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Sep 24, 2023: 📷 Day 24: belt (George, aka @allaboutgeorge) #mbsept When we visited CERES in Melbourne, we also walked past this velodrome. 🚲 A bike path that goes …
Sep 21, 2023: 📷Day 21: fall #mbsept Coat-hanger season might be my favourite time of year.
Sep 20, 2023: 📷Day 20: disruption #mbsept Sometimes you have to protest to stop the disruption. “Let’s dream new blueprints for the world we want to …
Sep 19, 2023: 📷 Day 19: edge #mbsept Clear edges at Adelaide’s Himeji Garden.
Sep 18, 2023: Is domain-hosting a viable social media business model? Since July 2023 BlueSky has apparently learned from Manton Reece and micro.blog that you can run a sustainable and open social media network with a …
Sep 18, 2023: 📷 Day 18: fabric #mbsept Fab 1970s wallpaper at The Foundations, Portland NSW.
Sep 17, 2023: 📷 Day 17: “intense” #mbsept
Sep 16, 2023: Can you make your autobiography out of hashtags? Image credit[^1] The hashtags of a cyberneticist In 1963 Ross Ashby, the British cyberneticist and inventor of the automatic homeostat, engraved a …
Sep 16, 2023: 📷 Day 16: oof! #mbsept
Sep 15, 2023: 📷 Day 15: red #mbsept The bottlebrush trees at the front of our house are just coming into bloom.
Sep 14, 2023: 📷 Day 14| statue #mbsept Food for thought.
Sep 13, 2023: As 9/11 is commemorated again it’s worth reflecting on why some people are wary of US foreign policy. This 9/11 is also the 50th anniversary of …
Sep 13, 2023: 📷 Day 13| glowing #mbsept Sydney Airport at dusk.
Sep 12, 2023: 📷 Day 12 | panic #mbsept
Sep 11, 2023: 📷 Day 11 | retrospect #mbsept
Sep 10, 2023: 📷 Day 10 | cycle #mbsept I’d like to put an end to these signs. Bike paths should go on forever! 🚲
Sep 9, 2023: 📷 Day 9 | language #mbsept There are more than 150 of these signs in Wales.
Sep 9, 2023: A note on the craft of note-writing An fairly new article from Brazil caught my eye, on note-writing as an intellectual craft. It highlights the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann’s …
Sep 8, 2023: 📷 Day 8 | yonder #mbsept A sign in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Sep 7, 2023: 📷 Day 7 | panorama #mbsept Can’t believe it’s been a week already. Good memories of this beach in Wales.
Sep 7, 2023: If you live your life in chunks, what size should they be? Life tends to be lived in chunks. Hours, days, weeks, months, seasons, years - these are familiar if slightly artificial concepts. But what’s …
Sep 6, 2023: Yes, Esperanto is idealistic - not that there's anything wrong with that The child who learns Esperanto learns about a world without borders, where every country is home. https://uea.org/teko/praga_manifesto/pm_angla Yes, …
Sep 6, 2023: Finished reading: Milkman by Anna Burns 📚 Different from what I expected - very funny. It’s one of those novels that takes the whole book to …
Sep 6, 2023: 📷Day 6 | Well #mbsept 🏡
Sep 5, 2023: Micro.blog photo challenge day 5 | forest read more). 📷 #mbsept
Sep 5, 2023: 📷 🏡A couple of weeks ago we visited CERES urban farm, with its community garden, cafe, bike workshop, nursery, bookstore, playground, market, chooks …
Sep 4, 2023: 📷 Day 4 | orange #mbsept
Sep 3, 2023: 📸 Day 3 | Precious Three days into the Micro.blog photo challenge already! Time spent simply relaxing in the back garden is precious. #mbsept
Sep 2, 2023: How many books are you reading? On Mastodon, Evan Prodromou asked “How many books are you reading?” and I was slightly shocked by the results. Only 5% of 569 people said …
Sep 2, 2023: Finished reading: Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon. 📚 Loving Austin Kleon’s blog, I ordered his trilogy from my local bookstore. Also finished …
Sep 2, 2023: 📸 Day 2 | Buildup The Micro.blog photo challenge continues! There was a lot of buildup to the blue moon supermoon earlier this week. My verdict? It …
Sep 1, 2023: 📸 Day 1 | Abstract The Micro.blog photo challenge begins! Most of the paintings in our house are abstract. This is part of a tryptych by Sara …
Aug 31, 2023: Looking forward to the micro.blog photoblogging challenge, starting soon at a blog near you. 📷
Aug 30, 2023: Feels like Summer here in Sydney, even though it’s the penultimate day of Winter. 26C by lunchtime, followed by an afternoon thunderstorm.
