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[DoctorStrangelove]

As of today, the Evil EUSSR have banned halogen light bulbs.

Buy now whilst stocks last!

<hiatus>

In with the hoi polloi to check work emails I won't be able to check next week until I've put my office back together.

<hiatus>

Another foot of dvds purchased. *

I wonder how many dupes I got this week.

Lunch has been partaken, being a quarter of a big Morrisons pork pie together with a tin of Heinz(tm) baked beans with little sausages.

Pork overload now.

*And a book about the GWR: Then and Now, which remarkably enough was purchased by someone from Oxfam in Swansea in 2016 for £3, while I bought it today for a mere £2. Bargain.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny out

Currently at 24.7°C in the living room.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Still light grey and sunless here but it's comparatively warm nonetheless.

21.3 deg in here now.

<hiatus>

Found one of these in the garage once I'd cleared enough wood out of the way:

http://www.richardsradios.co.uk/murphy.html

A Murphy Radio U144, priced in that ad at £16/7/6d.

Which, adjusting for inflation is a King's ransom.

Or about £500 as the case may be.

Strangelove mater bought a Murphy Baffle radio

http://www.classicwireless.co.uk/Murphy_A186.htm

It was about £22/10/0d.

£656.

Stone me stuff was expensive.


Other than that, the ongoing tidying up is ongoing.

Ish.

Found that the batteries in one of my torches had sprung a leak.

I hate batteries.

And I've removed the transformer from that defunct battery charger thing for the drill & connected it to a dc psu instead.

It hasn't blown up.

Yet.

[Syd]

Hi, I'm Syd.

[NickFitz]

Hi, I'm Syd.

[vetran]

Go live weekend day 2.

Number of IT project managers on site: zero
Amount of time wasted yesterday by IT project managers phoning, emailing or organising unnecessary meetings: 3 hours.
Number of spreadsheets being used to track the project: n+1

paging suity!

we need a scapegoat!

[vetran]

Hi, I'm Syd.

Here you go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nedVpG-GjkE

welcome!

[vetran]

As of today, the Evil EUSSR have banned halogen light bulbs.

Buy now whilst stocks last!

Hmm there are a few use cases where halogen shine, I would have just taxed them hard and required any dimmer / electronic switch on sale to support LED.

[NickFitz]

More tileserver shenanigans… with all the shapefiles included, the VM struggles to cope with realtime rendering, so I'm finally getting around to setting it up on AWS

[NickFitz]

Ah FFS. Berkshelf doesn't ignore directories specified in .chefignore, meaning it's packaging up a gigabyte of stuff it doesn't have to. Googling reveals that the issue has been raised with the developers numerous times, and they just say "It's not a priority for us" and do nothing about it. This is the attitude they always take to issues that aren't currently a problem for them personally; it really pisses me off

I'm going to the Chinese instead