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[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
Greetings from the depths of Z_Land

found an old share cert when clearing my wife's effects.
Attempted to contact the authors for validity check, and I spent hours trying to negotiate their website, which insists on an 11 digit account number, when the number i have is only 8 digits.
The website helpfully gives a tel no to call in the case of an 8 digit number, but this is guarded by a robot which, after 2minutes of pre-recorded irrelevance, insists on an 11 digit no before even offering any alternatives.
All contact nos for this incompetently written website's owners are guarded by the same robot.
WTF writes this sh1TE???
no doubt the 'professionals' in the SotM thread.
Feckin code monkeys.
Grrrrr.
I see the taxdodgers are still excited

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover chips and lamb from the other evening, because I made too much

The rain was occasional and more inclined to drizzle after some early downpours, and seems to have petered out altogether now

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast, a bit damp. Currently 16 degrees ('feels like' 14) with a high of 19 expected. Rain supposedly starting soon but the sun might make an appearance this afternoon. Barometer down to 1004 mBar.

Sunrise 04:48; Sunset 21:11 BST

This morning I was called by the NHS Blood and Transplant service to ask if I'd consider switching from whole blood donation to plasma. This is mildly inconvenient because blood can be donated pretty much anywhere and there's a great centre at Westfield in Shephard's Bush. Plasma can only be done at one of three centres, my local being in Twickenham (the others are in Birmingham and Reading). Turns out there's not enough plasma donations in the UK and they're on a drive to recruit and be less reliant on imports. Plasma donations can also be given more frequently than blood. So, this weekend, I'll be off to Twickers to try it out.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey start today, with what seems to be a lot of layers of various thicknesses. It’s still breezy, and this is expected to continue, getting even breezier during or after the rain that’s expected to visit from the next hour or so to mid-afternoon. As a result of the breeze, the present temperature of 13°C “feels like” 8°; the expected high is 18°. The barometers are very slightly up at 991/999mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damp.

Grey.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 19.6 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4748 psi (down from 1002 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 AndyGarbs popped in a lot, LM detailed skip charges for the parking bay outside her flat, WTFH popped in, and I turned the heating on briefly & roasted some beef, whereas NF suggested Brillo turned his car on and off to see if it made the clock work.

Awake at 06:20. Dream before waking was a work one: much use of the term "mother****er" happened in this dream. Can't remember a dream like that previously.

In other other news it's been hammering down for at least an hour, and windy with it.

If I could be arsed it'd be a good day to die hard have a bonfire.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Thing about AI on R4: they don't seem to realise that Terminator is a documentary. Followed by Best BTTC crashes on ITV4. Jungle Warfare on PBS: the Evil British in Malaya; the Evil French, followed by the Septics in Vietnam. Guess who were more successful against the communists. .

[NickFitz]

In The Middle Kingdoms, the Great War has made a right mess of everything. Hungary, which had seceded from Austria-Hungary, had the distinction of being the last of the Central European states to surrender in 1918. This was also its first official act as an independent nation

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spag bol, which I’ve been meaning to make for ages but kept forgetting to

Nice sunny evening now, with young magpies ditzing around under the rose bushes

[xoggoth]

Had some really loud thundery bangs here.

[NickFitz]

Thunderstorm here too! But it started with distant rumblings about thirty minutes ago, passed over us with heavy rain, and has already gone. Looks like the sun’s about to come out now!

Today was one of those days where I identified a bug first thing, had to leave it to do something else, then had to get something else sorted out in the middle of that, and eventually got back to the original bug in the last hour. But it’s fixed now and all the other stuff went OK, so it’s been a very productive day really

[DoctorStrangelove]

Creepy, my PC is making faint muttering sounds and I don't have a browser or anything else open. Anyway, off to old arty farty thing soon.

xogg xenchury. Om.

[xoggoth]

Ghosts! That there is classic EVP evidence

But I'm sure it was my voice, sounded like me. Darn it! I must be dead!

Maybe find out the cause when I get round to replacing my Win 10 PC with my new 11 PC. Looks yuck down there among all those wires, lots of dust and cobwebs.

[ladymuck]

I turned my PC off and turned off all the wall sockets and the speaker was still doing the muttering sounds. Was obviously a recording of me but how was it playing?????

Ghosts! That there is classic EVP evidence.

[ladymuck]

The clouds cleared and we had a bit of sunshine for a while. Now it's come over all gloomy and I can hear thunder in the distance.

EDIT: and now it's raining again (I could sing a song about that)

EDIT2: thunder AND lightning, directly overhead!

[xoggoth]

I turned my PC off and turned off all the wall sockets and the speaker was still doing the muttering sounds. Was obviously a recording of me but how was it playing?????

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover chicken chow mein, quickly refried in the wok

Using the wok is good because it forces me to tidy up anything left lying around on the wok burner side of the hob, as I’m convinced the massive flame will set fire to it if I don’t

The rain has passed on its way and although it’s mostly cloudy, there’s the occasional glimmer of sunshine getting through the gaps. And there’s still a bit of a breeze, which the young magpies seem to enjoy swooping around in

This morning was fairly busy as I had some fixes to deploy so the end user(s) can test them, and was also tracking down some issues in the data export work the other dev had almost but not quite completed before she left. She did leave plenty of documentation plus additional notes, but some of it touches stuff I haven’t had much to do with so I have to dig deep to work out whether problems are due to bugs, oversights, or something just not being complete yet

And today’s the day we meet with the stakeholders at lunchtime, where they gave final approval for the thing I’ve been working on for ages to be released! Well, there’s one change to be made: the name. It’s still got the rather technical-sounding name we used while it was being planned and developed, but we’ve finally agreed a more user-friendly name for it, so I shall go and change that now. They’re going to put out some comms this afternoon to let their people know it’s coming, and I’ll release it tomorrow morning