Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

The care instructions for this scarf are topologically problematic.

I find myself today wearing double corduroy. Is this a fashion faux pas similar to double denim, or merely an appropriate response to the changing of the seasons (and the passing of the years).

Flying ant day in October?!

I know we've all been distracted recently by old new Snobs moving to new new Snobs, but did anyone realise that old old Snobs is now a corner shop?!

If I want to get back into reading RSS, what software should I be using these days? I've tried a few things since Google Reader shut down, but nothing's stuck.

I updated my terminal colour setter to be easier to use, and work with more kinds of terminal emulator. It changes the background colour to be unique per host (by hashing the hostname), making it easy to tell one terminal from another. It sets the foreground colours to contrast with the background. Run it from your .profile, or wrap it around, e.g., podman/docker exec.

Website: https://www.mavit.org.uk/termcolours/

RPM packages: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mavit/termcolours/

Demo: curl https://bitbucket.org/mavit/termcolours/raw/release/script/termcolours | perl

This class 730 has new train smell, which is like new car smell but with wider gangways and walk-through carriages.

Used the official National Rail Online Journey Planner today, while https://traintimes.org.uk/ briefly wasn't working. You'd think in the last two decades they might have caught up on ease of use, but nope.

@sil Are you organising a pub crawl this year, and will it be on Wednesday?

@jameswallis Re your article in today’s Telegraph, Trivial Pursuit is good now?! What was the fix?

Yesterday I ate my first Tim Tam. I was expecting Penguin, but there was something about it that put me in mind of the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer.

It’s feels pretty insulting to see West Midlands Cycle Hire bury the lede of heavy price rises behind dubious claims of “pricing improvements”. If you’re short on cash, or TfWM think the budget would be better spent on buses or whatever, be honest about it. You’re offering a public service, not selling a commercial product, so you don’t need the sales bullshit.

My typical journeys are now three to four times more expensive. The sad reality is I’ll probably drive more.

You know how people say, “My wife was talking about stepladders near my phone, and now whenever I go online I get all these adverts for stepladders”?

(I never believed it, but, whatever, use an ad-blocker)

Well, anyway, the other day I was listening to Black Country, New Road in the car, and the satnav on my phone diverted me down the Black Country New Road. Spooky.