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Lately I have noticed that journalists think that "litany" is a fancier word for "list", or perhaps means "long list". In today's newspaper, one writes that the failure of Rudolph Giuliani's bankruptcy filing exposes him …

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 …

I'm making arancello!

A week of noteworthy lunches. Even my Sainsbury’s meal-deal on Wednesday cooccurred with fun chat. Spent a lot of time in VCV Rack in the evenings working on dangerous new hobby. My team had our …

The product was terrible, but the game was solid. The rough edges were actually charming. The community was young and welcoming. It was fresh. It was fun. Importantly, it kept evolving and improving every few …

WordPress, honey, why do you just occasionally drop my cronjobs for no reason baby? Why hurt me this way?

It all started with party planning. I decided to have a summer grillin’ bash, which is obviously a good idea in the first place. Of course, I invited Greg Wilder, and he immediately said, “what …

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Adding Google Web search to FirefoxRecently I read this blog post which highlights some bad practices by Google and also provides a way to make the new web search results tab the default search provider …

Yet another typically busy week. Somewhere along the way I seemed to turn a corner mentally, getting out of the funk that I’ve been in for the past few weeks. I have no idea why, …

Based in SingaporeOr more accurately, wherever the intersection of my girlfriend & tourist visa requirements are. She's from here and likely staying until ~August 2025. Singapore is amazing, modern, hot. Good food abounds. Local language …

A lot of the ways that the ultra-wealthy think about, and act about, money seem almost incomprehensible to those outside of their orbit. Having had a chance to get some visibility into how a number …

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 …

Somehow it's turned into one of those really busy months, where I've been working on stuff more than anything else. Thing is, most of it isn't really worth talking about; not yet, anyway. Lifestyle maintenance …

New challenges! 35 Children’s booksBoth of our children are now reading, and really enjoying it. And the more time we spend with children’s books, the more I realise how much of a craft it is …

Never Enough name value authors Andrew Wilkinson isbn 9781637744772 pages 256 rating ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ date started 2024-07-16 date finished 2024-07-20 locations Warsaw Great book in a sense that it's interesting to read. …

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Howdy to Deliberate Internet – my newsletter combining nuanced perspectives on Remote Work, Technology, Psychology, and other latest obsessions. The Piszek family is on the road again. Taking advantage of my generous parental leave policy, …

I visited Google's first ground-up new campus to experience the architecture and variety of entertainment on display.