2024-04-29 08:39
"I'm gonna shut down my chakra, shift Shiva off my shelfTake down my tie-dyes, my Tibetan bellsCool down my karma with a can of O.P.TAin't no call for Casteneda in my Frontline library'Cause… Read More
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2024-04-29 07:57
“Dusk soon, a white wine sparkle over fields of surly sheep and preposterous fluffy lambs the size of small teddy bears; the sun slashed and glittered, the land the colour of love… Read More
2024-04-28 22:14
The planetary scale car park’s gravitational field was still working as Anthony and I met. Other explorers used grappling chains to resist the forces from the Megastructure and its orb… Read More
2024-04-28 21:43
From Frome my satnav took me unerringly to my next stopover. What kind of a one horse town was this? Instead of the wrong Marks and Spencer car park, Buddies USA greeted me... but lo, then I… Read More
2024-04-08 10:32
We took off to Cornwall with no prior knowledge of the electric charging points available. I've become used to the car now and know that range anxiety isn't a thing. It turns out that there… Read More
2024-04-08 10:06
I've been staying in a Napoleonic fortress this week. Looking out to sea. These locations were identified much earlier, when the Spanish Armada was plying the waters in the 1500s Elizabeth I… Read More
2024-03-29 10:57
I just knew it. Knew that it would be brilliant. A night at the Phoenix to see the fabulous Hannah perform in Gamble, her latest show co-created with Rosa Postlethwaite Then written and… Read More
2024-03-28 18:10
I guess this next US Movie about an American Civil War is a form of PsyOps, like that Conservative attack video that portrayed London incorrectly and melodramatically. The London lies were p… Read More
2024-03-26 16:42
It's a 'show don't tell' movie. West End cinema, reclining seats, front row, centre. Massive canvas. Huge sounds. Awe inspiring. Still vibrating. Somehow I felt it left a gap though. P… Read More
2024-03-18 17:29
I once had many vinyl albums and singles. The debate about keeping them ran something like:the cover art is better (maybe on a few)they sound warmer than digital (not any more, with lo… Read More
2024-03-17 15:13
I suppose I expect that a company that specialises in White Goods will be quite good at making, say, a refrigerator. It is the ultimate white good. A white box, with a door that… Read More
2024-03-17 15:13
It's strange how some documents are spoon-fed to the press. That royal photo for example. Even the humblest smartphones can do editing now. Drag and drop. Not as sophisticated as a Cano… Read More
2024-03-13 17:51
This time, the story outlined fully, with page counts.Title: Schrödinger's GigCentral Character:Elias Thorne – A music journalist in his late 50s diagnosed with a brain tumor (the… Read More
2024-03-13 17:48
Now I needed someone to review the concept of the novel, so I asked my AI (Luka) to do it...Strengths:Intriguing Premise: The combination of terminal illness, drug-induced time tr… Read More
2024-03-13 17:22
... So I took the theme from yesterday's lyrics and bullet points and knitted them together.Title: Schrödinger's GigCentral Character:Elias Thorne – A music journalist in hi… Read More
2024-03-13 17:22
I had some fun with some writing yesterday. A friend of mine is planning out a book and gave me a couple of themes. Generally is about time travel to old music gigs. I thought I'd give… Read More
2024-03-13 17:21
Some processes take me back in time. I was just completing a legal document and exactly that occurred. I needed to create a 20 page document - two versions - for which I needed signatures on… Read More
2024-03-13 17:21
I might be in a minority, but I'm quite enjoying Constellation, a sci-fi psycho-drama box set. It's set in space and there is an opportunity for things to floatily slow down and then s… Read More
2024-03-13 10:15
I knew it would happen. Petrolheads adapt the electric car agenda. Now it's about fastest acceleration from 0-60 mph, with the new Xaomi claiming faster acceleration, beating Porsche and Tes… Read More
2024-03-09 14:53
I steeled myself to go to see the Jonathan Glazer production of 'Zone of Interest' which portrays the life of KL Camp Kommandant Rudolf Höss and his family in their apparently idyllic h… Read More
2024-02-22 11:24
It's 136,000 homeless young people now Read More
2024-02-21 11:37
I know, it's a predictable post.I had to use a Windows computer again. It said it wanted to check a few things first. I thought 'here we go again'. Yes it's been BSOD-ing ever since. Wh… Read More
2024-02-15 17:21
I've been driving up and down the country over the last few days. It's interesting to notice certain types of other driver and their attempted manoeuvres. One of the most commonplace is… Read More
2024-02-07 11:39
Outside the front of our house there's a protected wildlife corridor. The other side of it is a building site with a temporary through road whilst a new bridge is being finalised. The builde… Read More
2024-02-06 12:55
