Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLV

[NickFitz]

The Middle Kingdoms have become infested with Habsburgs! It’ll take centuries to get rid of that lot

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been some M&S chicken thighs in a spicy Korean glaze of some kind, with chips. Quite nice, though the suggestion that it would serve two seems unduly optimistic

The cooking instructions were weird. After twenty minutes, I was ordered to “Remove from the oven, increase...

[NickFitz]

Tech Debt day has been fairly quiet. It usually starts with a team-wide huddle on Slack for an hour or so to chat about any stuff of interest, but a lot of people had gone to London for the planning meeting yesterday and were travelling home, so that didn’t happen. However, I had several automated...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Mostly cloudy with sunnier spells at the moment, but the clouds are expected to predominate through the day. Still a bit breezy too. It’s getting milder though: already at 13°C (“feels like” 9°) and expected to soar to 21° this afternoon, as we build towards...

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of the Police Interceptors I started last night

And in The Middle Kingdoms, it turns out Lithuania was once absolutely huge, incorporating swathes of modern Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia; while Poland managed a very effective PR campaign by...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been BBQ beef short ribs and chips

Rather than braise the ribs as I usually do, I decided to experiment a bit. So I browned them and chucked them in a roasting tin with a carrot, onion, and some garlic cloves, covered it all tightly with foil, and stuck it in the oven at...

[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...

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Links are up

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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...