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72. First Saturday of Summer
We spent the day – a mild and leisurely one – up in Birmingham, a return to the city for a second niece’s graduation. The main event was on Friday which left us to our own devices for today. To Cannon Hill Park we went, to take in its sights and sounds and get L… Continue reading
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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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67. Re: Re: AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more
Cafélog, who is on my blogroll, responds to a post at Vrypan.net, AI-generated blog posts images are not cool anymore . It is a detailed response which delves into their use of AI and the process involved in generating the images on the blog. As someone who also uses AI to modify pictures for use… Continue reading
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66. Three Types of (British) Evangelical Churches
Photo by John Price on Unsplash My Lapsed Pentecostal assertions not withstanding, I have been known to pop into church on a Sunday every so often. Over the years, therefore, I have attended a fair few, from which I think the UK Pentecostal church landscape (dare I say Evangelical-Industrial-Complex) can be considered as been divided… Continue reading
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65. Re: To Comment Section or Not
James Zhan weighs in on the comment-section-or-not “debate”, ultimately justifying his decision to remove comments from his (Bear) blog. The key point which I can relate to is this: When I had comment sections on my blog, I found myself frequently checking for new comments and feeling somewhat disappointed when I saw none. It almost… 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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63.Re: Posting Fewer Photos of My Kids’ Faces
Matt Langford blogs about intentionally posting fewer photos of his kids’ faces online. The part of the reasons which resonates with me is: A photo posted today can end up indexed, copied, saved, scraped, screenshotted, and fed into who knows what. That sounds dramatic, but it also sounds like Tuesday. Even if the original post… Continue reading
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