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| Sunday, 1 March 2026 | Dereel | Images for 1 March 2026 |
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Happy birthday!
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Topic: general, health, opinion | Link here |
Today was Yvonne's birthday, and of course I had planned something good to eat—with her participation both in preparation and eating. But she was feeling faint and spent much of the day in bed. Nothing special for dinner.
What was the problem? Blood pressure and pulse were both a little low, but not overly so (107/70 and 55), and the ECG showed normal sinus rhythm.
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Foamy coffee
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Topic: food and drink | Link here |
Despite all the flushing that I did yesterday, there was still detergent in the coffee machine:
I still don't think that it's dangerous, but it relativizes the expediency of flushing the machine with descaling solution.
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Autofocus limitations
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Topic: photography, opinion | Link here |
Taking the photo of the foam from the coffee machine wasn't easy. The autofocus on my OM System OM-1 Mark II didn't want to know. So I tried it manually, setting focus peaking (which also didn't want to know) and a larger view. And that worked: the camera was able to autofocus on the enlarged view.
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Many birds
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Topic: animals | Link here |
From time to time we see sulphur-crested cockatoos near the horse water trough. But today there were a surprising number, although it was relatively wet:
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On closer examination, they're not sulphur-crested at all: they're corellas of some kind, at least the ones I looked at:
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That's a 99.9% crop of the first photo, far too small to recognize the beak, but from the chest colouration I think they're long-billed corellas. Presumably their presence is because of the large number around generally. Later in the afternoon I saw a swarm of what must have been 300 birds fly past. No hope of getting a photo.
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Bruno's fate
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Topic: animals, opinion | Link here |
Marion Stolk along today to take a look at Bruno. She's an animal rescuer, and we thought she might be able to find a place to suit him. And yes, she had found a place just like what we were thinking of: a hobby farm far from the road, where he can go out stalking in the daytime and come back in the evening. She had also found and placed a cat there, so not a choice for Bruno.
She wanted to take him with her to her house in Wendouree to see how he got on with other cats, and whether they would calm him. That wasn't our intention at all, though then he could potentially come back to us, but it could have some potential to see how we could keep him without him going ballistic. We'll also see if he's happy being allowed out into only a small outside enclosure (about 3×4 m).
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Hugin camera for sale
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Topic: photography, multimedia, opinion | Link here |
While watching TV this evening, saw this frame:
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It's from the German TV series „Rosenheim Corpse“, specifically season 11, episode 19. There is no such camera, of course.
| Monday, 2 March 2026 | Dereel | Images for 2 March 2026 |
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lagune problems?
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Topic: technology | Link here |
Seen in the overnight log mails, from lagune:
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Polling device for readiness
nvme0: async event occurred (type 0x1, info 0x01, page 0x02)
nvme0: temperature above threshold
I haven't seen that before. And it seems to be the disk in the machine. From dmesg:
vme0: Allocated 64MB host memory buffer
hdacc1: <Realtek ALC662 rev3 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
hdaa1: <Realtek ALC662 rev3 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
pcm2: <Realtek ALC662 rev3 (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0)> at nid 20,27 and 24,26 on hdaa1
pcm3: <Realtek ALC662 rev3 (Analog)> at nid 21 and 25 on hdaa1
hdacc2: <Intel Kaby Lake HDA CODEC> at cad 2 on hdac1
hdaa2: <Intel Kaby Lake Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc2
nda0 at nvme0 bus 0 scbus7 target 0 lun 1
nda0: <SAMSUNG MZVLQ256HBJD-00BH1 HPS1NFAV S672NX1T440905>
nda0: Serial Number S672NX1T440905
nda0: nvme version 1.4
nda0: 244198MB (500118192 512 byte sectors)
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Rain!
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Topic: gardening, opinion | Link here |
It's been a very dry summer, and it shows in the garden, despite my watering. One thing that I have been particularly concerned about is my Corymbia ficifolia. In previous years it has flowered in January or February, but as of the beginning of the month there were plenty of buds, but no flowers.
But then it rained. And sure enough, the first flowers are out, with presumably many more to follow:
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And my long-suffering Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” is also not doing too badly, though it currently has only one flower (at the top):
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Give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize!
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Topic: politics, opinion | Link here |
Donald Trump, that arch pacifist, has done it again. Before the end of negotiations, he and his even more peaceful friend Bibi have launched a bombing campaign and killed a head of state. Bravo! Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize!
Yes, the current regime in Iran was not good. Khamenei was not good. But you don't go around killing heads of state. Arguably the wrong head of state got killed.
