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  1. New and old, big and small

    On W. David Marx’s description of Generation X as cultural crate-diggers, the Band Aid-era division between mainstream and indie, and identifying when Britain split.

  2. w/e 2022-10-09

    The NTS Early Bird Show, Prolapse Peel Sessions, searching for duologues, The Eddy, and Ghosts season four.

  3. w/e 2022-10-02

    A quiet week, cooking, more John Peel, Kajillionaire, An Autumn Tale, and Irma Vep.

  4. w/e 2022-09-25

    The Beths’ Expert in a Dying Field, Obsidian, The Roads to Freedom, The Souvenir: Part II, and an acting class.

  5. Very beautiful

    On listening to some 1967 recordings of John Peel’s show The Perfumed Garden.

  6. Exporting notes from Simplenote into Obsidian

    I wrote a Python script to convert an export of Simplenote notes into a files that are more suitable for importing into Obsidian.

  7. w/e 2022-09-18

    Highpeak Autos, Tuluum Shimmering, The Queue, preparing for an acting class, Paris, 13th District, Katalin Varga, and Lean on Pete.

  8. w/e 2022-09-11

    More faffing around with a VPS, Ladhood season three, a couple of Adèle Haenel movies.

  9. w/e 2022-09-04

    Everything Everywhere All at Once, Interesting 2022, more London, Borgen season four, and Metal Lords.

  10. w/e 2022-08-28

    Breakfast, trying out Render, season two of Ted Lasso.

  11. w/e 2022-08-22

    Walking across London, a Nick and five Toms, setting up a VPS, For All Mankind season three, the end of Better Call Saul, and season one of Ted Lasso.

  12. w/e 2022-08-14

    Muslimgauze, scything and strimming and raking, a horse-fly bite, Annette, Zero Fucks Given and The Souvenir.

  13. w/e 2022-08-07

    Not scything, Neighbours.

  14. w/e 2022-07-31

    Live telly, including the women’s Euro 2022 final; improving at scything; a free 4G aerial; Nous, First Cow, Undine, Pleasure, Swimming Pool, and Petite Maman.

  15. w/e 2022-07-24

    Learning to scythe, improving my Django “DX”, True Things, Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Bergman Island.

  16. w/e 2022-07-17

    The Recruiting Officer, more web hosting, a Vonnegut quote, season two of For All Mankind, Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale, and I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson.

  17. w/e 2022-07-10

    Flying Ant Week, website updating and hosting nonsense, and Slow Horses season one.

  18. w/e 2022-07-03

    Opticians, smoke, and For All Mankind season one.

  19. w/e 2022-06-26

    World Full of Worry by Peaness, London again, collecting hay bales again, a 4G aerial test, and The Morning Show season two.

  20. w/e 2022-06-19

    Eve Adams, Hidden Door festival and the Old Royal High School in Edinburgh, changes in Covid mask wearing metaphors, squirrels and trapped birds, The Outlaws season two, and The Morning Show season one.

  21. w/e 2022-06-12

    Edinburgh, and friends.

  22. A magnificent physical specimen

    A journey through my weirdly changing cardio fitness levels over the past three years or so, according to my Apple Watch.

  23. w/e 2022-06-05

    Jubilee, being productive, driving, squirrels, new code, and Joachim Trier’s “Oslo Trilogy”.

  24. w/e 2022-05-29

    Tracks by Awakening and Martha; not Covid; baby birds; The Wire playlists; Mubi and Éric Rohmer.

  25. Hosting a Django site on cPanel

    How to host a Django website on a cPanel host if you really, really must.