test please delete

[NickFitz]

and since thanks/likes etc are off on the busiest thread here, that'll be moot.

That’s because of the fundamental architectural mistake in vBulletin 5: putting almost everything in one humongous DB table with a “type” field to tell what each row actually is

[ladymuck]

This evening's ents has been S2 of Unforgotten on ITV. It's very good.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spag bol, except with tagliatelle instead of spag

I bought the tagliatelle a while ago as an experiment but this is the first time I’ve got around to having any. It’s much the same in many ways, of course. Maybe it’s because I'm not used to it but I found it a bit fiddlier to eat, so I may not bother with it again once I’ve finished it

[xoggoth]

Old fart lunch today followed by boring trip to doctors.

Got an email from a lady in Kazakhstan promising me plenty of photos. One good thing about lots of scam emails to your business email address or generic requests from your website contact page is it shows you have a decent presence on Google.

Got my canvas based mappy thing working well, now I can still show footpath inspection locations from photos on OS maps when Bing stops support for OS maps API.

[ladymuck]

Only Connect was very difficult this evening.

[NickFitz]

Lunch, BTW, was a sausage bap

This evening’s viewing was the rest of an episode of Police Interceptors that I started watching last week

I’d paused it just at the start of an ad break, and returning to it revealed a new bug in the 5 app: it started playing what I assume were the ads queued up when I’d paused it, but after a second or so they’d suddenly be replaced by a different ad, which I’m guessing came from a new list of “ads to play” that it had just downloaded

This is, I suppose, marginally better than the previous bug where it would play both sets of ads at the same time. Only one appeared on the screen, but it played the combined audio from both of them

I also found a bit of time to do some stuff with the CoreGraphics thing. Given that it’s only supposed to be a quick utility for working out some geometry stuff for the shaders, I think it’s now at the point where I should start getting it to do that rather than tweaking the functionality it already has

And later I read some more of Ambient in which our protagonist has got himself pretty decisively on the wrong side of the ubercapitalists

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey and windy day again, where 13°C feels like 7°; the expected high of 15° won’t feel much better. The barometers are up a tough at 995/1003mB. And tonight, it’s expected to rain

I realised last night that I’d forgotten, once again, to bake a white loaf. I decided to make use of the delay timer on the breadmaker and set it to bake one overnight, finishing not long after I get up. So I arose this morning to the lovely aroma of freshly baked bread filling the flat

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast, but the clouds are quite high and thin. No rain not he walk, but expecting it in a couple of hours.

[DoctorStrangelove]

20 years on and it's just about the only live thread left. .

Morning.

Tuesday?

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Grey.

Drizzly.

Damp.

Chilly in here at 17 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

1003 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 752 Torr, 14.547 psi, (down from 1005.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of February 2020 Brillo popped in, it was an anniversary, LM and WTFH congratulated him, AndyGarbs popped in and it was a generic bin day for some.

Another endlessly tedious grey day.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus and the dehumidifier rattling away.

Book. Other book.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

Book. Other book.

The Nazi Programme: Norway.

The mind of Mr J. G. Reeder: The man with a strange tattoo (1971). I doubt he'd stand out from the crowd these days. . This one is in Colour(tm) making the credits even more psychedelic. Oooer, the old lady was tooled up. .

Another Nazi Programme: from above. Salerno to Monte Casino. I worked with a chap who'd fought his way up Italy in 1944.

Timewatch on BBC4: The gunpowder plot.

Last 20 minutes of "Pale Rider" (i.e. the bit I like). It's a bit alarming to think I watched that in the Castle Cinema in Swansea all that time ago (1986 at a guess). I think we returned to the carpark in The Strand only to be blocked in by the local plod in search of car thieves. . They cured that possibility by filling the carpark in & turning it into a grassy gnoll.


^^^sadkingbilly OM.