Chris Keene
@chriskeene.bsky.social
Brighton, UK. Sometimes Higher Education, Research policy, tech and environmental stats
Each day I like to play the game "how many articles on the BBC News site mention the BBC in the heading"
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Each day I like to play the game "how many articles on the BBC News site mention the BBC in the heading"
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
Sainsbury's have emailed me at 3pm today to tell me from the start of today (nice notice period) I will need an app to get 'normal' prices, and if not pay artificially high non nectar prices. Nice.
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Sainsbury's have emailed me at 3pm today to tell me from the start of today (nice notice period) I will need an app to get 'normal' prices, and if not pay artificially high non nectar prices. Nice.
You should be able to connect to the trains doors by Bluetooth to close them when it's cold
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
You should be able to connect to the trains doors by Bluetooth to close them when it's cold
This reminds me of the brilliant Flight of the Concords track, 1353 tidal.com/browse/track... (can't quote post original post)
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This reminds me of the brilliant Flight of the Concords track, 1353 tidal.com/browse/track... (can't quote post original post)
Cutting the water off in a heat wave for old people. Great look.
October 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Cutting the water off in a heat wave for old people. Great look.
The British Airways website is so utterly terrible, when anyone talks about bad websites it always comes up as an example, and its been like this forever. Today, a error in stupidly large font, typos (no space after full stop), out of date and the only link takes me back to the same page
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The British Airways website is so utterly terrible, when anyone talks about bad websites it always comes up as an example, and its been like this forever. Today, a error in stupidly large font, typos (no space after full stop), out of date and the only link takes me back to the same page
Shock as man sneaks in to photo of women jumping for joy with their A Level results.
August 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Shock as man sneaks in to photo of women jumping for joy with their A Level results.
This is great news, always been hard to get a blood donation slot in central Brighton and now we can go 7 days a week, right in the city centre
July 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is great news, always been hard to get a blood donation slot in central Brighton and now we can go 7 days a week, right in the city centre
They ain't no party like a calming music for dogs party
June 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
They ain't no party like a calming music for dogs party
Libby is keen to let me know it is 6pm and therefore dinnertime. It is 4:45 and she has been telling me this for the last 30 minutes. (that's her mid flight, she is meant to have a bad back leg)
May 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Libby is keen to let me know it is 6pm and therefore dinnertime. It is 4:45 and she has been telling me this for the last 30 minutes. (that's her mid flight, she is meant to have a bad back leg)
Finally a movement I can be considered a extreme radical in
May 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Finally a movement I can be considered a extreme radical in
Two weather apps, two very different summaries (though both predict a chance of rain but represent it differently), luckily this is from a few days ago and I can report the met office's more positive predictions were right
May 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Two weather apps, two very different summaries (though both predict a chance of rain but represent it differently), luckily this is from a few days ago and I can report the met office's more positive predictions were right
Even by the modern "everything is clickbait" standards this is impressively bizarre and almost every sentence is wrong www.thesun.co.uk/motors/34437...
April 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Even by the modern "everything is clickbait" standards this is impressively bizarre and almost every sentence is wrong www.thesun.co.uk/motors/34437...
Of all places, I found Felixstow had come closet to doing the right thing. Choose any of five different apps to park
March 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Of all places, I found Felixstow had come closet to doing the right thing. Choose any of five different apps to park
To add to this, the other source of monthly new UK car data has now been released, SMMT, www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data... if you click on the top models Feb 2025 tab you will see Tesla in second and third spot for top new cars. Not good!
March 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
To add to this, the other source of monthly new UK car data has now been released, SMMT, www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data... if you click on the top models Feb 2025 tab you will see Tesla in second and third spot for top new cars. Not good!
I had a quick play but couldn't find an easy was, the best I got via Excel Data tab->Power Query, end up with one row per company, which has a sub-table for contacts, but that doesn't import in to actual Excel, so useless.
March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I had a quick play but couldn't find an easy was, the best I got via Excel Data tab->Power Query, end up with one row per company, which has a sub-table for contacts, but that doesn't import in to actual Excel, so useless.
I thought I'd take a look at how the US mainstream media is reporting it and what
March 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I thought I'd take a look at how the US mainstream media is reporting it and what
Sorry, couldn't resist game of 'where was that photo taken' especially as I like to feel I know most the areas just outside Brighton
February 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Sorry, couldn't resist game of 'where was that photo taken' especially as I like to feel I know most the areas just outside Brighton
Wherever I go I can't escape the boy
January 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Wherever I go I can't escape the boy
Those fields are very close to the planned (but now cancelled) A27 bypass, perhaps archaeological works commissioned as part of planning process? ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cps...
January 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Those fields are very close to the planned (but now cancelled) A27 bypass, perhaps archaeological works commissioned as part of planning process? ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cps...
Busiest Preston park Brighton parkrun ever. Over 1.2k runners I think. Photo taken 20 min before start
December 25, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Busiest Preston park Brighton parkrun ever. Over 1.2k runners I think. Photo taken 20 min before start
Random observation, this Amazon page for a book, with thousands of words, doesn't actually contain the title of the book. www.amazon.co.uk/Failed-State...
December 5, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Random observation, this Amazon page for a book, with thousands of words, doesn't actually contain the title of the book. www.amazon.co.uk/Failed-State...