Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCXLVII

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the small amount of leftover lamb tagine from the other night. Nice and zingy

The designer was pleased with the various bits of tidying I’d done to the layout of the thing yesterday, bringing it into line with his vision

Still windy and grey...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out and windy too, so the current 10°C “feels like” 3°; the target is 13°. The barometers are heading down at 1001/1009mB

I awoke too early today, having raised the blind too high and let too much light in. I then struggled to...

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the latest Forensics: The Real CSI, about tracking down a gang that was doing over cash machines. It was a good one; I particularly enjoyed the bloke scoffing “Gloves are only a quid” as the police took his fingerprints. Guess how they pinned it on him? He now has ten...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

I had to have the chicken because there isn’t enough room for all of it in the freezer. I need to use some stuff up

[NickFitz]

That’s Monday done and dusted!

I reckon the thing I’ve been working on is just about there now, though the intended users will have to have a play and decide if it’s fit for purpose, I suppose

Today was largely spent fiddling around to make it look...

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Bring me your huddled masses, yearning to read just about anything but the news

• The Search - The story of a woman who's standing up to the Mexican cartels: ”More than thirteen years ago, Araceli Salcedo Jiménez’s daughter, Rubí, was disappeared from a bar in Orizaba. Since then, Araceli

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out, and not expected to brighten up later. It’s 7°C with an expected high of 13°, so back to what it’s often been for quite a while now. The barometers are up though, at 1009/1017mB

[NickFitz]

Could be! As you know, it sometimes struggles to cope with moderator activity ...

[NickFitz]

In The Dark Forest, it seems the people of Earth may have underestimated the technological capabilities of the approaching alien fleet

Monday again tomorrow. Two more weeks until Easter…

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a roast beef dinner

And to go with this, the latest episode of Ambulance

[NickFitz]

Don't mind me, just testing something… ...

[NickFitz]

Annoying, wasn't it?

I vaguely recall seeing it do this before, and clearing the caches sorted it out. But I don't have access to that any more

If it's any consolation, I'm busy working away on the migration to the new software, which will solve all our problems…...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Had a bit of a sleep-in this morning and feel well rested, for which much thanks

There’s a very high, thin cloud covering over the eastern part of the sky, tending towards mackerel sky in the west, so it’s bright enough but not truly sunny. It’s...

[NickFitz]

Monkey Life and other animal magic constituted the majority of today’s viewing

And tonight, I read some more of The Dark Forest

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight was brought to me from the south Indian place past the park. Very nice, as usual

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny out, with a few wisps of cloud here and there. Mild too, being 12°C and shortly to be 13°. The barometers continue to descend, being at 1007/1015mB

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Superman (2025) which was pretty good, I thought; if you’re going to do a new Superman film, it should probably be done this way

And then a rewatch of F1 (2025) which is an entertaining film as it goes. I once got a call from an agent about...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb tagine with rice

This was from the Sainsbury’s TTD slow-cooked range, rather than my homemade one, in part because I realised I have no way of telling if mine is coming out right without anything to compare it to

Mine tastes pretty similar,...

[NickFitz]

It’s just a small community centre run by volunteers in an area of Manchester that has a lot of Irish people, as far as I can tell. They offer advice and support with various things like benefits and housing for that community, and also offer this service of checking your paperwork for the foreign...