Wed Mar 18
I don't think there's a single person in love with rock'n'roll who hasn't struggled, at least at some point in their life, to get rid of an accumulated pile of band tees. No matter that some can no longer be worn, those whose lives are shaped by the overdrive keep even the torn rags. They shine under the magnifying...
Hues of red and lavender blended together in the clear evening sky. I don’t think I have seen the sky like this before. I write with my laptop propped up on one lap as I gaze out the window, trying to find the words to describe the sky. As the minutes pass, the sky changes. The sun sets further over the hills; pink...
Tahun lalu saya memutuskan untuk menerapkan Low-Buy Year; alias lebih mindful dengan apa yang saya beli. Saya membuat beberapa aturan kecil, memantau kebiasaan berbelanja, dan berusaha memenuhi aturan mainnya. Apakah hal tersebut membuat saya tidak boros? Tidak juga, tetapi melihat daftar belanjaan (online) saya...
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I have Captcha set up for comments on this blog but stuff can still get through. While Anchor became defunct in 2020 maybe there's someone else out there still using it who would benefit from this (and I know my future self certainly will).
Encountering the Fruitmobile at Houston Hobby Airport I had a layover at Houston Hobby Airport on May 21, 2025, which led to my publishing articles about William P. Hobby based on exhibits at the airport and Illy coffee vending machines. It is no exaggeration to say that I saw everything there was to see at Houston...
I think about some aspects of interface design as sugar. This is how you adjust the photo in Photos app in the previous version of iOS: And this is the same view in the current version: The difference is in the delayed/animated falling of the notches. I don’t think it’s great. It’s “delightful” in a rudimentary and...
Back in my home, New Zealand, they have the best butter I've ever tasted. I'm not talking about the fake plastic stuff, I mean the solid 500g butter block.
Flying into Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The start of the week was spent travelling back from Kingsville, Texas. Saying that it is 5,000 miles away from Berkhamsted isn’t doing justice to quite how long it takes to travel between them. I was up at 6am and on the road less than an hour later in order to get the car...
This site has moved from pjg1.site to orgnizedmess.net! I’ve been thinking of making this move from at least a year, and a recent price hike for the previous domain ($26.24 -> $28.84) finally made me switch. The new name comes from a username I’ve used previously and liked, and it costs me nearly half the price...
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Meet Kit, your companion for a new internet era. Mozilla has officially unveiled Firefox’s new mascot. This “new internet era” is, according to Mozilla, “shaped by AI and a web...
It’s already past 8 pm and if I’m honest, if it weren’t for my writing PACT, I wouldn’t be writing this post. And you wouldn’t be reading it. But you still do. Because I just set a timer for 5 minutes, sat down and started writing. We often hear that consistency is key when it comes to habits or getting better at...
March 2026. Burton-on-Trent. A third Bass in rapid succession, perhaps too rapid, but breaking up pints with espressos leads to madness. The “We Bass” Facebook page had suggested the Roebuck and the Devvie for the best in Burton, but I was heading east of town, over the actual Burton Bridge, past Stapenhill...
My poor Sony a6100 camera (with a Sigma 30mm lens) died on me this week. It served me well for over 6 years! I replaced it with my husband’s a6400 that he wasn’t using anymore, and because of various adjustments on my desk that I made at the same time, I ended up having to swap lenses too. So, this is now my current...
GitHub issues for our websitevinext: AI-written port of Next.js by CloudFlareLenses have bias: if you're not a photographer this is very much learning a little about to get yourself photo-literateTelephoto bias example: exaggerating crowd sizesThe opposite is possible with wide angle lenses, often used in real...
Fiona’s been dealing with some respiratory stuff for a while, with what seemed like a cold starting around a month ago. Over the past few weeks she’s been having continuous problems with mucus in one nostril, and this past weekend she was also having nasal bleeding, although that’s cleared up.Anyway, she’s really...
Some time ago my wife came to me with a problem: she wanted to import a calendar file from the Gmail app into our shared iCloud calendar. The process however was not straightforward and involved a lot of steps, including downloading the .ics file, finding it in the Files app, and then importing it into the Calendar...
From (the ironically now defunct) Andy’s Blog (via The Internet Archive): Let’s tell the truth, then: Nobody reads your blog. […] At least, not as many as you’d like. This is not meant to be a mass market blog. Thank you for tagging along. When you write, you think better. When you think better, you create better....
This famous weeping cherry tree in Kyoto's Imperial Palace Park blooms earlier than most other trees in town. 京都御苑にあるこの有名な糸桜は、苑内の他の桜よりも早く咲く。
It's gotta be put out there that Christina did everything in her power to make your day better and you shot down every fucking attempt she gave. How long can you expect her to put up with your shit before she breaks and has had enough. You are engaged, but that really means fuck all in the grand scheme of things....
