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Yes yes I know. Sky HD+ box. It actually does Ok for us, so have never needed to change.

So HBO shows up in the menu, can select the channel and get the list of shows in alphabetical order. But the only way I can select a show is to scroll through the list. No search is available. It was bad enough scrolling through to “The Pitt”, it took ages, but now I want to watch “ Youth“.
Any workaround ?

I’m intrigued as to how they set up this programme.

The current series is about a house on Colton Hill in Edinburgh and although I’ve only seen two episodes so far, the range of tenants in this one house is fascinating. We’ve had the sculptor whose work is on show all over Edinburgh, we had a shoemaker who died young leaving his widow to chase dozens of creditors, a bookkeeper who started a photography hobby in the early days of photography, gave up his job became a professional and ended up as one of Edinburgh’s leading photographers with a library showing the development of Edinburgh, and a bagpipe maker, whose descendants carried on the business for a hundred years. It was also possibly a brothel at one time.

They have absolutely struck gold with this house.

But how on earth do they do it ? Do they pick a house, go with it, and see what comes up, or do they pick several and see which appears best ?

Either way it seems like a ton of research, and research that can’t be done on a computer, but leg work around libraries and archives.

Its a very impressive production , with probably a decentish budget and great presenter.

This is one of the claims used by those who are against the development of data centres, especially near urban centres.

I know that water is needed for cooling, but is this water that is consumed?

It’ll come out of the plumbing a lot warmer than when it went in, but then it can either return to the water cycle via the sewers, or to a cooling pond to be recirculated.

Lots of water is used but it’s not consumed surely ?

The man is unhinged, there is no telling what he might do.
One evening while sitting up in bed, he might decide that its time to nuke Iran, he’s losing the war and needs to show he’s not beaten.

He has the codes, there will be a ( long ? ) chain of command all the way down to the missilemen in their bunker who will turn the key to launch.

This seemed an impossible scenario a few years ago, but I’m not sure it is now.

My question is this, if he gave the command, would the rockets launch or would someone in the chain of command realise that this would be madness and put a stop to it ?

Is every politician and soldier going to unwaveringly follow orders ?

I’m in the middle if a house sale at the moment, and while desperately hoping it wont be 6 months, there does seem to be weeks where just nothing happens.
It’s hard to guess where the bottleneck might be, both my buyer and I are keen to get things swiftly sorted and do all the things we need to do immediately. But still time ticks on. There must he a better way ?

Having just returned from a holiday in the Algarve I thought it might be useful to others who are heading that way to flag up a couple of things.

Firstly some of the big hire companies have some great deals on EVs at the moment, we got a Citroen Aircross ( it had done 31 kms ! ) for around £130 for a week, on a par with similar ICE cars. It looks like the manufacturers are using the hire companies to shift stock.

Although this might sound attractive there is a big downside. Although we are often complaining here about EV charging prices, at least we have a pretty good infrastructure in the UK. That was not my impression in the Algarve. Firstly there are virtually no rapid chargers, so you will be spending some of your holiday time sitting charging at 22kw. These are scattered around and there are often just 2 posts. Google maps is best for details.

We did visit the Tesla charging station ( open to all ) at the Loule shopping centre outside Faro - I think it may be the only rapid chargers in the area, but the queue for it was perhaps a dozen cars, so we didn’t bother.

We ended up returning the car at 40% charge instead of the mandatory 80%, but Europacar charges €35 penalty for that, but TBH thats little more than it would probably cost to recharge anyway. It was just not practical to return it to the Airport at 80%.

In conclusion - nice hire deals about, if you will be low mileage ( to and from villa for instance ) its OK but if your stay requires higher mileage and some recharging, it may just be not worth the time and hassle involved.

I borrowed an underwater housing for my CS, but after a couple of days use the latch broke into several pieces, probably by misuse TBH.

The housing is out of stock. I was wondering if this would be a candidate to be 3D printed but could find no files on-line.

Any ideas how I might go about this ?

Has anyone any experience of pipe lining companies ?

The inflow to my septic tank has become less than watertight, and during very wet periods rainwater gets into the pipe and so into the tank. This is quite a short piece of pipe but is over 6 foot deep so would be a ball ache to dig out.
I’m wondering if pipelining might be the solution but googling just brings up many generic national companies who are difficult to choose between. Any thoughts ?

do they not realise that bi-focals and vari-focals have been invented ? On Off On Off.

The worst was Kirsty Wark, now Anna Botting and Victoria Derbyshire. Victoria got into a right old tizz tonight on Newsnight, couldn’t find her glasses and mis-read a newspaper headline.

Why do they make it so hard for themselves. Vanity ?

Despite having an ID3 for 9 months, I have never used IDA, because I was happy I didn’t need it, but mostly because I didn’t know what it could do.

Do people use it, and what for ?