Ming

In Grab car in heavy traffic a mere 1.1km from hotel. I have questions.

Urgh. Looking at a 3am wakeup for a 6am flight tomorrow...

Rather enjoyed that. Will need to go back to the autobiography and see how well the two mesh!

Brother, get the flamer...

At Reading Cinema Porirua to see Springsteen: Deliver Us From Nowhere.

At the Opera House with @aeshna.bsky.social to see Sir Dave Dobbyn.

So, AWS outage followed by Azure. So, GCP next week and Alibaba Cloud the week after?

Just had a horrible thought: would Bournemouth go ahead of Arsenal on alphabetical order (as AFC Bournemouth)?!

There is a certain inevitability that the actual public holiday part of the Long weekend is the wet, grey, miserable one. @aeshna.bsky.social says that's what you get for still having a Union Jack on your flag...

If anyone had asked me to guess what the top of the Premier League table would look like at this stage, it would not have been this! Especially impressive from Sunderland, given they were in League 1 as recently as 2022!

When Nanoleaf discontinued their square smartlights, I put my plans for building a Zen display on hold then I spotted these today. Damned sight cheaper than the Nanoleafs too. Now, where can I get a suitable dome from? :-)

Wonder how difficult it would be to mod it to become more... "screen accurate"?

According to my phone's usage stats, Ingress accounted for 78% of my battery usage yesterday!

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In my Steam feed:

Totally not a Stargate SG-1 game...

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At the Fork and Brewer for post-Ingress Anomaly event drinks. So far, one person figured out I must do work for his employer from seeing my deployments around his workplace and another realized we'd chatted at the monthly First Tuesday security event. Yep, Wellington is indeed a small place!

At Karaka Cafe on the waterfront, meeting with other Enlightened players before attending my first Ingress Anomaly event!

Just finished watching the James Blunt: One Brit Wonder documentary. Very amusing stuff, as is he. Once again, I rather regret his music isn't really to my taste! That said, we reckon if he shows up round here, we might have to give it a go...

Trying not to be too judgemental but I'm pretty sure they didn't tap in on Snapper and not sure they're going to be able to pay the fare in cash. #birds

Survived Red wind warning day, greatest damage appears to be to my daily step count.

Where be that blackbird to?
I know where he be...

Slightly disturbing to see PB Tech selling 128GB flash drives for NZ$10 .75, not least because my first PC had a then cavernous 90MB hard disk (which cost a lot more than that)!

Late votes for a couple more Porirua Choctoberfest entries. We do what we must because we can...

Photos from Spring Into Tawa yesterday. Second year in a row it didn't rain; inconceivable! Seems to have expanded (lot more food stalls for a start) and moved a bit South along the main road.

Key learning: Poultry In Motion really means it when they say the Splashback sauce is seriously hot!

I have performed a key democratic duty. Yep, I have cast my votes for the entries in this year's Porirua Choctoberfest.

Isn't a yellow flag with a red cross the flag of the Kalmar Union?

One highlight from this morning's UK fan Zoom - "The Andrew formerly known as Prince"!

At the National Library of New Zealand for back-of-house tour as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations.

Signed up for a back-of-house tour of the National Library of New Zealand on Saturday. Anyone know if they have a copy of the Necronomicon?

Rather amused that Microsoft 365/Exchange has seen fit to quarantine a Microsoft mail about Microsoft Copilot...

A bit behind the times but Robocop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business is a lot of (very violent) fun.