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[mudskipper]

"You look tulip. Must be all that wine you bought yesterday. And get that unexpected item out of my bagging area."

How about some Oil of UOlay?

[vetran]

Yet again the staff in Tesco did not request ID when I bought wine. I will just have to keep buying more until they do.

any excuse to wear your Schoolgirl outfit then?

[NickFitz]

Which means I can start into the gritty business of using environments in Chef to ensure my local testing VMs use a local database server, while the live deployment to AWS EC2 uses an RDS server that I'm paying for but nothing is yet pointing at

Much to my surprise, managed to get this working, and without breaking anything

Well, to be strictly accurate, the minor breakage I introduced only took a couple of minutes to fix, and the background service that actually writes to the database continued uninterrupted, so not a problem

Time for dinner now. I think a trip to the Chinese is in order

[mudskipper]

My fun last week was playing with flow.xo to create a phone insurance bot. It's fair to say I spent (almost) as much time on the small talk (not the 80s programming language) function as I did on fulfilling your insurance claim. My bot now deals with questions such as 'happy holidays' (it's US) 'do you like trump' and various forms of 'go away' in two words. Was demoed to investor on Friday, so will see how it went. Hopefully can get it finished next week.

[PhiltheGreek]

various forms of 'go away' in two word

Would you like me to UAT it?

[NickFitz]

My fun last week was playing with flow.xo to create a phone insurance bot. It's fair to say I spent (almost) as much time on the small talk (not the 80s programming language) function as I did on fulfilling your insurance claim. My bot now deals with questions such as 'happy holidays' (it's US) 'do you like trump' and various forms of 'go away' in two words. Was demoed to investor on Friday, so will see how it went. Hopefully can get it finished next week.

Excellent!

I've got a bot project in mind too, but I want to get this automation stuff tidied up before diving into that

[WTFH]

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TFBSZ. Impromptu meeting with the drummer earlier after someone told him our sound system was broken (that was the same someone who adjusted a load of settings without asking if he could, which caused the problem.
Had to get all the gear out, stage box, 6 mics, everything. Drummer now understands that it all works perfectly as long as no one twiddles the knobs to make it sound bad.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's main feature, after the fall of Saigon while I ate dinner (and which I remember from first time around) was The Monuments Men, being the (based-on-a) true story of a bunch of fine art experts tasked with chasing, and sometimes getting ahead of, the Allied advance into Germany in 1944-45 for the purpose of securing works of art that had been looted by the Nazis, and returning them to their rightful places. Not a lot of explosions for a war film, but an enjoyable watch

And then some more of The Americans, as usual.

Goodnight all

[SueEllen]

[Scruff]

London, Union Jack Club, Imperial War Museum, Brick Lane for salt beef Bagels. Another Day on the Bench 🌋