test please delete

[NickFitz]

don't mention Hex, whatever you do! - or EBCDIC for that matter

There was a thread on Bluesky earlier about Byte Order Marks in XML encoding, and I was thinking about possibly having to explain that to them at some point

It's quite possible I will have to explain it, in fact, as Excel includes a BOM when it exports to CSV. This was causing Unicode problems a couple of years ago in handling data being sent back by the trade attachés (they aren't called that any more, but it's the same thing) at our embassy in China

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a bacon butty, done properly with white bread fried on the inside in the bacon fat

[ladymuck]

On a 5x5 grid, Yellowknife, Canada took 27 moves. Shameful performance.

[sadkingbilly]

San José de Jáchal, Argentina, on 6x6 , in 36 moves.
dunno if that's good or not

[NickFitz]

Yellowknife in 24. Not as easy as it might have been

[sadkingbilly]

Yellowknife in 24. Not as easy as it might have been

44 on 6x6

[NickFitz]

44 on 6x6

Ok, I'm going in…

[NickFitz]

44 on 6x6

42

[DoctorStrangelove]

42

Congratulations: The Meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Turkish leftovers

Today's viewing was, of course, Monkey Life (albeit interrupted by artists, as noted earlier)

Nothing new at the Canadian border, or at the Australian border that got thrown in for good measure, or on the roads of New Zealand

This evening, I read some more Sassoon.

I also found a bit of time here and there to sort out some bags of stuff that had been cluttering the side of the living room for ages. Apart from a small nest of tables that needed reassembling, they mostly contained books from the parental home, it turned out

It still seems to be pretty windy, though the rain seems to have petered out

Monday again tomorrow, but at least this will be the last working week of the year

Goodnight all