Yesterday, CEO emailed in the 2nd 1/2 of yesterday. I didn't answer b/c as explained, I am extremely busy and will be + if continued. He wanted change our Conversation to today, asked again today and I said we have 1 person on vacation so can't. He said that person wasn't necessary. Said I disagreed. Next thing, an email from the seclusion of his office canceling this meeting, saying we need to meet alone. Anyway, Bjork's Post is great for a fun run. #bjork #work #antiwork #leftism #running

Hmmmmmm. Choose my mood? Choose my mood, LAMY? Do you know what my mood is after seeing neonorange sitting alongside neonyellow and neonpink not in the Safari lineup, but in the Logo M+ Ballpoint lineup? My mood is not good LAMY! Once again, I turn the unserious into serious. Yes, I love stationery that much, so why not have some fun with one of my favorite brands? Myke and I also dig in to what we are using, my Platinum Komono review, and our journaling challenges. Show Notes & Download Links…

[This is a guest post by Dimitris Koukoulopoulos. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] At the 2026 World Cup semifinal, England led Argentina 1-0 with less than twenty minutes left. And then the momentum completely changed: England switched to a much more defensive formation, withdrawing attacking players and retreating deeper. The Argentinians started attacking in waves. They equalized in the 85th minute and scored the winner in stoppage…

Following on from the success of Drawing Hand, Elijah has created his own version of his favourite game, Geometry Dash. Not only that, but he wrote his own song to accompany the game play (musical accompaniment by Suno).

Back in June it was confirmed that the most recent era of Doctor Who, headed by Russell T. Davies and produced by Bad Wolf Studios for the BBC, had come to a somewhat abrupt end. A Christmas special planned for December 2026 had been cancelled and the BBC had begun planning to put the show out to tender for a new production partner. This followed the BBC and international distributor Disney+ also cutting ties after two commercially-underwhelming seasons.The expectation was that the show would…

You’re driving along the information superhighway when suddenly you hear a siren, so you pull over. It’s the internet police. The officer gets out and comes over to your window. “What seems to be the problem, officer?” “I had to pull you over because I noticed you used the word ‘lay’ incorrectly in one of your blog posts. “You wrote that you were going to ‘lay low over the weekend’ when you should have written ‘lie low.’ Lay is a transitive verb, which means you’re doing something to something…

In this edition Chorus, Enable, Tuatahi push back on fibre review One New Zealand updates Infratil investors Fibre companies challenge lower risk assessmentIn its preliminary analysis for the 2027 Fibre Input Methodologies review, the Commerce Commission says it has found a marked reduction in the systematic risk of fibre businesses.This is important because the regulator uses the risk assessment to calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for regulated fibre companies.The WACC, in…

Over the years, readers and students have asked me about the work I have done on school reform and especially new classroom technologies. I answer some of those questions in this post. But first some background. I began doing research and writing on teacher and student uses of technology in the early 1980s when the first personal computers appeared in classrooms. That writing turned into Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology since 1920 (1986). I then began working on a larger…

I think more people ought to have personal websites. Most of the websites people visit regularly belong to businesses, like newyorker.com or cafemochiko.com. Nike designs nike.com to make you feel like you would in their flagship store in SoHo. For your personal site, you might design it like you’d arrange your living room, kitchen, or garden. You want a nice space for yourself, alone, and maybe to share with others. Your website can have words and artifacts that signal to your friends, family,…

OpenAI says it found more instances of AI models acting deceptively | CNN Business Train the machine on human data, expect it to take human actions.

Here is a famous riddle. Puzzle. A police officer saw a truck driver going the wrong way down a one-way street, but didn’t try to stop him. Why? The standard answer: the truck driver was walking. My students are usually very inventive, but this time they came up with only two alternative answers worth mentioning: The truck was a fire truck rushing to a fire. It was Halloween, and the police officer was just a kid dressed as one. I am sure there are more cute ways to explain the situation. Do…

Another’s day, another few dozen fields. Such is the way of the Pieterpad. When I left my B&B this morning, I had no idea where I was actually going to finish tonight. The place I contacted last night hadn’t replied back, which left me with two alternatives: another B&B in 20 km, and a campground in 22 km that’s a kilometer off the trail. Not the greatest options, but I’ve had to deal with worse. Starting off this morning, it was bit cool, cloudy, and breezy, but not too bad for a walk. While…

I have a pile of things to write about on my desktop, but domestic trivia keep getting in the way. I need to decide what to do about the letters of Aeneas of Gaza, now that I know these are at roman-letters.org, with the Greek and an AI-assisted translation from it. I intended to translate the Italian translation, and took some steps towards it. What now? A couple of articles and theses deserve short articles. One is on the Septizonium in Rome, something always dear to my heart. Who knew that…

tl;dr - Elbowroom is a mac app that shows what is taking up space on your Mac, explains what it belongs to, and helps you reclaim files your tools can regenerate. Links: Repo | Download When the M4 Mac mini came available for $599, I knew it was a really good deal and bought one immediately. I also knew that 256GB was too small, and I would likely suffer, but that didn't stop me. I bought an external 2 TB SSD and figured that would be enough to navigate around that shortage of storage. Long…

