Hamster ball fixes network problem

One Saturday morning a year or two ago my wife complained that she couldn't get 'onto' her emails.  She said this had happened several times in the previous few days but only when she was using the computer in the living room.  This computer was connected to our modem router by an Ethernet cable and inspection showed that the cable had been nibbled where it ran along the floor.  My wife admitted that she had been allowing our hamster to run free in the living room while I was at work.  I went out and bought a replacement cable. My wife went out and bought a hamster ball.  The connection problems did not occur again.

Venus

The planet Venus rising at about 6am yesterday morning.

The End State of Systems that grow by Accretion

Brian Kernighan and Adam Gordon Bell discussing the origin of Unix (from https://corecursive.com/058-brian-kernighan-unix-bell-labs):

Adam:

… So you guys, you’re in the Unix room, you were building all these little tools and the tools were starting to accrete and like Node.js, is just a world that is accreted all of things, or Python. So it’s just that the end state of this process or something.

Brian:

Yeah, it probably is. Accretion is probably the right world, and I don’t know how that ends if it ever does.

In physics the end state of a system that grows by accretion is a black hole.

Linking to a Github Repository

In general, when you link to a Gihub repository you should include the #readme fragment in the URL instead of just linking to the bare repository URL.  This means users don't have to scroll down to find out what he repository holds. For example: you should prefer

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust#readme

over:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust

Moth

A box-tree moth, Cydalima perspectalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) which I found early this morning on the front door to our block of flats. This species was first detected in this country as recently as 2008.

Photo taken in Reading, UK on 2020-09-21.