penguin42 @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

Worse condition #retrocomputing - found at the side of the road gently rusting; a terminal of sometype, the only identification I can see is a PAL with a label that says 'Qantel'; there's a whole 68008 system in there!

A 'peacock' #butterfly - it's been lovely and sunny most of the last week up here in #manchester, a rarity, and since we're still allowed out for walks at the moment it's nice to see a few of these - this one actually sat still for a minute.
#wildlife #photography

Why did China build a hospital from scratch? We're just converting exhibition centres

I've just received a 2.5kg bag of 80% cocoa solid #chocolate callets (via Amazon); pro cooking chocolate - should get me through. It's fun when the chocolate vendor has a troubleshooting page:

https://www.callebaut.com/en-GB/chocolate-technique/troubleshooting/moulded-chocolates

slums it on tethered phone as Virgin cable implodes.

They finally got to it and it looks like were showing up a little in growth % to me; I do hope so.

Curious. UK hasn't published Covid numbers for today yet.

Just received 5l bottles of handsoap from a catering supplier; https://www.nisbets.co.uk/
(and washing up liquid and random bits)

Morrisons website started working! The advantage of it being dead all day is they actually had a spot for tomorrow
I've ordered handcleaner and washing up liquid from the Restaurant supplier Nisbett's - in ~5l bottles! - lets see if that turns up!

There's a problem with stuff based in call centres at the moment; I think the problem is the 'centre'.

Ocado site is really suffering; they put a virtual queue in front of it; but then it's hitting 502 Bad Gateway's even on the queue.

'Corner shops' are apparently exempt from our lockdown. I wonder how they defined them.

Just ordered a 2.5kg bag of 80% #chocolate couverture from Amazon. That might be enough to survive the apocalypse.
(I've got one Asda slot booked for the 31st, nowhere else has slots; Sainsburys might but it's decided to only serve old/vulnerable, and it hasn't put me in that pot - but I am isolating because of my 70+ year old parents, there's a number to call but it's unreachable...sigh)

A detailed bio article on some of the approaches to medication for #covid
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/covid-19-the-biology-of-an-effective-therapy/