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[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

[NickFitz]

Here's a good one for your Monday links thing Fizzy Knickers:



Drunk animals far more common than previously thought, scientists say | The Independent

Cheers!

[xoggoth]

Here's a good one for your Monday links thing Fizzy Knickers:

However some cases in insects appeared to point to a social link with ethanol consumption. In one 2012 study, male fruit flies were found to increase their alcohol consumption after being rejected by a mate, while females of a closely-related species were found to be less selective in their choice of mate after consuming ethanol.

Drunk animals far more common than previously thought, scientists say | The Independent

[eek]

Hurray

Pali

Sorry I was working...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover chicken bits

Hope they hadn't been left over too long

[NickFitz]

Hurray

Nice pali!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 16.8 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 15 deg in the leanto.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (up from 1022 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of November 2019 Brillo and xogg hated people, xogg loved wasps and spiders, I was in with the hoi polloi in the library with fewer Universal Credit claimants being introduced to the interweb and the keyboard, however the farter turned up, and the morning walk was muddy and chilly, sufficiently so to use the road rather than the woodland paths.

Elevenses in that Neath with my mate's widow.

Lunch: there was brunch.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 79%.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: UFO bollox on Blaze.

Book.

Maigret: the Bruno Cremer Majestic Hotel one. 1993.

Frankenstein on BBC Alba. More subtitles.

[ladymuck]

Hurray

[ladymuck]

Fingers crossed...

[ladymuck]

I bet that eek chap swoops in at the last minute