These days, I often find myself choosing the bare minimum way to complete my chores. Whenever I have to do something that I somewhat don't enjoy, I always half-ass it or avoid it. I don't think the bare minimum way is wrong, per se. Sometimes I need to slow down, take it easy and accept I cannot always work at 100%....
One thing you should know is that I love bags, and I have quite a few of them, in different kinds. In my head, there are purposes behind it. But I am always looking for general-purpose bags. I have a couple of them, which are jack-of-all-trades kind of bags, which I love. Unfortunately, they are all getting old (5...
I know, I know, this sounds controversial. But hear me out. A few years ago a new trend in UI design emerged where related elements would appear more and more detached and unrelated to the things they are meant to point to. Here's a screenshot of Google Chrome circa 2010: Remember those tabs? (I love them.) They...
Ik schrijf dit in maart 2026, een tijdje na onze Interrail-trip-2025. Die reis is al lang voorbij,maar het verslag op de site loopt nog wat achter. Het vorige verslag eindigde in Oslo, dus daar pikken we de draad weer op. Van Oslo naar Odense, met Zaandam foto’s in KopenhagenNa een mooie dag in Oslo ging het...
artist residency, the dock arts centre, carrick-on-shannon, co. leitrim, mar 2026-mar 2027 I've been awarded a one-year artist residency with Leitrim's county arts centre, The Dock. As resident artist, I will work on projects in the studio in The Dock, and will also participate in the artist programme for 2026-27....
These turned out quite nice for some of my first inflight shots. The bird detection on the OM1 is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here, but this is really fun to mess around with. The Robin shot was using the ProCapture feature at ISO 10,000! I'm really impressed with the high ISO performance of the OM1 when...
I was selected to be a juror on a cold case rape from August of 1992. The victim had just graduated college and was staying with her mom over the summer while she waited for her own apartment to be made ready. The prosecution alleged Maurice L. Muhammad entered through a first floor bedroom window around 2 a.m. on...
Last day of the Disney vacation was spent at Epcot. The best part was the Guardians of the Galaxy ride. ⊕Reply via email
Because I’m nothing if not stubborn, I’m determined to complete SuperWendy’s TBR Challenge this year–even if I have to bend the rules (read: cheat) more than a little in order to get there. So, for starters, this is my entry for *January’s* theme, “Still Here”, and my choice is an ARC that has been in my digital...
«Doorags. Del Blues al ruido», de Daniel Quiñones y Miguel Sarró (Mutis), es un documental que recorre la historia de Los Caballos De Dusseldorf (LCDD), banda liderada por Olaf Ladousse y Carmen, que construye sus propios instrumentos a partir de desechos electrónicos. A lo largo de 75 minutos se repasan su...
La muy catastrófica visita al zoo es un entretenido libro escrito por Jöel Dicker. Un cambio de registro para el autor que no deja de sorprender por su frescura y originalidad. El autor suizo es conocido por sus obras de misterio, bueno, La muy catastrófica visita al zoo tiene misterio e investigación, pero desde...
I. The amendment sat on top of the original contract. Kristian slid both across the table with his pen. “Same rate through November fifteenth,” he said in Norwegian. “After that, Arctic supplement increases to two-point-three.” Kari read the penalty clause again. Forty-seven thousand US dollars if she terminated...
Following in the footsteps of Alex and Joel, here's my contribution to the Great Genre Debate™. What is your favourite genre? Fantasy. There's a lot of sub-genres from Sword-and-Sorcery to Historical Fantasy, contemporary Urban to the encompassing world building of High Fantasy. I much prefer contemporary urban...
One of the things I chose to abstain from for Lent was Twitch – both streaming and viewing other streams. But it has cut me off socially from good friends I enjoy interacting with there, and it occurred to me during a sleepless night last night that I'm feeling socially isolated. It doesn't help that, in addition to...
A while back I realized most people only care about network diagrams in two moments: when they have to explain the network to someone else, and when something is broken and nobody remembers how the network is actually put together. For a long time, I treated diagramming like “nice to have” documentation. Useful,...
So to set the scene, I have been using linux since ~2016, and daily driving since ~2019. My path was roughly Ubuntu -> Kubuntu -> Arch, and that is where I have stayed. I used Gentoo a while, but my arch experience made me update every other day, and having to wait for a web-browser to compile for half a hour again...
Vamos a añadir un widget que mostrará información de nuestro sistema con escritorio Plasma de KDE En nuestros sistemas GNU/Linux solemos tener instalado algún tipo de programa (uno de ellos puede ser fastfetch) que en la terminal muestra información muy completa de nuestro equipo y donde se muestra con más o menos...
