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  • Image representing post: Egencia Mailing List Accessibility

    Egencia Mailing List Accessibility

    A special level of accessibility failure on Egencia's mailing list subscription management page: the labels for choosing which individual mailing lists to subscribe to are properly-configured, but the "unsubscribe all" one isn't. Click the words "unsubscribe all" and... nothing happens.

    But it gets better: try keyboard-navigating through the form, and it's hard not to unsubscribe from everything, even if you didn't want to! As soon as the "unsubscribe all" checkbox gets focus, you get instantly unsubscribed: no interaction necessary.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 October, 2025
  • A Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar bill; the bill's iconography have been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and a stylized, engraving-style portrait of Sam Altman.

    The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh

    Cory Doctorow paints a bleak picture of the future world economy in the aftermath of the bursting of the AI bubble. I agree that we're in a bubble, but I'm slightly more-optimistic that we can survive it without a total economic catastrophe.

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    • posted 30 September, 2025
  • We made it to the end of another Bleptember, with a photo every day of my especially-bleppy young doggo.

    Full image of A champagne-coloured French Bulldog in a teal jumper lies in a soft brown dog bed in the corner of an office. She looks over her shoulder at the photographer, her tongue sticking pretty-much entirely out in a long blep. In front of her, a handwritten sign is marked with a pawprint and a heart and the words 'Happy Bleptember 2025! See you next year!'
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    A champagne-coloured French Bulldog in a teal jumper lies in a soft brown dog bed in the corner of an office. She looks over her shoulder at the photographer, her tongue sticking pretty-much entirely out in a long blep. In front of her, a handwritten sign is marked with a pawprint and a heart and the words 'Happy Bleptember 2025! See you next year!'

    Thanks for coming along for the ride. See you next year!

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 30 September, 2025
  • Somehow, even when she's alert and focussed, our dog's bleppy tongue makes her look at least a little bit dopey.

    It's the Twenty-Ninth of Bleptember; we're almost done for another year!

    Full image of A champagne-coloured French Bulldog, with her tongue sticking our, sits upright in a dog bed in the corner of an office.
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    A champagne-coloured French Bulldog, with her tongue sticking our, sits upright in a dog bed in the corner of an office.

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    • posted 29 September, 2025
  • It's a little wet and miserable this Twenty-Eighth of Bleptember, but what really perturbed this bleppy doggo was somebody she didn't recognise moving a wheelie-bin outside their house. What could they want? Can they be trusted? Might they have ham? ๐Ÿถ

    Full image of At the end of a lead on a wet suburban pavement, a French Bulldog wearing a teal jumper and harness stares into the middle distance, her tongue sticking out.
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    At the end of a lead on a wet suburban pavement, a French Bulldog wearing a teal jumper and harness stares into the middle distance, her tongue sticking out.

    • Note
    • posted 28 September, 2025
  • Sometimes people connect my unusual name to popular culture. They say things like "Oh, Q like James Bond?" or "Oh, Q like Star Trek?".

    I think their choice of franchise tells me more about them than they learn from my answer, which is usually "No, Q like the set of rational numbers."

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 28 September, 2025
  • Sometimes you're Just Tired. It's been a long week. Happy Twenty-Seventh of Bleptember.

    Full image of A half-asleep French Bulldog lies on her side with her tongue resting on the laminate wooden floor.
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    A half-asleep French Bulldog lies on her side with her tongue resting on the laminate wooden floor.

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    • posted 27 September, 2025
  • Just a mini-blep this Twenty-Sixth of Bleptember, from a certain attention-seeking doggo who insisted on a cuddle from me while I sat in a Zoom meeting.

    Full image of A French Bulldog in a teal jumper lies on her back in the arms of a white human, alongside a desk with a computer keyboard. She looks contented and sleepy, and her tongue is slightly sticking-out.
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    A French Bulldog in a teal jumper lies on her back in the arms of a white human, alongside a desk with a computer keyboard. She looks contented and sleepy, and her tongue is slightly sticking-out.

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    • posted 26 September, 2025
  • Wrote note for GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing

    Checked on on this cache as part of a routine maintenance schedule. All is well, nothing needed here!

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    • posted 26 September, 2025
  • Perhaps it's because I've been away for a couple of days and she's missed me... but this bleppy dog wanted lots of cuddles and reassurance as we prepared for the school run, this Twenty-Fifth of Bleptember.

    Full image of An uncertain-looking French Bulldog in a jacket and harness has her tongue gripped in her underbite as the enjoys a hug and scritch from a white human.
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    An uncertain-looking French Bulldog in a jacket and harness has her tongue gripped in her underbite as the enjoys a hug and scritch from a white human.

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    • posted 25 September, 2025
  • I've spent most of the Twenty-Fourth of Bleptember travelling, but my bleppy doggo got to go out and play with her best dogfriend.

    Full image of A pair of jumper-wearing French Bulldogs at play in a grassy meadow. The black one is pouncing the champagne one, who is lying on her back with her tongue sticking out.
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    A pair of jumper-wearing French Bulldogs at play in a grassy meadow. The black one is pouncing the champagne one, who is lying on her back with her tongue sticking out.

    Photo courtesy of Lisa from Muddy Paws.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 September, 2025
  • "What'chu lookin' at?" I'm away from home this Twenty-Third of Bleptember, but managed to snap this epic blep before I left.

    Full image of A French Bulldog lies comfortably in a sofa, her tongue stuck out in an enormous blep.
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    A French Bulldog lies comfortably in a sofa, her tongue stuck out in an enormous blep.

    • Note
    • posted 23 September, 2025
  • Attempt #2 to get to Belfast starts... at 3:30am in a Premier Inn in Gatwick. ๐Ÿฅฑ Today, perhaps, I'll catch a plane! ๐Ÿคž

    Full image of A car park at night.
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    A car park at night.

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    • posted 23 September, 2025
  • After standing completely stationary on the M25 for over an hour and a half and with no end in sight, I'm getting increasingly confident that I'm not going to catch my flight from Gatwick whose gate closes... in half an hour. ๐Ÿ˜ข

    Full image of Dan stands among stationary cars and other frustrated drivers on a motorway.
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    Dan stands among stationary cars and other frustrated drivers on a motorway.

    Well, fuck.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 22 September, 2025
  • Just blepping around the garden this Twenty-Second of Bleptember.

    Full image of A French Bulldog with a dorky blep stands amongst overgrown grass and weeds, a large plantpot, and some kids toys.
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    A French Bulldog with a dorky blep stands amongst overgrown grass and weeds, a large plantpot, and some kids toys.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 22 September, 2025

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