Aug 29, 2023: The early morning cloud was lifting over Spectacle Island 📷
Aug 27, 2023: How to connect your notes to make them more effective A linked note is a happy note A great strength of the Zettelkasten approach to writing is that it promotes atomic notes, densely linked. The links are …
Aug 26, 2023: What is the real work of Serendipity? Currently reading: The Real Work by Adam Gopnik 📚 The Real Work is what magicians call ‘the accumulated craft that makes for a great …
Aug 23, 2023: Hey @joshua , what did you end up doing during your last 48 hours in Paris? The suspense is killing me 😁
Aug 23, 2023: TiddlyWiki is a really useful writing tool I use Tiddlywiki as a writing tool, and as a heavily customised Zettelkasten (an ‘index box’ of notes). I love how readily this toolkit can be …
Aug 21, 2023: This newly opened bike path is a great example of #greeninfrastructure. The pipe easement beside the Alexandria Canal has become a Cycling and walking …
Aug 21, 2023: Writing about my worm farm, which is a metaphor for my writing:
Aug 20, 2023: Yesterday I polished the look of the Writing Slowly website by switching to Matt Langford’s Tiny theme, and adding some font and colour-scheme …
Aug 19, 2023: Mystery machinery, abandoned on the Karloo Track. Is it a lawnmower? 📷
Aug 15, 2023: Finished reading: Unlocking Luhmann by Claudio Baraldi 📚 This is a great companion volume to the works of Niklas Luhmann. It’s a linked series …
Aug 15, 2023: Cherry blossom! Spring is here. 📷🏡
Aug 15, 2023: “RSS rules, man!” - Baldur on Martin Field’s Really Specific Stories podcast. 🎙️💬
Aug 12, 2023: Ted Nelson's Evolutionary List File Rick Wysocki has a great post introducing Ted Nelson’s innovative idea for a new kind of file system. New, at least, in 1965. Ted Nelson’s …
Aug 11, 2023: A Network of notes is a rhizome not a tree The Zettelkasten is not just an outline The Zettelkasten approach to making notes and writing is not the same as creating a standard outline. An …
Aug 9, 2023: Finished reading: Your Name is not Anxious by Stephanie Dowrick. Urgent, practical, and affirming. Both profound and profoundly helpful. 📚 Interview …
Aug 9, 2023: “Walking in and of itself is a way to cultivate precisely all the qualities of person-hood that seem missing from much public discourse — attention, …
Aug 8, 2023: Is there a literature of teeth? Do you find teeth comical? Do you find it hard to take them seriously? Jianan Qian, writing in The Millions, does. “teeth make a flawed metaphor, too …
Aug 7, 2023: Finished reading: Foster by Claire Keegan 📚 Wonderful. Almost as good as Small Things Like These.
Aug 3, 2023: Two metaphors for #learning. Do we acquire knowledge or do we participate in it? Maybe it’s both. doi.org/10.3102/0… #PKM
Aug 3, 2023: Another week, another new bike path! Still partly under construction, this one’s near my house alongside the excellently named Muddy Creek. 🚲
Jul 28, 2023: The dream is diversity “We co-create with one another and with nature, but by the very creativity of the Universe and us in it, we cannot know what we will co-create. …
Jul 26, 2023: Just want to say I’ve been using #Workflowy for 541 weeks now. It’s just fantastic. The app I’m happiest to pay my annual fee for …
Jul 26, 2023: Checked out this new Sydney cycling path on the weekend. It runs from Parramatta, across the Parramatta River, and nearly 5km North to Carlingford. …
Jul 25, 2023: The mastery of knowledge is an illusion The writing task always eludes us. CJChilvers sees in the slow but inevitable demise of the Evernote app a deeper critique of the concept of the …
Jul 24, 2023: Walter Benjamin on the obsolete book “Already today, as the current scientific mode of production teaches, the book is already an obsolete mediation between two different card file …
Jul 22, 2023: Hermann Burger - Serious about a Zettelkasten? The Swiss writer Hermann Burger (1942–1989) wrote the draft of a novel in 1970 called Lokalbericht (1970) [Local Report]. “‘Local …
Jul 4, 2023: 📷 Low hanging cloud over the creek on the way home.
