Happy AI use of the day. I had a WordPress export file that wasn’t properly importing into Ghost. I suspected some badly-formed XML somewhere in the 1000+ entries. I asked ChatGPT to have a quick look for me. It took a few minutes, but it found the error, corrected and created an export file that imports perfectly.

Result.

The new home office really beginning to come together. This was the back of the internal garage just over a week ago.

A small, newly plastered room with a wooden floor, radiator, and a white door.

They fired frikin’ lasers at my frikin’ eyeball.

A person with gray hair is wearing glasses and an eyepatch while standing outdoors near a textured wall and trees.

Well, that was a delightfully fine few hours with the family.

Two people stand in front of a The Mandalorian cardboard display, with one person playfully placing a small figure near it.

It’s a friendly neighbourhood round here.

A person dressed as Spider-Man crouches on a brick wall next to recycling bins in a residential area.

Daughters messing about in boats.

People wearing helmets and life vests are kayaking on a body of water.

“It’s almost like I had a serious blow to the head recently” is my new catch-all excuse for anything stupid I do.

Milking it while I still can.

Also Ed Zitron:

I believe that we are on course for a truly horrible crash, the likes of which may rewrite the venture capital industry and mortally wound one or more hyperscalers, as well as fundamentally divide society on so many levels into those that fell for this and those that did not.

Ed Zitron:

One of the greatest mistakes we can make in our lives is to assume that the rich and powerful have any idea what the future holds, or that they have any grand plan or strategy.

Here’s some juvenilia of mine from the early 1990s. A piece of semi-autobiographical fiction of what bored students did to keep themselves occupied during the summer months in the early 90s recession.

I’ve been cleaning through some old stuff lurking in our garage, before work started in there this week. There might be more to come.