I know I've said this a thousand times before, but! I couldn't do 1st-line support full-time; I really couldn't. You have no idea how much respect I have for those who do that kind of job, day in, day

Our local chip shop is "CASH ONLY", he has notices everywhere written on fish & Chip wrapping paper saying "Cash is King!" and "No card payments!" never mind Jeff Bezos

I was being moaned at that my Witness votes were about to expire and that I needed to do a Governance Transaction if I still wanted to be considered one of the good guys. I'm gonna hold my hand up and

Yet another story that's perfect podcast material IMO. In 2021 Tesco purchased VMware vSphere Foundation and VMware Cloud Foundation from Computacenter, which is a reseller of VMware. Now, in the murky

From Monks' Manuscripts to Machine Minds: How Power Fears Shared Knowledge I saw a post on Mastodon yesterday alluding to AI being the spawn of Hitler! I laughed so much that a little bit of wee nearly

Over a year ago, I noticed that the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) had acquired the David Bowie archive and was planning to create a dedicated venue for it, so I waited for tickets to be released.

image source I've been lucky enough to secure tickets for the David Bowie exhibition at the V&A Storehouse in London, which I'll be attending tomorrow, Saturday, 27th September 2025. As you can imagine,

Taking Charlie for a walk, I decided to 'go exploring'. Instead of heading down into Bourton, I turned right and after a short walk, I came across one of those Public Footpath signs for Windrush, Charlie,

Given it rained off and on while we were in the Cotswolds, we decided to go on a steam train ride from Broadway to Cheltenham Race Course.

The wife was determined not to go to North Devon, so to ensure we went somewhere different, she booked Japonica Cottage in Bourton-on-the-Water, Cotswolds. I've never been in that part of the country,

I've just spent a few days in the Cotswolds, and I'll write another post(s) about that. This is a bit out of sequence, to be honest, as we visited The Farmer's Dog on our last day on our way back home.

Walking with Charlie this morning, we met up with a big dog we've not seen in a while. I've no idea what breed it is; it looks like a German Shepherd, but its long coat is greyish silver with overtones

That's not good.

Someone's knocking on the door! Over the past week, I had my Friendica instance hammered by login attempts and bad bots. This is the process I used to track down the culprits, configure Fail2Ban, and set

Unless you've been living under a rock, you will know that heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne has his funeral in Birmingham, UK, today. Now, before I go any further, I don't have any of his music. I liked

The UK is currently experiencing a rare phenomenon: we have sunshine and temperatures above 20 °c. I usually don't take the dog 'up the park' especially in winter, as it gets too muddy. I usually walk

Sticky Notes My third job after leaving school was as a Tea Broker. If truth be told, I wasn't really one; I'd bluffed my way into it, having been employed as a trainee tea broker in my previous employment.

Ping @skyleap Are you still creating avatars? You've done a couple of mine, and I was wondering if you could do a St Patrick's Day one. Obviously, I'll reimburse you.

While you can buy doors from DIY shops, you need to go to a dedicated door shop if you want something nice. Bridgtown Doors is not a million miles from us, and it's pretty much the go-to location for doors

If you have a new kitchen, it makes sense to have a new radiator, especially if it is probably forty, if not more, years old. I'd bought a new 500mm one from Wickes, where we had the kitchen from, and