Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLV

[NickFitz]

Lunch: pâté on toast

There’s a quarterly planning meeting going on down in London today, so no standup and the like. As the thing I’ve been working on for a while is basically done, with any further changes consigned to the “maybe if we have time” bucket, I’m having...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny spells today due to breaks in the cloud here and there, but it’s windy so the current 12° “feels like” 7° and the expected high of 18° presumably won’t feel that much better. The barometers are up to 1001/1009mB though, presumably heralding the arrival...

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a new Police Interceptors, including a moron who’d been chased all the way from Northampton wiping himself out just before the 200 yard marker for our local junction on the M1

From the way he was driving, I doubt he’d have managed to navigate the...

[NickFitz]

Safe travels! Say hello to Reykjavik as you pass through ...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

There was a lull mid-afternoon when I had to switch from one thing to something unrelated, so I took the rest of my lunch break then. And, as I live for pleasure alone, I used the time to give the fridge a quick clean ...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover corned beef hash. Quite nice actually

But my lunchtime has been infringed upon by some semi-urgent stuff to do with yet another part of the app I have little familiarity with, leading to a meeting immediately after the regular lunchtime meeting; and there’s yet...

[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,...