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James Cousins
| 29 September, 2020

I have made my very first iOS widget in Scriptable and, aware the script’s simplicity and shortcomings but suffering from the IKEA effect, must now share it so the world can marvel at my skills.

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James Cousins
| 24 September, 2020

Got a negative Covid result today which seems to have a bit more of a rarity value than it did not so long ago. (Although it feels inevitable there’ll be a positive in the house sooner or later.)

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James Cousins
| 22 September, 2020

At a time like this I’d rather a PM with principles and credibility showing leadership than Johnson indulging Churchillian oratory with all the talent of a tired baboon.

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James Cousins
| 19 September, 2020

Knowing they hold no truck with George Lucas’ revisionism only makes me love Lego more: Lego Mos Eisley Cantina.

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James Cousins
| 5 September, 2020

A session spent re-purposing old magazines into smaller magazines with my daughter. My favourites…

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James Cousins
| 31 August, 2020

Naff title, followed by 15,000 words of dross. But it’s mine, it’s finished and it’s submitted. And now I feel strangely empty.

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James Cousins
| 21 April, 2020
pi-hole dashboard showing 12.7% of queries were blocked

Finally got round to setting up pi-hole. Less than a day in and I’m fascinated by the data, not just the amount blocked (one-eighth!), but also what’s making those calls. Does my TV really need to call home every few minutes?

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James Cousins
| 16 March, 2020

There are two things that concern me about the current (non) lockdown:

  1. Johnson just cannot take the hard decisions but foists it on others to make the hard decisions about cancellations and closures.
  2. I don’t have enough booze stockpiled for 14 days self-isolation.
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James Cousins
| 30 December, 2019

Having never heard of Alisdair Gray I find myself almost in love with a quote he used but attributes to someone else:

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

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James Cousins
| 1 December, 2019

For me it just isn’t Christmas until John McClane is jumping from the Christmas tree.

John McClane plushie toy jumping from the Christmas tree
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