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Enom has been down for almost 2 days. I thought it might be handy to compile a list of domains known to be affected by the issue. Please let me know if you want yours added to the list… UPDATE: DNS settings appear to be restored and propagating around the various DNS servers. Still can’t access the Enom console though. alterrenovation.com andymassey.com angelakulig.com apsynergy.com argentuniverse.com camvision.fr capitalsigma.biz cetbcn.com christianlady.com christianman.com clarkschool.com cleanpaca.com coastertouring.com contractsolutions-i.com covid19testezvous.com dancingleaftea.com dellasposa.com doctorqueens.com ecorenove76.com elianeadoul.com elitehostingeurope.com frayedpassport.com friday.tv giventorock.com goldentee.tv goodwordsagency.com idealvisaconsultancy.com ilj.com ilovejesus.com imexgf.com ingridoliver.com jfgonzalezavocat.com jingshengwood.com jurislib.com justiscall.co.uk justiscall.com justislib.com kamienskie.info lamberthome.net liftexperiencefrance.com logansinthecarolinas.com lovemomiji.com lusomerap.com mkuhlmann.com mysocksbrand.com newmyroyals.com newspaca.com oddprints.com oicu812.com productreviewmom.com provencegourmande.com ptech.net qeye-labs.com relaine.com revitalisebody.com ridgeperio.com righttackle.com rmeqsales.com saturday.tv savetaxmoney.org scenicinvestment.com schlechter.net signal-fire.com speciesrace.com themoviewaffler.com tidetalk.com toyboxphilosopher.com tuitnutrition.com twealthmanagement.com ufosightingsdaily.com vegasdragon8.com whatacool.com zipermask.com

At the end of Encanto, I spotted one of the butterfly bricks was placed upside-down No idea if it means anything, and in a later frame it’s the right way up again. Does anyone know why? Yeah, this is a random and boring post. The real reason is I’ve just migrated the whole site from wordpress to hugo and I wanted to add a post to test it out…

I’m working through a course on Udemy on my macbook with bluetooth headphones. I’ve no idea why but the audio no longer works. Youtube audio is fine, previous lessons no longer have audio either, restarting browser has no effect. Disconnecting headphones makes no difference. Downloading lecture works, but is hassle. Solution: In bottom-right, click the cog and change the quality from auto to a fixed quality (eg 1080p). This solved it for me. I don’t know who’s bug it is and I don’t care. I hope this helps someone else 🙂

Stoke Gifford Parish Council voted last night in favour of charging parkrun for use of the local park for members of the public to use for free. The PM has applauded the decision saying that it signifies just the start of some great savings that can be made by government. In a statement last night he said: Councils across the country have huge bills for supplying services available for free universally to taxpayers. It is only fair and right that people shouldn’t have to pay for the bits they don’t use. Should blind people have to pay for cleaning graffiti? Should illiterate people have to pay for libraries? There are lots of very sick people in hospitals and that costs lots of money, why should healthy people foot the bill? ...

Yes, I’m blogging about a baby monitor. It’s great, has a massive screen, remotely physically controllable camera, thermometer, streams to my phone when I’m at work, but still works in the house if wifi breaks etc. However… Tonight we looked at the screen and thought, gosh, she’s really moving about a lot but not making a peep of sound. We muted the telly so we could hear if she was still breathing. That’s when we heard her distant crying coming through the ceiling. Poor little bugger was crying her heart out while we were downstairs calmly drinking tea. Seriously Motorola, what’s up with that? The volume on the parent unit was on maximum. Turning it off and on again solved the problem but I can no longer trust the device. Grr, I like all the features on it, but if there’s one job it must never fail to do… Grrr etc. ...

You won’t believe this hack! I recently got a cheque for over £1200 from HMRC for “overpaid corporation tax”. Wahoo! Free money! Unfortunately, as much as I just wanted to cash the cheque and forget about it, I knew there was something wrong. After a bit of rummaging through my records I realised that the amount overpaid was exactly the same as the amount I’ve just paid to HMRC for my latest PAYE bill. I keep detailed records of everything I do so I noticed that I had decided to make that PAYE payment by direct bank transfer this month using Lloyds online banking. If you make a direct transfer to HMRC, it is important you set the transaction reference correctly so that they know what the money is for (PAYE, Corporation Tax etc.). My notes said I used the correct reference so I checked my bank statement and there was the mistake. It had gone to my Corporation Tax account reference. I took another look at the Lloyds website for transferring money and clicked the help tooltip for the reference field: ...

Made a bunch of .movs using quicktime’s screen recording but they’re a bit big? ffmpeg’s default settings when converting to mp4 is a quick win for i in *.mov; do ffmpeg -i $i $i.mp4; done Name them alphabetically and you can merge them all together: ffmpeg -f concat -i <(printf "file '$PWD/%s'\n" ./*.mp4) -c copy merged.mp4

So you want to print something (like a banner) but the printers have asked for it to be int the CMYK colorspace? Well we could argue about how to spell colour or whether CMYK is a colorspace at all. But I can’t be bothered, let’s just cut and paste this command which is what I came up with after a morning of hacking… convert -resize 9520 -density 300 rgb_input.pdf +profile icm -profile sRGB_IEC61966-2-1_black_scaled.icc -profile SWOP2006_Coated3v2.icc -quality 85 cmyk_output.jpeg Importantly, rgb_input.pdf was exported with scribus using the output mode for screen. ...

UPDATE/Short answer: Use the USB extension lead that came with the keyboard! It has better contacts. Does anyone else ever have problems with this combination? They keyboard just goes dead. I use the monitor’s USB hub to connect my keyboard and mouse. I then connect the hub to either my macbook or my linux pc and toggle the video inputs. Sometimes the keyboard just dies. When it’s in the broken state the following things are true: ...

My activities hadn’t been syncing to Dropbox for a while (since mid-November 2014). This activity was not synchronized to the following services: Dropbox: There was a problem indexing your activities on Dropbox, so no activities will be uploaded to Dropbox. Everything else was syncing fine (Strava, Endomondo, Garmin). A quick email to the author and everything is solved: If you look in your Dropbox folder there should be a number of files with .tcx.summary-data extensions. Move those out of the folder and it should start working again – this is a rather ancient artefact of a mistake I made in Dropbox sync back in 2013, surprised it kept working as long as it did. ...