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Meteor photographed looking South-West from Llanbedr in Wales. 10 second exposure.

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ISS over Wales

Updated on Monday, July 11, 2022

ISS over Wales

The International Space Station over Llanbedr in Wales. Three stacked ten second exposures.

Updated 2022-07-11 09:05:

ISS over Wales

Same garden in Llanbedr, same space station, different night.

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Waterloo Sunsets

Waterloo Sunsets

Timelapse of three sunsets over Waterloo Station in London. Shot over Pride Weekend 2022 - you can see a huge rainbow flag on one building and if you look closely the rainbow flashing in sequence on One Canada Square in Canary Wharf. Good views of the Shard and Boomerang and the best part of the Walkie Talkie.

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Changing of the Password

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Changing of the Twitter password at Buckingham Palace today. Overheard: "Present... two numbers and one special character".

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Book reviews for June 2022

Ogilvy on Advertising (Vintage) by David Ogilvy

Ogilvy on Advertising (Vintage) by David Ogilvy

3/5

 

The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal

The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal

4/5

 

The Yellowstone Directive by John S. Shaw III

The Yellowstone Directive by John S. Shaw III

3/5

 

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan

2/5

 

BOX 88 by Charles Cumming

BOX 88 by Charles Cumming

4/5

 

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Google Trends for 'impeach supreme court justice' This Week

Summer Solstice 2022

Summer Solstice 2022

Summer starts right now (09:14 UTC June 21 2022) in the northern hemisphere, winter for those with latitude signum differences. Rendered in Catfood Earth.

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Stamp out B2B spam with an evil calendar

Calend.fu

I could build this in about the same amount of time it's going to take to describe it (love you Google Apps Script) but I'm not quite evil enough.

A good chunk of my work day is deleting endless B2B spam from aggressive salespeople who are certain that I should check out their SAAS whatever and pay $25/user/month for something I could do with a wiki page. Outlook for some reason doesn't recognize this stuff as spam even if you block it. LinkedIn is built to distribute this. It would be great to make it more expensive, painful and humiliating for these people to spray and pray.

My idea: it's Calendly only evil.

You reply saying how excited you are and provide a link to schedule an appointment. This allows them to book a slot and sends them a meeting request and a Zoom link. When they join they're just connected to some number of other salespeople who booked that slot.

Extra credit: record the meetings and auto-post to YouTube and use the ad revenue to pay for hosting costs.

As usual any of my billionaire readers who want to back this should get in touch.

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Links for June 2022

Updated on Thursday, June 23, 2022

Outlook/Office iCal feed 400 bad request error with C# WebClient

Updated on Tuesday, June 21, 2022

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Just in case it helps someone else I was able to fetch an Outlook iCal feed using C#'s WebClient for years until it stopped working in June, 2022 with a 400 / bad request error. I was downloading a set of calendars and the fix was just to use a new WebClient for each calendar so it must be some kind of state thing in WebClient.

To regain around 1% of sanity I have a task that pulls the various calendars that life throws at me and combines them into a single, de-duplicated calendar. The Google Calendar on my phone is gorgeous as a result. My primary calendar is orange and then all of the miscellanea are teal and unique. It would be great if Google Calendar could do this without help, but it was worth the effort not to have some random soccer match repeated five times in different colors.

Last week one calendar, an Outlook feed, started failing with 400 bad request.

Naturally I assumed that the server had started to suddenly care about some header or other and I started playing around with setting User-Agent and various Accept headers without any luck. To make debugging slightly easier I moved the Outlook calendar out of a loop (where I was iterating through a list of iCal feeds that I need to be aware of) and then it magically started working. The magic in this case must be a fresh WebClient and so the fix was to use a new WebClient for each calendar instead of reusing a single instance. It looks like WebClient is deprecated in .NET 6 and one is supposed to start using HttpClient instead so that's probably another fix but not one I'm going to wrestle with today.

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