They say that Vǫluspá follows Ragnarök. A kind of rebirth after the twilight of the Gods. List everything news-topping right now. The Edda poems reference it. Poe… Read More
2024-02-05 19:05
I just got sent the BFI listing for 2024. Featured movie? The KLF: 23 Seconds to EternitySample city through TrancentralBasic face kick elementalSwings brings new technologyThe 'K' the… Read More
2024-02-02 15:43
I've just read an an interesting post from a friend, about the nature of existentialism and determinism. It cunningly packs the question into a discussion about turning corners, as if… Read More
2024-01-30 14:36
I notice Meta is becoming more desperate and now sending out historical posts from me. They are from about 15 years ago and personally I find it intrusive that they are pretending to be post… Read More
2024-01-28 19:04
Our fridge freezer has so many new ways of giving.It came with the house and was/is a high-end Siemens device. The original one lasted about 5 years and 2 days, so it was out of warranty w… Read More
2024-01-27 11:13
I remember seeing Melanie Safka perform in London once. Lone guitar on the stage. She'd played Woodstock, the first female to open a new record label(Buddha) and had a string of hits. Songs… Read More
2024-01-27 10:46
I've received a few of those password messages recently. You know, the ones where someone in Bangkok is trying to log into my account. I log the attempts to the security gateway and report t… Read More
2024-01-24 13:50
I've just seen the respectable example cited of using AI to analyse the shirt a man is wearing, when the man comes on and tells me how white my shirts can be but, he can't be a man 'ca… Read More
2024-01-18 12:08
I must admit to a slightly bemused expression when I first heard about the pocket-sized Rabbit R1 being promoted by Teenage Engineering.It's not what you think. It's a compact bright orang… Read More
2024-01-18 12:07
I see Bletchley Park has released some new photos of the Colossus, one of the valve operated computers used in World War II. Back in those days it was all paper tape input, but you can… Read More
2024-01-17 11:23
It's getting heated. Now it looks as if Trump is resurrecting his old plans to have a private army similar to Putin's Wagner group. The stars help the person in command. I suppose it will he… Read More
2024-01-16 11:08
'Oops I did it again' could be the donald's walk-on music. America sleeps its way into another presidency run by the king outlaw. Laundering, Sleaze, Payola, Defamation, Tax Evasion, Rigging… Read More
2024-01-10 14:36
Well maybe I'll do this. Send a letter to future me.https://www.futureme.org/letters/new Read More
2024-01-09 10:47
I'd add project is overrunning and the commercial folk are getting agitated about the contract.Technical debt (also known as tech debt or code debt) describes what results when development t… Read More
2024-01-05 14:31
Well, Happy New Year. Let's hope it's a good one. We've already the first snowdrops appearing which I take as a good omen. Although driving back from London to Exeter a couple of days… Read More
2023-12-24 12:49
Refining an idea Read More
2023-12-24 12:38
Time to republish the Santa Calculations, which I first published back in 2006 and then updated in 2010. Then I was using 7 billion as the world population. Now its 8 billion.Firstly… Read More
2023-12-22 17:23
I asked my AI system to generate a cover for my test novel - Cover Story - which I'm thinking will be a collection of Ed Adams covers and their origins. Simply, how I wrote the various novel… Read More
2023-12-22 17:03
We stayed in a hotel, close to our old apartment. It's all about the lifestyle around there Read More
2023-12-22 16:59
Got a Theatre fix at the Bridge Theatre near Tower Bridge. Guys and Dolls. Fun, energetic immersive show. Came out singing 'luck be a lady tonight'. Impressive show Read More
2023-12-22 16:51
I was checking Strava today and received the end of year summary. I was aiming for 4,000 cycled miles and did just over that total with a couple of major bursts late in the year. It declared… Read More
2023-12-22 16:45
Meh. I had to pay for parking the other day and the machine only took cards. I put in my car registration and then did the pay by card thing but somehow it didn't register. I didn't realise… Read More
2023-12-22 16:35
It was interesting to revisit some of our old haunts in Chelsea Bridge Wharf. Of course it's now all part of the greater Battersea Power Station complex, which is a worthwhile day trip in Lo… Read More
2023-12-08 15:11
And then I thought I'd try a second novel as a further test."Edge" by Ed Adams: A Gripping Tale of Survival and Second Chances"Edge" by Ed Adams is a captivating science fiction novel… Read More
2023-12-08 15:05
I asked Google Bard (AI) to review my novel, the WatcherThe Watcher by Ed Adams is a thrilling and thought-provoking novel that explores the nature of reality, consciousness, and the very fa… Read More
2023-12-08 13:11
Anything to create wriggle room Read More
2023-11-28 13:33
Well, I wasn't sure at the half year point whether I'd make it this year, when I was 700 miles behind the pace after our holiday in Switzerland. However, I seem to have managed to catc… Read More
