Why is the vacuum cleaner cable never quite long enough!?
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🏴 Made in Scotland, from electrons and wine 🍷
Do dogs have shoulders?
I think I have been forgiven by the dog. Yesterday I was clipping her nails and I was perhaps a little zealous with one, which caught her nail quick. She never even flinched but she did bled slightly, on and off for a few hours. Last night I received...
And on the 3rd day ....
As expected, the dry spell did not last, and on the third day it rained. However, we were able to make it to the local beach for a walk with friends and dogs for two hours, then back home for lunch with our chums. The wind was bracing but the...
Mark the moment -- two days no rain
I feel I need to mark the moment, and mention that as of Easter Sunday evening we have had two days with no rain, and reasonable sunshine. I think that may be the first this year. It did guilt me into doing some post-winter garden tidying. A few hours later...
Step back in time 🥫
I had call to make use of a can-opener today. I do not recall my last encounter with such a devil of a device. In this modern era it is the norm to have a ring-pull style gizmo on the lid for easy access. I had the A&E department on...
Too many photos? 📱
I recently moved my backup solution, which meant that all the photos on my mobile phone had to be re-uploaded by the software. I did not appreciate I had 8,324 images on my phone. Too many?!
I was a slave to emails
I've done something quite radical -- I've disabled notifications for my emails. 🔕 There, I feel better now that I have confessed. It has become apparent that I (and probably you) are slaves to notifications. As soon as your Desktop or Mobile device pings, you can't resist having a look. ...
End of an era
This morning was the funeral of my lovely elderly neighbour. She was a gem of a lady. I called her the duchess. She was full of wisdom, grace, and mischief -- right until the end. I collected her after a brief hospital stay mid-December, where she learned she was poorly...
A label to make you smile
Tonight's red wine is: La Cuvee des Copains Cotes du Rhone 🇫🇷🍷🐖 A charming vivacious red with raspberry notes and a juicy texture. Comments can be made via my post on the Fediverse
🍏 Two leaves make a tree?
It's all happening with the apple tree! If you missed the first instalment, check it out. The youngster is progressing. After 6 days we have significant signs of life. Comments can be made via my post on the Fediverse
🍏 The struggle is real 🍏
I came rather close to one of the seeds while eating an apple earlier. It would appear it was making a bid for life. Who am I to deny its ambition? I have potted it and await the first fruits of my love. I have a feeling I may also...
Instant Support?
Why do many of the Open Source projects offer support/help via chat services like Discord ? Honestly, it's a dogs breakfast (aka mess). It's mostly a linear chat; people join, ask a question, and expect an immediate response. Is that really possible? Shouldn't we be managing expectation better? The question...
Checking the Fediverse
Following on from my last Scribble about probing the Fediverse, I'm now ready to launch the project into the wild. I run a couple of Fediverse servers. On a daily basis the delivery queue can build up as it tries to deliver to non-responsive servers. I need to know if...
Probing the Fediverse
I working on a small project, and as part of it I need to know if a Fediverse instance in live. Some python scripting later and it is regularly probing every fediverse instance. An interesting exercie. Currently, the stats are: 72,098 known servers 25,273 are dead 24,210 are erroring...
What's in a name?
Have you seen omg.lol ? I love the idea; love the site; love all the little offerings; would happily pay twenty bucks for these great ideas. I just can't deal with having an omg.lol address. A .lol domain is like Comic Sans font -- cringe. I appreciate loads of peeps...
Great Expectations
My other half decided to buy a few jigsaws at the local charity shop. I later commented that it will probably have a piece missing. I'm thinking of taking up prophecy 🤭
School boy error
For about a week I have been, on and off, fighting my browser and Ubuntu Desktop to flush its DNS cache after struggling to reach one of my websites. After a few minutes of swearing I'd set the problem aside and revisit another day. The domain name was resolving to...
At home with Git
Following on from my life changing discovery of Git, I've been busy testing various repositories. I decided to have my public code on Codeberg, but for all my private work (websites, and various scripts, and dev work) I've rolled my own server. You might ask why I don't just make...
Git Me!
A new discovery in my life: Git As a hobby developer, and occasional dev. in my career, I have been aware of Git and GitHub. However, I've never given it much head space; I saw it more as a tool for collaboration with other developers. Recently I decided to dabble...
My first python script, and published
A red letter day today -- I wrote my first ever python script, and published it publicly on a code repository! I consider myself a competent developer in a number of languages/scripts. My current strengths include the website suite of tools: PHP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS. I've often wanted to...
Blowin' a hoolie
Sunday evening, 11:45pm and Strom Isha is passing through the UK. I was happily working away on a project on the computer; my other half watching TV. And then it was pitch black. Power failure. Time for bed. My weather station has so far recorded a gust of 58mph/93 kmph,...
Friendica test drive
I've been on the Fediverse for over a year now. I'm quite settled in my main account, however I am always on the lookout for different, new, or interesting services to pique my natural curiosity. Friendica has been around for some time (July 2010), but it's not huge. Statistics from...
Fork handles
Those who know the sketch from the Two Ronnies TV show will understand the title! This week I added another candle to the cake of life, and the old cliché: "it's only a number" comes out. I have always subscribed to that. My bag of bones chalked up another year,...
Top Wikipedia Editor
Today I made an edit to a Wikipedia article. That takes me to three since I registered in March 2015. I doubt I will win any awards for Contributor of the Year! The editing feature has moved on quite dramatically. It's more about visual editing rather than the wiki-speak codes...
Hello, again, World!
I'm back. Did you miss me? I've been blogging for years under various guises, but Forking Mad was my personal ramblings through my life; random thoughts and interesting (?) articles. I started it in 2013, and here we are 10 years later, and a gap of four years, the keyboard...
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