David Ham
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David Ham
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mathematician (on a good day, sort of), computational scientist, European.
Drink Crankshaft by Bent Spoke Brewery. Best bloody beer ever. Taproom in Canberra is an awesome pub, but the beer is outstanding wherever you buy it.
January 13, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Manchester
January 11, 2026 at 8:55 AM
The article is very critical of the home office yet concludes “It is a diffuse, externalised system fit for a hyperconnected yet unequal world.” Did the author mean “unfit”?
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 AM
They’re required to publish annual accounts which you can usually just pull off their website.
January 5, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Forecast accuracy also drops off quite quickly as you look into the future. The Met Office don’t even show daily forecasts more than a week out, because they basically aren’t reliable.

If your app is showing daily forecasts beyond that, the provider is more interested in show than substance.
January 4, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Not at all what the Met Office is showing. Different forecasts really are of different quality. Only the Met Office runs a high resolution model over the UK. The Met Office app really is more reliable.
January 4, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Try being Canberran!
January 1, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Me too. Particularly the vet who surprised a cow, which included the memorable line “that end of the animal incapable of facial expression”.
December 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Coventry is stunning inside. The use of stained glass and light is an act of genius. Also the quotations of medieval cathedral architecture are clever. They even have modern misericords.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I see what you did there! Very nice.
December 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by David Ham
The first step of course is to watch this wonderful video by @ramsesthepigeon.bsky.social

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Where Is The Comma In "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" Supposed To Go?
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December 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Yep. Also the UK has a quite relaxed attitude to the amount of electrical work that the keen amateur is legally allowed to do for themselves. So we conveniently combine a fiddly topology that’s easy to screw up if you don’t know what you’re doing with a general licence to just have a go.
December 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Regrettably the term “legacy” is distressingly inaccurate. They are still the predominant new installation. All because some committee in about 1943 didn’t know when to stop digging.
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I thought the fuse in every plug was to protect everything on the other side from the work of satan that is the ring main.
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM