: Micro.blog initial issues I’ve had a few fairly fundamental issues since setting up the my custom domain on Micro.blog. …
: 2025 I’m somewhat hesitant to wish everyone a “Happy New Year!”, leaning instead …
: January credit card bill Ouch, how the heck did that happen‽ Lots of relatively small payments added together, that’s …
: Predictions for 2025 My first prediction, I’ll make New Year’s resolutions. Though I don’t always blog …
: Ulysses app (iOS) I just opened Ulysses writing app on my iPhone for maybe the third time since the company moved to a …
: Sausages A thought-provoking link post by @ianbetteridge on Mastodon: “This article really hits the …
: Bookshelf Micro.blog has a bookshelf - a list of the books one wants to read, is reading, and has read. Want …
: Bluesky I’m sure it’s just me but I can’t summon up the enthusiasm to continue even to …
: Oopsie If you’re wondering why I’m not following anyone here on Micro.blog (yet) it would not …
: About Husband, father. 2 cats, 1 dog. Cleveland Browns fan. Engineer. English. Prefers asynchronous chat …
: Link rot, new stuff I came across 2 posts yesterday, How bad is link-rot on my blog! by @Edent@mastodon.social, and a …
: A second post - with audio file attached? As title. :) The audio is very quiet, I wasn't close enough to the microphone.
: Hello world A first small post from a trial of the micro.blog service. I've spent no time customising it, I just …
: A Christmas potato I'm currently sipping gingerbread-flavour mulled wine, at room temperature, from a …
: Hypo My wife became unresponsive earlier, experiencing a diabetic hypo (low blood sugar) episode. We've …
: #QuoteSunday A long time ago on a network far, far away I started to post quotes I thought notable or relevant to …
: Poo 2 I don't think the ActivityPub plugin is going to work on my blog. The cron job should have sent the …
: Poo! I can't help messing around with stuff. This post is a test of a WordPress ActivityPub plugin - my …
: Permalinks Can't sleep so I just fixed how the blog permalinks look; who wants to see '…/index.php/…'? Next up, …
: Social sharing Here’s the first automatic blog post to Mastodon with, I hope, restricted commenting features. …
: Socials Somehow, after a long social media hiatus mostly spent on Reddit, I found myself back on Mastodon (a …
: Basic security One of the basic requirements of me using the free ‘IP2Location’ WordPress plugin for my blog is …
: DEVONthink I've moved all of my notes and bookmarks from the Obsidian writing/knowledgebase app into the …
: Chicken soup (Impromptu earlier, but was eventually very tasty.) Ingredients: The remains of a roasted chicken, …
: Earth Hour From https://www.earthhour.org: Switch off & Give an hour for Earth this Saturday, March 23rd at …
: Food (what a week)! On Sunday (Mother's Day over here) my wife and daughter1 had a Chinese takeaway, and not wanting …
: Oops, I did it again Randolph, so long and thanks for all the fish your patience hosting my site & email over the …
: Onion I planted and grew an onion, and harvested it (I think this is the word despite some misgivings …
: Question Time I've just watched a recording of this week's BBC Question Time, a Thursday evening tv show that …
: 1997-03-23 Internet It's 1997, March the 23rd to be precise. A Sunday afternoon. I've not long returned from PC World in …
: Notion 💡 This is a test of publishing a public page from a private Notion, er… whatchamacallit. I’ve been …
: Best ever gift Prompted by the Free Talk Friday post in Reddit's r/Browns on December 10 2022: My best ever gift …
: Knocker upper Frequently portrayed as a job most likely to be seen in the gaslit streets of the grim mill towns in …
: Obsidian [!Info] This is a test of the Obsidian to WordPress plugin. I've been using a really great notes app …
: Computer book acquired Some 8 years ago I asked the Internet for help finding a computing book I bought at the beginning of …
: Minecraft Just over a year ago I ran a Minecraft server on a used Windows 8 tablet converted to Windows 10. It …
: Fandom Call this my rationale for becoming a fan of the Cleveland Browns American Football team. Or even my …
: Wordle (and a few other things) I've had a fairly good run of success with the daily Wordle puzzles, so much so that I felt the need …
: Bowling Green Falcons football Reddit's u/OptimisticRealist__ posted something about 'Coach Prime' and it reminded me what I wanted …
: Micro In March 1981 the Sinclair ZX81 computer launched. I bought one at the end of the year. Also at the …
: A new American football podcast episode And here it is: Browns 2020 season recap at ‘bazbt3’s podcast’. It’s not as short as you might …
: Character (Originally composed - if that’s what one can call this - in June 2019.) Everything below the …
: little donnie 2 scoops’ last day in the White House In case no-one already said this, there will be no histrionics or mean-spiritedness during the trump …
: Blocked A followup to my Mos Eisley post. Just had to block some local t*ts in the local Facebook group. I …
: Mos Eisley? A post intended for my village's Facebook group, not yet a wretched hive of scum and villainy: …
: Drafty It’s done. On Friday I became a first-time participant in a 16 team Fantasy NFL (American …
: One-way Just got back from Waterstones with daughter 2, buying birthday books for her friends. There’s a …
: XXII This post was originally drafted on January 26 2020 with the intention to post around Super Bowl …
: Telescope I have a question, but first this: Bought a 300mmx76mm telescope on a Dobsonian mount last weekend …
: iOS 14 public beta Upgraded to iOS 14.0 public beta on Saturday July 11. Apps failing so far with summaries of impact …
: Failure to get the message across It seems Michael Gove is taking credit for a LibDem policy, the Pupil Premium. I wrote the email …
: Lording it Not that he needs it right now to do his job, but when will Cummings get his peerage? Recent link …
