Thu, 15:01: To be honest I'm not interested in the Coronation, but I will be on my roof for the big flypast that afternoon...
Thu, 15:03: RT @MSFTResearch: The challenge with writing large programs isn’t necessarily their size, it’s their complexity. TLA+ helps programmers use…
Thu, 15:49: So the microwave failed last night and took out its ring at the breaker. Magnetron failure time! https://t.co/YbrV9vXWYn
Thu, 19:40: RT @zacbowden: Windows 10 version 22H2 will be the last release of the OS before it reaches end of life in 2025. There will be no version 2…
Wed, 19:14: RT @ProfBrianCox: This is absolutely right in every detail. The Government are custodians of our culture - of our arts and our music and ou…
Wed, 19:43: RT @ursulaleguin: If you call Oregon poet laureate @mojgani's tele-poem line today, April 26th, you can hear Ursula read "The Quail Song" i…
Tue, 15:24: RT @marypcbuk: I researched & wrote this while @sbisson was ill and recovering, so *even more thanks than usual* to everyone who helped me…
Tue, 16:27: I keep looking at the state of the internet and I am so glad that when I ran an ISP the worst I had to worry about was warez and spam. Ah, the 90s. Such an innocent time.
Tue, 19:38: Recent Reads: Saga Vol 9. In which Brian Vaughn rips what's left of your heart out, as stories and lives collide. Yes, Saga is dark and grim under the beauty of Fiona Staples art, but, man, so much sadness here, so many lives ripped apart in the aftermath of Phang. Time for cake.
Mon, 15:00: Someone who has clearly never driven through the big solar ranches on the edge of the Carrizo Plain in California, because he'd know that they obstruct less than 50% of light, allowing wildflowers to safely bloom around them, increasing biodiversity. The very opposite of blight. https://t.co/J6sCBr7Qhz
Mon, 15:07: RT @diveacademyinfo: The Basking sharks finally arrived in Inis Mór today! Thank you for sharing this amazing video: 🎥: IG user 'inismor_…
Mon, 21:08: RT @InfoWorld: Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel SDK makes it easier to manage complex prompts and get focused results from large language models…
Mon, 21:14: Morning Simon: I shall write about lots of things from Kubecon EU for my column this week. Evening Simon: So I am almost at my word count and I have covered some of one topic. Hubris, Ate, Nemesis!
Mon, 21:35: Watch this in HD; you can see the shockwaves. I am ever more surprised that SuperHeavy didn't blow up during hold down... https://t.co/lSMseORxeQ
Sun, 22:27: RT @shanselman: Bing runs one of the world’s largest, most complex, highly performant, and reliable .NET applications. This podcast discuss…
Mon, 09:45: Oh this is good: @fsoldigital has put out a digital release of the extremely rare Life In Moments. There were only 250 CDs in the original release... https://t.co/VQkLNHE1Fp
Mon, 10:10: RT @ST0NEHENGE: The Northern Lights and a Meteor over Stonehenge this morning 😍 Photo credit Stonehenge Dronescapes on FB #Aurora#aurorabo…
Mon, 10:41: RT @jamesrbuk: The UK government thinks WhatsApp and Signal are bluffing when they say they’ll withdraw from the UK rather than comply with…
Sun, 13:39: RT @Sargent: As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic blue checkmark. h…
Sun, 15:08: Well that was an anti-climax. The UK emergency alert system is clearly broken; I have three phones with active SIMs and two tablets with 4 and 5G broadband. Of five devices only one got the alert.
Sun, 17:28: Recent Reads: Chaos On CatNet. Naomi Kritzer's YA near future thriller pits AI vs AI, as a second appears. Only this one is in thrall to nhilism, hidden behind games; can CheshireCat and friends free it? A handful of friends are all that stands against the end of civilisation.
Sun, 19:50: So here’s the latest; a chocolate orange brownie made with fresh-squeezed orange juice and then swirled in some of @marypcbuk’s marmalade. https://t.co/j6xrdHCxdG
Thu, 19:43: RT @jonathanchait: Now is the time to establish a rival bluecheck Pope at Avignon! It's just $8 a month, plus the cost of a small palace
Thu, 20:00: RT @jaketropolis: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." "Pretend you are my father, who owns a pod…
Thu, 20:52: RT @babylonjs: We are thrilled to officially announce the release of Babylon.js 6.0! The web just got a WHOLE lot more exciting! https://t…
Thu, 21:24: Alas, poor Blue Tick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hathborne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
Thu, 21:31: (A lot of the more famous folk with Blue subscriptions probably didn't know they had them; their social media folk will have set them up for them...)
