after removing one of the files making up the project as it was apparently 'too big' and swapping USB cables and port and programmer settings, I kind of got it to work! Garbled screens occasionally but I haven't attached any buttons yet...  https://github.com/Smashcat/UNO_Manic_Miner


nostr:npub1vxdw4ar44p535tl7m66g3gwe32edh88kmcwk24z2sdf8vkqzupmq4shm9m I am seriously considering selling my entire vinyl collection as prices are surely at their peak. Keeping my CDs because you can't give them away. And I love CDs.


Who the FFF were FFF? #totp


To the lighthouse!

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nostr:npub1huuxdggdyjj43wq553jm8twgfzact38nup547cuak6fgektu9nksw4vyxe thank you - sounds MOST excellent


nostr:npub1r3p9rjsfs2rwt6ku8dzqftck534krd0y72zqjmtwq625hdmksa9qmzdz2z thank you!


Cup of tea in the warm seaside sun after a 7 hour non-stop drive.

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nostr:npub1c3mmung3a45qtjx5c57r8wd7k55m4hs6lt9pdut3csza07ayntnq0j923c No! Look forward to listening to that


nostr:npub1fkqfhx50hzwre3p6ndfh2g3wtysftvw77vuzxs90sk6swswlu94s8g4trc and the last install just failed with -666 seconds remaining…


I’d never heard Tori Amos’s cover of Rattlesnakes until just now. Stunning. #RadMac


Will it heck as like. This iMac is cursed. I am starting to see why someone left it out for the refuse collection.

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Found an old Firewire drive at the back of a drawer - will this faulty iMac let me install Sierra on to it, since it won't let me install it on the internal drive?

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Ok I’m flipping over to bbc1. It’s #GHOSTS time. You’ve been awesome #totp tooters!


nostr:npub1xsquv74zl7vh0ph2d4tn0g6katx2jyrhdcukmc82967jfmwazm0qamu9eh my copy has the labels stuck to the wrong sides.


Not a radiator in sight. #totp


That ribbon microphone would almost certainly have a figure of 8 polar diagram and is unsuitable for use infront of a live audience. #totp


Come back Vince Clarke. Please. #totp


Freeeeeez guy reminds me of Tim Booth out of off of James. #totp


nostr:npub1hl3qt6yg5ed4gr88jv2wt3j6klzuexa7h3knp6r5xxuac44aah0q80nuzd I was just thinking how much the bass player looks like Norman Cook. That would explain it.


Dropped a drumstick there. Nobody noticed did they? #totp


I hesitate to jinx it but this #totp is extraordinarily good.


Actually moved to tears by Radiohead. Bloody marvellous. Isn’t it? #totp


Well now you’re talking. #totp


There’s really something for everyone in this top 40 #totp


The 800 Radleys! (C) Dennis Pennis #totp


New #Ghosts at 8.30pm BBC1!


nostr:npub12v045u3ulyhgc6c00apmqzwzvrt0kvfpae6qegq350e6jcevyxsqtm64ds Roger!


nostr:npub12v045u3ulyhgc6c00apmqzwzvrt0kvfpae6qegq350e6jcevyxsqtm64ds Oh that's a thought! Thank you, I'll have one more crack at installing MacOS from an external drive then look at that.


nostr:npub1avzhug0ezzj4yytvd2yk6q9luusvkv0dy8vtsn3s2cj9urpvqa2skft7u6 Good thought, I'll see if I can find a spare external disk drive and see if I can install the OS to that, reboot off it and use that to prepare a new install on the internal drive


nostr:npub12v045u3ulyhgc6c00apmqzwzvrt0kvfpae6qegq350e6jcevyxsqtm64ds Ah that's interesting - bit of pain but I might give that a go. Partitioning in half didn't work - one half gave same errors as before, other half gives odd App Store type download failure errors. I wonder if there are TWO issues going on here, faulty drive AND something with certificates.


nostr:npub1lndsnheexew24z8ut9qgerew7h7t44h76jmps6ypzahj2vv4rcrs9gutcz The issues feel very Mac-specific to me, I'm not sure even if I could boot it to Linux it would help. Disks all need to be in Mac format.


nostr:npub10c4hcg5mm46z7h4z7vhlt4gqt2y65mr5xmr754zhw8r0t3fuxsyse4ak24 Well new error messages has to be progress, right?


Parameter RAM reset didn't make any difference. Tried partitioning the disk, one fails as before, the other has given two new error messages so far. WiFi is connected, it's impossible to run the installer without internet.

