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Thunder
…na, na, na-na, na, na-na!
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Anima Sarda
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This Week I Learned – Issue 3
Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering Lectures are online Professor Ross Anderson, of the Security Engineering book, has put his new Security Engineering Lecture videos online. The lectures cover the following topics – who security adversaries are, formal threat models and security policies, banking and payment security, security economics, security psychology (including usability), network security, hardware security,…
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This week I learned – Issue 2
By 2050 UX professionals will be 1% of world population In 2017, Jakob Nielsen of NN/g predicted that by 2050, there would be 100 million UX professionals worldwide (aka 1% of the population). God help us, I sincerely hope this is not the case. Book – Human-in-the-loop ML & AI Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Active learning…
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Nope
It started well, it could have been a great result, but no. But what a game. “We’re very good at winning, so we have to be gracious at loosing too.” Andy Farrell. ๐ญ๐ญ
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Halftime 8-12
Halftime, 8-12. Will the next post be as celebratory? ๐ค๐ค #6nations #IreEng
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This Week I Learned About – Issue 1
The Shavian alphabet On Wednesday I saw a Toot in a beautiful script I did not recognise. It looked like this: ๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ค๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฑ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ ยท๐๐ผ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ Tyers. ๐ฒ ๐ค๐ฒ๐ ยท๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฉ๐, ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฏ Tayto ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐๐. which says Hello my name is Bernard Tyers. I like Guinness, ham sandwiches and Tayto crisps. from the to Shavian…
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Citrus cake, take 2
Texture is muuuch better. It needs the full 40 mins. Also being on the bottom ovenย shelf. It’s a little burned on top, so temperature maybe needs to be 165ยฐ instead of 180ยฐ.
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Who is doing the work here?
The advertisements on London Transport seem to be focus on promoting: This advertisement for deliveroo – who is talking here? The language in this ad is mis-communicating the work needed, and who is actually doing the work. It reads like the conversation we’ve all had. Maybe between two people, a couple or housemates, who share…
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Mixing cooked rice
Beef bulgogi bibimbap for dinner, one evening in Nagomi Cheltenham. Bibimbap, Korean: ๋น๋น๋ฐฅ. The term bibim means “mixing” and bap is cooked rice.
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Street graffiti, Hanbury Street
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Collaboration networks graphed.
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Let the mystery be
Iris Dement – vocals & guitar Russ Barenberg – guitar Jay Ungar – fiddle Molly Mason – bass Donal Lunny – bouzouki (Do yourself a favour and read the comments.) Let the Mystery Be Iris DeMent Everybody is wondering what and where they all came from Everybody is worrying ’bout Where they’re gonna go when…
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The Anti-Javascript Javascript Club
The Anti-Javascript Javascript Club. #fosdem2024 #anti-javascript
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RIP Ciarรกn the colander
I’d like to notify you of the death of my good friend and kitchen colleague, Ciarรกn the colander. I first met Ciarรกn in Ikea, Dublin, about 15 years ago. He moved in with us and became a great asset to our kitchen. He then moved with us to London, and spent many years assisting us…
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The Anglo-Belgian Memorial, also known as Belgian Refugees Memorial, is a war memorial on Victoria Embankment in London, opposite Cleopatra’s Needle. It was a gift from Belgium, as a mark of thanks for assistance given by the UK during the First World War, and in particular for sheltering thousands of Belgian refugees who fled from…
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ActivityPub: Activated!
Ever since I heard about the fediverse, and once I understood what that meant (different web presences being able to interact with each other) I thought about starting to blog again. I’ve been WordPress user for many years. I’ve lost at least 2 or 3 blogs worth of posts over the last 20 odd years.…
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DJin’ on the street in Brixton
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Up da Dรฉise!
For all your county pride Irish Socksciety – County Socks