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So, how is #OMN different from Web 2.0? The short answer is, it isn’t trying to rebuild Web 2.0. It is trying to recover what Web 1.0 got right, while keeping the useful UX lessons of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 took much of the openness of Web...
Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday. A big thank you to Andy for looking after things last week. We start this week with some Quar from Tony F, these were a few spares he had on a sprue and decided to make them into shock...
Kilroy’sPentax Spotmatic F55mm f/1.8 SMC TakumarFujifilm Fujicolor 2002026 I remember when this building was a record store. Selling actual records, long before vinyl’s recent resurgence. Kilroy’s is a bar. You’ll find it in Indy’s Broad...
I came across the Green Web Foundation and ran Pagecord through it. Interesting that Cloudflare qualifies. Pagecord uses Cloudflare as a proxy to speed things up (along with a few other services), but the app and database are hosted on...
1991 Kenneth Eriksson, Per Lindgren Platform: Amiga 500 Fallout by Interplay may be a world hit these days, but already in 1991 a game by that name was created for the Amiga. The game was written in AMOS, and was the winner of an AMOS...
Siccome nelle ultime settimane mi sto dando a riascolti di vecchie glorie direi che possiamo chiudere qui, e per me agosto lo vincono i Cairiss con Wilderness
I just finished reading Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in Times of Cholera. Here are five drops of wisdom I couldn’t help but underline (my own translations): #1. “Wisdom comes when it’s no longer of any use.” I’ve often heard people say,...
Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2026, challenge #5 is from a list by Doc - "Cottonmouth your pet system so it is synonymous with one of your settings. Here is what Cottonmouth is and here is one way you could do that" For this I am...
A characteristically perspicacious observation on utopias from G K Chesterton’s Heretics, and in particular the chapter on H G Wells: “… a permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any...
New moulds are appearing at a dizzying rate these days, and yet, most seem to just be variations on existing parts; prime example being the never-ending supply of curved slopes in every size and shape imaginable. Every now and then,...
A week ago (or so) I debugged the kitchen clock which is doing this: I tried swapping out everything else except the screen itself, but no dice. And then a commenter confirmed that these screens are indeed flaky (or at least some...
I recall the year quite vividly, September 2019, hard to imagine 7 years passing so quickly. I was invited to be the keynote guest speaker at the Men's Sheds Shedfest that's been a growing entity through recent decades and now 900 Men's...
Vafurlogi: Gneisti af eldi GuðsOut 26th June on NoEvDia/Oration True to the spirit of Icelandic black metal, this is a rhythmically informal, cyclically structured set of layered guitar chords defined by loose dissonance and overlapping...
Not a bad day. Wind dropped. Started to rain about 4p.m. Finished cutting brash in wood. Cleared all lab bins out. Buried Fred Moss today. Dot and Jane at home.
2023 historical thriller, eighth of its series. Several university friends, mostly not in touch for years, are being murdered one by one. One of them is Stoker's older brother Templeton, and he's decided to gather the survivors together...