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71. The End of the Beginning
The last day of school before the summer break and the start of the new school year was a great time to pause and celebrate just how far L has come. She had to miss the first two months of the (reception) year, which left her struggling to make friends and connections in class. The… Continue reading
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70. Re: Reconnecting with Music
Richard Dallaway posts about reconnecting with music, highlighting his experience with (paying for but not using) music streaming subscriptions, and a new service being tried, Cantilever. In a similar vein, I have a Spotify subscription which has barely been used in the last three months. Cantilever is an interesting service, but one which I am… Continue reading
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69. Life in a Song – Tenth Avenue North – I Have This Hope
Thanks to Navidrome, I have been dumpster diving the innards of old USB hard drives at home. Sadly, there are no bitcoin keys to find there, so tactical slacking must continue “at pace”. I did find my old music archive from ages ago from which this Tenth Avenue North Song comes. It was a real… Continue reading
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68. (More) HomeLab-ing
It is coming up to a year since I ditched my Microsoft Enterprise Basic subscription, slapped TrueNAS on an old Lenovo ThinkCentre, and started the self-hosting journey. Since then I have replaced OneDrive with Nextcloud (without all the bells and whistles of talk, photos etc), and Google Photos with Immich. Both pieces of software are… Continue reading
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64. Not the old July Weather
The warmest June in England on record seems to have been followed by a July which is not particularly keen to provide much respite. For the chronically online, the discourse has been around the (European) AC conundrum – with pejoratives of “Europoor” being thrown in for good measure. It is in moments like this that… Continue reading
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62. In Memoriam: The Way the World Ends
She would have been 70 today but life happens and all we have left are memories, and the stark reminder that the world ends not with a bang but a whimper. Continue reading
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60. Re: 5 Albums
5 Albums which shaped me. Found on Olly’s post which was in turn inspired by Martin’s. Written as part of the JulyReply series Continue reading
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59: Re: How I Use AI
(Gen) AI and its impact on life, the future of work and pretty much everything in between has been on my mind for quite some time, more so of late. It hasn’t helped that Co-pilot has been rammed down our collective throats at work for the better part of a year, in the name of… Continue reading
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54. History Maker – Delirious? – Life in A Song
The farewell tour which features the “Fabula est Vestri” quip (the story is yours) – which may be a mistranslation. :) Continue reading
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52. Going Walkies
F, the soon to be 16 month old, seems to be doing things at pace: not talking yet but humming along to several nursery rhymes, pretending to take phone calls and more importantly walking alot. Since discovering the ability to walk, it has been tons of walking everyday. I guess I no longer have an… Continue reading
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