• More Artificial Idiocy

    Today I’m reminded the Internet is a strange and surreal place when GMail decides to add some spam appointments to my Google Calendar. I’m on a flight to India on Tuesday next week!

  • If you use ChatGPT to help you learn things, you’re an idiot.

    Well, you might not be, but you’re certainly not understanding what these systems do.

  • DofE 2023

    It’s late April which means once again I enter the national cat-herding competition. The challenge – set 13 students off on three days of camping and walking to complete their silver Duke of Edinburgh.

  • Got a refund from the TV Licensing people!

    A completely non-serious bit of waffle about me sticking it to the man.

  • Almost UV light from RGBW LEDs

    So it turns out the RGBW LED light strip in my living room has some almost-UV component to its blue light. It is almost UV enough to make some things fluoresce quite vivid colours.