Yeah, all she achieved was to take a massive swipe out of pensions and the economy as a whole, and now spends all her time telling anyone who will listen how she was an unappreciated genius.

By that level I'm f3cking Einstein!😆

She's my local MP, which fills me with shame. I wrote to her a couple of years back asking what had happened to the promised new hospitals & wards, I got a standard letter back which tried to absolve her party of responsibility, rather than apologise for their failure.

It is very, very reminiscent of them isn't it?

I would claim it was a deliberate thing to maximise strength but it’s more to suit the shape of the corset that it will support. (Sue's doing it for a competition where you must re-purpose an old-style corset)

😯😲😮. MInd you, it always was a hideous building. @chandlerdba.bsky.social @orcldoug.bsky.social

One place I worked they had cabled around the main fuse cabinet as the load demanded by all the IT equipment had exceeded what the fuses could cope with.

Ironically, it was a power utilities company.

There is considerable consternation with the changes to MOS, it seems to have been poorly released. I've seen many reports of broken links and the search function not working - if you can even access the system.
Those poor Oracle souls who are the customer-facing are feeding back the... frustrations

Blade Runner. The music, the atmosphere, the grim future. Was Deckard a replicant? Was Roy the baddie or the victim?

For me it was a classic from day 1 (and it really wasn't popular when released)

Then I watched it over & over when I was ill in 1992. Must have seen bits of it 60, 70, 80 times.

Yeah! Only last week one of the Royal Princes visited me and demanded 20% of my crops and my youngest child as a handmaid.

What's even more vexing is the BBC did not decide to end the showing of repeated bits of a pretty pointless event, followed by a hasbeen band just space filling, but they then stuck in a load of "coming soon" ads rather than try to get the schedule back on track.

F**king Muppets.

Everything is hat shaped, pretty much. Sue is currently making a "Big Circus Top" hat out of a lady's corset.

It's stopped surprising me.

Sue is planning to do the christmas cakes today. One for us, one for Brian. You don't know Brian.

The cow and calf at Ilkley I think!

OK, I'll be "that" one to say it - what a load of bull!

Have a great day all.

Koshka became the lap cat and loved nothing more than being combed and sleeping by us. It was like she had wanted this for years but made way for her sister.
And this is me the Zoologist putting human emotions on other animals 😆

I did enjoy this but I laughed when he banged on about "cups" & did not seem to understand US & UK pints. What in heck is a cup! Having been in America many times (and even taken my own travel kettle as making tea via a US coffee machine is grim), it seems to take forever to make a... cup of tea!

No Pete.

You were the second worst 😆.

Though *that* project with you was somewhat of a challenge, I feel we did some good work in the end. Replacing an Exadata with a €10K server was just brilliant!

I'll actually be in Birmingham for the #UKOUG conference in a few days, to do exactly what you suggest - to meet up with old friends. I won't be at the actual conference (being retired a pass would be just too expensive), I'll be in the hotel bar next door, drinking coffee and the odd beer.
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I'm still an active part of the conference and user community, being president of sym42.org. I still go to the occasional conference but I'll never give a technical presentation again. I've done a couple of "softer" talks, like "memories of my worst project".
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