title: "Best Practices are Dead. Long Live Best Practices." date: 2025-01-18 description: "Went down a rabbithole on the old web and I learned that 'Bloodletting' was a common medical procedure for the better part of 3000 years. I'm kind of spellbound by the duration- it was one hell of a lindy effect. Our first evidence of its use appeared in Egypt..." img: "img/prettykitty.png" draft: false tags: business technology leadership--- Went down a rabbithole on the old web and I learned that…

title: "Everyone has a boss" date: 2026-01-18 description: "I had always expected to be an Entrepreneur. As an American, we are born into a world where your safety and health depends on having deep pockets when (not if) an emergency occurs." img: "/img/dilbert.png" draft: false tags: business leadership technology--- I had always expected to be an Entrepreneur. As an American, we are born into a world where your safety and health depends on having deep pockets when (not if) an emergency occurs.…

title: "5 Marbles" date: 2024-05-26 description: "Did a corporate dinner with the team in Monterrey last year and it was a pretty standard event till about 3/4 through. Two of our executives were having a conversation and inadvertently drew the attention of the rest of of the group. Our CTO decided to open up to everyone what they were discussing and it turned out to be a nice little nugget of wisdom..." img: "/img/poohbear.jpg" draft: false tags: business leadership--- Did a corporate dinner…

title: 10 Technologies You Need to be Aware of (2020) date: 2021-05-24 description: "A couple of useful predictions narrowly focused on technologies and tools used by software professionals. Since these tools preceed and influence future software that will be built it maybe useful to help predict the future state of technology..." img: "/img/ry.png" draft: false tags: technology--- "Predictions are hard. Especially when they're about the future." -Yogi Berra A hobby of mine is to try to…

title: "Take care of yourself first" date: 2026-01-01 description: "Life's most important moments, the ones who shape us and determine our success or failure by our own definitions largely occur when individuals are under pressure and stress" img: "/img/girl-with-headdress.jpg" draft: false tags: family leadership--- Take care of yourself first. Life's most important moments, the ones who shape us and determine our success or failure by our own definitions largely occur when individuals are…

The word that sums up this week is: thin. I continue to be stretched by work, and am feeling very ‘thin’. I foresaw a tough day on Tuesday so booked myself into a lunchtime swim and sauna, which was lovely. It was still really tough and I had to think about being someone who is focused on showing up despite everything. A top moment for me was taking a break on Sunday to read my novel after cleaning and tidying. Something I’m looking forward to next week is going to London for work.…

Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past month. This is the one that I’ve spent the most time with, by far. It’s a collection of DC westerns from 1970-73. It’s not something I would normally have bought, but Matt Seneca made an argument for it collecting a masterpiece — Son of Tomahawk by Robert Kanigher and Frank Thorne, so I thought I’d give it a go. I’ve been reading a couple stories here and there, so it’s taken me weeks to get through these six hundred pages. And… is Son of Tomohawk a…

Doomscrolling this, screen time that. Touch grass! Go outside and so on. You’ve likely heard any or all of these kinds of phrases and directives but video games are becoming an antithesis to these behaviours, at least to some people. mikyatto made a video asking if gaming was considered productive and touched on the backlog ideal which she talked about in a different video. As part of that, she also pondered on whether we were just replacing one set of screens and scrolling for another and I…

My dad looks so much like my pawpaw. which makes sense because that's his dad. duh. But like, the genes in my pawpaw's family line are SOOOOOOOOOO STRONG. Like, on one hand, it's a blessing to have people in my family who are still alive and remember the intricacies of my family tree. I'm 2-3 generations removed from sharecroppers, so it's been really hard to archive my family tree, but thanks to my living family members, they remind me that we also come from entrepreneurs, chefs,…

In case you haven’t gotten the news already from (tom)[https://tomstu.art/] - it’s warm. I like it but he doesn’t and annually I say “lovely weather” on my blog and he describes the tyranny of the oppressive heat on his. This is called free speech. The queue for the Soho mayonnaise (soho-mayo?) pop-up was round the block. I sent a video to Lachie because he hates mayo. He’d probably dislike it a normal amount were it not so prevalent in cheap sandwiches. Speaking of cheap sandwiches, I tried to…

I ran across the term Чермное море in my Russian reading; for a moment I was confused by its resemblance to Черное море ‘Black Sea,’ but it turns out чермный is an old (Church Slavic) word for ‘(dark) red’ which Vasmer derives from an IE word for ‘worm’ (cf. Lith. kirmìs, Skt. kŕ̥miṣ, Alb. krimb, OIr. cruim, Welsh рrуf). So far so good, but is this red sea the Red Sea? Who knows? The Russian Wikipedia article links to English Yam Suph, a term I was unfamiliar with (though I’d doubtless seen…

As I write, the lowering sun is gently shining on the monstera plant in the living room, casting a shadow on the wall. I am enjoying the changes in light outside as the longest day draws to a close. The birds sing quietly outside.Yesterday, the clouds started to move away for the first time in days, leaving a sky so clear at sunset I couldn’t see a cloud out the window. The clarity carried on to this day: for all the day there have been few clouds in the sky. I look out the window and see a few…

