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• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Meanwhile, going back to OGH's original thoughts... The EU tells Twitter to play by the rules...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  surely once it becomes clear what a gift this is to russian sanctions evasion the pressure will start to mount to reverse it? The "relevant authorities" will still have access, just not the public, and possibly not journalists. The whole...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Arse. Markdown plus a phone keyboard are a pain. Twitter thread. FT article...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  The FT article is here. There's also a long twitter thread here. It's possible that access to the registers for accredited journalists will remain. But any citizen journalists, or just somebody wanting to know who now owns the local golf...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Mmmmm. The Cuvee Sir Winston is gorgeous, Greg. I can afford it about once every other year when it's on super special offer at Majestic. Winnie used to order it by the multiple case load!...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  "I think it's a really unlikely conclusion that Churchill in particular wrote for the money" Actually, it's extremely well known that the money from the books and journalism were the only thing keeping him at least semi-solvent for much of...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  They're actually quite nice trains in some ways. Loads of leg room, light, bright, decent design. In pretty much every other way, they're awful. Seats like concrete (OK, I know OGH and I disagree about the seats on the old...
• Commented on Upcoming blog outage
  Get better soon, Charlie! I'm beginning to think that the husboid and I are the only people left who haven't had the plague. Howard suggests "20% of a nation endure sudden loss of electricity for three days which leads to...
• Commented on I can't even
  Airlines other than Aeroflot exist. Turkish Airlines, most of the Gulf carriers, and Air China are still running a full service on their own metal. Ditto most of the national airlines in the ex-Soviet states....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  "The Great Orme is a fascinating site, quite possibly the first "industrial" site in the UK." Grime's Graves?...
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  I had a look for it on The Times website using bypass-paywalls-clean, and it came up as non-archived, so I did have to archive it first....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  Non-paywalled version available here. It's just a small filler article about the fact that, as inflation starts to bite, enquiries about rehoming pets are through the roof. On a personal level, I've already seen the cat food preferred by my...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  "....Harry, Ed, Ed? Dick, Harry, Harry8..." That's Richard III. You missed out Dick II (plus points for the introduction of the hanky to England) between Ed3 and Harry4....
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  Greg, you're missing Richard II! Yes, I can do them all from memory. I can do most of the regnal years as well. And yes, I've got a history degree, how did you guess?...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  "It's something like 10'x13', and it is a Persian rug (under one corner, "country of origin - Iran"). I don't think you're going to drag that out, put it on a line, and beat it." I have seen both my...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  In my case, it's mainly to air out the poor rugs -- after a while, they get extremely "catty". The beating us mainly cathartic, as I don't think any cat dander will have been be missed by the Miele S8....
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  "Who beats rugs on the wash line anymore? (And deals with all the furniture movement required?) Who has a wash line to dry clothes on?" Er, that would be me. OK, I use a washer-dryer at our shoebox in London,...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  "That link is heavily paywalled ( NY "Times" ) - any easy way round that?" If you're using Firefox or Chrome, there's an add-on called bypass-paywalls-clean that will deal with most problems. Very useful for the WaPo or NYT....
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  Almost certainly a full Temp folder. Look up "full Temp folder" on MS Windows support for the safer ways to deal with the matter (I usually just hit "select all", "delete", but this has known bad effects). One Drive is...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  A friend of ours used to put in significant transatlantic time on BA whilst working for one of the major Yank Banks. About twice a quarter he'd be asked if he wanted to do the Saturday Concorde rather than one...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  Concorde on landing is loud enough that she could be heard through double glazing with fairly loud music on at eight miles out -- our flat is bang under the approach for 27R at LHR, and I used to use...
• Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
  Oh, it's not just football teams, and it's not just pop songs! Amongst the rugby clubs and nations, Harlequins favour Manfred Mann's "The Mighty Quinn"; Munster and Ireland sing "The Fields of Athenry"; the Welsh adore "Cwm Rhondda"; England, for...
• Commented on A death in the Firm
  Congratulations! I shall now sit and grind my teeth in a corner, as despite being a year older than you, I still haven't persuaded the NHS that i'm actually eligible for my first shot....
• Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
  Before that, we had Adaptors. These were cuboidal lumps of plastic with a set of plug pins on one face and sets of socket holes on two or three others. People used to stack them up into fantastic Christmas trees......
• Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
  At Warwick (as Pigeon has observed, other universities with cheapo wiring were available), a power strip would be fine if you were only plugging in your radio/stereo/TV/coffee maker/BBC micro. Plug in a a kettle or hairdryer -- everything on the...
• Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
  Ah. A fellow survivor of Rootes Halls at Warwick? Friday and Saturday evenings were always fun in the early-mid eighties era of big hair. Girls all trying to plug their hairdryer or curling tongs into the one 13 socket in...
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  There is a reason why one of the less polite terms for left handedness in British English is "cack handed"......
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  "Left handed hitters also are desired but not as much." But are the left handed hitters all natural lefties? In cricket, with which I'm much more familiar, a fairly significant number of those who bat left handed will throw or...