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This is a response to James Zhan’s blog post about pros and cons of having a comment section on a personal blog. The purpose of your blog Having a comment section depends on the purpose of your blog and what you want to get out of it. If...
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I started the summer’s scything this week. It’s the fifth consecutive year we’ve let the lawn grow into a meadow and then I’ve scythed some/all of it over July and August. This year I have a deadline of the end of July to have enough...
Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great...
Cockatoos? Five sulphur-crested cockatoos, foraging beneath the Norfolk Island pines of Botany Bay? Well, all right, if you insist. #BirdsOfAustralia #WildlifePhotography #FeatheredFriends
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On a day out exploring I went to see Coverack. It's coastal village with a fishing harbour on the east side of the Lizard peninsula. It's also got some amazing rocks on the beach and is very interesting geologically. But of course I was...
I don’t like it when "human nature" gets blamed for evils that are actually the fault of very specific rich and powerful people or very specific economic political or aesthetic systems that are neither inevitable nor universal but really...
Today is Sunday, July 12, 2026. It is also the last day of my vacation. Well, stay-cation really. I've been off since Thursday the 2nd of July and - if I'm being honest here - I'm not really ready to "go back to work". It's unusual for...
I’m writing this now bc I don’t ever want to go a week without blogging even if -like now- I’m fighting off a depression that makes me feel more than slightly worthless. You can usually tell when I’m in a depression because I...
It’s about time to get caught up on currently inked! Sailor Que Será Erasable Gel Ink Pen Review (via Pen Addict). I find Sailor’s efforts to get into the erasable pen game fascinating, even if I don’t really have any great desire to use...
Happy World Population Day to all who celebrate. I’m writing about this topic because demographics are an essential tool in the futurist’s toolkit. We now have a lot of data on population, between government efforts, professional...
A pod of Spinner Dolphins swims by. This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Groups.’ See more responses here. I’m going under the water for this. Captions on the photos. A school of Hawaiian Silversides. Yellowfin Goatfishes drift...
(Post written while electricity was still out) Upon waking up for work on Saturday evening, or, as many will remember it, the worst 4th of July ever, I shoved myself out of bed to the sound of rain pounding the windows and my air...
You ask for text. Just a few words. They don't sell text. Text is free. So they sell the wrapper. You get HTML, CSS, and two megabytes of JavaScript. Fifty million lines just to render your banana cake recipe. Then the platform. The...