V.H. Belvadi

I have the fondest memories of starting this website.

A track exchange involves two people prompting each other to pen their thoughts about a track that the other has chosen for them.

There are very few books that feel effortless to read.

I have used Lightroom since the late 2000s to develop my photographs but I had always heard of Capture One.

Ethnographic narratives are, to me, inherently interesting.

A track exchange, like a painting exchange, involves two people prompting each other to pen their thoughts about a track that the other has chosen for them.

‘When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying.

When I first saw this oil on canvas depicting what appears to be a rather mundane scene from a park in Ville-d’Avray in the suburbs of Paris, I was quite struck as much by what it lacked as by what it had.

Case in point: an absurd article in the Wall Street Journal that compares Newton to the modern academic, claims autistic people cannot possibly behave in public, and asks if Newton would fit as he was in the 17th century into a 21st century university, and

My college at Cambridge e-mails its members notices regularly and I woke up to one today telling us they would be changing the signage on the toilets.

‘A convivial society should be designed to allow all its members the most autonomous action by means of tools least controlled by others.’

It is my pleasure to host the August 2026 edition of the IndieWeb Book Club and my pick for the month is The Mulai by Spanish author Munir Hachemi (translated to English by Julia Sanches) and published just last month.

I never understood ‘weeknotes’.

‘Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.’

Philipp Lahm’s articles in The Athletic are one of my favourite perks of remaining subscribed to the New York Times.

Shoreditch is about 45 min away from where I live and is the part of London I can access quickest, apart from the City of London.

‘At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.’

‘For he who leads the contemplative life cannot help influencing the active ...

Creative, quirky web projects are always a joy to see.

‘If an artist were to admit that he was uncertain as to what part of the content of his work answered to life and what part to art … we would probably consider him incompetent.’

NASA has plenty of fun little websites that make use of its functioning technologies, primarily intended for outreach.