Despite the horrendous pricing, dubious politics and the downright annoying hydration breaks which are really just a not so subtle way to introduce more adverts…I’m really enjoying the 2026 World Cup. I didn’t enjoy Scotland’s result against Morocco but the tartan army invasion of Boston was joyous and I loved the many many pic’s and vid’s from Jobi Liquors. The timing of games isn’t ideal but the quality has been excellent. Next up, its only the number 1 rated side in the world, Brazil. In…

Dreams varying from mundane, to horrifying, from opaque to vivid. Time to get back in the magnesium supplements for me, I think. As ever when I wake through the night, my brain kicks into gear and I ponder projects, come up with ideas, then promptly forget them when I go back to sleep. I’m sure […]

Winter temperatures have been well above average, in recent times, on what is supposed to be the world’s coldest landmass. The unusually high temperatures being experienced in parts of Antarctica seems like it accounts for the so-far mild start to winter in our part of Australia. Here we are two-thirds the way through June, the first month of winter, and I think I’ve needed to wear a jacket maybe two times when going out. Still very much tee-shirt weather at the moment. Slightly cooler, and…

These bits of ephemera are rather remarkable for both being well over 100 years old. Both post card and newspaper story were Left Inside my extremely scarce copy of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Harper & Brothers, 1894. Revised 2nd edition). I have to brag a little about this book because my partner Joe found it at a book sale in Libertyville, Illinois many moons ago. I paid one buck for the book! I was astounded that no one had snagged it prior to us showing up. Vaguely I recall it was the…

In this meditation, let's enter the mysterious heart of I Am, where I Am becomes Lover and Beloved in the unity of Being.

it would've been nice to have someone with me at the lake holding my towel waiting watching me swim someone to giggle with about almost giving the fishermen a free show someone to help me change into a dry dress, no underwear and then rush home to lose the dress skin tasting of lake water the other one of salt

I biked around the city to see all MUPIs with posters of works made by the graduates of the AKI reporting which I found interesting.

Works seen at the exhibition.

The milestone in gaming history that is Arma: Cold War Assault (previously Operation Flashpoint) is a blast and runs on a toaster. Now I'm creating my own missions and wanted to enable respawning. That's not easy so here I explain how you go about doing that.

I like to wish people a happy day, and so many of my conversations start with “Happy Sunday”, or similar. Today I was able to add an additional well-wish: “Happy Solstice!” As I write, it is 9pm and the sun is still radiating over the hills. Trees cast long shadows over the quiet fields. The pattern of branches at the top of a tree reminded me of a village Kirk I saw earlier today.I started my morning with a long walk followed by a (decaf) coffee. I love when I can start the day with a walk:…

Amongst the many blog post drafts still bouncing around upstairs is one about being the last person ever to vibe code anything but of more interest is writing about what is my major project at the moment over at Open Education Global, the Open Education Awards for Excellence. Aince I end up doing what one might call blogging over at OEGlobal, I wanted to just mention a post I spit out last week that has some overlap, a summary of the responses nominators made in 2025 when I added a field for…

Yes, there’s been a gap. I would have announced it, but I didn’t know and then every week I thought I might start again. But I didn’t. My apologies. Here’s a chunk of a thing called Without Hinges, With Consent. Nobody mentioned that I’d stink of cardamom seasoned with damp poodle. Whenever you transit to an alien universe, the Portal rearranges your anatomy and biochemistry so you can survive under its different natural laws. A grade D universe like Sieve stretches the definitions of “human”…

What a day! Plenty of airplanes, and plenty of opportunities to chat. The highlight of the day was undoubtedly a Mooney 252 TSE (reg. F-GLEJ) that made its way to ESKN all the way from Iceland. It was great to chat with its two super-friendly pilots and hear their stories.

In Making Good Wine for a Change, I started two batches of wine. One was a Chardonnay, one was a Merlot Mead. The Chardonnay finished awhile ago, and it just tastes like Chardonnay. I think I'd like it a bit clearer, so I've racked it again and am letting it sit for a bit. I checked on the Merlot mead for the second time today. I tasted a bit a few weeks ago, and thought it tasted fine but needed a bit more honey taste. So, I added about 0.3 pounds of honey and let it ferment more -- made it a…

its father's day in the US, and im 2000+ miles away from my family, on FaceTime with my dad, who's in the hospital rn.

Video Description: On Tuesday, I went for a walk from North Walsham to Antingham. Setting off on the footpath out of North Walsham Industrial Estate. Going through multiple footpaths and country roads. Arriving in Antingham after 1 hour and 15 minutes. Visited St Mary’s Church (looking around, attempted to buy a postcard but the card machine was locked out). Walked around the perimeter of the abandoned church, St Margaret’s (padlock locked). Before walking back home.

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 hopping along. And bam. I lost my very precious notebook. Dropped it in the park. A lovely bloke phoned me and I got it back within half an hour. Always put your phone number in your…

Summer! It's warm, everything is full of life and flowers are in full bloom.