Rob Evans

Was at a meeting at The Shard today, so travelled through London Bridge. Kicking myself that it was only when I got home I remembered about the new Rail Clock.

Lad came back from somewhere or other with a clicky fidget device. First glance it is obviously 3D printed. It didn’t last for long, but what slightly surprised me was what they were using for the click. Not a small bit of metal and a spring, but a mechanical keyboard switch.

“A single device can make use of […] the 800MHz of spectrum we bought in 26GHz.”

I remember when the carrier frequency phones used was 800MHz, not the width of the channels — though that was mainly in North America. Europe used 900MHz and 1900MHz, leading to fabled ‘tri-band’ phones for the jetset.

If you are changing from S Bahn to Intercity trains at Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof and Google Maps is telling you to do almost anything other than get off the S Bahn at Hauptbahnhof, there is a reason for that (and I should learn not to be so stubborn).

Even @actionretro.bsky.social’s latest video is about something newer than this.

I have a Kobo Glo e-reader that is at least 11 years old. It is still getting software updates, such as the most recent one to replace the defunct read-it-later service Pocket with Instapaper. Kudos, Kobo.

Today marks the first release of images from the Vera C Rubin observatory in Chile. The Janet network is involved in getting the data to storage and researchers in the UK.

Just when you thought your MP was at least trying to be one of the good ones. Sigh.

There’s a 20:50, but I’m not getting any rebooking options, so I’ll find out when I get to AMS.

Put it this way (and I’ve got to go through immigration too).

Place your bets…

“Would all passengers for flight … please proceed to gate A3. Your aircraft has not yet landed, but your flight will shortly be ready for boarding.”

Did a UK minister just suggest on Radio 4 that he was feeding (confidential?) briefing documents into a Google AI to get a summary? :-)

Watching the first episode of Dexter: Original Sin, and pleased they’ve cast Ed Byrne in the role of young Dexter.

This one is mainly for Jisc/Janet customers and those in IXPs. A few notes from last week's LINX member meeting: shapingthefutureofjanet.jiscinvolve.org/wp/meetings-...

Number of LINX members: > 900
Number of people present on day 1 of member meeting: 350
Number of votes cast in EGM: 58

On a bit of a YouTube vintage computer binge that largely seems to consist of how best to wash and clean various bits of plastic and electronics, and lots of electrolytic capacitor replacement.

RIPE 89 - Shaping the future of Janet Introduction The last Monday in October saw my alarm set for 02:45 in order to catch a 05:55 flight from Manchester Airport to head to Prague for RIPE 89. There are a number of reasons I participate i...

Wrote a few notes on last week’s #RIPE89 meeting. shapingthefutureofjanet.jiscinvolve.org/wp/meetings-...

TNC last week, Networkshop this. All filled with lovely people, but I may be peopled out for now.

Credit where it is due. New scanners at Manchester Airport T2 work. Liquids still need to be improved, but I could leave my collection of laptop, iPad, phones, cables and chargers in my bag and didn’t get sent to secondary.

US: Election in November 2024. Primaries start 11 months before. Conventions to select candidates start four months before election.
UK: Let’s have an election in 43 days!

I mean, I had to walk though the rain today, but that was just because I wanted to get to the tram. It’s not like it was a planned press conference that had been given due consideration and lengthy planning to choose the next parliament.

“The new optical clocks are accurate to about 1 in 10^18 seconds. It is about 10^18 seconds since the Big Bang, so if you’d started an optical clock then it would only about a second out now. So that’s quite accurate.”

Me: I refuse to pay the hotel €1 for the two more Nespresso capsules I’ll need for the time I am here.

Also me: Goes to local shop and pays nearly €5 for 10, of which I’ll only use 2-3.

If A then B.

I’m sure the two meetings could sponge something off each other. Though perhaps don’t soft-soap them unless they mop the floor with you.

Tories delete Sadiq Khan attack ad showing New York instead of London Footage of people panicking, designed to attack the London mayor’s record on crime, was filmed in a New York subway station

Apparently copyright infringement is up substantially under the Tories… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

“You have been added to a team in Microsoft Teams” is rapidly becoming the new “could this have been an email instead?”

Yikes. “…it appears that the more someone is engaged with the IETF […] the lower they rate the behaviour of participants…” www.ietf.org/media/docume...

The 52 definitive rules of flying A handbook for behaving like a civilized person, from airport arrival to landing.

Every one of these. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/inter...