Comments to posts here are sufficiently rare that I get a teeny thrill when an email announces "Incoming". How quickly that turned to dust when I realised that although I had received the notification, of the comment itself there was absolutely no sign in the system. As in so many others CMSs, comments here are handled by a plugin, and when I went to check it was clear that the plugin, although authored by the core team, hadn't had any love in a long time.
Monthly reports have been going more than a year now, even if I have missed a few, including last December. What to add for an annual report? I think this has to be a different kind of beast, more like a GTD high-level view. But there's still room for some low-level stuff, down at the bottom, thanks to .
Originally published 25-03-2008
I had A Big Idea yesterday. This is bad because it reminds me of my deficiencies. I am not a risk-taker. I've never second-mortgaged the house to invest in a dream of riches. I'm lazy, seldom managing to avoid the lure of a nap. I'd rather...
An interesting post from Ton Zilstra, , prompted me to do the same. I have two main motivations. One is that checkins on my stream use OSM and I like the idea of giving back. The bigger reason is that those checkins are often not very accurate, at least with respect to the place, rather than the pure location, and I thought it would be good to know how to add places even if they become visible only after the event. More generally, I want a better understanding of geographical information and how to use it.
I haven't seen that video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing her ass off, and nor will I, but kudos to for using it as a peg on which to hang a good story about copyright, mash-ups, fair use and the like.
