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2022 Week 3: Thoughts and Photos

2022-01-24


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Following inspiration from several posts recently aggregated on Antenna, I decided to buy a Kobo Clara HD reader. I owned a Nook Simple Touch many years ago and loved the device, but it had too low a resolution to read full-size technical documents, which was what I primarily wanted to use it for. The Clara HD has more than twice the resolution of the Simple Touch, which I hope will help to ameliorate the problem.


I fired up my Urbit planet after several weeks offline. Unfortunately, I suspect I booted it using a key that had already been used, and the planet is now having severe connection issues to the point of being unusable. I might need to breach again.


A friend messaged me yesterday to tell me his company was recycling several pallets of surplus IT equipment. If I want any of the equipment, he'll escort me into their warehouse to pick it up. I'm not looking for much at the moment--mostly spare keyboards, mice and monitors--but if I find a working tower in the milieu, I won't complain.


While tinkering with my microblogging script last week, my personal offline timeline file somehow got truncated from around 1.7 MB of text to exactly 72 KB. In the immediate aftermath I had lost 95% of the file's contents, or just under two years' worth of posts. Thankfully I managed to pull a recent backup from an offline Syncthing node, so in the end I only lost about a month's worth of posts--still annoying, but not unrecoverable.


I have two AWS certifications, one of which I thought had already expired. I recently discovered, however, that that I can renew both certifications before 2022-02-22 and avoid a lapse. I'll be devoting myself to the task for the next few weeks.


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Photo of the week:


Frozen in Time

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I've returned to working full-time in my office, but almost all of my coworkers have switched to working from home permanently, and most have only come on site once or twice to pick up their belongings from their cubicles. Every now and then I see some remnants of the COVID-19 mass exodus, such as a calendar that was never advanced past March of 2020. It's a little spooky to see--I'm reminded of the abandoned towns of Chernobyl and Fukushima.


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