It is almost 11 months since I moved into the flat and finally there is progress on solving the problem of no pressure on the hot water. Now I just need to get the go ahead on converting the loft space into a railway room and small workshop. I've put down some flooring where the 1980's roof trusses are supported by the kitchen and bathroom walls, but to expand the area to perhaps 6 meters square I will need to add some more substantial joists which only need to span 3 meters from the…

OK got up this morning planning to get on with some real work, but spotted an article on The Register that Plasma6.4 has been released which included a warning that X11 may not be supported! So 2.5 hours later after checking in again with wayland on my Version 6.3 setup ... I'm back with X11!

The reason is quite simple. One of the main applicatins I use, as I am NOW, is Firefox, but on wayland the windo…

I had posted an update a couple of days ago, but due to distractions caused by other technology not working I failed to save it and can't even remember just what was in that post.

The main part was the failure of the Samsung Watch4 to record that I HAD been asleep in the previous nights and it's nannying that I needed to wear it at night ... which I had been! The problem I think I have is that my heart rate is too low normally for the watch to accurately use it to monitor sl…

Just been reading Jeremy Bowen's report on the BBC New site re Palestine. It prompted me to put a comment in as it just flags up the injustice that many people in the world today have to put up with. I pushed the following as a 'Have your say' message, and am copying it here mainly for my own reference. 50e18d8f-b60b-46f5-bcf7-c3220dc24a51

"The one thing that I am seein…

Since switching the morning exercises from the knee routine, to a more general combination of knee and heart exercises I've actually been seeing sinus rhythm in the morning. Something that has not happened for a long time. I've an appointment to see the latest physio at the doctor's surgery tomorrow when hopefully we can sort a tidier daily routine of exercises.

Last Thursday I had a phone call from the hospital offering me an appointment the next day which of cause I gr…

Well after 10 days of a clean sinus rhythm I'm back to the messy one and the watch is struggling with misinformation on my 'stress levels'. Perhaps the only thing that is stressing me is the way none of these 'Artificial Intelligence' tools have no intelligence at all. The main problem is that the Samsung tools have no idea of other reasons for a high HRV and try to fix a high one to what it has been 'trained on'. I'm still not experiencing any problem symptoms…

After a number of false starts I now have a copy of the bitweaver code base which has a namespace setup that works for me, but is probably not 'right' for such services as composer. There is still some work to do and while 'traits' could have been useful, the idea of converting hundreds of possibly single line functions into classes just does not make sense to me. I've ended up with an extension for Smarty5 with all of the functions and modifiers managed through that but I…

I was begining to get flustrated as when I changed things everything stopped working again, but over the last few days which have been broken up with things like a visit to the GWR Festival of Steam on Saturday and a Dolls house show in Churchdown on Sunday. Obviously getting my mind off the software side was the right thing to be doing and this morning I took stock of where I am and things are looking good. The bitweaver framework is fairly stable, and I now have a copy of phpgedview running…

Been a while since I last posted, and while there are lots of things to rant about, the main problem is with my own head and getting around my own prejudices. I never did get into 'namespaces' when they were first introduced to PHP, and even today one of my main third party libraries, ADOdb, still does not have one set, but the other key library, smarty, does and this was causing a little difficulty. In Smarty5 everything has been converted to classes, although I do not see the advant…

Over the last year at least waking up with my heart in something close to a sinus rhythm was just an occasional rarity. However since Monday I have been seeing a stable 50ish bpm and the Smarty watch has had no problem taking a blood pressure reading. There are still the occasional glitches where a beat is missed, but not very often first thing. The watch app is complaining that I need to add4ress my HRV reading as it's 'not good', but I'll wait a couple more days until hopefu…