Personal blogs

The other Sunday, we found our freezer and refrigerator not working, and scrambled to locate and obtain small substitutes. They served until the repairman diagnosed and replaced a failed fan, then sat in our hall …

I don’t feel like this is what Microsoft were expecting when they set up the ‘on this day’ feature. What a day though. What a day…

Just a heads-up that the listing for my forthcoming book Beyond Hope: Collective Power and Mutual care in the Long Emergency has just gone live on Amazon here in the UK, and that you’d be …

At last some colour and life in the garden

Worked on an interesting problem over the week: How do you pragmatically iterate over a series without using loops/iterators/etc? The solution takes you back to fundamentals, and back to maths. Inductive proofs hold the answer. …

I’ve long since unshackled my web browsing from social media and instead use RSS feeds to keep up with the haps. I love RSS (here’s mine) because it sprinkles in front of me the things …

So either I’ve been kicked out of my FC’s Discord chat or they’ve deleted it, and either way it’s probably a sigh I should find a new FC . . . I am so chronically …

Today, on what would have been his 43rd birthday, I’m thinking about my cousin Scott. Scott was a remarkable human being who spent much of his adult life battling cancer and its fallout, and it …

Altitude 0 ft Sanderson, FL 58°F (feels 56°F) Clear (wind 3.3 mph) Went from Open Pond in ’bama to Ocean Pond in Florida. Finally good to be back amongst swamps, alligators and yes mosquitos. (Reply …

Toublan, Bordeaux, and Merlot walk into a BarnThe pig surprised everyone. Often, pigs will do that when they either start talking and become the most lovable friend you could ever had, or, when they suddenly …

I must have walked past this sign a hundred times without noticing it. Quite a specific restriction for a particular road junction. The week wore me out. It steadily built towards the fortnightly programme Steering …

I've developed a useful rule to reject all social media, coupons, and wearables. A few weeks ago, I broke my rule. In January, I spent $400 on a 2-year WHOOP subscription after diving into Bryan …

I have a lot of thoughts about systems and how they work, and how we can teach systems thinking to others. Maybe one good place we could start is by capturing this old tweet of …

went for a beer with Alice and suggested I might write a weeknote when I got home we each had two pints of Neck Oil. it was £6.30 for one pint. I’m glad I don’t …

I mentioned not too far back that I'd finished migrating my wiki over to a new piece of software, but it was a little outside of what I'd been trying to accomplish in that post. …

Thoughts on 2023 The Big Stuff:A year of contentment. Family life atop the miller’s hill is bliss, and the kids are so much more relaxed and confident now we’re more comfortable letting them explore. Felt …

Apple Vision Pro is out. Casey Neistat made his video on it. The last couple of days I was reflecting on this incredible pieced of technology. But it was more about changes in the society. …

Over on Mastodon, Steve Randy Waldman posted this which struck me as true: the practice many browsers have adopted of truncating URLs in the address bar to the hostname is emblematic of the decline and …

When somebody agrees to do something for you, you usually expect them to keep their word. Do you expect the same when you make a promise to yourself? So what if I don’t keep that …

A photoessay covering a weekend we spent in SF including some post-modern architecture, an art show, car show, and more.