hertha

Year: 2023

  • Firmware Updates

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    Firmware Updates

    My “app” notified me that there was a firmware update for my bird feeder. So I dutifully downloaded and then installed it. The feeder has a camera and motion detector in it, controlled in part by firmware. The firmware also enables my feeder to connect through my home WiFi through the internet to the manufacture’s…

  • Mushroom Soup Diary

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    Mushroom Soup Diary

    Many years ago, 44 maybe, I thought it would be a good idea to start a diary. I don’t recall why I thought it would be a good idea. My first entry was a recipe for cream of mushroom soup. It was also my last entry. Since then, I have blogged. Recently I have been…

  • Chinese Dirigibles

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    Chinese Dirigibles

    The appearance of a so-called Chinese Spy “Balloon” has created quite a stir. Answers seem unsatisfying with several questions remain: Or may be it’s something innocuous, like one of those balloons that escapes a birthday party and floats around the world eventually crashing into an ocean and then entering the gut of some large fish…

  • Stalingrad Remembered

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    Stalingrad Remembered

    The victor writes history, and therefore chooses what to remember … and what to forget. Reuters reports “In a fiery speech in Volgograd, known as Stalingrad until 1961, Putin lambasted Germany for helping to arm Ukraine and said, not for the first time, that he was ready to draw on Russia’s entire arsenal, which includes…

  • Time-restricted Diets

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    Time-restricted Diets

    I regularly struggle with weight gain. Winter is worst as I tend to be less active. CBC published an article reporting on the positive, all be they tentative, results of recent studies on intermittent fasting. Of the three approaches they covered, time-restricted diets seem the most practical in my case as I have an eating…