Monday Links from the Comfy Chair vol. DCCCLI

[NickFitz]

I don’t bother following links to the Torygraph, but the Grauniad has started doing an annoying overlay about something or other. So I created this bookmarklet which lets me click a “Grauniad” button in my browser's “Favourites” toolbar and remove it:

javascript:void(document.documentElement.classList.remove("sp-message-open")%20||%20document.querySelector("[id^='sp_message_container']").parentElement.removeChild(document.querySelector("[id^='sp_message_container']")))

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start again, and the wind has settled down a bit - though it’ll be back later. It’s currently 8°C (“feels like” 5°) and aiming for 16°, while the barometers are trivially up at 1016/1024mB

I awoke somewhat betimes today...

[NickFitz]

Tonight, I read more of I Am Legend. He’s starting to work things out, when he can manage to stop drinking for a while

I also spent a while having a dig through the source code for the forum (vB4 and vB5) to get an idea of how rep works

It’s my birthday tomorrow!...

[NickFitz]

lamb steaks, of course. I’m not cooking labradors, or not yet ...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lab steaks with chips and beans

And to go with this, a bit of new Traffic Cops

[NickFitz]

I’ve made it to the end of the importer! Every single one of the twenty-odd steps has been checked and gone through line-by-line, and seems OK

Now I need to add some additional steps, as it doesn’t deal with a few things. It doesn’t bring in the default user titles for some...

[NickFitz]

Forgot to post this morning because I was busy working through the reputation import for the new forum! Turned out to be moderately straightforward, but it became clear that the new forum software doesn’t work the same way - it just converts rep into likes. So I’ll move on now I’ve got that working,...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was the last bit of Here, There and Everywhere. And then I started on I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, which is very good so far

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, Sainsbury’s Korean beef in a spicy honey-based sauce, with rice. Pretty nice, it turned out to be

Accompanying this, the second part of the 24 Hours in Police Custody from last week. It can’t be helpful to your case when the police ask a close relative about you...

[NickFitz]

Saturday’s burger came with some free chicken nuggets, so I had them for lunch along with a few fries and ketchup. Rather bland; I’m glad I didn’t pay for them

And the afternoon has been devoted to working out what was going wrong with the new forum import of attachments....

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

I’m on holiday this week. Not that I’m going anywhere

• The Sofa - Spencer Wright on buying a secondhand sofa which turned into a restoration project: ”I’m almost done restoring my old sofa, and I think it’s good, and I want to tell you about it… I saved the nails, and disassembled

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[NickFitz]

Shopping has been done, at both M&S and Big Sainsbury’s!

I went past the old place on the way over, where the chestnut trees outside are just starting to show their pink candles

I should have gone back that way too, as there were roadworks with temporary lights...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

A clear blue sky out apart from some distant bands of cloud on the horizon, which satellite imagery suggests are actually over Cambridgeshire and south Lincolnshire. It’s 7°C but “feels like” 11°, so who knows what the expected high of 12° will feel like?...

[NickFitz]

Almost finished reading Here, There and Everywhere but I’ll leave the final chapter till tomorrow, as I want to be up at a reasonable time tomorrow

Speaking of tomorrow: it’s Monday again, but I’m not working this week!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought form the Turkish place, because I couldn’t be bothered cooking

To go with it, the latest episode of Ambulance

[NickFitz]

Sausage bap for lunch

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny and Simpsonesque out, with enough of a breeze to keep it cool: currently 12°C (“feels like” 10°) and not rising above 13°. The barometers are up to 1014/1022mB

[NickFitz]

I missed Monkey Life today due to the family gathering, though there was some good stuff about lions on later

But tonight: a motion picture marathon they said couldn’t be done! Yes, it was a rewatch of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) followed by the premiere...

[NickFitz]

In the west, the thinnest possible sliver of New Moon is lying almost on its back as it sets, with Venus looking radiant just up and to the left ...