How can I express my disgust? The fact that even Trump's advisers warned against attacking is almost irrelevant, though it's interesting to note that yesterday the war was planned to last 3 days, and now it might take a month. Given Trump's insistence that he could solve the Russo-Ukrainian war in 24 hours, we need to multiply his estimates by over 400.
He has achieved one thing, though: joining the territories of the disaster in Iraq with the disaster in Afghanistan. But I doubt that he considered that. Probably he couldn't find any of these countries on a map without aid.
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Another long telephoto lens?
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Topic: photography, opinion | Link here |
Yesterday's photo of the Corella was less than perfect:
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Yes, it was massively cropped, round 99.9%. Clearly I would have needed a longer lens. But my Exif calculations show that the effective focal length was 1841 mm. No lens on the market comes close; apart from toys, the longest are round 1000 mm.
Still, that's a long way from the longest focal length I have, the Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400 mm f/4.0-6.3. And there are longer lenses. For a while I have had my eye on an OM System 150-600 mm super-tele. It's expensive, of course. The cheapest I have found cost round $3,200 new. But it seems that it's made by Sigma, who have their own version. And not only is it only half as expensive, it's available second-hand for under $1000.
There are differences, of course. The big one is that the Sigma is not available for OM System. Surprise, surprise. But it seems that there are mount adapters that do autofocus (a must in this situation), so I spent some time looking at a Viltrox adapter, for which I found conflicting reviews.
And then it occurred to me: a year ago Tom Smith came along with his Sigma 300–800mm f/5.6 EX DG HSM. That's even longer, and it would work with the same adapter. But at the time I found it particularly unwieldy. Should I even try for a longer focal length than the Leica? Maybe a teleconverter would be an option.
| Tuesday, 3 March 2026 | Dereel → Werriebee → Dereel | Images for 3 March 2026 |
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Australian pieces
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Topic: food and drink, opinion | Link here |
While preparing breakfast this morning, came across this:
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What is it? Read the fine print: pineapple. Why would you want to know that? The important thing is that they're “pieces”, and not “wholes”.
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More periodonty
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Topic: health | Link here |
Off to Wyndham Periodontics in Werribee again today for another session with Leela Movva, this time to treat the other side of the mouth. Not much to report that wasn't already described last time. At least this time I didn't have to buy any medicine, so the whole thing took a little less time.
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More Corymbia ficifolia
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Topic: gardening | Link here |
The BoM promised us between 20 and 80 mm of rain over the last two days. What did we get? A total 17.2 mm for both days. But it was enough for my Corymbia ficifolia to flower.
Then today outside the periodonic practice I found this tree:
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As I feared, the colour rendition isn't accurate. It was lighter in colour than mine, and with a slight blue component. But it seems to be an indication that there's nothing much wrong with mine.
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More telephoto issues
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Topic: photography, opinion | Link here |
Yesterday I did some thinking about adapting long telephoto lenses with mont adapters, without coming to any conclusion. But today there was a total lunar eclipse—just what I would want a long telephoto lens for.
Should I take photos? Surprisingly, the sky was clear. So I took some photos with my Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400 mm f/4.0-6.3 (set to 400 mm, of course), none of which were any good. Firstly, of course, it's too short—exactly the reason for yesterday's considerations. But there are other issues too: getting the moon in focus is not easy, and this time my autofocus failed completely. Today it tried to focus correctly when the moon was brighter, but after totality started the camera just gave up. Magnifying the image didn't help: there was so much optical noise that I couldn't recognize anything, and
In addition, there's the question of exposure: f/6.3 is not enough, and I had to crank up the sensitivity and use slower shutter speeds than make sense. That was very clear in some of the stars:
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I thought that the differences in colour were due to sensor problems, but the same two stars appears in most of the images. It also shows that it's slightly out of focus.
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I thought that it didn't look as good as last time:
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But in fact, it's slightly better. If only I had been able to get it into focus. So what do I do next time? No more total solar eclipses here until 4 April 2220, by which time I will probably not be here. And a total lunar eclipse on 1 January 2029.
In passing, it does make some things clear: focus is even much more difficult than I had expected, so the idea of adapting a lens is probably not worthwhile. And the f/6.3 was too small. Put in a 1.4× teleconverter and reduce that to f/8.8 and it's even worse. Should I buy a telescope with tracking hardware? Or just give up?
| Wednesday, 4 March 2026 | Dereel | Images for 4 March 2026 |
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Another quiet day
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Topic: general | Link here |
Once again nothing much happened today.
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Summer flowers
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It's early autumn, but we have flowers that should bloom in summer. Our Corymbia ficifolia, now dry, is flowering in part:
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And this, found on the corner of Bliss Road and Stones Road (thanks, Android, for stopping my GPS logging process unasked) looks like a white Agapanthus.
