Personal blogs

My relationship with photography continues to evolve. Lately it’s become much more personal, useful for holding memories of family and travel close to the heart and less to discover poetry in light. Yet there are …

Each morning, I read a poem. A long-time habit. I began a recent spring day with this: Tilling the field;From the temple among the trees, The funeral bell tolls.Buson (1716-1784) (translated by R. H. Blyth), …

What’s up Internet? The music video for the Eminem’s second single Tobey from his upcoming album The Death Of Slim Shady featuring Big Sean and Babytron just dropped and I’m happy to share that I …

A quick look at the movies, television shows, and books that have captured my attention over the past two months. Shrinking TV shows about father-daughter relationships will always have a cherished spot in my heart, …

There are, famously, no silver bullets in software engineering. Computer programming is hard and although some people are really brilliant at it, there are also a lot of people out there making their career in …

'Didn't one have to be born twice - three, four, countless times, even, in order to do justice to one's desires? To the possibilities of this world?'Nino Haratischvili - The Eighth Life (For Brilka)§ XI. …

Went and wandered through the Bosque along the Rio Grande: Category:Dan Lyke life Category:2013-04 Albuquerque Trip Flutterby.net is a publication of Dan Lyke and unless otherwise noted, copyright by Dan LykeGratefully acknowledged: OpenStreetMap map tiles …

Oh Jira, showing the board as empty even when I navigate, but if I copy and paste the same URL.... there's my data! I've been trying to stick with using it with Safari, but the …

Having regular pain can be depressing and demoralising, but waking up in the middle of the night in pain, as I did last night, can be even moreso.For some reason my left knee ached severely …

I’m back in Scotland now, after a week in foreign climes – half in the south of France sandwiched with days in Edinburgh. The weather was . . . disappointingly much like home. Arrival day …

The saola, a large mammal which was discovered in the Vietnamese forest in… wait for it… 1992! Really makes you wonder what else is hiding out there. Circuits “ Can studies of living animal colour …

We’re hosting an event in London in a few weeks to launch Mapped, a project we’ve been working on over the last six months with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. ​Mapped integrates …

Thoughts on the fabbatars at Abba Voyage; but no pictures of the show, because they're (rightly) quite strict on that. s

Hi there. Long time no see. I’m not really sure how to start this, so I guess we’ll just start. 2023 has been an interesting year full of… Life changes? Life adjustments? Life somethings. A …

A project I’m working on forced me to wade into the discourse about semiconductors – especially the economics of older chip manufacturing processes and claims about the importance of bleeding edge processes for AI. I …

Jim Grey: Relationships matter if you want to advance. It took me until about ten years ago to start to understand how building relationships across any company I work for is critical if I want …

The strategy of empowering a nitwit despot just to get SCOTUS stacked in their favor really paid off for the antifederalist anarcho-capitalists today.

I think the whole culture is shifting toward a sense of panic about working on new technologies or thinking along the lines of what progress is or what progress looks like or will look like …

Vandaag heb ik de uitslag van mijn Staatsexamen Nederlands als tweede taal ontvangen en ik ben geslaagd! Ik heb officieel Nederlands niveau B2. Volgens de ERK (Europees Referentiekader) ben ik nu een “onafhankelijke taalgebruiker”. Ik …

3 June 2024 These screengrabs are from Gary Hustwit’s documentary Rams and its trailer video. If the video is paywalled, there are a couple of clips online. I didn’t screenshot all the “Good design is …