James Howard

When a robin wants to play chicken with your robot lawnmower

For the love of God could the @nytimes.com please stop trying to sell me a family subscription. I will never buy it and I'm close to cancelling the one I have because the incessant popups and emails are so annoying.

I had sworn off @adobe.com after the last time they ripped them off but I needed to do something with a pdf and they were the only option. Acrobat is now €20 per month. Luckily I only needed it for one job so I did a free trial. Which still cost me €1.

As we're having our usual monthly @irishwater.bsky.social outage, I'd love to only have the average 27 hours per year of water outage. I'd say this year we'll be looking at around ten times that. We've had about 5 days so far this year. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

This NYT interview with Bill Gates is just phonomenal. He tells it as it is - the Trump administration (and its "Christian" backers) is killing millions of kids. The contrast with Elon Musk could not be starker. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

Given his Pulp Fiction role, I’m not surprised Christopher Walken doesn’t wear a watch. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

Puppy’s first snow day.