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I’ve been putting a lot of pressure on myself that if I’m going to post something, it has to be “worthwhile”. It’s reached a point where I haven’t posted anything substantial since the beginning of October. I feel like I need to break the ice with a low-effort post and get back to my regular rhythm. I do have one...
Ten years ago, I was living with two flatmates in a big Parisian flat. Once or twice a year, we organised a party, which gathered up to 90 people, a number we were rather proud of. During those parties, there was a consistent, yet slightly annoying pattern for us as organisers: the best discussions were bound to...
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Links from social.omgmog.net for Monday 19th to Sunday 25th October. It was a patchy week on my end, as I spent the latter half of it and the whole weekend patching an old VPS and moving a handful of sites and projects over to a new one. The php2shell exploit finally made me deal with a server I’d neglected for too...
Quoted NYC coffee shop serves up pumpkin spice lattes — inside real pumpkins by Shane Galvin (New York Post) The Coffee Lab in Astoria is drawing eyes and lines for their $15 fall bevs including Pumpkin Spice Lattes, Pumpkin Biscoff Lattes, Caramel Apple Latte, Maple Sea Salt Lattes, and many more — offered Ice or...
The other day, I stumbled across this visualization / article: a breakdown / reminder of who actually keeps the internet running. It’s based on that well known xkcd comic: “All modern digital infrastructure”, resting on a hastily constructed brick. Reality is even more absurd than the joke Every calendar invite that...
Energy and persistence conquers all things. Benjamin Franklin Tomorrow, October 26, 2026, makes it exactly one year since me and my co-founder decided to start up Record Rack again. So far we've onboarded 5 shops all from the same business owner. It may sound small, but it wasn't easy at all. Here are a couple...
We have been to several autumn festivals at Faith Lutheran church, but yesterday was the first time I've taken part in the hayride. Last night, as the full moon rose, and just before the sun sank at the horizon, a tractor pulled a low flatbed with hay bales around the back field of the church. It was gorgeous, and I...
The night before last, on Gardeners' World, the estimable Monty Don was talking about the beautiful and fragrant shrub Myrtle, which reminded me that I really must get a bush for the garden – and also reminded me of one of those Browning poems with an instantly memorable first line, 'The Patriot'. The first line I...
This is an entry from my journal. Trance is the first music genre that piqued my interest. I enjoy practically every type of music, though trance speaks to me in ways others do not. Perhaps it is because I have to be in a certain state of mind to listen to it. A song with lyrics is impressed as something more...
October 2026. West Worthing. West Sussex. That map extract is home to my four fabulous Thursday ticks, but careful planning almost unravelled as the train from Littlehampton approached West Worthing and the guard woke me from my snooze. “A REMINDER. If you’re getting off here you need to be in the front SIX coaches....
Now that we've left the Nongshim era, I guess it's time to enter our mushroom era. Today I was a hungry gal so I looked for one of the bigger noodle blocks in my stash. A lot of the ones I'm really interested in are so tiny! They might make better Quick Bites than full lunches. This was one of the ones I ended...
Last edited 18 minutes ago. this one’s gonna be the briefest. votes have been cast, and hopes have been dangerously lifted. im here now at my auntie’s, with my cousins and my cousins’ kids, writing on my phone and thinking that maybe there’s hope. maybe we can turn the tides and rid ourselves of the bolsonaro threat...
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time,” E.B. White insisted. “You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.” Both as a reader of them and as a writer of them, I have...
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Twenty-three years after writing The Time Traveler’s Wife, American author Audrey Niffenegger, has published a sequel, Life Out of Order. The focus of the follow up moves to Alba, the daughter of Henry DeTamble, who had a rare genetic disorder that caused him to travel through time, often with little warning. In...
Also, image reduction, online graffiti, and a Blot.im update Productivity inspiration Paper notebook mods I drew a ruler in the front of my A6 notebook after seeing this video from Lilla Björn Stationery. I love how quick it is to draw up months the way Lilla shows, which is also Ryder Carroll’s method, but I...
