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davelauchlan.bsky.social
Cats, music, planes, weather, science fiction. Programmer Archeologist by profession. My opinions are my opinions. They are no better or worse than anyone else's. Staffordshire by birth. Reading inhabitant since the early nineties.
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My late dad had a tape of Geoff Love and his Orchestra covering various sci-fi themes. This and the UFO theme were my utter favourites and I'm pretty sure are the reason why I still have a love for soundtracks, library music and anything ambient!

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If you see this, quote with a show with an awesome theme song. #Space1999 had two catchy theme tunes but for my money the first is much better. A mix of space opera and funk.

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Sigh. Utter farce of talking to my broadband provider where they deny they can do full fibre, then suddenly they can. Sort your systems out!

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Yes, this role was thrust upon me as my now late Dad rapidly grew more frail. My siblings couldn't help as one lived in the USA and the other lived 400 miles away and couldn't drive. From the mundane, such as ensuring their bills are paid and that the groceries are delivered, to the horrid -

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The amazing thing is that satnavs being cheap only happened in the mid to late 2000s. My first job was working for the Met Research Flight. We had a GPS fitted in 92. It cost thousands and was accurate to around 100m. When the aircraft was sat on the pan the GPS would trace a drunkard's walk all

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Remember this. Cuts have consequences.

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What? So somewhere there's a Universe where Saint Etienne released "Believe" instead of Cher? What more proof do we need that this is the "bad" reality! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

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"Not my circus, not my monkeys" . Has someone on the scriptwriting team of Dept. Q has been reading @hutchinsondave.bsky.social Europe books?

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But the sad and cold detectives do have very stylish chairs. Mandatory accessory for pondering who killed who and why!

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We first started coming to watch George compete seven years ago. This is likely our last summer of this as he graduates this year. Lovely weather at Dorney today. Yeah UL!

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Poppy and bumblebees.

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Did a short walk at lunch time yesterday as Barney insisted on coming too. Mabel can now be trusted to not chase Barney outside the house which is nice.

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Doing some training on using LLMs for development (work requirement that we are all trained ☹️). Already tripped the AI up on something very basic. I fully expect to be retired before there's even the whiff of it replacing me.

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