am going to vote in a few hours, and having spent time preparing articles, today turns out to be very good! Yesterday I produced many stories (some short, some very long) and I’m planning to try to do the same today. So far this year has turned out to be by far the best and most productive year since I became an adult.

People who attempt to slow me down or sadden me are failing. I reckon they already realise this and can evidently see this.

I wonder why Bob Cringely has been so quiet lately. Health problems? Threats?

Let’s wait and see.

“Good question,” a friend has opined. “Those pushing AI [sic] are a very dodgy bunch. So I would suspect threats if anything…”

Quoting further: “Bob was on a roll for a while recently. However, what he was saying was going very strongly against the fantasy story that some very powerful, monied interests have been pushing.”

oday it is time to vote here. It’s also good that we have been getting some light rain overnight – the soil and the plants truly need it.

It turns out last night that yesterday alone I wrote over 50 original articles or short blog posts (across 3 sites). It exceeded my expectations.

HIS blog is turning 22 this year, unlike the site which is turning 25 next year. With 2,884 blog posts, it’s an average of just over 100 per year though a lot more lately. At this current page it’ll exceed 3,000 by year’s end.

I still remember my first-ever blog post. My aunt commented on it. Weeks later I set up a blog for my friend, who would blog for nearly 20 years until he died in his nineties.

“Blogging” per se started centuries ago, but some people define a blog based on some particular features, especially digital hallmarks.

In some sense, my first site was a bit like a blog and that was in the mid 1990s.

omorrow is the day to vote here. There is some certain lack of excitement and door-knocking political hacks aren’t coming around this week. Even the spam seems to have been reduced somewhat?

Have LibDem run out of (or low on) spam budget? They’re always good at talking a lot, but not actually doing anything. Maybe they recognise they no longer stand a chance of winning in this area.

Crossposted from Techrights

HREE years ago we abandoned WordPress. It was a much-belated success story as for reasons specified a decade earlier we had long planned to abandon WordPress. More and more reasons added up, even before WordPress and especially WordPress.com became slop-ware (LLM integration that users mostly loathed; data was also being passed for training plagiarism).

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have been sent a video about COVID-19 vaccines. It’s not about whether they are good or not. It does not talk about them. Instead it shows health statistics before and after mass vaccination, broken down based on things like cardiac conditions, baby mortality, fetal matters, and of course cancer.

I used to write a great deal about the lack of proper clinical trials and I was sceptical of the manic rush to skip proper, prolonged testing of stuff which was not just overpriced but oftentimes mandatory.

T seems like August has already begun and Rianne’s birthday is a few weeks away. Today we expect some publicity and tomorrow we have an election here.

From what I can gather, the platform I’ve promoted for decades is winning the battle of attrition, which means more “mainstreaming”.

I plan to keep this blog increasingly active for the foreseeable future. It was mostly neglected for two decades because of Techrights.