The Everyday Notes

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Sunday Lazy Post

In true Sunday fashion, today has been pretty lazy. It started off with a short ride at around 7AM. I looked out the window, dry and overcast. Checking the temperature - good at 14c and very little wind. Ideal. Two minutes in to the ride and the clouds proceed to

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Moving Mail

A few weeks ago I started moving my email away from Outlook. A lot of this is now being done by using randomly generated addresses to a custom domain which are then forwarding to a new mailbox away from the usual services. Progress has been slow but it's

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A Long Week

Thank fuck it's Friday, that's pretty much all I can say about this week. If someone could be awkward, they were. People falling for phishing attacks felt higher than normal this week too. I can't wait until we finish getting all of our users

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OTE Sports - Starter Pack

Just another quickie post today. My starter multipack from OTE Sports finally turned up today. It was originally ordered back on the 30th May with free delivery selected of 2-4 working days. On the 6th I got an email saying there had been issues with their carrier and there was

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Day 46 - #100DaysToOffload

Today has been an entire day of meetings from start to finish. Earlier I'd had a few ideas about what to write but my brain is utterly fried. I think meetings should be banned as most of the time they serve no purpose at all. There was some

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Little Green Peas

Thought I'd just do a little post about about how our peas are coming along. I think they're looking pretty good!

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Testing Installomator with Jamf

On 2020/02/06, there was a great post on ScriptingOSX on using Installomator with Jamf Pro. Today, I finally got around to it on my Todo list. Jamf Pro has quite an extensive list of software titles within its Patch Managment feature, but it is very much something I

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Day 43 - #100DaysToOffload

I'm in full Sunday mood today. I can't be bothered to do anything at all. Today is very much a sofa Sunday with Netflix and looking forward to Sunday dinner.

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FOSS in Destiny

I've written about Destiny breifly before on this blog but today I'm going to touch on some of the positive things the community does for the game. Managing your inventory within Destiny can leave a lot to be desired. While it looks good on the screen,

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Spotify Phishing

I occasionally like to check on the spam/phishing emails I receive. It's fun to see how terrible some of them truly are but then sometimes there are some that have put in a little effort. A Spotify one I received the other night was actually pretty good.

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Midnight Marathon

Just a quick one today to keep the chain going! Last night my partner came across the Midnight Sun Marathon in Norway Marathon - 2021 - Midnight Sun MarathonWelcome to the 31st edition of the Midnight Sun Marathon 19th June 2021. We hope you will join us for this unique

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Star Citizen - The Years Fly By

I don't think there are many gamers out there now that haven't heard of Star Citizen. The crowd funded sci-fi space sim of our dreams. I was so incredibly excited at the time that I decided to back it. To date, Cloud Imperium Games has raised

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Today I Learnt - Bluetooth Naming Origins

For some reason, I have been blissfully unaware of the origin of the name of the Bluetooth technology. Bluetooth's name took inspiration from King Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson. The implication was that Bluetooth was to unite communication similar to how King Harald united the clans of Denmark.

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Day 37 - #100DaysToOffload

Being just a little over a third of the way through the #100DaysToOffload challenge set forth by Kev back in April I'm starting to run out of steam a little. I've got a few longer articles on the back burner that I want to spend some

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This Mornings Walk

We got out nice and early while the temperature was still low this morning and went for a nice walk through the local trails. I was attempting to record it with MapMyWalk as there are a few parts of the trails that aren't well used. The plan was

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Exchange Online Remote PowerShell & MFA

Whether we like it or not, email is still the primary form of communication for most businesses outside of the tech industry. It's the simplest option with everyone being able to send one. Things are slowly starting to change to things like Teams/Slack and others, especially with

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Day 35 - #100DaysToOffload

I don't particularly have anything of interest to talk about with the time I have available to me this evening. I've got a few longer pieces that I'm putting together but I don't want to rush them and they will be ready

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A Very Full Day

I wasn't quite sure what to put in this post. I had an idea earlier but don't have time to write it up tonight, so I'm going to go for a bit of a "what a day" mash up post. Work day

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Work Brain - Engage!

After taking a week off, getting surprised by a bank holiday Monday and then getting an extra closure day for Tuesday, I finally returned back to work today. As you're aware, you somehow always seem to return to 10x more work than would be there if you didn&

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Removing Negativity from Your World

With the way things are right now, this is an incredibly difficult task to achieve, but it doesn't all have to be done in one go. Just the process of removing negative things from your life can feel incredibly rewarding. We do many things in life that we

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Windows Terminal - Deeper Dive

Pre-amble I previously posted about my First Look at the Windows Terminal and it has been the most viewed post on my blog so far. Little did I realise that I made that post on the day that Microsoft would announce the availability of version 1.0 just hours later.

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Planning for the Home Assistant

Earlier today, I had no idea what I was going to write about for day 30 (seriously, I've made it to day 30 of #100DaysToOffload!). But news and discussions have been coming at me from all angles about hass.io for months now and I thought it was

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Following a F***book Group - Without an Account

I got rid of my FB account many years ago and if you haven't, you should seriously consider it. Unfortunately, so many people still use it, including things like local running clubs. Now, this poses a problem for me as this is where all the races get posted.

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Quick Look - Matrix

I've not really done much with Matrix but it's something I have been meaning to learn about and possibly start using a little more. The main reason I started paying a attention was when Mozilla finally shut down their IRC server and migrated over to Matrix.

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Android - Customising the Quick Settings Menu

Despite using Android since around the "Donut" era, there are still things now in the latest versions that I have yet to experiment with more. I'm ashamed to say, the Quick Settings Menu has always been one of them. The usual shortcuts there have always been