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Zoho Mail Bug - update is being downloaded but never downloads

If you’re still seeing this, delete the app from your computer and download it from https://www.zoho.com/mail/desktop/

There is a bug in version 1.5.6 which will never update and the download will give you version 1.5.7.

Source: last comment, no permalink: https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community/topic/recent-update-not-working

How do you get information into a country that’s banned free press?

Embed a secret room inside Counter-Strike of course.

Secret room inside popular game contains independent journalism forbidden in Russia - Ulkomaat | HS.fi

After spending an hour planning and stressing and searching for accommodations for a trip I had a realization.

Why am I making this harder than it should be?

So I booked a cabin. On a lake. With a hot tub. Two and a half hours drive from home.

Hot tub and relaxation. 🥂

My wife found a spice in our pantry that said “best before 2020” and I said.. weren’t we all spice? Weren’t we all?

On the job hunt again. My time where I am is coming to an end.

My qualifications are: I managed Webex and Zoom through a global pandemic.

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My wife is a constant inspiration and reminds me there are no rules. If you wake up one day and say I WANT A PINK DOOR, then it can be pink. Want a matching window? Make it so.

Does anyone remember the TV ads from the 90s that said “Unemployed? Underemployed? Looking to turn your career around?”

I’m trying to find one to see if my memory holds up. There was black background and white text listing the exciting jobs like tv/vault repair.

My biggest strength at work is synthesizing and summarizing information. It’s what my team appreciates and where I excel.

Midday walks are my sanity.

🍿 Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)

Memory: The Origins of Alien poster

Really enjoyed this documentary. The influence of H.R. Giger was unmistakable. But the Francis Bacon connection I was unaware of.

Antique Malls are spectacular places for the collected weirdness of the past.

Facebook Class Action Lawsuit. facebookuserprivacysettlement.com

I don’t know who made it a rule that any class action lawsuit website looks like a Geocities page. But here we are.

📺 Shrinking (2023) - ★★★★★

Shrinking poster

Watched it this weekend. Absolutely loved it. It felt so real and relatable. One of the few comedies that felt funny and not juvenile.

Watched it with my therapist wife who e noted it in a whole different level.

Adventures in lamp repair

My wife found a beautiful vintage lamp that looks like a glass flower but the lamp parts didn’t work.

Replace the socket, wire and went to put it back together only to find we needed a different socket.

So we have a working lamp. But it’s no longer beautiful.

Tomorrow we get parts and have both a working lamp and a beauty.

Spotify updated last night. I was hoping it would remove the auto-playing music tik-tok-style scroll main page it went to in the last update.

It did not. And it still auto-plays when you open the app.

It’s like Netflix, playing audio as you scroll through your available choices. It’s terrible. :(

Tennessee is over here sending emails about beautiful cabin rentals.

But I’m sorry, your state is off limits for my vacation dollars. I can’t vote on your elections but I can sure choose to spend my money in states that support rights for all.

📺 Daisy Jones & the Six (2023) - ★★★★★

Daisy Jones & the Six poster

Just finished the series in Amazon Prime. My wife enjoyed the book so we watched the series together and it was superb.

It follows a huge rock band in the ‘70s and their trials and tribulations. It’s so well done and left us both in tears at the end.

“Let the collector’s motto be, ‘Trust nothing to the memory;’ for the memory becomes a fickle guardian when one interesting object is succeeded by another still more interesting.” –Charles Darwin

From How Darwin started keeping a journal - Austin Kleon

Tiktok Hearings (in two sentences): American companies can spy on you and sell your data. But not a Chinese company.

HELLO! I am looking for hot single woodpeckers! 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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It’s really hard listening to the US Government, responsible for getting compromised during the OPM Hack in 2015 to the Chinese. To then turn around and talk about banning TikTok when Meta/Facebook collected all our data, performed experiments on us, and so many more reasons.

New glasses have arrived. My first with progressive lenses. It takes some getting used to. Wheeeeeee!

Meet Paul by Becca Lane

Paul by Becca Lane is the fanciest pigeon in all the land and I am madly in love.

Coo.

NHL Big City Classic broadcasts ice hockey as cartoon

The Washington Capitals are playing the NY Rangers tonight and I’m watching the game broadcast live as a cartoon.

This article shows how it was done and how it looked.

The NHL’s Big City Greens Classic, a live 3D animated game, explained

They’re showing the game live with some of the players replaced with cartoon characters. The referee is a chicken. But they’re also taking time to explain rules and how parts of ice hockey work.

I don’t have kids but I’m completely enchanted with how much fun it is to watch hockey this way.