This isn’t right

he high range of temperatures for this coming week is projected to be around 13 degrees (almost every day). That’s quite mild. Heck, I managed to sunbathe for almost an hour yesterday. And this is Halloween!

Global warming is something one can feel based on memory or “gut feeling”.

Halloween should be cold, very cold. Not anymore.

The aim is quality

raffic is something everyone online wants, aims for, even craves.

Not road traffic. Traffic on the Web.

However, slop scrapers/bots are a major nuisance that eats away at underfunded sites.

Days ago I had to ask the webhost to increase my bandwidth quota. They did so free of charge, gratis. I’ve been with them for over 22 years!

Traffic in tuxmachines.org and techrights.org also grew recently. In Gemini, for example, gemini.techrights.org served 682695 requests in the past 5-6 days. In gemini.tuxmachines.org 209418 requests. On the Web, techrights.org served 507210 yesterday and 422396 the day before that. In tuxmachines.org it was 1028214 yesterday and 1285718 two days ago.

For those sites our community does not have bandwidth limits, but that might change in the future. Thankfully we are funded by an eager collective.

Keeping traffic down, especially undesirable traffic, is a desirable thing.

Haaland back

“First-team players including Erling Haaland, Joško Gvardiol, Rúben Dias, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Elliot Anderson were not part of the squad for the penalty shootout win over the Seagulls.”

he coach of Manchester City has had a phenomenal (record-breaking) start and he seems confident almost all the major players will be available this afternoon to beat Brighton again.

Meanwhile, the coach of Manchester United has had one of the worst-ever starts. Today Manchester United will play a game that might not seem important, but to Carrick it’s a game for his career’s survival (as a coach). He must be very stressed today.

Bring back Fergie

he United “shuffle” shows no signs of ending. Now it’s rumoured that Eddie Howe might be next in line. They cannot seem to figure out what went wrong, so they ‘kill’ one coach after the other.

Sooner or later no person will even want to coach that club.

After a decade

oday I took an old ARM laptop out of the kitchen because its battery is barely sufficient to even complete booting. It can run from the mains, but if the battery is too weak, then it won’t even do that. It’s something dumb about the hardware design.

I think that laptop turns 10 next year.

I checked how to swap batteries on this type of laptop, but it’s complicated, risky, and the batteries aren’t cheap.

Badly designed.

Latest forecast for Manchester: “Today, any lingering areas of mist and fog will eventually clear to leave dry and bright conditions with just the odd patch of low cloud.”

his year is strange because the weather is unusual. It’s mostly sunny today, so I spent hours organising the home. Along the way I found the blood pressure meter and we decided to test ourselves. We’re still both in the normal range (mine in the ideal range, as before, despite me gaining a lot of muscle mass this year).

The temperatures are something that feels like late summer. October 30^th is not meant to be a good day for sunbathing, but it is this year.

Seeing/hearing/reading/checking that Japan (Tokyo) even had 30 degrees a couple of weeks ago and northern European countries (Scandinavia) and North America have hot days (fans running in late October!), I reckon it’s premature to fold the chairs in preparation for winter.

The weather is broken. Treats in a weather like this???

I managed to be outdoors, shirtless in the sun, for nearly an hour. Got some tan, too.

I can’t believe that this weekend it’s going to be November already. Tomorrow ManCity needs to win (not on penalties) against Brighton in order to stay ahead in the PL.

The plants are getting direct sunlight right now (even indoors) and I think tomorrow will be the same. Maybe we can go out somewhere (in nature).

One week we have a storm, the next it feels like the exact opposite.

Today

he windy/gusty day (and the storm that brought it) seems to have mostly passed. The winds have come almost to a halt. Tomorrow should be the same, so it’ll be a very long bicycle trip for me. I realise there are some routes I’ve not explored for more than half a decade and I could really use some outdoor exercise.

Before too long, trees will be without leaves and it’ll be too cold outside. Tomorrow it will be 16 degrees outside. Not cold, not damp.

November is very near. A week into November we have an anniversary to celebrate and before too long it’ll be Christmastime preparations, including all the decorations and festive music throughout the day.

I look forward to spring. The clock will change again, but it ought not.