: Slavery (book) I want to buy a book on world slavery. History lessons until high school were fascinating, …
: Mess I felt the need to post this in my local Facebook group: I’ve lived here for ‘only’ 13 years; in …
: Primary schooling? On Wednesday I asked on our primary school’s school/PTA Facebook page if there was a plan to have …
: Slavery There’s an important distinction to be made between slavery and racism. Throughout recorded …
: Pretty vacant There's no point in asking, you'll get no reply Oh just remember I don't decide I got no reason …
: Progress "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there …
: Distraction (almost zero politics) I (perhaps we as a family) needed a distraction from the frustrations of politics and from the …
: Morally bankrupt Here are 2 comments of mine in the village Facebook page, responding first to the dilution of the …
: Working from home… not all fun and games 4 weeks in… Nobody I’ve spoken to so far quite understands the concept of being paid to work …
: three hundred thousand thirty four, nine hundred and seventy four thousand… "…[COVID-19] tests carried out across the UK, excluding Northern Ireland. - Priti Patel, UK Home …
: Headphones I bought some noise-cancelling headphones to be prepared well in advance of working from home, or so …
: Coronavirus - week 1 Warning: sweary stuff later. I’ve been working from home. Until today I was doing pretty well …
: Evil "This is something you won’t want to read, but please read it anyway; it’s worth remembering next …
: 3 seasons: 2020 January: It was a bright cold day in AprilJanuary, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston …
: Defending the Conservative Party An article in defence of the effects of the evolution of the English Conservative Party’s core …
: Fantasy Island Imagine Fantasy Island without Ricardo Montalbán and Hervé Villechaize. And the directors, writers, …
: ratbirds followup My NFL bets failed. No shame in that. Given the abilities of the teams surrounding the 3 QBs I’d …
: ratbirds It gives me no pleasure as a Cleveland Browns fan to break the news that the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens …
: IFTTT Trying to automatically post from this blog’s RSS feed to Reddit using the IFTTT service. …
: What the Dickens I’ve been reading ‘A Christmas Carol’, a few pages at a time not because …
: Twelfth Night It’s Twelfth Night - time those Christmas decorations were put away until next time. If you don’t …
: Same as it ever was I'm not making resolutions. Recycling 2017’s: Picking at my thumbnails at the traffic lights …
: Offseason I’m a Browns fan. What will I doing over our offseason (the NFL’s centenary year playoffs)? …
: Thunberg I don’t understand the hate directed at Greta Thunberg and the relentless campaign against her …
: Verbs Prompted by a tweet by @mlv: ‘Daughter gave me a challenge. Write a story using only these verbs in …
: 20,001 days I am a Cleveland Browns fan. I have 3 items of official merchandise: a #57 Matthews jersey predating …
: The Scottish Hammer Jamie Gillan from Inverness made the Browns 2019 roster cut; we have a starter. I’m buzzing …
: Misheard My wife mentioned the gift she’d left for me in the top of the kitchen cupboard. Due to the length …
: Anvil Earlier this afternoon we arrived home from our week away in a farm cottage between Bridgnorth and …
: Last straw Headline: McDonald’s paper straws cannot be recycled The BBC is currently reporting on a story …
: In charge Dear: Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Secretary of …
: Raab Someone told Dominic Raab that Russia is developing secret missiles that can strike European …
: Milk bottle top This morning I experienced a revelatory moment, a realisation a thing we will all take for granted …
: Child poverty action Action on UK child poverty? Don’t make me laugh. There isn’t any focus on it in the UK; …
: Al (aw bollocks) Not happy. It’s been a poor week for me politically. First, my choice of LibDem candidate wasn’t …
: Al (the second sequel) I should have waited a day before committing to my first sequel; this excellent Independent article, …
: Al (the first sequel) Journalists are currently writing that Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson[efn_note]Al …
: 17 seconds Ruby dog and I achieved a new world record today: 5 headers of the partially-deflated blue kids …
: Orange Me: "I had two orange plums at work today." Her: "Was it really that hot‽"
: Loquacious "Indistinctly loquacious": to which UK politician am I imprecisely referring? Describe them without …
: Educated Last week daughter 1 had a sex education lesson, or at least one on the specifics of the human male …
: VE Day 2020 Next year, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of hostilities against the Axis powers in …
: Incompetents (Tories) The Nasty Party has, in my eyes, sunk to a new low point of incompetence. Faced with a small number …
: Flop Redherring underpants: so comfortable you'd hardly know they were there. And, measured by one …
: Grumpy Cat RIP Grumpy Cat is dead. (BBC) A life in pictures. (The Guardian) Official announcement tweet. …
: White Twix Due to the generosity of a man I cannot name to protect his identity[efn_note]But whose name is a …
: May(field) 6 It's the first time I've read this: …
: Chewbacca: RIP Peter Mayhew RIP Peter Mayhew. /me mutters about a disturbance in the Force… …
: Mine's a big one Just as the lady with the frankly massive puppies who lives at the end of the street has finally …
: Chess 3 I actually won a game vs the Chess.com computer, still at level 1 but it’s nevertheless a …
: Thwarted Today, and for the first time in years, the local LibDems candidate visited and leafleted. Amazing; …
: AgeID, July 15 3 months to go until P-Day! For more thoughts about the UK’s upcoming porn age verification …
: Chess 2 Playing against the Chess.com computer at the lowest difficulty level I’m getting a lot of …
: Privacy policy I have a ‘Privacy policy’ for you to read. It’s mercifully brief and to the point.
