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If you do a Spotlight search for “itunes" in macOS 10.15 Catalina and just press enter, it’ll open the new Music app.

As Google seems to want to buy Fitbit, now may be the time to delete your Fitbit data and close your account. If Google having your biometric data is something that concerns you.

Tickets have been purchased for a late morning showing the next day, so I can tick this off for the year.

Wow that’s expensive!

I use Duolingo to augment my night class French lessons. I occasionally click on other users’ profiles. So many of them are learning English and no matter how hard any component of the French language is, I can’t comprehend how bananas crazy trying to learn English must be.

Traditional owners relieved as Uluru closed off to climbers. This should be happening around the world with other culturally significant sites. The rising wave of decolonisation is long overdue.

Wearing the classic Aotearoa spring ensemble today: warm marino long sleeve top and shorts.

Wow, lazy bones! Why aren’t your bones more energetic?

It’s been one of those mornings where I’ve looked at the clock and thought “Holy crap! It’s noon already! I’ve got so much to do!” then to realise it’s only 11, after I’ve made my lunch. Oh well….

Home brewers out there who don’t care for Beersmith, because it’s beyond ugly and horrific to use: I wholeheartedly recommend Brewfather - it’s fast, a web app so it works everywhere, is written by an independent developer in Norway and is worth the money.

Twitter is down. Which is brilliant.

If Rio Tinto does close Tiwai Point, New Zealand gets over half a gigawatt (570 MW) of zero-carbon electricity production and we can potentially close down our last coal fire power station at Huntly (250 MW from coal).

It’ll be nice, at some point in the future, Kiwis will be able to go outside in the summer without getting scorched within an inch of their lives.

The 2019 ozone hole is the smallest on record

Google Is Shifting Some Products Toward Paid Subscriptions

Start charging for GMail, I dare ya!

Nobody mourns for Porkins.

🏏 Wellington doing well against Otago in the first Plunket Shield match. Otago all out for 199, the mighty Wellington Firebirds humming along on day 2 at 223/3 at lunch.

Cool. The latest update of macOS means I don’t have to run “killall Dock” in a terminal to make the dock work when I log in any more. iCloud bookmarks are, however, broken again.

The cricket season has started in Aotearoa. So I will be saying a lot about cricket at times. So for your convenience, I will use the cricket emoji - 🏏 - at the start of those posts. You can visually, or mute-list, filter them as you please.

NZ’s bid to become first dark sky nation: ‘It’s about controlling light’

You’ll never appreciate your place in the universe if you can’t see it.

E-Bikes are the New Cars

Here’s a handy guide if you’re considering deleting your Facebook account.

If you’re a Kiwi or Kiwi-adjacent, you should be listening to RNZ’s The Detail podcast. Short current affairs shows with a tight rundown on a single issue. And at around 20 minutes per show, it’s a great listen for you commute.

If you’re interested, NZ parliament is sitting right now and you can watch it live here.

I’ve completed fermentation of my raspberry wheat beer. It’s sitting at 4.2% ABV, which is higher than my target of 3.9%. The yeast was super happy, though, so it’s not surprising. Now the terrifying part: adding raspberries for flavour and a second round of fermentation.