Unindexed?
There was an excellent article on The Verge yesterday about how Google is transforming the kinds of sites and blogs that are on the …
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Reflections on 2023
Here are some reflections on 2023.
What is in my Rakefile? (March 2023 edition)
Because I am bored of forgetting what’s in my website’s Rakefile, I thought I’d write a list. Also, as I’m probably …
The paths in the wood
I began writing this post after realising that it is the first of June and I might as well attempt once more to write a post every day. The …
John Irving, The Imaginary Girlfriend
The Imaginary Girlfriend is a short autobiography by American author John Irving. In it, he explains the interwoven roles of writing and …
Sprucing up the Blog
This post explains some of the modifications I made to a minimal Jekyll theme to get this blog as I wanted it. This blog (currently) uses …
Travel Writing After All This
While sprucing up this blog a bit during lockdown, I fell into reading my old posts about South America. I enjoyed it, mostly for the …
Ambitions Revisited
Back in 2012 I wrote a post listing my ambitions for the future. Well it’s the future now isn’t it? Almost. After all, I’m a …
Reboot
As much as I hate to write about writing, especially when I write so infrequently, I feel I need to reboot this blog. I wrote so few posts …
A Diary?
This year promises to be exciting so this week I tried to buy a diary. One of those day-to-a-page affairs for scribbling down all the things …
Three Years
Three years ago today I moved in to my little flat in Chichester, soon to start a new job. I had no money left but at least, after a …
Valleys
In my last post, I wrote about hills. I tried to use them as a metaphor to explain nagging sense of incompletion when you single out one …