Having spent this year working on a book I can confirm all but step 10

"Bill your Visa or Mastercard via us, instead of using it at the charger." shows how twisted & broken public EV-charging is. Another sign is "increase confidence". Ionity (shown) charge non-subscribers 75% more, good luck find out which card will give the best cut of that.

Prominent folks: Millions stay on Twitter because that's where they hear from you. That includes reporters. YOU are giving Twitter viability and credibility. If YOU leave, the people who want to hear from you will go where you are. YOU are making the choice to keep others on Twitter.

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Alright, fuck it, enough of the shenanigans. We're spending an hour to edit a series of a pelican diving into the ocean that took 3 seconds to shoot. jking please continue with the shenanigans. we deserve it! #birds

Yet again, this Michael Rosen poem hits the bullseye.

Where Babies Come From xkcd.com/3127/

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RIP Tom Lehrer. {1} It must about 1970 that dad told me about farmers in some places painting C O W on livestock in large letters and idiots still shooting them, and each other which was I first met this www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQyo...

It's people like that who make you realise how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. TOM LEHRER (1928 - 2025)

That be the 19 minutes of today I put to best use. If you can only spare 15 minutes it will be OK 1.25x speed, but find the time.

For other UK folks who see this, there is indeed a petition on fighting this! (Has 700+ signatures at the current time of posting.) If you can't sign it, please pass it on. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Relieved of his duties, but not dismissed from the company it seems. Exactly what he will be doing now is even more of a mystery (standing for President of the FIA :-) ? )

The Daily Tarts proving the art of headline writing isn't dead. (Sorry for the accidental inclusion of the Daily Hate)

So getting ready to present the next day & the organizer calls and says "One of our presenters can't do his session in 3 hours. Could you pull together that one you talked about doing 7 months ago?". Still not sure I how made this work. I need to watch to check *IF* I did!

Don't believe anything until it's officially denied. I wonder if it is Max saying "he goes or I go" (not good when the talent dictates who the management should be in any business)

Didn't see that coming. Can't say I like Horner but I'm too shocked to gloat.

Global Ranking xkcd.com/3110/

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

The guy who stole my diary has died. My thoughts are with his family.

Venn diagram

Lordy I hope that is not true.

Not sure who underrates this. Kinda-sorta source control, without source control. "WTF did I do..." compare todays code with last months. "Oh crap..." just restore it. Frequently helpful and occasionally life saving. Especially in places where source control culture is a bit lacking.

news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxford-tempo... Temporary until they can impose bus gates that no one seems to want. I'm puzzled how @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social is home of Mini yet so anti-car. Central #Oxford (away from the Westgate) is shrivelling & here's another reason to do business elsewhere.

Neighbor-Source Heat Pump xkcd.com/3099/

the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny

I had to remind myself who Scarmucci is/was (can he do the fandango ?) In searching, I found this from a week ago www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

just another day in the office

Um, @microsoft.com you are FUCKING JOKING, SURELY? It's bad enough that I can't turn Copi lot in PowerPoint (I can in word and Excel, the option is absent in PPT). But adverts in office apps based on making office into spyware? What on God's earth were you thinking?

Just had one of those daft moments with #PowerShell. "Why doesn't this command export that... I'll check the source before filing a bug... oh there's a parameter to say 'export that'." Note to self: 1 minute checking help can save 10 minutes going through source code.

What if you used a flamethrower as a snowblower? Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! youtu.be/WYf9-xfm6t8

Zap map (probably #1 experts at getting data) reckon 5% of operators provide no data 1/4 don't provide live status, others don't make pricing available And 6 months after regulations told operators to make the info public, the regulator has told me they have no process to check it is happening.

Earlier today, talking about an ill-managed transition of responsibility I mashed the words cack-handed and handover, into a new portmanteau word: cack-handover I've needed it many times but haven't heard it before (waits for @susiedent.com to say it's already known)

Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people. A kind word can make someone’s day.

My current gig checks accounts on many services & legal requirements to find actions needed to comply. Separately I'm gathering data from EV charger operators. I've formed a hypothesis: "quality of data is inversely proportional to the number of sources that need to be combined" Who [dis]agrees?

I hope they can read installation guides. To explain their refusal to provide pcpr data they sent this link www.gov.uk/government/p... which literally says “All data must be made publicly available“ so reading isn’t their strength :-)

France, the country of true justice

Long but worth a read. Not (really) politics, just arithmetic. Selectively taxing goods you want people not to buy needs the money raised to go back by cutting other taxes, in the hope it's spent where you do want it. Else it's just a policy of "be nasty to buyer/sellers of x,y & z"

My blog jhoneill.github.io/stable4days/... I wanted data about #electricCar #EV points that gov.uk requires operators to provide. Some stars, but also some bastards, idiots, and processes from Kafka. I now admire the likes of @zapmap.com for gathering the info they do.

RIP. Someone who will be widely missed.

And today’s entry in “How did I live this long without learning “ is…

My wife's super power might be gift buying. It was my birthday on Monday, no ideas about presents people could get me. She found ukdepartureboards.co.uk Pick a station, display its departures. Brilliant use of some public data feeds

One for me to chase on PCPR open data. They've got a point about others in the industry not complying. Instavolt don't meet the Open data requirements and play dumb when asked.

My blog "The #electricCar experience: how charging numbers stack up" jhoneill.github.io/stable4days/... So much talk about #ElectricVehicles is about range and time to charge. But driving an #EV I've found they matter very little. And I wrote about why.

Waiting to see this headline on tomorrows papers. It might beat the FT's one to report that following Steve Jobs' death gross sales were up under his successor. That read: "Cook improves Apple turnover"

My blog : jhoneill.github.io/stable4days/... I'm starting to tell the story of having an #electriccar ( #notatesla @volkswagenuk.bsky.social ) TLDR. I like it. Let's see how many users of dinosaur juice I upset :-) #ElectricVehicles #EV #battery

Hmmm. I've never asked trans people I know , or "people" as I like to call them, how much they want to be visible as trans Vs getting on with their lives without fuss about their history. Surely what someone *does* matters more than congruence with their birth certificate?