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nostr:npub12v045u3ulyhgc6c00apmqzwzvrt0kvfpae6qegq350e6jcevyxsqtm64ds I'm trying re-setting the parameter RAM next, then will look at partitioning. (My attempts to make a bootable Sierra install USB pen drive have failed also.)


nostr:npub12v045u3ulyhgc6c00apmqzwzvrt0kvfpae6qegq350e6jcevyxsqtm64ds There’s no error code I can see. Does this every time at -399 seconds:

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I wonder if this is relevant. Resetting the NVRAM may be worth a try?

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nostr:npub12v045u3ulyhgc6c00apmqzwzvrt0kvfpae6qegq350e6jcevyxsqtm64ds disk utility gives a clean bill of health - but I don’t believe it!


...as expected...

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Not expecting this to work, but as local and internet Sierra recovery options aren't working, I've got it to boot off a Snow Leopard install DVD. Here goes nothing. Very slowly...

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nostr:npub12v045u3ulyhgc6c00apmqzwzvrt0kvfpae6qegq350e6jcevyxsqtm64ds Internet recovery doesn't seem to be working either, I think the hard drive may be failing (although it does boot, this could explain why it was dumped!)


nostr:npub1ttt4pj9f07ejvrelddv6ryayy20wk4t0yv0m3u8fwptj604h82zs4cdpyz Ah - that's interesting, thank you. I did run Disk Utility which came up as ok. But disk failure sounds very plausible.


nostr:npub12v045u3ulyhgc6c00apmqzwzvrt0kvfpae6qegq350e6jcevyxsqtm64ds thank you - will try that next!


nostr:npub12v045u3ulyhgc6c00apmqzwzvrt0kvfpae6qegq350e6jcevyxsqtm64ds Recovery partition on the computer itself. WiFi is connected.


Hmmm, keeps doing this, right at the end of re-installing Sierra in recovery mode. With -399 seconds remaining...

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nostr:npub1jat5xragg9d4c0squ0akj9s3nt3htjlqkr6ygjg6rtvnh4j7fxvqf8jh4n yes I think it does - don't think I have any other display port devices though


nostr:npub1avzhug0ezzj4yytvd2yk6q9luusvkv0dy8vtsn3s2cj9urpvqa2skft7u6 It is shocking.


nostr:npub1jat5xragg9d4c0squ0akj9s3nt3htjlqkr6ygjg6rtvnh4j7fxvqf8jh4n ooooh


It's a Apple iMac "Core i5" 2.5 21.5" (Mid-2011) - looks like it can run MacOS 10.6.6 to 10.13??? https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.5-21-inch-aluminum-mid-2011-thunderbolt-specs.html

I have some older OS X install disks, not sure how to go about wiping this as I don't have the passwords.


nostr:npub12c97zguvhzpj83vqywyrnvcs4jg3h4crjrffjhemu4fzh2kj7rrs40ya42 Thank you - found it!


Thank you all - found it! Printed under base plate


Today's roadside rescue, left out with the rubbish on bin day. How can I work out what model it is? I don't see any writing on it...

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nostr:npub147mp7hqs0g97hxytv4szypclrtdrrkxxa6lj5du9q385glujy5eqzz7clw I didn't know it was a US pronunciation!


Oh no one of the contestants is doing it as well. Grrrr. #gbbo


I get unreasonably annoyed when people say ‘marshmEllow’ instead of ‘marshmAllow’. One of the presenters of #gbbo is severely testing me.


Oddly-specific use cases for a kettle in the instruction book.

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nostr:npub1z6v78vjzdgl84fsq850hgvvg3ftnvu0cjjaf9d7e6nlwzfyycg2sj5w0gl Oh that sounds AMAZING!


nostr:npub18mphqecsyut28hqnk3qp3rx29letzfzcmv2rt8pp0t66n20f6cwqtgjsql nostr:npub1rtlcdfujrn5kps54szzffw5txaws38xgfx2m0hp0wtk86nfca3esxnyxal we’re just joking about the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet with Patrick Stewart and David Tennant.


Why oh why is Chris Mason standing in front of the GLOBAL stand for his live on the BBC1 ten o'clock news? Is someone having a laugh?


Well episode 1 of Boiling Point (the series) was marvellous.


nostr:npub1rtlcdfujrn5kps54szzffw5txaws38xgfx2m0hp0wtk86nfca3esxnyxal The very same!


This new series of Doctor Who on BBC Four right now has made a bold move using iambic pentameter.


nostr:npub1u8hlw32kfrudhd9vcgsdrvz65cwv4v34na7jd58e5nu9zm7swd8qk4q7hp Good idea.


