I find this fascinating and watch every single step. The blood donation nurses tell me I am a rarity.
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The new washing machine has arrived. On the basis that every warning comes with a history I am very concerned about the Darwin Award-esque:
- do not pour petrol or petrolatum products in to the drum, it will explode
- do not wash an electric blanket unless the label states it is safe to do so
The team in the Department of Washing Machines at Home Appliance Safety Inc. must constantly be asking themselves WTF is wrong with people?!
I was at my Aunt’s 80th birthday celebration yesterday. She spent most of her speech talking about how, a few years ago, her grandson got a Bluey tattoo and she thought it was great and how she’d said she’d love one of her own.
Then there’s the reveal: my 80 year-old Aunt now has a full colour Bluey tattoo on her shoulder. She got it about two weeks ago. Not even my uncle knew until yesterday.
Not only that, it’s better than the grandson’s.
I spent the afternoon trying to convince my uncle, a mad keen cricket fan, that he should get a matching Rusty tattoo.
We’re heading out to the family acres tomorrow. We were trying to work out how long it’s been since we’ve made the trip without hitting replacement buses on either the Sunbury or Hurstbridge lines.
We genuinely can not remember but reckon it’s been at least five years.
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I actually owe his former management company an enormous debt of gratitude.
They were my first professional web development client and started me on the road to where I am today. I was terrible at sales so it was really only them and their clients that I did work for.
But far more significantly, my partner was working there and that’s how we met. Some decades later that seems to have worked out quite well.
Do you think Dave Hughes’s former (as of yesterday) management company would appreciate an email explaining the difference between the 404 and 410 HTTP codes?
The washing machine I bought when I moved out of home has finally failed. I opened it up and could smell the electricity had escaped so I reckon it’s beyond repair. I do not expect it’s replacement to last close to 30 years.
Um, I am wondering if you can lose your Australian citizenship of you don’t think much of How to Make Gravy? It’s a fine song, I guess, but it’s not Paul Kelly at his finest.
I’ve been holding my tongue for thirty years.
Remember, if it’s a close game today the best time to buy a television is during the forth quarter. Take along a Wiggles DVD and insist the staff put it on to maximise your discount.
(I have never had the nerve to do this.)
I’d love to know who at Vodafone decided that credit card details do not belong the billing preferences section. I’ve given up for today.
I keep seeing phrases along the lines of “the OpenAI agent accessed both public and private [Medicare] files” in news articles.
The journalists are adopting the OpenAI method of treating their software as a third person and an independent party and it’s not good enough.
OpenAI accessed both public and private Medicare files. OpenAI then failed to report it for several months. OpenAI own the software they wrote and news outlets shouldn’t be adopting the language of their PR department.
I took the cat to the vet yesterday and the vet is a little worried about how high her heart rate is.
However, the vet listened to her heart after taking her temperature. I reckon my heart rate would bounce up if I didn’t know what was happening and a big, nasty, scary stranger took my temperature in the same fashion.
The pedicure at the end was not a popular choice, either.
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Peter, have you considered that it might be caching rather than a race condition? Were you remembering to flush the cache while testing?
That seems an important consideration when testing an implementation that is designed to make heavy use of caching.
I’m trying to debug what I think is a race condition but, of course, using a debugger to pause execution is resolving the race condition and it might be easier to just have a sook.
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Ohh, the new Bluey Dollar Bucks feature Cricket.
ALL GOOD, MR HEELER indeed.
For a season that has been on since the start of August, I have heard very little about Ted Lasso season four.
I’m not watching because the show ended when Ted got on the plane. It’s like Weeds ended when Agrestic burnt to the ground.
In the best tradition of a K-Drama there are some weeks I want to time travel back to the Joseon era and, through a series of increasingly improbable events, be confused for a prince.
At first I’d be pleased with this turn of events but as I discover more about the role, I would start dressing as a commoner (this would involve changing my headwear) and tending the fields.
The other commoners would recognise me immediately and it would take me a few days to realise that the frequent jostling was not actually friendly.
This would be the entire plot of the twenty-five episode first season. In the second season…
I think there is a distinct risk we are a household of nerds. We are currently debating what is the correct setting for scrolling on a track pad.
I am, of course, correct.
For, I presume, Father’s day reasons I could only find a 2.5KG Chicken for our Sunday roast (Nagi’s garlic-herb-lemon butter roast chicken specifically).
For two people it’s a bit much but I am not very disappointed as it’s making some pretty bloody good sandwiches for lunch this week. Two days in and I am still not done.
Broadsheet is breaking Betteridge’s Law with their headline “can pre-made espresso save our cafes?”
The correct answer is “good god, no”.
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Please send help if I ever start posting about MRR.
In the continued public rebuild of my site, this-morning I finally remembered to add print CSS.
