That sucks 🙁

Yep, it's a PITA to parse and get the values you want. Much prefer JSON. Recently when I needed to parse XML I ran it through an XML to JSON library. Much easier!

If you need to parse XML just for RSS though, it isn't so bad as there are RSS specific libraries which take most of the pain away.

I can only assume you've never tried to parse or read XML.

There are a lot of people I follow who moved to Mastodon, that now appear to have moved to Bluesky (I'm seeing posts on there from people I know used to post on Mastodon).

I'm not sure why. If I move over it'll be because everybody else is there. At the moment I'm not using it much.

Crushed up in jam is how I took paracetamol when a kid - if we'd run out of Dispirin. Couldn't and wouldn't swallow pills until I was prescribed some (quite large) antibiotics in my 20s. To take those, it was put it in my mouth and keep drinking water with my head back until it went down. It took quite a lot of water! These days I can take them with less water, usually just a sip.

I think they've glued the Q and U together to make it easier. Technically that's one single 11 point tile.

The eBay password limit is 256 characters.

They made the mistake of mentioning this when I went to change my password.

Guess how many characters my eBay password has?

It certainly ended somewhere between 2001 and 2007. I remember where I was living when they stopped it.

When mail came twice a day, I used to get my post in the afternoon, consistently, and none in the morning, ever.

When they changed it, my post started turning up earlier, in the morning.

So it was weirdly an improvement. It seems strange now that there was ever two deliveries a day, given I get one letter a week at most now. (parcels are another matter, but again you don't need Royal Mail delivering parcels twice a day even if you get a lot, so the fact they did this with letters is weird)

He needs to learn how to count!

There are five. White, grey, blue, smiley, pink. The pink one is out of shot in the third panel.

On my phone, it's this which is datestamped 17 February 2012. I think I copied it there off the NAS, and the image is older than that.

I got myself a new mouse a while back.