Got a birthday treat stay at the Gurnard’s Head which is well worth a visit if you’re ever in west Penwith

Nice work if you can get it. PwC are paid £4.1m by the UK Government for a set of bookmarks you could vibe code in a few hours. Public procurement is a racket. mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...

MY PETS (Palindrome) Dog. A sad dog or fat cat. Nine dragons (no garden intact). A frog, odd as a god.

Do read this thread. It covers the classic problems of govt IT ventures: capture by the providers, poor information management and huge security holes, improbably complex signup process, and low quality outcomes. Surely it might have been better to partner with a university than this corporate slop?

What we all need to see is a red squirrel in a power pose. You're welcome.

It's my birthday. Google has reminded me that this was seven years ago.

Wait is this a giant re-run of the Milgram experiement without the acting or any semblance of ethics?

Feels like a good time to remind us all that we had a drought last year. Anyway, lets carry on and use AI to decide what to have for dinner www.gov.uk/government/p...

headline from local news this morning. you think you get over this shit but you don't

I'm looking to speak to a criminal lawyer/legal expert for a super quick chat for a story I am working on. Is that you? Please reach out.

Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan

Salesforce AI buffet won't stay all-you-can-eat forever

thinking of going for a run later

if you create a tiktok you need to buy a license for everybody on the planet to watch it OR buy a processor license for everything on the Oracle cloud.

🧵 Can you believe it? 40 years since #Voyager2 nailed that crazy crescent Uranus pic. 🔭 Jan 25, 1986 – probe's already booking it out of there after the real close shave on the 24th. Just this thin glowing slice against black space... hits different every time. 🧪 #histsci #planetsci 1/5

Every time Labour, the Lib Dems or Greens refer to Reform UK, Farage or any of their members they should instead refer to them as "the Trumpists". Every time they use the logo or any of their faces in promo, put it next to a photo of Trump. Make the public association of them with Trump Pavlovian

For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.

Devs begin to assess options for MySQL's future beyond Oracle

imagine being the father or mother or son or daughter or sibling of one of those brave British troops who died in Afghanistan, and having to listen to this crass ignorance

SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition

£45B savings remain theoretical as UK digital roadmap delayed again

#aurora … in Cornwall! Ok the long exposure on my phone exaggerates the colours but you can see it, honest

Our internet is still out so OH and I watched BBC‘s 2005 Bleak House on DVD and it was outstanding and I’m listening to Aldous Harding on vinyl and it is excellent

I love a good roadmap. Roadmaps were invented in 1997 and before that no-one knew where the fuck they were. It was like the scene in the Beatles Yellow Submarine where they go to Nowhere Land. We were all just floating around in an undifferentiate void. No roadmaps: that was the problem.

That's Mars, my dude

Robert Jenrick becomes the latest Tory Cabinet minister to stand up at a Reform event and say the country is in an appalling state. You have no idea of the self-control required not to yell: "YOU WERE IN FKING GOVERNMENT!"

This confirms my long-standing opinion that some of the worst lyrics ever set to pop music come from Duran Duran. Only Sting comes close.

All Joy. No division.

The DWP is set to spend £23m on conversational AI for its phone system, which is spread across 200 locations. Calls are handled by agents right now but AI looks set to triage calls for up to 20 million pensioners and benefits claimants www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/d...

I avoided Home Assistant for the longest time for being a UI mess and this isn't helping my impression of it

our house is somewhere under the yellow green swirly bit in the bottom left. They've started closing schools.

Here's something to make us all feel better, a truly heartwarming tale: Captain Beefheart and the Girl Scout cookies. www.beefheart.com/don-and-the-...

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Winter by Kiyoshi Saito. 1970 roningallery.com

kinda genius

Things stepping up. ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland have written to the Garda Commissioner calling for an urgent investigation of X.

Capita promised a service with 'AI at its core' after winning a £239 million contract. But civil service pension members got a portal with broken links and dummy text. Now they are told not to log in again until chatbots are deployed. www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/c...

Brilliant but also: fucking hell, these people.

hey folks, I'm back!

we have snow. just very wet snow of the cold variety

Lucy Thynne first saw this painting as a child. “Like the girl at the centre, I couldn’t look away. If I remember it correctly, other children there were just as disturbed.”

Gurnard’s Head from Zennor headland. You can just make out Pendeen Lighthouse in the distance. Also Zennor Church

Happy New Year! We had party. I got bad head. House a mess and full of hairy teenagers

Every year Christmas gets a little bit more embroidered in our house. Sons 1.0 and 2.0 are worried what they might come home to when they go to university

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u... Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works <- by me on @theregister.com

We're not quite there yet, so here's (possibly) your last UK government IT shitshow before Christmas. www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/n...

last day of work before christmas today 🎉

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

Stone-built Snake Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal, England