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I'm starting to experiment with straight out of camera JPG's from my EM1 III. Less time in front of the screen editing images is starting to feel more and more appealing. And if I can get away without a subscription to Adobe's Creative...
(image courtesy of avogado6) why do i care so much about what i "put into" myself? do i actually care about "preserving my health", or am i just pursuing some vain and self-obsessed notion of purity, abstinence; a means of "proving" my...
After a bit of a burst of activity and motivation in January, life took over again for most of February leaving me very little time to do much. So my planned piece for the month which involves modelling a new spaceship in Blender from...
Una de mis últimas actividades ha sido visitar la fábrica de Victoria Málaga. Cervezas Victoria es la productora de cervezas más conocida de la ciudad. Esta cervecera inició su actividad en 1928, así que dentro de poco celebrará su...
Here's something I wrote about J.L. Carr for the excellent Engelsberg Ideas. Follow the link...https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-man-who-gave-books-away/
We have worked on some spring cleaning for Breeze, which helps us to prepare for Union and the changes it brings. This post is a bit more technical. Help us test things! Edit: I made another post that should help explain some of the...
Keep Going is a short book written and illustrated by Austin Kleon. The subtitle is: “10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad”. Notes Kleon says he wrote the book because he needed to read a book answering the question of how to...
That’s me, that is, riding the European championship-winning Funny Bike, FB1. Not very well, as it turns out. Photo: Chippy Wood Confessions of a motorcycle journalist: I have never owned a single bike before or since working for Bike...
Soccer match, good friends, new (to me) stadium, and the home team won! ⊕Reply via email
Days without turning off site blockers: 11 I saw a pair of swans today. Almost missed them actually, they blended so well into the snowy field.
I’ve had so much fun at the San Diego Bird Festival this weekend both as a volunteer and participant. It’s been great getting outside, meeting new and experienced birders, learning about birds and conservation, and finding “bird joy”....
In my professional experience, I’ve often dealt with corporate communication. Many users don’t know what an email is, don’t know how to write, don’t know how to reply, or – even worse – sometimes don’t even realize they need to reply....
On March 1, 2026, a joint U.S.-Israeli strike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior military, intelligence, and civilian officials in Tehran—sources range from 30 to 40 killed across leadership targets....
One of the first use-cases I found for LLMs back when ChatGPT first released was automating the creation of citations, or rather the transformations of citations structured in one way into .bib-files that can be used to create a wide...
YouTubeA living legend and at nearly 90 years old, he’s still got it. I’ve been lucky enough to see him live twice, both times over a decade ago, at Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, and then at Buddy’s Legends club in Chicago....
I spent the last day or so completely redesigning the Music page here on the blog. I took inspiration from the week view on Last FM. It’s not as colorful, and I still have some work to do (the background of the div containers are not...
“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.” Few things are more disheartening to witness than the bile which small-spirited...
This was a test. Everything was a test. Everything was a competition. Life put them in front of you every day. You watched yourself all the time. You had to make choices. You never got told which ones were right. Oh, some of the priests...
In Obsidian, I want to link to local files that aren’t in my vault. For example:  The above markup will fail due to the spaces in the file path. I spent a...
Vivimos en un mundo que nos presiona constantemente para decir «sí». Sí a los Términos del servicio que no leímos. Sí a la aplicación que todo el mundo utiliza. Sí a la cómoda y brillante jaula que ofrece el software privativo. Nos dicen...
Heya! So, Suliman is hosting the bearblog carnival this month, and the topic is "Your favorite meme". This came at just the right time, because I have once again rediscovered "We can be bees". It's a clip from a sadly now deleted YTP by...
Emma Roth, writing for The Verge: Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called “Patty,” is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only...
February was not a good month for me. I had been drowning in what felt like endless interviews, only to be ghosted at the end. Writing out and documenting these micro thoughts just reminded me of the crash-out I had. Here they are...
Last year, Robert Birming called for us all to share "The text that appealed to you most during the month, for whatever reason." and, thus, Fabruary was born. My pick for this year is Sophie Koonin's "Stop generating, start thinking"....
Ume plum blossoms along the tracks near Kyoto Station, as a train passes by. 京都駅近くの線路沿いに梅の花が咲く。列車が通り過ぎる。
Here’s how writing works today. First, a tiny thing. Then: a follow-up. And then a sentence with a strangely condescending tone! The real information is right here though. Not in this sentence. Or this one. Could it be here? Nope! After...