Can't read 3 different floppies... so I'm going to guess that the floppy drive - the only part that really interested me - may be dead. Not sure I can even be bothered to take the hard drive out of this. It's going to my front yard freecycle tomorrow.


Can I finally open my 2001 Christmas card? I cannot. 'No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk.' Wrong format? Faulty disk? Faulty drive? Who knows.

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nostr:npub1jat5xragg9d4c0squ0akj9s3nt3htjlqkr6ygjg6rtvnh4j7fxvqf8jh4n I don't think I can be bothered!


I thought it didn't look too bad inside... then I saw the leaky capacitors. This is probably going back on the street, though I might salvage the floppy drive and the hard drive...

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Now, do I want to go online with AOL or Freeserve..?

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nostr:npub14j4k94k2lnr4ffu2renyj97mjnr8n2ql5a5fa76vyzd7pxp6d8gsavjdsj Yes in a skip on the street.


Just pulled this ancient Compaq PC from a skip. It has a floppy drive AND a dial-up modem! Presumably this pre-dates HP.

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nostr:npub1f66ce7tc8mqkj6r4jr3k7qy2wpxw4fztxwkleyttzfcu6cpt4lcsn5xvfz nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 And not a first line, but the opening paragraph of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson is stunning:

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nostr:npub1f66ce7tc8mqkj6r4jr3k7qy2wpxw4fztxwkleyttzfcu6cpt4lcsn5xvfz nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' - Viriginia Woolf. (Seeing as someone's already suggested I Capture the Castle!)


nostr:npub1rgwhhglqeytudwpwdcwyjflspekud3f9zkd8r70yjcpuk2ksv80spenccm nostr:npub15r59l47gp4hjq2meldecrylcw93gzhu5n0eld4fg0vk3ff40z7vqrm2q4f I think the grammar of it is so ingrained  that they feel they have to do it even if they don’t want to.


nostr:npub15r59l47gp4hjq2meldecrylcw93gzhu5n0eld4fg0vk3ff40z7vqrm2q4f Yes! Even my beloved Repair Shop does this. Awful.


Never mind TV on the Radio, bring back Software on the Radio. (Despite living in the area and being very much target audience, I don't think I ever heard this Radio West show). #retroComputing

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nostr:npub16gs8u643tjykmrxu4vfuzvht7pw43e2xupdqwgqhrkkq869nj95qz77ks9 Ooh that's a good one. My hunch is that they are different. 'Grandpa, this is my friend X.'
'X, this is my grandpa.'


nostr:npub16klcjrehnlyhzey93gzpymg795n97jg8k0ajkj060dmcjy0u6v8s4s28vz Good point. US TV was soft - and maybe jerky because they'd not got the hang of frame-rate conversion?


nostr:npub10c4hcg5mm46z7h4z7vhlt4gqt2y65mr5xmr754zhw8r0t3fuxsyse4ak24 So last week...


Voodoo Lady! #totp

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Peter Blake should have stuck to doing Beatles covers. Geddit? #totp


nostr:npub1fk7xl6k3jkclh9zvzj804hcs9m2m50s4hu6x4v3w0zujlwd09sfqr00nqr I believe it was in a television advert, m'lud.


Back in the era when Tom Browne was presenting the Top 20 on Radios 1 AND 2 and I was taping it every Sunday night. #totp


Right, I'm going down to the kitchen, anyone want owt? #totp


The sycamore tree AND Alan Rickman? Too soon. #totp


Arms! Arms everywhere! #totp

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#totp

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nostr:npub1fk7xl6k3jkclh9zvzj804hcs9m2m50s4hu6x4v3w0zujlwd09sfqr00nqr We will never speak of it again.


nostr:npub15tcewk70c8yjre3ngke7juexjrhxnx56ezxaw5fxp72kt35ecelqts8jdf Are they (trying to) make a virtue of live vocals?


I have no interest in Faith No More at all, this isn't my thing but the contrast is rather refreshing I must say. #totp


Ooh another attempted mosh pit on #totp !


nostr:npub13qj6ldzuqtx09gayxa4s2y9xnyy6pdefjrmr96el6t88tx9xxltskeycgh Stop it!


This reminds me of Neil Innes's Elton parody 'Godfrey Daniel - he ain't done nothing wrong.' #totp


I'll take P J AND Duncan. For the lolz. #totp


Shampoo! Put Shampoo on! #totp


nostr:npub1nhwkrnfzcrf452kjmuulfqfquw7mhfxj3ys2h0k75kdq3xspm6xs6gg2sy Glam Metal Detectives!


