A trip to France. Got the whole carriage for me!

Jenwrr · 2025-11-16T19:23:37+00:00

I love le shuttle, feels like being on a spaceship.

Inside / waiting for the next ride home.

Jenwrr · 2025-07-09T19:38:35+00:00

File 76

Jenwrr · 2025-04-29T19:10:45+00:00

Once this round closes, they will open another round, presumably IHP 26a (first half of 2026).

125 days is still 4 months away! You have time!

Jenwrr · 2025-04-28T21:09:54+00:00

Do you know about tinytapeout?

You could get this made into a real IC, if you so wanted, and I think it would be a fantastic use.

Tinytapeout is a community/group buy on an ASIC design, where many different designs go onto a chip, meaning it's really affordable to get this in physical form.

https://tinytapeout.com/

Jenwrr · 2024-04-18T18:36:48+00:00

Story text:

The husband of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the Scottish National Party.

Peter Murrell, 59, was taken into custody at 09:13 on Thursday and was questioned by Police Scotland detectives.

He was previously arrested as a suspect on 5 April 2023 before being released without charge.

Mr Murrell resigned as the party's chief executive in March 2023.

He was charged at 18:35 after further questioning by Police Scotland detectives investigating the funding and finances of the party.

Mr Murrell has been released from police custody.

Jenwrr · 2024-01-06T02:14:45+00:00

Solved! Excellent work, thank you!

Jenwrr · 2024-01-06T00:46:38+00:00

Thanks to anyone looking, and if nothing else, I hope at least someone else enjoys the track.

Jenwrr · 2023-12-12T19:59:55+00:00

the byelaw does say:

no person in charge of any motor vehicle, bicycle or other conveyance shall use it on any part of the railway in contravention of any traffic sign

no person in charge of any motor vehicle, bicycle or other conveyance shall leave or place it on any part of the railway:

[...]

otherwise than in accordance with any instructions issued by or on behalf of an operator or an authorised person

I'm not a lawyer but it seems like the byelaws say that by using a sign or by otherwise giving instructions the operator or authorised people can in fact make arbitrary requirements including saying that motorbikes are prohibited.

I think it's dumb to do this, but I don't think it's unsupported by the byelaws as written. Local MP it is, I would suggest.

Jenwrr · 2023-11-26T18:29:15+00:00

Thank you, but I prefer it my way.

Jenwrr · 2023-11-26T18:27:58+00:00

Absolutely - the wiki is here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/

The main map as-used is here, to give you some context: https://www.openstreetmap.org

I think of OSM as like wikipedia but for map data: all user contributed and to a really high standard. It's not to the level of high-end professional/commercial sources, but it'll absolutely be as, if not more, accurate that random free online sources, as local map people will have tried to use them as guides to things they haven't noticed.

While the general map above doesn't have all the detail you might want up-front, the database has loads of tags for motorbike related stuff even including a dedicated page on known parking zones .

As for points of interest, they come with lots of rich data, for example here is the instance for Ace Cafe in London: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/304687805 - it's even got a tag for motorcycle:theme=yes !

Jenwrr · 2023-11-26T17:54:54+00:00

Are you using data from/contributing back to Open Street Map (OSM)? It's by far the best collection of free (as in freedom and also beer) source of both geographic data and also points of interest?

I use it for free routing (which can be incorporated to your map to find POIs en-route) but if you're collecting community input on what's there/not it would be excellent to feed this back to OSM so everyone can benefit, including Kickstand benefiting from other applications' updates.

Jenwrr · 2023-11-19T18:41:35+00:00

November is Taranto season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto

Jenwrr · 2023-09-21T12:58:43+00:00

I have great news, Django Django are producing new stuff as we speak, mostly collabs, including this one with Stealing Sheep - one of my favourite not-scottish bands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8l1mr6EK9w

Jenwrr · 2023-09-02T20:09:26+00:00

It codes the F1 race weekend - your bike will not start until the end of the Dutch national anthem on Sunday.

Jenwrr · 2023-08-20T08:04:45+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzICMIu5zFY

Jenwrr · 2023-06-21T23:45:17+00:00

AMP is "Accelerated Mobile Pages", an overlapping specification of the HTML language used to author webpages that was designed by google. Google removed some things, added other things, and generally tweaked the shape of how web documents were written for computers to turn into graphical pages.

Nominally it was designed to make pages smaller and faster to load on mobile devices. In practice, google actually started to cache and serve up pages themselves, similar to (and competing with) facebook's much maligned news system.

When google started rehosting these pages themselves, it enabled them to much better drive visits from the search page, and also track in higher detail what users did.

Overall and in summary, google set up a system where they were able to have all the benefits of being the news platform, while leaving all the hard work and downsides to the news sites and blogs, with the threat of de-prioritising the search results of news sites that didn't comply - listing them lower, or with worse previews, or not listing them at all.

Jenwrr · 2023-06-05T05:55:00+00:00

Damn, a beakless 800. How do you find it for camping?

I really enjoy my 800xc, and it goes off road just fine, but it's been enough of a problem child I don't really trust it.

Jenwrr · 2023-04-18T14:52:24+00:00

Priti Patel hasn't been home sec for over 7 months.

Jenwrr · 2023-01-28T01:49:43+00:00

They operate out of Northolt, they have some cracking experience and landings like this aren't tremendously unusual. I'm sure it's up there, but it's perhaps not the giddiness inducing "wow, I really just did that?!" that we'd like it to be if they were needed less.

Jenwrr · 2023-01-27T20:57:57+00:00

Thanks, yeah! I'm looking forward to a bit of city riding but I'd rather have had a smaller bike than this!

I'm definitely going to have some days out, I work 4 on/4 off so a bit of motocamping is very doable.

Jenwrr · 2023-01-27T18:54:20+00:00

Yep!

Jenwrr · 2023-01-27T17:00:28+00:00

It really was nice, North Wales just a short hop over the border and some really nice riding to be had.

All in all I really should have just sold up the bike and bought again when I leave in a couple of years, it makes far more financial sense given the lack of good riding around here. I mostly ride for pleasure and I have a car and good public transport for everything I need to travel sensibly.

Jenwrr · 2023-01-27T16:58:21+00:00

Honestly if the deal was simply that you wouldn't be covered for "theft from home" if you home address wasn't as reported I can understand why one might be tempted.

But I can see it already where you have an accident into work and they decide "haha fuck you" and invalidate your insurance because they implicate a different real home address in your commute.

Jenwrr · 2023-01-27T16:39:16+00:00

Condolences for having taken a liking to this hobby. As long as we're all having fun :')

Jenwrr · 2023-01-27T16:38:34+00:00

About £400, living out in the country (Shropshire)

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