Still my browser window minimalist background app of choice, Bonjourr has just had another upgrade.
It now has a Pomodoro timer.
What that?
The Pomodoro timer is our first new widget in quite a long time, we’re really excited about it! If you’ve never heard of the Pomodoro technique before, here’s the short version: it’s a time management method where you break your work into multiple intervals, for example: start working for 25 minutes, then take a 5-minute break, work again for 25 minutes until the timer rings, take a longer break and repeat.
This structured approach can help you stay motivated, avoid distractions and overall get more done in less time.
I decided to be sensible and not to. But then circumstances took over anyway. Because sadly, our son’s car was broken into while he was dodgeballing, and stuff – a lot of stuff – was stolen. Parked outside, in a private car park, under a very bright floodlight and behind security-manned barriers and with only one way onto (and off) the site, 50 whole metres of direct sight from the security booth. His was one of about ten cars that got done.
So those two security guys are at best, utterly useless, and at worst, actually just complicit. As a TikkiTokker would say: “Let me know what you think in the comments”.
As is the way with these things, we’re not sure exactly when it happened. But for police and insurance purposes, we’re saying about 8pm.
Reporting it all to the police took quite a while, and then there was the drive home, and so actually, I was still wandering about at half past midnight, and yes, I was absolutely right, my body did not appreciate the 6am wake up call in the morning.
Not one bit.
Yesterday was all about paperwork and glass vacuuming. But can I just shout out our insurance?
Because the working day begins at 8:30am.
The claim form arrived at 8:50am and we had Glassfit in touch with us before 9am*.
I submitted the claim form yesterday afternoon, the claim was settled by close of business yesterday and the money was paid into our account at 10:30am today. That’s only 38½ hours from the incident. And only 26 hours since we told them about the incident.
Bloody hell.
Here in SA, we – quite rightly – complain about the poor service we get (and there’s plenty of it to choose from), but it’s only right that we praise the good service as well. And this is more than good. It’s unbelievable. (But it is also true.)
So. Despite all the ads you see for that green and purple company, can I recommend that if you are looking for a decent insurer, then maybe you should give RBS a go? If you want, you can tell them that I sent you, but I doubt that it’ll make any difference either way.
Absolutely mindblowing stuff.
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*There’s no window glass in stock in Cape Town, so we have to wait until Friday or Monday before it can be fitted, depending on transport, but I don’t think that I can blame anyone in particular for that.
I’ve been using Bonjourr for almost a year and a half now, and it’s just lovely. I’d only been using it for a few weeks when I wrote a post about it and said this:
Sometime we can have nice things. And this is one of them.
And I was absolutely right. Well done, me.
Bonjourr is a really simple way to decorate your browser background – although the customisation options mean that it can be far more powerful if you want it to be – and while it might not seem like a very big thing, it’s just really cool to have images there instead of the same old block of colour. With the latest update – Bonjourr 21: the background update – they’ve added several new features, including the choice of using local files as your background, the option of having a video background to your new browser windows, and new texture overlays to make your screen look even cooler.
Let’s get this straight: this isn’t a massively important or necessary app but it’s free, it’s fun and it just makes things look nicer. And who doesn’t want something nicer on the screen in front of them?
I still haven’t really kicked off anything on Unsplash, as I had planned to do, but there’s some work that I am doing at the moment that might tie in nicely with that, so maybe you will be able to have a raft of my images decorating your desktop in the very near future. In the meantime, there’s plenty of other stuff on there for you to choose.
As browser add-ons go, this has to be right up there as one of the best. Again, not because it enhances the functionality of your software, but just because it’s so customisable and it looks so good.
The puzzle itself is like a three way Venn diagram, with three ellipses forming seven separate regions. Each ellipse has a clue, and there are seven different two-letter tiles to put into each ellipse to make a word relating to the clues on the ellipses.
Sounds complicated, but it’s not really. Here’s an example:
For this one, the answers are DE CI MA TE, HO MO CI DE & MO DE RA TE.
The DE tile is shared by all three words, so it goes in the middle. CI is in homoCIde and deCImate, so it goes bottom left. MO is shared by hoMOcide and MOderate, so bottom right, and DE goes top middle because it’s in DEcimate and moDErate. Fill in the gaps with MA on the left, RA on the right, and HO at the bottom and Robert is your Aunt’s hubby.
You’re a bright sort. You see how it works.
I’d love to show you the finished article, but the app is occasionally a bit buggy and wouldn’t let me take a screenshot.
But it is a lot of fun. Add this to some Geoguessr and a bit of Puzzgrid, and you are sorted for brainteasers for at least a while; maybe even some time.
Not a sponsored post. Just some information on a new find. New to me, at least. And that’s what counts on here.
Superb, delicious, free range and batch cooked “to perfection”, nogal. All the boxes ticked. These are the duck equivalent of Pork Scratchings.
Duck Scratchings, then. Perfect.
What, as they like to ask, is not to like? Well actually, the serving suggestions provided by the retailer might fall into that category:
Perfect with salads or as a topping on lasagne.
No. Don’t do this. Don’t trouble yourself with that level of detail. Simply scoff the (reduced because the use by date is approaching) packet on the way home from the supermarket. No green leaves or pasta sheets in sight. Much easier.
They also say:
Once opened, store in an airtight container.
Well, that’s pretty much my body, if you exclude the lungs and the other breathy bits.
And say what you will about the Chinese, with their authoritarian government, harsh restrictions on press freedoms, complete and absolute disregard for the environment, and horrific human rights record: that 5-Spice is an absolute banger. And there’s still so much more room for potential improvement by maybe adding a sixth or seventh spice. I’m shocked that it hasn’t happened already.
Folks, with just 25% of your daily cholesterol per packet and about the same for your sodium, there’s clearly no need to do more than simply devour 4 packets of these, each day. Sorted.
I bumped into my cardiologist at the shopping centre, and showed them to him, and he told me that they’re great for business, so it does really seem like everyone is happy.
