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[DoctorStrangelove]

You don't need to remember, Google does it for you. I still like messing about with code, mostly just website stuff, php, jscript etc and Excel VBA.

Never used any of those, mostly FORTRAN (35 years ago), C (6 or 7 years ago), VB (7 or 8 years ago), CAP16 assembler, Z80 assembler, 8086 assembler, 8085 assembler, 6805 assembler, and most recently Microchip PIC assembler (which is what the tv zapper code is written in, all 240 words of it).

Ah, dear dead days beyond recall.

[WTFH]

I see that Only Connect is back to normal after its Christmas specials. It’s a semifinal tonight. At least one of us knows the result of it already

[xoggoth]

Haven't written a line of code in 5 or 6 years. Probly can't remember how any more

You don't need to remember, Google does it for you. I still like messing about with code, mostly just website stuff, php, jscript etc and Excel VBA.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Glad me few remaining brain cells don't have to deal with such complex problems anymore NF. Still trying to figure out how me mappy thing is about 15 x 5 pixels off.

Haven't written a line of code in 5 or 6 years. Probly can't remember how any more.

No great loss really but I would like to make a replacement zapper for the tv/freesat box.

Trouble is that every box I turn on seems to die*.

At least some of them still run Freecell, which is really all that matters now.

*The really irritating one is the one that successfully ran Win2k for years & years, then refused to boot and refuses to install on a fresh hd. Frustrating. Generates a STOP then restarts so I can't even figure out WTF is wrong with it.

[ladymuck]

A second contract has arrived.

[Pondlife]

Good afternoon all,

This week's soup is sans parsnips and so much nicer with the added bonus of extra thick bacon from the butcher.

Wind 7 kt from the North/Northwest, varying between West/Northwest and North
Temperature 4°C
Humidity 60%
Pressure 1016 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more

Managed to get a check flight in over the weekend. Three circuits (normal, flapless and a glide one) and a practised forced landing.

[ladymuck]

Lunch was scrambled eggs on toast.

I got some fancy pants eggs from Waitrose and the colour of the yolks is very striking indeed. The eggs themselves tasted nice but, without doing a side-by-side comparison with normal free range eggs, I don't know if they're 'better'. I had heard some farmers feed their chickens things like turmeric to make the egg yolk more orangey coloured. I don't believe the colour has any bearing on the nutritional content.

[ladymuck]

Some Indian leftovers for lunch

Om

[xoggoth]

Glad me few remaining brain cells don't have to deal with such complex problems anymore NF. Still trying to figure out how me mappy thing is about 15 x 5 pixels off.

[NickFitz]

Some Indian leftovers for lunch

First day back and there’s a bug in something I did before Christmas. Interestingly, it’s the direct opposite of the bug I initially set out to fix - that one caused rows of data to be returned that shouldn’t be, this one is missing rows that should. I wish we could just throw this whole thing away and start again, or at least tidy up the database schema! But it’s got too many years of data in it, and anyway, nobody any longer understands how large parts of it work

[ladymuck]

One contract has arrived.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[xoggoth]

Freezy morning removing screening from round oil tank in preparation for the boiler service man's visit. Me fingers nearly dropped off.

Nowt else on today but things getting back to normal from tomorrow, old arty farty thing in morning and karaoke in evening. Bloke who runs it has got over his latest stroke.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear blue sky. Cold. Dry. Currently -2 degrees ('feels like' -4) with a high of 3 expected. Barometer remains steady at 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 08:06; Sunset 16:08 GMT

Despite the lack of any contracts, I have logged on. The level of effort being expended is currently minimal.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday. .

White.

Sunny.

Cold in here at 10.8 deg, 8 in the kitchen, 3 in the leanto, 1 in the saltinghouse.

1011.5 mBar, 29.87 in Hg, 758.7 Torr, 14.67 psi, (up from 1009 last night), 52% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 9th of March 2020 NF was a bit but managed to change the bed and flip the mattress, LM had a non flippy mattress, WTFH went for a wet dog walk, and I watched "Their Finest" whatever that was.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: more of the thing about "Progress" which, apparently, has been discontinued for the 99%.

Book.

Next book.

Half a thing about Sergio Leone on Sky Arts (that I've seen numerous times previously).

Tea: chicken in white sauce. Nice enough now I've stopped having rice with it.

Entertainment: PM: the insane doings of the Orange Mother****ing madman <click>

Where's dear old LHO when he's so badly needed? Can't they find another Patsy and give him something a bit more meaty than 5.56?

Entertainment: Oak Island nutjobbery: wood. More wood. Bit of rusty iRon. Ring pull off a coke can. FDR's other dap.

Buried in the Ice: more bollox on Blaze.