: Migration v2 I'm transferring Markdown blog posts from my GitHub Pages repository (repo) into my Wordpress blog, …
: Kebab 3 Previously… The local chip shop has been selling Greek-style chicken and donner kebabs for a few …
: 1.1.1.1 Cloudflare is adding a free VPN to its 1.1.1.1 app – from The Verge. Sounds interesting. The only …
: Podcasts? This is a placeholder post to celebrate the very best audio posts from the previous incarnation of …
: Footnotes Footnotes.[efn_note]Haz footnotes![/efn_note]
: Chess For the last couple of weeks daughter 2 and I have been playing a game of chess every few days. …
: Parenting vs online Daughter 1 was given a new iPhone 6S as an early birthday present and to reward better-than-expected …
: Import I now need to figure out how to import the posts and pages (and images and audio recordings) from my …
: Hello world! The default post read: "Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start …
: RSS I've changed the blog post feed address my Python script uses to post to a couple of networks - …
: AgeID First question of the year: have any of you managed to register with AgeID? Given the simple fact …
: 2019 Thanks, whatever you did that brightened any of my 2018. I resolve to do these things: Build on the …
: Browns Something odd happened today; I got depressed about the result of an American football game. It's …
: School admin Daughter 2 started high school this week, and got a lesson timetable which, well, why not read the …
: 57 jersey Yesterday evening I risked life and limb, my life and limb, clambering over the remains of DIY …
: redditor I’m using Reddit again and, in some respects, again regretting it. Not the small number of …
: Death Pool Chatting at work, at brew and lunchtime as you do, we got into the subject of celebrity death pools; …
: Time limited #QuoteSunday (a tradition on pnut.io): "It is a little known fact that Professor Stephen Hawking …
: Coty A conversation about dog breeds (one of the family mentioned the noble 'Leerdammer') and this …
: Farkisms I responded to this Fark.com forum post: "The farkisms page seems somewhat put of date. Can we …
: Hawking "Remember to look up at the stars." Stephen Hawking.
: Shush There is apparently a social convention that, when the adult in charge of a group of children in …
: Usual message Today I achieved a lifetime's ambition, the middle finger of a man extended in my specific …
: Random Regarding Donald Trump's uncanny ability to toss a word salad: Someone ought to deaf-sign (BSL) what …
: Fark How I explain Fark.com: "It's a news aggregator site with a difference; people submit headlines and …
: Wiggins Bradley Wiggins is the latest target in the establishment's moral crusade, a bunch of MPs being of …
: TwigPen I'm just about to turn off the IFTTT trigger that tweets notification of my blog posts to Twitter. …
: JD Honey I remember the trials and tribulations attempting to drink Maker's Mark bourbon before I gave it …
: TwigPen Oops 3 After it simply failed to tweet, I rolled the TwigPen code into rssupdatepnut; what follows is a …
: TwigPen Oops 2 An updated version of my previous post follows. Executive summary: "Doh!" -original below- Oops! I …
: TwigPen Oops Oops! I forgot to git pull origin master the updated script from the rssupdatepnut GitHub repo. … …
: Wand The girls are really into Harry Potter right now, were really pleased to hear their school will …
: PSA heat It snowed again, the gritter failed to make an impact (but I'm not sure one came this way.) The …
: Beyond I just heard Loki. For the last few years his voice was the last I heard every night and the first …
: Loki cat 2001-2018 RIP April 1st to February 23rd; we'll even miss your shouting.
: Loki No attempt made to be articulate here, a followup to my last post. I've known Loki cat (aka Loki …
: Wednesday Challenge My first #WednesdayChallenge of 2018: "Eeeeee!", said Ozzie Reynolds as he shot headfirst out of …
: Machine The new washing machine is… it's got more programmes than the previous one, and more flexibility …
: Deluge That expression ‘it never rains but it pours’ is very much in effect right here right …
: Unforeseen A mish-mash of themes follows; it's been a while since my last confes, er… blog post. Um… Python …
: Oh Two rather expensive days, emotionally and financially: £130 - Loki cat to vet: Suspected congestive …
: Pecking order I looked over earlier, spied my wife eating milk chocolate, decided to emulate the dog so knelt down …
: RavPower case review RAVPower Battery Case for iPhone 6 / 6S with Apple MFi Certified Extended Battery Charger with …
: White Helmets (Syria) I've just partially recovered after watching probably the most harrowing documentary in… I don't… …
: Dick In about a month's time, Dick… "He's behind youuu…!"
: PigPen I've spent my spare time during the last few weeks writing another app, this one for the pnut.io …
: Remembrance We attended the church Remembrance Day service earlier then walked along to the War Memorial where …
: Feedback Online feedback I provided to the UK Liberal Democrat party after being asked why I've not renewed …
: Sweaters I'm old enough to remember the day sweaters (jumpers if you like) were designed to keep one warm, …
: Soup Tonight we visited the local cricket club's annual bonfire and firework display for the funfair …
: Woodford Reserve Sod it, I'll add a drink to the food order; the tablets say I can have a drink! Woodford Reserve rye …
: Home Alone Most people faced with a day off, and family away during a school holiday week would, I'd guess, go …
: Dishwasher sequel (sweary) We needed a new dishwasher. We have a new dishwasher, bought from a well-known Scandinavian …
: Dishwasher (sweary) We need a new dishwasher. The old one is at the side of the house awaiting collection by one of the …
: Food When ordering food for other people or for myself and others I'm unlucky. The modern world is set up …
: Weekend It's late, the weekend is almost completed, and I ache from the successes during it. We recently …
: Blogging Blogging. Blogging. Blogging, blogging, bloggingbloggingblogging … blogging, blogging. Blogging, …
: Uncertain It's been an odd few weeks and months. I'm looking for a bit of stability here. I'm finding some.
: Bizarre performance art Returning to the recent Sprout Burrito theme, this from Fark; "Hey, at least it's got beans on it …
: Sprout burrito inventor In an attempt to reinvent myself on social networks I've been silent for a long while, to let the …
: Logotherapy I started to write this post with a point to make and a structure to work around it but part-way …
: Manchester We're watching the #OneLoveManchester concert and, perhaps unconventionally, I contributed a few …
: Manifesto layout: post title: Manifesto I read the Liberal Democrat Manifesto for the 2017 General Election: …
: Documentary Like everything else I write what follows is only my opinion, however anyone reading this should …
: Assumptions I often fall into the trap of assuming people know more than they do about the things I'm interested …
: FFS (sweary) I'm not sorry if the language in this post offends. I cannot get past a (probably primitive) need to …
: Towel Day There's a day set aside every year to commemorate the life and works of the late literary great …
: Fiction For the last couple of weeks (it seems longer) I've not looked at any of my favourite social …
: Article 50 Article 50 1. Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own …
: Literary There's no easy way to say this. I've been neglecting my blog, I've hardly looked at the four social …
: Different NSFW. Perhaps. On Sunday evening, late on Sunday evening I took my youngest daughter to the town's …
: Daily Mail As with the Sun I'm not clicking links to Daily Mail articles. Yet the headlines look so 'juicy!'