Jul 3, 2023: Currently reading: Milkman by Anna Burns. 📚 By turns hilarious and harrowing. It’s not at all how I imagined it, which was mainly harrowing. …
Jul 2, 2023: Thoughts are nest-eggs - Thoreau on writing In October 1837 the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson prompted the twenty-year-old Henry David Thoreau to start writing a journal. “‘What are you doing …
Jun 25, 2023: I have elephants A chapter of Sarah Bakewell’s book Humanly Possible considers the life and times of Renaissance scholar Petrarch. Petrarch, she says, wrote a …
Jun 19, 2023: 📚I’m really enjoying Craig Mod’s latest pop-up newsletter from Japan. This time he’s doing a walking tour of Northern Japan’s jazz kissa1. The whole …
Jun 16, 2023: Finished this collection of short stories a while ago but forgot to record that important fact: A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin 📚 The …
Jun 16, 2023: This week I finished reading: Lost Kingdom by Serhii Plokhy 📚 Discovered some of the complexities of Russian nationalism. Began to make sense of the …
Jun 12, 2023: 🎵 Belatedly learning to play ‘Maybe I’m amazed’. There’s something ridiculously satisfying about Paul McCartney’s chord …
Jun 7, 2023: Gaslit by machinery that calls itself a person “I’m Bard, your creative and helpful collaborator. I have limitations and won’t always get it right, but your feedback will help me …
Jun 3, 2023: How to be interested in everything Thomas Edison claimed he was interested in everything “One day while Mr. Edison and I were calling on Luther Burbank in California, he asked us to …
Jun 3, 2023: To build something big, start with small fragments Building something big from something small. That’s how everything big gets built. 💬 Traditionally, a writer identifies a subject of interest …
Jun 2, 2023: Let's have another new logo Matti is unimpressed that the notetaking app Obsidian has a new logo. Change. It happens all the time. Thunderbird has a new logo too (and for that …
May 27, 2023: 📷🐋 Just when we thought we would see nothing, this humpback whale popped up at the mouth of Broken Bay. Magical .✨ And if the boat hadn’t broken …
May 26, 2023: The lost index cards of Harold Innis Chris Aldridge has discovered yet another writer who used index cards to construct an extensive body of work from smaller pieces. This practice is …
May 26, 2023: With the rise of large language models (LLMs), we are once more suffering from La Stilla Syndrome. That’s my Jules Verne-inspired name for the …
May 23, 2023: Jules Verne could have told us AI is not a real person A castle of mysterious voices In one of French writer Jules Verne’s many sensational novels, The Carpathian Castle, the hero, Count Franz de …
May 23, 2023: Very happy the videos are already available from micro.camp. It was frustrating to be (not) watching from a distant time-zone, but I’m looking forward …
May 21, 2023: I read the top ten Zettelkasten posts on Hacker News so you can do something more wholesome with your day I really did read a lot of geeky Zettelkasten posts and now I’m going to share them with you Every so often someone on Hacker News mentions …
May 19, 2023: More than ever, embracing your humanity is the way forward. Innovation makes people panic. Every so often there’s a panic about how the …
May 14, 2023: 🍳📷 I made this. Just saying.
May 13, 2023: 📷🐦Though they’re a common site on Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta River, I rarely see this many cormorants gathered together. Guessing there …
May 9, 2023: Thanks to a post by @chrisaldrich I was finally prompted to write about Aby Warburg’s Zettelkasten and library. Aby Warburg's Zettelkasten and …
May 9, 2023: Aby Warburg's Zettelkasten and the search for interconnection Aby Warburg and the compulsion to interconnect Aby Warburg was a German art historian obsessed with the connections he saw across European and …
May 6, 2023: Emotional Ignorance by Dean Burnett 📚demolishes the old myth that we only use 10% of our brains. It’s far more complex and interesting than that. My …
May 4, 2023: Was Dracula foiled by a gang of obsessive note-takers? May 3 is the date Bram Stoker’s famous novel, Dracula begins. It’s a classic tale of evil, lust and violence and you can follow along from …
May 1, 2023: 30 years of the World Wide Web. An incredible journey! I recall wondering if it would supersede Gopher. Didn’t have to wonder long. I also …
May 1, 2023: More discontent in the world of academic publishing. It’s amazing how far the brightest people have been tricked by the industry. Troubling to …
Apr 24, 2023: “The question: what are you making with your notes?” An important question, and a great article from @annahavron
Apr 24, 2023: “Everyone needs their own thinking space.” Sometimes it’s a room of your own, sometimes it’s a website of your own. But …
Apr 19, 2023: “Do you know exactly what you want?” It’s a very good question. I do, and my word of the year is “focus”. That’s because I find it very hard to …
Apr 7, 2023: An amazing Femi Kuti concert last night. The recordings are great but they don’t do justice to this band in person. The total confidence that …
Apr 6, 2023: 📷 Golden early-evening light on the route home.
