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The Register @theregister.com · 8d

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

AI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes Column AWS put out a hefty analysis of its October 20 outage, and it's apparently written in a continuing stream of consciousness before the Red Bull wore off and the author passed out after 36 straight hours of writing.…

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · 8d

Todd Rundgren at The Sub Rooms in Stroud last night (Kasim Sulton on bass and Prairie Prince on drums)

Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · 8d

At least they spelled Jimi's name correctly.

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · 11d

Theo is away (again) so I am on dog walking/photography duty (again). Here's a selection so far.
#sighthound #lurcher #dogsofbluesky

A one minute shower for a double rainbow was definitely worth it

Gloomy, rainy walk past the fake canal boat

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · 12d

My wife is currently 9 time zones away, though only 8 hours because of summer time. I'm finding it weirdly disconcerting to be on such different schedules, in a way that her being in Milton Keynes or even New York isn't. Kurt Vonnegut probably coined a term for this feeling in Cat's Cradle

Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · 29d

Geddy and Alex Send a Message to Rush Fans

YouTube video by Rush

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 30

There's a Stradivari guitar in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. My understanding is that it is playable, but the museum never lets anybody play it.

Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 29

The band that visitors to Woody Creek mentioned most often was Cowboy Junkies.

Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel (Official Video)

YouTube video by CowboyJunkiesVEVO

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 29

Somebody sent me this exact postcard a long time ago. It's New College, Oxford.

Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 28

Me and my shadow
#sighthound #lurcher

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 28

Lovely afternoon here.
#sighthound #lurcher #dogsofbluesky #wiltshire

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · Sep 27

22.00 FILM:
With Edward Norton and Brad Pitt.

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 22

It's permanent steps you can see outside rather than seating. This is visual effects wiz Bernard Wilkie being interviewed on Pebble Mill At One.

Screenshot of Bernard Wilkie on Pebble Mill At One

Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 22

The sleeve designer probably liked the vibe of that photo. Maybe he thought "One" was 1am?

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 22

Given that it's dark outside, it seems more likely to be Saturday Night At The Mill which was the late night spinoff from Pebble Mill At One. They quite often had musical acts in the courtyard and talky segments in the glass walled foyer. This could be a Christmas toy drive?

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 20

The Museum Of London is between homes at the moment so I suspect they've given it back to Paul.

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 16

He used to regularly take the train from Bath to Weston-super-Mare to go swimming in the lido.

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 16

That was the start of his exile in Bath. There's a guided tour of his house every Sunday, with optional vegan Caribbean lunch.

Advert for guided tour of Haile Selassie's house in Bath

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 16

I once worked with a guy called Neil Young and that was never not weird.

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 15

Alexis Petridis suggested recently that it was Bowie's realisation that he couldn't ditch that past which led to his embracing of it and thus the creation of his own personal archive, which is now the core of the V&A collection.

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 14

Codpiece

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 14

They only played three shows before being thrown off the tour, probably for being too good. Jon Lord said it wasn't anything to do with Cream: "They had no idea ... They were too stoned."

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Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 9

Scan of an interview with The Glove in Melody Maker in 1983

Phil Wildcroft @wildcroft.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · Aug 9

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary.

Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

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