IT bod. VM, Storage. Interests: Guitars, tech, silliness. Views: Mixed but clearing later.
I work at a Uni and am responsible for Servers, Storage, VMware and other associated infrastructure functions. Opinions/views/images are all my own.
Here is a list of things that interest me and, on the whole, make my life better:
#Cats #Beer #Retrocomputing #Sheffield #Guitars #Walking #Running #Electronics #Nature #Wildlife #Space #Philosophy #Comedy #Politics #Humanism and attempting to read #French
What a lovely day. Here's my bottle of Henderson's Relish that was in my desk drawer that I couldn't find the key for. Amusingly access was gained by lifting up the top of the drawer, rendering the lock useless...
I gave the bottle to a colleague on my last day, 28 February 2025. Take a look at the Best Before date.
*edit - this is a limited edition bottle from The Rutland Hotel on Glossop Road, 5 minutes from my former office.
The tyranny of the leaf-blower.
I've seen the elderly chap diligently blowing the leaves from the pavement, and the bit of grass-verge in front of his house, into the road and also further up the pavement to the boundary of the next house. The futility lost on him as with the next gust of wind it'll all be rearranged.
I heard a professional gardener talking about research that says a rake requires only slightly less effort, plus you can create leafmould to use a soil conditioner.
What's been on the reading list since the last time I posted a "What's been on the reading list" style post. Data burst incoming.
British Politics, A Very Short Introduction. Third edition. Updated with a bit about the mad, foolish period that included Brexit but not the continued chaos that came after with that same cast of arseholes. These books are always worth a read & give a perspective on the complexity that fruitcakes on the right and left conveniently pretend doesn't exist. #Politics
