Spent a more-or-less instructive week slowly moving this site over to its new home hosted at Hetzner. Not there yet, unless you’re reading this at some point in the future, but with a lot of help — and a lot of misdirection too — from ChatGPT we are getting closer. Some hard lessons to learn, which...

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I don’t mind paying taxes. Governments need income to pay for the things they provide, and I am happy to contribute my share, even though I may not agree with everything government spends on and may not personally benefit as some others might. But I find myself fuming mad at what some people call an admin tax: “the time you spend maintaining your personal site, rather than actually using it”.

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A couple of days ago I noticed that 22 years before that, I had complained that one of two gizmos had proved a total bust. The Griffin iTrip was designed to transmit music from an iPod to a nearby FM receiver. I’m sure it worked, somewhere, but here in Rome there simply was no sufficient gap in th...

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Somehow when I tried to access my new Hetzner service from my laptop I got myself in a terrible muddle. Despite a lot of song and dance with ssh-keygen and all that that entails, Hetzner kept asking...

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The temptation, of course, is to review the book as one might a restaurant or a meal, to talk about savouring each witty gem while regretting that the meal must end, profess to being full without having overindulged, knowingly wink at past kitchen practices that today would be frowned upon, or at le...

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