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I'm resistant to "smart home" things generally but there are one or two spots where I'd like to know how cold it gets (new furnace isn't ducted to those parts of the house).

2025-11-06 12:49:14 GMT

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I worry about finding work in the UK if I go home.

2025-09-15 22:07:00 GMT

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I worked on some multiuser Concurrent CP/M-86 machines that had graphical terminals and another that shipped with Wyse WY-50.

2025-09-15 21:56:12 GMT

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I seem to remember VT-52 being somewhat more common on CP/M machines.

2025-09-14 23:25:43 GMT

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Is that running CP/M?

2025-09-13 13:28:42 GMT

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Was thinking of you both yesterday. Would you consider Canada, given your family connection there?

2025-09-07 16:25:21 GMT

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I didn't know we had those!

2025-09-07 16:09:54 GMT

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Where's that?!

2025-08-24 16:11:25 GMT

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Is it in a culvert?

2025-08-13 23:14:16 GMT

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Are the roads clogged with tourists?

2025-08-11 11:53:53 GMT

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I have a spool of Cat3 that I've been saving for a special occasion.

2025-08-11 11:36:54 GMT

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Is the grid run by National Power?

2025-06-25 23:40:32 GMT

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My son says "I like that. It's cute!"

2025-04-28 11:37:40 GMT

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I've been there!

2025-04-16 21:39:20 GMT

Is it bad that I want a fifteen year old computer?

2025-03-11 23:05:28 GMT

Too early to plant anything but I got the Spring compost pile started and dug over the useless shade bed. Got quite a bit of Cooch roots out and the Spruce roots are finally starting to break down. #Gardening

2025-02-11 15:32:12 GMT

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Would users get CDE?

2025-01-04 19:00:06 GMT

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Right wing media using fear to stoke racism to promote their politics.

2025-01-04 18:42:12 GMT

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You know that's made up, right?

2024-12-30 13:29:37 GMT

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Camped there when I was a boy. I would love to go back.

2024-12-08 14:44:00 GMT

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Are MicroStrategy a company who sell a COBOL compiler?

2024-12-06 16:30:05 GMT

Thinking about the 8051 microcontroller.

2024-11-24 23:46:53 GMT

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If someone asked me that, my one-word reply would be "Presumably".

2024-11-18 04:48:52 GMT

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I don't use it.

2024-11-16 19:59:29 GMT

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Minix fits. ;-)

2024-11-11 00:57:31 GMT

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I have my eye on a @npub19rr…jmg2 Node d7i #bicycle.

2024-11-10 21:40:44 GMT

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16" wheels?

2024-11-10 14:06:20 GMT

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We live in town. OTA just isn't ubiquitous since the transition to DTV halved the range. #television

2024-11-10 13:53:09 GMT

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I would like to try Freeview one day. Here I would be able to get one station with a couple of streams if I put an aerial on the roof.

2024-11-10 13:45:44 GMT

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That would still contain obnoxious software to gum up the works. I prefer a "dumb" TV.

2024-11-04 12:03:57 GMT

One thing about the clock change: extra #JobSearch time in the morning!

2024-11-03 12:21:07 GMT

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Congratulations! \o/

2024-11-02 18:07:46 GMT

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#Linux advocacy fail?

2024-10-22 23:56:48 GMT

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Remember when computer manuals included a fold-out schematic?

2024-09-28 13:13:18 GMT

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Did IBM make terminal servers (of the RS-232 type, not a place to run application software) to attach ASCII terminals (e.g. IBM 3161, 3151 etc.) to POWER servers?

2024-09-23 03:59:07 GMT

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I'm definitely seeing significantly lower salaries on the few IT jobs I see in this corner of Illinois. #JobSearch

2024-09-18 19:59:44 GMT

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We have both but tearing up the bird feeder is a raccoon's M.O.

2024-09-17 11:10:06 GMT

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Definitely sounds like their work.

2024-09-17 00:03:49 GMT

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My small dog was peeing in the back garden one night last week when a racoon rapidly waddled past us down the garden path towards the shed. Haven't seen one for a while.

2024-09-15 20:40:17 GMT

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Generally I type 'reset'.

2024-09-01 14:11:20 GMT

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Don't be! We know that day is coming. I think he does too. My son has never known a home without him and I doubt my daughter remembers. He was about six weeks old and fit more or less in my hand. We agreed to look after him for a few days while someone was found to adopt him. That first night he fell asleep on my knee. He's still there.

2024-09-01 13:54:12 GMT

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I read this with my remaining (14-year-old) small dog laying beside me.

2024-08-31 20:36:09 GMT

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IRC for interactive, a mailing list for async? :-)

2024-08-31 16:39:30 GMT

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Any advantage to those over irc?

2024-08-27 23:53:48 GMT

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Today!

2024-08-14 03:08:32 GMT

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Do you have any stickers that say "I would if I could but I can't, so I won't"?

2024-08-06 15:04:07 GMT

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Two flags for the price of one!

2024-08-05 00:07:45 GMT

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We've seen their eggs on gravel near a footpath. Mum runs away from the eggs peeping loudly to draw you away.

2024-08-04 23:40:12 GMT

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I met someone in Illinois who only knew them as "golf course birds".

2024-07-06 13:01:20 GMT

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Me too! I'll be trying to build a #compost box that Geezer the Groundhog can't tip over.

2024-06-29 17:40:45 GMT

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I think the vote stops being a decision as it starts to become an identity. The U.S. feels quite some way down that road now.

2024-06-29 16:18:24 GMT

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I see what you did there. :-)

2024-06-21 22:14:54 GMT

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Sort of hoping that's not me.

2024-06-07 13:50:47 GMT

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Network's down. Might do that quite a bit today.

2024-06-07 01:18:15 GMT

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Perhaps the next CEO will rename "full self driving" to "enhanced cruise control" or just turn the damn thing off altogether. #Tesla

2024-05-28 00:01:09 GMT

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No idea what PyCharm is but I use a Raspberry Pi over a serial console cable and (if I'm testing something graphical) over VNC.

2024-05-25 19:54:54 GMT

I haven't worried about #ai taking over the world but it just occurred to me that some countries elect truly stupid leaders, so perhaps it'll just get elected.

2024-05-12 22:50:56 GMT

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He's out there now. :-)

2024-05-12 22:48:44 GMT

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Does a compost groundhog count? He's just tipped the small heap over. :-)

2024-05-09 17:22:27 GMT

Ooh, a full-time IT job within driving range! Wait, $30k? Nope. #JobSearch