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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC says: Neal.Fun has another interesting site: Constellation Draw. See what you can design in the skies for the Daily Create...
I was in Denver last week for work. I managed to get out to Red Rocks on my final morning. It was fantastic during the day—I can only imagine what it would be like seeing a gig there at night. 🔗 ∙ Tagged in My Photos, Travel.
"The Flight 93 election" was a term used by conservatives in 2016 to justify voting for Donald Trump. The basic idea was that, even though Donald Trump was essentially everything we, well, knew he was -- a racist, an idiot, a wrecker --...
Our post last week prompted some interesting comments and responses, including a couple which suggested that the market ought to sort it out. Kien Tan is a retail consultant and analyst and one of the most interesting people we follow on...
I have just finished reading Seething Lane by Jack Jewers, a novel in which Samuel Pepys is reinvented as a sleuth, swashbuckler and firefighter, acting on behalf of Charles II to investigate the murder of a libertine aristocrat. First...
Here are images from the second roll of Ilford HP5 Plus I shot at the car show. I used my Pentax 645 and my 75mm f/2.8 SMC Pentax-A 645 lens. I developed in Clayton F76+ 1+9. I liked how these rolls of HP5 Plus turned out in Clayton...
OTD in 2008, I began blogging about family history. I was a decade into my genealogy research and my first blog post was about great-grandpa Meyer Elias Mahler (1855?-1910). In the 18 years since that initial post, I learned lots more...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences and thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Jurassic Park Dinosaurs are cool. The original released not long before...
One of the useful arguments in the debate around decentralisation, blockchain and the #openweb is also one of the simplest – We do not actually live in a trustless world, we live in a world built on different kinds of trust. This is why...
It’s exactly a year since I pointed out that the Open Journal of Astrophysics had saved the astrophysics research community worldwide a sum in excess of a million dollars in publication costs. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for...
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is about bookish places I’ve visited! I think the emphasis is more generally on cool places from books, author residences, etc, but somehow that’s not a thing that really excites me and I can’t think of...
So ganz ist der Crypto Betrug ja nie weggegangen, er hat sich nur verschoben. Heute vor allem hin zur Bestechungsmethode für die US Regierung und illegales Glücksspiel (“Prediction Markets”). Aber vor einigen Monaten wurde ich doch...
A very strong wind last night and today. Cutting off brash in the wood and burning it. Bona got a new car. Ted Williams caught after eggs.
Like I did for the first half of the year, here is my list of events I attend from August 2026 on. Some of these I help to organise, some are run by good friends, and at some of them you’ll find me with a camera in my hands. Maybe more...