IME “path repairs” too often means making steps which are more difficult to descend than the path that was there before unless you have exactly the same agility as the (generally young and fit) path builders.

Depressing how often this happens. The path down off Cairngorm towards the cafe is a prime example.

I bet she flew to Bonn…

Not every country has elections either.

FB Purity is yer friend.

Scotland: we have such a massive hangover on New Year’s Day that we need the day after off too.

Rest of the UK: heh, OK, so you can work on Easter Monday instead

They offered it to me. I’ve not been on reddit since the API issue kicked off.

Upvote for “Cautionary Tales”. Just discovered that and loving it.

I believe it’s youth speak for “respect”. Being cool as we old people might say.

This is what puts me off.

Runar Bjørhovde, an analyst at Canalys, said return rates of foldables are 5-10 percent, far higher than traditional smartphones and a deterrent to repeat purchases.

A phone costing me four digits with that high a return rate. Nope.

I’ve been running a blog on there for almost two years now but I’m in the UK so not the EU 😢

What’s the issue in the EU?

And not a word on the dualling of the A96 from Inverness to Nairn. Sigh.

Anti-abortion, anti-GRR, anti-independence. The SNP is well shot of her.

SNP councillor, not minister.

lemm.ee (where I also couldn’t see my own post until you commented on it…)

Last Scottish auction was a great success. Go figure.

Avril Rennie’s comments are a joke: ‘She says the new licensing regime and costs make the future of her business “very uncertain”.’

As the article says we’re talking about, on average, £514 every three years, so that’s £171.33 a year. If her business is really that precarious that it can’t cope with that level of additional cost then it’s doomed anyway.

I am being a little unfair: there are additional costs on first application, mainly the need to do various safety checks e.g. electrical, but if a landlord is saying they’re happy to rent out potentially unsafe accommodation then I don’t have a lot of sympathy.

For background I’m a councillor on the Licensing Committee of Highland Council and we’ve had about 2,500 STL licence applications so far. Officers guestimated we’d had about 10,000. It’s not clear whether they overestimated the total, that landlords have stopped letting out properties, or that landlords are just keeping their heads down and hoping it will either go away or that the Council won’t notice. My suspicion is that it’s some combination of all of these factors.

Interesting times.

Not really. The big planning issue is how well hidden they are from (relatively) distant viewers and they’re going to be viewing them pretty much horizontally … just like low flying aircraft.

In the daytime they’re often less obvious than at night (if they have to have a light). As a result it’s not unusual for applications to be scaled back a bit to get below 150m.

But yeah, it’s a funny business. Some people hate them but some communities welcome them, as they get quite a lot of money off them (Culloden for example has well over £100,000 burning a hole in their pockets at the moment and the payments keep coming).

Largely new friends. Interestingly those who had children later seemed to cope better with the balancing act between parenthood and socialising.

Now in my sixties and still CF. In my thirties the only real down side was the loss (largely) of friends who had chosen to have children so could now no longer come out to play.

But life was good, on the whole.

And still is.

That would have been Slackware, which in those days came on a stack of 3.5" floppy disks. So early 90’s (and hence I was in my mid-30s) but I was still mainly using Windows 3.1 and Trumpet Winsock to connect to the Internet.

I think the first time I really took it seriously was in the mid 90’s with Debian, a copy of which was posted to me, on CD-ROM I think, by Ian Murdock himself (back in the days when he was still with Debra 😏).