Keith Williams

Leeds looking rather pretty from the hotel room

No cheating. Post your lock screen.

Well that was a week. Cheers, happy Friday to all those who celebrate! 🍻

Remember when you could run a small business on a Dell tower server? Maybe we should start emptying out some office space for server rooms again…

Nearly Hallowe’en so a goulash seems appropriate!

Ah, Thursday 🍺

So, the missile strikes on the Yandex data centres show that we can, actually, turn This Shit off?

Not a bad steak night, now to pass out by the fire with a glass of red

Tank museum was great. Unfortunately the hotel is not serving food, and only has Madri on tap 😭

Father and son tank geek-out day whilst Mrs W sleeps off a well-deserved hangover

Morning sky being needlessly dramatic

Well, that’s the dining room done. Just over a month end to end - quickest room so far. Still hate the white uPVC windows but that’ll have to wait.

Really OneDrive? You couldn’t put an `if` clause around this date?

27 years in this town and it’s the first time I’ve sat on the beds in this establishment #York

What is he burning on his fire? He’s a miser shivering over a lump of coal, not a blacksmith

Nice to see tram proposals for York, but I’m not optimistic fyfy.org.uk

At least someone at Microsoft still has a sense of humour

Ladies and gentlemen, I present: the Frankenhaus, or, a parable of incoherent overextension www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

Settling in for the #eclipse

“This window trim is loose, I wonder…” Later: “Hello daylight my old friend.”

And they say there are no more heroes…

Last evening in Porthleven for this holiday! Next year in Scotland!

Historians! What should I read on why France was so late to women's suffrage? And in particular, on why the First World War didn't have the same accelerating effect as in Britain? (Ideally in English, but French not impossible...)

An idle “what’s that ship over there” has led us down a rabbit hole and now we have VesselFinder and we’re questioning our life choices. @dreadships.bsky.social how do we get out of this?

Going to be sad when this holiday is over…

Back in Cornwall!

First home-grown salad of the year!

If nothing else, the Binface vs Farage contest shows that our best cultural defence against fascism is, despite its drawbacks, a refusal to be serious.

Nothing like running a blame-free post incident retrospective to get the juices flowing on a morning. Smells like… continuous improvement.

Despite 25 years’ experience and a senior management role, I still feel like a naughty schoolboy whenever I have to speak to IT and ask them to please stop blocking something our developers need to use

In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.

Work trips have to have some perks

“UK houses are just not built for forced air heating!” Well they kind of are - they’re built around chimney flues, often very intricate, which carry hot air as a secondary heating mechanism. Built to take advantage of cheap coal just as AC took advantage of cheap power next century.

Chicken curry with dates and toasted almonds. Very full now but will happily take on any American food discoursers.

Very grateful that we live on a tree-lined street this week. Next job: take up some of the paving on the front (it’s 100% paved, but we have plans…)

First day of a new job - well actually, going back to an old one after 10 years). Actually drove to the office and sat at a desk. I’m only going in 1-2 days a week but surprised how much I’d missed just being around people. In sure the novelty will wear off eventually…

And that’s a wrap for the week.

Lovely morning for a change

Oh, they made another series of The Night Manager, I wonder how they’ll do without a source book… Ah. They made a stock BBC drama where people exposit at each other and something blows up each episode. Yawn.

A generation of children confined to exclusively posting on LinkedIn, humbled to share that they have been recognised as thought leaders in vertically integrating your mom's supply chain.

Grant Naylor: In my tv series I invented the Talkie Toaster as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Talkie Toaster from classic sci-fi TV episode Don't Create The Talkie Toaster.

If you’re not prepared to treat voters like adults, they’ll eventually react like toddlers

I think the root of this, and almost all other problems the government has, is that they don't believe that the public can be persuaded. A tax rise to pay for national security in a changing world should be an easy argument to make but the PM seems uninterested in even trying

Listening to @robertsaunders.bsky.social on Parliament Matters yesterday and it occurred to me that journalists talk about covering the Brexit years like spies in a 1970s John Le Carré novel talking about The War

David Austen “Wildeve” #rose

Well, #Kefalonia is *lovely*

Dramatic skies!

Holiday kitty scavenging food at breakfast

The only kind of Mythos I want to hear about on holiday