Catching up on safety courses that work make us do. The multiple choice quiz at the end always has questions in the form of:

What should you do in this potentially hazardous situation?

* poke the bear with a stick.
* punch the bear on the nose.
* leave the bear along and tell the ranger about it.

Succubus - female demon that seduces men,
Incubus - male demon that seduces women,
Vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party.

Queen does K-POP

Join @kestr.al for the launch of Tubelines, their incredible new poetry collection, at events in both London and Glasgow.

Accessible venues, free tickets, and loads of fantastic poetry.

reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/events/

V for Vendetta is more relevant today than it’s ever been

What if the Severance theme was played at the Music Dance Experience? I was playing with Garage Band and somehow came up with this simultaneously more up-beat and creepy version of the severance theme.

Did you know that the #dotnet property DateTime.UtcNow can sometimes go backwards between one call and the next? I didn't, but here's a possible solution compensating for that if you need to create a monotonic (always ascending or descending) sequence of timestamps: colinmackay.scot/2025/02/25/f...

I managed to spill some juice on my Apple Magic Keyboard. Luckily I found a video on how to pry the keys off and clean them properly. That would have been an expensive fix if I had to replace it (It was the full sized one with the numeric keypad).

Here’s the video, www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPba...

To be perfectly honest, I think only registered voters should be able to contribute to political parties, election funds, etc. and that amount to have an annual cap. But, this is still a step in the right direction.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Despite all the negative comments about the recent Star Trek series (Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, Prodigy) I’ve rather enjoyed them all. Until now. My God, the characters in the new Section 31 movie were irritating! I liked the concept, but I just found the people unlikeable.

Asda sent me a notification about my shopping habits. Apparently I bought a lot of pasta salad last year. It’s kind of interesting, but I’m not sure what to do with this information.

The story so far, 2 years ago I was just shy of 120kg. I lost roughly 20kg each of the last 2 years. I did put on a little over Christmas, so my starting weight on 1/Jan was 83kg.

My goal for this year is to get down to 70kg which would put me in the middle of my ideal weight.

I listened for 30,437 minutes in 2024. What about you? #SpotifyWrapped

Top Artists
1 Jean-Michel Jarre
2 Niteworks
3 Mànran
4 The Proclaimers
5 Capercaillie

Top Songs
1 Streets of Edinburgh
2 Air Fair an Là
3 An Toll Dubh
4 Fare Well, Pt. 2
5 Somhairle