: Bands seen live There's a list, varying with each person, going round social media at the moment. It challenges …
: 300 posts As someone who uses a blog to write to work through issues I must appear to the world to be a …
: 80s bands again A headline: "Seven bands from the 80s we wish would reunite" (BBC Entertainment & Arts) A …
: NOW is the time for a protest vote I know several people who voted for the first time last June, in the Brexit referendum, their …
: Four Roses 6 Drunk neat after Nice’n’Spicy NikNaks, it’s indescribable. Also, Ruby dog is no longer fazed by me …
: Birthday customs I had a birthday recently. Nothing special, aside from to those colleagues who remembers my 'special …
: Easter Bunny The Easter Bunny visited, distributed cunningly-hidden chocolate eggs throughout the Turner …
: Easter Egg 2 I was wrong. The 139th White House Easter Egg Roll event went ahead with the Trumps in attendance. I …
: 51-49 With 99% of the votes counted and the totals being 51.4% for, 48.6% against, the Turks elected to …
: Four Roses 5 Drunk neat is best. To be concluded…
: Easter Egg The Trumps flew to Florida on Friday, in separate jets. It's looking as though they'll miss the …
: Four Roses 4 This time the experiment continues with sufficient ice cubes prepared to sink an ocea, er… Drunk …
: Washington Post I subscribed to the online editions of The Washington Post. Yes it's a US news company! At USD$19 …
: Four Roses 3 Aw, FFS, we don't have any ice cubes!!!2!¡ /Potters about in the kitchen for a while and tries, but …
: Four Roses 2 Drunk neat with it and me at room temperature: oh yes. Looking forward to dropping an ice cube in …
: Four Roses Attempting to find a better Bourbon whiskey than 'Buffalo Trace' I've been asking around, and …
: Ordinary Men I know someone who's better screwed together than I and she's read, er… (thinks) yeah, I'd best get …
: Grammer Today brought two lifetime achievements, three if you include a small amount of good-natured …
: Maker's Mark review part 6 Drunk neat at room temperature or with ice: oh, no. Maker's Mark Bourbon Whiskey smells amazing …
: Privacy Another sign personal responsibility is a thing of the past, this one related to the ubiquity of the …
: Maker's Mark review part 5 Drunk again with 1-1/2 ice cubes with me at room temperature, this time after recently eating …
: Maker's Mark review part 4 Drunk again with a single ice cube with me at room temperature: oh no. There's a really unpleasant …
: Maker's Mark review part 119 oh my glob ive fallen and cant getup again waillll!!!2!¡
: Beauty And The Beast My youngest daughter and I went to the movies again today, to watch Beauty and the Beast, a film my …
: Maker's Mark review part 3 I bowed to popular demand* and wrote what follows about the third Bourbon Whiskey I've ever tried. …
: Maker's Mark review part 2 Drunk with a single ice cube with me at room temperature: oh. Smells amazing. To be continued…
: Maker's Mark review part 1 Drunk neat at room temperature: oh, no. Smells amazing. To be continued…
: Empty words There'll be a better way of summing up what follows than the title I chose, but it'll do. I'm …
: Cold caller The doorbell was rung a few minutes ago: 2 guys, one introduced both as security consultants. I said …
: Resolutionary New Year's Resolutions kept: none, though the subtleties of the choices made leave me a modicum of …
: Obsolete I just finished making dinner for me and the girls and realised something quite profound. My web …
: Talking ADN Talking Heads have had a major influence in my life. Subtle but major nonetheless. I’m now …
: IT support This user-requested software upgrade exchange didn't happen. I've made it up. Yes.* The Man: …
: App.net legends Just short of a millennium ago, and handily beating Project Gutenberg, the Chinese invented movable …
: Relief After a weekend of comparative misery, earlier this morning I sent a text message to my wife. It …
: Stranger I wonder how it feels, when out with your family, if your partner attracts the attention of someone …
: Wild Turkey The Wild Turkey brand of straight Bourbon whiskey is well-enough established in the film world that …
: Blinkers 2 Yesterday evening, fresh out of the gym and leaving the leisure centre, my attention was diverted, …
: Blinkers We went to the pictures yesterday, to watch the Lego Batman Movie. I suspended my sense of disbelief …
: micro.blog There's a social network in the works called micro.blog. It aims to bridge the gap between …
: Mug revisited My wife bleached my mug. Having acquired over 3 years of patina it was perfect! Was.
: 7 bits Last week, during the school holiday, my wife took our daughters to a National Trust property. My …
: Nine Today marks the ninth anniversary of the sale of our first home together, my wife, my first …
: Sinclair C5 Can modern incarnation of C5 succeed? (BBC) I'm easily old enough to remember the original 3-wheeled …
: Poo bag No, not an insult. Why, when it's absolutely necessary to have a bag for collecting poo, there isn't …
: Pinboard fail Well, 3 weeks after paying for a Pinboard.in bookmark tagging and page archiving account, I'm no …
: Telnet Today, a day of nerdy firsts: I had my first-ever Telnet session, and very tentatively started to …
: Unsolicited Some of our work numbers are regularly targeted, plagued by unsolicited callers wanting to talk …
: Improbable I have a theory: that Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was close when wondering that, …
: Hungry In the hurry to leave the house for this morning's school run and journey to work I forgot my lunch, …
: Bourbon Ah… I remember the days when getting home and having one meant chomping on a nice, brown biscuit …
: Pinboard I've been messing about with computers since 1981, on the internet since 1997 (yes, even that is 20 …
: Frailty There's no doubt in my mind that I'm no longer the invincible fourteen year old my sense of self has …
: Stop Making Sense Aw crap, the cat's looking at me in that way again. Not sure where my uncontrollable giggling came …
: Slapstick My oldest daughter has just been watching a YouTube video of children falling over or off things, …
: Cinema Ordinary visits to the cinema of course provoke my tears, but not today's. The frankly …
: Constipated Conversations often bring up what seem to be the weirdest things. And then I think for a bit. I've …
: iOS So here I am again, iOS! Yes.
