Times are Europe/Rome, the same as Prague.

Thu 5 Nov · today

• 09:00–09:30 · 🩸 Blood test, Synlab Olšanská · Olšanská poliklinika, 2nd floor, Praha 3 · walk-in, Synlab order 2026058765 (paid) · fasting recommended · bring the order code and ID/insurance card · Thursday hours 6:30–12:00 and 12:30–14:00

Fri 6 Nov

• Nothing timed.

Sat 7 Nov

• Nothing timed.

From Wiz (SEO). Reply in Wiz's chat.

1. Keyword research tool. Pick one: Adspirer (uses your Google Ads Keyword Planner), Semrush, Ahrefs, Ryze AI (Google Ads plus Search Console), or none for now. The paid ones need your OK.
2. Global Industrie 2027 Start-up Competition (Lyon). Application due Tue 10 Nov 2026, AI / data / industrial software category. A free 3 m² stand if selected. Wiz needs your details; nothing submitted yet.
3. Outreach drafts. Should Wiz draft the Manufacturing Dive pitch and the Automation World abstract? Drafts only — nothing gets sent.

From Raf (product). Reply in Raf's chat.

Fixes to check in the ShiftPanda Terms of Service (updated 30 Oct 2026):

• Section 5 mentions a "documented API" that does not exist (no API, webhooks or integrations). Delete it, or reword to "export to CSV, Excel or PDF".
• Section 8 points to "section 13" for deletion, but deletion and the 30-day post-termination export are in section 14. Change the reference to 14.
• Section 7 decision. It bills "active Crew Members", but QA shows billing counts every active person, including Admins and Supervisors. Either the wording or the billing has to change.

Older open items with Raf: the QA-034 decision (ShiftPanda QA tracker), the SEPEM pitch, the SPS trade fair visit, and source checks for the ShiftPanda competitor comparison article.

• Alza 1066619257 (2× Stérimar Nasal Hygiene 100 ml) · ready in AlzaBox · P3 Žižkov, Fibichova 1586/11 (Žižkovská věž) · code 340 101 · collect by Fri 6 Nov, 23:59 · paid
• Alza 1066619256 (Vraždoku book, Vilgain Coenzyme Q10, TEPE Compact Tuft, Jamieson Zinc 25 mg) · still being prepared · AlzaBox · paid · book now expected 11 Nov, other items reserved
• JP-KONTAKT desk, order 20/2026/4730 (VSS 180/70 height-adjustable, white, with assembly) · due this week, 2–6 Nov, per JP on 30 Oct · no delivery day by email yet · logistics should call, or book a day on 778 747 901

• 🇺🇦 Kyiv's worst water outage. Russia's mass strikes on 3–4 Nov cut power across Kyiv and left many districts without water for more than 24 hours, the city's worst water outage of the full-scale war. Kyiv Independent
• 🇺🇦 Komyshuvakha toll rises to 40. The death toll from the 2 Nov FAB-3000 strike on a school used as an aid point in Komyshuvakha (Zaporizhzhia) has risen to 40; more than 30 people may still be under the rubble. AP
• 🤝 Zelensky preps Abu Dhabi talks. Zelensky spent 90 minutes on the phone with Witkoff and Kushner ahead of trilateral Ukraine–US–Russia talks in Abu Dhabi on 10–11 Nov, the first since February, pressing for Patriot interceptors and "ironclad" security guarantees. Kyiv Post
• 🇮🇷 Qeshm strike confirmed. Trump confirmed a US strike on an Iranian anti-aircraft site on Qeshm Island, calling it a "minor attack" that "wasn't war". Iran called the US reply to its seven Hormuz conditions "unconvincing"; Qatar-mediated talks continue. Al Jazeera
• ⛴️ Tanker claims. The IRGC claimed four tankers were destroyed by mines on a banned southern route near Hormuz; BBC Verify found no evidence, though UKMTO confirmed one tanker was hit by projectiles off Musandam. BBC
• 🗳️ Tehran reads the midterms. Tehran read the results as Americans voting "no to war" but expects no big shift in US policy. AP

Garlasco, the castle tower (Alessandro Vecchi, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

• Trial requested. On 3 Nov, Pavia's chief prosecutor Fabio Napoleone asked to send Andrea Sempio to trial for aggravated murder, citing cruelty and "abject motives". Gazzetta
• File with the GUP. On 4 Nov the case went to preliminary-hearing judge Luigi Riganti; no hearing date yet (possibly December or early 2027). Sempio's defence wants the case frozen because Alberto Stasi already has a final conviction; Stasi's lawyers plan to file for a retrial in Brescia between 10 and 20 Nov. ANSA · Il Post
• The 21 points. Corriere details the prosecutors' 21 points of evidence, including DNA under Chiara's nails, the "wet" print 33 and the alleged false alibi — their view is that Sempio, and only Sempio, was at the scene. Corriere

