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Been busy for a while.
Got 2 data breachers last Seotember 16.
Reported to Hong Kong police.
They say they will take no action.
(Bluff! The report have been filed & recorded w/ a case number.
2nd email requests for recording & further information. Ok)
But they asks me nonstop.
For further information.
Gather evidence & come up with a positive suspect I.D.
Case is closed.
Now I can blog it

Two hundred dollar cheapskate HP PC was on the Fritz. Windows 10. Luckily had time left on Walmart 2 year extended warrantee. Sent it in and hoping they can't effect repair so I'll get a check, like the one I got recently from homeowners' for a free new roof on the Aa Ponderosa mansion after tree paid us a close visit. May then buy new one. But this machine was hanging around---twins won it guessing jelly beans number in jar at orthodontist. So dad gets to use it for a while. Spoiled rug rats got brand new wicked costly Apple LP's. Had forgotten how nice Apple platforms are. But old dinosaurs die hard. Aa.

I recently closed my Plentyoffish account. I notice the other day when I was on that site; my computer warm me about potential virus on that site. Has this ever happen to any of you out there?

Spot is a robotic dog by Boston Dynamics and via their choreographer software they can get spot to dance.

Yesterday, my cellphone carrier pushed through another update, from OREO, Android 8 to their current version PIE, Android 9.

Maybe you're familiar with some of their previous versions... they all have to do with something sweet. Names like Donut, Eclair, Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich, Marsmallow.
Typically, when a new version is available, Google will release a BETA version that goes out to select groups for field testing. After the bugs are worked out (notice things with sugar often attract bugs) they release them to the carriers who decide what to remove or add to the 'Pure Google' version to the (slightly) altered version that's installed in your Android device.

It wasn't broke, so why are you fixing it? I asked that to a technician and his response was not all phones running Android react the same way. When a new release gets installed they are already working on 'patches' to fix problems not encountered in previous releases or to resolve issues with different models. One (major) flaw is that applications (APPS) must be updated so they can work with new operating systems.

This is the way things are. Implement a new O/S and spend months updating apps to correctly work under it.

Back to the update...
I first noticed the icons have changed appearance. The top row of clock, battery power, Bluetooth messages got moved around a little. Many of the screen backgrounds are (battery draining) white. When will they learn? I had to put the phone in night-mode to get a black background. Text message banner now uses 40% of the screen to tell me I have no new messages. Colored dots appear in front of all my contacts. I haven't checked to see if they actually have meaning or just random colors. I could do without the dots.

The biggest drawback for me is connecting everything to 'clouds' and social media. I don't want to share what's on my phone with the world. Every time I open a photo viewer I'm being asked to sync (synchronize) my photos somewhere else (group messaging and friends list, etc.) and tag locations with story lines. Thanks, but no and I'd like not to have to decline every time I open the app.

It would be nice to see a menu option 'don't bother me' as I don't want to update all my apps monthly because some new data sharing service becomes available.

Category is Technology but the new update is leaning to lifestyle.

More later...

But the word is finally in, at the "too much money and time on hands" Consumers' Delectronics "group f-ck convention" in LV Nevada. Thank the Goddess, we now have an AI frying pan.That's right peebles. It not only listens and speaks to us, but can guide our culinary skills based on what it hears about the recipe. Forget those earlier front door items that can smell us coming, and critically warm up the musical door knobs, or even the indispensable opera singing his and hers AI plastic back scratchers. No, my vapid CS consumers, this here is the real McCoy in human "must have" survival items. "Tell me, Jimbo, here are the ingredients for roasted garden earth worms---Your thoughts?" Who can really ever exist without these marvels of technology? At the Vierk Institute, the (only 1%) of sucker cash soaked TD-HD Syndrome patients who don't improve, get one of these pans to take home to the little family. And a firm handshake from the Vierk himself. Don't let the door hit on the way out, Friends. Such a deal.

Years (read: decades) ago my ex-wife and her sisters bought their favorite uncle an expensive TV only to find out he was color blind. I'm finding it hard to recall knowing someone else who was color blind back then. I've met/known blind people and deaf people, but color blind escapes me... until recent.

One of the new members of the flying club is officially color blind.

He's got special glasses that highlight certain colors that helps him see differences. It's helping differentiate some of the colors of the spectrum instead of everything being chromatic tones of grey.

I did a blog about people who are color blind and a brand of glasses that bring out colors to help those who are color blind.

Why blog about an old blog?
Yesterday, I was at the dentist getting 2 chipped teeth restored and I know they would be using ultraviolet light to cure the white composite filler. They gave me some dark lenses to wear during the procedure. While I had idle time, I was checking messages on my phone and the lenses were affecting the colors on my phone as I rotated the screen. Very colorful prismatic effects, black letters on a white screen and white letters on a black screen had some reddish and blue edges. That reminded me of the special glasses that allow color blind people to see colors.

I believe the boy in the story has partial colorblindness and the glasses gave him benefits to recognize certain colors.
Link to the story here:

Nuked by a software glitch. I queried what happened and got the below reply. It seems I am not the only one.
Stuff happens.

"Hi Ken -- Thanks for the message. Recently a small number of user accounts and their associated messages were accidentally deleted during a clean up of our database. We apologize deeply for the problem. It's great that you've created a new account and we hope you'll continue to participate in the CS community.

Sincerely,
CS Staff"

What's the best way to produce electricity at home , does anybody have a solar system for home ?