A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
August 22
Not a huge amount going on here at Waide Towers. We've mostly
done with Star Trek:TNG Season 6, despite the Virgin Media box
trying to sabotage our recordings by (a) having the TV listings
not set up correctly and (b) the box itself crashing. We've also
binged our way through House M.D. Season 1 and have made some
inroads on Season 2.
Missed anniversary: this particular pile of text was commenced on
August 1st, 2000, so it's now just over two decades
old. It's reduced in frequency, sporting events, drinking events,
and nerdery, so I guess at this point it's just my
ramblings... wait, it was always that, wasn't it.
August 9
I've been intermittently annoyed by a timezone-offset bug in
OpenHAB which started when I
was moving stuff from the old Mac Mini to the ... less-old ... Mac
Mini. After much poking about I figured I'd ask
the community; two people tried to help but I eventually
figured it out myself. The short version is "EVERYONE STOP TRYING
TO DO ANYTHNG WITH TIMEZONES EVER". The slightly longer version,
well, yeah. You can read the link. The significantly annoying part
of this right now is that while it's fixed, I'm still unclear on
what actually triggered it since all the relevant configuration
files were copied exactly from one Mac to the other, and this
behaviour should definitely have been occurring on the old
system.
(Not mentioned in the community post, but if MySQL didn't try to
do its own thing with timezones this wouldn't have been a problem;
I'm not clear on why, when presented with a system timezone of
"Europe/Dublin" it renders it internally as "IST" (well, at this
time of the year) instead of preserving the unambiguous timezone
name. I'm equally unclear on why it wants me to maintain a
timezone database when it's got access to a perfectly good
system-level instance of same which the MySQL people have already
built a parser / convertor for. Bottom line: run your database in
UTC and avoid all this hassle, I guess.)
August 6
Not yet found: the Logitech Webcam I'd picked up for... a
catcam, if I recall correctly. I have a vague idea where it might
be, though.
August 4
Spare keys for the house have been missing for an indeterminate
period of time (because of COVID we've basically had no visitors
since we moved back in December other than The Brother, and
normally the only way the keys go temporarily AWOL is by being
given to visitors) and now we have a new puzzle: how the hell did
they get where we found them this evening? I suspect it's one
we'll never solve.
Also found: my OpenHAB-connected
remote controlled power socket.
August 1
Filled in the gaps on ST:TNG season 3, so now:
Season 1
92%
Season 2
100%
Season 3
100%
Season 4
85%
Season 5
73%
Season 6
3.8%
Season 7
0.0%
Pick started season 6 at episode 2, or the DVR failed to record
due to the constant faffing with the schedule. Either way, S5E26
and S6E1 are a pair so probably as well that we wound up with
neither of them. So now we wait for Horror Channel (!) to work
its way around to the bits of Seasons 4 & 5 while Pick
does... whatever it does with Seasons 6 & 7. Oh, and there's a
Heisenberg season of Endeavour coming up: the DVR's TV
guide says season 7 starts on ITV3 on Monday, the online guide
says it's a rerun of season 6.