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I spent a chunk of the last few weeks upgrading a fleet of Ubuntu servers in place, one LTS to the next, with do-release-upgrade. Dozens of boxes, mostly stateless, mostly boring once you’ve done the first few.
As mentioned before, I’ve been heading to Bubbles more and more to get my little blog fix every day. Hey, I’m an addict, I’ll happily admit that! Bubbles is great, and is definitely having a moment given how often it drives traffic to...
A lovely warm sunny day. Car washing. T, B1. Did a bit more mowing in the wood. Dot and Jane at home at noon. Jane very funny. Had us laughing. She sang.
Anyone in Britain looking at the images out of Belfast from last night’s pogrom and thinking, “That’s Northern Ireland, they’ve […]
And actually seen here! I was going to do a longish post on Ambulances, but I was up at 4:40 to drive to Luton and have successfully battled the salary mongs on the M25, back again. Now fatigue is catching-up, and I'm going to have a...
“We’re all better than AI. AI is just better at pretending it can do the job.” The post “Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?” first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
Great, now I have THAT Frozen song in my head.. Do you wanna buy a GooProooo, record all the things arrouuunnddd.. Anyway, GoPro Hero 10 Black, with loads of accessories. I bought it with grand plans of recording my cycling adventures...
1965 historical fiction for young people. Phaedrus the gladiator wins his freedom, but has no idea what to do with it, and rapidly runs into trouble. Then he is offered a role in a cunning plan: to stand in for the rightful king...
This post originally ran in 2018. Nothing has changed. I still won’t go to bed. YOU CAN’T MAKE ME! Yesterday at 8:23am, my husband texted me a link. No note, just a string of random letters and slashes and dots. I clicked and landed on a...
The Amazing Spider-man #249 Date: February 1984 Publisher: Marvel Comics Group Cover Price: 60¢ 2013 Price Range: $2.00 - $16.00 Stats: 22 color pages plus ads, Bullpen Bulletins and "The Spider's Web" letters page. Writer: Roger Stern...
Following on from our recent post on the cancelled PlayStation 2/Xbox edition of Æon Flux by Argonaut Games, Steve Cook of Videogame History recently got in touch to highlight that this wasn't the first attempt to bring MTV's cult...
Climate change is propelling the lone star tick's habitat northward. This expansion poses a major public health threat, as a single bite can trigger alpha-gal syndrome, a life-altering allergy to red meat.You can explore the northern...
The year is 2007. Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone in January. I spend the summer working at a camp in Pennsylvania. And before heading back home to the other side of the world, we decide to spend some of our hard-earned money on a...
Double Maths First Thing is NOT procrastinating in the group chat. Why would you even suggest that? Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of doing maths and, from time to time, the...