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2024-03-13 20:07:31

after removing one of the files making up the project as it was apparently 'too big' and swapping USB cables and port and programmer settings, I kind of got it to work! Garbled screens occasionally but I haven't attached any buttons yet... https://github.com/Smashcat/UNO_Manic_Miner

2024-01-12 19:29:14

I thought Spit the Dog had gone solo by this point. #totp

2023-12-29 18:40:28

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@npub1vxd…hm9m I am seriously considering selling my entire vinyl collection as prices are surely at their peak. Keeping my CDs because you can't give them away. And I love CDs.

2023-10-06 18:18:05

Dropped a drumstick there. Nobody noticed did they? #totp

2023-10-06 04:47:47

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@npub12v0…64ds disk utility gives a clean bill of health - but I don’t believe it!

2023-10-05 21:21:56

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@npub12v0…64ds Internet recovery doesn't seem to be working either, I think the hard drive may be failing (although it does boot, this could explain why it was dumped!)

2023-10-05 19:25:58

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@npub12v0…64ds thank you - will try that next!

2023-10-05 19:24:08

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@npub12v0…64ds Recovery partition on the computer itself. WiFi is connected.

2023-10-05 19:21:47

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Hmmm, keeps doing this, right at the end of re-installing Sierra in recovery mode. With -399 seconds remaining...
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2023-10-05 11:10:26

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It's a Apple iMac "Core i5" 2.5 21.5" (Mid-2011) - looks like it can run MacOS 10.6.6 to 10.13??? https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.5-21-inch-aluminum-mid-2011-thunderbolt-specs.html
I have some older OS X install disks, not sure how to go about wiping this as I don't have the passwords.

2023-10-05 11:05:34

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Thank you all - found it! Printed under base plate

2023-10-05 10:25:00

Today's roadside rescue, left out with the rubbish on bin day. How can I work out what model it is? I don't see any writing on it...
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2023-09-27 06:26:28

Last night's dream is best summed up by the title 'The Owl and the SCART lead.'

2023-09-22 19:38:45

Now we're talking. VINCE CLARKE IS A SYNTH GOD. #totp

2023-09-22 19:29:29

Oh 1981 next up? That could be good, right? #totp

2023-09-20 17:27:19

Collecting live ML training data from the micro:bit's accelerometer... #microbit
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2023-09-17 07:29:21

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@npub1vxd…hm9m Where has this surfaced?

2023-09-15 08:03:53

Lovely to see the primary students receiving their free BBC micro:bits from DanTDM on CBBC Newsround - I was lucky enough to teach Dan some coding on Wednesday! #microbit #teaching #coding
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2023-09-08 05:49:34

Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/08/call-for-uk-ban-on-single-use-vapes-as-more-than-5m-discarded-each-week

2023-09-01 21:17:53

Just did something not many people have done: watched episode 1 of The Following Events Are Based On A Pack of Lies TWICE. It is so good. So so good. I feel a blog post coming on. We are not worthy, it is SO GOOD.

2023-09-01 19:21:56

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He’s singing live. This is fricking awesome. 1986‽ we should be so lucky. #totp

2023-09-01 19:19:22

Oh Farley Jackmaster Funk was showing the way here. 1986 me would not have got this. #totp

2023-09-01 18:58:03

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I was talking to my family. Won't happen again.

2023-09-01 18:57:12

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@npub1huu…vyxe was it a good one?

2023-09-01 18:56:25

Ok well I managed to completely miss #totp tonight #fail

2023-09-01 08:24:32

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@npub1c0g…gwje I only recently discovered that the Victoria line is younger than me - somehow I assumed it was... Victorian!

2023-09-01 06:29:58

This does look like a nice project that ticks a lot of boxes for me:
- real 6502 processor
- modern interfaces like USB keyboard and HDMI display
- 6502 bus exposed on pins
- aims to be inexpensive, not $100s
Shame they're using Facebook, making it hard for me to follow the project.
#retroComputing
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2023/06/23/neo6502-the-credit-card-size-open-source-modern-retro-computer-with-w65c02-processor-prototypes-are-ready-for-test/
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2023-08-26 09:54:41

PSA for UK viewers: Northern Soul at the Proms is finally being shown on TV, BBC2 at 7.45pm tonight. Set your Betamax.

2023-08-25 23:29:55

Marina Hyde nails it again: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/25/mid-beds-mp-nadine-dorries-culture-secretary-parliament

2023-08-25 23:23:10

I hate Spandau Ballet as much as I love Chant No.1. Paradox, eh? https://open.spotify.com/track/0kKbwhBOhniM9Ndk5GPh8z?si=a1d0aed29dd44983

2023-08-25 20:35:38

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And you could say I'm showing immense SELF CONTROL by tagging her here. There, mate. #totp

2023-08-25 20:25:38

I think I still have Self Control by Laura Branigan on vinyl. Not from the time, but from my '45s at 45' 45th birthday gathering, left by a guest (who, oddly, is on Mastodon) who didn't want it back... #totp

2023-08-24 06:18:08

What about the flight attendant?

2023-08-22 06:32:24

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@npub168z…p56f It is a quaint phrase now, isn't it? If it is Hilary Mantel she may have been using it tongue-in-cheek.

2023-08-22 06:20:09

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I have a hunch the second one with the weirdly specific list of office software packages might be Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel.

2023-08-22 06:13:10

Still sorting though photos on my old phone. Lots of extracts from books I was reading that I probably tweeted, but now I have no idea what books they were and the tweets are gone. Maybe this could be a quiz... #reading #bookstodon
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2023-08-21 13:12:42

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@npub1pl7…m5qw Yes I enjoyed it - plus I'd never heard of this true story until watching the film.