All these years later and I am still referencing the printed links section of Eric Meyer‘s Going To Print article on A List Apart in 2002. I can’t see that changing in the next twenty years.
I’ve spent literally days procrastinating doing my tax return. I told myself I’d really do it today.
It took a little over 90 minutes to prepare. A fraction of the amount of time I’ve spent not doing it.
Listening to Pulp Live!, recorded in the UK last year. At first glance, it seems pretty faithful track for track to the o2 playlist they did for the recording.
Why has it taken me until September 1, 2026 to set up iibuild as an alias for npm i; composer i; npm run build?
Last night we watched the first three episodes of New Zealand Spy on iView.
It’s a great laugh and pokes fun at Australian and NZ as a spy troop of varying levels of competence protect the country for external threats (mostly Australians). The. cast is amazing and features everyone you’ve ever heard of ever. Yes, EVERYONE.
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Silly function names is one of the ways I like to make it clear something isn’t vibe coded. AI does not do fun.
This weekend’s project was to get comments back up and running on my site. I decided to customise the avatars so everyone just gets initials but I get a photo as a way to indicate author comments.
This did require writing a function named i_am_special().
I finally updated to the liquid ass versions of Apple operating systems as delaying much longer would be a security issue.
I’d have assumed reduced transparency would do more than this. The top half of the image has reduced transparency, apparently.
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I think it was just standing oddly while it cleaned itself. Silly bird.
Trying to work out if one of the Maribyrnong River Swans is lame or just standing on one leg while it cleans itself. I’m going to go down to the river in an hour and see how it’s standing.
Like everyone in Footscray, I am on edge after six swans have died in the last year due to discarded fishing gear.
Just this-morning as I was on my walk I saw some peak arseholery as a guy let his dog (fortunately on a leash) approach them while barking at and trying to run over to them. The arsehole just let it go instead of trying to pull his dog back.
People. The worst.
Knowing that I should not stew about [thing] is making me stew about [thing].
I need to file an urgent bug report with YouTube Music. They do not have Dolly top-left, she’s not even above the fold.
Every now-and-then I find myself on the PHP operator precedence page and am reminded that these are different.
var_dump( true || true && false ); // bool(true)
var_dump( true || true AND false ); // bool(false)Code language: PHP (php)It depends on what I am doing as to whether or not I agree with the architectural decision. Anyway, kids, don’t use AND or OR.
Current status: yelling at local development environments. Again.
Watching a YouTube video only to notice yourself walking past in the background is a weird Sunday night activity.
Eating my post blood donation party pies.
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Back when I started work on the new theme for my site, I decided to use SASS and introduce a build step. I was quite unfashionable and chose Gulp rather than any of the currently popular tools.
This, of course, required adding a build step to the GitHub action I use to deploy my site and I was a little worried about it blowing up the build time.
It’s consistently adding all of five seconds to the ~1 minute build. I’m pleased I decided not to be one of the cool kids.
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I am still thinking about how good the potatoes were. They use a third of a block of butter so it’s not surprising they were good and it probably wasn’t just the potatoes.
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YOLO launch it is… meet the new peter wilson dot cc. there’s probably quite a few things that are broken. There are certainly things I want to do but am launching without (comment display and comment forms for one).
In the best tradition of a YOLO launch, I am now going to lunch 🤣
I’ve been working on a new slightly retro design for my site. It’s getting pretty close and I’m tempted to yolo launch as is.
As is except for the filler text I’ve got in a few places, at any rate.
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Indulgent potatoes were very much a success. They’re definitely A Bit Too Much for every day if you want to stay remotely healthy but I am putting them in my dinner party book of tricks.
There is nothing quite as disconcerting as sitting in a dentist’s waiting room with the calming sound of teeth being drilled in the background.
I’m attempting something new and pretty indulgent looking for dinner tonight. Steak and Potato Dish so Good Chefs Want to Keep it a Secret, here I come.
My nephew texted me out of the blue last night to tell me he’d really got in to Hamilton and would like to see it live.
I was very proud but also disappointed it’s no longer playing in Australia because I would have booked tickets especially.
Somewhat out of character, I’ve decided that taking him on a trip to London is a little too much. It’s a close call though…
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But there’s something else I need to test to make sure I am really 🙂
For some reason posting emoji from my site to mastodon was broken (which made me colon sad face colon) but I think I’ve fixed it (which makes me 🙂).
This article on ABC News goes in to the history of haemophiliacs contracting Hep C and HIV via blood products. Clotting products come from hundreds of donors so sufferers were disproportionately affected by infected blood donations.
While I’m glad to be able to donate blood at long last, I never really objected to not being able to because of the history of contaminated blood products.
The current questionnaire focuses on whether someone has multiple sexual partners, regardless of gender or sexual preference, which I think is a significant improvement. But I understand why it took a long time.