Something untoward has happened to the PHP script I built to retrieve my podcast listening history from Overcast. It is failing to retrieve both the summary and the image from Overcast. The error I am seeing is file_get_contents(): Failed to enable crypto which seems to suggest that the problem...

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It was fun today remembering my visit to China and a great time visiting the hutongs on a bicycle tour. Checking the links, however, gave me a very odd surprise. The old URL of Chinese Culture Club, which organised the tour, is now being squatted. Nothing particularly odd in that. But it is being...

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The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource, one that I am happy to support whenever I can, precisely because it allows me to find copies of things that have vanished from the actual internet. To make life even easier, there is an official extension from The Internet Archive that makes saving and f...

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Another relaxing month, with an arduous cat-sitting gig in Umbria enjoying a friend's beautiful house in the country. It played havoc with time-keeping and podcast-listening, but so what.

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I was a little surprised when a link to a recent (December 2020), eminently citable blog post led me straight to the Wayback Machine. I did a little searching, and easily found the current version. What seems to have happened is that the author changed their publishing system (I can see the chan...

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