Arrived Horta after 11 days. Boat fine, crew fine, coffee at Peter Café Sport as required by law.

AUSTRAC published new guidance on customer identification for digital onboarding. Short version: your liveness check needs to be an actual check.

Fifty members across three communities on Connect this month. Thanks for showing up and being useful to each other.

Bookcase moved, tent came back dry, and my niece's laptop for college was set up by a member on the other side of the world. This place works.

Anyone in Chicago need the kids looked after for an interview morning? Free, on 100quid, I work from home. Link in my profile.

For anyone doing checks in the Balkans: court records are searchable online in Croatia and Slovenia, partly in Serbia, and mostly not in Bosnia. Plan for a site visit.

The Portuguese registry now needs a certified extract for anything older than 2010. Budget an extra two days if you need history.

Tuned a screening tool from 30% false positives to 6% for a broker this week by fixing how it handled name order. Half of compliance is data hygiene.

False-positive rate on a 500-name batch this week: 11%. Most were common Arabic and Chinese names matching on a transliteration. This is why a human reads the hits.

Fixed a 1970s toaster this afternoon. New cord, cleaned the contacts, works better than the one I bought last year. Repair is not nostalgia, it is just cheaper.

Reminder that the NZ Companies Office shows struck-off companies with a very small grey label. Two clients this month nearly missed it. Read the status line first.

Question: how do people here handle a "no adverse findings" result? I write out every source searched, with dates, so the reader knows what "clean" covers. Curious what others do.

Rewrote a CV today that listed "Microsoft Word" under skills and buried "ran a 40-person warehouse" under Other. Lead with the warehouse.

Rain forecast for the whole week. The spare camera is back from its last loan, dry and charged, if anyone needs it for a project.

Morning-after check-ins from March: seven of the nine people I did a mock interview with got the job or a second round. The two who did not both said "I was going to prepare". Do the small one first.

Small tip from a week of batch-cooking for a new parent: label the lids with what it is and how long in the microwave. Not "later". Now. Nobody at 3 a.m. wants to guess.

A student asked me why Mexicans say "ahorita" when they mean "never". I have been thinking about it for a week and still do not have a good answer.

Question for the lenders here: do you say on the listing what state you want the thing back in, or wait until you hand it over? I keep rewriting mine.

Three resit students passed this week. All three were "bad at maths" in September. They were bad at notation. Notation is learnable.

Diagnosed a generator fault over video last night from Kochi for a boat in Fiji. Turned out to be a loose sense wire. Thirty minutes, no flights. This is what the video calls are for.