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Both it and the Corymbia should flower in summer.
| Thursday, 5 March 2026 | Dereel → Cape Clear → Dereel | Images for 5 March 2026 |
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Vaccinating Bruno
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We've more or less come to the conclusion that Bruno should go to Marion Stolk for a month or so to see how he gets on with other cats. Problem: he's not vaccinated, since he doesn't come in contact with other animals. Off today to Pene Kirk to get him boosted.
While I was there, discussed the matter with Pene. She doesn't think it's a good idea at all: it will just put the cat under a lot of stress, really not what he needs. More food for thought, but it gives me incentive to build a cat enclosure on the south side of the house, where he could get in and out through the laundry door (and, for that matter, the rear garage door or my bedroom window if they were open). Yvonne called up Paul Donaghy, who will come around tomorrow and view the situation.
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Changing landscape
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Topic: general, opinion | Link here |
“And he sees the vision splendid\nof the Golden Plains extended”. Not quite the words of Clancy of the Overflow, but close. And there's a nice view from south the Dereel-Rokewood Junction road.
But it doesn't quite look the same any more:
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What's special about that? It's hard to see on such a panoramic photo, but one detail shot shows:
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And it's like that from one end of the view to the other. The whole landscape has changed.
| Friday, 6 March 2026 | Dereel | Images for 6 March 2026 |
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A new cat run?
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Topic: animals, general | Link here |
So we're off the idea of sending Bruno to Marion Stolk after all. What could we do to be able to keep him? Let him outside, of course. How about a cat run to the south of the house? I've been mulling the idea since yesterday, and Yvonne had already called Paul Donaghy to come and take a look:
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The white plastic droppers indicate the approximate boundary of the the enclosure. The existing fence would go, of course, but the plants would stay. Paul looked, said yes, came up with remarkably few issues, and went again, leaving me to consider the surprising number of commercial offerings. Time for a page to summarize what we're doing. It doesn't look easy.
| Saturday, 7 March 2026 | Dereel | Images for 7 March 2026 |
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House photo tweaks
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Topic: photography, technology, opinion | Link here |
House photo day again today. Last week's changes worked, but they were a nuisance because I had to change lenses. The real issue isn't the lens, it's the view of the panorama bar at the bottom. After putting things together, I crop it off. Why not before? So today I did so to the component images while converting them to TIFF.
The result: as expected. It Just Worked. And of course the results are more directly compable to two weeks ago:
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So for the moment I'll leave it at that.
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Web site failure avalanche
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Topic: technology, general, animals, opinion | Link here |
Yesterday's considerations for cat runs included creating a page about cat enclosures. Where do I put it? In the subdirectory... oh. I had stones-road and Stones-Road.
There can only be one. Put the contents of stones-road into Stones-Road and remove stones-road.
It didn't take long to come and bite me. Processing my house photos failed with the RCS checkout of ~/public_html/stones-road/photo-dates.php. OK, not an issue. It's now at ~/public_html/Stones-Road/photo-dates.php. But where's the control file? There was a ~/public_html/Stones-Road/RCS/, but it didn't contain the control file.
Much searching. It's not in the nightly backup either! Lots of crawling through backups to discover that it was a symlink to /eureka/home/Sysconfig/MasterRCS/home/grog/public_html/stones-road/RCS/, which last got backed up at the end of last month. Reinstate it and all was well.
Well, for a while. Looking through my failure log, I went to /grog/stones-road/exterior.php, first the local version, which was fine. But things on the web site looked very different. The page contains links to the weekly photos of a particular view since 2015 or so. That works fine—locally. But on the web site, the pages are all empty!
How did that happen? Some debugging brought me to this code, in ~/public_html/stones-road/exterior-view.php (that directory again):
foreach ($alldates as $date)
{
$dir = $imagedirs [$size];
if (file_exists ($_SERVER ["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/$who/Photos/$date/$dir/$view.jpeg"))
It's looking through photo-dates.php (here giving a value for \$date) for the files locally. That works here, but my external files have been on DigitalOcean for 8½ years. So it finds... nothing.
What went wrong there? Did I have a different version of exterior-view.php on the web sites? No, I don't think so. If that were the case, it wouldn't have been overwritten, and it's not the sort of thing I do: I keep all my backups locally. It looks as if it has been broken for nearly 10 years! Attempts don't show up in the logs, but nobody has complained. Does anybody care? Or should I just leave it like that?
