2020s
I just learnt that Jackie Cassada, an acquaintance from my old White Wolf/RPG writing days, has passed from COVID.
A lovely person and a great talent, lost. Heartbreaking.
How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.
Maybe just regretting a little that I offered to handle the live-streaming of midnight mass tonight.
I can vouch for the accuracy of this feature: Six things only people who were forced to do social dancing at a Scottish school will remember
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Oh, do you remember when we used to go to “coffee shops” and other people would make coffee for us?
Kids today wouldn’t believe that.
Love a bit of garden office porn.
Oh, my. A year before the Brexit vote and the Trump election, I linked to reporting about how Russian misinformation was sowing discord in US communities.
If only people had taken that a lot more seriously.
I suppose that I should be working systematically through One Man & His Blog’s archives, upgrading them and correcting problems left over from various platform moves.
But it’s more fun just to chose a random tag — like seashore.
Archive spelunking
Managed to resurrect all but one of the broken links on this 14 year old post. (The reason why is a subject for another post).
Looking back on the 2006 web - pre-social media as we know it today - I can’t help feeling that many aspects of it were better and healthier than what we have now.
We really need to talk about trust in journalism.
This eco cabins are just irresistible to me. One day. One day.
These two things can both be true:
- Herd immunity is a real, valid scientific concept.
- Attempting to achieve it for COVID19 without vaccinations would be inhumane.
You don’t have to deny 1. to argue for 2.