It turns out that Glaziers aren't the only people involved, though.
I'm hoping those aren't money launderers, but this is London so I could well be wrong.
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8:31am on Wednesday, 11th March, 2026:
Weird
The UKIE awards were held at Glaziers Hall in London.
It turns out that Glaziers aren't the only people involved, though.
I'm hoping those aren't money launderers, but this is London so I could well be wrong.
9:46am on Tuesday, 10th March, 2026:
Weird
On the main street in our village is a row of houses. They started off identical, but have since been extended in assorted ways.
Pictures from Google maps, because for reasons for personal safety I didn't want to stand outside other people's houses taking photos myself.
House 1 is the basic model. They all started out looking like this.
House 2 is almost the same, but you can see they've built a discreet single-storey extension behind the garage.
House 3 has a two-storey extension behind the garage.
House 4 has an entrance porch with a fancy sloping roof.
House 5 is harder to see because of the van and the tree, but it's the same as house 4 except it has solar panels on the extension roof.
Finally, we come to house 6. It has a single-storey extension behind the garage, along with a porch at the front, plus an entire two-storey extension to the right of the house and a second garage to the right of that.
This kind of thing is what gave people the idea for building modular, player-constructed housing in MMORPGs.
8:20am on Monday, 9th March, 2026:
Anecdote
The rooms in the hotel I stayed in in London last week used to be holding cells.
Mine was surprisingly spacious, so maybe it was carved out of the court part of the building.
Disappointingly, it didn't have bars on the windows.
9:35am on Sunday, 8th March, 2026:
Weird
In the milieu of The Secret World, the Dragon faction is the agent of chaos.
This strange, Latinesque text appears in the tabletop RPG version of the game, in its description of the Dragon faction:
It looks as if it's some kind of alternative lorem ipsum dummy text, but I'm wondering whether its inclusion might actually be intentional.
8:28am on Saturday, 7th March, 2026:
Outburst
Blimey, I thought Asda's abuse of the hot-cross-bun concept was bad, but Costa have really gone all-out to surpass them.
11:42am on Friday, 6th March, 2026:
Anecdote
I was inducted into the UKIE Hallof Fame yesterday evening.
I used to tell my students I was famous, and now I can prove it!
8:08am on Thursday, 5th March, 2026:
Weird
8:37am on Wednesday, 4th March, 2026:
Weird
8:28am on Tuesday, 3rd March, 2026:
Comment
12:56pm on Monday, 2nd March, 2026:
Weird
I saw this pair of semi-detatched houses in Colchester this morning:
That's fair enough, they don't look anything special.
9:39am on Sunday, 1st March, 2026:
Weird
The latest edition of the British Computing Society's house magazine, IT NOW, has so many articles with titles made up of meaningless business phrases that I wrote a program to randomise eachh half and stitch them together. It comes up with a list of eight at a time.
Here are a couple of batches.
Dealing with the monolith: a systemic yet personal evolution
Four questions leaders need to ask to transform waterbody monitoring
The impact of generative AI for repeatable delivery
The next frontier in AI: lessons learned
Cybersecurity lessons and what can we do about it?
Industry benchmarks: investment or bet?
The hidden cost in water infrastructure
Harnessing machine learning in defence
Four questions leaders need to ask: a community for change
Developing your emotional intelligence and what can we do about it?
Dinner plate size CPU for effective digital transformation
Digital transformation and AI: speech as a digital biomarker
Deploying AI in finance for a sustainable future
Developing strategies and products: lessons learned
Why doesn't AI work very well through skills-based alignment
The hidden cost on authorship
As you can see from the last one there, they're not quite universally interchangeable. Still, at least six or seven usually make no less sense than the actual titles from which they're generated. They may well be the actual titles, come to that, not that you'd necessarily know.
You can play with the program here:
https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2026/itnow.htm
8:36am on Saturday, 28th February, 2026:
Weird
I'm impressed how this hedge has managed to retain its leaves through the winter. Maybe its owner sprays hair lacquer on it or something.
I guess they'll all fall off at once once the new leaves start to come through (or when schoolkids notice it, whichever happens first).
8:45am on Friday, 27th February, 2026:
Anecdote
Well, the antibiotics have done the trick and I'm over my bad cough now.
Most of the cartoons in 19th-Century issues of Punch aren't remotely funny, but sometimes they nail it.
8:32am on Thursday, 26th February, 2026:
Miscellaneous
I have to say, this chap's a lot happier about having a sword stuck into his head than I would be.
One more push and the tip of the sword should come out of his chin.
8:54am on Wednesday, 25th February, 2026:
Weird
Here's another hero of science from the past who for some reason doesn't get a mention these days.
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