Personal blogs

O shred shred shred they all go into the shredder The paper into crosscut traces, the paper torn from paper. The trash bills, cancelled cheques and plaintive requests for money, The invoices paid and unpaid, …

Ay it's yo' girl Nicky, sharing another collection of cool/useful stuff I found last month! In no particular order: An actually-good tutor-bot A note-taking app Data detectives Binging on mystery novels I FOUND A FIVE-LEAF …

So, who won the first Olympic medals for the Irish Free State, at the Paris Olympics of 1924? The answer is surprising – Jack Butler Yeats, the painter brother of the poet William, and Oliver …

Frederick Douglass in 1879. Photograph taken by George Kendall Warren. On this fourth of July, I quote Howard Zinn and Frederick Douglass, as printed in Zinn's extremely important and readable book A People's History of …

Early morning, sat having a cortado, I noticed this logo on the dentist surgery over the road. At first I noticed the rounded bits of the ends of the letters, the stems. The way they …

It is one of the clichés of our time that we all have our stories to tell. But Kafka tells us here that such stories are always self-serving, created by us to protect ourselves from …

British Rail timetable covers, 1977-1980, all featuring the Class 43 locomotive that led the then-new Intercity 125 trains, from Tranport Past Times (1979; 1978; 1977).The Class 43’s iconic design was led by Kenneth Grange, who …

This is a post about looking after baby seagulls in need. You’re from Brighton, you’ll like it.

“It’s hard for a hungry man to swager” This line from The Tale of Thorleif Earl’s Poet has gotta be one of the greatest lines from all of Icelandic saga literature.

Trip:45 Nights: 152-153 It had been a month since we went camping. Real life intervened and forced the cancellation of two camping trips in July. We originally planned to spend last week camping near Knoxville …

I took a drive down to Pegwell Bay NNR this afternoon to coincide with high tide. I actually stayed longer than I'd anticipated due to a belt of rain which had me confined within the …

Ahhh! Year end holiday break. This is deeply needed. Ten days of long walks, reading, writing, and perhaps some planning ahead this stretch. The past week turned out rather well after hitting a wall, but …

I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for community-led events in the front-end community, and I am forever grateful for that. However, I am heartbroken by the current state of the events. …

We're about halfway through 2024 and I haven't blogged in a while, so here's a simple check in on the goals I set at the start of the year, particularly the ones that are still …

This post describes a service I want from my online-map provider. I’d use it all the time. Summary: When I’m navigating an area I already know about, don’t give me turn-by-turn, just give me a …

Note: this is a post reflecting on one of the modules of my MSc in Systems Thinking in Practice. You can see all of the related posts in this category. The video below shows the …

In The New York Times today, in an article about the attempted assassination: The crack of the bullets are heard as they pass the microphone that Mr. Trump speaks into. Subject and verb should always …

June was a packed but tiring month. It started with the EMF Camp festival, included a visit to Blackpool, a holiday in Wales and many visitors. I came to the end of it worn out, …

Monday, January 4, 2021 keeping a log: 9 months / ~1k entries in Previously: org mode, vimwiki, timeslice. Mechanisms inspired directly by: A demo & talk from Lars Wirzenius on his ikiwiki-based external brain and …

A chapter about the kinds of investigations/inquiries designers put together in their work, in the book by Atelier Luma, celebrating their ten years of design research.Nova, N. 2023. Les designers-enquêteurs et leur singularité, Pratiques biorégionales …