Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXI

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Brick (2025) on Netflix, a German film in which the residents of some Hamburg apartments awake to find their building completely sealed up inside a wall made of some unknown material, impervious to attack and also apparently capable of generating a force field...

[NickFitz]

I couldn’t be bothered with cooking tonight so tea was from Popeyes

Very Simpsonesque out and apparently it’ll get fairly hot over the weekend. Not as bad as it has been, but I reckon the air conditioner will be getting a workout

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Sometimes we end Tech Debt Thursday with an hour-long chat on Slack about anything interesting that’s come up, but various people are off and others had gone to the Cardiff office for something, so it didn’t happen this week. So I went through a few tickets...

[NickFitz]

Having dealt with a minor security update this morning, I was able to pop along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and get the shopping done at lunchtime

After I was back, I was due for a meeting with a user researcher to gather my opinion of some documentation of a new process I want...

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Morning denizens

It’s a clear blue sky above while a ring of cumuli lurk low on the horizon It’s also pretty windy (19mph, gusts to 32mph), which started last night and will continue all day. As a result, the present 16°C “feels like” 11°; the expected high is 22°, and...

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the second episode of the Philadelphia mob thing, in which the FBI are realising that as soon as you put one boss away, a rival boss takes over

And in A Game of Birds and Wolves, the great success of the anti-U-boat game has led to a number of Wrens, often...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spag bol

Lunch was just some crisps because I was quite busy

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a fairly sunny start but the strands of high cloud seem to be starting to clump together; we had some brief spells of rain last night, but none are expected today (though that’s what they said yesterday). It’s 16°C with an expected high of 24°, and the...

[NickFitz]

In A Game of Birds and Wolves, the war game is up and running in Tate & Lyle’s former offices on the top floor of Derby House, and is a huge success! Within the first few days they’d uncovered the U-boat tactic of casually catching up with a convoy on the surface at night, getting in amongst...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a spicy lamb burger out of the freezer with chips and beans, largely because the beans needed to be used up

There’s also the fact that I didn’t go shopping last week, so I’m using up stuff that’s been lurking in the freezer for too long such as the burger ...

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Woohoo! ...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of initially cold chicken that I heated up in the air fryer, just for a change

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Up early here too, because I raised the blind in the bedroom too high and the morning light came in and refused to leave. It first woke me some time after five and I managed to get back to sleep a few times, but was woken again each time due to the light carrying...

[NickFitz]

In A Game of Birds and Wolves, they’ve finally found the chap who can, it’s thought, use war games to understand U-boat tactics and work out how to counter them. Before they packed him off to Euston to get the Liverpool train, they took him into an office in the Admiralty where Churchill gave him...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

To go with it, the final episode of the Boston marathon bombing thing on Netflix

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a leftover bit of chicken and a couple of spicy lamb chops

Meanwhile across the lawn: scaffolding is going up! Not sure what for; there are some large painted areas on the facade of that block that are looking rather dingy and flaking in places, so maybe that’s...

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Links are up

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It may be a little cooler, but that’s no reason to bother venturing outside rather than settling in a comfy chair to read this stuff

• Tunnel 13 - ”A botched train robbery in Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains left four men dead, led to an international manhunt, and helped usher forensic science into

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[NickFitz]

I’ve been meaning to go there for ages. I’m thinking go going up in the autumn to visit the parents’ grave, so I’ll try to fit it in then

I’ve probably mentioned before that my Dad worked in Derby House for a number of years in the 1950s, and nobody there had a clue that all...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with only the merest of wisps in the sky. Much more tolerable though: currently 15°C after an overnight low of 13°, and not getting any worse than 22° - and that only for a while in late afternoon. The barometers are sharply up at 1013/1021mB...