Monthly Archives: February 2024

“Why should I pay for the NHS?”

Posted on February 29, 2024 by james

What is it with all the brain-dead cretins who say “I don’t use the NHS, so why should I pay for it?” (through taxation, basically). Perhaps they wouldn’t use the NHS given time to plan, but if they have a … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 26th July 2022: One of my favourite vegetables

Posted on February 29, 2024 by james

This one. There’s something about their obvious fractal nature that appeals to my Computer Science/Maths background. I really must try to grow more of them.

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Another C++ fail

Posted on February 29, 2024 by james

Oooh! C++20 has std::format that would allow me to easily format file modification times from std::filesystem/chrono. Oh, allegedly it does in MSVC and Clang, but not in the C++20 support with the GCC that’s part of Mint 21.3 or the … Continue reading →

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OBD2 reader fail

Posted on February 29, 2024 by james

My daughter’s Nissan is not very happy at all and showing the “Eek! Something’s wrong!” light on the dash, so I decided I’d get a cheap OBD2 reader to find out what it thinks is the problem. It’s an ELM327-type … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 23rd July 2022: Heeeere’s Tommy!

Posted on February 28, 2024 by james

Tommy tomato 😀 Tomatoes in the polytunnel, looking heathly. About forty plants in all. Sounds a lot, but we get through an awful lot of tomatoes, in salads, soup, pizza sauce, pasta sauces and probably other things too. All close … Continue reading →

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Getting my bandsaw to cut straight

Posted on February 28, 2024 by james

Well, not my bandsaw. My father-in-law’s. But I probably use it the most. He bought it years ago and has used it for all sorts of stuff that probably wasn’t ideal when we didn’t have a chop saw/mitre saw. Then … Continue reading →

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At last a use for my scrap ply

Posted on February 28, 2024 by james

After making a few clearer boards and suchlike for my beehives this winter I’ve ended up with quite a lot of small pieces of ply that I’ve kept because they’re actually quite decent quality and I’d prefer not to put … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 22nd July 2022: Give peas a chance

Posted on February 27, 2024 by james

Last of the fresh peas for this season 🙁 But I have saved pods from a couple of varieties to sow again next year. The mangetout dry quite quickly The podding peas, not so much.

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I think something died in the workshop

Posted on February 27, 2024 by james

There’s certainly a strange smell in there. I think it could be a mouse. Or possibly a squirrel. What definitely has died are two of the LED striplights that I bought a couple of years ago. They’re quite common on … Continue reading →

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It’s the end of the anemometer as we know it…

Posted on February 27, 2024 by james

We’ve had really quite cold north-easterly winds for the last few days, and fairly strong with it as there’s absolutely nothing at all to provide shelter from that direction. I noticed the anemometer for my weather station was looking a … Continue reading →

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