[Article] Food divided by Distance 🔗
In the kind of dream that only happens when I'm ill, I invented an app that would track both your location and your food consumption, and report to so [...]
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[Repost] Blogging: you’re doing it right 🔗
Manu reminds all bloggers, no matter how they do it, that they're doing it right. I couldn't agree more. [...]
[Note] Big Pride 🔗
Like many in the UK, I'm dismayed every time I see the plague of St. George's Cross (flag of England) that nationalists have been hanging on lamp post [...]
[Reply] Reply to: how do you find things you want to blog about? 🔗
august asked me how I find things I want to blog about, and I answered... in the form of a blog post, of course! [...]
[Note] F-Day plus 38 🔗
It’s 38 days since our house was damaged in a flash flood, and today’s the first of our ‘BER’ assessment. BER stands for Beyond Economical Repair. It [...]
[Repost] People are not friction 🔗
Dave Rupert has thoughts on GenAI, the Gell-Mann effect, and the danger that fast, "good enough" solutions have on how we think about the humans that [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC79ZK3 Wootton Word Wall 🔗
This morning, the younger geokid and I came out for a walk with the geopup. After a little difficulty getting a GPSr fix we eventuality found a good-l [...]
[Article] Did I Cheat? 🔗
I solved a puzzle geocache in an unconventional way: by writing a program to permute all the possible solutions and check them for me. Was that cheati [...]
[Reply] Reply to: I’m OK being left behind, thanks! 🔗
A reply to Terence Eden's post about not buying in to every cryptocurrency or AI fad, but being happy to 'wait and see'. [...]
[Note] F-Day plus 35 🔗
It's F-Day plus 35, and I'm spending a few hours working in the habitable part of our flood-damaged house while I'm "between" two AirBnBs. The dog, [...]
[Article] A Random List of Silly Things I Hate 🔗
Just a list of eleven random silly things that I hate, to various degrees. [...]
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Somebody should make a tea cosy but to fit a cafetiere. That sounds like a great idea. [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GCADCWF Treasure island 🔗
I first found this cache last summer while cycling a circuitous route from Witney to Stanton Harcourt. I happened to be walking the dog nearby, this m [...]
[Repost] Hint Line 93 🔗
Hint Line 93 is an amazing interactive exhibit about the experience of working on a computer games hint line. It's a deeply-researched, immersive, and [...]
[Repost] Questionnaire – Plain Text 🔗
Over on my other (even sillier) blog, I answered Ellane's questionnaire about how and why I use plain text. In plain text, of course. [...]
[Article] A Hundred Inconveniences 🔗
It's F-Day plus 31, and our flood-disrupted lives have become defined by the hundred or so daily inconveniences that are imposed by our accidentally-n [...]
[Repost] You don’t have to disconnect 🔗
Derek Slivers' post about being online only for an hour or two, every few days, inspired a lot of people. But I'd like to share Rishi Dass's rebuttal, [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC4MJR8 R’n’R #2 Skinny & Boney 🔗
This checkin to R’n’R #2 Skinny & Boney reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Coming across from Finstock via R’n’R #9 (w [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC4MJY0 R’n’R #9 – Thumper 🔗
This checkin to GC4MJY0 R’n’R #9 – Thumper reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The younger geokid and I had a plan, thi [...]
[Article] Why Security Engineering needs a Hacker Mentality 🔗
Security engineering is about a lot of things, but the best security engineers show the 'hacker mindset' characteristics of curiosity and imagination. [...]
[Note] Chapattidilla 🔗
Wanted a quesadilla. Didn't have any tortillas, so substituted chapattis. It went... only okay. The earthiness of the chapatti pairs with mature ch [...]
[Article] Ten Weird Games 🔗
This blog post's been sitting incomplete in my drafts since last decade. I think it's finally time to share with you... ten weird games (and game adja [...]
[Repost] How far back in time can you understand English? 🔗
Colin Gorrie wrote an excellent blog post last month, in the style of a travel blog but where every couple of paragraphs the blogger jumped back a hun [...]
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A lot of things are hard right now. But I appreciate that Spring has come and I can enjoy a cheese & pickle sandwich and a fake beer for lunch in the [...]
[Article] Cold Giraffe 🔗
My mum painted a cold giraffe onto a postcard and sent it to me. [...]
[Note] Horse Gym 🔗
My current temporary home - and, necessarily, office - is directly next door to some kind of "horse gym": a contraption a little like a huge revolving [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC4MJRJ R’n’R #3 – Not Quite A Well? 🔗
Another quick find for the sharp-eyed geokid, once we found the right host. Three for three and that's time for us to turn about and go have our brunc [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC4MJRT R’n’R #4 – Changing Colours 🔗
The woods made it hard to get a good fix, but eventually we were in the vicinity of this excellent cache. It took a few different tree hosts before ev [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC4MJX6 R’n’R #6 – what YOU looking at? 🔗
Came out for a dog walk from New Yatt this morning. The GZ is deep within thick brambles, but the younger geokid was up to the challenge and soon the [...]
[Article] The Frosted Pane Again [RSS Exclusive!] 🔗
Spotify's RNG and Pagan Wanderer Lu conspired together to throw The Frosted Pane in my way, causing me to trip up and fall into a blog post I read 15 [...]