Well, well....I'm going to love to see how the illegal tariffs are refunded....surely they'd need refunding to the consumers who have ultimately paying them... Oh what am I saying - he's just going to ignore the Supreme Court now, isn't he??

Interesting the way that they've gone after Andrew - things that have a strong paper trail...I do think that this is the way in.

Scientist - this 'R' I've written - it runs really well on my local machine... but runs like a dog on AWS. Service Manager: Martin, have you got anyone to spend days looking at this and getting nowhere? Martin: Tell them to run it locally if it does what they need.

Held at His Majesty's Pleasure is going to hurt more when His Majesty is your big brother... I do think if convicted, he should be sent to the Tower. And surely bringing the Royal Family into disrepute is High Treason!!

Wow - things you didn't expect to see in your life-time. A Mountbatten-Windsor arrested...

I've just seen a job advert where the majority of the perks listed are actually legal requirements...and yes, this was a UK job. And also 'casual dress' is not a perk in most non-customer facing roles in technology!! If these are the perks you are listing - you don't understand perks!!

People have some strange ideas - it seems that there are a bunch of people who believe that Scotland should be entirely self-sufficient in food and it is the behaviours of Westminster etc that is stopping them. Look it is mad enough those who feel that the UK in general should be

Many years ago, I got a 23andme subscription...I know it can be a bit psuedo-science in places but it has confirmed a number of family legends. But I am now concerned that it seems that I am related to a number of victims of historical massacres.

Have these people not heard of Xenomorphs? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In my attempt to watch all the cosy crime....I've now started on Rosemary and Thyme.

That's it no more, I'm not doing family IT support any more!

Here's a wonderful waste of time (and expense) that I think many of my friends will enjoy....https://choosingkeeping.com/

There's a photographer I follow who posts some really nice shots on Insta etc - I thought I'd ask whether I could buy a couple. I think he was a little shocked - I mean he is a professional photographer and does sell his work but the idea that someone might just ask...anyway, we've done a deal.

Always makes me laugh - it is the time of year when we can buy extra leave days...it is sold as a benefit!! But to be honest - it is just asking for unpaid leave and spreading the cost over a year. It's really no different than that!!

Hmm - had an idea for a game - pondered, has anyone ever done this - researched, no - no-one appears to have done. And now thinking - am I genius or am I a fool? I think it might be time to work on an MVP/POC. And no - it's not a TTRPG - I've got one of those kind of in progress.

Just asked a question that no-one wanted asked - so, if we didn't do this and just decided this backlog is a waste of time - would anyone notice, would anyone care and would it make anything worse. I've never seen a Product Manager look so deflated and upset..because they know I'm right!!

There are times....well, just let me say....there are times!!

Went out for dinner last night - well it was Valentine's...a local Korean place called Park's Kitchen. It started a few years ago - serving great food but it was a little ram-shackle in an authentic sort of way. Now less ram-shackle and k-pop less in your face.

Failed Footballer gives over-rated Footballer advice...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen. But it was problematic picking only one....they all were when I was 19

I'm seeing various alternatives to Discord being pitched..a lot of self hosted stuff...so basically we're going back to BBS, excellent...I have this idea of a protocol that will allow us to copy things between them...I'm thinking of the the acronym UUCP as a name for it..

Finished the latest Dresden Files, I enjoyed it...feels like a bit of a reboot. It's a more rounded story than the recent ones - I thought they'd lost their way a bit but I think it still leans into the flawed Messiah trope a bit too much.

And very much enjoying the latest Damned album...

Bleargh - Still Ill - and not the Smiths classic!! Off work - which very much feels like being at work because I'm rubbish!! Wrastling with tokenizers.

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only. 'Is it time for second breakfast?' asked Bilbo!

'Going equipped' is going to have a whole new meaning....

My ideas list is out of control from ideas for applications, RPGs, hardware projects and stuff that needs doing around the house...oh dear, oh dear...and then there's the new blog/pod idea I've got ..

I'm watching through Joan Hickson Miss Marples - they really are remarkable - she was a remarkable actress...she could just act with a look - as she peers over her knitting. But also, what is remarkable is how little she is in it, it is also a masterpiece in story telling...

Started work on 'Project Bob' - Bob stands for Band of Bob. There could be many Bobs all working together...

I feel more bleargh!!

Bleargh....I feel bleargh!!!

Sometimes working with the AI-enabled coding tools (don't judge, I need to understand them for work) is like dealing with the brightest junior developer in the world. And you find yourself asking - why are you trying to develop this from first principles - use the f-ing libraries that I told you to!

Come and work for me - I promise you it will be awesome. You'll be working to make a difference to people's lives in a positive way - you'll be working to 'Make Cancer History' The role is a mix of leadership and hands-on technical work in my Platform Engineering team. You'll be helping me

Got told off for swearing in the open office - I described something as bollocks - I was using it in the correct way to describe something as nonsense or even a clergyman - where's John Mortimer when you need him!!

Come and work for me - I promise you it will be awesome. You'll be working to make a difference to people's lives in a positive way - you'll be working to 'Make Cancer History' The role is a mix of leadership and hands-on technical work in my Platform Engineering team. You'll be helping me

Monday Night at the 100 Club....

Currently working on porting ollama to RUST - I've decided to call it SnellServe in honour of Linda Snell and her llama. I might rename to Constanza.

Watching old Miss Marples whilst coding...when I say coding, I'm using Claude to port some code and tidy some repos.

Today I learnt that there is a Karen State in Myanmar....

In my question for the perfect keyboard - I've just received my Keychron q16 HE 8K that I backed on kickstarter - the feel is fantastic...Magnetic switches and ceramic body and keycaps...The actual weight, well - just like my old IBM keyboard - I think I could use it to defend myself!!

FFS - does every platform have a different version of VSCode. I've got Kiro for AWS, Visual Studio for Microsoft stuff and Antigravity for Google. All the same code base and yet different enough at times to catch-you out!! Also at some point - git being able to gracefully manage different

I have owned Macs in the past but not used in anger for some time at home. What has impressed me is the number of apps that I bought from the app store in the past, are still available, updated, sometimes with major features and I don't need to pay again.

And so we've moved on from worrying about laundries and opium dens!!

Logan's little known foray into shoe-making! He's a fan of a comfortable and 'stylish' shoe!!

This is a wonderful picture...it shows a bitter, twisted, evil, crazy old man....I'm going to say he'd hate it....

Every now and then I see a long thread about a novel - what it means, what the author was trying to say - and imagine the author saying 'but I was just trying to write a cracking story!'

How can it only be Tuesday....

Ahhh - that satisfying feeling when I get to roast an Account Team for their shoddy support. Years of experience on what buttons to push so that they know how pissed off I am without loosing it or swearing at them.

Semi serious question - if Trump was to try to invade Greenland, would all the US military currently based in Europe at least be classed as enemy combatants?