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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 23/08/2026

Yesterday I hit a couple of goals I have had for a while. I rowed a half marathon. This is just shy of two hours on the #concept2 erg at zone 2 heart rate intensity. I have been rowing a lot of 6k and 12k sessions to prep for this. It also took me over 2 million lifetime meters. 🎉 #row #erg

A screenshot from my indoor rowing tracking my half marathon 21,0 97 m

Total time 1:58:14.8 at an average pace of 2:48 / 500m

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 21/08/2026

How can you fly with the eagles when you are scratching with the turkeys ?

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 19/08/2026

It's #wearItPurpleitsItsIIts #day so I am wearing a shirt that has an initialism that stands for "Purple, Heaps Purple" Also thinking of friends at @pyconau.bsky.social

Man wearing a black shirt with red $PHP on the front

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 11/07/2026

Today's visit to the library or sponsored by the letter G and the number 3 #visitYourLibrary

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 03/07/2026

Some of us are more interested in this game than others #worldCup #AUSvEGY

A dog sleeps while the Australians play Egypt at the world cup

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 30/06/2026

No idea where this image came from but you have got to ask the question. "Was it the shooter from the empty mall?" #humor #funny #LiveLifeLaugh

Humorous image crafted to look like news from TV

BREAKING NEWS
Great American state fair crowd so small Trump cancels fake assassination.

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 24/06/2026

Does it get any better than this ? 🌞 Sunny 12° and blue sky #GossyGoodTimes

Blue sky, a palm tree with a building painted with Gossy Good Times

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 22/06/2026

Beautiful sunny winter day in #Sydney for #SAUGSummit I am #emcee ing the #innovate track If you are there, I look forward to saying hi.

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 22/06/2026

Looks like you are on your way 😄 #worldcup2026 #cmonNZ (Just to be clear this is a joke - I don't want ImmiNZ on me )

an edited section of the page from https://www.immigration.govt.nz/visas/skilled-migrant-category-resident-visa/

that lists official requirements for applying for a skilled NZ visa

The last one has been cheekily edited to "be cheering for NZ at the world cup"

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 21/06/2026

Tired of the news? Here's a puppy pallet cleanser.

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 19/06/2026

Enjoying my hydration break with a ☕ #worldCup2026

Screen SBS pops up when the ads don't quite match up with the hydration brake from World cup football.

The text reads live TV is currently in an ad break enjoy the silence your program will resume shortly

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 16/06/2026

thepoint.com.au/off-the-char... Seems like a clear trend. #travel #usa #canada #worldcup

comparison of travel to canada v usa by australians

Canada is up, while USA is down.

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 14/06/2026

First half looking good #worldcup #AUSvTUR Stunning goal from Nestory

Score card and stats from first half of Australia v Türkiye

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 09/06/2026

This is a lunch I call "Green, Eggs, and Ham" Would I like it on a train? Why yes!

A lunch plate with rocket lettuce, avocado cut in half and Fried eggs covering slices of ham aka Green, eggs, and ham

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 07/06/2026

This is serious racing

Split screen showing 3 GC #giroditaliawomen riders all within seconds of each other on the final day of the race

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 07/06/2026

Looking forward to women's #giro tonight I have my #toursnacks ready #couchpeleton

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 03/06/2026

It's not cold in the office! It's just "fresh" #winter #coffee #doctorWho #scarf #TomBaker BTW - if we get ~250 characters in the main post but 1000 chars as "alt text" per image, why is that not exploited more?

A man wearing a green cap with AWS on it with sunlight streaming across his body sits in a cold office wearing a mutlicoloured earthy tone 3m long scarf wrapped several times around his neck

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 28/05/2026

My 🐿️ I love the captions on this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTz_... Also #PHPpie is the future for extensions

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 28/05/2026

Ohh I like this prompting in #PoSh7

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 28/05/2026

Being positive for a moment what I really like about claude.ai is you can export in #markdown Super easy to reuse generated content elsewhere. #copilot just wants to create a doc or a pdf :(

Screenshot of create options from Microsoft copilot exporting to only Word documents or PDF documents

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 28/05/2026

Quite familiar with Waves 🌊 #AvocaBeach

Waves rolling in on a curved sandy beach. A man on the right of screen wearing shorts and a red and blue striped shirt is facing left

