This site is some twenty-five years old, and it contains lots of ancient stuff, much of it utterly dated and useless.
Sorry about that.
If anything, I post very unevenly, and about whatever occupies me.
Some featured posts
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De-googling
I have tried for ages to de-google. Not just from Google itself, but all the big ones — Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon. However, de-googling is not easy.
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Koha Library Software
Setting up a library management system like Koha is not easy, but once it’s done, registering and cataloguing your books is very easy.
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Across the river, into the trees
I spent a good deal of January and February 2021 on a movie set, but it wasn’t a very positive experience
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Most recent posts
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Google Canal view
Google has launched Street View for Venice, and also Canal View. In the limited space available in Venice, both on land and on water, it was hard not to notice the cameras, which were taken around the city on special back packs and on boats. We spotted this boat on the Grand Canal in August.…
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Winter project: rowing a gondola
My winter project this year is to learn how to row a gondola well enough to move around the canals of Venice. For now, however, we’re rowing in the area of the Certosa, Vignole and Sant’Erasmo Islands in the lagoon.
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Venetian mystery solved
Who took the lion’s share … Of feline dental care? He did! (the lions are on the side of the Punto della Dogana in Venice)
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The death of an island
The island Madonna del Monte, aka Madonna del Rosario, is a small island in the Venetian lagoon, located on the canal which connects Murano and Burano. It is dying a slow death. It housed a monastery for a period in the middle ages, but then lay abandoned for centuries, until another monastery was founded in…
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Two months ago a German died in a gondola
Two month ago today a German tourist died in a gondola besides the Rialto bridge. The city administration announced a plan of 26 points which should bring some order to traffic on the Canal Grande. These included separation of traffic, so cargo boats could only work until around 10.30am, while the gondolas could only work…