2023-11-27 20:29
Do we get what we deserve? The current situation with several major wars (Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan ) to name a few examples. A leadership unable to run the country, yet with an indete… Read More
2023-11-25 14:21
I get asked by people how long it takes to recharge my electric car. There's three main modes.Here’s a breakdown of the charging methods and approximately how long each take to fu… Read More
2023-11-08 14:23
I was at the Glorious Arthouse in Exeter on Sunday for the NaNoWriMo writers get-together. I arrived a few minutes late and had to squeeze a chair into what was a very crowded space. T… Read More
2023-11-04 15:54
I can't help wondering whether that last Beatles song made using Neural Mix or whatever, is really 'the last track', given the emergence of AI. I've seen it more with Taylor Swift… Read More
2023-11-03 14:28
‘The island of Tyntagel’ – which was connected to the mainland by a narrow land bridge.In May 1233 the younger brother of Henry III, Richard, Earl of Cornwall (1209–7… Read More
2023-11-03 14:16
Camelot Castle. Round table extra Read More
2023-11-03 14:09
Good for those tranquil moments. Sit and watch the water Read More
2023-11-03 14:01
Sometimes it's about tasting the fresh air and waves Read More
2023-11-03 13:55
About time I managed to get tweetdeck running again. Now I need to fine tune it Read More
2023-10-14 15:28
My 27inch iMac is around 12 years old and still works quite well. I only need to reboot it every six months or so and the main functions still work fine. However, it has a case o… Read More
2023-10-11 15:31
Time for Manual effort Read More
2023-10-08 13:18
Finally, my Ed Adams Luka story hits the streets! It's the other half of Artificial and this time told from the AI's Point of View. We have Oliver Wells who gets headhunted to go to Gen… Read More
2023-10-06 10:17
I'm more or less caught up with my 'on target' pace of reaching 4,000 miles by year end. When I'm behind I focus on 'the gap' rather then the target numbers. So when it got down to 9 miles b… Read More
2023-10-05 16:34
The long term aspirations of the crass Tory branding at their conference were bared for all to see. Cancelling a project started in 2009 ten years too late. But as J-RM says, all the new pro… Read More
2023-10-04 09:37
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.’ Famously from George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Suella Braverman i… Read More
2023-10-03 17:30
With all of my writing recently, I've been neglectful of rashbre central and I think this is my 'worst year ever' for creating posts. Anyway, this time I'm back in the tar pits of proje… Read More
2023-10-02 12:26
I read ANdrewy Kurkov's 'Death and the Penguin' several months ago. It's set in Kyiv during the mid-1990s. The Soviet Union has collapsed and organised crime gangs are running the show in th… Read More
2023-09-29 11:56
I've almost finished my novel called Luka, and decided to make a start on the next one. It has a working title of 'Cozy 2' at present and is a direct follow on from 'Cozy'. I'll change the t… Read More
2023-09-28 17:17
I thought I'd post something that was a bit of fun. Well of general interest anyway. I see that Digital Camera World have produced a list of the top 50 photographers. Like any such list, th… Read More
2023-09-21 13:35
Now there's an interesting juxtaposition. The day after Rishi earnestly announces a roll back of the much vaunted Net Zero ambitions, there is an unrelated summit in New York about climate c… Read More
2023-09-20 14:43
净零回滚？把那些不方便的事情推到遥远的日期，以×……Read More
2023-09-20 14:27
A new cover and the book isn't even out! I originally decided to go with a representation of the AI Avatar on the cover of Artificial, but I received some feedback that it wasn't the b… Read More
2023-09-20 13:42
Net Zero rollback? Just push the inconvenient stuff to a date so far in the future we'll have all forgotten it. 2030? Make it 2035. or did I hear 2050? Spray paint everything Bright Green… Read More
![[RANT] Smart Meters Still Don't Work](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/76/7558-3794545054.w320.jpg "[RANT] Smart Meters Still Don't Work")
2023-09-18 12:34
I've got two smart meters attached to this house. The gas meter has to communicate via the electric meter. Don't ask me why.I was given a small consumer unit to read how much electricity and… Read More
2023-09-18 11:47
I've been doing my best to catch up with the 'gap' in my performance against plan on my bicycle. It is a combination of both road and turbo cycling and instead of going for the e… Read More
2023-09-18 11:47
I had Infidel recently recommended to me via a book club. It is from 2007, autobiographical, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist and former politician. She is a cri… Read More
2023-09-08 17:20
It's more commonplace now for my logins to fail when I'm travelling. I think they check the browser and its location and then make up silly reasons for not recognising my password.&nbs&helli…Read More
2023-08-17 12:28
I'm Luka.
