I've realized of late that posting to my own blog is probably one of the most elastic tasks I have. If there's time, I do it. If there isn't, I don't. But I do at least fret about not posting. Sometimes.

One problem is that the primary cause of my current lack of both time and motivation is out of bounds for moaning. I have promised the powers that be that I won't discuss my work on my blog, it being far easier to self-censor than to explain. So I won't even indulge in a little Roman a clef and disguise names to protect the guilty. Let's just say that life is not entirely smooth at present.

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FTrain on Googlefrenzy. Well, I laughed.

Michael Moore at the Republican Convention.

A fool and their money ... but who am I to judge. Actually, I had to look hard to find something pointless. The rest of the site looks good.1


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This morning I bought some hedge clippers and set to cleaning up the rather sad plants that constitute my “hedge”. They are privets in large concrete troughs and they are far too sparse to be called a hedge. But “line of privets” doesn’t sound quite right. The clipping itself went well, with three b...

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This morning I learned via BioMedCentral that a friend had died. "Found hanged," which hints at suicide but presumably that must await a coroner's verdict. It feels horrible. 1

Much will probably be said about John Clark; at least it ought to be. And I'm remembering all sorts of incidents that perhaps ought to be left unsaid. One thing, though. He had vision.

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Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

2021-08-23: Content free, but I am simply re-adding this as an historical marker. WordPress was not my first blogging CMS. That was NucleusCMS. I switched when WordPress was the new kid on the blog that promise...

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