Notices by Dave Morriss (perloid@mastodon.sdf.org), page 12

@clacke Well, though I find this hard to believe, welcome on board then 😉

@clacke I assumed the world *hated* them (or maybe worse, saw them as the ravings of an old fart ;-)

I killed them off for episode 14 and onwards. That means I'll never make it to the planned "New improved organic gluten-free Bash tips" of course, but by then I'd probably have lost any remaining marbles 😀

Thanks for the comment though!

@beni @NYbill At least next time round you can zoom through much faster!
I'm an inveterate note-taker so I have to record stuff I do. It's useful because I have a terrible memory.
Also, I learn more about how to use Wikitext every time I add to my Wiki.

@NYbill You could well be right!

@NYbill It's a great brain-teaser, and most enjoyable. I'm logging my progress on my local private (backed up) Mediawiki instance bearing in mind your experience of losing your text file!

@NYbill I'm at 13, but have had to stop otherwise nothing gets done today!

@NYbill By the way, I was just listening to your HPR show 2694. It got me to try "Bandit" from http://overthewire.org. Wow is this addictive!

I blame you 😉

Thanks though...

@NYbill @chalkahlom Hi Bill. I was taught Latin at school - at least the teaching came my way, but very little of it stuck - however, I do remember that 'nil' is Latin for nothing. It's a contraction of 'nihil' I believe. So really football supporters should be saying "nihil nihil" 😉

@Jason_Dodd Oh too true. I first heard Bollywood music when I lived in Manchester (UK) in the 1970's, and the local cinema started showing such films. I then found the local radio had film music programmes and really loved lots of what I heard.

@Jason_Dodd I like listening to Asha Bhosle (and her sister Lata Mangeshkar)

@Jason_Dodd A 3 button trackpoint is not something I've used, so I defer to your experience.

Yes, the rebuilt keyboard was an amazing Christmas present given I know it took a lot of time to strip down and rebuild, not to speak of the setting up of the controller software. It's really cool 😃

@Jason_Dodd Each to his own. I mainly use a desktop with keyboard and mouse, and if not that a laptop with USB keyboard and mouse, so I want a big clunky keyboard if I can get one.

@Jason_Dodd No. My son had refurbished this old IBM keyboard and added an ATtiny controller and given it to me as a present. In reassembling it he'd swapped these keys. I have his keycap puller and simply swapped the keys. It's out of service just now because the ATtiny microUSB to USB-A cable I installed failed and needs replacing, then it'll be my main (noisy but great to use) keyboard.

@Jason_Dodd Strangely the F10 key did what the F11 should do, and vice versa. No idea why that should be... 😉

@claudiom No, I'm wrong, that was the "Off the Wall" feed. Apologies. OTH, last episode is Oct 10th.

@claudiom I have episodes for 16th, 23rd, 30th October and 6th November. These were from the RSS feed (I use my own hacked version of Bashpodder and listen on MP3 players). Not listened to any yet, I currently have a 13GB backlog of podcasts :-(

@NYbill @theru @pokey Dan was at OggCamp in August. He seems pretty much back to his old self again. Last time I'd seen him was at the 2015 OggCamp in a wheelchair, and the contrast was huge. Chatting to him briefly he said his outlook on life had changed, and he was taking each day as it came. I guess his experiences in the past few years would do that. Anyway, it was good to see him.

@notclacke @xj9 @rice I think you asked, and I wasn't sure at the time. I'm still unsure to be frank, though I would quite like to attend. Flights to Brussels from Edinburgh aren't as convenient as I'd like 😉

@chalkahlom @beni Surprising really. To many that'd be an attractive prospect 😉

@chalkahlom @beni That's wonderful. Sounds like a momentous meeting.