Thu, 22:41: RT @Terribleman: “Literature, like music, expands to accommodate a multitude of voices, and celebrating those voices, those stories is, to…
Wed, 20:38: RT @babylonjs: Tomorrow is the day folks! Babylon.js 6.0 will be here along with the reveal of that something #BIG that we've been teasing!…
Wed, 20:46: Oh that's annoying but expected; @zapier is switching its Twitter endpoint from free to premium. No more automated bookmark archives for me.
Wed, 22:24: RT @womensart1: The Groke is a dark, ghost like character in Tove Jansson's Moomin stories embodying the idea of a curse, though the creatu…
Wed, 23:42: RT @ColleenDoran: Video of the exhibit "Colleen Doran Illustrates Neil Gaiman" at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. Thanks to @…
Wed, 23:43: RT @JordiRib1: Excited to share that we've fully shipped support for LaTeX in Bing chat! Now math formulas are beautifully formatted and ea…
Thu, 10:33: Should we be calling platform ops "stack ops"?
Thu, 14:38: Ah well, boom. Stage separation is hard.
Wed, 13:35: I kind of expected the helicopter that apparently used to be owned by James Dyson to have some sort of cyclone rather than rotors... https://t.co/GEZrqKpY8a
Wed, 13:43: My current choice for Raspberry Pi storage: USB 3.1 stick SSDs, 256GB for �35. Fast, reliable, and in a metal case so they don't overheat. https://t.co/Vo4xT7urUq
Sun, 20:56: Recent Reads: Eyes Of The Void. The second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture series ramps up already high stakes. As moon-sized monsters deconstruct worlds, Idris Telemmier's talents make him a pawn. He only wants one thing: to find out what's under the universe.
Sun, 21:02: Recent Reads: Once & Future Vol 5 - The Wasteland. As Kieron Gillen's graphic saga comes to a climax, three kings come to London at Christmas. The matter of Britain collides with T S Eliot, and King Lear is released from his story prison. What is left, but to forget and be saved?
Sat, 19:58: RT @neilhimself: May you, whoever you are, have a life like Rachel's, one that changes things for people, a life where you follow your star…
Sat, 20:48: RT @MimiJ9: Lib Dem’s. Please lend your vote to Labour, all our dreams must be to get rid of Jacob Rees-Mogg. 🙏
Sat, 21:44: The beasts have worked out how to get the lid off the current automatic cat feeder. Maines. Smart *and* food motivated. It’s a dangerous combination.
Fri, 13:47: RT @allindiaradio: I'm excited to announce the repress of my 2017 album SPACE Features a picture disc with David A Hardy's gorgeous ex-Pink…
Thu, 15:47: Recent Reads: Once & Future Vol 4 - Monarchies In The UK. Britain is in the Otherworld of stories and Bridgette is running out of luck. Two Arthurs are at war and it's time to bring out the big guns. They must use a storyteller to fight the stories. And there's really only one.
Thu, 16:36: Found sonixd, a full-featured modern Subsonic client. Ideal for when I need some loud music to work to without disturbing Mary through the office Sonos... https://t.co/4quvDkgk2C
Thu, 20:52: RT @panos_panay: Today, we introduce #Windows365 Frontline. Designed to empower organizations to meet the needs of their workforce. Check o…
Thu, 20:55: Hmm. I don't need spammy pay-for widgets in my Windows. The philosophy of widgets is at-a-glance information from applications and services like I use, like the first four. The rest? Why? They should never have ben approved by the Store. https://t.co/kkqrjAclM0
Thu, 21:58: RT @NASAWebb: Uranus has never looked better. Really. Only Voyager 2 and Keck (with adaptive optics) have imaged the planet's faintest ri…
Thu, 21:58: RT @markmurray98119: Let the fun begin! So proud to be part of this team that is using Generative AI to empower frontline business users an…
Fri, 10:35: Wait, there's a movie of a Tom Holt book? You may know him as the grimdark K J Parker, but his hilarious fantasies were what got me into his writing... https://t.co/f5d7i8BIj7
Tue, 21:47: RT @tarah: What matters here is that @adschina @anubradford and I had a great time, learned from each other, and explained the fragmentatio…
Wed, 11:45: Commander Kruge in Star Wars? Total protonic reversal!
Wed, 16:04: Working for yourself you don't get achievement awards, so I used Microsoft Designer to make myself a 20th anniversary crystal... 20 years as a freelance technology journalist today! https://t.co/H7wJKQOETq
Wed, 20:16: VOIP transition complete. We have incoming calls! Our SIP phone supports more than one provider, so I should see if I can get working with Teams...
