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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

There's been rain and now it's just cloudy with occasional sunshine. Currently 15 degrees and the high was 16. There might be more rain later. Barometer up to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 05:29; Sunset 21:16 BST

A quiet day. I did some washing up while HWMBO and his eldest went grocery shopping. Logged on to gig1 for a couple of hours to justify billing. Had a look about for more work (none suitable found). I'm quite enjoying the time off but I know I'll start getting very bored next week.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been burger and chips

Very Simpsonesque out there now

This morning, the dishwasher did its magic, and this afternoon it was the turn of the mundane laundry

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was more of the Lockerbie thing, in which tiny pieces of circuit board are a bit of a giveaway, while the CIA is trying its best to be as unhelpful as possible

And later, I read more of Just a Shot Away in which the Altamont concert has started degenerating into mayhem almost immediately

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
the dog needed to go out, so I’m up.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start today, with the merest wisps of fluff here and there. It’s still quite breezy though, so 14°C right now “feels like” 11°; the expected high is 21°, and the barometers have leapt back up to 1009/1017mB

Thursday!

I was thinking of doing the shopping at lunchtime, as work isn’t exactly busy at the moment. But I want to go to M&S again and it takes too long to get across town and visit both there and Sainsbury’s, so I’ll probably leave it until tomorrow

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday judging by the racket on the road earlier.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Where did the rain go?

21.1 deg in here, 22.75 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto, 16 out the back, 16.4 in the saltinghouse.

1016.5 mBar, 30.1 in Hg, 762.4 Torr, 14.74 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 10:44 and 10:57, covbob, eek, LM, MrMarkyMark, and NF popped in.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom & cool breeze.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Wonderlands E4/4: Tolkein, Erskine Childers.

That requiring the iRon received its attentions. Entertainment: Archive Hour: "Man of the people: Paul Graney's Story": chap who lived in the North West, as old as the century, worked in cotton mills, fought the BUF in the 1930s, visited Germany during the rise of dear old Adolph, lived in a workhouse, became a tramp during the 20s. A different world.

Everything in off the line & airing upstairs.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: The pack horse. The packman (aka tinker/chapman). Fishing in "Turk's Pond" which hadn't been fished since said Turk had done so: plenty of fish, though very small, & unlike said Turk, Jack didn't eat the fish. I wonder how someone from Llanelli ended up fishing there. It's a mystery. Well at least it wasn't a Swansea Jack. .

Tea: baked beans & baked spuds. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click> Blazian UFO bollox.

5Select: Ships: SS Great Britain.

Bab5 S2 E21 "Come the inquisitor". G'Kar starts getting his act together.

Digging for Britain.

Blazian UFO bollox: we are not alone, apparently, with The Truth, no doubt, Being Out There Somewhere.

Possibly More Blazian UFO bollox.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky poking through the lumps of fluff. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Barometer up a lot to 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 05:31; Sunset 21:14 BST

A couple of meetings to do this afternoon. Then HWMBO and I have a date night dinner planned for this evening.

[NickFitz]

Well, today was a bit boring until 11:00, when a user made a mistake on a file upload and totally screwed all the figures for last month, this month, and next month!

I never got around to having lunch as I was busy digging through things trying to work out of there was any way to undo everything easily. But although, in theory, it could be done, it would have been a lot of work. So I had to go to the infrastructure people to get the data restored from backup - which is a huge process in itself, due to everything involving loads of moving parts on AWS, and certain things needing to be done by them

But they were brilliant, with five or six of them jumping on a Slack call and assisting me through the whole process - first on our hotfix environment just to check there weren’t any nasty surprises lurking in the undergrowth, then in production. And the system allows for restoring to a point in time with a granularity of five minutes, so we didn’t lose any of the work people had done this morning before that, or very little. We got the whole thing resolved just before 17:00 and everything’s up and running again

We’ve got to have a full post mortem on Monday because it counted as a P1 incident due to needing to take the service offline for a while, and I gather they get reported upwards to senior management, only just below ministerial level. While there are potentially valid reasons for users being able to do what this one did, it really shouldn’t have been that easy - the system should have alerted them that something was unusual and given them a chance to correct it, rather than just charging ahead. So I’ll argue that even though we’re not supposed to be adding new features, we should at least take some time to strengthen the guard rails

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^

Control Panel Design: Features wild black controls labeled in black on a black background, complemented by a small black light that lights up in black when operated.

Arthur's Question: Asks what the button does.

Ford's Warning: Tells him not to touch it.

The Result: A panel lights up saying "Please do not press this button again".

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