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Every so often I get a question about Pagecord that I reply to on the socials, or over email. Email is private and I delete old social content, so I thought it might be fun to answer some of these questions in public on my blog now and...
11:02 - An update to the art wall. Today we're going to buy frames (again). So many things to frame in this home!
The decentralized web made of blogs and open publishing inspired PKM. Traditional knowledge management (KM) was top down, as Dave Pollard noted in 2005, “So my conclusion this time around was that the centralized stuff we spent so much...
I’ve read and enjoyed two of Natalie Haynes’ previous novels, A Thousand Ships and Stone Blind – both Greek mythology retellings, inspired by the Trojan War and the story of Medusa, respectively – so I was looking forward to this one, No...
Index trackers – also known as index funds – are the investment vehicle of choice for passive investors. Why? Because index trackers provide a low-cost way to build a diversified portfolio that will outperform the average active...
The First Quarter Moon is Tuesday July 21. In the morning Saturn and Mars form a long line. Saturn is rising just before midnight. Mars is below the red star Aldebaran. In the evening, Venus draws forms a triangle with the crescent moon...
Hi everybody! Every August I post an updated list of all the film-photography blogs that I know about. It’s meant to be a service to the whole film community. This year I’d like to ask you in advance if you publish a film-photography...
1. Drink water when you are thirsty.You will live longer than if you don't. Beer's OK too, now and then.2. Rise a little earlier if you must be somewhere.Time does not bargain with you.3. Write things down.Memory is brave until next...
Last year I wrote about turning my small patio garden into a pollinator paradise. Well, that was the plan. One of the main protagonists in this scheme was borage. Borage, the internet assured me, is brilliant for pollinators because it...
Heatwave No. 3. Garden / Outdoor jobs. Pickwick Papers. Walton admin x2. “New” dentist. A kestrel. Scything has started Slow start on Tuesday. Hadn’t slept well in the middle of the night and it took me ages to wake up properly…. at 9am....
There's been a short CiB hiatus while I attended an important family event, but now we are back in business with very important TV-watchingThe Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder are a phenomenon: always in print,...
Note: As usual, tl;dr at the end. Tomorrow morning, WhatsApp goes dark, and it’s not just a short downtime, but it is a termination of the service. The servers turn off, the domains don’t resolve anymore and no mobile client is able to...
Throughout the summer and autumn of 1897, H.G. Wells published his ground-breaking science-fiction novel, “War of the Worlds,” in serial form, over several issues of Cosmopolitan magazine. Simultaneously, the United States reported...
When I was working for that large ISP's tech support department, it was a strictly telephone job.