Some changes to the ITHCWY coronavirus visualization page.

For reasons that I'm struggling to understand California's cap and trade system adds a discount to my energy bill.

Catfood WebCamSaver 3.24 released.

Previously:

• 2020: Using the Azure Monitor REST API from Google Apps Script
• 2019: Improving the accuracy of the new Catfood Earth clouds layer
• 2018: How does the Nest Learning Thermostat work?

Links for April 2021

Spring Equinox 2020 in Catfood Earth

On productivity: Out of Office Hours and why I still love email.

Some Great Horned Owlets.

San Francisco tides animated over the course of one year.

A deep faked me. Just needs hooking up to Teams...

Previously:

• 2020: Backup locked files on Windows 10: Volume Shadow Copy Update
• 2019: Age and Life Expectancy Weighted Voting
• 2018: Facebook shouldn't own your social graph

Links for March 2021

It's been a while since I put out a newsletter after a fairly quiet end to last year. Here are some recent highlights.

How to Save a Planet (with an Infiniti QX55)

Lock up the Flexible Spending Account Administrators

Software: Catfood Earth 4.10 updates to the latest National Weather Service "API" and also 2021a timezones. Photo Sorter 1.10 helps control the scourge of duplicate JPEGs.

Timelapse: Sunset #6, what would happen if you used a style transfer neural network on every frame of a timelapse? This (instructions).

Hikes: Abrigo Valley, Grabtown Gulch and Mariposa Loop.

I'm not sure why during the pandemic I've used way more electricity but the same amount of gas.

Some thoughts on the results of the election, written before the Capitol riot.

Previously:

• 2020: Book reviews for February 2020
• 2019: 3D Printing a 72-58mm step down Camera Filter Adapter
• 2018: Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet

Endorsements: Biden, California Propositions, San Francisco Ballot Measures.

What is up with Android 11?

Hikes: Coastal/Julian loop in the Marin Headlands, Richards Fire Loop in San Mateo (with Hyperlapse!), the end of coronavirus (hikes).

Previously:

• 2019: ITHCWY Newsletter for October 2019
• 2017: End the Electoral College: Amendment, Compact, or Supreme Court?

July has been very nature focused for me: rattlesnake, whale, ospreys, bald eagle and comet NEOWISE. Hikes include Bumpass Hell and the Devils Kitchen at Lassen Volcanic National Park.

I did fit in a whinge about Android usability.

Previously:

• 2019: How to backup Google Photos to Google Drive automatically after July 2019 with Apps Script
• 2018: What if the Senate Voted Proportionally to Population
• 2017: Email Alerts for new Referers in Google Analytics using Apps Script

Coronavirus by country and US state/county - this post updates two videos daily that show increases in cases and deaths by day. Also more very local hikes.

I can't tell if Microsoft wants me to use Edge.

More ISS.

Previously:

• 2019: Bay View and Shoreline Trails at China Camp State Park
• 2018: Animation of a year of Global Cloud Cover
• 2017: Reading and Writing Office 365 Excel from a Console app using the Microsoft.Graph C# Client API

Summer Solstice 2020.

4K video of an International Space Station lunar transit on May 7.

Coronavirus hikes.

WTF Google Search Console.

Timelapse of stars over San Francisco.

Catfood Software updates: Earth 4.01 and WebCamSaver 3.21.

Previously:

• 2019: Tire Chalking Constitutional Amendment
• 2018: I just want to get rid of Windows 10 Notifications with one click
• 2017: Real Time

A 4K one year global cloud cover timelapse.

Social Undistancing

Niche topic maybe, but if you want to monitor Azure app services via Google Sheets then I've got you covered.

Redesign.

Previously:

• 2019: Improving the accuracy of the new Catfood Earth clouds layer
• 2018: How does the Nest Learning Thermostat work?
• 2017: The Harvard Business Review Fallacy

More Bangalore: Timelapse featuring Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace, Lalbagh Botanical Garden, KR flower market, Bangalore Palace and Cubbon Park.

Coastal: an abstract timelapse of the California coast.

Jesse Wegman has written a book, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College (review) and a NYT op-ed on switching to a more rational way of electing the President. If you support this idea I have a page on the topic with four concrete things you can do to help.

Hike to Kirby Cove Beach (Marin Headlands near San Francisco).

Tool to backup locked files on Windows 10 - great for XCOPY backups or just grabbing a locked file.

Previously:

• 2019: Age and Life Expectancy Weighted Voting
• 2018: Facebook shouldn't own your social graph
• 2017: Book reviews for February 2017

A timelapse portrait of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2019.

Hike: Mt. Livermore on Angel Island

Catfood Earth 4.00 has been released. The new version includes 4K remastered day, night and cloud images as well as the latest timezone database.

It's a month for updates - you can also grab Catfood WebCamSaver 3.20 which includes an updated list of working webcams around the world. WebCamSaver is a Windows screensaver that shows you a feed of open webcams.

Meeting defragmenter is real!

How to fix the Washington Post democratic candidate quiz.

Previously:

• 2019: Amazon Alexa Echo Wall Clock Review
• 2018: I'm not afraid of Google
• 2017: I didn't think I'd ever fall for fake news of Facebook