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[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on the box today, as usual

This evening, I started reading The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh (published in 2000, so not actually new any more). It seems to take an interesting approach to the subject, but I’ll probably read it a bit at a time as it’s nearly a thousand pages long!

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

You do get about a lot lm. Just a woodland volunteery thing for me this morning followed by walk with ll1 round one of usual old places. Quite sunny. Another woodland volunteer thing tomorrow, not sure if I'll bother. Walk with younger ll3 on Monday.

[ladymuck]

Evening all, greetings from Krakow

Dry and bright when we arrived. Currently 4 degrees and the high was 14. Barometer at 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 06:26; Sunset 17:20 GMT

HWMBO and I had a very pleasant dinner at a local restaurant. Absolutely stuffed and much appreciated the 10 minute walk back to our hotel in the cool air afterwards.

[NotAllThere]

That looks like fun! I'll pencil it in for next year

It was. And sadkingbilly is right. It's a cacophony. That's why I like it - utter chaos.

But a guy had a heart attack just after it all started at 4am on monday. A young lad I know was right next to him and looked after him until the ambulance arrived. Even with the crowds, it only took ten minutes. The local cops posted about it on facebook and I asked how it went - turns out the guy had a full recovery. So that was nice.

[NickFitz]

I fancied a burger for tea tonight, but Five Guys in town unexpectedly shut down late last year - it was just a few days after I last ordered from there, I think. There’s another one, but it’s right across the other side of the city on the outer ring road. So I decided to give Burger King a try. It was perfectly OK, though nothing special, and they don’t go mad with the fries the way Five Guys do

[NickFitz]

The worlds of If indeed. The Road not Taken & all that.. Poetically Frosty innit.

Indeed! Always a source of interesting reflection and introspection

…I was watching T:Genysis and found it oker than T4 had proved to be.

I though that one was good - a lot better than some of the other disowned ones

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s cloudy with gaps allowing for sunny spells out, and drying after a very rainy night. There’s a bit of a breeze again, so the current 8°C (which is also the high for the day) “feels like” 3°. The barometers are optimistic though, being up to 1005/1013mB

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all, greetings from Amsterdam, Schiphol airport

Misty and wet on landing. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 6) and the high was 11. Barometer at 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 07:29; Sunset 18:18 CET

We have a few hours to kill before flight 3 of 3, to Krakow.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all, greetings from Paris, Charles de Gaulle airport.

Sunshine and clouds. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 12 expected. Barometer at 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 06:34; Sunset 17:31 CET

Flight 2 of 3 coming up from CDG to AMS (yes, I got the flight order wrong earlier).

[DoctorStrangelove]

the very realistic depiction of life in Manchester at that time also makes me wonder how my life might have turned out if we’d stayed up in Liverpool during the 1970s rather than moving down south. Not the same, for sure, and probably not as well

The worlds of If indeed. The Road not Taken & all that.. Poetically Frosty innit.

Morning.

Saturday. WWIII day.

Dry.

Dark grey one side, hints of blue sky the other.

Sunless.

NotSoChilly in here at 14.2 deg, 13. something in the kitchen (thermometer increasingly borked), 10 in the leanto (good old alcohol).

1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi (up from 1006 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of March 2020 BR14, LM, NF, WTFH and I popped in, NF was cooking stuff whilst LM's HWMBO was railing at the tv where some cooking programme was in progress, whereas I was watching T:Genysis and found it oker than T4 had proved to be.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. :.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: MoneyBox wondering why Crapita are so called. 'Tis obvioius I'd have thunk.

News Quiz. It'll miss out on the latest doom & gloom. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Today's shock horror discovery: not content with shutting the Neath branch of M&S after 99 years, they've decided to shut the much larger Swansea M&S after 123 years.

WTF? The options thereafter are a trek to Llanelli (free on the bus) or on the train to that Cardiff. I'd better buy several years worth of socks & shoes before they close. FFS.

Three eps of "World from above" nonsense on that Blaze: dozed quite happily through all of them.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: 18 o'clock news: largely the Orange Moron and his demented doings.

Scotland Yard "Evidence in Concrete (1960)".

Maigret S3 E10 "Death in mind (1962)".

AC/DC Live in Donington Monsters of Rock. <click>

Some bollox about the missing colony of Roanoke of 1587.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

The sun is not yet ris. Cloudy, wet but no active precipitation. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 6) with a high of 10 expected. Barometer still at 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 06:49; Sunset 17:40 GMT

HWMBO and I are off to KRK via AMS and CDG Back tomorrow evening.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Vault (2021), mainly because Netflix have emailed me repeatedly to tell me that it was leaving Netflix today (yesterday now) so I thought I’d see what all the fuss was about. It turned out to be an OK film in the “bank heist requiring ingenuity” genre and I found it sufficiently entertaining, but I’m still not sure why they sent the emails

Feeling the need for something with more justification for its existence, I then rewatched Control (2007), the biopic about Ian Curtis and Joy Division. Excellent music, obviously, but the very realistic depiction of life in Manchester at that time also makes me wonder how my life might have turned out if we’d stayed up in Liverpool during the 1970s rather than moving down south. Not the same, for sure, and probably not as well

Finally, the next episode of S2 of Hijack which is chugging along in a reasonably entertaining way

It’s raining again

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury’s TTD slow-cooked lamb kleftiko with little roast potatoes, and it was very nice

They wittered on the packaging about cooking new potatoes with it. Instead, I cut some spuds small and chucked them in the casserole with the lamb and the sauce, then started it off with the lid on and at a lower temperature than recommended. This allowed the spuds to cook a bit and also to absorb some of the fat and juices. Then I took them out and returned the casserole to the oven on a higher temperature, and stuck the spuds in the air fryer. I wasn’t sure this approach would work, but it turned out just right. And there’s a few spuds and some of the kleftiko left over for lunch over the weekend

[NickFitz]

Right, that’s quite enough of that for the day. Import of threads with their “correct” IDs (i.e. the ones they got in the old forum software) is now working, including important details like keeping users’ thread subscriptions pointing to the right place

I just spent absolutely ages getting confused about why the oldest threads when viewing the forums weren’t the first ones in the database table, before remembering that admin imported stuff from the previous (pre-late-2005) board, but not until a while after the original vBulletin version had launched. So the old stuff comes further down in the database but has earlier timestamps

Even once I’d worked that out, I spent a while puzzling over the fact that the oldest thread in General wasn’t showing up on here, the live site. But I haven’t got the import of posts done yet, and threads are ordered by the date of the most recent post, then by start date. As there are no posts imported, they just go by start date. And good old BrilloPad, presumably bored during lockdown, had replied to the oldest thread in 2020, thereby bumping it

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

This morning has been largely given over to new forum stuff, specifically, the whole business of preserving the original thread IDs

Luckily, it’s pretty straightforward to override the bits that need special treatment, as they built their vBulletin 5 importer as an extension to their vB4 importer. This means there are already specific methods for getting the relevant data from the database, and I just have to override and adjust them appropriately. I’ve also put together test infrastructure that lets me run parts of the importer in isolation, down to the level of individual methods. So I can create a test for the specific bit I need to modify at each stage, run it under the debugger to see exactly what’s going on in there, then make my adjustments and confirm it’s working as required

Once this is working, it’ll be the posts, the IDs of which need similar treatment in order to preserve the palis!