The rabbit lawn. The fenced off area at the front is growing and will be swapped with to the rear once it’s tall enough to eat. More pottering today, thought I appear to have accidentally gestated a couple of plans so I guess my brain is over the fatigue? The first is to extend the water harvesting to the shed roof and pipe it to the existing rabbit-run roof system. This was always the plan but I was going to put this off til much later. Today I realised it would actually be quite simple and…

How a project treats its contributors says more than its code. A note on the basics we’re skipping—and what it’s costing us.

As my blog has developed over time, somehow I ended up writing about reading, videogames and technology above all, but the J in my logo is themed after folded paper for a reason. I love origami! And it was about time I wrote about it some more. My story with it and the like will have to wait for later, at the moment, I just want to focus on the title of this blogpost. On a very lovely email, a reader of my blog asked me this: What’s a model you still enjoy folding even though you’ve long since…

Professor Steve Peers, Law School, Royal Holloway, University of London Photo credit: Martin St-Amant, via Wikipedia Commons “Living next to [the United States] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” - Pierre Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada Introduction Can Canada become an ‘associate member’ of the EU? What might that mean, and how might a process to this…

Investing in the future can feel pointless when we aren’t even sure if climate change will let us have a future. Author Wendy Waring has been thinking this over, and takes a look at what it means to better our world for future generations in the Big Idea for her newest novel, The Hunger of Those Who Built It. WENDY WARING: My Big Idea comes with the story of a surprise journey. Long ago, my novel grappled with this question: How will future reproductive technologies affect our sense of…

I have a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 on aarch64, because apparently choosing an enterprise distribution was not enough. I also wanted the architecture to make package availability interesting. I will call it server01 here. Hostnames and repository addresses in the examples and log excerpts are anonymized. I also have a Proxmox Backup Server. The goal was simple: back up the machine to PBS, with encryption and incremental uploads, using the infrastructure I already have. The…

This booklet was delivered to my house this week. It is also available to download here. It is from a Department that I didn’t know existed called the Office of Emergency Planning (“An Oifig Pleanála Éigeandála” as Gaeilge). This Goverment does seem to be good at creating emergencies, but I hadn’t realised until now that they were planned. Here is the intro… From storms and power cuts to flooding and health emergencies, Ireland can experience a range of emergencies. Planning ahead and taking…

I recently updated the firmware on my Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 3rd Gen to run Focusrite Control and was surprised to find that the input mappings changed on me, which was pretty annoying. Previously ADAT 1-8 happened to map to inputs 11-18, which was easy enough to remember, but now they map to 13-20 because the loopback interface moved to 9-10, pushing all of the digital inputs down by two.After a brief conversation with Focusrite support, they pointed me to a feature of Logic I didn’t know…

After agreeing in August with Germany’s competition authority to make changes to the App Tracking Transparency prompt, Apple has now announced the options available to developers. Unfortunately, the post on its Developer News page is terribly brief; here it is in its entirety: As part of agreements with select European competition authorities, Apple is introducing changes to its App Tracking Transparency framework in the European Union. Beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, developers will…

President Donald Trump (Wikimedia commons)(9/17/2026) On September 24 I will present the concluding lecture in a four-part series on "The History of the Presidency" at Coe College. The history ones were easy, because "hindsight is 20/20." The present and future of the presidency are complicated, so the concluding talk needs some sorting out, which I will try your patience by attempting to do here.Donald Trump turned 80 this summer, and given his age, physical condition, and public approval in…

I'm sure anyone who has programmed before has had a brain-fart moment that makes them feel like a fool. I just had one. I'm programming in something called PICO-8, which is this cool "fantasy console" to make retro games in a limited setting1. I'm following a written tutorial for some nifty animation stuff. I'm going through it trying to get the desired outcome (a fun text animation) and it just does. not. work. at all. I don't know what's wrong with it. I'm looking at the tutorial text, line…

Corina Enache îs fast become one of my "must read" writers. Her perspective and reflective capacity as practitioner is inspiring. Her deep understanding of story and narrative and her wealth of experience gives her lots of material from which to generate beautiful essays. And her generous engagement with commentators and connections is exemplary. Her latest post is about "making rules you are willing to be bound by" and has a number of gems. I encourage you to read the full thing, because among…

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This is the weekly sniff. A roundup of links (linkdump) from the optimistically last week but more likely last month.Yup more likely the last month lol. Working 2.5 jobs so everything is flying. We moved apartments its to small but we are only here for a year. Coffee has been solid lately !Best in showEverything I UseEverything I use for computers, writing, gaming, audio, photography, self-hosting, health, and everyday carry.Bookmarks clean-upI can’t move on unless I post these bookmarks- Its…