New Photos

A selection, taken on 120 film with Zero Image pinhole camera, then scanned.

02 Jun 2026

Monthly report: May 2026

There is not a lot of external evidence for what has been a very busy month one way and another, but I know.

Highlights of the month:

Garden on the terrace growing fit to bust
Visit to a fabulous paeony nursery; mine still blind after all these years
Tried an audio clip again; still no impact
Good visits with several friends passing through
Exciting, inspiring, recreational visit to Hearsay audio arts festival in Ireland
One good and long recording that will Take Work™
Some good bicycle rides
Succeeded in making a server at Hetzner for my big project
Taxes half done
BBQs, watermelon, cherries.

Activities

May: (low because Ireland)

Walking with sticks: 0
Reading: 18
Steps (avge): 8458
Podcasts: 7 (all of them logged)
In bed/asleep 7:48/7:40
Cycled: 4
Weight (avge): 90.7
Naps: 16

April:

Walking with sticks: 1
Reading: 12
Steps (avge): 8356
Podcasts: 14 (all of them logged)
In bed/asleep 7:52/7:43
Cycled: 3
Weight (avge): 90.8
Naps: 14

Stuff Done

The server business was very taxing and I had to make several restarts. My notes are patchy, and there was plenty to note, so I hope to extract what I can from them in due course. I begin to question the wisdom of my even starting this idiocy.

Hours logged per month

Graph of total hours worked each month since January 2022

Percent of logged hours

Percentage of hours logged for Admin, Podcasts and Writing

Previous years are still on an archive page.

Goals

Four posts, all of them probably far too geeky, but the strange thing is that one analytics site consistently ranks those how-tos, which I write mostly as notes to myself, as among the most visited pages. And speaking of analytics, although I say I don’t care that much about visitor numbers, I do, especially for the podcast. And those numbers seem to be all over the place. Last week saw a phenomal jump, around 7-fold for both unique visitors and regulars, which is crazy, unfathomable and hard to act on when so many visitors lie about their intent.

Niggles

There has been a post in draft for most of this month, about the difficulties of developing software as a rank amateur. The trouble is that the things I want to do for “fun” some people study and are paid to do, and that makes online resources for those of us who don’t have the necessary background learning not very helpful.