Monday Links from the Comfy Chair vol. DCCCLI

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Afternoon denizens

Almost clear blue sky today - just the merest of wisps here and there. Warm too, being 16°C and aiming for 17°; the barometers are up to 1019/1027mB

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Monkey Man (2024), the directorial debut of Dev Patel, who also stars. Set in an Indian city, it’s the story of a chap who’s seeking revenge on the corrupt police chief who murdered his mother and the organised crime bosses who give him power, while scraping...

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BST innit! Look in the settings for something like “Automatically adjust for daylight savings time” - maybe first make sure (probably in a completely different place in its settings) that it’s not fondly imagining it’s having a romantic week away in Paris, though I don’t know if they even...

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For tea tonight, I treated myself to an M&S Tomapork. This is a fancy name for a very large pork cutlet; they try to add to the mystique by providing rather convoluted cooking instructions, but I just whacked it in the Remoska (once I’d measured it to be sure it would fit) and it turned out fine....

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It did! Everything’s back!

Though I then had to go and tell all the things that know how to use the 4G backup network that they should switch back to the proper one ...

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Lunch has been some leftover bits and bobs

I suspect there’s something weird going on with my broadband router, as things which were quite happy on the wifi are suddenly unable to connect. I spent much of the morning going line-by-line through the rep system so I can replicate...

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Cheers! ...

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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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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...

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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!...

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

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Tea has been lab steaks with chips and beans

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

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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...

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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,...

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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

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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...

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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....

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Links are up

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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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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...