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I had last week off from work because I needed some downtime.

Now, if you ask me in my personal time about the thing we are calling AI, Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), I would list off one of the many, many reasons that I refuse to use the giant end-game-capitalism copyright-theft machine.

It was my birthday this week, and I had a very pleasant evening.

For a year or so I have been struggling with my relationship with my phone.

It’s been a tough week in the Whittlesea-Clark household.

On Monday, May 23rd 2011, I signed up for my first domain, thega.me.uk.

It probably didn’t pass you by that there was a unique opportunity to see the moon pass in front of the sun on the 12th August.

It finally rained!

When I was young, you told me the scientists couldn’t agree.

In case you missed it, I have been writing day-by-day accounts of my holiday in South Korea.

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So it is August now, and it’s been 32 days since it last rained in Southampton.

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EMF has flown by, and I completely failed at writing a handful of blogs about it while I was there.

EMF started yesterday, and last week I wanted to do something nerdy to justify my attendance.

What happens when you mention to your D&D group, who mostly have ADHD, that your tumble dryer is broken?

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I saw this sticker on a car on my walk today, and it gave me a little joy.

It was the ten-year anniversary of Brexit last week.

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Many moons ago, when I used to write software, I realized I was misinterpreting stakeholders, and they me.

Years ago, I was convinced by a friend to play a game where you build a rocket.

Today is my first dog Ada’s six birthday!

While out walking in the New Forest, I came across a gate which held multiple locks in series.

With the rise of LLM-driven development, my previously ignored upgrade guides, finally have someone who reads them.

I just finished Season 3 of War of the Worlds (2019), and I wish I had stopped at Season 2.

In the waning light of 2025, December 31st, I finished Split Fiction.

This year, I set myself a goal to try and double(ish) the amount of books I read, aiming for a total of 24 books which is 10 more than last year.

This year was worse than last year.

The fog swirled thickly around his ankles as he stood in the dim light of the streetlamp.

It was a chilly winter’s evening in Sherborne St.

High in the Misty Mountains lay the nesting place of the great Eagles, where snow lay deep upon the crags and the very ground was hard as ice, rendering passage for the children of Men almost impossible.

Looking up at the TV, Sergeant Walker could see a smartly dressed man sitting behind the news desk, fingers pressed to his ear.

For some insane reason, I decided to build a ‘full size’ Santa Sleigh for Christmas.

It had not been more than a handful of months since our last case before my good friend Heisler and I had decided to catch a well-earned break.

Warning I spent most of the day working on other Christmas stuff, and then the evening in A&E after a nasty fall.

Last year I did the Twelve Days of Short Stories, and it was a lot of fun.

Man, what a year 2025 has been up until now.

Background # It finally happened.

I finally feel like the industry is ready to support ’the Lakehouse’.

What’s in a name?

I moved away from the branch build and github-pages Gem for this site, and now I have an up-to-date, and more configurable build.

After the best part of a decade working with data in the geospatial and aviation domains, I thought I would write about some fun data problems I encountered.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) lives rent-free in my mind, and I have to talk about it.

Saturday 15th: Auckland Encore # Queenstown to Auckland (Open in Google Maps) (Maps & Data © OpenStreetMap.org contributors) The holiday was coming to a close, and it was time for us to begin our journey back home.

After a decade of designing, building, and maintaining an application framework for real-time data processing applications, what have I learned?

There was a stroke of ’luck’ before we arrived in New Zealand.