I'm seriously considering flipping over to Gardeners' World at this point. #totp


Amazing Lol Creme / Trevor Horn crossover this GMD! #totp Funkin' justice for all!


GET IN! EVERYBODY UP! #totp


A bit late to the #totp party, what's going on?


Knole, Kent, England, 2018. Ancestral home of the Sackville-Wests (as in Vita), the house features in Orlando by Virginia Woolf. #FensterFreitag

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Can I just say that I’d never liberate signs from a BBC building that was about to be gutted. #taskmaster

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#taskmaster o’clock!


nostr:npub1y6r4yksleyvn5yt7yacn396h6cfa9a6v5jdcglpxc6x06f5553usq69snd Still time to register. 75% of UK primary schools have already done so! https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/microbit


Might start re-watching The Singing Detective tonight. #MichaelGambon RIP.

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Blue Peter presenter Abby Cook visited her old primary school to see what they're doing with their free class sets of BBC micro:bits https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ggm8hq #microbit


Quantum Tunnelling Telescope, Southwold Pier, 2014.

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nostr:npub18k8nnj83h7z9j4ma8sl4d4fhl8hxevy523rk0ua3f54jyr0hq8hsks6p3v Thank you - second recommendation for that!


nostr:npub1lndsnheexew24z8ut9qgerew7h7t44h76jmps6ypzahj2vv4rcrs9gutcz I've not got on very well with Hugo! I appreciate I should read a book or fuller guides, but I can't seem to make any basic theme configuration changes when following the quick start guide https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/ - don't think I can spend any more time on this. I can create content, view draft pages but can't configure the theme. Probably I'm doing something wrong but I don't think Hugo is for me.


nostr:npub1vxdw4ar44p535tl7m66g3gwe32edh88kmcwk24z2sdf8vkqzupmq4shm9m All out of these, I might bake some more at the weekend...

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nostr:npub1lndsnheexew24z8ut9qgerew7h7t44h76jmps6ypzahj2vv4rcrs9gutcz Oh that's interesting - my Wordpress install is VERY old though, so I am kind of prepared to migrate content manually, piecemeal over time if it can't be automated. Will let me think about whether I just do a static crawl and archive of the old site and only republish material that's still relevant.


nostr:npub1lndsnheexew24z8ut9qgerew7h7t44h76jmps6ypzahj2vv4rcrs9gutcz I can probably send you an eBook file, if I can find one :D


nostr:npub1vu7uztz0rtxpejd095nl7k78kangchcu58s7cpnt05un5l2n9rsshgnmuv Quite so.


nostr:npub1lndsnheexew24z8ut9qgerew7h7t44h76jmps6ypzahj2vv4rcrs9gutcz Hugo looks like just the ticket, thank you. I'm going to give it a spin.


Looks like my book wasn't included in the Book3 dataset. Relieved. And, of course, offended and disappointed.


nostr:npub1xskgau8e2de5t6e9mveau9uvh8ujx36u3zrqsw3cc7tvnkl946fqepp0vx I certainly listened to Dummy non-stop, one of my favourite albums ever.


nostr:npub1lndsnheexew24z8ut9qgerew7h7t44h76jmps6ypzahj2vv4rcrs9gutcz Good to know, thank you!


I'd like to migrate a self-hosted Wordpress site to a static CMS. Aside from Publii, which I have used and am familiar with, can anyone recommend a static CMS - and I can't emphasise this enough - *from personal experience*? Ideally it would be relatively easy to to set up but open to tinkering / configuration.


Last night's dream is best summed up by the title 'The Owl and the SCART lead.'


nostr:npub1qdcwzege6knwga53ax6nahtutsyymsstc7gnp5l6473ceqsy3d7q3335dz I read it as a teenager but remember almost nothing about it. The film adaptation, A Touch of Love, is worth a watch if you've not seen it.


Hop in losers, we're going to a maternity ward in 1960s London. #reading #bookstodon

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I like all of the contestants. Not sure that’s ever happened before. #gbbo


They pulled back round 1 but will Matt Ganache be their undoing? #gbbo


First challenge on #GBBO is brutal. Half of them are going home tonight at this rate.


