Not as bad as the signs that say "Trucks can't stop quickly." They should just go slower, then.

And where is Scotland?

Always wondered what that invisible hand was up to.

Always wondered about that place

Ever tried asking an AI to document something that doesn’t already exist on the web? Tech writers aren’t dead yet.

I’m older than the Frisbee

I published a couple of titles on KDP and every couple of months I get about 3c in my account. No idea why.

Well I’m glad *something* does

Making Claude Code open source was a good start

In Monopoly, what happens when one player has all the money? It’s game over.

Threaten NATO

Yes the Klingon "Ghrheehhghherargchgffdfsd" is pretty bad, but unfortunately it has no English equivalent.

Beats "I can't let you do that, Dave", but not by much.

Mate, you need a better hobby

A solution looking for a problem; when was the last time that turned into a viable product?

Well they no longer have smart toilet first mover advantage

… but if you don’t, tell yourself it always comes out better the second time you write it.

Reads so much better than Marsfart, don’t you think?

And identifying as Jewish.

I loved that band!

Yeah the trouble with the invisible hand is that you never know what it’s got up its sleeve

So now we're all going to throw out Xero and have an LLM do our accounting? Or write accounting software for us? I guess makes perfect sense in AI LALA land.

Yeah maybe we could suggest that the US pays us a huge amount of money, then we get to put a US sub under Australian control. Or we could just go back to the French?

Maybe if we asked the French nicely …

And ministerial control and responsibility wouldn’t hurt either

Reminds me of an old Glasgow joke: "I used to go out with a woman who was a redhead. She had no hair, just a red head."

I'm in favour of charity, but not charities.

So it's not to your lichen?

In 1999 in Australia all IT departments spent money on Y2K (remember that?), the internet and the introduction of a new tax called GST. The result: no IT budget for anything else till about 2002.

The point is to make people mad enough to fight back; then they can really bring down the hammer.