Why are people risking their lives to take the perfect selfie? (Spoiler; it’s not about the selfies…)

Pub sign angles are a surprisingly good guide as to how windy the day is…

A wooden sign reading FERRY RIGG INN with a rope knot illustration is mounted on the exterior wall of a textured, light blue-gray building under a partly cloudy sky.

The garden was in fine form today, in the few moments I could steal away from work.

Bright red hollyhock flowers with yellow centers are blooming against a backdrop of green foliage.

The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare.

Sweet dreams. :-)

Bit blowy today.

I hit my daily Move goal for the 1,000th time. Result.

An intricate gold and purple circular design with overlapping rings is displayed above the date 26 July 2019 on a black background.

I’m not sure that this acquisition will “produce value”. These are sites with utterly different cultures, and I can’t see Vice adapting its culture to allow Refinery29 to thrive.

Unsurprising to anyone who has lived in Scotland: Scotland generating enough wind energy to power two Scotlands

Revised and expanded this to try and clarify some point: Zombie Tumblr and the twilight of the social web.

The latest Black Hat SEO technique: find articles from defunct sites linked to by major news operations, and grab the URLs.

This could impact the ranking of sites exploited by the technique.