New #GBBO AND #FakeOrFortune o’clock.


nostr:npub1vxdw4ar44p535tl7m66g3gwe32edh88kmcwk24z2sdf8vkqzupmq4shm9m I think I still have one of those somewhere. I never used it.


nostr:npub1rgwhhglqeytudwpwdcwyjflspekud3f9zkd8r70yjcpuk2ksv80spenccm excellent!


nostr:npub1l8c6f8v5f8e0g7jerru3k5yy0fhdg7nuvm59kpl6gxnqx8p85tpska7xjl Excellent!


Everything is "The American actor David McCallum, who only ever appeared in US-made TV shows and movies has died." Arghh.

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Baking hilarity from 2015.

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And neither does the short article on the BBC News web site. Let me guess: written overnight from US-sourced agency copy by someone who doesn't know who David McCullum was.


The Guardian David McCullum obit doesn’t mention Sapphire and Steel. FFS.


nostr:npub16dwy5q9ps06ph5z4s0uj7gxj3lnw84yn2xls3qf2pfp8le5slr3sfwkdp2 No idea, I never look at Alibaba!


My 1996 game that - at a roll of a dice - let you play at being Director General of the BBC...

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Say kids, what time is it?
IT'S
TIME
FOR
HOUSE


Yay! #totp


I want my 80s back. #totp


Rare attempted mosh pit, there #totp


This is the time... of the tiger! #totp


Oh 1981 next up? That could be good, right? #totp


It is time. #taskmaster


Collecting live ML training data from the micro:bit's accelerometer... #microbit

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Did Radio 4 just fall off air?


Avengers time on London Live. A tiny model plane just dropped a tiny bomb in Warren Mitchell’s punch!


Saw a neighbour jogging today wearing an ATV T-shirt and they have now immeasurably shot up in my estimation…

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nostr:npub1rhcnl0szyj6f7me5gq6d0tk6mghqyaamykuwdalwwma2wdregrxqg3rq5n I was so pleased it was cool (if damp) in Bristol yesterday when dropping my daughter off at uni - I am embracing the change!


nostr:npub1knq2n68qdf6cye7egfg48l8dyepsh7r6u676pn5q0hq96fwr3vcs48qyss Sadly no, never met him.


I'm still disappointed Terry Wogan wasn't on this BBC training course. #Linux

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nostr:npub1vxdw4ar44p535tl7m66g3gwe32edh88kmcwk24z2sdf8vkqzupmq4shm9m did they get a credit purely off the back of the ‘hey!’ sample or was there more to it?


nostr:npub1vxdw4ar44p535tl7m66g3gwe32edh88kmcwk24z2sdf8vkqzupmq4shm9m Trying to imagine a Dollar-Art of Noise crossover. Not impossible and could have been very successful - but very different!


First nightmare about tomorrow’s presentation has made me create a ‘demo’ login on my laptop.


nostr:npub1rhcnl0szyj6f7me5gq6d0tk6mghqyaamykuwdalwwma2wdregrxqg3rq5n I’ve only read a few but I think The Millstone is a good place to start. As she said herself, it’s short so if you don’t like it, you haven’t wasted much time!


nostr:npub1vxdw4ar44p535tl7m66g3gwe32edh88kmcwk24z2sdf8vkqzupmq4shm9m Well that's quite a thing. Not surprised it wasn't released. Who do we think is singing on it? JJ Jeczalik? Paul Morley? A session musician?


Very behind with #Backlisted podcasts, finally caught up with the episode on The Millstone by Margaret Drabble, which I read as a teenager (this copy, my late mother's) and again much more recently when I saw the film adaptation A Touch of Love. Going to re-re-read this next. #reading #bookstodon  https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/191-margaret-drabble-the-millstone

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nostr:npub1y2my82c5lg4c0gznvkhuxtr3funh65gkjcthjqarm69nnznvrfssk5kxr8 Excellent haul!


nostr:npub1vxdw4ar44p535tl7m66g3gwe32edh88kmcwk24z2sdf8vkqzupmq4shm9m Where has this surfaced?


nostr:npub1snamn9vw978afxfcrrgmpjepa2d8gafl0jjwclwr6gkvyyqen5csjf3rlu Thank you. The eldest has already come back (though away travelling at the moment) so I expect it won’t be too quiet for too long.


Bless child 3... house feels very empty now... #RadMac

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Imagine a newspaper publishing a leading article about someone and naming several media outlets they used to work for but neglecting to mention they used to be a columnist for that same newspaper. Imagine.


