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Dance like nobody is watching

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While everybody else was doing other things this evening I found myself spending a rare evening with my youngest daughter - just the two of us. I was pretty ...

Brave New World

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After conducting all manner of covert experiments in recent days and weeks - driven by a creeping disdain for the continued and increasingly brazen commoditi...

Gone but not forgotten

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While tinkering with something on the internet this evening - and shaking my head at my own idiocy when it comes to not only finding rabbit holes, but active...

Friday night

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How is it that if you look away for a few minutes, several days hurtle past? I guess it was a short week anyway - following the Easter long weekend - but sti...

Hello limbo, old friend

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Every day seems to crash into the next at the moment. A never ending trudge towards nowhere in particular. Somehow almost a week has passed since I last wro...

The Memory Library

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When I write for the blog, the words have recently started out in a note taking application called “Obsidian”. I like it primarily because it writes in plain...

Resisting temptation

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I fell down an internet rabbit hole this week. After posting my frustrations with Substack’s increasingly steep slide towards becoming a walled garden, a num...

Last man standing

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Everybody else went to bed some time ago. I’m sitting in the dark of the junk room, bathed in the light of the desk lamps while Billy Joel plays the piano an...

On Green Dolphin Street

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As the weekend ebbs away and a new week approaches, you find me sitting in the junk room, listening to music, and attempting to shut the rest of the world ou...

Slowly by Surely

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After several days of seemingly endless struggling, I started to make progress today. I’ve spent the last two days pulling swathes of example programming to ...