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

04.11.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

03.11.2025 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

01.11.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brother, get the flamer...

01.11.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

01.11.2025 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

31.10.2025 06:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

30.10.2025 06:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

26.10.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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...

26.10.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

26.10.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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? :-)

26.10.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

25.10.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

25.10.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In my Steam feed:

Totally not a Stargate SG-1 game...

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25.10.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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!

25.10.2025 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

24.10.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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...

24.10.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

24.10.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

23.10.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where be that blackbird to?
I know where he be...

21.10.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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)!

19.10.2025 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Late votes for a couple more Porirua Choctoberfest entries. We do what we must because we can...

19.10.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

19.10.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

18.10.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

18.10.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

18.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

18.10.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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?

16.10.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rather amused that Microsoft 365/Exchange has seen fit to quarantine a Microsoft mail about Microsoft Copilot...

15.10.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

12.10.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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