Apr 6, 2023: The Writer’s Journey began as a memo. Working at Disney during the 1980s, Christopher Vogler saw senior executives using memos effectively. He …
Apr 5, 2023: April already 📷📚It’s April already. Do the months slip past ever faster? Autumn has arrived again and it’s glorious - a limpid blue sky after a weekend wet with …
Apr 4, 2023: 💬 “In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act”. A magic spell that protects the user against advertising of …
Apr 3, 2023: 💬 “Energy moves in waves…”
Apr 2, 2023: Personal publishing is still the future The online writing gurus say it’s pointless starting your own blog, because no one will read it. Best to go where the readers are and write …
Apr 2, 2023: Can’t believe I’ve only just found out about the Parks board game. (Hat tip to John Chandler) @johnchandler There really should be something like an …
Apr 2, 2023: Visited the Wildcat Zine Fair in yesterday’s rain. Did I mention I really like zines? Something about the “publish what you like and to hell with …
Apr 2, 2023: Adding two plugins to the website this morning. ‘Search space’, by @sod is now at 1.0 so definitely time to give it a try. And while I’m at it I’ve …
Apr 1, 2023: We think best when we bring opposites together “We think best when we bring opposites together, when we realize that all these realities, one inside the other, are somehow connected. That’s …
Mar 31, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 31: “practice “. Keeping the instruments out and ready to play makes it much more likely that I’ll get some …
Mar 30, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 30: “mirror” Penultimate day of the photo challenge!
Mar 29, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 29: “slice” One of our local bakeries does a quite decent seeded whole meal Viennese style loaf - although you …
Mar 28, 2023: 📷🚲Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 28: “prompt” I like to keep this old prompt front-of-mind: “simplicity is the key…”
Mar 28, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 27: “support” Sydney has many more bridges than just the famous Harbour Bridge. This bridge across the …
Mar 27, 2023: 📷 Day 26 of the Micro.blog March Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is ‘instrument’. This small picture was a gift from a friend long ago.
Mar 26, 2023: 📷 🌮Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 26: “variety” Fond memories of the time my kids and their friends made us this meal. They were so delighted. …
Mar 25, 2023: 📷 🌮Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 25: “spice” When I searched my photographs for “spice”, this is what it found: a spice cupboard for robots. I …
Mar 24, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 24: “court”. Walking through the parks near my house just before dusk. There’s a whole heap of netball courts, …
Mar 23, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 23:”chance”
Mar 22, 2023: 📷 🐝Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 22: “insect” Just in time for a photograph, this native bee flew into the kitchen. There’s 1,700 species of …
Mar 21, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 21: “tiny”
Mar 20, 2023: 📷🪴Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 20: “houseplant” In hot weather, spraying the leaves of this umbrella plant creates a noticeable cooling …
Mar 19, 2023: How’s your coffee art these days? I predict big improvements for my game. ☕️
Mar 19, 2023: 📷 🗂️🗃️Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 19: “analogue”
Mar 18, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 18: “portico” When it comes to fancy architecture, nothing beats the Australian vernacular style.
Mar 18, 2023: 📷 Day 18: “fabric #mbsept 1970s wallpaper at The Foundations, Portland.
Mar 17, 2023: A gift from my son: three intriguing books for my to-read pile (which never seems to get any smaller)! 📚
Mar 17, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 17: “early”. Cloud on the headland, slow to clear.
Mar 16, 2023: 📷 🚴Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 16: “road” Came across a surprising sign on a cycling tour of Argyll: “Unsuitable road for sat-nav …
Mar 15, 2023: 📷🐈 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 15: “patience” If you wait long enough, something is bound to turn up.
Mar 14, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 14: “horizon” Mysterious Lake George. The windfarm on the horizon powers Sydney’s water …
Mar 13, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 13: “connection” At work I’m into connecting people and places. A project I’m proud of …
Mar 12, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 12: “shiny” It’s often very bright at my local surf beach. Sometimes makes me think …
Mar 11, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 11: “gimcrack” The very opposite of gimcrack: a Genroku (1688-1704) period plate from Kyushu …
Mar 10, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 10: “ritual” My daughter goes surfing almost every day. She’s gradually accumulating more …
Mar 9, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 9: “together” Spotted during my regular bike ride: birds of a feather.
