When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is get out of bed and turn on my fairy lights. I read for a little while under the warm glow of the lights while the sun is not yet visible in the winter morning. I am reading a book about Nature right now – stories of walki...
I wanted to start this blog post with a quote. I started flicking through Walden, which I have just finished reading, for one that would be appropriate. But then I realised any choice would be arbitrary, for the wisdom is so deep within the book that any choice would leave me...
I start my degree in art history at the Open University in under two weeks. Just after the holidays, I got access to the materials for my first year, which is made up of two modules: “Discovering the arts and humanities” and “Cultures”. In the former module I’ll study a new t...
The only downside of listening to Aesop Rock’s incredibly punchy and clear beats a lot is that all the rest suddenly start to sound muddy as … mud. 😅
I mean:
https://youtu.be/CD4p4i0HTck?si=rrC_EtFKpW--MPjQ
That rare feeling when a device is so easily maintainable that you can just open it and fix it yourself. Withered technology ftw! 🎉 (Still a bit of a weird, flimsy construction of that knob…)
Thanks to everyone who replied! 🤗
Well ……… good morning! 😂☀️
While I was writing “Publishing my citation preferences”, I consciously decided that the blog post should include a screenshot of the website feature described in the post – the new “Reference this post” section on my blog pages. I knew that I might change the design of the w...
I am reading Katy Hessel’s “How to Live an Artful Life”. The book has a single creative prompt each day to consider. I have the book – whose cover is beautifully designed, with a link typeface and a blue square so as to make the book stand out – in a prominent place. When I h...
Wikipedia “Edited” 2025 year in review, summarizing from Wikimedia XTools queries, and Wikipedia itself, curated manually for my personal site:* 7 articles created (new personal best), with several firsts for me. In creation order: * "Take California" (https://en.wikipe...
The main
feed of this site now automatically includes posts from my Photo
Journal and Dan’s
Polaroids.
This way, I do not have to manually
link those here, and one can follow all my posts with a single feed. If
you see a bunch of new entries, you now know it’s because I messed with my
feed.
