England suffered a Travis-ty.

"Send us more money. We'll fix it - promise"

The rivets on the cowling are all wrong. Only seen on the ones used in the Antarctic theatre in the winter of ‘46. Brutal stuff.

The code handles daylight savings automatically. I’m now ready to start on the case design.

The plan is to add a small microcontroller coupled with a GPS receiver to perform as a “never have to set it” clock that runs off a USB source. I have a few more PCBs in reserve along with some blue and yellow LEDs.

Early adopter FTW

Holy tamoly.

but had the uncanny knack of laying all the bits out for others to see. Root cause identification followed and responsible parties set to work. We'd narrowed the search, pinned the alleged perp, correlated the evidence, proved the case and delivered a fix thanks to someone who didn't know tech.

Thanks for sharing - it's a great read. The last time I had official responsibility for fixing work IT things that were broken was last century. I vividly recall one situation that was impacting a core system at a retail bank. The person that moved the needle most was not a "technologist" per se,

"Where are you really from?" by @adamrutherford.bsky.social should suit a young adult reader quite well.

Thank you! Safe travelling for the rest of your tour :-)

Super disappointed to miss out, but got a bug and had to bail :-(

Which bucket does financial services (eg: banking) sit in? Is this from a piece on the web site? My searching skills are sub-par today :-(

Not if they have to work till their 80’s…👀