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#today - the joys of being on campus at uni: watching my friend give a practice run of the talk he will be giving in Canada very soon summarising much of what he has been doing for the 3 years that I have known him, then topping up my coffee and catching ~1.5 talks on mass spectrometry!

#today I have been reviewing (first pass) a document that I have been waiting for for a long time, and only now am I going to tackle the #NewScientist article splurge (well, nearly: a couple of other things to read first)...

Marches against genocide in Palestine twice described as "hate marches", without challenge, on #BBC radio 4 #today this morning.

#today I have some admin chores to work through while feeling a bit diseased *again* (cold number 6 this winter, caught at the panto?)... Tomorrow I go to visit a heat pump research centre...

#today is day 2 of #FOSDEM and the first day after dry-ish January. I meant to combine them with #beerForBreakfast but only just remembered now on about talk number 4!

#today I caught up on some reading; now will attempt to get into the next bit of the #research modelling that my colleague did for me. I have the house to myself currently.

The popping was a little underwhelming! My popcorn is a little aged! #today #food #popcorn #appliances

#today's new (to me) word: #grimpact - unintended bad consequences of positive work intentions...

#today I am at uni, and seem to be kinda sorta leading an informal research group...

#today I wrote up a set of answers to a UK government consultation on 'Energy Smart Appliances' https://www.gov.uk/government/consult…

Smart Secure Electricity Systems (SSES) Programme: first phase energy smart appliances regulations
We're seeking feedback on the SSES Programme’s draft Phase 1 energy smart appliances regulations and impact assessment.

My wife today found out that we are Xennials. #TIL #todayilearned

Xennials - Wikipedia

#today I have done some admin related to groups I run, and I am now reading the IEA Electricity 2025* report because I know how to live on the edge.
*The October update ofc, you monster!

Using my birthday present / popcorn maker for the first time! I had one a few years ago and wore it out. 🍿 😆
#today #food #popcorn #appliances

#today in at uni with various clashing events, and then off to see a friend's dance performance in the evening....
Bright, sunny, blue sky, just above freezing as I wait for my train.

#today I indulged in some more #recreational #optimisation reducing the size of a key page 5x before compression 3x after. Also doubled

16WW Energy Series Dataset
Time series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset

#today I have discussed a possible research collaboration following my supervision yesterday, I am considering demand shaping from my heat pump with 'quiet' modes*, and I am ploughing through #NewScientist articles.
*

16WW Heat-pump Control
Settings and control of the heat pump at 16WW. #heatPump #controls #DHW #spaceHeat

#today met a friend for lunch, will take weekly meter readings this evening, and I'm back on the recreational optimisation task at the moment!

#today I made a bit of progress on my #research with my friend/RA, and I am now on my way in to central London to meet him at a pub...

#today I did some recreational code #parallelisation (hey, that's what I did my MSc in, kinda, before it was fashionable), while recovering from the #nightclubbing!

On Website Technicals (2026-01)
Tech updates: mail chatter but little bufferbloat, new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo archives, data correction, grid dither, parallelisation...

#today I (just) sketched out a talk proposal for the #Energy track at #FOSDEM and will get on with some other admin while waiting for comments...

#today I am in at uni, likely the last time this year, for #JournalClub this morning. We will be reviewing the Monsanto glyphosate safety paper #retraction:

#today I'm slacking in bed to let the end of this annoying cold/cough slip away (I had a very sweaty night last night). I have put off some (overdue) admin again until tomorrow. Managed to absorb a lunch pizza with lots of fresh garlic and some chili and black pepper, all purely medicinal ofc, along with industrial quantities of coffee...

#today I have to select a paper for Journal Club and re-recreate the group invitation which seems to have partly rotted within the Exchange server. Also I will do some extra tests on the data gathered yesterday, since fixing now will be much easier than in a month. And catch up with the #NewScientist

#today I have downloaded, converted and eyeballed ~21 million data points (temperature and humidity from around my home over one year)! Charts appearing on the page soon... I hope to publish this as an open data set and/or refer to it from a new paper...

16WW High Resolution Temperature/RH Dataset (2025)
High-resolution dataset for heating system monitoring. #heatBattery #microgen #dataset

my mommy made me a cheeseccake from an old cookbook she got 50 years ago on a trip to the USA which young me subsequently doodled on said cheesecake page.
we are figuring i was trying to write "only make on my 48th Birthday" 🎉
😆
#birthday #cake #cheesecake #today #family

#today various bits of admin including starting things for this year's sustainability hackathon at uni, and very slowly and carefully* fetching and processing the extra 2025 house heating data set again (I'll do most tomorrow).
*Automation, I've heard of it! But it didn't work out so well last time, so I'm eyeballing probably millions of data points as I go this time...<…

#today in at uni to support a friend doing his viva, my supervision, and maybe even a bit of research!

#today in at uni ... about to actually do some #research work - shock!

#today is #NewScientist article splurge day, but I also have to do some admin for #JournalClub and the inventors' club, and I'd like to maintain the slight

#today will be more data juggling of various sorts: there may be two more public #open #datasets by the end of day...

#today (very grey and overcast and raining though not cold ~12C) very slowly doing small bits of admin, and listening to some ambient music:
https://www.twitch.tv/scruffyfox

ScruffyFox - Twitch
🌊 ambient music to relax to 🌊

#today shortly off to a friend's birthday party at the pub, and then I *should* get on with more research planning, but I am now at the difficult "what if" part and my head is empty!

#today I have made arrangements to return my uni loan laptop since I think that one part of my planned research will not happen, I am fixing a couple of historical data glitches in my solar PV generation gathering, and I may start work publishing an independent set of temp/RH% measurements for my home for last year. I have been invited out this evening to the big smoke (central London) by friends…

#today I am starting to generate my (#TeXLaTeX) formal #research #paper, which though will be a long journ…

#today I prepared the agenda for my #PhD #supervision meeting tomorrow, and will be in an #SSES webinar this …