Colin Blackburn 🥌

@ximenes
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Software: writing and teaching.

Running, rolling, shooting, sliding and sweeping

Shill for Big Tofu 🌱
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LocationBerwick, Bernicia
Show threadColin Blackburn 🥌Dec 31
Colin Blackburn 🥌Dec 31

The slow decline into decrepitude! Not sure what happened in 2018. A couple of the big mileage numbers are kilometreage numbers. The graphics exclude XC skiing and cycling.

#veloviewer
#veloviewer2025

Colin Blackburn 🥌Jul 11, 2025

“Your password must be 4 digits long and contain only numbers.”

That’s not a password and do you really need to explain what a digit is?

Colin Blackburn 🥌Jun 16, 2025

Under the new flexitime software system, it’s interesting to see that my forgetfulness “may be considered a disciplinary offence”!

• The formal flexitime system will no longer automatically deduct 30 minutes for a lunch break
• Failure to record a break of at least 30 minutes after working 6 hours may be considered a disciplinary offence

Colin Blackburn 🥌May 15, 2025
Josh MooreMay 15, 2025

#FederatedMemory

https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat

Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat, to reduce your carbon footprint

Plant-based protein sources still have a lower footprint than the lowest-impact meat products.

Our World in Data
Colin Blackburn 🥌Apr 27, 2025
Three young people just pedaloed past singing “Knowing me, knowing you”. I shouted Aha! In my best Alan Partridge. They looked a bit confused.
Colin Blackburn 🥌Apr 22, 2025
The commemorative statue of Truus van Lier by the canal in Utrecht. She was a member of the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation. She worked as a messenger and courier, delivering illegal newspapers and guns. In 1943 she shot and killed the chief police commissioner, a Dutch Nazi collaborator. She was caught, transported to a concentration camp in Germany and then executed. She was just 22.
Colin Blackburn 🥌Mar 27, 2025
XKCD BotMar 26, 2025
#3068 - Rock Identification
Colin Blackburn 🥌Dec 22, 2024
Test #spam
Colin Blackburn 🥌Jul 10, 2024
Show threadDr John A StevensonJul 10, 2024

ETL Helper is primarily developed by staff (past and present) at the British Geological Survey. These include myself, @ximenes, @decvalts, @ultrazool

We use it for managing geological data. As it solves a generic problem, we decided to make it #opensource.

There is a news item on the BGS website about the v1 release. It describes how ETL Helper is now used all around the world.

https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/update-released-for-bgs-open-source-database-software-etl-helper/

#etlhelper 3/3

Update released for BGS open-source database software, ETL Helper - British Geological Survey

The ETL Helper software tool helps simplify the process of data transfer into and out of databases.

British Geological Survey