test please delete

[NickFitz]

Always reassuring to grab something you need off GitHub and find, on first using it, that it contains a syntax error which prevents it running at all. I mean, you don't have to go full TDD, but this thing couldn't even have worked on his machine

[original PM]

Hash fumes in the Northern Quarter?

Yeah I am close enough to smell them too!

Nobody seems to be sharing though

Should be there in thirty minutes or so, if the radar is to be believed

Well i just popped out to Tampopo for some noodles and it was still pretty pleasant - if anything a touch muggy.

[NickFitz]

Mundane laundry - t-shirts and such - done. Now on to the tea towel wash.

[DoctorStrangelove]

it was still pretty pleasant - if anything a touch muggy.

Sun's out and the waves have subsided on the dock.

[NickFitz]

Tea towels done. And I remembered that I wanted chips for tonight's tea, so a large batch of them has just been brought to Phase I, and is now drying off.

I may not have time to freeze the ones for tonight, but never mind

[DoctorStrangelove]

Caught the X55 this evening at 17:15.

It must be said that it's a lot calmer at that time of day after the rush has dispersed a bit.

Tea was lentil <pffffft> soup which was as bland as bland can be but palatable enough.

Followed by stewed green gooseberries and custard.

Yum.

Twas remade in 2000:

On the Beach (TV Movie 2000) - IMDb

Got 30 mins in & decided I'd had enough for tonight.

Only another 2 hrs 50 mins to go.

The aspect ration looked a bit odd at the start, as if it was 16:9 squashed to 4:3, but later on it looks ok at 4:3.

3 hours of very tall people might get a bit wearing and neither the tv nor the bluray player seems to be able to correct it, despite much pressing of buttons.

The Brian Brown takes the Fred Astaire part, with someone I've never heard of doing the Gregory Peck thing.

Apparently the 1959 version upset Neville Shute so much it killed him.

Sun's out and the waves have subsided on the dock.

Apparently there's a storm coming.

Again.

Watching carefully for ladies in open jeeps with alsation dogs.

[vetran]

I spent the afternoon in the Tate Modern, actually no unmade beds or desperate sex. Some of it was quite good.


Guerrilla Girls

Christian Marclay: The Clock – Exhibition at Tate Modern | Tate

take the time to visit.

Not as good as the Louvre.

[vetran]

Dinner tonight was thai chicken curry + polish head remover £1.49 for a pint from our Polish shop (run by a sikh of course)

[NickFitz]

Dinner has been a porterhouse steak, with very good chips - Suffolk seems to have yielded excellent chip spuds this year

And the recycling bin has been trundled forth ready for tommorow's festivities.

After trundling, I popped over to Sainsbury's Local. In the queue for the till with me were three people wearing Tesco uniforms

[NickFitz]

After much thrashing about, I finally got the basic version of the thing working

It didn't help that for most of the day, I've had it pointing at the wrong database server

But now I'm pointing at the right one: behold!

That map was rendered in response to an HTTP request, with the bounding box specified in the URL. Running in a Vagrant VM on my MBA, and using geographic data from a Postgres database server running on my iMac across the room, it rendered in 6 seconds, which isn't too bad.

FWIW, it shows the area in which Arthur Ransome's novel Secret Water is set

Couldn't work out why Mapnik was failing to render land polygons, leading to bits of dry land not appearing. After mucking about for ages making sure it was building OK, the server was configured OK, the Mapnik mapfile was correct, and so on, it turned out the polygon shapefiles were somehow corrupted.

Fixed now

Oh, and adding database GIN indexes has shaved a few seconds off the rendering time