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[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 of some kind. This was really good - way better than I expected it to be, in fact. Highly recommended

In A Game of Birds and Wolves, Doenitz has become head of the navy, and is using his position to throw every U-boat he has into the Battle of the Atlantic. Will the improvement in Allied tactics as a result of the war games at the Western Approaches be enough to withstand the onslaught?

Goodnight all

[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 from the pentest earlier in the year. Some minor things I can’t change because it’s down to another team, and some others turned out to be OK after all. In particular, a bit of infrastructure was upgraded to TLS 1.3 in line with NCSC’s recommendations a couple of days ago, so that change ended up incorporated in our stuff when the unrelated security fix I released this morning was deployed! Always nice to be able to close a ticket because somebody else has done all the work

[ladymuck]

I did some work. Also reminded the programme manager that my contract is up in a month as I got warning yesterday that extensions take a while.

[ladymuck]

Morning all
I'd not say it was raining or even drizzling earlier, but the air was damp.

Om

[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 to adopt for deployments. I’d been through the docs and made notes, which he greatly appreciated, and I’m hoping they’ll be able to make some improvements as I’m pretty sure I’d be unable to complete the process without help as things currently stand

With that done, I finally had a few minutes to spare for lunch, which was some of those cold cocktail sausages as they’re quick and easy

Back to the fray now

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Started off cloudy and grey, now it's sunny with lumps of fluff. A gentle breeze is wafting in my office window. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 04:49; Sunset 21:21 BST

A quiet day, meetings wise. I might get some work done.

[WTFH]

Morning all
I'd not say it was raining or even drizzling earlier, but the air was damp.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

21.6 deg in here, 23 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto.

1015.5 mBar, 29.9876 in Hg, 761.7 Torr, 14.73 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 NF was trying to get the surgery to sort out his meds, whilst vetran and LM were speaking Spanish & quoting Bart Simpson. I wonder if LM found out how long that pineapple lasted. .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Classic Movies: The Dam Busters. No mention of Guy Gibson's dog. .

Secret Nazi Bases: Peenemunde. <click>.

Shopping trip to Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. The walk was a good deal slower than usual. .

Entertainment: Claire Balding wandering along a short part of the route Little Nell took in "The Old Curiosity Shoppe" from Wroxton, through Horley, to Warmington (not on Sea). Mildly diverting whilst my legs recovered from the unexpected exercise.

Secret Nazi Bases "secrets of Nazi future tech": Hitler's Stonehenge, Die Glocke, etc. Did he have a secret nuke? Are they on the far side of the Moon? (I made that last bit up). I do wish they wouldn't show V2s flying horizontally: the only time they did that was at the top of the parabola (or when they'd gone wrong & were more dangerous to the operator than the enemy). Twas so inneresting that I slept through at least half of it.

Tea: well it's Thursday, thusly: baked beans, probably with baked spud. Nothing if not consistent now I don't cook much anymore.

Entertainment: PM <click> Bab5 S1 E18. "A voice in the wilderness". I wonder why I'm watching this on Freesat when the dvds are on a shelf to my right. The discovery of The Great Machine.

Discovering Jodie Foster.

Blazian UFO bollox: "We are not alone". One to beam up Mr Scott.

[NickFitz]

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 the barometers are heading downwards at 1007/1015mB

Thursday!

[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 just out of school, becoming the world’s leading experts on anti-submarine warfare, despite having no seafaring experience beyond taking the ferry over the water to Birkenhead and back

Thursday tomorrow! And it’s Tech Debt Thursday, so with a bit of luck I’ll have time to do the shopping at lunchtime - I only need to go to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The day at the office was as expected. The PM and I nearly missed a meeting because we were too busy gossiping. Then we went for a long lunch in the pub before leaving at 4pm.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spag bol

Lunch was just some crisps because I was quite busy

[ladymuck]

Final day done. Invoice prepped but I'll issue it tomorrow (as well as one for gig1) as it's the start of a whole new financial year.

I don't know why I dreamt up that load of cobblers. My financial year starts on 1 August.

[xoggoth]

Waiting around for a bloke to come and dredge me oil tank, outlet is blocked. Scrabble with me old lady neighbour later.

Otherwise, apart from me walky, just more fixing of me shed, got some new roof felt. What fun. Not.