Ads -- they're everywhere. The only way to stay sane on the Internet is to attempt to mitigate the horrors of relentless ads. This article summarises how we might still keep the ads under control at the Android platform level in 2026

September 2026. North Hykeham. Lincolnshire. You left me in Poachers Brewery Tap at North Hykeham in the suburbs of Lincoln, showing no ill effects from the handful of Devil’s nuts foisted on me by the locals after securing the “tricky” tick in GBG27. Parked up in my campervan in the industrial estate on the...

1. One day, as I was reading an essay on Medium, I saw an automatically inserted subscribe block: But as I was exactly on top of it, a new thing popped in my view, an interruption on top of interruption, both saying the exact same thing: 2. For a while now, whenever I try to follow a link to a site that no longer...

Cue dramatic opening music, sweeping camera shots, a host appears… I don’t watch much “live” TV. The Great British Bake Off if the exception. Becca has said she is going to watch the upcoming Celebrity Traitors (largely for the ‘water cooler’ chat at her work). I will not be watching. Don’t get me wrong I like the...

Here are the non-bird pics from the zoo. Clearly mammals are the second focus for me after birds. I think I like how expressive they can be. Plus it’s easy to anthropomorphism an ape taking a nap or bears playing with a toy or a panda passed out. Size and relation to common pets also help make them relatable. But...

As the nights draw in and the sun becomes a long-distant memory, reasons to venture out with a camera are fewer and fewer. So, here are 31 prompts for October to encourage you out of a slump (like me) or whatever. I will almost certainly not do all 31! I will update this post periodically (I have other stuff to do!)...

An excerpt of the "Liber Pontificalis" for Pope Adrian I related to Venice and doge Mauricius

Here is my late entry for the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival for September! The theme was: Moonlight, hosted by James. We are always three I was told about the astral bodies in the sky, of how the darkness used to be full of dots of light. I don’t understand the stories, there is no sky outside. We are going to a new sun...

Work gives me a certain cheap sense of purpose that makes me feel good. And yes, I’m talking about corporate work, the 9-to-5, the most basic kind you can think of. It makes me feel good because every day I show up at the time I was told to, do what someone else asks me to do, and then leave at the time I’m allowed...

As everyone knows, the USA is drastically affecting just about everything with regards to the global economy. Inflation and with it the "normal" response from the Bank of Canada will be to raise interest rates. However, I don't think that is the right thing to do, because the way that raising the base interest rate...

If your life were a movie, what would its theme song be? I use the word melancholy fairly often when describing my moods. I don’t see it as a negative thing at all, it’s just how I’ve always been. I’m not overly pessimistic, but definitely not the most optimistic person. The moment I saw this prompt, this is the...

As someone who writes often and at length about the relativity of boundaries and the complex interrelation of everything with everything else, I find most black-and-white opinions, most expressions of certainty, and most refusals to listen to differing points of view distasteful. If the way I perceive the world...