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
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.
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
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
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.
A Tour of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup is a great guide of how to write good, idiomatic C++ code - which bits to use and what to avoid. #book
Mike Massimino's book is a very good read, covering the Space Shuttle and Hubble, and what it takes to become an Astronaut. #book
I love all Catherine Fisher books, and The Relic Master is no exception. An exciting sci-fi/fantasy adventure story, which is easy to read and hard to put down. #book
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