Watching the Norwegian film Gold Run on BBC Four. Confused as to why they’re taking paper money as well as the gold. Surely the paper money is worthless at this point?


nostr:npub1u8h2y0w35wgraerhrat6rpepm7w909zr6p0wund4j8hszeznan6qmjg5q8 Newark! Newark!


nostr:npub1huuxdggdyjj43wq553jm8twgfzact38nup547cuak6fgektu9nksw4vyxe fantastic! I must say I found mine infuriating at times but ultimately it was a hugely rewarding experience- I learned so much and it massively increased my respect for hardware designers.


It's a #microbit system - I know this!

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Just watched tonight's 1989 #totp back - the graphics looked really sharp and amazingly not that dated to me. Though you can see a glitch every time they switch to and away from the Quantel-type effects machine.


ok I missed 1989 putting the entire contents of our house in the car for child 3's trip to uni tomorrow. And now we're watching Gardener's World so I'm missing 1985. Either worth watching back? #totp


And to think we could have had Glory Box by Portishead... #totp


Live! On tape! From Hollywood! #totp

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No memory of Let Loose at all. Not a Scooby. #totp


'Look we've got a hot works permit and we're going to get our value out of it.' #totp


And it was all going so well... #totp


nostr:npub1fk7xl6k3jkclh9zvzj804hcs9m2m50s4hu6x4v3w0zujlwd09sfqr00nqr Oh dear.


Good week for Bristol, Massive Attack and Portishead in the chart. #totp


‘Former exclusive’ LOL #TOTP


Make a working binary half adder from 2 BBC micro:bits, some wires, switches and LEDs...
https://youtu.be/W-Mbu9gF6uI #microbit #computing


BBC micro:bit: Get hands-on and explore what computing and coding can do for you - CBBC Newsround:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/65599832 #microbit


Lovely to see the primary students receiving their free BBC micro:bits from DanTDM on CBBC Newsround - I was lucky enough to teach Dan some coding on Wednesday! #microbit #teaching #coding

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Charleston House, Sussex, England. May 2013. #FensterFreitag

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I thought I'd update my Raspberry Pi desktop OS memory stick. That was about 19 years ago... if I discover it's Wolfram...

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Prepping for Monday when I'll be demonstrating machine learning with the BBC micro:bit to sixth formers in the Royal Institution lecture theatre, home of the Christmas Lectures. Beyond excited. Quite terrified! #microbit #ML

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Hermann Hauser on Radio 4 Today right now talking about the ARM IPO. Used the phrase ‘Brexit idiocy’ in his 2nd answer!


Available now for all UK primary schools!
✅ FREE micro:bits
✅ FREE teacher training
✅ FREE classroom resources
Have you discovered the #microbit yet? https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/microbit/register-free-microbit/zxrp3qt #teaching #education

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Never mind USB C, the EU should have forced Apple to put the headphone jack back.


BBC #microbit - the next gen will feature the the UK in a week-long takeover across CBBC on favourite TV shows such as Blue Peter & Saturday Mash Up 📺 !
The campaign with BBC Teach &  Nominet aims to inspire UK youngsters to be excited by technology.
https://microbit.org/news/2023-09-13/bbc-microbit-the-next-gen-launch-sept #coding #education

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Parenting now feels like ‘yes I know my generation destroyed the planet, but how do you think those towels are going to get dry screwed up on the bathroom floor?’


Spoke too soon, it's just started up again. FFS.


nostr:npub1nldwn0ygzvqqcgnx6wuh9vjjcp3dncwc8dntt0gxldn4t2jq9ktqtww94q Although not filmed in S6, the Mark Gatiss ghost drama The Dead Room reminded me of S6.


nostr:npub1nldwn0ygzvqqcgnx6wuh9vjjcp3dncwc8dntt0gxldn4t2jq9ktqtww94q I did find it a bit spooky being on my own down there. Also notable for having a gravel trap in the studio for spot FX even though it wasn’t the main drama studio.


nostr:npub1c3mmung3a45qtjx5c57r8wd7k55m4hs6lt9pdut3csza07ayntnq0j923c all done by hand though, would be better to extract & convert!


nostr:npub1nldwn0ygzvqqcgnx6wuh9vjjcp3dncwc8dntt0gxldn4t2jq9ktqtww94q S6 in the sub-basement in the SE Wing. Where the swimming pool used to be!


nostr:npub1c3mmung3a45qtjx5c57r8wd7k55m4hs6lt9pdut3csza07ayntnq0j923c I used the online bitfontmaker2 for ChiKareGo http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2017/04/chicago/


‘And then Elon Musk said there’ll be no more war – not via his satellite. Aren’t we lucky to have the world in his hands?’ - Marina Hyde https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/elon-musk-satellite-war-starlink-system-ukraine


nostr:npub1c3mmung3a45qtjx5c57r8wd7k55m4hs6lt9pdut3csza07ayntnq0j923c I love bitmap fonts but I’ve only really investigated early Mac and ZX Spectrum ones. Are the Psion ones available as modern TTF or OTF fonts?


nostr:npub1c3mmung3a45qtjx5c57r8wd7k55m4hs6lt9pdut3csza07ayntnq0j923c not sure about pixel art, but Psion-appropriate pixelated bitmap fonts might be a good look?


