Personal blogs

Last week was a hot and busy week. Some lovely catchups with Clare, Pip, Nick and Frank at Andu Ethiopian, Baguette King/Southwark Park and North Star. Day trip to Brighton Ruby, which was as lovely …

The recent supply chain attack involving polyfill.io, which affected over 100,000 websites including high-profile entities like JSTOR and the World Economic Forum, has brought to light a critical issue lurking in the shadows of our …

After my bike tour on Monday, I first felt the usual exhaustion, but later that evening and night, more symptoms joined and showed me, that I, again (third time already this year), caught some infection. …

Lo habéis leído aquí primero: 2024 es el año en el que organizo mi colección fotográfica (611 GB y contando) y también en el que diseño una estrategia para editarlas, clasificarlas, compartirlas, y archivarlas adecuadamente. …

She likes blankets… she likes boxes… what could be better than a blankie-lined box?! 😸 She doesn’t even mind that the box is somehow partially squashed from when Patches was visiting.

One of the interesting things that has happened since my return to Asia is the return of PauseTalk. As I wrote in detail in this post, when I left Tokyo back in 2015 I also …

From Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple Maps on the web is available in public beta, allowing users around the world to access Maps directly from their browser. Now, users can get driving and walking directions; find …

I travelled to Turin, Italy for WordCamp Europe 2024 with Gaz last month. This was the first time we’d spent any meaningful amount of time together since our separation – not counting hourly taekwon-do lessons …

The current draft of the European Commission’s 2025 budget does not include continued funding for the Next Generation Internet program.

Eating Lima July 2024 crew: Bill, Linda, Rodrigo, Janice, Catherine, Jonny, Sue and Scott

Inspired by an older list I saw online, I did some math to determine how to get exact values for oversized Lettermail postage. It’s not a clean effort unfortunately, you’ll be using small denominations for …

As a family, we don’t get McDonald’s that often, mainly because I think it’s shit and there are better life choices to be made, but occasionally it will magically appear at our door, often when …

The more I think about my life, the more of a loser I realize I am. There might be a tinge of regret of not making different decisions, of ultimately taking the safe path in …

It’s officially summer. Here are the July 2024 statistics for this blog. I wrote three posts: Announcing My Newest Creations - Two Exciting Word Search Puzzle Books Transitioning My Solo 401k from Vanguard to Fidelity …

I have lived in England for over a decade but have yet to visit the famous cliffs. It’s Thursday, it’s sunny, I’ve nothing to do until my new job begins next week, so I get …

A Large Language Model (LLM) such as ChatGPT or Gemini has a setting called “temperature” that controls the randomness of its responses. The higher the temperature, the more random and diverse the response will be. …

Over the past few years we’ve lost most of our snakes to old age. It’s slightly nuts that our oldest snake, Pretzel, is still with us. She was the first corn snake I got, 25 …

This is intended as a quick guide for anyone who comes on as a Friday night Song Swap guest, but anyone who’s thinking of using Zoom (or doing their own streams) to share music with …

How to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a personal web site? I considered this morning as I fashioned a three-legged stool over my morning ritual oracular vapors. I thought it would be good to have …