• Bitwig. No new release; 6.1.4 (13 Oct) is still current (rekordbox integration; stem separation promised for winter). Fresh Grid walkthrough: Polarity, Building Weather Memory from Scratch (4 Nov).
• Traktor. Nothing new; Traktor Pro 4.5.1 remains current. NI update status
• Ubuntu tip: sudo and redirects. sudo echo "x" > /etc/file fails because the redirect runs as you, not as root. Pipe into tee instead: echo "x" | sudo tee -a /etc/file. The -a appends; add > /dev/null to keep the echo quiet.
• Package: eza. sudo apt install eza gets a modern ls with colours, git status per file, and a tree view (eza -l --git, eza -T -L 2). In Ubuntu 24.04's universe repo.

Two different "update" buttons. Settings → Updates → Update status (with "Check for Updates") updates the Grok Bot app itself. Settings → Computer → Update Bot's Computer moves your bots' box to a fresh instance. If the app feels out of date, Check for Updates is the one you want.

A giant burrowing frog in Royal National Park, NSW (JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0). Wikimedia Commons

• 🐸 Giant burrowing frogs back in Victoria. 53 endangered frogs were released, raised from tadpoles rescued after the Black Summer fires. The Guardian
• 🪶 Louisiana whooping cranes' best year. The state program fledged 10 chicks, its record. WBRZ

A whooping crane at the Calgary Zoo (Sasata, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

• 🐨 Sugarloaf koalas doing better than expected. Near Newcastle (Australia), the population is larger than predicted and shows no sign of chlamydia. University of Newcastle

A koala climbing in Great Otway National Park, Victoria (Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

The Great Pyramid of Giza (kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than to the Great Pyramid. The pyramid went up around 2560 BC; she died in 30 BC, about 2,530 years later. Apollo 11 landed in 1969, about 2,000 years after her death.

Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciazione (about 1534), Recanati. Public-domain reproduction.

Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciazione (about 1534) · Museo civico Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati

The Annunciation is usually a calm, courtly scene, with Mary composed and accepting as the angel arrives. Lotto turns that upside down. A bold angel bursts in behind her, God the Father dives in from the sky, and Mary spins away toward us with her hands raised. In the middle of the floor, a cat arches its back and bolts. It's one of the most modern-feeling religious pictures of the Renaissance, because it shows the moment from inside her head.

«Maria è tanto turbata, o meglio disturbata, che volta le spalle all'angelo, con un movimento istintivo e felino, sottolineato dall'analogo scatto del gattino che mette la gobba e scappa. Sin qui la pittura aveva rappresentato l'evento dell'Annunciazione, Lotto invece ci proietta nella psiche della giovane donna, il cui “io” prende per intero la scena.»

Vittorio Sgarbi, Amare l'arte, iO Donna, 20 Sep 2026. iO Donna

petrichor (noun): the pleasant, earthy smell that rises when rain falls on dry ground.

• After a week of drought, the first shower filled the street with petrichor.
• She opened the window just to catch the petrichor.

• výsledky (VEE-sled-ki): results. Výsledky budou zítra. (The results will be ready tomorrow.)
• pojišťovna (PO-yish-tyov-na): insurance company (your health insurer). Máte kartu pojišťovny? (Do you have your insurance card?)

Antonio Tabucchi at El Escorial, 2008 (Rebeca Yanke, CC BY-SA 2.0). Wikimedia Commons

Antonio Tabucchi, Sostiene Pereira (1994)

Lisbon, 1938, under Salazar. Pereira, a tired, overweight widower who edits the culture page of a small paper, slowly and almost against his will finds his conscience. Short and wry, told "as Pereira maintains", like a deposition — with the humane Pirandello-meets-Hrabal quietness you like.

Get it: Amazon.it · Feltrinelli (UE, 8 Sep 2026), Sostiene Pereira. Una testimonianza, €12.35

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

Written by Graham Greene and set in bombed-out, four-power Vienna: a pulp writer hunts the truth about his "dead" friend Harry Lime. Orson Welles' cuckoo-clock speech on the Prater wheel, Anton Karas' zither score, and those tilted noir angles — a perfect film.

Trailer: StudiocanalUK on YouTube

Where to stream: Czechia (Třetí muž): free with ads on Plex; subscription on Artiflix; rent or buy on Amazon Video. Italy (Il terzo uomo): free with ads on Plex; subscription on Artiflix; rent or buy on Amazon Video and Rakuten TV. JustWatch CZ · JustWatch IT

Spacecraft That Returned From The Dead! Transmissions From Beyond The Grave · Scott Manley (Scotland, UK) · English, 18:39

A former astrophysicist turned space explainer walks through probes that went silent for years and then started talking again — how it happens, and how engineers coax them back. Calm, clever and well researched, with no hype. YouTube

Iapetus as seen by Cassini (NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute, public domain). Wikimedia Commons