Snow in North London! Only a weak few flakes, but it's brightened my day #uksnow

My hot chocolate transformed in to a chilly chocolate by the time I'd got back to my desk

Every single news channel apart from GBeebies (bit of a stretch calling it 'news' though) is doing this today. As @garius.bsky.social said, "If you mute the Orange one's surname today, you will miss out on nothing important"

When’s Bins by the excellent @charlieoctogirl.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDWx...

Happy Festive Perineum!

That’s not my train to work - it’s too engineeringy(!)

I've spent half the day trying to work out why a Spring Boot 4 project simply doesn't work. For anyone who wishes to save time, Spring Boot 4 needs the spring-boot-starter-flyway dependency added :)

Technology is straightforward, but not always easy to understand. I've taken a bit of time to write about message expiry in Apache ActiveMQ + Camel blog.poggs.com/2025/12/14/a...

BBC: Hundreds of items taken in 'high-value' museum raid www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Power cut this evening and I remembered I have three things not on a UPS: the switch in my study (easily fixed), and two ONTs which provide my primary and secondary connectivity. Darn it.

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3 is out! I love that @jetbrains.com already have Spring Boot 4 and Java 25 support baked in relatively quickly after the products were released

BBC London providing bulletins for BBC Scotland earlier today due to a fire at the studios in Glasgow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why are sites such as admin.microsoft.cloud so darned slow? I can easily click on something and wait 6-7 seconds for all the data on the page to load - which is frustrating

I am asking all men on International Men's Day to smile more

Optimistic defibrillator locations, an occasional series...

BBC News takes a different angle today. Not news from the BBC, but news *about* the BBC.

I just explained being CEO of BBC News and DG of the BBC as being a bit like a fuse - if something goes wrong, your role gets blown and you get replaced, even if it's not your fault

Rather than Secret Santa, I propose we send anonymous notes to somebody in French. I’ll call it s’secrit Santa.

I'm wondering if I can include "Makeup and Vanity Set" in the acknowledgement section of a very big project I'm writing up. Go listen, they're brilliant www.makeupandvanityset.com

BBC News have just reported that AWS have suggested the us-east-1 issue is related to DNS resolution. Time to bring out this evergreen meme :)

An AWS outage in the US means that my doorbell isn't working. I can't even complain about it on Snapchat :D

- Ian, you're lying in a weather grave. Do you know what's on your headstone? - Weather? - Ian, thank you

Heavy use of bidirectional signalling on the Heathrow Airport branch this evening

THIS. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

London has fallen. We will rebuild. #StormAmy

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