Not that any of them will read it but what, I wonder, would young people make of my post from exactly ten years ago? Yahoo Pipes? RSS? Curating content in order to share it from my own site? Clearly the hallucinations of an old fart’s brain.

And yet, it brought back memories of real achievemen...

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Launched in 2004, regrettheerror.com was a wonderful source of entertainment. Craig Silverman, who started it, moved on to bigger and better things, and Poynter took over the annual round-up that celebrated the art and craft of the correction. Since 2004, of course, the whole enterprise has gradua...

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The abiding delight of methodically re-publishing posts from previous blogging machines has been to rediscover things I enjoyed and had forgotten. On this day 18 years ago, for example, I first wrote about Dunstan Orchard’s amazing website. He explained, with just the right amount of detail, how t...

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I listened to three scary podcasts last week. And you know what they say about “coincidences” that come in threes.¹

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Without a doubt, the big news of the month was the arrival of my new computer, an M1 iMac. OK, so it took more than a week to get it going properly, largely because I was in too much of a hurry at the start, but I’m loving it now. At the end of the month I flew in a plane, again.

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