: Testy 2 Finally, we have liftoff! A week-and-a-half in, and I've managed to configure a £30 computer and …
: Bye Medium I've been copying my blog posts, first manually then more recently automatically, to Medium.com (a …
: Cabbage (band) I recently came across a retweet mentioning a news article about a Mossley (NW England) discordant …
: Cake culture After reading this, I've a question for anyone arriving here accidentally… Dentists call to end cake …
: Check please Last weekend I acquiesced to the medical profession's demand that I acknowledge my age and attend a …
: Screen (song) My wife and daughters (when they're older!) might appreciate this song: Screen: twenty one pilots. …
: Pineapple ** Newsflash!! ** Dateline: Right now! I just ate a couple of slices of a Hawaiian pizza I bought …
: Bananas I know I shouldn't but I did; I watched the BBC politics Q&A programme 'Question Time'. Brexit …
: Slag My wife just called me a slag. I honestly cannot believe she meant it in connection with my …
: Unfollowed And then, in one smooth operation, I unfollowed all my Twitter political accounts… Which was nice. …
: Cancelled After a rubbish day, a tale of woe: posts detailing a short journey from pleasure to disappointment, …
: Christians It's time to refer to people who are obviously not Christians as something else. Something from the …
: Literally http://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/28/thiel-trump
: Alexa vs Computer I used the app to change our Echo Dot's name from Alexa to Computer. Me: "Computer, what is your …
: Retweet Inspired by a tweet: @PhoneBoy: "If I wanted to read the tweets of people y'all are retweeting, …
: Ascetic As the year unfolds I am for the most part now leaning towards shunning social media. At least my …
: Trumpton The TrumpTon: n: Statements which whilst devoid of substantial content are designed to instil …
: Server It screwed up, big-time. The Softaculous installer is so-ooooo not my friend.
: Cognitive dissonance Right now, in an attempt to work through some interesting conundrums, I am mainly reading about …
: 10C app list I created a list of apps and integrations currently available for the 10Centuries social network. …
: Gaslighting Gaslighting is a form of manipulation through persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and …
: The Day After Tomorrow We just watched The Day After Tomorrow again, a fine film and one of my favourites. Perhaps the …
: App.net #ThemeMonday The App.net community was small-enough and its people got on with each other well-enough that little …
: Twitter diminishes I'm scaling back my involvement on Twitter (in addition to a recent step away from Facebook.) It'll …
: Drunkard Today, for lots of reasons, I felt the need for a little alcoholic refreshment, and so it happened …
: Brexit insanity (sweary) I voted to Remain at the ‘Europe Referendum’ last year, hoping that the political system …
: Chatty This might sound a little odd. Quite a lot of my prose is indeed odd to the uninitiated, but this is …
: App.net to close During the springtime of 2013 I decided to join a new online community at App.net (Wikipedia entry). …
: ADN Free With weeks to go before a billing cycle I've downgraded my App.net (ADN) account to the 'free' tier. …
: Lardy @Schwarzenegger: "Some people say Sunday is a day of rest. I say if you eat, sleep, and breathe on …
: History I'm going to start reposting some entries from previous incarnations of my blog. (I already posted …
: Imperial For years I looked at Cussons Imperial Leather soap as being nothing special. Through my childhood I …
: End Here we are at the end of another year. I've seen a lot. More than some, fewer than others. It …
: Alexa We have an Amazon Echo Dot. It's touted as a voice-controlled electronic assistant. It's more than …
: Profit If I were to die tomorrow I'm reasonably sure I'd be mourned, and remembered for being a reasonable …
: Blocked I made and uploaded a second video to YouTube! 20 seconds long, I guarantee it will not change your …
: Merry Christmas To everyone I know, and to everyone who sees this: Take care. Baz.
