At the Forge Accelerator in Dublin

After having spent a great few days with the Toronto team, I headed home on Friday afternoon. I did have a little bit of “fun” getting home, though: firstly the UPExpress going from Union Station to Pearson Airport stopped – ostensibly waiting for the right signal – for about 30 minutes. It wasn’t a big deal for me, thankfully: I’d left some buffer in my schedule, so still had a little time to wait at the airport.

While I did so, for some reason I checked my downloaded Netflix content… none of it played: I kept getting an obscure error message. It turns out the upgrade I’d performed earlier int the day on my Samsung Galaxy S8 – installing the One UI Android Pie OS – had basically nuked all my local content. Luckily I realised early enough to start downloading some shows I wanted for the trip home while still on airport wifi. There is a lesson, there, though: I wouldn’t upgrade my computer’s OS just before a big presentation, for instance, so I really…

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