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Are you as tired as I am from the digital noise and constant screen time that has crept into our lives? I’m taking some time off from that this summer. Ok maybe the title is a bit hyperbolic. I’m not prepared to stop using my phone or computer, but I’m limiting my interaction with screens ... Read more Source
AI disclosure – this post was entirely written by myself. I know AI writing is still pretty cringey – so I get that people are quite opposed to it. For people like me though (academics promoting their work, more technical oriented) I would like to proffer a slight defense of (even cringey) AI writing. Having […]
in this post I take a short look at the new MoveChunks API, explore how it works, what it's for, and how the new API provides opportunities for public APIs
Beacons Four Tops. Essex family weekend. Hot and humid. Walked the Beacons Four Tops (well, three of them to be accurate) on Tuesday with SSG and JP: Neuadd Reservoir car park – Gap Road track – Fan y Big (719m) – Gap Road Col / Bwlch ar y Fan (600m) – Cribyn (795m) – Col … Continue reading "Herefordshire Week 338: Tuesday 16 – Monday 22 June 2026"
Over this weekend Clare and I took a short camping trip down to Micalong Creek — a place dear to her and full of memories of camping trips with her family.So first of all, it was an incredible privilege to share time at a place that means so much and holds some fond memories!We arrived early on Sunday evening after a short ~1.5hr drive out of Canberra. The roads up were pretty devoid of traffic — which is to be expected on a school night (and in the middle of winter, and...
A nearly severe thunderstorm approaching Swindon, UK yesterday. I say nearly as I didn't see any hail, notice any strong wind gusts or read any reports to suggest otherwise. For a 'homegrown' UK storm it had a brief but somewhat photogenic shelf cloud for a while.
English version based on an automatic translation with Deepl. My (almost certainly) final post on the issue of FOSSGIS membership dues. As expected, yesterday’s virtual general meeting of the association approved the increase in dues. The only change adopted compared … Continue reading →
Watching a Prime Minister resign in a flurry of headlines is a classic British distraction. While the news cycle fixates on who’s moving into Number 10, the laws they actually passed aren’t going anywhere. The “Nude Ultimatum” and the Online Safety Act were bought and paid for long before the tears started on the Downing…
A semi-found poem about sanitized language.
Just something I experience more and more these days. When it comes to reviewing code, the descriptions, commits and such can be massive blast of information: Full of extraneous details depicting what was changed. The main point is why was something changed. And often in only one huge commit with massive diffs. I'm sorry but my poor ADHD brain can't take this very well. I don't want to read a novel. Usually blurbs of text are fine: Extraneous detail I can ask about if I...
Pastors need AI that pauses for theological judgment, not autopilot content that outruns discernment and pastoral care.
The pillars of Cincinnati society shook in 1910 as two very wealthy and very much respected women tussled over a man neither had ever met. The man in question was Abraham Lincoln, and he had been dead for 45 years.It was Eleanora Alms, or, as she was called in those days, Mrs. Frederick H. Alms, who first stirred the kerfuffle. Eleanora Cors Unzicker Alms was born in 1846 to Joseph and Margaret Unzicker. Her father was a very popular and successful doctor. Eleanora married...
The pillars of Cincinnati society shook in 1910 as two very wealthy and very much respected women tussled over a man neither had ever met. The man in question was Abraham Lincoln, and he had been dead for 45 years.It was Eleanora Alms, or, as she was called in those days, Mrs. Frederick H. Alms, who first stirred the kerfuffle. Eleanora Cors Unzicker Alms was born in 1846 to Joseph and Margaret Unzicker. Her father was a very popular and successful doctor. Eleanora married...
Release date: June 26thRecord label: Bar NoneGenre: Experimental folk, folk punk, folk rock, singer-songwriterFormats: Vinyl, CD, digital Chad Matheny is one of the most unique and exciting songwriters of his era, and for the fast few years he’s been acting like it–self-releasing albums, hiding some of his best material on high-concept digital-only releases, appearing inContinue reading "Pressing Concerns: Emperor X, ‘Unified Field’"
I understand why bloggers are leaving WordPress. I just can't quite get through the door.
In 1651, in the aftermath of a century of religious war, Thomas Hobbes set out to end the age of faith. Leviathan proposed to replace the quarrelsome authority of priests and prophets with a single secular sovereign, and it did so by recasting the human being as a piece of machinery: man as matter in motion, the commonwealth as an artificial man, sovereignty itself as an artificial soul giving life to the whole. Hobbes stands at the dawn of the disenchanted West, the world...
More rain again this morning. But fair after dinner. A calf to burn and a small pig. Finished mowing round the courts. Started to get it up.
Six has gotta be more than coincidence
Yesterday, I wrote about how I’m fed up having AI everywhere. That’s also the case in work’s email. We use Gmail for work 🤯. Here’s a screenshot of one email thread: Gmail UI - 2026 What’s wrong here? At the top, AI overview… I don’t really need you to summarise it. Even if it wasn’t enough that Google read all emails, now even Gemini does it. Do they scan each email twice? Yesterday, I tried to switch to a plain text email configuration, but I couldn’t find it. Writing an...
En 2012 hice mi primer viaje a Europa. Ví cosas que me parecían fascinantes: monumentos, paisajes, automóviles de todo tipo, museos, iglesias, castillos, criptas y cosas viejas. Fotografíe todo lo que vi con una cámara digital: 3298 fotos que pesan 8.58 gb + 491.6 MB de video. Las guardé en un disco rígido externo, las puse también en un CD y me olvidé de ellas. En más de 10 años si las habré ojeado más de 5 veces alguna que otra vez, es mucho. Gran parte de la culpa es...
2009 romance/SF/mystery; sixth of its series but effectively stand-alone. Lyra Dore found a trove of a rare sort of amber, and the Company took it off her. And she was seeing Cruz Sweetwater, the Company's security chief, at the time. Three months later, he comes back into her life…
#109 in a series of articles about the technology behind Bang & Olufsen loudspeakers I’ve started working with a number of my colleagues on a series of videos for internal training at Bang & Olufsen. They were kind enough to make some of these videos publicly available. This video demonstrates some of the individual components of a room’s acoustical […]