@ozzelot @philpem Even spinning rust is at stupid prices thanks to that. :(

@tryst Yeah. :) Past President (now long dead) of my then-local astronomical society spent most of his working life at the Greenwich Observatory at Greenwich and then Herstmonceux, and made the last recorded official transit timings on the Airy Transit Instrument. He was a stickler for the GMT/UTC (and other) differences, and for using the correct names in different circumstances. ;)

@tryst Yep. With you on that (though most of my astronomer friends would seem to prefer it on UTC+0)...

@tryst Erf. I *HATE* the DST changes, either way. They leave me feeling jet-lagged (without the questionable benefit of having travelled thousands of miles) *every* time. :/

@notthatdelta @keirFox Could well be. Maybe it just took him this long to spot that his Metaverse face is prime content for just about every satire/comedy/ridicule site out there...

@tryst Here we're almost 15 minutes behind London, but I think I'd still be happier with the civil clock on GMT+1 all year round. Then again I'm not great at getting up early, so I get not a lot from the lighter mornings in winter, but the darker afternoons are a bummer.

@philpem You'd sort of think it was good weather for renewables today, but there's clearly something at least a little intermittent in the mains supply at present, as my UPSes have been having moments of clickyness as they try to figure out whether to switch over or not....

@keirFox @notthatdelta Yea, it's almost as if Zuck was entirely cranio-rectally inverted....

@philpem @MikeFromLFE You wouldn't be the first I've heard about recently. Mind, there's an actual election for Board membership this year, with three candidates standing for two places. I sort-of suspect the one who loses out might end up being co-opted, though.

The plug fuse hasn't blown today, but needed replacing the first time I used the shredder. I'll be taking said shredder back to the shop sometime in the next day or three. For one, I'd guess the trip switch is faulty. It ought to be the first thing to go if something's amiss, and the others should generally never need to do so. For two, no way should a new piece of equipment be hitting the point where it trips the house circuit breaker even once a day. The culprit, a Mac Allister MQS2800-3.