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    I got home about 10 minutes before the plumber turned up (they were very early). The chap took one look at the boiler, asked me what the problem was, then said he'd send in a quote. Done and gone in under five minutes.

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      That’s Monday out of the way!

      I’ve been working on a thing that lets you drill down into an extremely large dataset, aggregating values at the top level and then letting you expand rows to see the breakdown; there’s about twenty columns and you can go down seven levels, with thousands of rows if you were to expand the whole thing. Last week, I spent a bit of time adding a loading indicator, as it could take two or three seconds for the data to load when you expanded a row. Then I set to work optimising the data retrieval and by this afternoon, I’d got it loading so fast that most of the time, your visual cortex doesn’t register the presence of the loading indicator before the new rows appear

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        Tea has been some Turkish leftovers with chips and ketchup

        To go with this, the latest episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody about an already convicted prolific child rapist, a number of new victims having come forward since he was banged up. So it wasn’t really in the spirit of the title, being more than 24 hours and not in the custody suite; but he got an extra five life sentences to add to the ones he already had, so that’s OK

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          In Berlin, the Red Army are closing in on the centre of the city, meaning things are going pretty badly for everyone else

          Goodnight all

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            Morning denizens

            It’s yet another cloudy and breezy start, with additional emphasis on the breeze today. This means that the current 3°C “feels like” -6°, which seems a little harsh and suggests the expected high of 5° won’t be much better - though it looks like the breeze might have eased off a bit by then. Rain is due this evening (60-75% chance). And the barometers are hunkering back down at 983/991mB

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              Morning all
              The overnight precipitation was heavy, but eased around 6am, and by half way round our walk it had stopped. Now just overcast an murky.
              …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                Morning.

                Tuesday by all accounts, including the clock.

                Damply dry.

                Greyly sunless.

                Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11.5 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto.

                987.5 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (up from 987 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

                Meanwhile on the 14th of March 2020: see yesterday.
                Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 09:26.
                When the fun stops, STOP.

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                  Morning all

                  Dull and wet. Much rain overnight. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 2) with a high of 6 expected. Drizzle anticipated for most of the day. Barometer down 993 mBar.

                  Sunrise 07:37; Sunset 16:54 GMT

                  Slow start to the day today. The recent flurry of activity seems to have dissipated. Back to normal tick over.

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