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It’s December, so work has now entered what I’m going to call “mullet time”. The next three weeks will have a number of social gatherings at the end of the week, so they’re going to be business at the front and party at the back.

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There’s no possible compelling case, no ends that could *ever* justify the means, for bombing babies in hospitals. There’s no way back for Israel from this. They are forever a state which chose the mass murder of children for revenge.

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I’m not sure any software makes me feel as good about computers as spreadsheets do.

I don’t mind getting an item from IKEA that has been returned and repackaged as new, but it’d be nice if they had checked that the returned materials included all parts. The instruction booklet was in two parts, one part folded, the parts packet arrived ripped open, and the parts were wrong (as compared to the booklet).

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I’ve worked in tech for 21 years. I decided today that I was overdue in joining a union. Really grateful for the United Tech and Allied Workers branch of the CWU attending the exhibitors hall at NIDevConf a couple of weekends ago.

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You don’t make a quarterly revenue of almost 20 billion dollars by keeping prices the same instead of gouging your customers when the opportunity arises.

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He has waited years for us to change the sofa so that he would eventually have his natural camouflage become effective…

@atpfm tangentially related to the discussion of AirPods Pro as hearing protection, I usually wear my AirPods Max as ear defenders when I'm mowing the lawn. Every time, without fail, my Apple Watch will give me a Loud Environment warning. I really wish the watch could interrogate the phone to discover that I'm wearing AirPods Max in noise-cancelling mode.

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