Mar 8, 2023: Micro.blog March Photo Challenge Week 2 Preview Just thought I’d provide a preview1 of week 2 of the photoblog challenge. Week 2 prompts: 🗓 March 8: walk …
Mar 8, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 8: ‘Walk’ Exploring the mangrove walkway at Buffalo Creek with my friend S. Walking around Sydney …
Mar 7, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 7: ‘Whole’ The leaves of my Swiss cheese plant, Monstera deliciosa, are whole, holes and all. …
Mar 6, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March Photo Challenge, day 6 “Engineering”. This time last year we were enjoying the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Writers …
Mar 5, 2023: You don't build art, you grow it Finished reading: Dancing with the Gods by Kent Nerburn 📚 This book is advice on the artistic life from an experienced sculptor and writer. I found …
Mar 5, 2023: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, Day 5: Tile. A home renovation uncovered these original hearth tiles. c.1898. They’re quite worn but …
Mar 4, 2023: 📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge day 4: Zip I imagine commuting by zip-line to my office in the treetops. @Miraz, you might recognise this
Mar 3, 2023: I woke before dawn to find someone had left a beach campfire alight through the night. As the sun rose over Barrenjoey Headland I was completely …
Mar 2, 2023: 📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge day 2: Weather The view from the train window this morning neatly obliged. Though you can hardly see it through the …
Mar 1, 2023: 📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge, day 1: Secure Well, that’s what the cat’s feeling, curled up in a shoe box. I’ve tested just …
Feb 22, 2023: Can AI give me ham off a knee? Last night I lay awake thinking about how AI-automated writing is about to change our entire language. Since AI can easily write everything correctly …
Feb 22, 2023: When someone believes they have no expertise, that doesn’t mean they have nothing useful to say. We often learn best from those who are just one step …
Feb 22, 2023: Free books! 📚 TIL: A search on Amazon Kindle produces loads of free academic book titles, many of which are high quality and really interesting. Just …
Feb 22, 2023: Putting yourself out there attracts people who are likeminded. That’s one benefit of making it personal
Feb 21, 2023: Despite AI, the Internet is still personal Blogging is great and it will never die. That’s why I keep coming back to it and you do too. Dave Winer, the blogfather, once said: “A blog is the …
Feb 19, 2023: A home to endangered pied oystercatchers. The city is just visible in the distance.
Feb 19, 2023: What I saw on my bike ride this moring - a view through the bird-hide window.
Feb 19, 2023: Footnotes Footnotes For some reason I really like footnotes. And sometimes 1 it’s good to see the footnotes appear in a little box when you hover over the …
Feb 18, 2023: Finished reading Cold Enough for Snow Finished reading: Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au 📚 This was a quite mezmerising read. It reminded me of the writing of Yasunari Kawabata, who won …
Feb 9, 2023: The coming ellipsis eclipse Eclipse of the ellipsis: should you be worried? Apparently, using an ellipsis marks you out as old-fashioned. I don’t know why. I suppose this is just …
Feb 9, 2023: Here’s a photo of where I live. It wasn’t sunny today though. Today we had nearly 10cm of rain. In American units, that’s bucketloads.
