Went back to the bird site for a moment and it made me glad I’m here

Current mood: awaiting Temurin 25 to appear in @sdkman.io's list of available Java versions

I'd sooner take medical advice from Dr Nick Riviera than the US President

Attention @charlieoctogirl.bsky.social

This ticks so many of my retro boxes

I'm not sure if I'll be awake at 0105 tomorrow to take delivery of my groceries. I guess it's coming direct from Scotland.

All keynotes are better with memes!

iOS 26 review: unsure about the new glassy display, annoyed my clock has changed to something retro-80s (not in the good way) but already using the 'screen unknown callers' option to great effect! If you're neurodivergent and have a lot going on right now, don't update to '26 yet

It's officially the day we're allowed to post this

Shrodinger’s District Line - showing as operating Whitechapel to Upminster on station boards and on Citymapper, but “nope” according to station staff

Rail Data Marketplace - lots of APIs, feeds and static data raildata.org.uk

Ordnance Survey Open Data - osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open

Full credit to the BBC for covering a story about blood glucose tests with stock clips of purple-top K2E Vacutainer tubes, rather than just random clips of serum separator tubes

Three tickets to Londinium please.

I have a Pentium III running at 366MHz here, a pair of RAID-1'd SSDs and I'm wondering what OS to install on it. Windows 3.11 seems to object to the Matrox GPU in the AGP slot

My thoughts are with news presenters today who are struggling to pronounce Clopidogrel

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

I bought a couple of bars of Absolute Black 100% cocoa chocolate. It's so absolutely pitch-black dark that I'm not going to be able to finish even one bar in the next week

Political phrasing decoded: "Workers" - anyone who works "Hard-working families" - anyone who has a family "Managers" - overpaid people who are evil because they follow orders and don't think for themselves "Chiefs"/"Bosses" - anonymous, overpaid people who are evil because they manage managers

"Where would we be without CTRL + ALT + DEL?" Well, probably still at the "Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to log on" screen

Amusing SNOMED codes: 970691000000103 | Main spoken language Latin (finding)

My bus to work is creaking like an asthmatic donkey

Both of my meetings today have been cancelled, which is a good thing as I feel like I'm barely crawling through the day on insufficient sleep

One of those "Oh, I'm surprised I remember how to do that" moments - I've set up a RADIUS server to authenticate MAC addresses of wireless clients at home, and it works and it's not 11.30pm!

Serious post: I have a 2002-era motherboard which needs re-capping, as some of the 1500uF capacitors are looking distinctly dodgy. Can anyone recommend somewhere I can get it recapped professionally by somebody MUCH better at fine soldering than I am?

For a brief moment, I thought my clocks were half an hour out, and then... no, it's the News at Six, this time at half past five.

I'm all for privacy, but when your option is to have a bunch of scammy-looking sponsored links above the fold and you're *always* scrolling down to find the first legitimate post, it's tempting to accept less private options

I suspect I might need to adjust the default lifetime of X.509 certificates

The actual Oxford Tube youtu.be/t87nt9m5MPc

Nothing beats having a six-hour maintenance window, and spending four hours trying to work out why your cloud provider can't move an IP address from one account to another before giving up and reverting back to the original configuration. Failure successful - try again later.

29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'

Qu'est-ce que les oiseaux? Nous ne savons simplement connaissent pas!

No Direction

Slightly diminish a band: Frankie Goes To Brentwood

Phlebotomist at the hospital: “Have you had this done before?” Me (the patient) “Yeah, once or twice, it’s my job” :D Instant rapport <3

Every time the Orange president opens his mouth, I imagine him as Ralph Wiggum

"The channel 'QM1.TO.QM2' has finished starting" - you'd be foolish in thinking that if I stopped this channel, it would start finishing, but no... it starts quiescing

Having little or no formal training in assembler or C, I'm finding it surprisingly easy and logical to pick up. However, interfacing with a Z80 SIO to emulate a ZNET station (SDLC over coax, in essence) is still proving tricky

Get you a bestie who HAPPILY goes through your plastic container drawer and matches up all the complete sets!!!

Carl Sagan's 'Baloney Detection Kit' – a set of tools for sceptical thinking and scientific reasoning, designed to help people spot logical fallacies, misinformation, rhetorical tricks, and deceptive arguments 👀

My smoke alarm started chirping for a low battery, wouldn’t switch off and I hid it in my Instant Pot so it won’t annoy everyone whilst I’m out. Tonight, I wonder why the hell there’s a smoke alarm in my Instant Pot.

royalty free, exactly

Another contented cat I saw on a walk

Credit to the BBC for drowning out Donald Trump with the sound of bagpipes - a bag of hot air that talks sense

I just verified my age by changing 01 to 071 or 081

I’m fairly sure that somebody on Radio 4, commenting on porn sites and age verification, said “No other country has pulled this off”

OZZY OSBOURNE IS GONE AND RUPERT MURDOCH IS STILL HERE ARE YOU KIDDING ME

I have an unnecessarily fancy keyboard with glowing keys

A Facetime call attempt from a number I don't recognise, and a text message from "TikTok HR" inviting me to become a remote employee. Don't they realise that nobody on TikTok is gonna answer a Facetime call from a number they don't know!? :D

I'm getting my step count in by having to walk across the room to test out some C++/assembler on an 80186 machine. I may have to get lazy and do something with ZuluSCSI and develop *on* the target machine