Sunday, August 27, 2023

Gauntlet Ran

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This week, it was rough. Appraisal season is upon us, and so there were many sessions of discussing with my subordinates on what to put int...
Friday, August 25, 2023

Stupid O'Clock Word Salad Time

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Rough week? Much talking? De-escalation? Outcome hopeful, but never certain? Much paperwork? External? Internal? Sore throat? Food t...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Counter Tweaking 5×10 and Font Releases

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I think by now, a theme be emerging, especially those who have been reading my blog entries. I mentioned before on how I didn't manag...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Saturday...

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Ah... Saturday. I love Saturdays. I love Saturdays because they are mostly the days where I actually get to relax, on leave or otherwise...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Counter Tweaking

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Ah Thursday, the day after National Day, and when I'm [still] on leave. What a day. First off, after ranting past stupid o'clock...

Past Stupid O'Clock?

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Okay, it's past stupid o'clock, but I'm annoyed, so I'm gonna vent. Eileen-III runs Windows 11---this is an incontrovertib...
Sunday, August 06, 2023

One Sixth-ish Through August

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Okay, it's Sunday, and we're about halfway through the first third of the month. Bram Moolenaar passed away just a few days ago. ...
Wednesday, August 02, 2023

The One About the 盐酥鸡

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August: here we go! I hate being right on things. So, remember this recent post on hero worship ? Well, as if on cue, we have this littl...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Tweaks and Adjustments to 5×10 and 7×13 Bitmap Fonts

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Oof, that took me a while, but I think that I'm much more satisfied with what I have now than before. Continuing what I began back in ...
Friday, July 21, 2023

A Day Off? A Day Off!

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It's a Friday! And I'm on leave! It is therefore a most excellent Friday! Curbing my exuberance a little, I'm only on leave...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

7×13 Font?

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This entry is an extension to a theme that I started from some time ago about bitmap fonts . So, if you recall, I recently got ahold of Ei...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Hero Worship: Don't

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Hero worship. One word: don't. Inspired in part by the litany of recently reported wrong-doings by high-fliers in SIN city, combined ...
Friday, July 14, 2023

favicon, and Some Annoying Bot

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Ah Friday. Nice! Favicons ---not so nice. Just look at how bloody complicated this mess is! For those who are somehow too lazy to click...
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

So Long CentOS, and Thanks For All the Fish!

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So, I managed my own unnamed and generally unreferenced Linux server running CentOS (the astute might recall me talking about this little s...
Sunday, July 02, 2023

It's July Already?

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Woah, the second of July is upon us. As at noon-ish, literal halfway point of 2023. Not sure how/what to feel about this. On the one han...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Eileen-III

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Alright, it's been a while. Time to write something here. So, Eileen-II has more or less run her course. It's not that she has ...
Monday, June 05, 2023

What I Learnt From Working in Offices

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Caveat: This entry was not written at when it was published. When I was serving my National Service back in 2003--2006, there were some th...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Dead Tired

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So ends yet another Monday. My left shoulder is busted up... again. I suspect it's a mix of sleeping badly, and possibly twisting it ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Empathy is in Short Supply---Psychopaths Abound

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So I just finished reading How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber, & Elaine Mazlish. And a thou...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Psychic Damage

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Caveat: This was not written near when this was posted. This week was rough. Too many ``psychic damage'' that came in, and it ov...