: #rant 2 Testing Medium integration after my first IFTTT recipe simply failed. Nothing* to see here, move …
: #rant Intended primarily as a test, this day unifies 'broadcasting' my blog posts created and hosted at my …
: Normalised 2016 has been a year of downs, and the potential for more of the same for the foreseeable future. …
: Insignificant fail At the beginning of February 2016 I decided to use a goal tracker app to create and to keep in touch …
: Whimper It's fair to say that 2016 started badly, reached a crescendo of awfulness during the early-middle …
: Pornstar I posted an image yesterday, to Twitter and to Facebook: ironic, sarcastic, call it what you will - …
: 2016 Heading into the festive season most people would assume the worst of 2016 would be over by now. It …
: Frustration The Sex Pistols accompanied me to work this morning; MOST unusual, as I usually rely on the calming …
: 14 again If you're a certain age, grew up and entered your teens in a pre-Internet era, you'll have had a …
: Balance It's fair to say that 2016 has been a bit of a shocker for most, both in celebrity deaths and in the …
: XVIII I've already established that I cry when we go to the movies. I cry when we watch movies at home. My …
: Patch: a sequel Earlier this year I wrote about my favourite film, 'Armageddon'. If you scroll back through the …
: Toblerone A Toblerone bar has the enviable position of being a luxury product for a lot of people; …
: Halloween On Monday evening I participated in my first Trick-Or-Treat outing. Important: that's …
: Trolls After breakfast today the girls and I again went to the cinema; we watched 'Trolls' and, for a …
: Audi A recent study concluded you're more likely to meet your premature end run over by a driver of an …
: Storks After breakfast today the girls and I went to the cinema; we watched 'Storks' and I cried at the …
: Skipping My oldest daughter skipped into Brownies this evening. Most encouraging, if you know her. Chatting …
: Mass debate The Internet is aghast at the news that during the US Presidential debates the moderator will not be …
: Boobies We've all done it; had that momentary lapse of judgment with the inherent possibility of instant …
: Redshift I've not had anything to say for weeks now, nothing at least that isn't either political or …
: Bhagavad Gita "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Robert Oppenheimer, widely known as 'the father …
: Cock Behold! You know when a dog listens to you, listens so intently and with total focus that there is …
: Meaning Words used to have meaning, used not to be mere scribbles on paper or sounds made to satisfy popular …
: Self-destruct For a man wanting to become one of the few this world has ever seen to attain the status of a …
: Huffington Because there's nothing else in this world worth commenting on, not yesterday's family trip to …
: BFG Pizza is on its way. Late yesterday one of the girls asked to go see 'The BFG': the film adaptation …
: Patch Inspired by a Tweet: "@rabryst: Tell me an example of an uncommon reason for crying, in a …
: Damned Damned if you do, damned if you don't. State, categorically, that something bad is unacceptable, …
: Flush Thursday, today, is the first day since Tuesday during which I've been able to sit down on the gents …
: Kebab I went online and ordered a kebab and a few other things earlier. 'Twas delicious, but bloody hell …
: Meaning We're all searching for some kind of meaning in life, right? Here's a dialogue extract taken from my …
: Godot As-intended I just watched the second act of the 2001 film adaptation of the Samuel Beckett classic …
: Nice What follows is simply a repost of my 2015 'Paris' post, but with the city and date changed: Life is …
: Pokemon Go! Install. Bang! I… Delete. In reality, I can't register here in the UK. Lunchtime is perhaps not the …
: 13 Today the thirteenth: Day of July 2016, Prime Minister during Queen Elizabeth II's reign, Stone was …
: Brief I once tried to read Stephen Hawking's book 'A Brief History Of Time'. I made the conscious decision …
: Not yours Oh dear. I wrote to my MP 2 weeks ago, hopeful of a quick response (even a brush-off) to my …
: Certainty Why is everyone who's anyone (and a lot of those who aren't) dealing in certainties, in absolutes, …
: HTTP 451 Censorship is something we're likely to see more of as time passes, as the illusion of democracy …
: FB scams Formulating government policy or a political manifesto is very much like making up a typical …
: Words Have you read the preamble to the Liberal Democrat Constitution? Everyone should, especially those …
: Indie Politics; it's all a load of old bollocks really, isn't it. A man spends his entire political career …
: Blinkers I've spent far too long this last week attempting to make sense of the post-Brexit vote. I've looked …
: East Stepping backwards in time around 35 years, to another period of desperate uncertainty, the time of …
: Boris 'Everyone knew Boris': a quotation (paraphrased here) from someone who knew Boris at university. Not …
: Accepted challenge Coming from a non-political society as I do I'm often confused by people's response to politicians. …
: Challenge accepted Surreal situation, isn't it. Led into something that's obviously not good for us by people still …
: Chainsaws Naah, that won't work, juggling chainsaws isn't an an appropriate analogy to use here. Perhaps …
: Regrexit Yesterday evening I watched a video, a young woman interviewed on national television, already …
: Voter To all those registered to vote in the UK's Europe Referendum: Go and vote; your country needs you. …
: Space Space. Mankind still hasn't conquered it. That's fine. There's still an element of danger inherent …
: Ian I work for a company with a larger-than-average number of gentlemen named Ian* concentrated into a …
: Clinton Do you, like I, recall a time a decade or two ago; a time when Mr Clinton was accused of being a bit …
: 50p One of my colleagues bought a drink from the drinks machine earlier today. Unremarkable. Another …
: Registration Yesterday, and prior to midnight, was the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming UK …
: Ramadan Mubarak Ramadan Mubarak to anyone observing it or supporting those who are! If you're fasting, take it easy, …
: Boxes A roundup of things I've done, observed, experienced, liked, loathed and tolerated during the last …
: Hotdogs Dinner today will be easy: hotdogs, buns to encase them, tomato ketchup. That's me and the girls …
: Trump Not a post about 'politics', no. It's bodily functions; one in particular. And physics. Acoustics. …
: Brexitcize I was going to post a thing I had in my head, a lyrical outline for an exercise routine of our …
: Chargers I'm closer to making an American Football team decision. Yes, I'm ignoring advice, previous …
: Europe I've read a lot of pro- and anti-Europe opinion pieces. I've read all the literature that's come …
: "nfl team chooser" This week, at work, I started the process of choosing an NFL team to follow. I've been here before. …
: Tomita Isao Tomita bought an early Moog synthesiser in the early-nineteen-seventies; created the delightful …
: 3 Wolves shirt Last week I ordered a shirt. Not just any shirt, but a shirt of power, a shirt of mystical …
: 3 Wolves and Moon My boss wore a work-commemorative T-shirt all day today; as these things do it got me thinking about …
: Loony I've not decided which way, or if, I'll vote in the UK's local elections this week. A long standing …
: Toilets Last weekend we went to Edinburgh, stopped 2 nights, had a really good time. I counted over 29,000 …
: Liberal Cake. Pies. Pizza. Good wishes… Every time we have a birthday at work we colleagues get the benefit …
: Conservative I hold a healthy amount of respect for our local Conservative councillors: approachable, local …
: Labour Yesterday afternoon the Labour Party's local local election candidate called round. Not specifically …
: Facebook links My youngest daughter simply doesn't understand the concept of a surprise. When asked to keep a …
: I Left Medium I probably quit Medium in 2011; I've not been back there since. Being totally frank about the entire …
: Chatbot User: "Hi chatbot ,whats the weather like today ?lol" bazbt3chatbot: "Go outside, meet people, hug a …
: Las Vegas A colleague and his partner are there right now, starting their first full day. I was there 24 years …
: Autism As a parent of a lovely girl diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum, and being pretty sure I'm …
: Medium A new place at which I'm posting drivel; I have a Medium.com account. Testing; there's no Markdown …
: Undies: a sequel The girls and mummy are having a slumber party this evening; pyjamas, sleeping bags, popcorn and, of …
: Undies In a hurry to leave the house this morning, head befuddled by sleep, I failed in one important …
: Dorveille A metric shed-load, nay airship-hangar-load of people suffer from a life-shortening condition. It's …
: Biscuits We have an office custom; on or around one's birthday one brings along cakes, pastries, biscuits or …
: Local politics The local elections roll around again in a month. I’m hoping that the prospective candidates …
: Order There are a lot of things in this life that a good Getting Things Done (GTD) or reminder app will …
: In Betweeners Elaborating on (or maybe not, it's not my place to say) my 'Between' post yesterday, @matigo …
: Insurance Car insurance: I got home today, opened the insurance company letter, and sat. Quickly. They think …
: Between It would be fair to say that I'm between social networks. I don't mean I'm not participating, no. I …
: SIM Last year, amidst a mood of indecision, I decided to move my expired phone contract to the UK's …
: Bugs "Developing an application is not easy." So I said earlier today, at a time I really couldn't see …
: Stripper Yes, it's that time of year again; we're decorating! Paint, paper (the big bedroom), mild peril.
