My Week Ending 2022-06-12

Here’s a summary of some of the things I learned and published this week.

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Readings 

You can follow my daily readings as they happen here.  Below are a selected few, with commentary, from the past week. They’re posted to the blog daily under the title OTR Links.

Sunday

• The Queen and Paddington Bear – what’s not to like
• I know that Google Fanboys think the company can do no wrong – here are 10 times when they flopped. Their biggest strength is that they keep on trying to innovate

Monday

• It’s been exactly one year since the horrible event in London Ontario taking the lives of a Muslim family.
• One of my favourite daily reads is the Leadership Freak and this article about courage really spoke to me

Tuesday

• Everything is bigger and more expensive in Saudi Arabia including the purse for a golf tournament
• Some tips for cleaning your laptop computer. They will last exactly until you want to use it again

Wednesday

• A quickie time waster – someone’s collection of the worse images from Google Streetview – I’d seen some of them before
• Horrible news about a school threat with the Lambton-Kent District School Board and how they handled the day

Thursday

• When the renewal price of the driver’s licence in Ontario was dropped, that was the big story but the rest of the story is that you still have to renew
• This isn’t good news if you’re a user of Microsoft Word – be careful of that document that was sent to you

Friday

• If 3.14 was good enough for you for the value of Pi, you’re not going to like to have to memorize this
• This temporary tax cut can’t come too quickly for most Ontarians. I know that I’ve made some stay at home decisions rather than fill up on gas

Saturday

• When a computer is listed at $1.850 off, you have to ask how much markup and profit is there in the product to begin with
• If you believe that pictures speak a thousand words, you’ll love this post. I did

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Blog Posts on
doug — off the record

My daily contributions to this blog are linked below. If you’re looking for a week in review for doug–off the record, you came to the right place.

• Sunday – My Week Ending June 5, 2022
• Monday – Influential computers
• Tuesday – A chance to move
• Wednesday – Apple’s WWDC
• Thursday – Yet another Peace playlist
• Friday – This Week in Ontario Edublogs
• Saturday – Common sense comes to the computer industry
• Sunday – Whatever happened to … ?

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#FollowFriday – June 10, 2022

Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash

https://wke.lt/w/s/1YOOZY

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voicEd Radio

This Week in Ontario Edublogs is a blog post/show/podcast that features great writing from Ontario Edubloggers. Stephen Hurley and I use their writing as the basis for a conversation.

Featured Bloggers:

• Sue Bruyns – @sbruyns
• Lisa Corbett – @LisaCorbett0261
• Jennifer Aston – @mmejaston
• Melissa Turnbull – @missmturnbull
• Marc Hodginson – @Mr_H_Teacher
• Matthew Morris – @callmemrmorris
• Melanie White – @WhiteRoomRadio

This week’s show:

Opening Song:

Closing Song:

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Technology Troubleshooting

This blog post needed to be trouble shot today. Of all days, today, I plan to go to Dresden to the harness races. I need to be on the road by 10.

I started writing it in Microsoft Edge and it locked up.

I restarted writing in Firefox and tried to save a draft because I could go to the rec room and watch the Formula 1 race from Azerbaijan on the big television. For some reason, it wouldn’t save.

In both cases, the Wednesday TWIOE show would not imbed. I was just going to use a link instead.

So, third time’s a charm. I’m writing in my recliner chair with my Chromebook. This is the third start I’ve made today. So far, so good.

If this goes live at 5pm, you’ll know I was successful.

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Look what I made

With all the Wordle craze, I of course blogged about it earlier but also created a Wakelet of all the Wordle clones I could find. Once created, I’ve been adding to it daily, it seems. I guess it’s presumptuous to think I could do it all in one session. It certainly has taken the online world by storm.

My collection is available here: https://wke.lt/w/s/BuvP40

Update – June 11: Up to 65 entries.

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Video of the Week

If the writers of Law and Order are looking for script ideas…

Photo of the Week

This is actually a Facebook memory from six years ago. It was a hot day so we had the air conditioning on. Jaimie approves.

Thanks for reading.

Please join me daily for something new and, hopefully, interesting for you. I honestly and truthfully appreciate your few moments reading my thoughts. Time willing, this summary appears every Sunday afternoon.

Be safe.

dp

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https://dougpete.wordpress.com/