The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro A very interesting, entertaining and beautfully told story which I finished in about three sittings. A lot of the analysis told in this story about the periods just before and after the second world war, written in 1989, could have been aimed at the politics and politicians of today. It looks like we never learn. From 08/10/2026 to 13/10/2026

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Yesterday's pike was Kevin from the previous trip. So moved a mill and 3 miles down to find some more predatory action today. I had in mind a stretch that has been productive on the perch front in the past. River very clear so started bait snatching in the Aquarium. As I peered into the considerable depths two decent perch were harrying the smaller stuff. I couldn't get past the better roach and dace and my paternoster rod was still in the car.Eventually a passer by was entrusted with my gear…

Joanna Demopoulou* Photo credit: Mstyslav Chernov, via Wikimedia Commons * Joanna Demopoulou holds a PhD in International Affairs and is a former Executive in Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). Her research examines the legal and institutional architecture of public authority and governance, focusing on how law structures, distributes, and constrains public authority across European and international institutions. On live television in late September, Greece’s deputy…

The next major release of @hypertexting.com is now available in the App Store. I'm excited about this one!

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If you’re reading this on your phone, you probably won’t notice much of a difference, except maybe for the accent color. On a computer, though, quite a lot has changed since your last visit. If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, please check it out! A few months ago I completely redesigned this website, but I was never fully happy with the result. It felt too left-aligned, too wide, too empty, and not really me. So I redesigned it once again. This time I think it’s here to stay for a while,…

In 2016, I posted a cute puzzle, An Asteroid Walk, on my blog. Here it is. Puzzle. Seven astronauts landed on a small spherical asteroid. They wanted to explore it and walked in different directions starting from the same location. All used the same walking algorithm: walk x kilometers forward, turn 90 degrees left and walk another x kilometers, turn 90 degrees left again and walk the last x kilometers. The value of x was different for different astronauts and was one of 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80,…

Photo from yesterday, because I didn't get anything I liked today. I finally published the blog post I have had in my drafts folder for weeks now, about how I imported my shared albums from iCloud into Immich, without creating 30,000 duplicates.

I keep seeing news stories like this, trying to debunk the idea that Ukraine’s drone strikes against Yandex did not cause a massive outage of apparent bots on social media. So far all the pieces like this I’ve seen hinge on trying to say that the Cloudflare graph is for search bots, not social media bots. And then they bring out a bunch of experts in the space (who track the data science more closely than I do, I have no doubt), who said “We don’t see it.” But the simple fact is on Twitter now,…

Link: Young People and the Future of Free Expression, by the Knight FoundationWorth paying attention to:“New Knight Foundation-Ipsos research among young adults and high school students points to a generation that strongly values free speech as a democratic principle, but is less confident about exercising it without consequences.”Workplaces and classrooms feel the least free, but it’s good to hear that home is generally a space where they feel more free.What’s surprising, and a bit worrying,…

Now that I already wrote about Backblaze for another reason, I’ll also finally take a moment for a different rant related to their software. This screenshot is almost a year old, because I couldn’t quite figure out how to do this post – it can’t really be visualized. (In the time I procrastinated on this post, there’s been a different shitstorm that I luckily don’t need to care about personally.) As already indicated in my last post, Backblaze very much has a “hide the details” approach to…

High profile bloggers return to X. A new CEO, a different algorithm, and a whining “but it’s where the action is?”. So it’s ok to be in the platform run by a sociopathic Nazi as long as you aren’t SEEING the right wing hatred? Have I got that right? And hey all the interesting stuff is there anyway, so what’s the problem? AND it’s all been De-Musk’d SO THAT MAKES IT ALL OK. But hey, as long as you get interesting things to click on, that’s ok. Question, regardless of what the algorithm shows,…

Nach der Vernissage ist vor dem Umzug in den öffentlichen Raum bei KalkKunst! Ich habe meine Bilder heute im Kalker Buchladen aufgehängt und dabei einen schönen Plausch mit dem freundlichen und interessierten Menschen vor Ort gehabt. Ich liebe diesen Anblick: Meine Sachen inmitten von Büchern. Besser geht es nicht. Die Arbeiten weiterer Künstler*innen findet ihr an den folgenden Orten: Kunst-Spaziergänge wird es auch wieder geben: Freitag, 16.10., 18–20 Uhr, Treffpunkt: Bürgerhaus Kalk…

