Spent a few minutes thinking that there was a car with really bright headlights a long way behind me. It turns out it was a motorcycle with a pair of headlights really damn close.

Been doing a lot of motorway driving recently, and have been listening to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio show. An abridged quote from episode 1:
 - 6 pints of beer please
 - there you go
 - thanks. Keep the change
 - what from a fiver!? Thankyou sir.

I had to get some stuff from Ikea, and the closest one that had what I wanted in stock was Wembley. So on my way back, I took a look at the area I spent a very formative year or two: where I transitioned from a self-righteous, tee-total christian, to the drunken, atheist scamp you've all come to know and love ( Read more... )

Back in the 90s, my home computer's monitor happily supported a resolution of 1600 × 1200 (*). Then LCDs arrived and for 20-odd years 1920 x 1080 was about as high a resolution as you could hope for without spending a fortune. Finally 4k screens are common enough that it's economical to buy a monitor supporting a better resolution than I had in my ( Read more... )

So the idea of open source is that you write some code you need/want. You then release the code so that other people can use it as well. They add features, fix bugs and extend it to work on other systems. They benefit from the original code you wrote, you benefit from the new features and fixed bugs. And if you need to use it on Arm, or a Mac or ( Read more... )

So our Christmas plans took a bit of a hit with everything being more contagious and locked down than expected. Fortunately we had a turkey roast in the freezer in case of emergency. Then on Friday, Faye fell ill with a fever. And complained that things "tasted funny". She'd fully recovered by Sunday, but her symptoms ticked enough covid boxes that ( Read more... )

Overheard a conversation yesterday where a man was going on about an idiot friend of his. Said friend apprently had a cunning plan to make money -  fly between countries and smuggle drugs. "They never check for that kind of thing".

Just filled in my tax return, and the basic PAYE stuff is already prefilled with the information from the P60 and P11D files that my employer had sent the tax man months ago!

How did it take this long?

- So Faye: what are you most looking forward to tomorrow?
- an orange. Santa always puts an orange in my stocking
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 - Jacki! I'm just popping out to the co-op for something...

Well poop! G+ is shutting down ( Read more... )