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Needed to renew my driving license. My new one doesn't have an EU flag on it. The sad reminders of Brexit just keep coming. 🇪🇺💔 [...]
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[Article] Hot take: AI peaked with Taco Bot 3000 🔗
AI peaked in 2014 with the invention of the Taco Bot 3000. With artificial (taco) intelligence and the latest cheese dispensing technology, it truly r [...]
[Repost] Why Are We Taught to Memorise and Not Learn? 🔗
Çaki puts forward a political but fair look at the mass-production standardisation of English-language education in British schools. In an effort to m [...]
[Article] The Husbands by Holly Gramazio 🔗
One of the best books I've read so far this year (although my review is about three months late!) was Holly Gramazio's debut novel, The Husbands. A pr [...]
[Repost] Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings 🔗
Jeff Johnson observes that Google Chrome has AGAIN started ignoring user privacy settings specifically for .google.com domains. This leads me to ask, [...]
[Article] F-Day plus 204 (no content??) 🔗
HTTP status code 204 means "no content". No update. Nothing to tell you. F-Day plus 204 brings the same meaning: a disappointing lack of updates to th [...]
[Repost] Why I Stopped “Creating Content” 🔗
Michael Lynch uses a tongue-in-cheek metaphor as a vehicle through which to argue against the ubiquity of the term 'content', and I agree: we can do b [...]
[Article] It took 13 years to notice my invalid vehicle registration certificate! 🔗
Thirteen years ago, it seems, a DVLA form processor decided that my name must have been a company name, and incorrectly registered my car's keeper as [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green 🔗
Quick check while I was passing, as nobody's logged this cache during our stupidly-hot July or August (and I don't blame them: it's been horrible outd [...]
[Note] Descaled 🔗
I descaled the coffee machine yesterday. We live in an exceptionally hard-water area and this maintenance was long overdue. This morning I turned the [...]
[Repost] How do people blog for thirty years without running out of things to say? 🔗
My fellow volunteer Oliver Earl has been picking up on his blogging and asks, with reference to my archives... how do people blog for thirty years wit [...]
[Repost] The modern app 🔗
The other month, David Bushell made a tongue-in-cheek interactive simulation of the state of modern desktop applications. It's pretty fun, and I see w [...]
[Repost] we don’t shame smart glasses wearers enough 🔗
Ava's take on techbro ideas of "privacy", and in particular the situation with "smart glasses", is especially well-written and worth a look. [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC9BHWG Watercress beds 🔗
This checkin to GC9BHWG Watercress beds reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Despite immediately honing in on exactly th [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC8ZWZ3 Letcombe Bridges 1 🔗
This checkin to GC8ZWZ3 Letcombe Bridges 1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF while passing through the village on [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC4H2MB Church Micro 4008…Letcombe Regis 🔗
This checkin to GC4H2MB Church Micro 4008…Letcombe Regis reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found the grave, but this [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC9F5YC GIs in Letcombe 🔗
This checkin to GC9F5YC GIs in Letcombe reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found the clues and solved the coordinates, [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC9QWHD Plankton’s cache 🔗
This checkin to GC9QWHD Plankton's cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Like many before me, from the looks of thi [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC93M2N Segsbury Fort 🔗
This checkin to GC93M2N Segsbury Fort reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A challenging but worthwhile find during a wa [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC46RY8 It really is about the (2 millionth) cache 🔗
This checkin to GC46RY8 It really is about the (2 millionth) cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. This morning I c [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC39X1K GH #11 twisted tree 🔗
This checkin to GC39X1K GH #11 twisted tree reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found cache contents first, some of whi [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC39WVC G h # 10 🔗
This checkin to GC39WVC G h # 10 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A few attempts at hacking through the brambles to [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC4H2N6 Church Micro 4009 … Letcombe Bassett 🔗
This checkin to GC4H2N6 Church Micro 4009 ... Letcombe Bassett reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick diversion be [...]
[Article] Vanity Nameservers (White-Label DNS) in 2026 🔗
Back in 2006, adding vanity nameservers to my personal domains was just something I did as a matter of course, but - like most of the Internet - I don [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GCBX0JC Church Micro 12106…Standlake 🔗
This checkin to GCBX0JC Church Micro 12106...Standlake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a walk out with the do [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GCBX0R7 War Memorial #???? ~ Standlake 🔗
This checkin to GCBX0R7 War Memorial #???? ~ Standlake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After liaising with the CO t [...]
[Article] A Postcard from Tony (who the heck is Tony‽) 🔗
I received another Postcard From The Internet; this one's written on a very unusual medium, and that's not the only thing that's odd about it... anoth [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GCBX0R7 War Memorial #???? ~ Standlake 🔗
This checkin to GCBX0R7 War Memorial #???? ~ Standlake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Well I feel especially thick [...]
[Article] Boring Polyamory: Equality and Bedrooms 🔗
The other month, I described my polyamory as 'boring', which attracted lots of interesting questions and feedback. Let's address the first one - why d [...]
[Repost] The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto 🔗
Jim Mitchell shared The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto. And it's excellent. [...]