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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Damp. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer up to 1008 mBar.

Sunrise 07:18; Sunset 16:10 GMT

Dinner last night was fab, and I left feeling thoroughly stuffed. Mr Todiwala apologised for overfeeding me . Apparently it was the 30th anniversary of Cafe Spice Namaste, and that was the reason for the special event.

HWMBO and I are currently breakfasting in our hotel before we start the slow meander home.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Very misty here, can’t see the bottom of the garden.

NickFitz did you get my PM?

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was going to be The Firm but a few minutes in, I started to suspect that I’d seen it before. So I hied myself to the study and did a SQL query on a local copy of the forum database that I have from the last time we “upgraded”, and found that I had, back in 2017

However, this reminded me that we used to be able to search content in links, such as IMDb identifiers, and this wasn’t supported by the current garbage. So I’ve added it to the list; the new search system will support that, whether it already can or not

With that matter dealt with, I moved on and watched The Creator (2023) in which the USA fights a war against AI and robots, though the rest of the world doesn’t agree. Good stuff, I thought; I occasionally got distracted by thinking about how to implement a shader for certain effects, but that’s just me, and I reckon I worked out the most important one. Good film, and I’ve added that effect to the list of things I should try to implement

After that, a rewatch of Phone Booth (2002). Such a good film! I saw an uptick in online chatter about how good it is a few months ago, which is why it came to mind, and yes, it’s great

Finally: S1E4 of Alien: Earth, Observation (TV Episode 2025) in which the plot continues to thicken, as plots do

Somebody I follow on Bluesky has just had open heart surgery. I warned him that he should try to avoid sneezing for the next couple of months, and hope for his sake that he follows my advice

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Watch new episode of Sister Bummyface soon. Actually summit worth watching on TV!

[NickFitz]

Tea: chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

Accompanied by a bit of new Traffic Cops

[NickFitz]

Outside, the rain seemed to ease up a little earlier, but at the same time the wind got up to an alarming degree

Now the rain’s back to being as bad as it was and the wind seems to be getting even worse

[NickFitz]

This afternoon has been largely devoted to further investigation of the new forum software, specifically, the tool it contains for doing a data import and conversion from the current incarnation

It generally does a very good job, though there are a few bits one has to deal with manually. But one problem is thread and post IDs. When we moved to vB5, it would have wiped out all the old ones, so I put in a lot of work to understand how various aspects of the system worked (badly, was usually the answer) and devised a way of preserving them.

Naturally, the new thing’s importer has no idea about any of that. So I’ve worked out how to add a CUK-specific importer, which inherits from the existing one, so I can insert custom code into the import process at the appropriate junctures and fix things up

There’s still a lot to do in terms of understanding how it works, so I can do the needful without breaking anything else. I’ll probably have to run an import under the debugger so I can single step through it and work out exactly where I can jump in. But it’s worth the hassle to ensure that TPD will continue to be thread 4465, as it always has been

[NickFitz]

Ah! A typo in the year. It's newly released in the past couple of weeks, not 20 years old

That must be why it’s not on any streaming services yet

I did think it was odd the name didn’t ring any bells

[ladymuck]

Never heard of it before, but it looks good!

Ah! A typo in the year. It's newly released in the past couple of weeks, not 20 years old

[NickFitz]

Lunch turned out to be salt & chilli chicken in a wholemeal bap

The rain persists, getting even heavier if anything

Meanwhile, a mattress topper and set of pillow protectors are in the wash

[NickFitz]

Yesterday evening HWMBO and I went to see Bugonia (2005) which was absolutely bonkers but very entertaining. Certainly didn't feel like a near 2h run time.

Never heard of it before, but it looks good!

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I got rained on a fair bit, but what else can you expect in November? Going there, I took the route past the old place for the first time in a while. The chestnut trees are now leafless, as one would expect, but looking well; and the Polish café was gearing up for lunchtime opening

Shopping itself was uneventful. I managed to get rid of a couple of bags of “flexible plastics” for recycling; I assume Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s also participates in the scheme but I don’t know where their dumping ground is, whereas Big has two tall basket trolleys for that purpose just inside the door, so I take them there. One of the bags has been behind some stuff in the office for ages, having been moved out of the way during the washer-dryer saga and forgotten about

Returning home, my preferred space was still free. In fact, I was able to position the car more accurately than it had been when I left. There are no markings along our side, and others had parked in what I judged to be a sub-optimal configuration when I got back from shopping last week, so the Corolla has been about a foot to a foot-and-a-half further back than I believe it should have been since then. Order has now been restored

Next up: deciding what to have for lunch, for I now have an embarrassment of riches in that regard

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull. Overcast. Wet. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 15 expected. Rain due all day off and on. Barometer down to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 07:18; Sunset 16:13 GMT

Yesterday evening HWMBO and I went to see Bugonia (2025) which was absolutely bonkers but very entertaining. Certainly didn't feel like a near 2h run time.

This evening we are off to the nether regions of the docklands to visit Cafe Spice Namaste as they're putting on a special dinner event. In order to score some bonus points with IHG, we're staying near the eXcel afterwards and taking a slow mosey home via Borough Market tomorrow morning.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s extremely grey and very rainy here today, as was foretold by the Met Office, and expected to continue so through the day and even through the night. Bit less mild, too: 10°C now apparently “feels like” 0°, and we’ve already had our high for the day of 11° so it’ll be 9° soon! The barometers are sticking around the same 993/1000mB region they’ve been at for most of the week

Off to do the shopping soon, despite the inclement conditions

[WTFH]

Things are getting exciting here, almost worthy of DMC...
I was logging in to Ziti a few minutes ago and the login code was 000999.

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