the war for possession on our...
My bucket overflowed
I wrote recently about completing my bucket list generated by Majella last year. The final item had presented a challenge because it required getting at least one of my children to a movie with me. A plea for help had attracted responses from all three and resulted in a trip to see the most recent Jurassic World release with Jane,...
I broke a blog and had to fix it
Over the past couple of months I’ve done some tinkering with my blogs for various reasons. Part of that involved condensing the installations of my two blogs, here at DrAlb and our travel blog at On the road again, into a single database. I tried using a WordPress network installation and multiple installations using Installatron in a single blog but...
Ticked the bucket list off
This time last year Majella conspired to create my bucket list of 10 items. Dutiful husband that I am, I’ve been working through that list, ticking off items through the past year and had ticked off all but one.
More tinkering in WordPress
Condensing my WordPress blogs (this one and our travel blog) into a single database and moving the associated files solved my immediate problem. I was able then to ‘downgrade’ my hosting service, though the reduced cost has been applied to an extended subscription rather than a refund. I’ll continue to argue that, though with little real hope of a satisfactory...
Wrangling WordPress installations
I did some renovation on this site earlier this year when I changed the theme and created some pages under a Professional menu to replace the professional site I had been using while working prior to retirement. I had intended to do some more after we returned from our trip to South Australia but had not started until this week...
Volunteer with a community group
It has taken a while to get to this item from my bucket list but I think I can now claim to have done enough to tick it off. As with other items on my list I wanted to have something specifically for this purpose rather than something historical. I’ve mostly tended to avoid ongoing commitments to community groups. That may...
Go to a live sporting event
This item from my bucket list has been waiting for a solution. Unlike some of the other items, sporting events do not feature frequently among our activities. Neither Majella nor I have much interest in sport. We don’t often participate in sports as players or spectators. Majella sometimes watches cricket or, less often, tennis on television but other sports broadcasts...