It is 6:45 and I am on a high-speed train pulling out of Roma Termini. We have just passed the strange tall chimney with its spiral staircase wrapping around outside, though I can barely see it. The train’s final destination is Bolzano but if all goes well I will transfer in Verona and then again in Munich and I will end up in Nürnberg at about 19:00.

This, for me, is self care, though I don’t call it that. I call it having fun.

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Thank goodness that’s over. For the past two days I have battled with my online hosting, wasting my time going down several blind alleys until finally, this morning, I got a clear explanation of the problem that was very easy to solve. While not wanting to jinx anything, all seems hunky dory now, so I am writing this as a reminder to my future self and as possible assistance to anyone else.

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At one time I hoped to be able to persuade people smarter than me to resurrect hosted domains for people to use WithKnown to blog. To that end, I bought the domain known.blog, which is now up for renewal. Again. By now I have mostly run out of hope, though not entirely. That is why I would be willin...

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Been thinking about these data, and generally concluded that speed is a very crude measure, depending as it does on starting and stopping tracking at the correct times. That’s OK for mechanised transport, usually, although I do tend to leave it running as I hang around at a bus stop waiting for the next bus, because I reckon it is the average trip speed that matters. On the bicycle, though, I tend to pause the workout on my watch but leave the overall track running. Average speed from Compass is thus very different from average speed from the watch. No big deal.

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Delayed by a day because I judged a blog carnival round-up to be of a higher priority. And to be honest, there isn't that much to report, but here goes anyway.

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