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A lot of sunshine today. Quite warm at times. Cleaned both the B cars. Had a lot to burn including big pig. Started to hoe gravel patch round house. Very dirty.
Farewell to my dear Aunt Jenni. It was so wonderful to be able to spend time with you and the family in Wanaka. Here’s to your bright eyes.
Populated places are probably among elements of human geography those you can most widely find represented in maps in general. I here want to discuss a bit the somewhat peculiar situation of their mapping in OpenStreetMap. Populated...
I shared some thoughts earlier about building Moments. In simple terms, it’s like Bear Blog, but focused on photos. I expected a handful of people to get it. More did than I thought. Some signed up. Some posted old photos. Some wrote...
Photo: © Stan B.None whatsoever, to state that we are dealing with an openly racist Presidential administration. The dog whistles and subtle code talk of yore are no longer needed and can no longer be disguised when confronted with the...
A few weeks ago I wrote about the shift from GPU-poor to token-poor. Since this post, and the ones I wrote about my recent obsession with AI independence, a lot of people have asked me for advice about how they should access...
Yesterday’s post featured a Hymek diesel hydraulic loco. It’s a pretty ancient Triang Hornby model I picked up on eBay a good 25 or so years ago way before the far newer incarceration from Heljan. But at the time it was all that was...
Here’s a question I can’t stop chewing on: why is some software so damn good, and most of it so… not? Not buggy. Not slow. Just bad. Bad in a way you feel in your gut the moment you touch it. The answer isn’t tooling, or budget, or...
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a core function and some recreational mathematics. (Note that this ends today.)
This is the… third? fourth? book by Saramago I read, and can’t wait to deep-dive into its style. *Still in progress* 🏃Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!
I often find myself wanting to copy images in the Bear media library in markdown format, not just the URL, since it's one of those MD options I never seem to remember. This dashboard plugin solves that by adding a handy "Copy MD" button...
Zippy the cat. He doesn't get quite the same exposure here as the other two, George and Bungle. He's very much an individual, hard to catch on camera, no pretty boy poser. He's the one that stays out longer. He doesn't roam too far but...
Porter is a dark beer, right? Pretty much black. Well, that was not always the case, as the late Martyn Cornell explains in his 2025 book Porter & Stout. He describes 18th century London porter as “mid-brown or deep chestnut in colour at...
In a recent digest I linked to Herman’s post post about resurfacing old blogs. In that entry, the posts he chose to resurface were the ones about his journalling[1] journey, and this inspired me to have a go. Of course, I’ve tried it...