Lo confesso, ho passato gli ultimi mesi a parlare di intelligenza artificiale con una frequenza che mia moglie definirebbe “preoccupante”. L’IA è ormai ovunque: nelle cronache dei TG, nelle chiacchiere da bar, nei nostri smartphone e nelle email, nelle riunioni di lavoro dove il brillante di turno dice “Potremmo...
I failed my digital detox two days in. My theory is that I'm too stressed or energy deficient to do any of the usual things reccomended to 'fill your time' while detoxing. I yearn for slop!1 It takes a sledgehammer to my thoughts. Everything else takes time and energy I do not have. I'm a husk of a person, and even...
Five and a half years ago, I wrote about my frustration with the machine of political fundraising as it operates in the U.S. I didn’t think I would be moved to write about it again, 1 except things have gotten worse (so, so much worse) in this area in the intervening time. ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Despite the attempted...
I sometimes think that social media’s biggest trick has been to make you feel like, when you log on, you are engaged in attempting to change the world – when what you’re really doing is just boosting a tech company’s share prices, while ignoring your own, actual world, right outside your doorstep. — Caitlin Moran,...
19th October - 25th October I have been considering the purchase of a new pen this week. I'm in the awkward minutæ of sizes; the new pen comes in 14cm or 10cm. My usual pen is 12cm, so I'm weighing up the choice before I make a decision. And, yes, I'm even boring myself with this conversation. Related: my...
Earlier this month I wrote about forgiveness of sins – specifically the question: how can I know when I have been forgiven of sins by God? As I have continued to study, pray about, and reflect on this question, some insights about how Latter-day Saints approach this question have become clearer. I think this...
When the business titans and power brokers of mid-19th century New York wanted to wheel and deal over lunch or dinner, they headed to the all-male dining room at Astor House—Gotham’s first luxury hotel, located steps from City Hall. But what about their wives, mothers, and sisters—where could they share a table if...
Soy cliente de o2 desde ni me acuerdo, creo que desde que empezaron a dar servicio en España. Su servicio, al menos conmigo y en mi zona ha sido siempre de 10. Cumplieron lo que prometían con respecto a no molestarte con llamadas, cumplieron subiendo la velocidad y los gigas sin coste y sin pedirlo. Su cobertura...
It's been more quiet here because I've had increased health issues, and have been focusing more on other things, especially my degree and gaming! I have some unfinished drafts, but they'll release some other time soon :) Same with emails! I've been playing FFXIV since end of June, and just started Shadowbringers. I...
What a week. It was planned to be a very relaxed week with mostly food, drinks, conversations and not much else. Which it almost was. I was quite lucky on Wednesday when the whole patch business started that it was a very rainy day anyway, so I could patch my little server here without disrupting the vacation...
This is one of those long posts… because I didn’t quite know what to do here, so this took me months and months. Join me on a journey… of… something totally trivial: Adding a front to that red box up there, which has the keyboard to my stereo system on top, and some vinyl thingies and CDs inside. (Or skip to the end...
I thought I’d write a post as a sequel to the post where I talk about trying to stop using my phone so much. I’ve decided to make a drastic change: I’ve bought a 2022 iPhone SE because I can’t do bigger phones anymore. The iPhone 15 was my first big phone, after my previous SE 2022 was damaged in a botched repair...
Back when the whole new Steam hardware ecosystem was announced, I remember there being a fair bit of talk about how one of the benefits of having a Steam Frame and a Steam Machine would be that you could either play some VR games standalone, or when you wanted to play something a bit more demanding, you could stream...
(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories.) Speaking of fireside stories, this is a classic 1983 post called “The story of Mel, a real programmer”: […] I first met Mel when I went to work for Royal McBee Computer Corp., a now-defunct subsidiary of the typewriter company....
Here's an argument that I'm sure will give my philosopher of physics collaborator Jacob Barandes the fits. The conclusion will be that there are vastly many complex structures smaller than a proton, right here in our region of spacetime, populated by vastly many scientific and philosophical observers. Look at that...
