Four Recent Wins

A Friday Hodgepodge

1. About a year ago, I purchased a more capable laptop and wanted to be able to boot it into Linux or Windows.

That was easy enough to achieve, but the last time I set a computer up that way, I wasn't hip to the idea of whole disk encryption -- something a car break-in rectified for me some time after that.

Unfortunately, while one would expect to be able to have two operating systems on one computer and have hard drive encryption enabled for each, it is not exactly straightforward.

Until this week, that laptop was something of a security issue for me: Now, it isn't, thanks to Mike Kasberg's clear and well-documented procedure for setting up a dual-boot Windows/Ubuntu machine with disk encryption.

I finally got to perform that this week and it worked as promised for my newly-secure Windows 11/Ubuntu 22.04 dual-boot laptop.

I highly recommend this to anyone else with a similar need.

2. My practice of occasionally blogging my wins leads me to review my positive focus logs from time to time.

This is a good idea for reasons I explained at the link, but today, it also helped me remember to re-read a post about business I blogged recently.

3. Ditto for a bunch of things by and about Paul Graham. I found these when I was testing a new Boolean search feature I added to my repository of automatically-generated news links.

The same search program -- which I developed after I noticed that Google de-listed my blog -- also helped me pinpoint the post above concerning the time someone broke into my car's glove box.

Cliffs of Moher, as seen from O'Brien's Tower. (Image by the author. Copying permitted.)

4. Today, I finally got around to seeing whether I had indeed photographed a cave used in a scene from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, as I has been told at the moment.

This was during a road trip to the stunning Cliffs of Moher that we took while visiting Ireland a few weeks ago.

I have the wrong cave, as it turns out, but I still like the photograph, which is posted here.

-- CAV