And in the process I found numerous false positives in photo-dates.php. It contains only dates, in YYYYMMDD format, and it starts
19651001
20081208
20140104
Those first two are clearly wrong: I didn't start this series until 2014. And the code above means that it doesn't become evident. But what about the third one? I had to look: yes, it's wrong too. I did take corresponding photos of the Kleins Road house, but not of Stones Road. I'll have to go through and weed it out... if I care.
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Food labels again
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Topic: food and drink, opinion | Link here |
Sweet and sour fish for dinner tonight. No longer the horror it was 50 years ago, but it's still work. And I ran out of vinegar (“Chinkiang”, which should really be spelt “Zhenjiang”, but the label still uses the old transliteration). Instead I found a bottle labeled “beauideal Shanghai Rice Vinegar” from a company transliterated as “Baoding Tianyu”.
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OK, not a problem. The amount of acetic acid is critical. It should be 5 g (I actually write 4.95 g in the recipe). The remaining 30 g of Chinkiang vinegar (5.5%) account for 1.65 g, so I need another 3.3 g. How strong is the Shanghai vinegar? They don't say:
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Who cares about how much fat or protein there is there? And who drinks a “serving” of 100 ml? This is vinegar. And they don't say how much it is, though it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that this silly pasted-on label has obscured it. Asked the twins, who tell me that Shanghai vinegar contains between 4% and 5% of acetic acid. OK, at 4.5% I need another 73 g.
It was eatable, but there was too much vinegar! I'm going to have to guess at least 5%. Now wouldn't it be nice if labels tell you what you need to know instead of what some bureaucrat wants?
| Sunday, 8 March 2026 | Dereel | Images for 8 March 2026 |
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lagune fail
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Topic: technology, opinion | Link here |
Yvonne into my office this morning to tell me that she had problems with lagune, her computer. Not for the first time. But this time it didn't react at all: it was powered down.
Oh. That was the machine that powered down during the power failure last weekend. Jamie Fraser had suggested that it might be a power supply issue, and this seems to point in that direction too. Damn. It's one of our newest machines: we've only had it for a year, and I had problems with it right from the start. What do we do now? It powered up normally, and the occasional power down isn't that serious, though it goes against the grain. And I have other machines that I can use instead if I have to.
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The pain of electronics
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Topic: food and drink, technology, opinion | Link here |
Today we celebrated Yvonne's birthday in cooking. Her birthday was a week ago, but she was not feeling well, so we postponed until today.
She had planned what we call “Swine Bismarck”, a play on the name “Beef Wellington”. We've had it frequently before, surprisingly often round this time of year. It's Yvonne's recipe, and we've been waiting for her to write it up for years. But four years ago I found an entry in this diary, where we called it by its canonical name porc en croûte, and which told me what I wanted to know: for a pork filet weighing 330 g, cook for 26 minutes at 200°, by which time the meat temperature should reach 80°.
Once upon a time cooking was easy, if not overly repeatable. Now, of course, I had to find our meat thermometers—at least three of them, with four probes.
And each of them showed something different! I know that the probes are not all the same, but one of them jumped all over the place, from freezing to oven temperature and back from one second to the next.
Finally I found combinations that agreed with each other and which didn't seem to be too wrong. Cooked the roll, but it wouldn't come close to 80°. Finally took it out after 37 minutes (compared to 26 last time), by which time it was showing 66° but looking well browned:
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And it was more than cooked. My guess is that the thermometer lied. It wasn't until I looked later that I found that one of the probes was off by round 17° (below), here in the centre display:
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From left to right: 21°, 4°, 22°.
It seems that it's that probe that's causing the problems. Plug it into a different display and the error goes with the probe. And the jumping about? Contact problems, or potentially a defective cable? One way or another, it's time to label the probes so that I can distinguish them. The one that reads 17° too low is now number 4.
One way or another, I really should use two (or three?) thermometers in future, especially since a further source of error might be where the sensor is placed in the meat.
A hoarse voice whispers “TMR”.
| Monday, 9 March 2026 | Dereel | Images for 9 March 2026 |
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Anorexia
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Topic: food and drink, opinion | Link here |
I've been keeping an eye on my weight, which is not excessive, but over the years it has been climbing. Lately it has been round 89 kg, up from 86 or 87 kg a couple of years ago (BMI 22.9, 23.1, 23.6). So for the last few days I have been eating less, and now I'm back to mid-87 again.
KL Hokkien Mee for breakfast today, the usual quantities. I could hardly finish it! I need to reduce my quantities, but how? In particular, many dishes use noodles that are pre-packed in weights round 60 g. How do I reduce that? To be considered.
In the evening I ate less to compensate, fully expecting to be hungry later on. But I wasn't. Is this maybe a matter of habit?
