Category: General Silliness
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WordPress drama
The recent drama between Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine has shown clearly what a debacle WordPress governance is.
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Post length with ActivityPub
The ActivtyPub plugin is great, but too often sends way too long posts to the Fediverse
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A Roman boy in 1912
I’m currently listening to a podcast on the Byzantine Empire, which is very interesting. An episode discussing the identity of the people of the Byzantine Empire mentioned a story of a little boy on an island that had been part of the Ottoman empire but was passing to Greece. A Greek soldier met a small…
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2012
I haven’t updated this blog for ages, too much work generally, which naturally gives me no right to complain. To compensate I have picked a one or two photos from each month of 2012, showing a bit of what I’ve been doing this past year. January In January I was back in Denmark to see…
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Confirmed: He Who Sits the Most Dies the Soonest
I imagined that spending half my life kayaking would be good for my health, and then this news appears: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/04/confirmed-he-who-sits-the-most-dies-the-soonest/256101/ maybe its time to look more into stand up paddling, or rather, given my current residence, Venetian rowing.
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Gondolas in Egypt
I’m not quite sure what to think about this, but I’m fairly confident a lot of Venetian rowers wouldn’t like the way these gondolas are punted rather than rowed. http://www.gondolagreg.com/2011/12/more-gondolas-in-egypt.html