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Fri Nov 07
Thanks to Pablo for adding me to the group! I love stuff like powRSS and indieblog, and it's how I find most of my quality reads other than Kottke. Long live the webring[1]! Technically neither is a webring based on Wikipedia's...
I took the doorbell camera off to recharge in revenge it took this extremely unflattering picture of my man boobs, I blurred out my face in sheer embarrassment. From this picture alone you will be able to see that I am a man who likes...
Beginning in 2001 and running through the end of my tenure in high school (at least), I regularly watched ESPN. I still watched it at times through 2015 or 16 or so, which when I last had Cable/Sling TV. ESPN has changed a bit since...
Un amigo ha puesto en marcha una web para promocionar el protocolo Gopher. De momento el sitio es una introducción para neófitos. La web, originalmente, estaba solo en inglés y francés pero un servidor ha hecho las traducciones también...
I flashed Rockbox on my music player but that made me deviate about how software is installed on computers and people today don't learn about these things anymore
A view of northeastern Kyoto from atop Yoshidayama on a warm, sunny afternoon, with the city nestled against distant mountain ranges. 暖かな日差しの中、吉田山の頂から眺める京都北東部の風景。
It's all a bit dark this week; goth, baroque pop, indie sleaze, and heavy f'king metal
Masto-mailo-inator 0.1.1 has been released: Stop breaking long URLs on hyphens Fix encoded-word FROM since people think emoji is ok to use as display names Fix attachments name & mimetype (allow Python to guess it)
"Nobile sopra l'incanto" (Noble as Auctioneer) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 339 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/7.1 – ISO 3200 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...
I’ve been trying to read the Dresden Files for over a year now. I love wizards. Harry Potter is one of my favorite series of all time, despite the many qualms I have with it. I’ve read many other books with wizards. Why? Because magic is...
Installing GNOME on OpenBSD 7.8 2025-11-07 This post is just a quick guide to get your OpenBSD desktop or laptop up-and-running with the GNOME desktop environment quickly. You can take things further once everything is setup, but I’ll be...
Podcasts are nice. They show up in chronological order, download in the background, and work the same in every app. In a world of algorithmic walled garden social “platforms”, this is a small miracle. Why can’t more of the internet be...
Today I was thinking about things, or experiences, I believe are under appreciated. Here are just a few on my list: fresh popcorn a book you can't put down the bubbling sound of a stream "sweatshirt" weather the smell of the forest after...
I feel like the big difference between the Pluribus hivemind vs either of the two most obvious comparisons—Meta’s social networks and LLM’s like ChatGPT—is that those two are corporate-owned. Pluribus is “imposed” in a lot of the ways...
Rainy day. Not the most ideal conditions for moving houses but that’s what my friends have on the docket. Dropped off a premade lasagna with some tacky lettering to make the end of the day a little easier.Currently Listening: Dijon...
A hyped Minneapolis roaster that didn't live up to what I thought it was going to be. Dark roast, bitter notes, and an underwhelming shop experience.
This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Alex Sirac, on the topic of “Cycles and fluctuations”. The life of a journalist is governed by schedules, but i’m not a journalist anymore. I’ve always prided myself on...
Hace años escribí un poema llamado “Escribo”, que era una especie de declaración o manifiesto, donde dejaba claras mis razones para hacerlo. “Escribo porque puedo” decía en una de las lineas, es algo muy simple, realmente tonto, pero, no...
October 2025. Ticknall. 2 miles from Calke, in the heart of the National Forest, is yet another of those “HOW had I not been here before ?” pubs that the Beer Guide continues to throw up. Ticknall is a gorgeous little Derbyshire village,...
Preamble: The whole affair is Google’s fault and not Bear Blog’s. Huge thanks to Herman—Bear Blog’s founder and dev—for his patience and help. A month after I started my first Bear blog at blog.james-zhan.com, my blog was entirely...
Today was the day that the leaves all fell off the trees.
El tutorial de hoy es sencillo y se puede realizar con unos cuantos comandos. Claro, si estas usando una GUI para MySQL no lo necesitarás, pero bueh, es otra cosa que es bueno aprender Introducción Esta es una tarea súper puntual que...
I’ve recently noticed that my desktop monitor is not turning off like it used to after 30 minutes of inactivity. It was working perfectly on Linux Mint 21 but after upgrading to LM 22, the monitor stays on, running the screen saver....
A dispatch on games for November from James
Finished reading my 22nd book of 2025. Some of my favorite quotes from Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I seem to be settling into an every-other-week cadence with these weeknotes. I don’t think that’s a permanent thing, but I’m glad I gave myself the space to do these at indeterminate intervals. On Tuesday, I started my 22nd year of...
hammer in the wind pastel maroon pink tangerine and greyblue cloud something in one smear against the faint urine water yellow. and I assume this is the sky. for the moment. not just colour. now its g...
Because power, greed and corruption blindsided us and we got complacent with short term profits? Beyond ridiculous that we’ve been running on layered CR band-aids almost every year making it more of a norm than an exception. 🔗
Frecciarossa by Trenitalia, AD 2025: servizio impeccabile, insuperabile direi.
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux "Rolling Release" o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades.
What's changed in the last two years? Would I do it again, knowing what I know now? TL;DR - yes.
We are in November already. Only about seven weeks are left in 2025. It’s been running fast, but at least it seems to be ending on a good note with Zohran Mamdani winning NYC. The Bihar elections have started. I don’t know which way it...
“Obtain free publicity for your conference by writing a post for Daily Nous in which you get to mention it.” That’s not really part of the post, but I have to give Craig Agule (Rutgers University-Camden) and Brian Berkey (University of...
TIR: Magical systems thinking 2025-11-08 Today I read Magical systems thinking, by Ed Bradon in the Works in Progress magazine. What a cool-looking magazine! The article discusses the aura of systems thinking in today’s upper level...
There was this church out here, Grace House, giving out free coffee. Cool guys, but I figured they're a church and went in there planning to fend off some evangelical conversation, get the coffee and get out. It was a Thursday evening...
Yesterday, I watched the video below and felt a strong sense of narratives that I've been telling myself and letting internet culture tell me for the past decade come back in full force, so I now feel compelled to speak on it and catalog...
Google Maps ha rimosso una mia vecchia recensione di una delle sedi greche di Teleperformance dove ho lavorato
Way back in 2011 I ran probably one of the best known storylines in UnCONventional called "I Hate November." In the comic, Lynn is pretty much just having a shitty time. We find out some of her backstory, but the focus is much more on...
Where no fairy flies there are forerunners who build in silence their world of magic
A post about students using generative AI in class