Archive: 2025-06
Week 232: Did you hear the news?
It was a big week for Things Happening. On Thursday, a plane crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad in India to Gatwick in the UK (not actually in London, but nearish). It hit a student hostel, killing all but one of the 242 people on board, along with eight people on the ground. But that was soon overshadowed in the news cycle.
Week 231: A bit of a round ball
I was on a call with a few colleagues when one of them said, “that was a bit of a round ball, perhaps.” At least, that’s what I heard. I was wondering whether it was some kind of sports expression well known to football enjoyers, like “a game of two halves”, until someone else echoed him and said, “not a ramble at all.”
Week 230: Wailing and gnashing of teeth
After a long bank holiday weekend (very relaxing, Monday was the first time in weeks that neither of us had had to get up for work or some event or other) I sat down at my computer on Tuesday morning, opened Slack, and was greeted by much wailing and gnashing of teeth, because the SSL certificate on a live service had expired.