Chris Oldwood
@chrisoldwood.bsky.social
skeet = reinterpret_cast(life)
Achievement unlocked: going to the cinema by myself.
If Heat wasn’t only on for one night and my wife wasn’t working away I’d much preferred to have gone with her :o).
If Heat wasn’t only on for one night and my wife wasn’t working away I’d much preferred to have gone with her :o).
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Achievement unlocked: going to the cinema by myself.
If Heat wasn’t only on for one night and my wife wasn’t working away I’d much preferred to have gone with her :o).
If Heat wasn’t only on for one night and my wife wasn’t working away I’d much preferred to have gone with her :o).
"We should use relative dates as they're easier to understand."
:P
:P
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"We should use relative dates as they're easier to understand."
:P
:P
Someone said it’s Whoville Day today, so here are some Who’s enjoying Christmas Day… :P
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Someone said it’s Whoville Day today, so here are some Who’s enjoying Christmas Day… :P
throw PillowOverflowException();
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
throw PillowOverflowException();
Oblique Strategy of the Day:
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Oblique Strategy of the Day:
Are anybody else’s kids as clumsy as mine? It seems like they get a new phone every week. I can’t keep up with all their new numbers!
:P
:P
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Are anybody else’s kids as clumsy as mine? It seems like they get a new phone every week. I can’t keep up with all their new numbers!
:P
:P
So Strava are now displaying the recording device right in the activity heading. Does that mean Strava & Garmin have kissed and made up?
October 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So Strava are now displaying the recording device right in the activity heading. Does that mean Strava & Garmin have kissed and made up?
I can't believe it's a coincidence that since the Microsoft outage the OneDrive icon looks like a storm cloud...
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I can't believe it's a coincidence that since the Microsoft outage the OneDrive icon looks like a storm cloud...
LOL, the embedded AI tool in Confluence lists the answer for itself -- Confluence -- at the bottom of the list.
October 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
LOL, the embedded AI tool in Confluence lists the answer for itself -- Confluence -- at the bottom of the list.
Despite being almost 20 years old, and many of the tools pretty out-of-date, there was still a lot of good stuff in here as the concepts, unsurprisingly, have stood the test of time. Worth it for the Pac-Man story alone :o).
October 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Despite being almost 20 years old, and many of the tools pretty out-of-date, there was still a lot of good stuff in here as the concepts, unsurprisingly, have stood the test of time. Worth it for the Pac-Man story alone :o).
Looks like the old dial-up ISP is being run out of somebody’s garage these days :o).
October 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Looks like the old dial-up ISP is being run out of somebody’s garage these days :o).
Heads I win, tails you lose...
October 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Heads I win, tails you lose...
<insert your own infosec joke here>
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
<insert your own infosec joke here>
Everything physical I’ve ever tried to fix…
October 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Everything physical I’ve ever tried to fix…
Oops, was that the baby you just threw out with the bath water…
October 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Oops, was that the baby you just threw out with the bath water…
This is what happens when you let enterprise developers write your signs…
[2023] Afterwood - Metaphors
accu.org/journals/ove...
[2023] Afterwood - Metaphors
accu.org/journals/ove...
October 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This is what happens when you let enterprise developers write your signs…
[2023] Afterwood - Metaphors
accu.org/journals/ove...
[2023] Afterwood - Metaphors
accu.org/journals/ove...
Blimey, the people of this little Cornish village are a stickler for the rules — every answer was reinforced with “and no exceptions!”
:P
:P
September 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Blimey, the people of this little Cornish village are a stickler for the rules — every answer was reinforced with “and no exceptions!”
:P
:P
Based on last year I set my swimming distance goal for 2025 to 100 miles, but it seems I’ve already reached that. Looks like it’s not just my ability to estimate software delivery that is impaired :o).
September 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Based on last year I set my swimming distance goal for 2025 to 100 miles, but it seems I’ve already reached that. Looks like it’s not just my ability to estimate software delivery that is impaired :o).
I decided it was time to start using a password management system so I’m now using yellow Post-its for personal accounts, orange Post-its for on-prem work accounts, pink for cloud provider accounts, and blue for my social media accounts.
September 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I decided it was time to start using a password management system so I’m now using yellow Post-its for personal accounts, orange Post-its for on-prem work accounts, pink for cloud provider accounts, and blue for my social media accounts.
I took a trip to the tip today and had a rummage through the crate of books, on the off chance, and found a load of newish programming books. Okay, so a few are clearly outdated / of dubious value but some were on my wish-list 🙌.
September 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I took a trip to the tip today and had a rummage through the crate of books, on the off chance, and found a load of newish programming books. Okay, so a few are clearly outdated / of dubious value but some were on my wish-list 🙌.
Google Maps seems to have started using AI as it hallucinated a road which meant my road ride turned to a gravel ride and then a trail ride 😡.
September 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Google Maps seems to have started using AI as it hallucinated a road which meant my road ride turned to a gravel ride and then a trail ride 😡.
Waiting for that 2FA code to arrive…
September 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Waiting for that 2FA code to arrive…
Phones all around me making a horrible screeching noise at 3pm while mine remains silent. Ten minutes later I wander out into the garden and it finally goes off. At least I won’t have to worry about the four-minute warning as I won’t even know we only have four minutes left 😁.
September 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Phones all around me making a horrible screeching noise at 3pm while mine remains silent. Ten minutes later I wander out into the garden and it finally goes off. At least I won’t have to worry about the four-minute warning as I won’t even know we only have four minutes left 😁.
You’re terrible Mark!
September 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
You’re terrible Mark!
TFW you realise all those little blobs that used to appear on your GitHub profile haven’t disappeared, they just moved to Strava instead :o).
September 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
TFW you realise all those little blobs that used to appear on your GitHub profile haven’t disappeared, they just moved to Strava instead :o).