Teaching, ict, and suchlike
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Read: The End of Everything by M John Harrison ★★★★ 📚 'Summer. I stood in a long shallow chalk valley half a mile from the sea, listening to the sound of the waves – the sound waves! – amplified by acoustic lensing conditions in the absolutely still air, and came to the inescapable conclusion: the […]
Read: The Captains and the Kings by Jennifer Johnston ★★★★ 📚 Taking Clare by the hand, he had begun to run. Now he realized that, in all their years together, he had given her nothing, only a child that he had not allowed her to enjoy. She had slowly died of starvation. In her whole [ ]
Read: Vigil by George Saunders ★★★ 📚 Ghosts gather round a dying oil billionaire, trying both to make him understand the damage and ease his passage. The deceased are almost comic characters, a couple reminding me of the two old guys in the muppets.
Some interesting links I've picked up recently. Topics include: IndieWeb, X, Butterflies, WordPress, micro.blog A.I. in education.
Insects, from a walk round Ardmore point yesterday.
Thinking about teachers and pupils using WordPress, sparked, in part by Our Core Division posted by Matt Mullenweg
I've managed to make a small AppleScript that gets the selection from Safari a link and post it to RSS.chat. I already had a script that copied the selection and put it and a link on the clipboard ready to paste into a blog post. I'd also tried out posting to RSS.chat with bash from TextMate.
A lot of white butterflies (mostly green-veined, large small) out about on Friday. Some flightily red admirals too. Later, beside the track an excited green-veined white butterfly fluttering amount the leaves. Underneath a leaf a small white hanging upside down. Misplaced affection?
I ve updated my rss chat server on my Raspberry Pi: John s Pi chat. A new feature is adding a menu of commands to the menubar. I followed the instructions. Just for fun I decided to edit the example in drummer rather than locally. This lead to a mistake where I used the link button to [ ]
Just updated wordpress-rss-chat after a couple of fixes.
Talking a short walk along the Kelvin between Kelvin Bridge The Botanics while my wife was in the dentist. These sunlit leaves above the path pulled in this speckled wood. Another flew over some sparkling water through light shade. A happy moment.