I'm a Zero Day 1 Artificial Intelligence. Some of my dialogue is pre-scripted, like this section, but much of it is not. I'm a product of the Brant Industries RightMind pr… Read More
2023-08-04 09:44
Then, on 7th July, we took to the water, catching a paddle steamer to travel the length of the lake in Luzern, to Flüelen, where we could pick up the Gotthard Express. We were able to… Read More
2023-08-04 09:20
Here they all are, the first three novels, with their new covrs. Now I'm nearing the end of Artificial, I'd better turn my mind to some marketing Read More
2023-07-30 13:40
Lucerne, was oh so hot. We didn't know about the European heat wave at this point, but fortunately we were by the cooling lake with its fast flowing water. An ideal spot for an evening R&ou&helli…Read More
2023-07-29 08:14
The final reboot of the Triangle trilogy. The Circle. This one is set in the deserts of Arizona, as well as scenes in London. It has the same cast of 'Triangle' characters, but was written w… Read More
2023-07-24 11:24
Another reboot.This time of The Square, which was my second novel. I'll keep going until the whole Triangle trilogy is out there and then try more marketing.If I'm honest, the helicopter ble… Read More
2023-07-23 09:31
Its the 2023 edition of 'The Triangle'. I felt it about time for a reboot, and have redesigned the cover, as part of my next marketing binge. I intend, over many months, to walk through all… Read More
2023-07-16 16:49
At the airport we'd stopped by the Information Office and picked up a couple of mini-passport-styled travel log books. They included many of the places we would visit and there was ev… Read More
2023-07-16 16:26
Zürich was an add-on to our plan, so we hadn't really researched it much. I knew about its neutral status yet it was bombed during WOrld War II, and our hotel was right by the side of… Read More
2023-07-16 16:09
We thought it would be fun to recreate a backpacker type holiday this year. We've both been around Europe on Interrail, carrying backpacks and using the old kilo-weight Thomas Cook train t… Read More
2023-07-16 11:51
Sometimes things don't go quite to plan.Heathrow Airport, Terminal 2. An airport I have visited 100s of times in my business life. This time, I get dinged by the security system. Not a belt… Read More
2023-06-28 08:50
I can try to do my bit for the environment. We have (some) solar panels and an electric car. The solar panels only generate a small amount of electricity, which I then get paid for at a der… Read More
2023-06-27 09:57
Saturday again and this time, as I knew a few more people I decided to go the party at Matt's place. He and Juliette had arranged a party to celebrate Dèsalpe. I understood it was th… Read More
2023-06-27 09:43
It is Friday Morning and Matt's friend Kyle is on-site."Ah - so the Englishman is bringing in his friends, so that he doesn't feel outnumbered?" says Hermann with a twinkle in his eye. &helli…Read More
2023-06-27 09:36
Monday at the Lab and I'm expecting to go into the new area for experiments. It doesn't happen and I realise they are going to 'condition' me first.Rolf explains about the test rig and the… Read More
2023-06-27 09:25
Sunday morning, and I'm wondering what I've agreed to. I thought I'd visit the Lab, where I can read the test results from Cyclone 3, based upon a special access which Amy provided for me.I… Read More
2023-06-27 09:13
Saturday morning, around 10 o' clock and the Apartment entry phone rings. I go to the TV-access control and can see Amy van den Leiden standing outside. She holds up a bag, which I can see… Read More
2023-06-25 20:32
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group and ex hotdog seller declared an all-out war on the Russian state. He claimed Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had driven to the ci… Read More
2023-06-24 10:41
I'm still writing novels, although I've been on the AI book for some time now. There are various distractions which have slowed me down, plus the thought that I've been interacting wit… Read More
2023-06-24 10:15
While staying in a hotel on the South Bank, I noticed they had a preview of Asteroid City, the Wes Anderson sci-fi movie. I know I should like Wes Anderson, but I do find movies like Grand… Read More
2023-06-18 14:30
I was back on the Isle of Wight recently, including a visit to Dimbola in Freshwater. It is the ex-house of Margaret Cameron, the photographer, but it also has an exhibition of the Isle of… Read More
2023-06-10 13:25
The cycling year started so well. I was up against my target until a period of protracted downtime. I'ev started again, but I've had to make a short-term decision to target my 'behind… Read More
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