Keith Emmerson

Procurement rules which don't insist you use previous delivery experience as a deciding factor is wild to me.

Why 2016?

Yep.

This sounds like a 'come at me'

Watched a Star Trek last week (yes). At the end, Pat Stew says: "someone [...] will always be with us, waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness."

Some folks have had a quick butchers at whether AI summaries have impacted traffic. Possibly not, from what I remember, but a slight overall drop in traffic.

You're well within your rights to request this data without giving a reason, but I'm curious as to what you wanted it for.

I still use this as a cautionary tale.

Remind me about this the week after next

My first day at GDS was 12 years ago today.
Does anyone in any other job note the length of time they've worked there?

I've been trying to recollect how different things were when I joined. Maybe I'll write something (but definitely won't).

Connected fridge

Day 2 without internet.
Things are getting pretty dire. To keep up morale, I'm going to put on a one-man version of Starlight Express later.
I haven't seen it, but not sure that matters.

Oh no 😞

No internet. But it's ok, I have a TV aerial and CDs.

Where are the pendants* pointing out that the flags are only Union Jacks if they're on a ship?

*I might be one, undecided.

I fall asleep on the sofa in the evenings watching Repair Shop or programmes about narrowboats.

I rotate my teaspoons so they all get used equally.
I assume this is the kind of stuff BlueSky is for.

'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.

Hey writers, maybe it'll be ok
search.app/wXu9s

Now I have someone I can talk to about them. Had mine for a couple of years.

How do you pick?
The vast number of good causes must be paralysing sometimes.

‘I asked Queen Elizabeth II if she had any advice for me’: Jacinda Ardern on her time as a pregnant prime minister In an exclusive extract from her new memoir, the former New Zealand PM remembers coping with pregnancy while new in the job – and what the monarch said to her

Looking forward to this coming out.
The things she needed to think about... 🙄
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

SegaWorld's Restored Sonic Statue Lives On In Sega Europe's New London Office Company recently moved to a new location in Chiswick Business Park

@caffeinedreamer.bsky.social just saw an article about the Sonic statue from SegaWorld: search.app/94ryb
I only went there once, but the little I remember is forever etched into my memory.

I don't know what I should be doing.

I'm going to ruin that lovely sentiment with some pedantry.
It was actually #TalkToKeith, it's just the rule was that everything had to be phrased as a question.
It's a Mandela Effect thing. You're not the only one.

#bringbackERG

The problem is rarely the talent or the tech.

Boo. It was a gem we didn't deserve, I guess.
www.timeout.com/london/news/...

I've been swapping inside-kettle photos with a friend.
What of it.

While at uni I was going to make a make a website showing which pubs had the cheapest pints, crowd sourced by a crowd of one.
Before the times of internet whizbangery.

I was told the kids don't drink anymore