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Most of the best sci-fi is confused and confusing. Look at Jupiter Ascending. 2001: A Space Odyssey is mad weird. Also, a classic.Angela Wirecutter in an article for Wired, on Francis Ford Coppola’s new film: …

British Pilgrimage Trust - Walking is for your body, pilgrimage for your soulThis is nice. (Not all religious.)

We made the 90 minute drive up to Colonial Beach this morning for the annual Osprey Festival. Colonial Beach is right on the Potomac River, and there dozens of Osprey nests around town. It's early …

A bit like "Groundhog Day". I was back down at Sandwich Coarse Fishery for a "sundowner" session, on Thursday afternoon, and managed to trip up another nicely conditioned Mirror Carp of 15 lbs 15 oz …

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 cringe whenever I look back to the days I was the interviewer for roles at the companies I worked for. When I was just starting out my career at a company with hundreds of …

I've started to miss being able to search my blog. I've got nearly 700 posts over 12 years of writing. When it was running on Wordpress, search came for free because it's all in a …

“Meet Your New Assistant” says the announcement, going on with “Built With Llama 3”. And oh my goodness has it ever got a lot of coverage. So I thought I might as well try it. …

In my own way, this feel like livin’Some alternate realityAnd I was drownin’, but now I’m swimmin’Through stressful waters to relief Come Back to Earth (Mac Miller) We’ve now exchanged contracts on the house we’re …

The 2009 post Getting Attention was an interesting description of how the Internet was then changing from people visiting sites to receiving a stream of content. Most people using the web, especially in younger age-​groups, …

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 extracting filenames from packages available in debian Back in 2016, I wanted to check the names of existing command-line utilities in order to avoid a collision when I renamed my blogging …

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 …

The timeline of the official date of this post and of subsequent posts aren’t going to make a lick of sense but that is what happens when I am behind on writing and I feel …

It's less than a week since I became registered and got my callsign M7YHF. Now a fully qualified foundation amateur radio user, have I managed to key up yet and make any contacts? Yes! I …

Histoire naturelle des cétacées, 1804I find enterprise software fascinating because it operates the entire economy and yet it frequently neglects every single principle of quality that software people may espouse. Slack is/has been the anti-enterprise …

I loved this interview with author Steven Johnson. It covers a lot about the way he writes and how he structures his books and articles. It also reminded me about the piece he wrote back …

I’m on holiday in the Lake District so you know what that means: writing weeknotes on a phone, of course. I wanted to write some yearnotes in January but couldn’t find the necessary block of …

A darker theme than possibly expected for the prompt of birthday, but I’m having to work with what I’ve got (which in this case is a nearby cemetery).

Part 1 No Miracles Necessary in the Chobani Cinematic Universe I realise I’ve had a set of beliefs. Some which are (unfortunately, probably) somewhere on the spectrum toward the extreme techno-optimist views espoused since by …