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  • Velux Fractal Season

    Velux Fractal Season

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen the conditions are just right fractals form on veluxes and they are beautiful. It requires the air to be cool enough for ice to form, but as thin layers, rather than thick. If the wind is just right then you end up with patterns such as the one below. This morning…

  • Conservation and PHP

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I have struggled with PHP. I struggled because I want to recreate the same table using loops with PHP as I did formatting with HTML. If I wasn’t up for a challenge I would let PHP loops format it according the default and I’d be done. In the end I did…

  • A Rainy Day Without Walking

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday the weather app said that it would start raining at 1500 so I didn’t go out for a walk. In the end the rain started at around 1630 or even later. I could have gone for a walk and I could have come back dry or almost dry. For years…

  • The 2022 Reading Challenge

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier this year I set myself the challenge of reading 30 books this year and I have read 24 books out of 30 so far. In the grand scheme of things reading challenges don’t mean more. They mean you managed to start or at least finish a certain number of books within…

  • The Temptation to Give Up On Social Media

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI find myself tempted to give up on social media and focus on blogging instead. I am tired of social media after decades of use. I am tired that users, that provide all of the value are ignored, and that greedy boards of directors can sell users as if they were lumps…

  • A Shift to PHP

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesPHP has been around for decades but I learned of a way to experiment with it easily recently so that is why I am playing with it now. The main page is php as is my first “blog” although it was part of a column for the student newspaper, that I converted…

  • To Mastodon, from Jaiku

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter was bought by an individual that many of us do not trust, and we fear that it may no longer represent the values that we cherish. That Twitter is bought is nothing new. Myspace was bought by Murdoch, many years ago. Jaiku was a great competitor to twitter but it was…

  • YouTube and the Million Follower type

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI used to really like YouTube. It was a place where normal people could share videos of their normal lives, for normal people to enjoy, and to discover organically. Today YouTube is a way of forcing people to watch adverts before watching content that has been seen half a million to a…

  • The Season of Muddy Shoes

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe are in a pandemic and I like to walk away from people. To do so I need to walk along muddy paths by the sides of roads, motorways and fields. In the process my shoes get covered in mud and I need to find ways of removing that mud. The…

  • Taking Yet Another Twitter Break

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the current situation at Twitter I have chosen to take a twitter break. Twitter hasn’t been fun during the last three years, which is part of the reason I went anonymous, private, and then public but anonymous again. It used to be about having conversations with people that I would eventually…