Microposts

Mon 15 Jan 2024 22:12

From a couple of years ago at least, but this is how I’ll be getting my news from now on: nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceef

The latest news from the BBC web site, rendered on another web site in the style of Ceefax (an information service delivered on telly from ages back)

Sun 14 Jan 2024 20:46

Someone who died almost 2000 years ago made up a new word in a letter. How you going to translate that? Careful now.

You’ll very likely love this documentary: 1946themovie.com

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture

Wed 10 Jan 2024 08:42

The dog can’t get much closer to the radiator.

Which started me wondering if she needs a coat in “feels like -7” weather.

But, nope, she show none of the signs of cold when out for a morning walk.

A small black and white terrier sitting on a cushion with her head next to a radiator. You sense she is very good girl.

Tue 09 Jan 2024 11:16

I've not noticed it before, but a receipt from the Post Office is marked as "Horizon certificate of posting".

Long history:

- computerweekly.com/feature/Pos

- private-eye.co.uk/special-repo

- and of course the excellent ITV dramatisation from earlier this month

Sat 06 Jan 2024 16:46

“Our representative mission begins with a long string of probes launched one at a time to ~0.2c “

Looks like it got funding to explore the idea further 👏👏 👏👌

Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances nasa.gov/general/swarming-prox

Thu 04 Jan 2024 11:54

Dear and or people,

Hello.

What's the safe, framework-less, way to render untrusted user input in a web component via the light (non-shadow) DOM?

`createContextualFragment` is powerful but hard to make safe if you interpolate user supplied input into a bunch of markup text.

Thank you.

Wed 27 Dec 2023 19:56

Christmas and Boxing Day was spent in .

A most lovely human takes a photo of street art at Margate’s Lido. A small mixed breed terrier, who is a very good girl, sits on the steps.

Fri 15 Dec 2023 21:03

Also lovely beer and I had to drag the dog away

A dog sitting in someone’s lap, with a beer on the table with Christmas goodies.

Fri 15 Dec 2023 19:20

If you’re going to eat a sausage roll this year (vegan or otherwise), I highly recommend, taking a membership to the Skiff coworking space in and heading down there tonight 🎄😋

Fri 08 Dec 2023 14:53

Watched "Can AI catch what doctors miss?"" -> ted.com/talks/eric_topol_can_a

I suspect the person at Vision Express who just received my query on when this is rolling out is gong to be delighted.

An orange circle with a network of darker lines. It’s an image of a retina. Around the edges are examples of what can be detected from these images. It includes liver and gall bladder disease, kidney disease, Alzheimers, heart attack and stroke, Parkinson’s, and diabetes and blood pressure control. The software to do this is open source, apparently.

Wed 06 Dec 2023 22:12

Panic bought soup at lunchtime, because I got my Zoe.com results, became overwhelmed. Which I know is not the point, but the soup was lovely (and 90/100 score for me).

Mon 04 Dec 2023 22:24

Headed up to campus at tonight to catch Prof. Gillian Forrester’s “Hand to Mouth: The Language Puzzle” lecture.

Best part for me was the idea of left/right brain split being a very old way to parallelise two tasks (say, eating and being watchful for predators). And you can (maybe) trace a continuum all the way to the present day.

This seems to cover it: scientificamerican.com/article