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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rainy grey day again. The wind apparently is still quite windy too, so our 5°C “feels like” -2°; we should be getting 8°, but not until after dark - around nine or ten tonight, in fact, which is also when the rain will go away. The barometers are steady at 973/981mB

I see I neglected to sign off again last night so, for the record, I decided that after Stalingrad and Berlin, something lighter in tone would make a nice change. Hence the new book is The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn, in which a couple of time travellers return to the early nineteenth century on a mission to snaffle the manuscript of a novel that Ms. Austen destroyed. I do wonder if it will turn out that their real mission is something more, but it’s entertaining enough as it is seeing people of modern sensibilities trying to blend in with Regency society

I have to head off to do the shopping soon, rain or no rain. I thought it might be Viz week, but the festive break has thrown the timing out and it actually came out last week. So to Big Sainsbury’s I must go!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another dull, damp day. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Drizzle expected all day. Barometer up to 984 mBar.

Sunrise 07:32; Sunset 17:00 GMT

HWMBO is off home today. He wants to watch NFL things on his huge TV rather than my piddly one and, as it takes place in the wee hours, I'm grateful for the lack of sleep disturbance. He'll be back in just under a week as it's my birthday (a big one!) next Sunday.

Gig3 confirmed start date on Wednesday. Just getting the contract reviewed before I sign my life away.

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Not only did I get Viz, I was also randomly selected for a rescan at the self-scan checkout. And this wasn’t the usual one where they do eight or ten things picked at random out of your bags: this was the Entire Shop Rescan! So I had to go over to the counter where they keep the security-tag-removers and such and she went through every bag. But it was the nice lady who’s been there for years, long before Covid even, and she was very careful not to mix up things from different bags and mess up my System

Next: lunch

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a couple of spicy chicken thighs out of the freezer

And then much of the afternoon was devoted to the new forum stuff. They have an importer for vB5, but this is vB5.4 IIRC and the vBulletin people kept changing things between point versions. So they gave up trying to make the importer keep up and it only works up to vB5.1, I think.

So I’ve been through the source code for the import process, checking everything I can think of, which involved a lot of looking at the vB database and then the equivalent thing in the new database. Most of it works OK, but there are a few things I need to patch. And there’s important stuff like Thanks and Likes, which I need to dig into more because they’re handled by a third-party plugin here, but the new software has a builtin system, so I need to make sure all that stuff gets copied across

But it’s all useful stuff to learn. I’ve been able to get a test framework together that lets me make sure individual bits are working OK, and some other stuff that lets me run bits of the new forum code in isolation to make sure I understand how things work

[DoctorStrangelove]

Shopping done!

I was also randomly selected for a rescan at the self-scan checkout. And this wasn’t the usual one where they do eight or ten things picked at random out of your bags: this was the Entire Shop Rescan! So I had to go over to the counter where they keep the security-tag-removers and such and she went through every bag. But it was the nice lady who’s been there for years, long before Covid even, and she was very careful not to mix up things from different bags and mess up my System

Think yourself lucky you weren't like that poor sod the other day mistakenly ordered to leave because the face recog s/w had a false positive and/or the security morons got the wrong chap. .

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sainsbury-...175424281.html

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a NEW! Sainsbury’s TTD wagyu ribeye steak with fried onions and chips. Very nice

This was accompanied by the rest of yesterday’s Police Interceptors

I stripped the bed and left the mattress to air this morning, so now I need to go and remake it before settling down for the evening

[NickFitz]

Tonight there was not one but two major motion picture premieres, opening with September 5 (2024) in which terrorists kidnap the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics - but this is about the TV coverage, because the ABC sports team refuse to give back responsibility for covering the story to the news team, on the basis that they’re on the ground and the news team are in the USA, and end up providing the only live TV coverage of the incident from beginning to end, watched by hundreds of millions of people. I like these stories of how stories are covered, and I thought this was a particularly good one

Then Unhinged (2020) in which a young mother annoys another driver by honking her horn, but it turns out he’s a misogynist who already has nothing to lose… This started slow but then turned very violent very quickly, as is the way with psychopaths. Much better than I thought it was going to be for the first fifteen minutes or so, and well worth a watch

And finally, a rewatch of Oblivion (2013) because I hadn’t watched that in a while, and it's good

Goodnight all