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 27/05/2026

I think I have fallen down a rabbit hole #davinciResolve #ubuntu

Blank screen of Davinci Resolve running on 7 year old laptop running ubuntu 2204

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 27/05/2026

I think my bsky has become a windows server / MS venting space Why do you say it is powershell when you give me bash line endings this is worse than #VogonPoetry #TheFutureIsTerminal #butItSureIsntPowerShell

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 27/05/2026

I've got that JOY JOY JOY down in my heart. The reason these servers are having their OS Reconfigured is they are being replaced with #Linux

a screen shot from a Windows server shutdown where the reason given for shutting down the computer is "operating system reconfiguration planned"

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 26/05/2026

Yeah baby! 💪 Now that's what I'm talking about

A weight loss chart showing three point four five kilograms lost weight

There is also a button with the text view goals that links to you goals.

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 25/05/2026

Dear @developer.microsoft.com This is a Windows Server I do not want crappy interests in Edge. Please make the default in Windows Server completely vanilla Thanks, Nigel

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 25/05/2026

Full circle back to the green screens of the former days.

Screen shot of VisiCalc the first spreadsheet program

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 12/05/2026

For all who care here is your semi-regular update on Atlassians new building in #Sydney BTW I am at AWS Summit Sydney today if anyone is around.

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 12/05/2026

Gemmy, bright and cheery is back to serve us again

AI Overview
Yes, I am here and ready to help! I am a large language model, trained by Google, and I am always available to assist with your questions, writing tasks, or creative projects.
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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 11/05/2026

Its clippy all over again ... ...still no better #ai #ItLooksLikeYouAreWritingALetter

A screenshot of the intrusive copilot icon and floating menus interrupting normal flow and shoving "AI" where ever they can.

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 24/04/2026

ok not only 26.06 on day 2 after release but #ubuntuStudio and #kernel7 with #rust ok so far Actually I really like it and I am going to update my main machine to Studio

output of hostnamectl on a new install of Ubuntu Studio 26.06

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 24/04/2026

Ventoy is the best way to set up a bootable USB #ubuntu26.06

A screenshot of ventoy with several ISO images ready to be installed on a new system

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 24/04/2026

That moment when you forget to attach the attachment doesn't only exist in the email! And of course I mean 26.04 #ubuntu #laravel #cloud #intelNUC

An intel NUC all plugged in and ready to go to get updated to Ubuntu 26.04

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 26/03/2026

Hopefully @developers.google.com listen to feedback The new "search what's on your screen" feature just totally stuffed up voice search Where's a cloud? I need to go and shout at it!

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 24/03/2026

Just a guy, wearing a 14 year old shirt because it is so comfortable. #SAPMentors #SAPMentos BTW I am sure Italian-Dutch company Perfetti Van Melle uses SAP somewhere in their landscape. They really need to produce a "SAP" branded version of Mentos for the October devrel cycle @qmacro.org ?

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 23/03/2026

This page seems relevant for people going to the polls this year. #h2g2 #reu #galacticPresidents

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 16/03/2026

#tftd "People who can supply that amount of firepower don't need to supply verbs as well" #h2g2 #DouglasAdams

A photograph from a Kindle showing a page in The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy book 2 restaurant to the end of the universe with the following quote highlighted

"People who can supply that amount of firepower don't need to supply verbs as well"

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 12/03/2026

Wow. Has everybody covered this song? music.apple.com/au/album/the...

A listing of all the covers of "the very thought of you" in apple music

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 10/03/2026

Rereading "The code book" by Simon Singh. His 100Mhz Pentium with 8Gb of RAM feels a little cute these days. #techsky #cryptography #RSA

A page of text photographed from the code book by Simon saying the highlighted passage reads Garfield estimated that 100 megahertz Intel Pentium computer without megabytes of RAM would take roughly 50 years to factor a number as big as 10 to the 130

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Nigel James @nigeljam.es · 01/03/2026

Nice to see a little improvement on the @concept2.bsky.social over the last 6 months

Screen shot of the concept2 logbook filtered to 6000 m results

29 min in sep25 and 27:46 today

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