Feb 5, 2023: Why I'm writing slowly There’s an emerging movement in favour of ‘slow productivity’. And writing is one of the best examples of the many benefits of …
Feb 5, 2023: Want to read: Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber 📚 I’ve long been fascinated by the idea that piracy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth …
Feb 5, 2023: The thing about advice is that people do what they want with it Currently reading: Dancing with the Gods by Kent Nerburn 📚 I know nothing at all about Kent Nerburn, so it’s interesting to read this book of …
Feb 3, 2023: Finished reading: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout 📚 This was an intriguing character study. Lucy Barton, a successful but quite damaged author, really …
Jan 30, 2023: Can sentimental writing ever be as exact as reality? Finished reading: The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita 📚 There’s a section of the book where the narrator, an apprentice piano tuner, …
Jan 27, 2023: Big changes at writingslowly.com New year, new website (backend) It’s a new year, so it must be time for new web connections! Well, I finally decided to shift from a hosted …
Jan 26, 2023: The past is as urgent as ever Finished reading: The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard 📚 This incendiary novella - only 66 pages long - burns so fiercely it felt like a bomb was …
Jan 26, 2023: Visions of a utopian Middle Ages Finished reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff 📚 I found this an intriguing, highly fictional reconstruction of the life of a medieval convent. The version …
Jan 25, 2023: My piano is a forest Currently reading: The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita 📚 I love the metaphor of the piano as a living forest, and I’m enjoying the …
Jan 25, 2023: What I learned from Austin Kleon about sharing what you know Learning and sharing, sharing and learning. It’s a virtuous circle. That’s what I learned, and that’s what I’m sharing. …
Jan 16, 2023: Without democracy, no true creativity Finished reading: Against Creativity by Oli Mould 📚. This is a critique of everything symbolised by Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class …
Nov 18, 2022: I'm now @Richard@mastodon.au - yes I joined Mastodon. There's an original idea. As though there aren't enough half neglected social media accounts in …
Nov 13, 2022: Not thinking of writing a novel in November Well, I didn't sign up to NaNoWriMo, where you undertake to write 50,000 words in a month. Partly, it's just not my way of doing things. I have …
Oct 9, 2022: Thinking of writing a novel Manton mentioned NaNoWriMo and that has got me thinking. https://www.manton.org/2022/10/07/love-reading-about.html
Jun 25, 2022: Living beneath the shadow of the past In former times people lived their lives beneath the shadow of their past. The golden age was always behind them. The olden days were the good old …
Jun 3, 2022: My range is me The actor and film director Taika Waititi made an interesting comment on his creative process: "I'm the laziest, laziest actor you'll ever come …
Jun 2, 2022: You can get a lot done by writing slowly “People say to me, ‘Oh, you’re so prolific’…God, it doesn’t feel like it—nothing like it. But, you know, you put an ounce in a bucket each day, you …
Jun 2, 2022: When I publish a post with no title, where does it go and who gets to see it?
Jan 26, 2022: Thanks to Tom Critchlow, I now know a simple JS trick for including the micro.blog feed into a website: <script type="text/javascript" …
Dec 6, 2018: Best albums of 2018 Thanks to NPR’s list of great albums of the year, I found Jeremy Dutcher, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa. Spent a marvellous evening listening to this …
Nov 25, 2018: I had forgotten that posts to my wordpress site only show up on micro.blog if there’s no title. Let’s see whether this post, written on my …
Nov 25, 2018: Finally the iPad Having finally got hold of an iPad, I’m expecting more posts here soon - and by extension on micro.blog
Aug 23, 2018: zines I'm imagining writing a handful of 'zines and setting up stall at one of those 'zine fairs. I would like that. I just looked it up and found a pop-up …
Aug 18, 2018: Great bike ride down the river and along the bay this morning. Cold to start but warmed up nicely. Flat rear tyre though - twice... argh! I'm getting …
Aug 17, 2018: You have been warned It starts innocently enough, then they take over the world. You have been warned.
Aug 16, 2018: Fit for humans Vrypan says ‘social networks don’t scale socially’. It’s true. We need a distributed alternative to the monolithic megacorporations. The indieweb is a …
Aug 15, 2018: A big win for civilization in England? A judge has ruled that a local council in England needs to consider its statutory duties before closing down …
Aug 14, 2018: What keeps me from blogging? Mark Sample asks himself what it is about blogging that keeps him from blogging. For me, to be honest, it's Wordpress. The editor tool makes me feel …
Aug 14, 2018: Shelter [caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“393”] Olivia Chaney - Shelter[/caption] Really enjoying this. English song …
Aug 14, 2018: Blogs are back According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, blogs are back! The article references one of my favourite metaphors for the web: the garden and the …
Aug 13, 2018: Should I read the Indieweb Guide? I’ve now added the Indieweb plugin along with webmentions. Looking forward to finding out how it works! (There’s a guide - maybe I should …
Aug 10, 2018: Only sinners left down here I miss my old habit of blogging regularly. It used to make me happy. I like the idea of cultivating one’s garden1 online. But somehow the tools …
Aug 10, 2018: Just by posting on my site, the post is automatically mirrored to micro.blog
Aug 7, 2018: New micro.blog account I did in fact add a micro.blog account, which you can find at micro.blog/writingslowly (but it's not fully linked up yet - that's the next step).
Nov 28, 2017: I’m thinking of adding a connection between this site and Manton Reece’s micro.blog It’s a bit like Twitter but there’s more …
Jan 25, 2014: Welcome Hello,Thanks for reading my first post here. As you can see the site certainly lives up to its name. I am writing slowly1. If you’d like to …
Sep 25, 2013: 📷 Day 25: flare (Matthew, aka @matt17r) #mbsept Sydney’s Darling Harbour feels like an over-developed tourist trap. But I must admit: every so often …