Yulqen

Trying out some web quoting ideas with a new plugin for FF.

Tired.

Ignore everything I said about Microsoft.

Wisdom from an old pro.

Via Poem Talk and Christian Bök

Forget the moralising about freedoms, access to source code and the wielding of power over the innocent gen-pop computer user spouted by the likes of Richard Stallman and Co - MICROSOFT WOULDN’T LET ME LOG INTO MY OWN FUCKING MINECRAFT SERVER THIS AFTERNO…

Once I took a IQ test and I came out slightly to the left of the peak of the bell curve.

I keep getting reminders at work telling me that I need to refresh my Diversity and Inclusion mandatory training.

I keep having to look up the specifics of the markdown that works with Hugo and the search trail takes me to the goldmark Github page then onto to CommonMark and eventually to the actual spec, which is here.

git difftool You could just do: git difftool --tool=vimdiff --no-prompt This will open git diff in vim.

I’ve had enough of BBC coverage of the European Championships (and latterly the Commonwealth Games).

Leaving Shetland today.

Went to Lindisfarne today for a wander round.

Barrow-in-Furness in August.

Now I know about GrapheneOS.

Found myself watching Ted Hughes’ Crow at Fifty: a Seminar on YouTube.

I got to grips with the problems I was having with Hugo last night.

BASIC Programming started in circa 1985 with BASIC on the Sinclair Spectrum 48K.

First time I tried Hugo a few years ago I binned it after a few days of banging my head against brick wall.

Been out and about in Fife today.

A large person powerhosing a mobility scooter - July 2022

I’ve already mentioned that I spent the morning in Berwick today.

I’ve found it interesting to have found this Reddit community over the last couple of days.

We went to The Granary Gallery in Berwick today for a coffee and the weather was nice enough to take it outside.

Go read Of Mere Being by Wallace Stevens.

Derek Sivers is a nice guy.

Some reading on the laptop today, the hottest day of the year…

The country is in meltdown, for two whole days.

When I installed OpenBSD, the autoinstaller created a partition table for me.

This is great if you like vim.

And so is the other guy, obviously…

(‘Wee break’ as in a short period of time (Scottish), not a ‘wee break’ like in televised snooker, tennis, etc).

Ah, springtime!

Articles on the web Anthony Campbell site - particularly the Links page A proper old school HTML blog with interesting content and no bullshit or Javascript.

In particular - a Howden’s cooker: To reset it, you have to switch off the power for 10 seconds, then turn it back on again.

Something I’ve been enjoying on OpenBSD is the relative simplicity of wifi networking compared to Linux.

We all need to be able to use Zoom nowadays, as much as I hate it.

This cat kills treecreepers.

Introduction Another new template, another new site, another new attempt.