Ordered some rubbing alcohol today to give cleaning the iPad magic keyboard another go. Wishful thinking? Maybe, but it’s worth a shot.
Microposts
Decided to move my micro style posts from my blog to Micro.blog. I’ll make all the versions on philbowell.com private for the time being.
Anyone have any suggestions for Bluetooth headsets for use on Teams? Fed up of the wires that my work issues Dell headset uses.
My OnMail invitation came through so I set up a free account. Not sure whether to point my email at it to give it a try or not…
Decided to give the dock on the bottom ago on my Mac. Been a dock on the left guy for so long that it might not last long.
It seems operation fox keyboard has not worked. Time to start a fund to buy a replacement magic keyboard. Sigh.
Watching the Formula E. They are racing on a proper circuit, albeit a modified version, which has always been my issue with it. I’m not a fan of the street circuits they’ve alway raced on. Would be good to see them race on an F1 track.
iPad keyboard seems to be mostly recovered. The space bar could do with a bit more cleaning I think, but I might see if it eases up over time. If I can stand it being mushy for a bit.
All the effected keys are off and cleaned. Giving everything a once over again and then reassembly begins. Really hope it works.
Operation rescue iPad magic keyboard is underway.
I spilt iced tea on my iPad magic keyboard a couple of days ago and now I have a mushy space bar. Probably from the sugar. Hints on cleaning it? Can you take the key caps off?
Discovered today that the Kindle app on iOS gives you stats on your reading. Interesting to look back at my past habits and see the current streak.
My iPad is rapidly becoming my favourite computer. Used Keynote in anger today and actually enjoyed building a slide deck for the first time in my life. Excellent piece of software.
Something seems to have gone wrong today. I’ve had two meetings and they’ve both been fairly productive… If only everyday could be like this.
First haircut in 4 months. Feels great 😊
Sad to see that Prince Philip has died this morning and only 2 months short of his 100th birthday.
One thing that drives me mad with Obsidian is that it doesn’t always show the file name as a title and I can never find the setting to turn it on again. This morning it’s not doing it and for the life of me I can’t find the setting to turn it back on again…
It snowed. In April. This time last week it was 20 degrees and I was wearing shorts…
I keep getting lost reading Andy Matuschak’s notes particularly around his evergreen notes concept. Might need to dedicate a bit of time to understanding exactly how it works over the next week or so.
He is risen!
Realised I hadn’t bought any Easter eggs so went out to buy some. Nope. Everywhere is sold out, never seen that before.
My library has moved over to using Libby for lending of ebooks etc. It offers a download in ePub for use on eReaders like the Kobo, but not the Kindle. I’ve never considered looking into any other eReaders, might be time to explore. 📚
Considering going back to using Instapaper for my read later service instead of Reeders own version. The trouble is I’m trying to reduce the number of subscriptions I have, but the highlighting in Instapaper is really useful.
Trying out scribble on the iPad version of Things today during meetings. Seems like a good way of capturing tasks with the added bonus that it doesn’t look like I’m messaging on Teams!
Decided to try Obsidian again this week after reading about it over the weekend. Found a way to make it feel more like a Mac app which is helping and I’m starting to get my head around the differences.
Installed Ghost locally to have a play and see what the theme system is like. I’ve been thinking of moving from Wordpress for a while so this will be an interesting experiment.
Starting to feel a bit more human again. The side effects from the vaccine are mostly gone now although I still feel tired and lacking in energy.
Had a rough night thanks to vaccine side effects. All in the common or very common category, so nothing to worry about, just very unpleasant.
Trying out the new Ulysses and Micro Blog integration. Nice and simple, I should’ve expected it to be so. Looks like Wordpress blogs got a nice update as well, I’ll have a play with that tomorrow.
Vaccine time. Amazing how quickly this has come about.