Colin Mackay

Catching up on safety courses that work make us do. The multiple choice quiz at the end always has questions in the form of:

What should you do in this potentially hazardous situation?

* poke the bear with a stick.
* punch the bear on the nose.
* leave the bear along and tell the ranger about it.

Succubus - female demon that seduces men,
Incubus - male demon that seduces women,
Vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party.

Queen does K-POP

Tubelines Launch Events! London - Saturday 4th October 2025, 16:00 - 18:00 at The Poetry Society. Glasgow - Wednesday 8th October 2025, 18:30 - 20:30 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts

Join @kestr.al for the launch of Tubelines, their incredible new poetry collection, at events in both London and Glasgow.

Accessible venues, free tickets, and loads of fantastic poetry.

reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/events/

V for Vendetta is more relevant today than it’s ever been

X conversation: Jamie Kay Can anyone explain how putting up flags and painting roundabouts helps protect women and girls from sexual assault? Steve Robb Because the offenders are busy painting roundabouts or are up a ladder

What if the Severance theme was played at the Music Dance Experience? I was playing with Garage Band and somehow came up with this simultaneously more up-beat and creepy version of the severance theme.

Fixing out of sequence timestamps I maintain a small open source project that helps test log message. Part of this is that each log message has a sequence number and timestamp attached to it. You should be able to sequence the logs…

Did you know that the #dotnet property DateTime.UtcNow can sometimes go backwards between one call and the next? I didn't, but here's a possible solution compensating for that if you need to create a monotonic (always ascending or descending) sequence of timestamps: colinmackay.scot/2025/02/25/f...

YouTube video by thecollegepicker How to Remove and Clean Sticky Keys on Apple Magic Keyboard 2 Step by Step Repair (Detailed Fix)

I managed to spill some juice on my Apple Magic Keyboard. Luckily I found a video on how to pry the keys off and clean them properly. That would have been an expensive fix if I had to replace it (It was the full sized one with the numeric keypad).

Here’s the video, www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPba...

Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations We want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations ...

To be perfectly honest, I think only registered voters should be able to contribute to political parties, election funds, etc. and that amount to have an annual cap. But, this is still a step in the right direction.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Despite all the negative comments about the recent Star Trek series (Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, Prodigy) I’ve rather enjoyed them all. Until now. My God, the characters in the new Section 31 movie were irritating! I liked the concept, but I just found the people unlikeable.

Screenshot of the Asda Rewards app reading “Your most-bought item was Spicy & Tender Chicken & Wholewheat Pasta Salad 300g You bought this product 144 times Top shopping!”

Asda sent me a notification about my shopping habits. Apparently I bought a lot of pasta salad last year. It’s kind of interesting, but I’m not sure what to do with this information.

First Kilogram Lost You've lost the weight of a pineapple.

The story so far, 2 years ago I was just shy of 120kg. I lost roughly 20kg each of the last 2 years. I did put on a little over Christmas, so my starting weight on 1/Jan was 83kg.

My goal for this year is to get down to 70kg which would put me in the middle of my ideal weight.

A graphic showing the the top artists and songs I listened to according to Spotify. Top Artists 1 Jean-Michel Jarre 2 Niteworks 3 Mànran 4 The Proclaimers 5 Capercaillie Top Songs 1 Streets of Edinburgh 2 Air Fair an Là 3 An Toll Dubh 4 Fare Well, Pt. 2 5 Somhairle

I listened for 30,437 minutes in 2024. What about you? #SpotifyWrapped

Top Artists
1 Jean-Michel Jarre
2 Niteworks
3 Mànran
4 The Proclaimers
5 Capercaillie

Top Songs
1 Streets of Edinburgh
2 Air Fair an Là
3 An Toll Dubh
4 Fare Well, Pt. 2
5 Somhairle