Over the years since I’ve had this domain, I’ve written a lot of stuff. I’ve also rewritten my website multiple times, and every time I’ve had to port my old content over to the new site. I think this is going to be the last time I do that, but I thought that every other time, too, so who can say. Anyway, I’ve just...
Es ist für mich immer so eine Sache, schöpferisch tätige Menschen leibhaftig in Aktion zu erleben. Einerseits genieße ich es, mich kurz mit ihnen in einem Raum zu wissen und mich dann und wann freudiger Starstruckness hinzugeben. Andererseits hinterlässt das bloße Erleben gern auch mal ein Gefühl von Unruhe und...
Previously. Problem statement: passing --add-dir flags to cco in a shell alias doesn’t scale well as the number of directories increases. I had this alias: shell alias claudey="cco --allow-oauth-refresh --add-dir ~/.cache --add-dir ~/.aws/cli/cache --add-dir ~/.aws/sso/cache --add-dir ~/.azure --add-dir...
It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find the most healing. But despite what a crucible of our emotional and spiritual lives relationships are — or perhaps precisely because of...
Thanks to Alex for this blogging prompt, here's my own favourite reading genre. What is your favourite genre?It has to be Crime/Detective Fiction. It's a massive genre; very populous and busy with authors vying for attention. I love reading new, independent authors rather than the main-stream churn. I'd never pick...
Wilbur Dyre Hart III, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, has died. Professor Hart, known to all as Bill, worked in philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. He is the author of The Engines of the Soul (Cambridge, 1988) and...
Woohoo, this website is now listed on powRSS! I also made a webgarden for it which you can find on the info page. And I also added more links there. In deities, I added a page for "Hiisi" as he appears as forest deity and giant (it's a bit of an unclear situation). In myths, I added the Ski Hunting of the Moose of...
Replied to Hacker News, reading again, and PEAK - W09 by joelchrono (joelchrono.xyz) My blogpost about setting up phones being a nightmare made it to the front page of HackerNews. It got a lot of very funny replies, so much so I kind of want to do a continuation. But honestly it’s pretty simple, so many people...
The ups and downs and coming arounds ─ We've been this way before; The race between the hare and hounds Is one we'd rather ignore.
I learned about Johnny.Decimal from Pika blogger Michael Borland. The last post on his blog clued me in. Sadly he has since passed away. RIP Michael. ❤ I’ve dipped in and out of Getting Things Done (GTD) many times over the years. The most organized I’ve felt in life is when I was truly adhering to the process,...
I apologize for the delay of these weeknotes! Work has been rather busy lately, I don’t even want to bring it up here very much. Rest assured I had plenty of free time to do other things I find more enjoyable to share on this blogpost! 🐉 My Land of Eem Deluxe Set arrived and it’s absolutely stunning. I spent some...
I run the library at a public high school (9-12, roughly ages 14-18 for the non-USians). Our school includes a Basic Media class, in which students produce a 10 minute news show for their peers each day. Said news show includes info about lunch menus, sports, upcoming school events, and whatever else the students...
Found out today that I have TWO interviews lined up! I've never had a job in my life, just volunteer experiences (which I loved, but still -- I want money!!)
This building is one of my favourites in the whole Odaiba area. It looks like some kind of freighter spaceship straight out of an 80s Science Fiction film. When I walk past or through it, especially at night, I feel like I'm in the original Ghost in the Shell movie. The Tokyo Fashion Town building (TFT building for...
In my lefty ancom bubble I’m sometimes seeing anti-meal replacemeent rhetoric, but I’m not on board with that. Some brands have a low climate impact per calorie. It’s so much better and more empathetic than the usual “carnivore” trends pushed by the fash. While I don’t necessarily recommend them (as always, be...
digg.com, social news aggregator, and once the front page of the internet, has closed its doors for the duration, and let a number of staff go, just months after officially relaunching. digg* says an onslaught of AI agents, and automated accounts, are behind the decision, together with an internet, that in 2026, is...
Following the success of the first installment (thanks for all the succulent comments!), here is another tough thinking question for you. Before that, a couple of updates. Last week I had a lot of fun being interviewed by Jay Springett of Experience.Computer. Jay runs a truly unique podcast, focused specifically on...
Hand written text by the Author, 1988 Today I discovered I Write Like, a browser-based Markdown text editor from Koding Robots doo. Apparently, I write like …Corey Doctorow. This is obviously not a comment on my use of expletives! I Write Like is free to use in your browser, with a one-time payment for premium...