Tonight, not being in the mood for serious and weighty works of history, I started reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. I tried starting this a while ago (possibly a couple of years...
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There was a bit of wildlife stuff on the telly over teatime
Tonight, not being in the mood for serious and weighty works of history, I started reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. I tried starting this a while ago (possibly a couple of years... -
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Tea has been the Guinness-braised beef short ribs I made last week, with chips and peas
This was accompanied by a new episode of Forensics: The Real CSI on iPlayer, about the stabbing of a young lad in Birmingham
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This morning’s forum wrangling has been the tags import, as for whatever reason that step runs between threads, which I got working on Friday, and posts. It wasn’t a particularly complicated one though
Time for lunch: a leftover pork chop in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce...
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Morning denizens
It’s a sunny day with a mainly blue sky to welcome in March. There’s some high, thin stuff and mare’s tails towards the east, but it’s all clear to the west. It felt a little chilly when I poked my head out of the window though, and apparently it’s 8°C...Leave a comment:
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Lots of wildlife stuff on the box today, as usual
This evening, I started reading The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh (published in 2000, so not actually new any more). It seems to take an interesting approach to the subject, but I’ll probably read it a bit at a time...Leave a comment:
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I fancied a burger for tea tonight, but Five Guys in town unexpectedly shut down late last year - it was just a few days after I last ordered from there, I think. There’s another one, but it’s right across the other side of the city on the outer ring road. So I decided to give Burger King a try....Leave a comment:
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Indeed! Always a source of interesting reflection and introspection
I though that one was good - a lot better than some of the other disowned ones
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Afternoon denizens
It’s cloudy with gaps allowing for sunny spells out, and drying after a very rainy night. There’s a bit of a breeze again, so the current 8°C (which is also the high for the day) “feels like” 3°. The barometers are optimistic though, being up to 1005/1013mB...Leave a comment:
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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Vault (2021), mainly because Netflix have emailed me repeatedly to tell me that it was leaving Netflix today (yesterday now) so I thought I’d see what all the fuss was about. It turned out to be an OK film in the “bank heist requiring ingenuity”...Leave a comment:
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Tea has been Sainsbury’s TTD slow-cooked lamb kleftiko with little roast potatoes, and it was very nice
They wittered on the packaging about cooking new potatoes with it. Instead, I cut some spuds small and chucked them in the casserole with the lamb and the sauce, then started...Leave a comment:
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Right, that’s quite enough of that for the day. Import of threads with their “correct” IDs (i.e. the ones they got in the old forum software) is now working, including important details like keeping users’ thread subscriptions pointing to the right place
I just spent absolutely...Leave a comment:
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Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice
This morning has been largely given over to new forum stuff, specifically, the whole business of preserving the original thread IDs
Luckily, it’s pretty straightforward to override the bits that need special treatment, as...Leave a comment:
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The finest pali in a very long time!
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“Due to an internal error” - yeah, somebody screwed up
They responded within five minutes to say it’s being dealt with ASAP though, which is pretty good going for a Friday morning! It took me longer than that just to get my act together to send the email saying “WTF?!”...
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Morning denizens
I awoke unpaid, as the agency has screwed something up. I suspect it’s to do with the recent extension; probably somebody forgot to tick one specific checkbox, as I can see the approved timesheet in certain expected places in their execrable “portal”, but not...Leave a comment:
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I finished Peace and War; I enjoyed Forever Peace but it doesn’t have anything to do with the other two apart from being about war and peace
I also did a bit more work on the SwiftUI stuff
It started raining off and on here at lunchtime and it still is, having...Leave a comment:
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Tea: ribs and chips
Along with that, I watched the second part of Murder Case: The Hunt for Arlene Fraser’s Killer
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Lunch never happened, because I went and did the shopping instead. So that’s out of the way and the weekend starts here!
As expected, we got stuck into the tech debt thing we’d been putting off, and made a bit of progress before lunch. After lunch, the other dev wasn’t up...Leave a comment:
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Morning denizens
It’s one of those days that starts cloudy but with gaps towards the horizon, and a bit breezy. These can turn sunny after a while, but it’s going to continue to be windy and rain will start towards teatime and carry on through the evening, so it may stay cloudy...Leave a comment:
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