: Invisible During winter the darker hours bring out the worst in people. I'm not talking about death, mayhem, …
: Steps A week and a half ago the Sony Lifelog app on my phone announced that I'd passed a milestone: …
: Stand Assembling a new, glass-shelved TV stand is very much like making love to, er… The hardest bit isn't …
: Rubus cockburnianus My wife was watching TV earlier; Monty Don, the gardening programme host, mentioned a flower variety …
: Jetwash My girls and wife went out to the craft shop earlier, getting stuff to decorate their Easter …
: Sperm As my youngest daughter started to read one of her homework reading assignment books, 'Amazing …
: Slumber There's a modern disease I share with a good proportion of the world. There's not a massive social …
: Paralympics Posting something about the upcoming Rio Olympics yesterday, I asked a question: "Who are we …
: Olympics It's nearly 4 years since the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony. 4 years. Wow! Rio De Janeiro! …
: Hic Right now I feel as if I've melted. I've been drinking wine; half a bottle of a rather nice Merlot. …
: Legacy (apps) I made a conscious choice to develop my 10Centuries.org app (10cbazbt3.py) in Python 3.x. Python 3.x …
: Haircut The mobile hairdresser paid a visit today. She tidied the girls' fringes and hair at the back, did …
: Documenting I decided early to add comments to the code I'm putting together for my early-alpha application for …
: Plumbers 3 plumbers were asked to quote for work - to replace 2 radiators. Here's a mercifully shortened tale …
: Mothering This Mothering Sunday (aka Mothers Day) we went to church - it was the Brownies' and Ladybirds' Flag …
: Snow It snowed in Rochdale today, and Rochdale ground to a near-halt. My drive to work, a journey that …
: Hello print (“Hello World”) What’s the next step into my journey towards learning some …
: Spacetime I got married late in the third quarter of 2006, but this isn't about anniversaries, family, lazing …
: Twentynine February 29 (Wikipedia) is a date that appears only during years divisible by 4 (with an integer …
: Maths Not maths as such, more precisely pseudomaths: endhour == 23 starthour == 7 uploadpayload == 24 …
: Shi(f)t During November 2015 I decided to start a daily journal - an activity which soon changed into an …
: Technology The mists of time have of course dulled the memory, but it was the early nineteen seventies, was …
: Insomnia I've been asleep, honest! Knowing there would be a solution to my Raspberry Pi automation woes I …
: Testy I'm annoyed that it's still not working. My blog post build thing. This is indeed a test post; …
: Anticipation Apologies for my absence from everywhere social for the last week. I haz bean programin stuf!!!2!¡ …
: Engineer A small number of us wear similar sweaters for work - similar in that they're self-coloured and …
: Nerdity Another short one today; it's been a 'nothing' weekend outside my ongoing Raspberry Pi playtime. …
: Git A short one today. My nearly-week-old Raspberry Pi is now behaving, more-or-less.* Here's a link to …
: Tosser Daughter 2: "Mummy, daddy's good at tossing!" My wife, deadpan: "Yes, he's a born tosser." It is …
: Meh Summary: Meh. Detail: Feeling crap, like death warmed up. I was going to write a long piece about …
: Nope Another summary post, this of a wasted day: Personal The lady who was supposed to visit my oldest …
: Ruby Ruby, I could tear my hair out!! It's probably not what you think; Ruby dog's fine, it's the …
: Uniform What idiot would design a nursea uniform to make it more stylish, form-fitting, and ignore the fact …
: Raspberry Pi! Raspberry Pi update. Firstly, and finally, I bought one! The day before Valentine's Day; the …
: Misc I've not blogged for a couple of days, hence this ragtag collection of unconnected thoughts. …
: NOW! It's 8:10pm.* A couple of days ago I installed an application program on this thing in my hand. A …
: Super Another Super Bowl (50, not ‘L’) over, the serious business of me choosing a team …
: Sweaters I have 3 sweaters I wear at work; rotated in an unconscious pattern, washed to an irregular …
: Depleted Not exactly a perfect storm of events, not by any means; nevertheless, we ran out of: Cat litter, …
: Deliveries I'm sat on the toilet, right now. Expecting a delivery from Amazon, needing a poo, I'd asked my …
: Refill layout: post title: Refill My Fisher Space Pen leaked; the brand's legendary status is in jeopardy! …
: Backups I have a NAS - a network-attached-storage device. Bought to serve photos and video and music to the …
: Anthropomorphised If you've ever watched a Disney or Pixar film you'll know that cute little animals, hulking great …
: Valentine In a couple of weeks time it'll be Valentine's Day. I'll be buying a card and some flowers for my …
: Meta My grasp of the English language isn't as wide, deep, or rounded as I'd like it to be. I know lots …
: Mortality "Simple life good."* Er… I shall stop talking like the village idiot now. 'Life' is now too complex …
: Hawaiian ** Newsflash!! ** Dateline: Right now! We have a simply great work custom: anyone having a birthday …
: Rule 34 Yesterday I created and posted (if that's the correct term) my first podcast. (It at least looks and …
: Developing I may have mentioned my programming days are >30 years in the past? Well they are. It's not to …
: Ruby dog If you're not following me on App.net you're missing out on the occasional post about Ruby - our …
: Sock monster My youngest daughter is a Ladybird (a member of the local Rainbows - pre-Brownies.) Every week her …
: Todo list Where do I start? Perhaps I need a list for that. I’ve had list managers, todo managers, GTD …
