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.

was perhaps too hasty; I complained about my NIMA coffee (or generic) grinder earlier this summer, but today I found out that the overheating (even some smoke) issue can be overcome by 1) taking more breaks to let it cool down; 2) putting fewer coffee beans in the grinder at any given time, limiting the strain in general; 3) letting it rest without grinding for a very long time. There is always “next time”. This helps keep the ground coffee fresher.

As a bonus, (2) above solves an issue I had last month. Some beans remained whole or mostly whole. Now, they’re all cut finely and nicely.

can now say, as it is public information, that tomorrow morning a judgment will be issued.