This is something new, on two counts. It records a hike we took together in the country, The Squeeze and I. And it uses a new template I made specifically for photos. That is explained elsewhere.

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A new template I built for this site will, I hope, both display photographs attractively and encourage me to take and publish more pictures.

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Twitter passed me by at the start, and if I am honest I still don't really get it. Today, though, I was bringing in old posts as usual, and they included links to a couple that were, to put it delicately, skeptical about Twitter's chances. Tim Bray got one thing very right:

The basic problem i...

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For three years now I have kept track of the spam I have had to deal with at my stream of micro-posts. No more. I will still be keeping track, but there is no need to keep updating the sparkline I used to have in the sidebar. Instead, I will leave you with this final picture, which I may update in a...

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I was very disappointed by the latest Thinking Allowed. Paul Freedman explained why, as his new book claims, Food Matters, but Laurie Taylor gave the distinguished perfesser a very gentle ride. Freedman said that academe denigrates and dismisses research into food, which it surely does. He then re...

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