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[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!

[NickFitz]

and... a pali

The finest pali in a very long time!

[sadkingbilly]

^^^^

[ladymuck]

and... a pali

[ladymuck]

ooh a little bit more waffle...

[ladymuck]

I have to say, I am enjoying the weekly payments from gig3.

[NickFitz]

…probably somebody forgot to tick one specific checkbox

“Due to an internal error” - yeah, somebody screwed up

They responded within five minutes to say it’s being dealt with ASAP though, which is pretty good going for a Friday morning! It took me longer than that just to get my act together to send the email saying “WTF?!”

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I awoke unpaid, as the agency has screwed something up. I suspect it’s to do with the recent extension; probably somebody forgot to tick one specific checkbox, as I can see the approved timesheet in certain expected places in their execrable “portal”, but not in others. Oh well, I’ve emailed them about it so I’m sure it’ll be fine

It’s another grey day here after a rainy night, and more rain may (45-50%) be along soon, and continuing (50-60%) through the evening. The wind is a bit less vigorous than on many recent days, so the current 11°C - which is also the high for the day - only “feels like” 8°; but the barometers are pessimistic at 995/1003mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast again. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 9) with a high of 13 expected. Moderate chance of showers. Barometer down to 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 06:51; Sunset 17:38 GMT

Ought to be a quiet day today. I have some laundry to do and the floors could do with a good clean.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Was sunny: now grey.

Was damp, now wet.

Was clear, now misty moisty drizzly.

NotSoChilly in here at 14.8 deg, 13. something in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto.

1002 mBar, 29.59 in Hg, 751.6 Torr, 14.532 psi, (down from 1004 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom/wan sunshine/light misty drizzle. Nice enough.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: noon o'clock news. <click> Sadly the Orange Mother****er still isn't dead. Ho hum. Just living in hopeful anticipation of that moment of joy and celebration.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM waffling on about elections and the imminent attack on Eyeran by the Orange moron.

Taggart S7 E5,6,7. "Double exposure".

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, etc.
Another mizzly morning, so bad that I took the head torch with me just in case, but didn't need it.

[NickFitz]

I finished Peace and War; I enjoyed Forever Peace but it doesn’t have anything to do with the other two apart from being about war and peace

I also did a bit more work on the SwiftUI stuff

It started raining off and on here at lunchtime and it still is, having become steadier this evening; I think it hasn’t stopped for the last hour or more. Oh well, it’s good for the trees

Goodnight all