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So tempted to buy this. I'm surrounded by sheep.


Went crazy and spent £2 on a mint plant for minted new potatoes. Fresh does smell nice, though.


𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗼𝗱𝘀!
The guy upstairs is almost continually coughing his guts out and the guy in the workshop is coughing his guts out! Are these swine trying to make us ill?


So while I agree it's good to see all these Twitter users coming over to Mastodon and the Fediverse, I am slightly saddened that they are doing it because they feel they have no choice rather than making a conscious decision to embrace freedom. Still "Every cloud...." and all that. #hugs
#hugs


𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗯𝘂𝘆𝘀 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 - 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞! 𝗥𝗨𝗡 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬!
Seeing LOTS of people reactivate their Fediverse (Mastodon, Frendica, PLeroma) accounts last night and this morning, maybe even one or two will migrate to #Hive? Not sure why everyone is jumping ship. TBH, Twitter already has your personal profile and preferences, and so what if he invites Trump et al. back? There are already more dangerous freaks on Twitter anyway!
ecency.com/signup?referral=dic…

#Hive


Great! I place my order with @argon_forty for their EON NAS Drive enclosure and then two days later PiHut lists it. #LeSigh #raspberrypi
Still, I think there's only a three or four quid difference.
thepihut.com/products/argon-eo…


Oh, God. Boris needs my help again!


If only I had a podcast?
This is an interesting story theregister.com/2022/04/20/val…
I'm sure something is missing from this report though? While ValueLicensing is missing out on potentially buying old licences to resell, I would have thought it was more beneficial for customers to surrender those licenses in return for a discount on M365? Indeed, eventually, ValueLicensing will run out of licenses to sell anyway? Maybe that's why they're suing?


If only Mandrake Linux could be resurrected. Personally, I think they lost their way when it morphed into Mandriva.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva…


I have eaten four, yes 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 Eccles cakes! That should translate into three stone by tomorrow. :-O


So my QNAP TS-251B is fixed. Not quite sure how tbh. I read a write-up that walked you through a reset but advised that it would wipe the drives. Luckily, I could still access the NAS from the cloud so downloaded all the important stuff. anyway, I bit the bullet and pressed reset and the voice said "Advanced Reset started" after a reboot, the NAS was back and so was my content \o/
Had to re-implement my personal configuration such as fixed IP etc but well chuffed it didn't wipe the drives.


𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆
If only I had a moped.
If only it was 1964
If only Brighton beach wasn't so bloody cold this time of year.


𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀: There are only 37 Mondays left until Christmas!


Never mind all these schemes for loft and cavity wall installation most of which are a scam anyway. The government should pay for every house in the UK to have solar panels fitted and make it law that new builds must have solar panel roofs. They never will because the energy industry will resist it as it will eat into their profits.


Wondering how many contractors are queuing up for rebuilding contracts in Ukraine?


Emily Davison didn't chuck herself under a horse so that you lazy feckers could sit on your arse and say: "What's the point of voting?" Get it sorted! Go and vote! You can spare 5 minutes of your day.

Local elections in the United Kingdom will be held on 5 May 2022


Took Charlie to the park this morning. Fairly cold, -1C but enjoyed meeting the fellow dog walkers until we were nearly on our way out of the park and a woman I've not seen for a while said: "Have you retired now?"

Do I look that old?


I might start quoting in Guineas.


Friday night, I fancied a beer. "I know; I have a bottle sitting in the cupboard." I poured out the "Old speckled dog bollock", or whatever it was called and then thought: "Hmm? It's been there a while?" Too right! "Best before Jan 2020!" I bet I bought it in 2018.

Saturday night: I'll have me a Margarita. "Best before Feb 2021"
Thank The Pond Gods my Bushmills is OK.


I am on to a winner today. I definitely know the wife is at the hairdresser's; therefore, for once, as a man, know to walk in the door and say: "Ooh, your hair looks nice." which means brownie points for me unless she hates her hair and then I'm deep in the doggy doo doo. 😟


And to think I was dead jealous of anyone that owned an HTC.


Always in the top four, I've finally found a home where I'm appreciated. #hive #Ecency


One of the guys has just had his new Samsung S22 delivered and it's PINK!
"But it says Red!"
It's Pink :-D


I have very dry lips today for some reason?


FFS! It sounds like a mule eating pellets out of a nose bag. What are you eating?


Is there some sort of by-law that says shops in retail parks cannot open until mid-morning on a Saturday!? If you don't want to push people online, I suggest retailers open at 9 am, oh, and Currys PC World; I recommend you get rid of the Brand Name assistants who can only help you with their brand.


And you. May The Pond Gods bring you what you truly deserve today.


That moment you enter a room and you mention out loud a task to be done and a member of staff leaps out their chair full of excuses why they can't do it and then the director overhears and tells them to do it to which they start f'ing and jeffing all over the place.


Currently logged on to irc.libera.chat but can't think of any channels I fancy entering for the minute.


Praying to The Pond Gods that #FOSDEM 2023 is a physical event. 🙏


I'm thinking of setting up an email address of DevNull@ymydomain.co.uk for all those sales calls with "Can I get an email address?" in them.

Hang on? I work in sales!


The females at #CastleCannon have started watching Game of Thrones again from the beginning. I now have that damn theme tune in my head.


Your "Loading" animation is incredibly annoying when the application doesn't tell me what the hell it is trying to do that it is clearly having a problem with!