The original Windows UI circa late 16th century. Keep multiple books open at different pages and rapidly flick between them when studying.

I learnt today that tacos were invented by the Lebanese when they came to Puebla and wanted to reinvent Schwarma

I think my golden doodle is a vampire. He goes out the dog door without a second thought, but won’t come back in through it unless you invite him in 🐶🧛

I rewatched The Gorge in AppleTV tonight - despite the plot having more holes than a road in New Jersey, the movie works because of the powerful chemistry between the lovely #AnyaTaylor-Joy and Miles Teller. It should be up for an Oscar

I watched fantasy-comic-horror movie #DeathofaUnicorn tonight. I always enjoy seeing #JenaOrtega on the screen and the entire movie is well cast (Tea Leoni Well, the horn does have a lot of girth 😉)

I inherited 50 Dave Brubeck albums, mostly from the 60’s, so need to run them all through the ultrasonic bath before playing them #vinyl #brubeck #davebrubeck #jazz #humminguru

Three day internals review of all the amazing developments this year

Annual pilgrimage to see the Oracle

EWR is our home airport but last night Steph rebooked her return from TX to land at MDT instead. I’ve just rebooked my trip to HQ to fly out of MDT rather than EWR. apple.news/AL7D9LiI8RNG...

Thought for the day …

The cuter the face, the more the mischief …

Delivery guy asked how old our farmhouse was. “1815.” “Cool, Thomas Jefferson was still alive.” That was the most unexpected (and erudite) reaction we’ve ever had.

I worked on a project at Sybase which one senior new hire described as “the most complex possible design that could still work” 😂

Hilarious and heartbreaking take on Trump’s Dictator Chic redecoration of the White House Oval Office: www.patreon.com/posts/126873...

This is why I think Prince Harry represents the best of what a monarchy could be apple.news/AZQQSbUamRde...

Busy morning drawing up a list of things to buy before Trump’s damned tariffs take effect: tea, coffee, chocolate, French wine, fruit preserves, and Armagnac. What am I missing?

Two of these three accts were precaptured by this (reliable) block list. It's one that was started in 2023 (aka before the Blue No Matter Whovian surge in November 2024) so it's more trusted imo. (FYI bsky only shows one list per profile; it's possible these trashbags are on multiple block lists).

This feature has been deprecated for 37 years and still works today

The new “Export Control Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion” is crazy government overreach which will severely limit intelligence in cloud deployments worldwide www.oracle.com/news/announc...

Happy Twelfth Night - it drives me crazy when Americans think the 12 days of Christmas are before Christmas rather than after. Twelfth Night signals the Eve of Epiphany which is when the Magi traditionally visited Mary’s newborn wee bairn.

Rocky is at that 18 month velociraptor phase doodles go through. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve said: I’m NOT a chew toy, you can’t eat your human, I’d have retired to a private yacht

The easiest way to avoid trolls is to leave Twitter … also it’s illegal in Norway so be sure to delete the app before entering the country 😀

While we celebrate Jesus’s birth, please remember the children who are helpless victims of the war in Gaza chuffed.org/project/thez...

I think the ban on TikTok has little to do with Chinese ownership (if it was they would ban 200 other Chinese apps like India did). It is all about driving that revenue to Instagram reels and Google Shorts.

I can attest: ALGOL-68 has the basis of how I formulate programs for my whole life. (cf. Pascal for you younger programmers)

The new Apple Music Replay summary of my 2024 listening, you, that’s me

ORA-600 [qer*.cvl] We added asserts that the lenb of the data did not exceed the data dictionary length and backported to 19c (19.17 I think) to avoid memory errors in hash and sort objects.

At 3:15 this morning, I was woken by my pillow inexplicably shrinking 🧐 Rocky claimes to know nothing about this.

Every single night running up to the election, Trump ran hate filled anti-trans ads on TV. My physician wife has 7 trans patients: I fear for them under the new government.

Our 18 month old golden doodle won a place in a photo competition a few months ago - now he’s Mr February. Sadly he can’t take advantage of his fame as he’s been neutered.