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These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 UNHCR’s future is at risk – and so is its past UNHCR’s archives are not just dusty shelves of internal paperwork. Within around 10 kilometres of shelving lie official...
This week note covers the week of 6th–12th July. Last Day of Summer Yes, I was there at the foot of the Eiffel Tower 9 years ago, and yes, I took this photo. I visited Paris on my way to Berlin for EuroClojure 2017, where I talked about...
It's that time again for my weekly update, which includes a short collection of noteworthy finds, posts that inspire, as well as a few reflections from the past week or two. I'll aim to land these in your inbox by the weekend, in time to...
July 8, 2026Somehow, though it hardly seems possible, we have arrived and passed the midpoint of the year. We’ve been lucky here so far; the mornings have not been too hot, and breezes have accompanied the warmest mornings. We are wetter...
WingIt method All there is to the WingIt method is this one simple thing. There is no past. There is no future. There is only now. You just have to get through now. At the start of every day, do what you like. There isn’t a task list...
This was a weird week, during which I went back to studiously disconnecting from work as soon as possible because, well, a lot of stuff is going on. My back has also been acting up again (perhaps because of the added stress), and even...
I am half-snoozing against the glass of the train window as it cuts through the flat expanse of the lowlands. Fields all green and yellow in the heat of summer, the sky is white and bruisy with clouds. It is so early in the morning. My...
The Book of Evidence, by Irish author John Banville, isn’t a new novel – it was published in 1989 – but it was recommended to me a couple of years ago by an Irish friend and was in my pile of books to read until I took it with me on a...
I sprained my MCL a couple years ago. Two things about that experience have stayed with me. The first: eighty percent of the healing happened in the first week. The remaining twenty percent took another three weeks. Sprains work like so...
Morning walk
Mrs Fox with her Stormy LandscapesHere is a landscape painter I have never featured before, Mrs Fox. Her stormy landscapes (painted in miniature by Turlo Girffin) are in the Design Museum's Wes Anderson exhibition, which I visited...
The other side of the table.
The other side of the table.
Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 travel days in 2 months package. We grabbed the...
Two months without work. I’ve sent dozens of applications. I apply to AI training sites. The gigs are overcrowded. One involves listening to spoken and written sentences and rating whether they seem human. It takes half an hour and pays...