Sunday, April 29, 2018

Mutterings - Apr 29

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
  1. Kitchen :: Sink
  2. Luck :: Beginner's (Rabbit?)
  3. Ball :: Cock (sorry - but I'm sure mine is linked to sinks and plumbing!)
  4. Master :: Draughtsman (or in IT git master - version control..)
  5. Chocolate :: Bunny
  6. Avoid :: Skid
  7. Tired :: and emotional (George Brown I think?)
  8. Sleepy :: Dopey (we're considering meeting room names in the new work offices and there's 7 rooms so one submitted suggestion was..)
  9. Diet :: Calorie
  10. Top :: MOnitor system (top is a Linux command for displaying machine hogs)

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Mutterings - Apr 18

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
  1. Frustration :: Bang (the table)
  2. Mistaken :: Identity
  3. Twirl :: Give us a ...
  4. Constipation :: Bloat
  5. Purple :: Haze
  6. Phone :: Message
  7. Frizz :: Hair
  8. Sequel :: Suspense
  9. Ache :: Tooth (muttered with feeling)
  10. Fat :: Subcutaneous

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Mutterings - Apr 3

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
  1. Error :: Message
  2. Kitty :: Malone (web searches...)
  3. Delay :: Timing
  4. Scale :: Model
  5. Calculation :: Geometric
  6. System :: Failure
  7. Innovation :: Brilliant
  8. April :: Shower
  9. Comforter :: Spirit (Holy)
  10. Frustrating :: Lost

Monday, April 02, 2018

Glacial Firefox

Recently my firefox installation here on the desktop has started behaving very oddle. It's running very slowly and even going to one tab and then returning to the previous one at that point refreshing the webpage happens (apparently) very slowly - this occurs even for the 'blank' tab. I'm running the beta and am on 60.0b8. The menus are fine it's just displaying content. I've restarted several times and the beta has also upgraded - also involving a restart. This is with Ubuntu 17.10 and I see I'm not the only one with this problem seeing a discussion on the mozilla.support.firefox newsgroup - and in the other case the problem is with a Windows installation. It takes over 10 seconds to display the 'blank' page- weird, about to try a restart without addons. Even posting this blog firefox sits down for a rest every few words.
PostScript..I've restarted without addons which makes a little difference but still c 10 sec to display an already opened 'New Tab' tab.

Mutterings - Apr 2

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
  1. Food :: Hall
  2. Storm :: Warning
  3. Install :: Screen
  4. Report :: School
  5. Dream :: Wet
  6. Analysis :: Structural
  7. Redirect :: Browser
  8. 78 :: No idea (oh
  9. Weather :: Balloon
  10. Protect :: Trade