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Thu May 14
Everything is so much, all the time, at once. Have a .plan file update. The usual warnings and disclaimers apply.
Back in January (I know it’s May now, I’ve been in a doing rather than documenting kind of mood for the last few months – I honestly thought I’d already made this blog post) I joined in with World Sketchnote Week. I really enjoyed...
You have a light switch for that. Right? Or, if you use Philips Hue/Tradfri/Etc., you might have an app for that. I have Philips Hue. Disconnected from the internet. But I still have to turn on the lights that I can't automate, such as...
Happy Ascension Day to all of you. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. - Acts 1:9 Let us remember what this day truly means. Jesus ascended to heaven to...
I've done more shopping within the past few weeks than I've done in the past few years. I'm not a huge shopper. I don't like looking through racks of clothes and then trying things on and then (the worst part) making decisions. I'm the...
Plenty of scrappy looking showers were zipping through on a cold Northerly air flow yesterday. Not much wind shear or instability to hold these together for long (as usual), but some cold air above helped with a little hail and some...
Twice a week, whilst Tabitha is playing badminton, I sit in the car and try not to be bored for two hours. I am not always successful.79 words · 3 images
Briefly noted: today’s Zippy strip has our Pinhead rowing to a half-rhyme: Zippy is keen on spleen (‘bad temper; spite’ (NOAD)) and is happy to vent his in a half-rhyme. In particular, the feature rhyme of /strim/ with /splin/, m – n...
Yesterday I attended the first assembly of the Democratic Tech Alliance (DTA), which gathered in the European Parliament. Membership of the alliance includes European political groups like the Greens/EFA, the liberal/center right Renew...
May 2026. Leeds. 3 hours between train in Leeds, time for the Freedom breakfast in Spoons (Becketts Bank), the culture, and a pint in a re-opened classic. Oh, they’ve got rid of the “Family” in the title. Sign of the times. Anyway, the...
For those of you in the United States, Canada, or the Bahamas, may I recommend: CoCoRaHS - the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network CoCoRaHS is, as the name implies, a community volunteer effort to measure rain, hail, and...
Miyu was once the picture-perfect rich man’s ewife—devoted, loyal and utterly consumed by her marriage. Then, she finds out about her husband’s affair. But the betrayal didn’t stop there. She divorces him after finding out the mistress,...
Before I went to pee halfway through Project Hail Mary, I could say I was invested. but after a two-minute break away from the constant assault of flashy images and dialogue made to maximize audience engagement without allowing a single...
Dear reader,I started my blog because I enjoy writing, and the thought of having my own space to share my thoughts felt exciting. I also saw blogging as an alternative to social media platforms, where the hostile discussion culture,...
Hay una red social distinta a todas. Se llama Friendster. Quizás te suene el nombre porque lleva el mismo que aquella que existía antes que existiera Facebook, pero que desapreció en 2018. Hoy resurge de otra manera. ¿Que tiene de...
OK, fazia tempo que um álbum de girl group1 coreano não me deixava tão empolgado. Ou pelo menos empolgado o suficiente pra eu ter que fazer um post pedindo pras pessoas ouvirem. Mesmo que não sejam fãs de K-Pop em geral. Um pouco de...
Sometimes I'll hedge on a title for an entry and leave the original one in the post URL.Currently Listening: Pavement “Here”Reply via email
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: I’d been looking for a simple, clean blogging template for years that wasn’t filled with a ton of bloated features, and it turned out one was hiding on my blogroll all along, on Jessamyn...
El pasado 30 de abril de 2026 openSUSE Leap 15.6 llegó a su fin de vida oficial. Es hora de actualizar a openSUSE Leap 16.0 sí o sí openSUSE Leap 15.6 llegó a su fin de vida oficial el pasado 30 de abril de 2026. Desde entonces openSUSE...
I. What the Numbers Actually Show On April 28, 2026, a satellite captured black smoke rolling across Tuapse, a Black Sea port city in Russia’s Krasnodar region. The smoke came from an oil terminal that Ukrainian drones had struck four...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop We got a doozy today. I'm still recovering from long covid and I've also been dealing with a huge work project that involved some weekend work and long nights and I'm...
Supe de la existencia de Mauro Entrialgo en algún momento a finales de la segunda mitad de la década de 1990. Uno de esos veranos de pueblo, conocí a la vez las letras de Manolo Kabezabolo y las viñetas de Herminio Bolaextra. Treinta...
Falling in love with photography again My new Rolleicord V (manufactured in 1954-1957), more information can be found on camera-wiki.org. Recently, I bought a new (to me) camera: a Rolleicord V (manufactured in 1954-1957, shown on the...
Economist Alex Tabarrok (GMU) recently wrote of “ideas behind their time”. He explains: We are all familiar with ideas said to be ahead of their time, Babbage’s analytical engine and da Vinci’s helicopter are classic examples. We are...
The last few years, web traffic from bots has increased rapidly. Some sources1 claim that automated activity now accounts for over half of all web traffic. This is even more pronounced on small websites like mine, as I don't receive many...
I wasn't quite planning on making a new release of BlogMore so soon after the previous version, but I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to add, and then also got a nifty request too; so here we are: we have v2.23.0. The first couple of...
Para sorpresa de nadie, ayer se desveló que quien canta la canción del PP de Andalucía en la campaña electoral aún en curso es Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, el propio candidato.Bueno, para sorpresa de nadie es decir mucho porque...
This is my Week of Complaining, I think. I do so laughingly — laughing to keep from crying, to be sure, laughing bitterly, but hey, I’m laughing. All teachers, I think, are shaped by our experiences as students. We remember what we...
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. I didn't necessarily feel I was bad at writing. I used to be a somewhat...