Week 48, 2023
✱ This wick we watched John Week. Wait (lousy pun intended— 🤡). This week we watched John Wick, as my wife and kids wanted to remember the storyline of the three first movies before watching the more recent fourth installment of the franchise. There's nothing I need to say about John Wick, except maybe that I love the series and never get tired of watching it. The only mistake I've made right after watching it was to carry on and watch Knock Knock — hopefully by myself, thus not exposing my kin to all the embarrassment — motivated by Keanu being on it and me liking suspense movies. But that movie is not only horrible, it's unbearable. Completely unbearable, from minute one to the end — so much so that it really surprised me that Keanu Reeves even accepted taking part in the movie. Don't waste your time with it. Keep following, instead, the John Wick path.
✱ This week I was able to take a short, self-training in business case creation. I'll be needing some particular skills soon enough and being able to create good business cases — and business plans — is included in the pack. Now, I have some (limited) experience with the matter but it's just wonderful that our mind can open so well to new takes on subjects that you're already acquainted with. This (online) short course had an instructor who put the ideas and concepts so simply that, despite most of the things weren't exactly new to me, I had two or three insights because of that single approach adopted. I was really satisfied.
✱ Upgrading to iOS 17 this week brought me unexpected – and so very unwelcome — news. The video scrubbing feature, that is, being able to hold and slide anywhere on the screen to move a few seconds to minutes forward and backward, was removed with the update. Now it is only possible to achieve the same result by tapping on the screen, and dragging a finger through the playback bar. I consider that's a counterintuitive downgrade. And judging by this Apple forum thread, lots of unhappy iOS users agree with me. On Reddit, the comment is that this feature seems to have been abolished from the newest iOS version “so it doesn't clash with the other actions that can now be performed on videos, like lifting subjects and visual look up”. I honestly hope Apple rolls back this change — or that it at least turns it into a switchable option, so that whomever didn't like the news can go back to the previous state without having to fall back on downgrading software.
✱ Definitely I've had better weeks. Some months ago I created an account with Bunny CDN. When I did that my idea was to host my omg.lol blog images with them, as Adam had not yet created a means to do it in the service itself. Now that's taken care of, but since then I stopped blogging there and got back to Wordpress. Months passed, until on Friday I received an email from the service telling me I had a negative balance. I. Completely. Forgot. About. That. I have now closed my account because at least for the time being using it doesn't make sense to me. But I had to spend $10 to make things right — and, unfortunately, to my own disgrace, they're not refundable... 🤦♂️ 😩
✱ On the bright side, December started last Friday. This means I'm officially 3 weeks from the company's end-of-year break, which is straightly connected to my vacations in January. Time to put an extra effort into things so everything that needs to be delivered this year is, and to make arrangements for the things that need to continue in 2024.