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I have had the Keychron K3 for a month or so now and my thoughts on this device are still somewhat mixed.

Katie Kookaburra Katie is a long distance specialist who loves to climb hills.

Ukmac.net has moved to Hugo CMS I am currently doing a bit of tidying of old posts (fixing dates and youtube embeds) but hopefully this new iteration of my blog will be stable in the next day or so.

Over the Christmas break I have been testing out a few different Linux Distros on a Microsoft Surface Go Laptop.

Badminton at Oakengates Leisure Centre with the kids this morning then a trip over to eldest’s new house to help with sorting the garden which was a tad overgrown.

More Obsidian testing Today I came across this article on MacStories in which Federico Vittici describes how he uses Working Copy and GitHub to manage his writing with iA Writer and Pretext.

GitHub - dwarvesf/blurred: A macOS utility that helps reduce distraction by dimming your inactive noise There are a number of apps in the store that will blur the background windows that aren’t in focus as Blurred does.

St Albans I am staying at the Jury’s Inn in Watford and just back from evening meal in the bar that was pretty rubbish.

New Komoot Route This morning I did a 60K route planned on Komoot see this link for the full route.

So this post was written in Obsidian on my iPad and synced to GitHub Pages by Working Copy.

Yesterday was fine and sunny but a little windy, today looks like being a little calmer.

One of the things I lost the ability to do as I got older is concentrating/working while listening to certain types of music.

Living in England you learn to take advantage of the good weather when it presents itself.

Like everyone I am spending a lot of time in here these days so it makes sense to get it how I want it.

So you make the decision to abandon Whatsapp and want to move to Signal, but how do you convince family and friends (who perhaps aren’t as concerned about Facebooks control of the Internet as you) to move with you ?

I’ve been debating dropping Whatsapp and this announcement is definitely pushing me to make the move !

Mac menu bar utiities are great for quick access to apps that perform simple tasks and that don’t need to sit in the dock or occupy space on your desktop however they do tend to proliferate and before you know it the list of little icons at the top right…

A belated Happy Christmas greeting to anyone unfortunate enough to be reading this blog, hope yours went as well as could be given the world in which we find ourselves.

I have seen this guys Strava rides online before and am amazed at how he manages to “paint” pictures by cycling routes on Strava.

Visual Studio Code is now my preferred text editor for updating this Jekyll blog.

Email Pains Today has been a painful day trying to resolve an issue with Mail rules in Exchange Online.

MacBook Air Update Loving the new MacBook.

This would look really nice alongside all my old Macs…

OMG !

I haven’t had a MacBook now for the last couple of years (after I selflessly handed my 13" MacBook Pro onto my eldest daughter…).

I converted to the new Microsoft Edge browser what seems like an age ago now and one of the things I was eager to see rolled out was the history and open tabs sync between devices (which you can of course already do with Firefox… ).

Earlier in the year long before lockdown (that seems such a long time ago now) one of my co-workers at The Camphill Village Trust asked if I would be interested in doing a sponsored bike ride for the charities 65th anniversary which is this year.

Printers !

Probably doomed to failure before I start but I am going to try and start a daily blog post again ( I know seen it before !

So last nights announcement by Boris of Thursdays national lockdown has probably scuppered our chance of re-scheduling the sponsored bike ride for next weekend.

This weekend I was supposed to be taking part in a 65 mile sponsored bike ride from Stourbridge to Lydney in Gloucestershire as part of the 65th anniversary celebrations for The Camphill Village Trust, the charity that I work for.

This actually looks pretty nice.

Today I took a break from Zwift and headed out early to do a ride round the lanes near to home.

Over the last few weeks I have been working my way through the Zwift Achievements and so far have managed to complete 61% of the routes ( 46 out of 76 ), obviously not all in the last few weeks….

One more Zwift route complete tonight, this time the New York route Knickerbocker At just over 22km its not a hard ride but it does include the fairly painful New York KOM that tops out at 17% right in the middle of it, so there is that !

Yesterday was a big day on Zwift for me.

As is often the case when learning something new I have run into a problem and the fix for it is alluding me at the moment.

Now I have got a barebones Jekyll site running, DNS sorted and old Wordpress posts migrated its time to do a bit of personalisation.

UKMac.net is now live on Github Pages !

Fab spoof from Apple on the whole “working at home” thing… Must see.

After many years of on and off dabbling with Wordpress blogs I have decided to make the move to Jekyll and Github Pages for hosting.

Customise the Office 365 encryption Message This is a useful guide on branding the messages sent out by Office Message Encryption (OME).

What’s New in Microsoft Teams- Ignite 2019 This is a LONG list of new and improved features for Microsoft Teams.

Ryan Block on AirPods Pro vs.

Apple has pulled the latest HomePod update and is warning users not to reset their speaker, lest they render it inoperable. www.macworld.com/article/3449239/apple-warns-homepod-users-of-potentially-fatal-ios-13-2-flaw.html Found this after an hour of tryi…

So I just came across another one of Microsofts seemingly arbitrary limitations in using policies to manage Windows 10.

The latest Edge Insider release includes a new feature for users to configure the default new tab to include the Recommended and Recent sections from the default Office.com landing page.

I have recently started setting up Room Resources in our Office 365 tenant and quickly discovered that that rooms are only available Monday to Friday 08:00 to 17:00 by default.

Just found this article on the Lazy Administrator that describes how to enforce a Windows lock screen wallpaper on Windows 10 for all editions ( not just Enterprise and Education which is all Microsoft allow you to do with Intune out of the box !