Tue, 14:57: Trying out the new Apple Music Classical as the office soundtrack. The essential minimalist playlist hits most of my ambient needs! https://t.co/59wZKhsKeI
Tue, 21:17: Recent Reads: Bea Wolf. Zach Weinersmith's illustrated (by Boulet) re-telling of the saga of Beowulf is a word-hurrying world-shaping wild tale that takes a story, turns it on its head as you read it out loud for the sheer joy of its language. An essential - and beautiful - read.
Tue, 21:25: Recent Reads: Once & Future - Old English. More of Kieron Gillen's take on the Matter of Britain. As stories escape the otherworld, unlikely defenders must battle first Beowulf, then Grendel. A rest home is an unlikely Heorot, but there we make a stand. Bonus Hot Fuzz references!
Mon, 14:08: Dang, the desktop @tweetenapp is redirecting to the new Tweetdeck, so no longer working. Thank goodness for the option of running it as a PWA.
Mon, 15:17: Giving up on Chrome as a kiosk browser on Raspberry Pi. The current builds have horrible memory leaks. Firefox ESR is much more stable and uses far fewer resources.
Mon, 15:22: My copy of @ZachWeiner and @Bouletcorp's Bea Wolf has arrived. The rythym of the words deand it be read aloud. And it is of this that sagas are made. Word-smithing, word-hurrying; curling around the tongue.
Sun, 19:45: RT @mactavish: I've seen so many similar videos. Unlike many wild babies, rescued beaver kits do best if raised in a (trained) home with lo…
Sun, 20:30: RT @AJamesMcCarthy: On Friday, the sun put on a dazzling show for us. My friend @TheVastReaches and I worked hard over the last 5 days to p…
Sat, 20:52: So who has two thumbs and accidentally managed to crash the new switch by connecting two ports together? That took me long enough to fix…
Sun, 00:19: So we have a new Korean chicken place here in Putney and I am so much for the k-fries; sweet spicy glaze and melted cheese. It’s a Korean poutine! https://t.co/7tKfCOcwoT
Fri, 16:16: When you replace the office switch and find not jut the one you were removing but an older one behind it… Anyway, shiny new 24-port gigabit Zyxel now under @marypcbuk’s chair. Netgear and D-Link switches removed.
Sat, 00:16: I met Gordon Moore at the last IDF I went to; it was an honour to meet one of the foundations of our industry. https://t.co/eK8DwFcPja
Thu, 10:55: Huzzah! With the @pimoroni Hyperpixel drivers finally in the Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye install, I've upgraded my deskside ADSL repeater to the latest release. Some configuration tweaks later and it's looking good!
Thu, 14:22: Switching our phone line to VOIP over fibre next week. Any recommendations for DECT or WiFi handsets? I'm thinking the Yealink W60P.
Thu, 20:27: RT @Stonekettle: Pileated Woodpecker I followed her for a mile through dense dark forest along the Hall Lake trail. Difficult to see throu…
Wed, 08:32: RT @sinclairinat0r: Whoa!!!! This is freaking huge. @UnoPlatform isn't playing around when it comes to these releases. Supporting .NET 8 P…
Wed, 15:54: So the Mandalorians now live in Space Utah?
Wed, 23:09: Recent Reads: Once & Future - The King Is Undead. Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora's graphic tale wakes a sleeping Arthur, but not how you'd expect. In a land of stories a wild story is a danger, and someone must put it down. But the only tool we have is yet more story. The good stuff.
Sun, 19:52: Recent Reads: The Great Gods. Daniel Keys Moran's long-awaited return to The Continuing Time explores the childhood of the enigmatic Camber Tremodian, 1000 years after Trent. Why are avatars of the gods of the Zaradin watching over him, in a rural colony? Mystery and adventure.
Sat, 20:02: Recent Reads: World Running Down. Al Hess' dystopian love story matches a trans man and an AI in an unfamiliar body, as they track newly sentient androids in the Utah desert. Their experiences explore the essence of dysphoria, using SF to deliver a powerful story. Recommended.
Sat, 20:12: Don’t look at me, I voted for a rich, sweet fruit cake in the stollen election. Blame the marzipan.
Sun, 15:02: More digital telescope experiments. This is the UI. The wide angle helps you find your target, then you fine adjust position, before taking the shot. The green box is the telescope view... Hello magpie! https://t.co/i8kTgftWyn
Smol Parrot obviously doesn't hang out with the parakeets in Kensington Gardens, who will mug anyone who looks like they might possibly be carrying food.
If the people videoing that re-entry were in the Portland area of Australia on the south coast then I expect the upper stage was heading for the common splash-down zone in the mid-Pacific used by…
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