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So years ago I discovered double wall glass mugs. Nearly perfect but just too fragile, leading to lots of orders: They are nearly ideal. Zero flavor retention, easy to clean, great for hot coffee and …

Comments on Ryan Barrett’s plan to create a “bridge” between the Fediverse and Bluesky, with reference to defaults, consent & moderation. Kind of a geeky post coming up! I was going to put it as …

There is a space between renting woes and property sales that is often unseen. On the one hand, we read stories of students renting places with black mould and being taken to the tenancy tribunal …

Posted on March 23, 2024 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:cooking, craft:baking, craft:bread Yesterday I had planned a pan sbagliato for today, but I also had quite a bit of sourdough to deal with, so instead of mixing …

Just in my inbox is an email from DeployHQ – my favoured deployment tool since as long as I can remember – telling me that they’ve been bought by DeployBot. My first reaction whenever this …

Gave my worldbuilding talk on the south campus of Copenhagen University yesterday afternoon, and I don’t mind saying that it went really well. Having a a great audience really helps: But also sometimes the planets …

To understand how far the modern Republican Party has fallen, please read this famous speech by President Dwight Eisenhower. Ike’s thoughtful reflection is a breathtaking contrast with the bombastic idiocy of the most recent Republican …

Things I want to do in May: Take a handbuilding pottery class and paint little things on them. Mostly small jewelry dishes, candle holders, and hang-on-the-wall vases. Attend a riso printing workshop Buy pretty lingerie …

Be able to click a button to like a page. Without logging in.

The snow is still here from yesterday. It is enough snow to close some schools, but not others. The kind of snow a seasoned winter-ist would scoff at – just a dusting! The kind of …

Monday Head across the park in the sunshine. It’s 3 degrees and there are small patches of frost clinging to shadows in the long grass. The dandelion clocks are standing proud, fluffed up and ready …

7809/20750Into London again (why did I ever leave?) for an appearance on Loose Ends. It's a very Radio 4 show, but always fun, as you end up meeting all kinds of amazing people. I first …

I read about St GIGA in David Toop’s OCEAN OF SOUND: “Devised in 1990 by Hiroshi Yokoi, a pioneer of twenty-four-hour FM radio transmission in Japan, St GIGA was the first Japanese satellite station.” In …

I just had surgery to repair an incisional hernia near where my appendix used to be. By “just” I mean Thursday week ago. I am recovering well, thank you, though it did knock me for …

Sydney Sweeney Knows Her Boobs Drive People Crazy – LOL. Good for her! I want that sweatshirt. The Man Who Killed Google Search – Deliciously scathing post about the enshittification of Google Search. Guess what? …

Hello friends Big week this week. Very tiring. By the middle of it I felt like my brain had been pushed through a sieve. Just a fine goop sloshing about between my ears. Next week …

A year ago today my pal Lou Anders asked me if I wanted an invite to a new microblogging site called Bluesky, which was making a little bit of a news splash because Jack Dorsey …

The instagram advert said something about LEARNING TO UNLOCK YOUR INNER CREATIVE POTENTIAL! and it had been a while since Jane had done something like that. She was 43, a busy working Mum. She just …

After writing my previous post about my dream blogging content management system, the folks over at Shop Talk asked me to come on and discuss it more. It’s on their site here and I’ve uploaded …