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In the face of impossibly large numbers of things to post about, rising by the minute, I will just pick little bits of stuff, so I will at least be telling you something. Now, about where I live now, on the third (top) floor of the Avant independent living community. On the side of #3003 facing the street (El Camino Real, a major city street — also California highway 82 — and the smaller El Camino Way running parallel to it) there’s the living room (a big space in the...
Today is publication day for Issue 71 of ‘Make Modern’ and within its pages is my own quilt design ‘Stripey Sky’. Here’s a look at the cover: Issue 71 of ‘Make Modern’ magazine Like all the previous editions of the magazine, which is published in Australia, it is available as an e-magazine, instantly downloadable and easy to store electronically. My quilt is a combination of stripes in bold colours on a sky-blue background. It is very scrap-friendly because although the...
I came across Martijn’s post on Bubbles today and would like to take this opportunity to answer his question from my point if view … I can already hear you complaining that you shouldn’t use tables for layout. Why exactly? CSS is simple, stop making it hard Or: how to embrace 1997 CSS blog.brixit.nl All of us (with 40+ years under our belts) used tables in the late 90s to achieve the holy grail of layout … HEADERNAV | CONTENT | ADSFOOTER … BUT … back then, on the one hand,...
A lot (probably too much) has been written about Graham Platner's faux working class credentials. Takes galore. Here's some scattered orthogonal thoughts. The whole episode is a specific example of amore general phenomenon, and that is the political presentation of self. Every politician inherently constructs a public identity and persona; this can be more or less intentional, and it can be more or less correlative with their private identity/persona, but it's always going...
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27th June. Not long back from holiday and this was the first trip out with the camera. It was nearly sunny and I thought I'd take a constitutional up to the valerian at Samson's Ribs above the Innocent Railway. To my surprise a quite obliging humming-bird hawk-moth appeared (after not-too-long-a-wait) and I got some photos and video clips.First some thoughts on the Orange March down the High Street that day. Why is this sectarian shit still allowed? Why are bowler-hatted...
Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk’s flight On the empty sky. – Ursula K. LeGuin You might care to check out the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. LeGuin Prize for Fiction.
A description of my blogging workflow, from idea to publish and more.
A brief tribute to my aunt, Dr Margaret Turnbull, who died recently.
If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you might remember one of my posts from just over five years ago showcasing a brand called Waxing Kara that sold honey, candles, tea, and skincare products. Well, I’m happy to say their brand is doing better than ever, and has actually changed to Bee Inspired. Same great small-batch honey and quality products, just with a new name. Because of their new name and website, the owner actually emailed me to reconnect and see if I...
Există niște lucruri pe care un utilizator curios nu prea vrea să le afle despre Linux, nu pentru că ar fi înfricoșătoare, ci pentru că sunt atât de amuzant de complicate încât îți pot răsturna cafeaua din cană chiar dimineața, înainte de a apuca să te trezești bine. De exemplu, nu vrei să știi că în Linux există câte un fișier pentru aproape orice, inclusiv pentru lucruri care în mod normal nu ar trebui să fie fișiere. Într-o zi liniștită, cineva îți spune calm: „Știi, în...
Este script para Bash (y otro para la shell Fish) muestra los datos metereológicos de una estación de Meteoclimatic Si hace unos días compartí por el blog el plasmoide que hice para mostrar esos mismos datos de Meteoclimatic en Plasma 6 de KDE. https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2026/07/07/plasmoide-para-mostrar-la-informacion-de-meteoclimatic-en-el-escritorio-plasma-de-kde/ Hoy quiero compartir por aquí un script en Bash y también para Fish para mostrar esos mismos datos...
NYC, June 2026 It has been a looooong time since I wrote in my blog. Maybe it's time to give my blog some music. Check out the jazz that the bustling NYC metropolitan public transportation makes here: www.trainjazz.com I rode on a subway for the first time ever last June, and I am fascinated by the coordination that happens behind the scene. This is a perfect visualization to it. Cheers to NYC MTA, and to free bus! Khoa. Reply to this post
Missing In ActionI am a bit disappointed at myself for breaking my relatively consistent weeknote habit—missing out on W26 and W27. I am now writing this on Friday to make sure W28 is not cancelled! Life just kinda caught up, and partly also because I have been engrossed in my secondary site / WordPress migration project. While on the topic of missing weeknotes; I still have trouble remembering thoughts, events or tidbits of life I want to share. I really ought to try more...
code should be as clear as possible. that's why i'm in love with the concept of named tuples
What allows you to make friends and to keep them? Being a social person helps with making friends, surely. As does putting in the effort to be a good friend. But I'm sure we've all had the experience of wanting to become friends with someone, but yet it never really happens. Maybe there's never the time. Maybe you're too far apart, and I mean that literally. This is something I've observed over time, as friends move around and as people's lives grow, evolve, and change:...
Afer our first speed puzzling event, my cousin and I knew we had to do it again. The only challenge was that the upcoming events required us to expand our team to 4-5 people. We contemplated waiting until the next competition but due to our availability, we wanted to make this one work. I reached out to one of my best friends who is also a big puzzler. She was in. And I reached out to my sorority sister. While she wasn't available, she recommended one of her co-workers to...
Patrick Joyce, Remembering Peasants: Seamus Heaney understood the landscape in which as a child in small-farm Derry he grew up as ‘sacramental, a system of signs that called automatically upon systems of thinking and feeling.’ Kevin Williams has remarked how the Catholicism of Heaney’s upbringing was part of an environment that was paradoxically not ‘specifically Christian’. Heaney wrote that ‘Much of the flora of the place had a religious force, especially if we think of...
I am not one of life's gamblers. If you needed to stick a label on me it would definitely be the one marked 'Risk Averse'.So you can probably imagine it was a 'moment' to entrust our precious Moelwyn to the care of our elite posties for a 400 mile trip across the UK to see a man who's kindly offered to help convert it for DCC operation with sound for use on Minffordd.Were it a model one could buy off-the-shelf then if anything unfortunate happened one could simply curse...
Tags: #sketchesThe berry farm, Gizditch’s, was only u-picking boysenberries. An old woman on her way out met us at the bridge, happy and carrying juice stained containers full of berries with juice stained hands. Between wide smiles she told us that she had picked last week and made a pie and was back again for more. The furthest rows, the back ones, still have the best berries, she said. So, after taring our containers with the farm kids, we walked out into the field and...
Tokyo’s musbime are relative newcomers, having been active only since 2024, but have already made an impression with their debut EP 煌めきを凌いで (Brave The Blinding), which came out in late April. Like most of their peers, shoegaze is only one of the genres they’ve absorbed into their sound – there’s math in the guitar lines, […] The post musbime -『流星群のあと』 appeared first on Space Echo.
O interior de São Paulo é uma joia subapreciada. Fui a Salesópolis no fim de semana, e a cidade é um charme – queria ter tido mais tempo para aproveitar, fica pra uma próxima.Voltei pra São Paulo com vontade de um dia ter um sítio para plantar limão. Foto do Bar e Mercearia Nossa Senhora Aparecida, em Salesópolis
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We all work within intractably large and complex systems. How much agency do we really have? This was the question Harry and I explored on episode 40 of the Traction Heroes podcast. Harry read a passage from Eric Ries’s new book, Incorruptible (which I haven’t read.) It starts by citing John Steinbeck’s story of depression-era farmers dealing with bank officers who’ve been rendered impersonal as agents of a large organization. Organizations are a kind of being: Living...
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