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  • NickFitz
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    Tonight’s reading was Going Going Gone, the final Dryco novel

    Apparently it’s going to rain overnight, though it won’t be as cold as it’s going to be tomorrow night

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been cider-braised pork and chips

    This was accompanied by E1 of Spycraft on Netflix, a documentary series. Unfortunately, it’s from the USA, so it’s utterly lacking in depth as they assume viewers are incapable of either taking in complex information or paying attention to any specific subject for longer than a minute or two. So they either say the same vague thing several times in different ways (“drones let agencies look at things from the sky”), presumably hoping one of them will stick, or they start talking about something interesting (the Thing, various US covert operations from the Cold War) but they don’t stay with it for more than a couple of minutes, during which time they’ve imparted about as much information as you’d expect to get from the first couple of paragraphs of an article on the subject

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  • NickFitz
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    Another day done! That means only fourteen more working days for me this year

    Today was quite enjoyable. Among other things, I devised an ingenious solution to a mildly tricky problem. I felt it advisable to check the source code of both Python and Django to ensure that the way I was going about things was legit - everything in the relevant docs suggested it should be fine, but it’s always worth making sure and Code is Truth. It was indeed fine, and worked perfectly

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    Cloudflare London appears to have crashed.
    Apparently DownDetector was down because of it

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  • WTFH
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    Cloudflare London appears to have crashed.

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch has been a leftover pork cutlet in a bap - white, because I used the last of the brown ones yesterday

    Yesterday afternoon, a plumber knocked on the door and asked if I could flush my toilet repeatedly for a few minutes as they were trying to determine the source of a leak downstairs somewhere. I obliged, but he never returned so I didn’t think any more about it. Today comes an email from the management company saying they need access to several flats, including mine, on either Friday or Saturday morning to work out where the leak is coming from. I’ve told them Friday would be best for me. Hope it doesn’t turn out to be coming from my flat; I could do without the hassle of having the bathroom torn apart

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  • ladymuck
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    The cloudflare outage is very annoying. I am having to do some work instead of reading The Register.

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  • ladymuck
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    Napier, NZ completed in just 14 moves due to all the 'two-fers'. (5x5 grid)

    Still getting the site crash in Firefox but I have a workaround so there's no point making a fuss.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    It stopped being NHS 15 years ago. Then again it's only £250 a year.
    £250 to even look, here, - robbin barstewards. 1/2 bottle of bells and a set of long nosed pliers is MUCH cheaper. <with less teeth>
    Last edited by sadkingbilly; Today, 11:31.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    lucky bugger, - dentist feckin desert here
    i've extracted three in as many years.
    It stopped being NHS 15 years ago. Then again it's only £250 a year.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    Morning.

    Dentist visited at 09:00. Teeth cleaned, x rayed, nothing to do. .
    lucky bugger, - dentist feckin desert here
    i've extracted three in as many years.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Cloudy but bright with a decent amount of sky visible. Currently 3 degrees ('feels like' 1) with a high of 7 expected. My weather app thinks there's rain and snow falling at the moment. I disagree. Barometer has dropped a little to 1020 mBar.

    Sunrise 07:25; Sunset 16:08 GMT

    Yesterday, HWMBO and I met MS for dinner and a good catch up. No secrets spilled about upcoming OC appearances even though it was all recorded some time ago.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Tuesday.

    Dry.

    Sunny.

    Blue sky.

    Cold side of chilly in here at 14.5 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 7.5 in the leanto, 3.7 in the saltinghouse.

    1015.5 mBar, 29.987 in Hg, 761.7 Torr, 14.73 psi, (down from 1021 last night), 53% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 1st of March 2020 WTFH was preparing to go on a jet plane whilst listing watches, BR14 was about to get on a train to a new gig, LM popped in, along with eek & discussed watches, then NF popped in without discussing watches.

    Dentist visited at 09:00. Teeth cleaned, x rayed, nothing to do. .

    And, having discovered the complete lack of fish in the freezer, it's off to Aldi & Tesco we go. I may be some time. It's cold out there.

    Shopping trip to Aldi and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Cleared Aldi out of prunes. .

    Raining.

    Lunch: Brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about ticket touts. <click> Haven't been to a gig in half a century thank feck.

    Raining a lot.

    Sun's out again.

    Tea: soup etc.

    Entertainment: PM.

    The Nazi programme was on: the fall of Japan, divine wind etc. but I paid little attention.

    Mr J. G. Reeder. "Death of an angel". The one about the dodgy blackmailing murdering film company. Not overly gripping other than the appearance of a rather young and much slimmer James Grout.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 23:19.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Rather cloudy start, but it’s expected to brighten up a bit soon before falling back to cloudy with a 50% chance of some showers early in the afternoon. It’s still cold at 1°C which “feels like” -2°, and the expected high is down a bit from yesterday at 6°. The barometers are down a little at 1007/1015mB

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    CBS, etc. Dropped below freezing around 9pm yesterday, but up to 2C when we went out earlier.

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