h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Finished reading Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach which lays out a #green future which is still radical 50 years after publication. There are a lot of ideas in this book – sustainability, accountability and work-life balance – which are equally relevant today. #books

Accidentally went to the #Beecroft art gallery, #Southend when there's live #jazz happening downstairs. The Tori Freestone Trio giving it some. Smooth.

Enjoying "Not the End of the World" by Hannah Ritchie from @ourworldindata . It suggests that for many of the world's problems we're starting to move in the right direction, and can continue to do so - especially if worldwide living standards continue to improve. An optimistic call to action fighting back against so many doom-laden headlines. #book

Looks like #bytemak are shutting down, having been bought out by Iomart last year. I'll be moving my VPS to @beasts

Victoria vents in Islington https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2023/11/victoria-vents-in-islington.html

Tories collecting as much data as possible via their #ElectionLeaflets https://electionleaflets.org/leaflets/19172/ #ukpol

Solved: the value of infinity is just over a tre­cent­esim­quint­illion, says the jq json formatter #webdev

Too cloudy to see the #perseid #meteor shower this evening. Hopefully tomorrow will bring clearer skies!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636542 #train #rail

To vote in the UK, you now need photo ID.

Check you have valid ID by applying for a Voter Authority Certificate: the questions check if you already have valid ID. Not all ID cards are valid.

https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate

If you need a Voter Authority Certificate, it's free.

I used my phone to take a photo of myself in front of a white-ish wall. It was accepted for the voter certificate (and rejected in my passport renewal).

The certificate itself is paper and A4 size.

#ukpol #LocalElections2023

You can ask my website to use dark mode, which it detects with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme
What you asked for: dark mode
What you got:

Ghost Horse Bag by Simon Monk. It's not a real object. It's not a photograph. It's a painting. The holes in the board are also painted. From a set of paintings which need to be seen to be believed. On at the Beecroft in #Southend until the end of May. https://www.southendmuseums.co.uk/exhibitions/Jennie-Sharman-Cox-and-Simon-Monk---Double-Take #art

Had a fun time installing Windows 98 in a virtual machine, for the nostalgia of it. Very thankful to whoever made tool which patches a memory cache invalidation bug - modern CPUs are faster but not as forgiving, causing shell32.dll to crash https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x #windows #qemu

The Natural History Museum used to sell huge lumps of rock, such as this Madagascan ocean jasper geode, for thousands of pounds https://web.archive.org/web/20170625085956/http://www.nhmshop.co.uk/ocean-jasper-geode-mineral-piece.html

Doing the backup of my laptop's data, which I haven't done in years. Be better than me - sort out your backups today! #webdev #python

Triodos comes top of the list of ethical banks again this year, with HSBC at the bottom https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/sites/default/files/flipbook/Issue200Preview/12/ #banking

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Diamond Geezer talks about pylons https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/10/londons-pylons.html?m=1 - featuring the amazing Open Infrastructure Map https://openinframap.org/#9.86/51.51/-0.087 Not many pylons in London, but I've photographed the tallest.

"no one is interested in RTT controllers" 🔥