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Reacquainted myself with my rowing machine today and my quads are already screaming that it was a stupid idea. I feel like my shoulders will also have opinions about this.

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It's Sunday morning. The rest of the family is still asleep. I get up and feed my dog. And power on my Commodore64.

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Join me for a build thread? Boutique Hotel LEGO set 10297

This year I organised some games for the whole family to play on Christmas Day, including holding a paper plate on your head and drawing a snowman ... vt.tiktok.com/ZSPK4QgJp/

Merry Christmas from Australia!

Christmas Tree is up.

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

My parents just came over, on Christmas Eve. And brought their iPads. Their emails have stopped working. ... They have managed to sync 34GB of data to their 5GB free Outlook plan.

Ahhhh I hadn't received a shipping tracking link but it's HERE

Today's soundtrack: Chris Rea

If you have a Remarkable, SuperNote, Kindle Scribe, or even an iPad, it's a good time of the year to order a 2026 Planner. This is a cool, one-person-company that generates a 1000+ annotatable *custom for you* PDF that you can use to manage your life. This is my 4th year buying one! hyperpaper.me

Another day of me being mad that people don't understand how haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords works. Loving the comments on how stupid it is to enter your password into a random website.

My husband has gone out with his brother and isnt the driver ... so I've gone down a 3D printing rabbit hole on TikTok and I keep sending him videos.

9:30pm 26C 79F

Today I will log off with about 25 emails still in my Inbox which annoys the heck out of me. My brain is no longer functioning to action any of them, but what do you mean I have to pause all this stuff for two weeks. But also I really need to.

Listening to how a guy uses AI and wondering if it would have just been easier for him to draft the post himself.

When there's not enough drama at Christmas ...

Tonight after work I have no plans and I can't tell you how excited I am about this.

Turn on sign language mode in Microsoft Teams to identify yourself as a signer or an interpreter. Active signing shows the same as active speaking when detected. Designed specifically to include Deaf or Hard of hearing participants and sign language interpreters better. bit.ly/4s05ig3 #Microsoft

In Australia, the blood donor response is so high right now, we've crashed the Donor website.

If you ever see news of a mass shooting and wish you could help, please go and donate blood. Even if your donation doesn't go directly to those injured, it will still save lives ... even if you are in another country. It's one thing we can't manufacture with money.

It's weird waking up the morning after the attack on our Jewish community at Bondi Beach. Another public place we thought was safe. Two extremists who could only see hate, or revenge, or whatever their motivation was. Countless stories of people who acted, sheltered people or helped the wounded. 💔🦘🕎

Bondi Beach shooting 😪

The definition of patience is my husband taking his 80yo father through pressing the reset button on his internet modem, over the phone.

Christmas show #2 ready to rock

More makeup than I normally wear on stage! First of three Christmas shows this weekend.

Could not resist an addition to the house Christmas lights this year, by the front door.

Tell me you are a high achieving eldest daughter because you've finished the meeting doc read already but won't raise your hand to signal that until some other people have.

When you're timezone remote enough that you work in the future, you have to email people on Thursday so you will see their reply on Friday, or else they will reply on your Saturday and you'll either have to check your emails on a weekend or wait until Monday.

Virgin Voyages missed an opportunity here to say "the land, the sea, the sky."

Must get out of bed, I have a day to slay.

At a technical user group meeting in 2025. There's one female. It's me. I'm the speaker.

Starting my day with "It's just me, uce" stuck on loop in my head.

My goodness the mental clarity of being back on a pilates reformer.

Boom. And that’s what it looks like when folks actually know what they’re doing! Much nicer than my version! Check out StreamLight - it’s FREE!

Christmas tree? There's an app for that. Here's what a tech girl has on her christmas tree ... www.tiktok.com/@scuffyness/...

Found another great Christmas movie on Netflix to sleep through.

"I'm not coming out until it's Christmas"

7am Sunday. 23C heading for 32.

Microsoft Ignite 2025: Top Security Innovations You Need to Know techcommunity.micros... #Security #MicrosoftSecurity #Cybersecurity #SFI #SecureFutureInitiative #MSIgnite

This didn't age well.

When you send a follow up email and add your signature ...

There's something very special about getting a group of people together working on something they share an interest in, that's not related to their day jobs. Whether it's volunteering, a hobby, or a sport, you meet the most wonderful people you'd normally not mix with.

Achievement unlocked: unmute myself before talking when presenting a live event.

AI IS NOT JESUS, IT IS MATH.

If you like geeking out over cloud scale data center stuff like I do, this is the one Microsoft Ignite session recording you need to watch - Mark Russinovich Inside Azure Innovations ignite.microsoft.com/sessions/brk...