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In a session earlier today the deployment of a tool was discussed in an organisation’s information environment that is otherwise fully dominated by Microsoft products. After a presentation a director asked “if we add this tool to our...
This year we went to Pantelleria earlier than usual, in May. We usually go in September, when the island is dry and golden. May is different. The volcanic rocks are covered in flowers, the hillsides are green, and the nature feels more...
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects. I post this now on its own so that we have a place to link to, to...
I VERY MUCH ENJOY sending Fresh Cut Paper paper bouquets. They usually cost in the $12-15 range, and they take four regular stamps to mail, and they’re perfect for things like “aunt’s 80th birthday,” where you want to send something kind...
The Trip We are back from the St. Louis Pen Show and we had a great time. I taught sooo many classes, Bob met so many people at the table and we ate soooo much good food. We got to spend time with friends and make lots of new ones too....
I am living under a rock!Apparently there’s a schema for recipes??? I was genuinely surprised when Mealie popped up a parsing dialog while I was trying to import a plain-text recipe. Turns out websites can embed recipes using JSON-LD,...
Some of my projects end in disappointment, but this one is a nice success. I was scrolling AliExpress, as one does, when I came across a little 4-inch touchscreen with an ESP32 built right into the back of it, a Guition...
As I have been playing a lot of Classic Traveller lately, I have been reading over all the interpretations of various mechanics that changed over the editions. One that seems to be fairly entrenched in newer editions of Traveller are...
A White-tailed Tropicbird flies off the southern coast of the Big Island.
Walking from Clapton to Brick Lane in the heat on The Dig’s East London Record Shop Vinyl Crawl. I’ve been following Stewart Lee’s brilliant tour on Instagram around the record shops and music locations of the London Borough of Hackney,...
Możecie pamiętać moje zachwyty nad mikroczytnikiem ebooków, Xteink X4, jak wpis z lutego [1] i aktualizację z marca po miesiącu używania [2].Otóż głupia sprawa ale pod koniec maja upuściłem swojego X4 na twardą podłogę i wyglądało na to...
For years I have been writing a paragraph about every book I read as part of my annual Reading Log, which you can find above. Many of the books I read are from smaller, independent presses or were written by writers who aren’t everyday...
There are times when we're surrounded by people. We're engaged in plenty of conversations. Yet we walk away dissatisfied. As if we couldn't say what we wanted to say. There's this nagging feeling after every conversation, that you're...
Heute darf ich euch einmal Physical Graffiti näher bringen. Habe ich schon länger auf dem Schirm und erschreckenderweise festgestellt, dass ich sie hier auf dem Blog noch gar nicht gefeatured habe. Das hole ich heute mit dem Track „Ava“...
Greetings from the summer solstice week in the Washington, DC area. We’re alternating between serious heat (not yet at French levels) and serious storms. The happiest beings here are plants. Today’s post is one of my semi-regular surveys...