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Notes from the gallery

On Tuesday I took a few notes while visiting the National Gallery of Scotland. Usually I develop these into a full post, but since the notes have been in my drafts for a few days I thought I would publish them verbatim. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ How the light of a museum changes the painting ...

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Top Albums from last.fm on 27/09/26.
1, k.d. lang, Hymns of the 49th Parallel, (11);
2, Stéphane Grappelli, It Might As Well Be Swing, (11);
3, Warren Zevon, The Wind, (11);
4, Kabza De Small, Ziwangale, (10);
5, L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, Sona, (9);

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Wondering how it is that 40% of visits to my website this past week seem to have come from the American Osteopathic College of Radiology, double the number from Google.

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Sunrise

At this time of year, the sun begins to rise around the time I wake up. This means I can see the colours of the sunrise; how the sunlight changes the sky. While autumn and winter can be cold, the colours bring the seasons to life. Lately, I have been motivated not only to st...

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The (continuing) joy of monostiches

In 2024 I started writing monostiches, which are poems that span a single line. Over the last few weeks I have been writing more, and now I have a category page devoted to monostiches. I have been thinking about why I like the monostich form so much. I think there are a few...

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here, something

In Distance there is the sight of everything; here there is the presence of something.

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ever-changing

My website is ever changing. I am

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the age

the age of the story.

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nights

nights lost in darkness.

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First pianos

I was listening to a cover of Taylor Swift’s Babylon and, almost immediately, something other than the melody stood out: the resonance of the notes. This sounds familiar. The recording reminded me of the sound my grandparents’ piano made when I would play it as a kid. I sat ...

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@jon In case you have a moment, we were just in Padua where the trams run on a central single rail. Presumably the have balancing wheels on the sides. Are they unique? Is it considered a good design, or weird?

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Ensuring my posts have permalinks using bash

Last month I moved away from using the Ghost CMS to publish pages and posts on my website. I made the move because I realised I was maintaining more than I really needed to make my site work. I had to manage Ghost (and keep it updated) and an intermediary endpoint to which G...

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Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 21

The twenty-first episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 21, I chat with Joel, the author of joelchrono.xyz about, among other things, writing about video games, weeknotes, homepage and website design, and more.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

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Autumn morning

The low clouds glowed with shades of lavender as I opened the window to see the first colours of Day. A field in the distance, yellow from harvest and the drier weather, is coated in a blanket of cool fog; in front of the trees are an almost-but-not-quite transparent haze, m...

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The round red ball of Chioggia radicchio, with its white ribs, is a mainstay of Italian salads. However, it is just o...

The round red ball of Chioggia radicchio, with its white ribs, is a mainstay of Italian salads. However, it is just one of a huge family of varieties in a range of colours from pale pink to dark magenta and green splashed with red. Now, thanks to more than a decade of work by Lane Selman and the Culinary Breeding Network, they are beginning to be recognised in the USA.

A new book tells that story.

HTTPS://eatthispodcast.com/radicchio

#podcasts #radicchio #food

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Autumn walk

The radiant red leaves, the yellow and brown leaves, the feeling of the cold in my hands and in my cheeks.

Leaf-coated pavements. The world, painted with colour.

Music plays. Air breathes. Momentum dances.

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leaves, lights

red, amber, green; leaves, lights.

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Morning moon

When I opened the window this morning, I was greeted by a white and grey disk, the grey blending into the light blue of the surrounding skies. Clear as Day, and full, the morning moon made me feel a little bit of awe. Wow. When I went to bed last night, the moonlight cast be...

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Fallbacks

When I published Sunset this evening, I saw the post in my web reader, Artemis, and realised that the title was not what I expected. I clicked through to the blog post and realised I had put the title in the “category” field rather than the “title” field. This meant there wa...

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Sunset

Glistening over the hills in the immediate distance, the rainbow made me first pause for breath, then pause for thought.This is the first time in months I have seen a rainbow. I am looking at the spectrum of every visible colour. I followed the rainbow for as long as I could...