Why did the manager often have trouble locating the office printer?

He had poor peripheral vision.

The person who was arrested after throwing powdered Jell-O and a jug of water over Donald Trump has subsequently been charged with trying to set a president.

An 8MHz quartz crystal on an electronics supplier's Website. Price marked down from £25.00 to 75p.

Bargain!

The loading bay area at the Montreux Jazz Festival site in 2015. The bay has a TV truck in it and several tall racks of beer kegs.

B-b-b-beer also

"On a mission to..."

"Because you deserve..."

"We believe..."

I can almost taste...

...the marketing cringe-factor...

from here.

Now it's C64s - You just can't get enough.

My Sunday pm was interrupted by Node-RED deciding I had no dashboard pages - no controls or indicators, but the back-end was still working. After trying a few fixes, including restoring 2 backups, I decided this was my cue to migrate everything to Dashboard 2. And here we are..half past midnight! 😣

I was working with Claude about a mildly complex nginx reverse proxy + let's encrypt cert renewal issue with Mailcow and local Web sites, & it suddenly started to refer to a completely different email system. When corrected, it came back with more irrelevance & I had to start over. Big brainfart.

I keep some in a cleaned out nasal spray bottle. The plastic seems unaffected - I've had one for years.

I was thinking, oh, a size comparison, showing how much we've miniaturised storage over time...and then it clicked!

An "Amzwn Basics" Micro SD card seen in AliExpress

Ooh. I used to work for WeEsteon Digital!

See also:

Your weekend pub crawl?

Felt square and double sided tape.

ZX Microdrive cartridge with tape extended out, tweezers, scissors, Isopropyl alcohol spray bottle and cotton bud to hand, ready to replace the degraded felt pad.

I got a square of dense art felt from The Range for 50p to refurbish some ZX Microdrives.

I spent part of yesterday writing a MS Power App to check a list & send an email when a year has passed since a thing in the list was last done. I got it working, but the syntax, IDE & debug methods made me really appreciate how easy to use and well thought out Node-RED's interface and tooling are.

Take care not to snap two together - or one against a metal surface - with your fingers in the way.

I used to work at HGST / Western Digital - there were lots of big magnets around + the occasional cut and bruised finger when not paying attention.

Die Hard Drive

Looked it up ..

6,000–$6,130 in 2025–2026 dollars.

Reminds me of the joke local newspaper headline:

"Kettle boils dry. No one injured."

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If you've made an Atari Jaguar game or know of any devs that have made one - you may want to check out the guys eBay page because he has quite a few suspicious items www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?i...

GitHub - piersfinlayson/one-rom: The most flexible ROM replacement for retro systems - using a sub-$2 Raspberry Pi RP2350 or STM32 microcontroller. · GitHub The most flexible ROM replacement for retro systems - using a sub-$2 Raspberry Pi RP2350 or STM32 microcontroller. - piersfinlayson/one-rom

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Reverted (adj)
--
Verted again!

Devastated (adj)
--
No longer vastated.

Follow up on my dodgy 4GB and 32GB (2 of each) micro SD from AliExpress: They were bought from the same supplier but since they were 2 line items I had to request 2 returns...

4GB: Here's a return label
32GB: Here's a refund, no need to send back.

Um. OK.

Embuggerance - it's such a good word, isn't it?

After four very busy years building global identity systems for Sky, my team and I have all been let go as they restructure.

If anyone needs 'big iron' Java services, wants to build a startup or create something new - let me know.

What a pain. I hope it works out well.

Reminds me of a theatre where I used to do sound & SFX. The stage power bay had a 100A breaker, but fed by a 60A one in the main electrical room (Huh?!). This caught out a few lighting engineers who didn't load plan each scene change carefully. We had the odd blackout when the 60A breaker tripped!

Armbian 26.2 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, Expanded ARM and RISC-V Support - 9to5Linux Armbian 26.2 Linux distribution designed for ARM devices is now available for download with support for new boards and various other changes.

Armbian 26.2 Released with #Linux 6.18 LTS, Expanded ARM and RISC-V Support 9to5linux.com/armbian-26-2...

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