Lots of people are far more diligent than I am about recording, critiquing, and sharing the various things they read, watched, litened to etc. over the previous year. I thank them for their service and enjoy reading their posts and, sometimes, following some of their recommendations.

Having just u...

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The story so far: WithKnown lost my images, and my previous experience was not as helpful as I hoped. Back to the blow-by-blow troubleshooting.

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Good news and bad on The Great Migration.

Good, I successfully moved my WithKnown instance to its new home at Hetzner. Bad, I had to dig deep to find out why it was looking for the wrong CSS stylesheet, and I still have not managed to connect any of the older entries to their images. This is what I have discovered so far in the hunt for images.

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I was having lunch with a friend and colleague at a highly rated local tavola calda. I expressed some sadness that although the food was wonderful, each of us was generating a small mountain of waste plastic -- plates, cutlery, cups, everything. My friend informed me that in 2019 the EU had implemen...

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I have been trying to migrate some sites to a new host, with all the attendant patience-trying delays while things like DNS propagate. So an email telling me that a spammer had left a comment wa...

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