Writing
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2022
Looking back at my work, non-work, health, media consumption, etc. over the year.
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Third time: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The diary is starting again from the beginning for the third time, twenty years since I first started the site.
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w/e 2022-12-25
A funeral, The Wonder, Glass Onion, A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Snowfall season five, The Sinner season three, and Motherland.
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w/e 2022-12-18
Preparing Pepys for the third reading, macOS Ventura, and Industry season two.
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w/e 2022-12-12
A week in London and Essex.
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w/e 2022-12-04
Hosting woes even more tedious for me than for you, all of Rev., and season four of Snowfall.
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w/e 2022-11-27
ooh.directory launch, lunch out, a good photo, managing tasks, The English, Happy Valley season two, and Mastodon.
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ooh.directory
I just launched the new website I’ve been working on, a large organised collection of good blogs.
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w/e 2022-11-20
Mary’s back; writing code to fetch feeds; deciding on web hosting; improving bread baking; three more Éric Rohmer films and Listen Up Philip.
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w/e 2022-11-13
Dry Cleaning’s Stumpwork; re-writing a Django app; raking more leaves; Twitter, Mastodon, MetaFilter, and TypePad; four 1980s Éric Rohmer films; jelly bags.
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w/e 2022-11-06
A pheasant; pond leaves; Good Night and Good Riddance by David Cavanagh; Twitter, MetaFilter and TypePad; Drive My Car; and Community season five.
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Linocut printmaking resources
A collection of links to useful blog posts for anyone interested in starting linocut printmaking.
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w/e 2022-10-30
Martha’s Please Don’t Take Me Back, The Flames of Injustice, Cloudflare failure, Le Père de mes enfants, Red Road, Farewell Amor, and Cinema Paradiso.
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w/e 2022-10-23
Oomph deficit.
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w/e 2022-10-16
Jacki Apple, Conversations with Friends.
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New and old, big and small
On W. David Marx’s description of Generation X as cultural crate-diggers, the Band Aid-era division between mainstream and indie, and identifying when Britain split.
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w/e 2022-10-09
The NTS Early Bird Show, Prolapse Peel Sessions, searching for duologues, The Eddy, and Ghosts season four.
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w/e 2022-10-02
A quiet week, cooking, more John Peel, Kajillionaire, An Autumn Tale, and Irma Vep.
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w/e 2022-09-25
The Beths’ Expert in a Dying Field, Obsidian, The Roads to Freedom, The Souvenir: Part II, and an acting class.
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Very beautiful
On listening to some 1967 recordings of John Peel’s show The Perfumed Garden.
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Exporting notes from Simplenote into Obsidian
I wrote a Python script to convert an export of Simplenote notes into a files that are more suitable for importing into Obsidian.
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w/e 2022-09-18
Highpeak Autos, Tuluum Shimmering, The Queue, preparing for an acting class, Paris, 13th District, Katalin Varga, and Lean on Pete.
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w/e 2022-09-11
More faffing around with a VPS, Ladhood season three, a couple of Adèle Haenel movies.
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w/e 2022-09-04
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Interesting 2022, more London, Borgen season four, and Metal Lords.
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w/e 2022-08-28
Breakfast, trying out Render, season two of Ted Lasso.