In days of old, link shortening tools were all the range. They addressed a specific issue with early social media services; especially Twitter, which had a character limit of 140 (remember those days). If you included a long link to a news article, or blog post, you were eating into the 140 count relatively fast....

A few days ago, The new York Times (owner of Wordle) announced that from 2 February it would start reusing some words from previous years. Their announcement started: Hey, Wordlers! We have some exciting news to share and continued Starting on Monday, we will begin adding previously run words back into play. There...

I'm trying to get into soup. It's winter, and it's a warming, simple, food. I was brought up on soup every day so when I left home I rebelled against the molten liquid and never really went back. However, I feel it's time to embrace it. I decided to make some celery soup. It is not a challenging make! After the...

I generally don't read or write poetry, but I wrote this a few years ago, randomly. I live by the sea, and when the tide is low you can walk to a small uninhabited island via a natural causeway. I penned this after one such visit. I prefer to think of it as passionate prose! A Ocean's ScarLike a silver serpent the...

Potato scones (also known as tattie scones in Scotland) are simple to make, surprisingly filling and very versatile. Looking back at past posts Original post date: 27 January 2013 (13 years ago) Title: Potato Scones The recipe is mostly cooked potatoes -- if you have any left over from a meal pop them in the fridge...

I've always enjoyed a word puzzle. For many years I have been playing Words With Friends with a few of my chums. We're not seriously competitive, but we enjoy the game; it's a nice distraction from life. Similarly, when Wordle came along I was instantly hooked. Josh Wardle created a prototype several years earlier,...

After reading Thomas's post, it inspired me to do a reply post with my own list. I then started to wonder about the parameters: is it something I have bought, or something I have been given? Or something within my lifetime? Let's exclude the house, which was built in the 1850s! Before my birthI have a UK Three Penny...

For those who follow along with my ramblings, you may recall my relationship with the Kagi search engine. On testing it, I loved the idea but was on the fence about paying for my search results. After the trial I returned to my more traditional DuckDuckGo experience. I quickly missed the very focused results from...

Last year I reflected on if I should grow up, as I notched another year around the sun. And here we are a year later. Last week I continued my annual rotation. I can say with some conviction that I am happy that I have not morphed into a full grown-up adulting person. I am quite happy with my balance of crazy,...

Like many others, I seem to have amassed a number of domain names over the years, and I just can't seem to let go of many of them. Currently I have 48 registered domains. Some are for projects which are current; others for old projects I've closed down but love the name; and some are names for an idea that never...

It's time to clip my trotters! I've never been a nail-biter, which means that every few weeks I need to get the shears out and clip the trotters 😁 I tend to pay little attention to them, but there is always a day when I am suddenly aware of them. That day is today. As I type on the keyboard I can feel them clicking...

Why do people feel the need to post spoilers and clues about daily puzzle games? What do they hope to achieve? All it does is ruin someone else's fun as they now have more information than is required to complete the game. I see it for so many online puzzle games, but let's just take Wordle as an example. It's very...