Still going on. It’s so hot everyone has their bedroom windows open but sure have a PA system going at your house party in a residential area from at least 4.30am and still going at 6am.


Someone is playing music very loudly in their garden or out their window. It’s a long way off but still keeping me awake. Must be even worse for those closer.


nostr:npub1skzc4hr5f0eq40atjzld86nxwzxtrstkg7ntjk8tlfg8r8gc6xqsvlmvht In many studios commonly used sources like microphones, tape machines and cart players were 'normalled' to certain faders on the desk, but you could 'overplug' them to suit your taste,..


nostr:npub1skzc4hr5f0eq40atjzld86nxwzxtrstkg7ntjk8tlfg8r8gc6xqsvlmvht Sources from outside the studio would have included tie lines to the control room, the microphone by Big Ben etc.


nostr:npub1skzc4hr5f0eq40atjzld86nxwzxtrstkg7ntjk8tlfg8r8gc6xqsvlmvht The bay on the right? That's the JACKFIELD. (BBC term - everyone else calls it a patch bay AFAIK). The cables have Post Office jack plugs on them, they allowed you to plug various sources inside the studio - and outside - to channels on the desk, and route groups and busbars to effects trolleys, echo chambers etc, and access sockets on the wall in the studio. (The control room was called the 'cubicle'.)


nostr:npub1wwg9vl2ha3lfsc6m35hhvh6pkm4a95vyz6nd8h66uqc9fzmh95cslr35qm And 'clean feed' (mix minus)


nostr:npub1wwg9vl2ha3lfsc6m35hhvh6pkm4a95vyz6nd8h66uqc9fzmh95cslr35qm BBC terminology. See also: 'colour separation overlay'.


That cup of water is a bit close to the desk, though, Stephanie.


Note the nice pile of 2400' spools of boxed Racal-Zonal quarter inch tape in the foreground. And a lovely jackfield in the background. Though you heathens may know it as a 'patch bay'.


Looking out old photos for child 2 and randomly found this photo of me and a colleague in Bush House studio S6 making a BBC World Service radio programme in the mid 1990s.

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nostr:npub1c3z3apnlp4swcytgjc8qz06xzrqhedwrmwm39ngzpg7m9zznprrq2gzhlt I'm setting the Betamax.


Ah, the best presenter Midweek on Radio 4 ever had. #totp


nostr:npub1f5wdveqpj0a8xu56pltgd5ztgu44u9f2rm5c76xlwqk4s7swhn7qmuhq9x Or so much less.


nostr:npub1c3z3apnlp4swcytgjc8qz06xzrqhedwrmwm39ngzpg7m9zznprrq2gzhlt Same here.


nostr:npub1aj3drvwga5mfr7zhgkdj85nfw5nqzmlj8t0pwup5zt66u0ejngfs6sgf4q That's a serious error on Germany's part IMHO.


Thinking about the Father Ted Rose of Tralee episode for a moment there, no idea why. #totp


nostr:npub1c3z3apnlp4swcytgjc8qz06xzrqhedwrmwm39ngzpg7m9zznprrq2gzhlt They really should have.


Did Boney M ever do Eurovision for Germany? #totp


Ok, well I have cursed this, I bought none of these records so far. #totp


nostr:npub189tkv20ltq0wuedexe7l46335gza4w6a7xuzzdljjj506xz0k9eq8fxyxn That was The Way back then.


nostr:npub1c3z3apnlp4swcytgjc8qz06xzrqhedwrmwm39ngzpg7m9zznprrq2gzhlt Freeze-dried, pasteurised punk.


1978? I bet I have at least 1 of these on 45. #totp


nostr:npub1c3z3apnlp4swcytgjc8qz06xzrqhedwrmwm39ngzpg7m9zznprrq2gzhlt I now think this might be the worst record - and video - ever made.


He's really phoning this one in. #totp


Child 1 just asked me an EXCELLENT question I can't answer - off the back of Lost in Music - DID THE FALL EVER APPEAR ON #TOTP ????


