Month: August 2018
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Russian dialects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyakhta_Russian–Chinese_Pidgin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surzhyk
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my early Saturday evening: “Ticket to God”: A comic concert with Itay Dvori
https://www.jmberlin.de/en/comic-concert-ticket-to-god https://www.ItayDvori.com https://www.ItayDvori.com/en/news-list/2018/5/15/israel-and-its-comics https://www.ItayDvori.com/en/comic-concert
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my rather unnecessary new Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/JochenHayekPage/ In order to get my WordPress2Facebook bridge to function again, there is now a rather unnecessary new Facebook “Page”. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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cinnamon rolls in the office – a colleague’s birthday cookies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_roll
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Alexander Woollcott: “All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.”
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott
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Debian manual pages
https://www.debian.org/doc/ https://manpages.debian.org https://manpages.debian.org/contents-unstable.html
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about half of Google’s workers are contractors who don’t receive the same benefits as direct employees – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/inside-google-s-shadow-workforce
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upgrading my MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009) from El Capitan to High Sierra fails
https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/upgrading-from-el-capitan-to-high-sierra-wont-download/ Attempting “FREE UPGRADE” on OS X El Capitain leads to: We could not complete your purchase. This version of macOS 10.13.6 cannot be installed on this computer. Attempting to Download macOS Sierra leads to: We could not complete your purchase. This version of macOS 10.12.6 cannot be installed on this computer.