Personal blogs

Shed Build - Part 1: Foundations When we bought the house, it came with a tiny metal shed in the back of the garden. Better than nothing, but not great for storing all the garden …

We just spent three weeks in the UK and Italy, and it was glorious. Family, mostly, plus a few friends, a little culture, a lot of food, and plenty of pizza and pubs. On the …

“Bomb Damage in London, January 1942,” Imperial War Museums (D 6412) Every poem has a purpose, William Wordsworth says in the preface to Lyrical Ballads, the poetry collection he collaborated on with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. …

Paul Simon got there first.. I’m giving up ‘intelligence’ for 2024. That is, I’m not going to use the term ‘intelligence’ except to critique it as an inherently flawed construction firmly grounded in race science …

bouncinghedgehog:A female paper nautilus octopus riding a jellyfish-like medusa hydroid creates a fascinating sight, where two species appear to merge into a symbiotic relationship.As we know, this octopus utilizes the jelly for transportation, protection, and …

It’s said that thinkers are either foxes and hedgehogs. The fox knows many things, and the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ever since I heard about this I’ve known that I am a hedgehog. My …

Today should be the last day of what has been nearly a month of uninterrupted 90+ degree temperatures. It just goes to show that even the forces of Hell have no power on this sacred …

Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the two poles of concern, when it comes to what we …

Last Sunday I flew out eastwards to meet Shannon in Nashville to view the eclipse. I just managed to get a brief glimpse of the city, visiting Broadway the night...

There are still numerous craft projects somewhere in mid-flight at Symbolic Towers, and I keep slowly gathering plans for more that I haven’t even started yet. I have enough crochet patterns to keep me crocheting …

Indie media (potentially) at its very best.I recently said to a friend:1 Podcasts are audio blogs! With all the good and ill that entails, but in our media culture, mostly good. A small elaboration on …

Zilog have announced the impending end of supply for Z80 8-bit microprocessor chips, 48 years after they were first introduced. As a teenager in the late 70’s who started an electronic engineering degree in 1979, …

1. The summer olympics are on, and you may have heard it's very hot on the northern hemisphere. This article looks at how athletes are strategizing heat. 2. People are taking their cats out on …

Eric Seufert, on Threads: Regarding Taboola’s partnership with Apple: I’ve seen people claim that this is somehow hypocritical from a privacy perspective, assuming that Taboola’s somewhat obnoxious, clickbait-style ads must invasively target user profiles and …

My personal home on the internet | dominikhofer dot meBasically, everything in this community comes down to a few basic principles that really resonate with me:Own your own domainOwn your contentPOSSE (“Publish (on your) Own …

Open As It Gets Intelligence Inside The Only Acceptable Price Point is Free I started writing this grab bag of quotes and thoughts about local AI models a couple of weeks ago, but was inspired …

this year, i’ve been working extra hard at my poetry. i’ve been taking absolutely every opportunity i could grab to write, perform, and submit my work for publishing, and hey, i have something to show …

So in the army I had a nickname “Chow Wi Wang” and I just found out there is the .wang top level domain, so I had to buy chowwi.wang Now what to do with it.

Text of a Presidential Address (2023) delivered to the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists’ Society at Norwich, 26-3-2024 Thank you – firstly – for doing me the honour of asking me to be your President for …

As predicted, I posted my new video called Badness 0. If you are waiting for me to post the video here, you are a poor detective! I think it's best without spoilers, which is why …