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Yes you! It's time to reach out, be nice, and say hello to strangers. It costs nothing and can make someone's day. Me, I'm a chatty person. Not all the time. However, people make the world more interesting. Back to the point of this!When...
Scotland has a good population of native red squirrels. The rest of the UK is all but bereft of them, with the grey having overthrown them in their own habitat. Scotland, is developing pockets of reds, as the greys approach. However,...
Don't forget to take regular backups of your blog. You've put a lot of effort into writing your content. Don't rely on your blog provider to take backups for you. If you self-host, the backups should be part of your regular backup...
Recently I was asked about the the ForkingMad logo, and what it meant. Not that it's much of a logo -- let's call it an emblem. I thought I'd write a few words to explain it! I started the ForkingMad blog thirteen years ago. I had...
I think I have made it to Linux. It's now my desktop of choice 99.9% of the time. I've experimented in Linux for centuries! In the early days there was always something major holding me back from getting serious with our penguin friend....
Question for the audience: Do you tell people you blog? I was reflecting on this recently, after I inadvertently mentioned to a colleague that I had blogged about a topic a few days earlier. That, of course, started the questioning from...
I was sad today! I love discovering, and reading new, personal blogs. I'm always interested in people and opinions. Imagine my sadness when I stumbled onto a new (to me) blog, only to discover that the author had an AI Generated Summary...
Forty years is a long time, and I am guessing that some of you were not even born all those years ago. For me, this year is my fortieth with technology. Hard to believe. One: that something captivates you for so long, and Two: that there...
If you have not discovered Bubbles yet, then I suggest you go and have a look. In the Bubbles Team's very own words: Somewhere out there, someone wrote a really good blog post today. You'll probably never find it. Bubbles tries to...
I completely missed the 100 Days To Offload blogging challenge. I had seen the hashtag but didn't delve deeper. Today I discovered the website. Simply, the aim is to write 100 blog posts within a year. The year can be any point in time,...
Just checking my thoughts out loud. ARTEMIS II cost $4bn to launch. The overall spend on the project has been $93bn. The emissions into our atmosphere are huge. All that to take a photo of the arse end of the moon 🤣 Crew TasksI was...
Words, and meanings, amaze me. More so the ones which are used colloquially — and have different meanings across the continents. Recently I was sarcastically ridiculing someone. (it was Trump and he deserved it!). This blog post was...
I love a good podcast. Especially at night when I am in bed. Forty minutes on a good topic and I will nod off to sleep half way. If I wake up through the night I tune into the second half. But here is what's starting to get on my paps!...
For the last several days the dog has been under the weather. She's been lethargic, miserable looking, and melancholy. I had hoped she would perk up in a day or two, and on Tuesday she seemed to have bounced back to her usual cheery,...
I have a work meeting at 9am I need to leave the house at 7am to drive there I should get up at 6am I'm wide awake at 5:15am