Koralatov
A blog first published in 2007. It covers, in no particular order: cats, Macs, games, FM3’s Buddha Machines, computers, TV programmes, design, spaniels, typography, and ‘Fallout 3’. Posting follows no set schedule and is usually sporadic.
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11th Annual Paperwork Clear-Out Day
Five simple steps for getting rid of paperwork: keep it if it’s a legal document keep it if it’s treasured letter or postcard from a friend or family member keep it if it’s financial and less than a year old shred any other paperwork repeat the process on April 2nd every year
11th Annual Book Clear-Out Day
Six simple steps for getting rid of books: keep it if it’s a treasured gift keep it if it’s unread and you bought less than three months ago keep it if it’s a favourite you re-read often return it if you borrowed it from someone more than three months ago send the rest of the books to the charity shop repeat the process on March 1st every year
Four years ago. (Previously.)
Four years ago. ( Previously. )
15(!) years ago today, Fallout: New Vegas was released.
15(!) years ago today, Fallout: New Vegas was released. Unlike its immediate predecessor , I haven’t actually written about it, but I consider it an equally important generational lodestone. Together, they make up the second of the two Fallout duologies that I consider canonical: Fallout ends, for me, with Fallout: New Vegas . Mirroring the original Fallout / Fallout 2 pairing, the second game is…
Perhaps part of ageing is developing a feeling of nostalgia for devices you never owned that played…
Perhaps part of ageing is developing a feeling of nostalgia for devices you never owned that played formats you never liked.
Tenth Annual Paperwork Clear-Out Day
Five simple steps for getting rid of paperwork: keep it if it’s a legal document keep it if it’s treasured letter or postcard from a friend or family member keep it if it’s financial and less than a year old shred any other paperwork repeat the process on April 2nd every year If you’ve been following along for the last ten(!) years, you’ll see this list is a little different. I’m not the person,…
Tenth Annual Book Clear-Out Day
Six simple steps for getting rid of books: keep it if it’s a treasured gift keep it if it’s unread and you bought less than three months ago keep it if it’s a favourite you re-read often return it if you borrowed it from someone more than three months ago send the rest of the books to the charity shop repeat the process on March 1st every year If you’ve been following along for the last ten(!)…
The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderon’s best film. It’s as close to perfect as he ever got: stylised,…
The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderon’s best film. It’s as close to perfect as he ever got: stylised, warmly colourful, with every shot carefully composed, and a great soundtrack that isn’t on Apple Music in its entirety. It manages to be very ‘Andersonian’ without being too Andersonian as many of his later films are. Biblioklept has a great post with 20 frames from the film – each of them stunning…
Ninth Annual Paperwork Clear-Out Day
Five Simple Steps for Getting Rid of Paperwork If it’s a legal document, keep it; If it’s a treasured letter or postcard from a friend or family member, keep it; If it’s related to your finances and less than a year old, keep it; Everything else, shred and recycle; On April 2nd every year, repeat the process.
Ninth Annual Book Clear-Out Day
Six Simple Steps for Getting Rid of Books If it’s a treasured gift, keep it; If it’s unread and bought less than three months ago, keep it; If it’s a favourite you re-read often, keep it; If it’s borrowed from someone else, return it; Everything else, send to the charity shop; On March 1st every year, repeat the process.
Sealed green.
Sealed green.
Goodnight, G3
Last weekend, on my first Saturday off in too many weeks, two iMacs G3 disintegrated in my hands. There was nothing I could do; they were too old, too frail, too well-travelled to survive even this most delicate of handling. Both had given good service to their original owners, countless hours of the peaceful, fanless computation that ultimately doomed them. In the end, more than twenty years…
A Saturnian Trio: listen.
A Saturnian Trio: listen .
Sunkissed.
Sunkissed.
Split greens.
Split greens.
"Whenever an institution makes the decision to start taking anonymous accusations seriously, you can..."
“ Whenever an institution makes the decision to start taking anonymous accusations seriously, you can bet the bureaucracy of that institution has already been captured by precisely the sort of people who are eager to abuse such a system. To anybody else without such a malicious intent, the hazards of anonymous accusations should be obvious. Be very careful when seeking to reform such a system,…
Eighth Annual Paperwork Clear-Out Day
Five Simple Steps for Getting Rid of Paperwork If it’s a legal document, keep it; If it’s a treasured letter or postcard from a friend or family member, keep it; If it’s related to your finances and less than a year old, keep it; Everything else, shred and recycle; On April 2nd every year, repeat the process.
Eighth Annual Book Clear-Out Day
If it’s a treasured gift, keep it; If it’s unread and bought less than three months ago, keep it; If it’s a favourite you re-read often, keep it; If it’s borrowed from someone else, return it; Everything else, send to the charity shop; On March 1st every year, repeat the process.