A weird week for my laptop

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One of those weeks when your computer goes funny with more and more programs having data errors. My 2019 MBPro had the logic board (and SSD) replaced a year ago (coffee spill, ugh), and a few months ago the drive started giving an occasional error about data mismatches on the drive. This week a few things stopped working - nfs wouldn't work for ddev, email stopped loading, and some others, so I made sure the backups were current and then reinstalled everything last night. Ten hours later it's up and running again, so far so good.

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The end of an era, the start of a new one

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Wednesday, May 1st, 2024, was my last day at Mediacurrent.

I started in May 2012 after being hired by the company's founders, Dave Terry and Paul Chason, who took in a wide-eyed Drupal geek who wanted to show people how to contribute to the community in a positive way, and fix all the bugs in contributed modules.

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The most wonderful time of the year

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It's the most wonderful time of the year when kids world-over discover the wonders and joy .. of taxonomic classification and data science.. as they sort through their Treat 'r Trick hauls and work out the best way of categorizing their loot. Some, unhappy that they cannot identify a single category for Snickers bars as it contains chocolate, caramel and peanuts, may ultimately dismiss it as a fools errand and dump their entire horde into a single bowl, eschewing traditions of yore.

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Friday. I go to make lunch for myself.

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Realize I can't use the oven to heat my food as there's a chili cooking in it at low temperature. Figure I could make myself an omelette. Frying pan needs to be washed. Turn to the sink - it's full of dishes. Ask our eldest if he can load the dishwasher (it's his chore and he should have done it earlier in the day), am informed that the dishwasher isn't cleaning properly, though nobody told me. Look for the dishwasher manual to check its maintenance instructions. The manual is more of a pamphlet and says (paraphrase) "if these instructions don't work check the full user instructions".

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Review of Photobox.ie

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I recently needed to order some printed mugs for a family member in Ireland. Shipping costs from the US were astronomical, so I ended up scouring the net for a place in Ireland that would do what I needed.

Most of the services that advertised as being in Ireland did not work out. While all of the services gave me ways of building the design I wanted, I ultimately needed to customize the photo in a photo editor on my computer and repeatedly upload versions until the print was going to match what I wanted.

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