Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLV

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey, damp, breezy start to the day, and expected to continue in much the same vein. It’s 11°C which “feels like” 4° and expected to reach 16°, so at least it’s not so chilly. The barometers are down again ay 993/1000mB

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of an episode of the motorway cops thing, being the one that was rudely interrupted the other week by the 5 app suddenly deciding to stop working completely

And later, I read more of The Middle Kingdoms in which the government of the various...

[NickFitz]

Lunch today was a leftover pork cutlet in a bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce. And tea has been further leftovers in the form of corned beef hash

Today wasn’t too bad for the most part, being largely devoted to working out some UI tweaks that have been suggested during UAT; they...

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Take a break from the non-stop fun of politics and read this lot instead

• A Hollywood Ending - Maccabee Montandon on the family tragedy that shaped his life: ”After my brother, Asher, was shot and killed on June 17, 1992, friends and family told me I had to deal with the tragedy or it would eat

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s rather cloudy out again, with suggestions of there having been a shower or two overnight. It’s a mere 8°C at the moment and “feels like” 4°, with an expected high for the day of 14°; the barometers are slightly up at 998/1006mB

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[NickFitz]

Tonight I continued reading The Middle Kingdoms. Turns out Europe was totally disorganised during the first millennium. Also, the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by a chap called Cyril as part of a programme of converting Bulgarians to Orthodox Christianity

Monday again tomorrow. Ah...

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was leftovers from last night, and tea has been shepherd’s pie

To go with the latter, I started watching the first episode of the new series of Surgeons: At the Edge of Life on iPlayer. This is usually fine but on this occasion, I did find the sight of a scalpel cutting...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunnier start today, though more rain is expected this afternoon; the helping we got around teatime yesterday was pretty heavy. It’s 11°C (“feels like” 6°) and only getting to 13°, with the barometers up a little at 997/1005mB

One of...

[NickFitz]

As a change from Deighton, tonight’s reading was The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe by Martyn Rady. I got this because of a few snippets posted on Bluesky by somebody recently; though it’s an academic work (the author is Professor of Central European History at UCL), it’s also...

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from an Indian restaurant in town, near the theatre, that people speak highly of. It was very good

One minor issue is that they do deliveries using their own driver, meaning you don’t get to watch on the map to see when they’re getting close. So I ended...

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s a grey sort of day here, though not in a rainy way right now. Some showers are expected around teatime though. It’s 12°C but “feels like” 8°, which is as good as we’re getting, and the barometers are pensively steady at 995/1003mB

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Spy Gone North (2018), a Korean film about espionage between the North and South parts of that peninsula in the 1990s. This was said to be an “edge of your seat thriller” but it isn’t anything of the kind, unless complex subtleties of political interaction...

[NickFitz]

The bed has been made!

I’ve been waiting for Royal Mail to deliver the lead cutter I bought off eBay. It was supposed to arrive any time after half four this afternoon, and past experience of that timeslot for parcels suggested some time around half seven was likely. Finally,...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a rack of ribs and chips. The ribs were from M&S this time, with a Korean chilli BBQ glaze. Very nice as it turned out, though not as fiery as one would expect from the Koreans, who probably weren’t really involved at all

I left the bed to air earlier today, but...

[NickFitz]

Just logged on to the work machine for the farewell meeting for the other dev. Just me on this project now

I’m still not entirely clear what’s going to happen, and I don’t think anybody else is either. This service is supposed to be going into maintenance mode and will then...

[NickFitz]

I took three bags of cut-up corrugated cardboard, the packaging of the new desk, over to the bins; I hadn’t been able to get rid of them till now due to Bank Holiday bin shenanigans. It turned out that other people must also have been hoarding as I filled the space that was left in the next-to-last...

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I went over via the old flat to avoid the roadworks. The chestnut trees have their pink candles on

This fits in with their pattern of flowering a few weeks later than the one with white candles down at the end of next door’s garden here (or possibly...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s rather grey, though there’s some blue sky to the north and west - I haven’t checked whether it's arriving or departing. There was a fair bit of rain off and on yesterday evening and maybe even overnight, and the air is still damp. Today’s expected to...

[NickFitz]

I finished reading XPD, in which - as predicted - nobody ended up getting what they wanted, except perhaps the head of MI6

Goodnight all