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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Started off cloudy and grey, now it's sunny with lumps of fluff. A gentle breeze is wafting in my office window. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 04:49; Sunset 21:21 BST

A quiet day, meetings wise. I might get some work done.

[NickFitz]

Having dealt with a minor security update this morning, I was able to pop along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and get the shopping done at lunchtime

After I was back, I was due for a meeting with a user researcher to gather my opinion of some documentation of a new process I want to adopt for deployments. I’d been through the docs and made notes, which he greatly appreciated, and I’m hoping they’ll be able to make some improvements as I’m pretty sure I’d be unable to complete the process without help as things currently stand

With that done, I finally had a few minutes to spare for lunch, which was some of those cold cocktail sausages as they’re quick and easy

Back to the fray now

[ladymuck]

Morning all
I'd not say it was raining or even drizzling earlier, but the air was damp.

Om

[ladymuck]

I did some work. Also reminded the programme manager that my contract is up in a month as I got warning yesterday that extensions take a while.

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Sometimes we end Tech Debt Thursday with an hour-long chat on Slack about anything interesting that’s come up, but various people are off and others had gone to the Cardiff office for something, so it didn’t happen this week. So I went through a few tickets from the pentest earlier in the year. Some minor things I can’t change because it’s down to another team, and some others turned out to be OK after all. In particular, a bit of infrastructure was upgraded to TLS 1.3 in line with NCSC’s recommendations a couple of days ago, so that change ended up incorporated in our stuff when the unrelated security fix I released this morning was deployed! Always nice to be able to close a ticket because somebody else has done all the work

[NickFitz]

I couldn’t be bothered with cooking tonight so tea was from Popeyes

Very Simpsonesque out and apparently it’ll get fairly hot over the weekend. Not as bad as it has been, but I reckon the air conditioner will be getting a workout

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Brick (2025) on Netflix, a German film in which the residents of some Hamburg apartments awake to find their building completely sealed up inside a wall made of some unknown material, impervious to attack and also apparently capable of generating a force field of some kind. This was really good - way better than I expected it to be, in fact. Highly recommended

In A Game of Birds and Wolves, Doenitz has become head of the navy, and is using his position to throw every U-boat he has into the Battle of the Atlantic. Will the improvement in Allied tactics as a result of the war games at the Western Approaches be enough to withstand the onslaught?

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc
CBS, etc.
Cool out on the walk, but very pleasant

Picked about 12kg of plums last night. More to pick this evening.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

21.1 in here, 22.2 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto.

1023 mBar, 30.2 in Hg, 767.3 Torr, 14.84 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 covbob, LM, vetran and WTFH popped in: there was no news on the pineapple.

Quarter of an hour of Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves on Rewind TV.

About a quarter* of the walk walked in the sunshine. Didn't want to overstress the legs which were rather reluctant to go any further. *About 2 miles in all.

Looked at the parents & grandparents grave: the Agent Orange spray doesn't seem to have done much to the brambles on the grandparents' grave.

Whatever they've sprayed on the parents' grave seems to have successfully killed everything that might possibly have been of interest. The equisetum is, of course, totally unmoved by this.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: "Scott of the Antarctic (1948)". The Golden Age of Empire: 1912.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with high level wispy bits. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 27 expected. Barometer up to 1030 mBar.

Sunrise 04:50; Sunset 21:21 BST

A bit headachy this morning. For the first time in a long time, I snoozed my alarm and had a longer sleep.

Off out for dinner to Kinkally this evening with friends.