California leads the world, as ever. On 18 September, the state legislature signed into law a bill that "requires a vegan option on the menu at hospitals, health facilities such as nursing homes, and state prisons". So far, so normal. What brought me up short was the self-congratulatory remarks of...

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Following on from Amanda Rush's post about "responses to the allegations surrounding Brett Kavanaugh and their surrounding aftermath", I was sufficiently impressed by something I heard on a podcast this week to stop mid-walk and share it.

Benjamen Walker was talking to Eugenia Cheng about her...

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Turned out my faithful followers on micro.blog weren't actually able to follow me. Links from here, as picked up there, were all in a swivet. The first part of the URL was https -- as it should be -- but something was adding :80 at the end of the domain. Not surprisingly, browsers were unable to...

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A couple of back-burner projects are simmering nicely. Mapping I wrote about recently.¹ Today I turned back to working on micropub to add posts to this site. I have now worked out how to send two different kinds of post to two different places in the file system. Both are what you might call notes (indeed I call them Notes) but some are little status update notes and others are bookmarks.² The way Grav works is that each file lives in a folder and Grav uses a specific template to display the contents of the file. I wanted a way to visually distinguish the two kinds of note; I chose different icons in the title.

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Observant readers may notice a new menu item over on the top right: Walks. This is the story of how that came to be. And how much further I have to go.

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