

Happy (short) birthday!


Happy (short) birthday!


Just testing if people will pay extra for a nonexploding plane.
I prefer “as foretold”, like I’m some kind of prophet for having already explained what this idiot is currently confused about.


Wow, one Korean won is now worth less than 1470 Korean won!
(Confusing headline, it means won per USD)


10.24 a day and a sense of pride and accomplishment? So generous!


Still in use in the UK too. See for example the title of the Rowan Atkinson film “Keeping Mum”.
It’s widely used in the EDA (chip design) industry. (Unfortunately)


With a 5 foot ladder? Was it a hobbit hole?
Well, my beard is the right colour… But none.
I had an Acorn BBC B (running Acorn MOS), then an A3000, A5000, RiscPC (all with RISC OS), then I switched to Linux. I have occasionally used DOS and Windows at work, but never as my main home OS. (I write Linux software for work, but do use a windows laptop to connect to my Dev box)


I think you do lose child care benefits or something at that point (I can’t remember, I don’t have kids)


You make it sound like a cliff, but you lose £1 of the £12.5k allowance for every £2 over £100k you earn. You don’t suddenly lose the whole allowance at £100,001.
I love fairemail. I had an issue with some mails I was getting regularly not rendering properly and the guy was so helpful that I donated again even though I already had the paid one (which confused him!)


I gave up on owncloud just before it became nextcloud because it kept breaking every time I updated it.
Wallabag is similar for me now. I’m stuck on a slightly out of date version because I can’t get newer ones to run. Everything else I self host is painless though.
“slams”… Actually ok they can have this one.