2023-08-21 11:35:15

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@npub1pl7…m5qw That reminds me of the car in Rose Island!

2023-08-19 06:40:17

Twitter to remove 'post' button. Musk says "It makes no sense for anyone except me to be able to post."

2023-08-11 23:49:05

During the times of 'Scud FM' in 1991 this was my mental soundtrack, always. https://open.spotify.com/track/0Wku10og9bvduZd6Uvx2lX?si=61c17cbcee2a4825

2023-08-06 13:50:45

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@npub1rhc…rq5n Gaudy Night is still on my wish list. Very much enjoyed Strong Poison.

2023-08-06 09:51:37

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@npub1ryv…kz9p What an extraordinary coincidence.

2023-08-06 09:04:48

I've been watching a lot of old TV lately. Really struck by the fact that Lew Grade / ITC threw stupid amounts of money at The Persuaders! with its glamorous stars, filming locations, it has the best theme tune of any TV series ever (John Barry) - and yet I find it unwatchably boring. By comparison, I love the low-budget, shonky, grimy Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) that came before it. (Which also has a top-notch theme tune by Virgina Astley's dad Edwin.)
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2023-08-06 08:38:29

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@npub1jat…jh4n Oddly my laptop renders the cabbage emoji more like a lettuce leaf than my phone, which looks like a... cabbage.

2023-08-06 08:37:04

Anyone know where I can find out anything about Chambers & Partners who did graphic design for British TV and film credits in the 1960s? Can't find much online about them aside from their IMDB tags. Who were they? Has anyone collected their work? @npub1c04…mrgj #design #graphicDesign
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2023-08-05 19:27:58

Go home news, you're drunk.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-66415545
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2023-08-05 16:48:37

Saw an Aqualisa van with the slogan 'Alexa, turn the shower on.'
'Sorry I stink, everyone, couldn't take a shower because AWS East was down.'

2023-08-05 15:14:35

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On the other hand, it might not be the best idea to read a book 83 billion times better than the one you are trying to write. #notWriting

2023-08-05 15:10:31

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@npub10mx…hkvc that looks very welcoming!

2023-08-05 14:21:46

I have Amen Brother as an ear-worm. And I'm sad to say The Winstons ain't getting a cent in royalties for that either.

2023-08-05 11:24:32

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One chapter in (and it seems like that's as far as its previous owner got), Ministry of Fear is *excellent*. Might have to listen again to the Greene episode of #Backlisted.
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2023-08-05 11:18:17

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@npub1qpe…6gtr thank you!

2023-08-05 09:28:32

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 No worries, you make a good point!

2023-08-05 09:24:13

Higham (Kent) railway station, 5pm on a weekday, ticket office closed, station building locked, torrential rain and hardly any shelter, no-one about, no phone signal at all (it's in an old, deep canal cutting), one ticket machine that looked like this...
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2023-08-05 09:19:33

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@npub1jat…jh4n And the people who say 'the market' will solve things don't even apply that principle when it doesn't suit them, e.g. surely if people don't like a private bank refusing to do business with people because of their politics, surely THE MARKET means they can take their business elsewhere? Oh, no, we'll get the CEO sacked and legislate instead.

2023-08-05 09:17:40

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 That's a good point. I hope that people will join the dots!

2023-08-05 09:05:38

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My phone is about ten years old, I never buy clothes for myself, my TV was a cast-off, my Hi-Fi I picked up off the street, I don't own my own laptop, I have taken one flight in 10 years, and yet I feel it's all my fault. And there's nothing I can do about it.

2023-08-05 09:04:26

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...also sometimes it feels like I'm being told IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. I don't sleep well anyway, now I am having nightmares when I do sleep about the end of the world.

2023-08-05 09:03:02

Feels like I'm seeing a lot of posts complaining the news media aren't covering the climate crisis, and lambasting them for covering any other story. I don't know what news media they consume, but everything I watch, read and listen to seems to have a climate story at or near the top at the moment...

2023-08-04 20:30:23

Trying and failing to find something on Google Maps, I found this instead. 'If you know, you know' as they say...
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2023-08-04 19:58:47

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@npub1skz…mvht Quite possibly. Just gutted Point Break wasn't in there.

2023-08-04 19:26:12

Dumped on the side of the main road. 'Which one are you going to watch FIRST?'
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2023-08-04 19:21:10

Accidentally found a great found-footage comedy horror https://youtu.be/-R4pGTgZMRw

2023-08-04 19:19:00

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@npub1qmf…unzr I have always done that and still do.

2023-08-04 13:18:12

Brace of books from my neighbourhood secondhand bookshop. Again had to restrain myself from alphabetising the fiction and creating a crime fiction shelf because they have one for SF but not crime fiction and it drives me mad. #reading #bookstodon #Backlisted
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2023-08-04 08:42:08

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'Rumpole and the Show Folk' is an odd episode, but a very enjoyable one. Set in a generic town in the north west, exteriors possibly filmed in Greater Manchester from the colour of the buses, this sees Rumpole defending an actress (Eleanor Bron) accused of murdering her actor husband in the dressing room of a provincial theatre. John Wells does an entertaining turn as the manager of the company, but it's Bron who steals the show, having remained largely mute for the first act.

2023-08-03 18:00:56

Ey up, Eleanor Bron and John Wells are in the episode of Rumpole of the Bailey on Talking Pictures TV tonight.
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