(This is an updated version of an older post - the introduction remains the same, the technical details are different) Linux draws a distinction between code running in kernel (kernel space) and applications running in userland (user space). This is enforced at the hardware level - in x86-speak1, kernel space code runs in ring 0 and user space code runs in ring 32. If you’re running in ring 3 and you attempt to touch memory that’s only accessible in ring 0, the hardware will raise a fault. No…

during a recent commute i was stopped at a red light when a bohemianly dressed, silver-haired asian woman crossed the street in front of me, talking to her companion in perfect, unaccented english. how the times change, and assumptions dissolve with it! i hope it does not take until my own hair is silver all over, for me to stop being surprised by it.

Netflix / YouTube: Only in theaters February 12. Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig brings C. S. Lewis’ beloved story The Magician’s Nephew to the screen for the first time in a sweeping adventure that invites dreamers of all ages to experience the creation of Narnia. Finally, we get to see what Greta Gerwig’s Narnia looks like, and wow, I wasn’t expecting this. Full disclosure — I didn’t read the books growing up, I only have the two Disney Narnia films under my belt. But this…

My body and mind conspire to keep me unhappy. I’ve always dealt with health anxiety, but it seems to peak when things are going right. My brain says, No, slow down, big guy. Too much serotonin floating around up here. That ache in your side? It’s probably cancer. And thus the twitch in my lip becomes a sign of undiagnosed MS. The headache is an aneurysm, and my poor memory is probably early-onset Alzheimer’s. Reflux after a big meal? No, it’s a widowmaker. Now you’ve gone and left them all in…

What Am I, A Deer? is on this year's Goldsmiths Prize shortlist, and it's the third book from the list that I've read. The team at Fitzcarraldo were kind enough to send me a copy, which I'm very grateful for. This is Polly Barton's debut novel, but she's far from a new writer. She's a translator, and I've read a couple of her translations already - Spring Garden and Butter - and thought they were both really good. So it was nice to finally read something that's entirely her own. I'm really into…

BB crawled in to AB’s bed at wakeup time to cuddle. Had a long walk around Prospect Park with AB this morning. Perfect temperature. She is VERY in to acorns. Walked about 1.3 miles, which is pretty good going for her little legs.

As I'm just shouting out into the abyss, I don't know what your goals are. But if your goals are to play live and you play electronic music, I have a word of warning for you. If you've ever played live or you're thinking about playing live, you know that electronically you really have to watch your sh*t re: gear crashing. The beauty of a guitar or a bass is that it cannot crash. You have to only worry about you yourself crashing. For instance, on my bass gigs, I bring my bass and a backup.…

The second Group Facilitation Method Swap will be on Saturday, November 21 in Olympia, Washington. These are free events, registration for Olympia is currently open, and you’re invited. Facilitation Group Method Swap About the eventThe first Group Facilitation Method Swap was last month in Tacoma and we had a blast. One participant offered up her venue in Olympia so that’s where we’re headed next. If you’re interested in group facilitation, or want to get some practice with different ways of…

The other day, a colleague scolded me for being a hypocrite when I mentioned that his Claude Code subscription directly supports fascists in USA. He wasn’t wrong. The first thing he asked was: which laptop do you have? Which OS are you running? Apple? That is responsible for forced child labour in the East to mine precious metals and assimilate their mass-produced laptops? And you talk of fascists? Ha! I did want to mention that the laptop is nearly seven years old but didn’t get the chance.…

Do you have a favorite color? Does it show up all over your hobbies? I’ve always had a thing for teal – yarn, ink, pens…from aqua to deep dark teal, I love all the shades.

Signal boosting Laura's post that you should absolutely download and archive the stuff that matters to you. The corporate internet is hostile to art and the things you love do not belong to you unless you claim them for yourself. If you've been around for a while on YouTube, just look at your "liked videos" playlist and see how many of the early ones are no longer available (something you literally have to enable in the playlist settings, it's that endemic). The tools to do this in a basic way…

"Another Day in Paradise (2016 Remastered)" by Phil Collins Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you feel like you're in a dream? I sometimes feel like this is the song for people who say that they "don't want to get political". I guess that's one of those things that happen when you have the privilege of things working out for you. Why does it make me feel like I'm in a dream? It's the fact that I feel powerless sometimes. I think of it as if…

some code from my teenage years, back when being clever was half the fun.