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Strange X issues
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Topic: technology, opinion | Link here |
For some time I have noticed strangenesses in my standard X display. I can't copy marked text from one display to another. And sometimes the cursor seems to go crazy, run away and reappear on a different display. It's certainly possible that I'm doing something strange, but gradually I'm beginning to suspect a bug in fvwm3.
And today my long-running main Emacs went crazy, reacting completely differently from what I expected. Type c-x c-s should save the current buffer (clear-trailing-junk-and-save), but it divided the screen. And when I enter c-h c-k (describe key), I get:
help-fns-short-filename: Wrong type argument: stringp, 47
What's going on here? Stopped the Emacs instance and restarted it, and all was well. But that was not the best choice in retrospect: first, the Emacs had been running for months, and secondly I was no longer able to find what the problem was.
Somehow this upgrade from eureka to hydra was not what I expected.
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Still more subtitle strangenesses
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Topic: multimedia, technology, opinion | Link here |
We watch most TV programmes with subtitles, not because we're hard of hearing, but because the dialogue is frequently vague or mumbled. Yesterday we were watching „Die Bergretter“ (specifically year 15, episode 5), and the subtitles just stopped for no obvious reason.
That's not the first time I've had difficulties with subtitles. The issues are many and varied, and some point to bugs in mpv: doesn't understand some subtitle entries, or the subtitles are in a different file with no relationship to the video file, or they're given a file name extension not related to the content type. But this is the first time it just stopped in the middle of a film.
Took a look at the file again today. The problem is here:
sub699
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:40.560
* Das Handy klingelt weiter. *
sub700
00:42:45.520 --> 00:42:47.000
Tobi, wo steckst du?
subd699 displayed normally. sub700 didn't. Nor did any further subtitles.
There are a couple of things there: there's an empty line between the time and the text, the text is indented, and there's a line consisting of only 8 spaces afterwards. Did one of those do it?
Yes. Change to:
sub700
00:42:45.520 --> 00:42:47.000
Tobi, wo steckst du?
And yes, that works. But that's a bug, and I don't know which of the three anomalies stopped it.
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More flash synchronization problems?
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Topic: photography, opinion | Link here |
Yesterday's issues with the thermometers merited a photo, and I got it. But I also got this (first image, (run the cursor over an image to compare it with its neighbour):
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What went wrong there? I've seen it before with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark I, but it's the first time I have seen it with the OM System OM-1 Mark II. With any luck it's an issue in the flash hardware, not the camera itself.
| Tuesday, 10 March 2026 | Dereel | Images for 10 March 2026 |
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Another breakfast experiment
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Topic: food and drink, opinion | Link here |
Following yesterday's surprise lack of hunger, experimented with breakfast today, in particular using (once again) cabbage instead of gai lan and a smaller quantity of noodles. The result:
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Not to be repeated. Cabbage and Chinese-like soups don't mix. Frying is a different matter.
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Where are the Makernotes?
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Topic: photography, technology, history, opinion | Link here |
Looking back through my diary, found this article about Exif and Makernotes. But the link to the Makernotes was broken, and on searching the replacement, found that it was self-referential and contained no information. There's not even much point in searching for them: they'll be out of date too, and clearly the Exif data for the OM System OM-1 Mark II must contain much more information, since it has overflowed the original storage area.
Fifteen years ago Olypedia contained a lot of useful technical information. Others did too, but I can't find anything any more. The best is here, but I know that they're not complete. Why? Have people lost interest?
| Wednesday, 11 March 2026 | Dereel | Images for 11 March 2026 |
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Another mouse bites the dust
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Topic: animals | Link here |
The cats were particularly interested in a particular place in the garage last night. When I went in this morning, I saw that it was somewhat rearranged:
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More cat enclosures
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Paul Donaghy around today to measure up the dog run for keeping Bruno in. We got as far as the basics: we'll need no fewer than 6 columns 6' × 4-5" (yes, that's the way they measure things in this metric country) and lots of timber (about 22 m of 3" × 2") to hold up the roof, which is really only there to hold up the netting to keep birds out. What we currently have is: the run is 7.15 × 12.25 m and 1.75 m high. Covering that in netting will use the surprising quantity of 155.9 m². Now if only the birds would stay away, we could get by with a fraction of that. Started keeping a page, but I'm not sure that it will stay.
Should we use steel instead? It would be much less obtrusive and potentially cheaper.
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Oil prices
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Topic: politics, general | Link here |
Thanks to the world pacifists Donald Trump and Bibi, the world oil prices are going through the roof. This page seems to give a useful overview.
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