Cosa si può fare? Cosa si può fare? Non si può fare niente! Esci dalla mia mente! Esci dalla mia mente! Santamarea – Zanzare Gridano sinceri Santamarea[1], a stento sovrastando l’inquieto caos delle classi medie con cui condivido questa carrozza dell’Intercity 505 che, come la via Aurelia, connette dove sono nato al...
Transition Sunday night and some audiobook and reading blather to Monday morning and likely a PassApp ride downtown for coffee. I started feeling this morning like needing an interlude downtown. So I think it means time for Noi coffee. Sitting at Noi on Monday may also mean a baguette sandwich much like a banh mi....
Nove da noite do domingo e eu tinha acabado de sair para jantar no trabalho. O dia estava tão corrido que a angústia da pré-eleição que corroía o meu estômago foi devorada pela fome. Todas as coisas deste mundo são devoradas pela fome. Entrei no refeitório sem o celular; ia passar no vestiário depois que enchesse o...
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Here’s Dave Rupert writing about all those emails, texts, phone calls, etc. we’re getting these days: Once upon a time it had utility, now it’s all noise and grifter slop demanding our attention and giving us to-dos That last part really hit: “giving us to-dos”. I feel this. So many of the messenger apps on my phone...
A few years back, while sorting through old Lightroom files, I realized we still had unpublished photos from our 2023 trip to the Bavarian Forest. It was our first time there—a place we’d heard was beautiful but hadn’t gotten around to visiting yet. Two weeks in a holiday apartment, daily hikes, and a landscape that...
Domingo por la mañana, tiempo para tomar un café tranquilamente y repasar una semana muy movida en cuanto a temas de seguridad web. Voy a empezar por el que parece que ha tenido menos impacto, pero fue el que me puso alerta. Utilizo de manera gratuita el plugin de WordPress UpdraftPlus y en pocos días recibió varias...
Some of us Obsidian folk, including me, have gotten wrapped around the axle of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) over the years. I remember my excitement in the early days: if I capture all my thoughts and the world’s knowledge in my proliferating zettels, then, in time, I was sure to become Dr. Manhattan. Well …...
Storm Boelo grounded meHaving made my way back to the hotel after an excellent evening in Manchester immersed in the music of The Witcher last night, I opened my email client to find a notice from the airline informing me that my return flight to Belfast has been cancelled. Not a worry, they had booked me on a later...
Mes amies et ma famille au Mexique ne cessent de m'envoyer des messages pour que je fasse attention à moi pendant les manifs et les blocus. De même, j'ai beaucoup d'échos sur l'incompréhensions des manifs, sur le caractère violentissime des manifestants... Au même temps, les gens ne comprennent pas trop ce qui se...
We had a really wonderful day yesterday, mostly spent attending local events. Our first stop was the library to return and borrow books, and we headed to the community center. Upon arriving we learned that there was a large book festival going on! They had a mobile library in addition to the regular one, and an...
A song from the 1950s that you like or means something to you. Memories of my time at Hospital Radio Lennox are evoked by a small number of tracks. I heard so many songs for the first time there, exploring the record library, and it definitely was a formative part of my musical journey. I joined when I was 16, part...
This guy looks unthreatening enough even for me. Brian Whitehouse, CC BY-SA 4.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. I’m in the midst of one of those semiregular attempts to determine what it is about ghost lore and supernatural horror that pulls me in, especially when a good part of it leaves me terrified in its wake,...
Title possibly signs checks the article doesn’t have backing for. This is just a brief pro forma project update. Not much new functionality or anything to announce, last few months have mostly been bug fixes and technical debt cleanup. Most big parts of the search engine are in place, and while there are many things...
It's true -- I've started to journal. I doubt it will go down in history as an insightful document of daily life, but I'm enjoying the process, mostly! Back in August 2025, I lamented about wanting to Journal but I just could not put my finger on the how, why, when, what! I even showcased some of my notebooks. I...