I have an email address which is structured first name.lastname@domain.invalid so it seems particularly impressive to get SPAM which starts "Hello Scott". Data cleaning remains challenging, I guess

Re-watching The Devil's Advocate again and "We're hiring you out at $400 a day" feels a bit different in this economy. But yes, "Free will, it's a bitch"

"Oh no! I love their nuggets" - great quote from One Battle After Another

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

There premise of the film Mercy is "what if AI courts" but ISTM that allowing a defendant to investigate their own case is at least as prejudicial if not moreso

Train delayed due to "waiting for a part of the train to be attached" because it's always nice to try out a new announcement

Start of the new Capture season feels like an advert for Celebrity Hunted

Venturing out of Coventry for a couple of days and the guy in the corner shop near the station asked where I came from and replied BELL GREEN IN THE HOUSE. I had no idea that Coventry was this popular.

Nice to see someone using @overleaf.com on the train

Person next to me on the train is reading Jean Genet

The impact of generative AI on authorship | BCS Georgia Smith MBCS explores the relationship between AI and authorship with Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey, and globally renowned expert Merve Hickok, President and Policy Director at the Center for AI & Digital Policy (CAIDP).

Should it be possible to copyright AI authored works? Some interesting responses to that question in this slightly confused article:
www.bcs.org/articles-opi...

"You're changing lives. But with water". Once again the Apprentice does not disappoint for hyperbole.

Can't tell if the chap on this train knows he's singing out loud or he just has very good noise cancelling on his earphones

A photograph of a wall with the following quotations painted on it: 'Birmingham has changed a lot, but for me it's still the centre of the universe.' Benjamin Zephaniah, 2005 'Its inhabitants work as if they must get rich by the evening and die the next day.' Alexis de Toqueville, 1835 'I was surprised at the place, but more so at the people. They possessed a vivacity I had never beheld.' William Hutton, 1741 'Bremicham, swarming with inhabitants, and echoing with the noise of Anvils, for here are great numbers of Smiths.' William Camden, 1586

Birmingham has, apparently, always been amazing. And noisy.

Do #Birmingham people not know that Sabai Sabai has a lunch menu? I don't know how such a good place can be so empty

Vibe coding appears to be surprisingly hard work for something that claims to simplify my life

A bottle of Club-Mate zero

Giving Club Mate another go and it's definitely better without corn syrup

Saw a Kevlin Henney which, in this case, was a Windows bootloader terminal. The screen was massive and embedded in a mirror in a metal lift, so I couldn't take a photo of it that didn't look like one of those "people selling mirrors" feeds

WordPress London venue showing a projector screen with a WordPress London logo

Great to be at #WPLDN tonight meeting old @dxw.com friends and making new ones

Overhearing some kid getting bollocked, via mobile phone, for using their phone when they were told not to. "If you don't, football is off the table". Definitely some lessons here for middle managers but not necessarily positive ones "do you get it?"

Six ways Gen Z are ruining the workplace for everyone else Junior staff members with ‘unrealistic expectations’ are rewriting the rules of the office and leaving their senior colleagues baffled

"I admire it in a way, but I do want to use the printer without being called a murderer."

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

Erm, just to check ... which government?

Headline from a news site: "A new obelisk 'lifeform' is hiding inside humans"

This is the single most Stanley Kubrick headline I have ever seen

Rather than a quiet coach where train passengers have to be quiet I would really love a carriage with no announcements

"Because I yearn to live a valiant life, Cadet Master" sounds like a great answer to "and why did you apply for this role?" #StarfleetAcademy

A slide reading #ukgc26 in partnership with Birmingham City Council

Great to be hosted by a council for #ukgc26 - public services all come together around people in places 🫶🏽

There's a few @dxw.com folks here at #UKGovCamp today so do come and have a chat if you're in Brum 🐂 today
#ukgc26

...and we're off 🙂 #ukgc26

Not generally a fan of management speak at the best of times but certainly not when it's used in random contexts. "This is good if you like your burgers potato forward" is surely not a thing.

Just seen one of the vibe coding bloggers claim that "spec driven development" is a new thing and I'm wondering whether the whole industry just forgets the last 5 decades every time the year ends in a 5 or something.