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[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's dark out. Earlier it was cloudy but dry. Currently 12 degrees but the high was 16. Barometer down to 1024 mBar.

Overslept this morning and then had a busy day with my crayons. Finally came up with a plan to convey the information required based on the customer not knowing what they want. Review by ConsultancyCo was highly positive so that's a relief. Apparently my concept is very novel and will be a superb starter for the discussion that's needed.

So the working day ended on a positive.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade sweet & sour pork with fried rice

This marked the first outing for my new rice cooker. It does a considerably better job of cooking rice than I've ever managed

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Only six more weeks till I knock off for Christmas

[eek]

The 10 year old KitchenAid Nespresso machine is leaking a bit too much, so I'd started to research replacing it. Note that it's not the KitchenAid bit of it that is faulty, but the seals around the pressure bit. It is repairable, according to youtube videos, but it seems a tad complex to do.

There's an offer on at the minute where on one of 2 machines, you get the machine's value in coffee back over a 12-18 month period. The two machines are a £170 basic one, or a £499 Sage with a few bells and whistles and a far bigger water tank.
Now the fact that you get your money back in coffee means it doesn't really matter which you go for (in a sense, and if you're happy to order as much as we drink), but I was leaning towards the more expensive one, while The Wife was keener on the lower cost option.
Just happened to log in to John Lewis today to see if they still had the free coffee offer, and not only that, but for Black Friday. the expensive machine was on offer at £299.

New coffee machine ordered.

Had the Sage one for years - it's brilliant especially the milk bit...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

[WTFH]

The 10 year old KitchenAid Nespresso machine is leaking a bit too much, so I'd started to research replacing it. Note that it's not the KitchenAid bit of it that is faulty, but the seals around the pressure bit. It is repairable, according to youtube videos, but it seems a tad complex to do.

There's an offer on at the minute where on one of 2 machines, you get the machine's value in coffee back over a 12-18 month period. The two machines are a £170 basic one, or a £499 Sage with a few bells and whistles and a far bigger water tank.
Now the fact that you get your money back in coffee means it doesn't really matter which you go for (in a sense, and if you're happy to order as much as we drink), but I was leaning towards the more expensive one, while The Wife was keener on the lower cost option.
Just happened to log in to John Lewis today to see if they still had the free coffee offer, and not only that, but for Black Friday. the expensive machine was on offer at £299.

New coffee machine ordered.

[WTFH]

Just ordered 1000l of oil at 57ppl, I've not bought it that cheap in years.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, autumnally cool on the walk at 8C, but not cool enough for the coat I wore.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 16.6 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 15 deg in the leanto.

1023 mBar, 30.21 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.837 psi, (down from 1024 and a bit last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of November 2019, in those halcyon preplague days, it was intermittently rainy/sunny, BR14's other half was in A&E with the other half's sadly demented parent, bringing back memories of All The Fun I had doing the same thing, whereas it was raining on me and on NF, with NF's sunset occurring rather before mine due to geography & stuff.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine and gloom.

Lunch: there was brunch.

Freecell score: 86%, running average: 79%.

More gardening. Feck me, this is going to be a bonfire & a half. .

Tea: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: well if there's owt to watch I ain't found it.

Book.

Other book.

Other other book.

Other other other book.

Website thing about old tech.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The weather app claims it's "mostly sunny" but the reality is that it's completely grey and a tad misty. Mild at 9°C heading for 14°, and the barometers are down a little - but not so much that it matters - at 1015/1023mB

Happy Samhain to those who celebrate it!

[NickFitz]

Tea was quite late tonight due to me being disorganised, so no further telly. But I read a bit more of Casino

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been pork cutlet with chips and beans

Accompanied by the final part of Inside Barlinnie. Some very interesting stuff about the special unit they had for the absolute worst people in the 1970s and 1980s, where the prisoners and staff ran the unit in collaboration and it was very laissez faire; out of those who passed through it (including Jimmy Boyle), only four ever reoffended

[ladymuck]

The afternoon did indeed see the clouds part and some sunshine break through.

I have been working with my crayons all day trying to depict a lot of information in a visually pleasing manner.

[NickFitz]

I see the news in the sidebar is updating

The funny thing about that is that it could have been working all along

When admin (of blessed memory) and I set it up some years ago, I had it working by fetching the CUK main site's RSS feed and updating with any new stories. But when we deployed it to the server, it didn't work. It turned out that admin had various firewall rules set up to protect the server and one of them was blocking it from fetching the feed over the web.

It was late and we'd already been working on forum deployment stuff for hours, so we went for a quick and easy fix: he set up a cron job, which was exempt from the relevant firewall rule, which fetched the feed and saved it to the server. Then my scheduled task could read that file and update the news that way.

When admin moved on, the new administrators moved things over to their container-based systems. But they missed the cron job, because I suppose they never thought to look and admin had probably forgotten all about it. So the news remained stuck because the file was never updated.

Anyway, yesterday when I'd sorted out the memcache stuff, I went and had a look at the code for updating the news; I was wondering if I could work out how to get it working. I'd also forgotten all of the above. But what did I see: the line that fetched the RSS feed directly, commented out, above the three or so lines that got it from the file

So I commented out the stuff for reading the file, and uncommented the original line that fetches the feed directly, and it works!

We should probably have documented this stuff but as I say, it was late

[NickFitz]

Two birds, one stone: went for a walk round one of the various blocks available to me, and dropped off the recycling at the place of bins on the way out

It's getting quite misty out