Ok, some proper music now. This is a timeless classic, right? #topt


I honestly thought this was Sade before I looked up at the telly #totp


nostr:npub1vxdw4ar44p535tl7m66g3gwe32edh88kmcwk24z2sdf8vkqzupmq4shm9m Harsh. But fair.


Aw Peelie and Janice. RIP. #totp


Earwig go! #totp

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nostr:npub1hl3qt6yg5ed4gr88jv2wt3j6klzuexa7h3knp6r5xxuac44aah0q80nuzd I am not going to look.


nostr:npub1vf33wdr7hp2dyw2zf2kt70z5g5guvxa4g3xa5n9rkvf7xnnz0kwqr98pyj that looks like a great find


nostr:npub18mphqecsyut28hqnk3qp3rx29letzfzcmv2rt8pp0t66n20f6cwqtgjsql I might book a flight just to cash this in…


Perfect line in M*A*S*H s9ep4.
‘Wipe those smiles off your faces and try not to look so miserable!’ - Margaret Houlihan to her nurses just before her father arrives.


nostr:npub18mphqecsyut28hqnk3qp3rx29letzfzcmv2rt8pp0t66n20f6cwqtgjsql Still valid you reckon?


Great! Because of sport, Gardener’s World is on late so I can watch #TOTP ‘live’! Oh what’s that you say? Because of the Proms, TOTP is on late?


nostr:npub1fxdxkvrz78gjw39f45x5pg5h3n5gzffa527drye9zqda2k8fcr2q6srxz8 Pass Halloween go straight to Christmas


Whole section of mince pies in Sainsbury’s. Perfect on the BBQ.


Tate Modern, London 2018 #FensterFreitag

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nostr:npub1dl8xsc6wae6d2pejmkfsz9h2ysvrq0x3mq6j56en02p4x7j7u27s5j4tsq oh that is interesting! Purely because of my name, I wish Booth’s Gin was still a live brand. I think Diago were going to revive it but then oddly didn’t - odd given the gin craze of recent years. Then sold it to a US company who don’t seem to have done anything with it.


nostr:npub1dl8xsc6wae6d2pejmkfsz9h2ysvrq0x3mq6j56en02p4x7j7u27s5j4tsq Wow! I also think they should have kept all the names and become Mann, Crossman, Paulin, Watney, Coombe, Reid, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.


Tempted to pour this bottle into this glass. Beer was given to me in Vancouver in around 1986 after my host was amused by me saying a Monty Python sketch killed Watney's Red Barrel - is there any truth in that nostr:npub1ryv92znweg3pwu5l0sszpc55v6u8334nvfgzt44qrpt3fp8qjtnspjkz9p ?
Tankard from my late father-in-law's collection, he was a publican and sales rep for Watney Truman and later Courage. #beer

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Very happy for Ezra Collective but this old Rob Gretton quote in a BBC News article made me laugh.

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Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/08/call-for-uk-ban-on-single-use-vapes-as-more-than-5m-discarded-each-week


Next up: Miss Buncle's Book by D E Stevenson. Lucky to find this lovely mint condition Persephone edition for £2 in my local secondhand bookshop. As discussed in #Backlisted episode 96: https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/96-de-stevenson-miss-buncles-book

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As John Mitchinson said in Backlisted 'I've read proposals that are longer.' He also describes it as a 'chicken soup novel' which is interesting as I've been unwell while reading it and I have found it a great comfort.


It's also short. Commendably short. 111 pages in the 1980 Penguin paperback. 20,000 words.


nostr:npub16mketekm8jpen57mkrcu543hzxyf0y3frxt8knv55wv5ex8f3x3q4yaks4 Weekend project right there...


nostr:npub16mketekm8jpen57mkrcu543hzxyf0y3frxt8knv55wv5ex8f3x3q4yaks4 Some new words for me to add to this... http://suppertime.co.uk/tvshows.html


Just finished A Month in the Country by J L Carr. Stunning book, highly recommended. Now re-listening to episode 1 of #Backlisted. (Oh my the sound quality...!) https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j-l-carr-a-month-in-the-country


The cursed ratio

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Twitter to remove 'post' button. Musk says "It makes no sense for anyone except me to be able to post."


Late night, Maudlin Street.

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Thank you for coming to my Ri Christmas Lecture.

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Giles Booth

Education content manager. Former teacher and BBC radio studio manager. Blogging since 1997. Loves making with the BBC micro:bit, C20th literary fiction, television, writing, Backlisted podcast, graphic design, BangleJS watch, &c. Bristolian in SE London. Views own.