Month: September 2016

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Updating to iPhone 7 Plus

It’s about time … well, almost, my carrier doesn’t have any stock at the moment but that doesn’t stop us from ordering the phone all the same; but, that’s not what I wrote to tell you about.

Loyalty.

Whenever you are updating any service, always remember that almost all of the “big” carriers/providers have a “loyalty” department. Even if you haven’t been a long time customer, give them a call and ask for a better deal. It might not be much but like the old adage says, “if you don’t ask, you won’t get”.

Thanks to the loyalty agent that worked with us yesterday; and, Telus, don’t forget to thank these people, too. They do a great job and work hard to retain your existing customers!

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Saturday Night in Dundas 

The music is loud but good all the same. It seems the band caters to the local university crowd even if they’re playing sets more suitable to my age group. Although the current set sounds just as good as the earlier sets I don’t think I know the actual songs themselves. 

We call this Saturday night at the Winchester Arms. Pizza; Stella; good music … not much more to ask for. 

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The Deep End

The deep end is cold and wet and one needs to learn how to swim quickly or you might drown; just remember to take a friend with you so a lifeline is always in reach.

How’s that for random?!

Perhaps a bit of backstory is needed … we, Terri and I, decided we would give Monday night mixed darts a try. I played in the Legion Branch 36 men’s league last year and I’m playing again this year. We also played mixed summer darts at the legion as well. It was during these Thursday summer nights we were won over to play in the “Valley Town Mixed Dart League”.

I was asked if I would be interested in co-captaining the team and thought it would be an interesting thing to do as well (I have my sights on captaining one of the men’s league teams down the road). Little did I know I would be responsible for the majority of the “paperwork” for the team.

It’s challenging as well as enjoyable. I enjoy playing darts, adding the responsibility of keeping a team organized is just enhancing that experience. I’d like to thank my new found team (The New Crew … maybe “No Charge” … a see a team meeting may be in order) for their patience and their assistance with finding the right tools and organizational ideas making the deep end not so deep anymore.

The next challenge … 180!!!

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Silenced

My days are busy, full, something they even feel never-ending but for the most part I still try to keep abreast of what’s happening in the WordPress community even if it’s just at a very high overview most days.

Catching up in my twitter feed I find the WordPress theme review team (which I have stepped back from active involvement due to time constraints, as noted above … as well as other items to discuss a different day) has again fallen onto the guidelines to disrupt a large user base with the suspension of a very popular theme. I find this to be very concerning not only for those users but for the community on a whole.

Although the author of the theme did open themselves to scrutiny by submitting new versions while certain theme review guidelines had not been addressed I support their decision to accept suspension of their theme rather than break what appears to be 300,000+ installations of it.

I hope that their decision does not further affect those directly affected by the theme’s suspension such as the team supporting the theme (as well as many others by the author) going forward.

After many years as a theme review team admin (actually, the very first volunteer admin) it would be a shame that not having time to review themes (which excludes me from admin and key reviewer only discussions) also silenced my devil’s advocate voice as well.

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The Color of foo?!

Did you know …

… if you change the common programming example value foo to something that more closely resembles a CSS, or hex, color value, you get #f00 or red.

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Karma’s a …

… well, most people know how that epithet ends with a NSFW word. If you don’t know how it ends, don’t worry about it and enjoy your day.

Let’s think about this phrase a moment and how people think karma works. Good karma comes to good people, bad karma comes to bad people; it’s a fairly simple ideal. Now, let’s expand on those basics a bit.

One should not be wishing bad karma on people because, well, that’s actually a bad thing and thus making you a target for bad karma, too. It’s much like pointing a finger at someone; you’re most likely pointing three fingers back at yourself.

Go ahead, try pointing a finger at the screen and take a look at the other fingers on that hand; where are they pointing to?

Telling people that “karma’s a biatch” (a little poetic license for effect; safer for work but you might have your kids asking questions) is fine; but, more often than not, when one person says it to another they’re usually just wishing bad karma on them.

Just another thing to consider when making wishes, although not intended for yourself they may be granted on you all the same.