22nd June - 28th June Midsummer. Summer Solstice. The start of Summer. The beginning of H1. The end of Q2. Whatever you want to call it, we've hit the halfway point. Week 26. And, as some of you in the UK may be aware, it's a tad warmer than usual. Maybe now you'll turn your TV off instead of standby… 👀 Work has...

This book is simply incredible — epic in its scale; a scale matched only by the darkness of the veil, the brief glimpses you get of its vastness. Like soft wan milky starlight illuminating the corners and edges of a building so enormous you can't quite comprehend its size. This is what Le Guin does so well. I read...

Thanks to James over on the Coffee Blog for this pure noughties nostalgia quiz — Blogger Archetype Quiz. I answered the ten simple-ish questions and was duly informed of my archetype; shared below. What I love about these quizzes, as I have said before, is discovering the similarities between people of such...

Ansel Adams is one of the world's most famous landscape photographers with an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society and photographs blasted into space as a record of human artistic greatness. He famously documented the stunning vistas of Yellowstone National Park; timeless renders of unsullied...

15th June - 21st June They're spreading manure this week — the whole village stinks. Why is it always the week we need to leave the windows open‽ Freshly mown fields are like catnip for buzzards. Big, hovering predators –like US drones over Afghan villages– waiting for a rabbit, exposed and unaware, to come hop hop...

No search engine or AI model will be able to answer the questions that are most important on a personal level: the existential ones. Robert Birming Robert touching here on the contradiction of contemporary "always on" society; a culture moulded on consumerism. If everything you could ever need is less than three...

Thanks to David Meissner for proposing this! His contribution has some lovely entries and you should go read it! My old harddrive had years of collected samples and photography on it. It died was killed by an incompetent computer repair worker. I remember being stood at the bus stop holding my computer with my eyes...

As with basically everyone else with "Technologist" in their job title, I have Opinions™ on the proposed legislation from the UK government to ban under-16s from social media. While the Labour Party have, at time of writing, yet to explain what they mean by "social media", I will concede that a government...

8th June - 14th June Started using my 9x14 grid paper Moleskine this week and it's pretty awesome. It really needs a pen loop (on order) but otherwise near perfect for what I need! There are two maple saplings and two ash saplings spontaneously growing along the end fence line. We have a wood of maples nearby that...

I heard via ava and Manu that Rishabh had created a blogging challenge about AI usage so here I go, hopping on that bandwagon. How was your first experience with AI models? My earliest memory is messing around with image generators and trying to break them by asking for made up words instead of clear descriptions....

Brand new Evanescence album! Exciting times! This Arkansas symphonic metal band pioneered the noughties alt-metal boom by blending American stadium rock sensibilities with cherry-picked classical elements to create something that failed to satisfy fans of either genre. However, following their Grammy winning diamond...

Via Alexandra Dishing It Up ..., I'm answering Davey’s Dish Podcast Quick Fire Quiz; ten easy questions about delicious food! What is your favourite way to eat eggs? With my mouth? Poached is probably top of the list; too fiddly to rustle up every day so a rare and delicious treat. Favourite sandwich filling? It's...