: Status A recent all-too-brief conversation prompted me to think about what defines the success of a social …
: Beans The story of Jack and the Beanstalk encompasses a great many moral lessons, chief of which is …
: Holidays "I don't want to holiday in the sun I want to go to the new Belsen I want to see some history 'Cause …
: Broken A-aaand, just like that, both my blogging and cold toilet seat streaks (see my other blog) are …
: Bowie David Bowie is no longer with us. Astronaut Chris Hadfield posted a fitting tweet, and here's his …
: Workflow Here’s a screenshot of a mind map of my current blog posting workflow: It’s in need of …
: Reverie I'm simply not going to list the deaths of well-known individuals during 2015/early 2016. Each has a …
: Ego I have a new redirect from my vanity domain. The general structure, as of today, is: (www.)bt3.com …
: Twitter 10k Twitter seems likely to announce an increase in its post character count, upwards from 140, sometime …
: Cat We have a dog. Ruby is lovely. Smelly, eats poo, she's as mad as a box of… We have a cat. Mollie is …
: ADNHackDay App.net's @lukasros asked a couple of days ago: "Hello people of App.net! What do you think about …
: Layouts I have a Github Pages test blog, adapted from a repo I found on Github.com. It's there simply to …
: ThemeMonday 2016 January 11 In a new departure, I'm experimenting with a blog post to call ADN to choose our #ThemeMonday theme …
: Blogging (or not) Blogging is simultaneously simple and complex. The simple bit is writing something interesting. Or …
: Hitler Yesterday I posted this on App.net: “Copyright of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf …
: Semicolon 2015 was a year with a lot of downs, and I'll be glad to see its end. Really. There were of course …
: Git I have absolutely no desire to learn command-line Git; the available GUI-based tools are more than …
: Knife During 2000 I visited the USA on an escorted coach tour. Part-way through we stopped at a tax-free …
: SVG I attempted to create an SVG file suitable for my test blog at bazbt3.github.io (or here if …
: Wrapping To be absolutely fair to her, my wife shouldered the burden of wrapping the presents prior to …
: Fat I've eaten too much over the last few days. For most in the western, developed world it's an obvious …
: Pudding I just now had my Christmas Pudding. It was delicious, laced with brandy and, I think, rum, and …
: Sales The seasonal sales have already started. In fact, some have been going on, on-and-off, since the …
: Floods Not much to say today apart from to mention the local flooding (thankfully not hyperlocal, i.e. not …
: Hello World! My second (test) blog post using jekyll-now repo. This may work! Simply deleting the original file …
: jekyll-now My first blog post using jekyll-now repo. Yes, this is indeed a test. The date of the first post is …
: Charitable How do you explain to someone, without actually explaining, that you will not buy their raffle …
: Paris Life is complicated. Living it is easy. Put one foot in front of another, breathe in, breathe out, …
: Bucket (2015-10-17) We're supposed to prepare a bucket list* - stuff we'd like to do, accomplish, experience before …
: Lendl All I can think of right now is Ivan Lendl's sex face. I'm sorry to bring this up. I should go and …
: Stony A variation on a theme; a joke told to my daughters a few minutes ago: "What did the Italian man …
: Baz's Law The probability that footnotes could be added to a social media post* whilst retaining meaningful …
: Catharty-ism My children's discipline is a constant source of frustration to me. I've spent the last few years …
: Flasher I can only now bring myself to talk about it - such is the impact on my family. On Sunday evening, …
: Lubricant We have a new liquid handwash. It's supposed to be scientifically formulated to minimise odours but …
: Challenging No. I'm not participating in a public fundraiser. I'm not challenging anyone else to do it, nor am I …
: School report I like 'The Internet.' I like it a lot. I interact with an at-glacial-pace-decreasing-number of the …
: Glasses My eyesight is deteriorating as I age. In the early nineties (last century!) I was short-sighted and …
: Voted Yesterday, before work, I voted. In the greatest of British traditions I was able to make small talk …
: Voting We've got the local councillor and the European Parliament elections here tomorrow. I'll be honest …
: Hand of shame I have, like the vast majority of humans and humanoid creatures on this planet, a right hand. I'm …
: I haz Laphroaig This morning I badly needed a decongestant, so the timing of the gift could not have been more …
: Computer book required I don't read enough. I bought 3 novels a few months ago with the intention of making time. Of course …
: Not a blogger I'm not a blogger, not really. Why? I have a blog, I post stuff to it, I have extended periods of …
: Local politics If you abhor politics in all its forms look away now. This is an edited repost from 2012 - written …
: Cake This post was inspired by a comment from @neilco on the App.net social network: "I’m pondering a …
: Ketchup A potentially contentious post follows. If you’ve been buying (or have been bought) Heinz …
: Computer assistance required Why do people ask for assistance with computer problems they haven’t solutions for? That’s an easy …
: Sense of humour My oldest daughter is often challenged by her homework - there’s way too much for a …
: Dad's Army mug Here’s one of my favourite Christmas presents from 2013. On the face of it just an enamelled …
: Follow I don't follow everyone who follows me on App.net (or previously Twitter) for a number of reasons, …
: Killed All, ok, most old content is gone. I wasn’t really interested in keeping it. A late spring …