I think I've been struggling with standards lately. I say this because I'm not attending Divine Liturgy today. Instead, I decided to stay home and write. There were a lot of things going through my mind when making the decision not to...
In this 30-minute video I show some of the work I am doing at the back side of my land. I need to collect soil for some infrastructure project. To do this, I must first tear down a small side of the mountain. Then I can collect the soil...
I consider myself quite a relaxed person. I don't freak out under pressure and I stress about very little. Today I was almost having palpitations! We have a fully electric car. With this comes a degree of forward planning for journeys —...
The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and temperatures have started to lift. Yesterday got in a solid 45 miles of cycling, including up to this point near the George Washington Bridge, and...
Read Sergii’s story, Tokyo, NY, on Foofaraw now!How much international travel have you done and what was the best experience you’ve had flying?Given a professional background in PR and living in both Europe and the United States, I’ve...
Books of February 2026 Below are the two books that I finished this month. I started a third one, but didn't like and decided not to finish it. Non-fiction The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (1994)...
No voy a ser objetiva. No puedo serlo ni quiero. Porque este hombre y los tres que con él conformaron esa anomalía mágica y misteriosa llamada Los Beatles, son parte de mi vida, de mi ADN, de mi carne y mis huesos, de mi sensibilidad en...
If Flickr can have it's MODE thing, I guess the Wait Wait Stats Project can also have one. Okay, maybe it's not quite as grandiose as Flickr's photography festival. After all, we're just talking statistics here.
“I ask your pardon once more,” said Candide to the Baron, “your pardon, reverend father, for having run you through the body.” “Say no more about it,” answered the Baron. “I was a little too hasty, I own, but since you wish to know by...
I published three snowman-themed articles since the end of December, with one covering an actual snowman and two covering a snowman kokeshi doll and snowman cups respectively. Subsequent to my snowman coverage at the end of 2025, New...
Chaos and Panic Grip Tehran as Airstrikes Shake City, by Farnaz Fassihi and Erika Solomon. Iran Hits Back Across the Mideast, Targeting U.S. Bases and Allies, by Abdi Latif Dahir. Ayatollah Khamenei’s iron grip on power in Iran comes to...
Sometimes it takes some experimentation to get the cookies just right. Back in the spring of 2020 I came across a old recipe bookie that my Primary teacher put together for everyone. We brought in our favourite recipes in from home and...
Count Releases 0 Commits 1 Contributors 1 Pull requests merged 1 Issues closed 1 At a Glance A Wild Email Appears Jumpy Alien Community Site A Wild Email Appears I received an email about Taylor! Someone noticed a bug on the playground...
February 2026. Hull. Great excitement in the Pub Ticker community as I note a Draught Bass check-in on the way to Hull, but sadly Nolan’s (next to Ye Olde White Hart) was experiencing a lack of the amber nectar. Has there ever been a...
img { display: inline-block; } rose 5 year anniversary with my wife. :) Started a creation event for the Gazette. I created more art! I made some buttons and banners, and some pixel art for myself and with Xaya. I rebranded my...
Taking a(nother) social media break and blabbing about some websites I've made over the past couple of months!
Hey everybody, I wanted to make this post to be the announcement that I did in fact survive my surgery I am leaving the hospital today and I want to just write up what I've had on my mind over these last couple months and why have not...
ArticlesSOTU : Spectacle, Degeneration, and the Weaponization of LanguageDeep Dive into Wafrn: How One Platform Self-Hosts Both ActivityPub and Bluesky IdentitiesInside Indiekit: How 30+ Plugins Turn a Node.js Server into a Federated...
DevOps is the backbone of modern software delivery. The latest insights from Developer Tech on Perforce’s AI-driven tools highlight why — again. 70 percent of the organisations report their DevOps maturity materially affects their...
I haven’t done one of these in a bit. It’s time to take on the blog question challenge from Alexandra. Why did you make a blog in the first place? If I’m to believe my own writing from 2004: [T]he goal I have is just to keep honing those...
I woke up to the news that the USA and Israel launched a major military strike against Iran. It is natural to feel worry and fear over what this might mean not only for innocent people in Iran, but of the surrounding region and even the...