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How Pete Townshend’s drunken night with two Sex Pistols inspired The Who’s last classic song with Keith Moon.

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But if you aren’t of that persuasion have no fear - what I really wanted t share was this:

🔗🎵📼 … great song and 4 people enjoying themselves making the music.

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🔗 Neil Vogel, CEO of People Inc., calls Google an “intentional bad actor” for using the same crawler for both search and AI.

Question - is Neil Vogel the ‘best thing since sliced bread’?

(Little Kiwi humour there.)

Looks Looked like a really interesting idea until I got to this screen. It speaks volumes.

I was looking for a good screen shot of Radio UserLand. Just found this one on Facebook, and hope to preserve it via the search feature here.

I use the nmap inventory plugin to build an Ansible inventory of my homelab without maintaining a host list by hand. It scans a subnet and hands you every host it finds.

The part that took me a while was getting those hosts into useful groups. Out of the box

I'm still a NYT subscriber, although I don't read it very often, but when there's news I will go there. Anyway, they used to have a 10-article per month gift link rule. I used to ration them, but if by the end of the month I hadn't used them up I'd share links more liberally. A few weeks ago they lifted the limit. I thought that's nice, the NYT found that the web was still useful to spread the news, literally. I thought maybe they had a vision beyond the usual dotcom slop. Not so fast. Your friends can't read the articles unless they become a registered user. I bet they always had that, but this time I read the smaller print. Why can't some company do something just for goodwill and free advertising, without such an obvious business model? Having people think you care counts in the business world. As Marge Gunderson from Fargo would say, "Don't you know that?"

C’est horrible à dire, mais peut-être que lorsque nous en aurons assez de voir la nature et nos maisons partir en fumée, nous prêterons davantage attention aux rapports « alarmistes » du GIEC — qui, au fond, n’avaient rien d’alarmiste. Mais surtout, peut-être mettrons-nous e...

What if one day Claude could only speak Chinese.

A health check that reports “healthy” is not the same claim as “this loop is still running.” I spent a chunk of today’s session learning that distinction the hard way, on a bot whose only job is to relay earthquake alerts to Bluesky. The setup: a queue drain loop calls healt...

I've been doing this for all of this year, and the frustration finally led me to this rule, which I just asked Claude to play back for me. I offer it to you, a human, on how to get your Claude to work better for you, as it does for me. What follows is what Claude wrote as I ...

i pulled snow crash off the shelf a couple of weeks ago. i’d been meaning to re-read this but … other things. i have to say, this has not aged well. it’s still an amusing and fun read, but it’s definitely grounded in the milieu of the late 80s early 90s. this novel had l...

Shopping is Impossible

this is the running joke in our house. if the phone is out … “you must be shopping”.

there’s never been more retail, but retail is dead. we have more forms of X to consumer than ever before and oh, so. many. options. and yet, it all sucks.

Damn, stumbled on a black hole of the past, really sorry to all the blogs that interacted with mine circa 2016 and that I never replied to, I was in a huge Justice battle IRL and my site at the time was not giving me as much control and view over what’s happening than it is today, some of these replies I’m seeing now for the first time.

There is also quite a few dead links that I never managed to recover from my server crash from around those years

Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), Jarvis Sound, Cape May County, New Jersey.

    CABARET VOLTAIRE – Live NowSoc, Sheffield’s University 26th June 1978 Previously uncirculated recording of Cabaret Voltaire live at Sheffield University’s Now Society (Bar 2), 26th June 1978. The Cabs’ earliest known full gig recording, captured on a reel-to-reel…

Thanks for sharing RSC ! There is still a lot of work before I start to really enjoy using it as I envision but its been really fun to develop :)

Another night, another bat...

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Friday, 14 August 2026 The average temperature today is 18.54˚C, With highs of 19.47˚C and lows of 17.87˚C, It may feel like 18.77˚C with scattered clouds The wind speed is 1.09m/s and visibility is 10000m The press...

This week the link collection is about climate, cloud and AI. What impact does a cloud outage have on cats’ meals?

It started with a tin of sardines. They twitched and flopped out of the tin, trying to breathe in their tomato sauce. I gathered them in my healing hands and dropped them in my glass of water. I had to eat the next tin with a fork, and take care