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Audiobooks

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What does Vancouver sound like during a Pandemic? - Part 1

What does Vancouver sound like during a Pandemic? - Part 1

With the shut down of a large part of the public life in Vancouver I noticed two major changes. 1. The air quality improved 2. My neighbourhood is much quieter due to less cars. But that wasn't the only thing. I no longer have drunk people hang out on the

March 2020 Culture and Media Review

March 2020 Culture and Media Review

Books The Image - A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin This book dates back to the 1960s, but so much of it could just have been written today. It sort of shows just how strong the human condition is. Rating: 4/5 Trump and his Generals

February 2020 Culture and Media Review

February 2020 Culture and Media Review

Books Geostorm series (Book 1 - 3) by Bobby Akart Back in December I read Akart’s “Pandemic” series and though it was okay for the first 1 1/2 books before it became boring and in general was rather cookie cutter. Unfortunately with Geostorm there aren’t really any

January 2020 Culture and Media Review

January 2020 Culture and Media Review

Books SynCorp Saga - Book 1 - The Lazarus Protocol by David Bruns & Chris Porteau It is an interesting start to (another) “the world ends, but rich people and scientists can save us” narrative. I am cautiously optimistic that it does not become too formulaic but time will tell. The

November 2019 Review

November 2019 Review

Books Rat f**ked: The True Story Behind The Secret Plan To Steal America's Democracy by David Daley This is one of these books that only interests you if you have an interest in American politics. To be fair to the book, I am not really. I am interested though

Media Review October 2019

Media Review October 2019

Books Safehold - Book 9 - At the Sign of Triumph by David Weber And it is done. In the 9th book David Weber finish the original cycle. The Church is defeated and Safehold is looking forward to a new era….. Maybe? The books pace felt a bit faster than

macOS Catalina broke Audiobooks, here’s my workaround

macOS Catalina broke Audiobooks, here’s my workaround

Introduction When Appel released macOS Catalina (10.15) at the end of the September not only did they break 32-Bit applications on macOS but they also broke audiobooks on the Mac for a lot of people. So what happened? Among the things Apple is changing is that they have “retired