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Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on July 30, 2026, 01:15:17 PMI wondered if it was time for a UK drought thread. Considering this country suffers from severe flooding regularly and we're surrounded by sea, I thought it might be worth discussing possible engineering options.

De-salination plants are the obvious answer along with half a dozen new reservoirs. Of course, the issue is that the privatised water companies refuse to spend their investor's, owner's and director's money on meeting their responsibilities.

And also the fact that people would like new reservoirs, but when it is suggested that are placed where they like to drive out and walk their dogs the NIMBY warriors burst into life.

Quote from: David L on July 29, 2026, 11:22:35 PM

Quote from: Slim on July 29, 2026, 11:19:42 PM"Alex Lifeson went off on loose-limbed benders, taking madcap detours and stretching out phrases just to see where they'd land"

While I haven't actually seen this performance, I strongly suspect that's a positive spin to say the least.

It could well be written by someone who's never seen or heard Rush live before.

.....and/or may not be at all familiar with their material.

Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on July 30, 2026, 01:15:17 PMI wondered if it was time for a UK drought thread. Considering this country suffers from severe flooding regularly and we're surrounded by sea, I thought it might be worth discussing possible engineering options.

De-salination plants are the obvious answer along with half a dozen new reservoirs. Of course, the issue is that the privatised water companies refuse to spend their investor's, owner's and director's money on meeting their responsibilities.

I wondered if it was time for a UK drought thread. Considering this country suffers from severe flooding regularly and we're surrounded by sea, I thought it might be worth discussing possible engineering options.

The Last Frontier -  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26862142/ - the first episode was excellent, and one wonders how this story could continue for another 9 one-hour long ones. The Alaskan scenery is fantastic though and the acting is very, very good.

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Moved my cycling blog database to the new host, then set up the SSL certificate, moved the blog content and the Apache2 config. I changed the DNS last night to give it time to propogate. Works! Live at:

https://bikediary.uk/

So I've established that DNS, Cloudflare, Apache, PHP 8.3, MySQL 8, WordPress and automated TLS all work on the new server.

Going well so far, next thing is to make a copy of this site and set it up as a test site on the new host. I'll have to put the site in maintenance mode for 25 minutes or so to take a copy but I'll give advance notice. Maybe tonight.

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Cape Fear up to ep 9 now