Archive for the ‘wibble’ Category
Bespoke realities
TL;DR My ad blocker has been hiding things from me. Mostly things that I don’t want to see. But what we do see, and what we don’t see, is all part of crafting bespoke realities. Background My friend Ben Ford frequently says “What we perceive as reality is an internal simulation of our interaction with […]
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Tags: ads, bespoke, blocker, reality, simulation, social media, surveillance capitalism
Boots
In my July 2021 post I mentioned being a bit miffed about my hiking boot falling apart: I was annoyed when it happened as: I’d hardly worn those boots, as they’d been bought as replacements when my beloved Timberlands had fallen apart The (repaired) beloved Timberlands had been left at home Now I needed to […]
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Tags: boots, Contour, hiking, Meindl, Meran, repair, sole, Timberland
October 2020
Puppy It wasn’t long after we lost Dougal that we decided the house just felt wrong without a dog. So… new puppy – Maximus: More photos on my daily #pupdate We’re all streamers now Returning to this theme, I’ve added a few more links to my streaming tag on Pinboard. Lighting On the recommendation of […]
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Tags: adapter, camera, Canon, ESXi, FD, LED, Neewer, puppy, Raspberry Pi, ssd, streaming
September 2020
As the family has gone back to school September seems to have whizzed by, with fewer interesting things to report on as life settles back to a weekly routine. I’ve mentioned the punctuations of comedy nights and online whisky tastings before, so there’s little new to report… Frontline Live My amazing friend Katz Kiely set […]
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Tags: Covatar, Dapr, Frontline Live, NATS, Raspberry Pi
August 2020
ICYMI It’s been something of a busy month for blogging, with posts on Cloud Migration, Java, the UK exam fiasco, Hugo. and RIP Dougal. BBQ The new Kamado Joe that I mentioned last month got its first run, which looked good, but ended up being a little dry: Hawksmore @ Home The Hawksmore at Home […]
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Tags: Actions, BBQ, Beat Saber, CD, CI, cloud native, constraints, DIY, github, Modern Apps, Oculus, Quest, vr, VSCode, WSL2
RIP Dougal
Born on 22 May 2005, Dougal came home with us on 16 July 2005: He loved hanging out with other dogs, and had to run hard to keep up since he was little: He loved exploring the local woods, and would join me for my daily trips to the shop. Just last weekend some other […]
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Tags: dog, Dougal, Westie
Winners and losers
TL;DR Standardised tests like A Levels will inevitably have winners and losers, and in normal circumstances those people will usually know why they won or lost. For the losers it’s likely that they experienced some bad luck; but the key point here is that experience – they know why things didn’t work out. When that […]
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Tags: A-Level, algorithm, exams, GCSE, losers, luck, Ofqual, testing, winners
‘Filter failure at the outrage factory’ is a term I’ve been using on Twitter[1], usually as part of a quote tweet for something describing the latest social media catalysed atrocity, but I thought it deserved a longer form explanation, hence this post. I fear that I buried the lede in a note when I first […]
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Tags: filter, news, outrage, social media
Wilful ignorance
I’m not much of a podcast fan, but I came across Sam Harris interviewing Michael Hayden and set aside some time to listen to it. I wasn’t expecting much common ground between the interviewer and interviewee, but a mutual dislike of Glenn Greenwald seemed to get their rapport clicked into place, and I very much enjoyed […]
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Tags: privacy, SIGINT
Lovely
My wife took me out to the ‘Supper Club‘ at the newly opened Waitrose in Haywards Heath earlier this week. I wouldn’t be writing about it here if the Daily Mail hadn’t done a hatchet job review that totally misaligns with own experience. The title of this post comes from the head chef’s introduction to […]
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Tags: dining, news
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