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Bike park… …well, maybe not. Quote of the Day ”Civilisation is a thin film across an ocean of chaos”. Werner Herzog Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Ry Cooder and David Lindley | Jesus on the Mainline Link My favourite...
Book now for my tours through August, September & October . . Fred & Marie Iles with Smudge Fred Iles was born half a mile from his allotment in Stepney and his wife Marie grew up in Garden St that once stood where the allotment is...
Its a bug not a feature.
While looking for something else, I came across a folder on my Mac called “free for X”. In it were a bunch of plain text HTML files which together made up a Mac freeware website that was the predecessor to thriftmac. So I uploaded it to...
I needed a quick throwaway Ubuntu VM for some testing, so I reached for the classic combo: an Ubuntu cloud image, a local cloud-init NoCloud datasource served over HTTP, and a bare qemu-system-x86_64 invocation. Nothing fancy, I've done...
Finally saw The Odyssey in theaters! Way more jump-scares than I was expecting, but, wow! What a film! Has me thinking a lot about xenia/hospitality, “Zeus’s law,” and how far short we fall of even that standard, when it comes to...
Today I reached 25% through Bonhoeffer.
Content warning: pet death. Starting with the sad part. Had to say goodbye to Bruno on Saturday. He came to visit on Friday morning and despite being all smiles and wagging his tail a lot, he didn't seem his best self. I feel fortunate...
I’ve not blogged too much recently, so what better way to get back on the horse than with a bit of Blaugust? If you don’t know, Blaugust Festival Of Blogging is a yearly month-long blogging community event. The only real purpose is to...
Runner Beans ramping- these are the old variety 'Scarlet Emperor'.
Sunday, July 26, 2026 - 15:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project This is another article in the collection that doesn't touch directly on sexuality. It's well worth reading for an understanding of Lister's motivations in her domestic...
Last night I was on a walk, listening to an episode of the Latent Space podcast with Eiso Kant of Poolside AI. At some point he says he has “a not…
I never understood how people can find whether something is right or wrong. I have many examples which can prove that right and wrong depends on the person and their views, either this or choosing what a large amount of people are...
Last week I had to the misfortune of someone saying something cruel to me. My feelings were briefly hurt but then I was able to bounce back. Does this person matter to me? Will this incident matter in XX days? Does the comment define my...
Personal Shrine, Paniqui Philippines. I've been visiting a small town church near me, and liked it for what it is: a small, dying place. No band. No projectors. A tiny, 100 year-old place that at most would fit 100 people, and even that...