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Thursday, February 12th, 2026

I’ve been using (and enjoying) NetNewsWire for quite a while now…

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Thursday, February 5th, 2026

A fiddler, a piper, and a banjo player around a pub table.

Thursday session

Friday, January 30th, 2026

Going to Carlingford. brb

Saturday, January 24th, 2026

Reading The Morrigan by Kim Curran.

Buy this book

Friday, January 23rd, 2026

I’m sick. I think it‘s manflu. Symptoms include aches, pains, pouts, and petulance.

Please send pics/videos of your dogs and cats to cheer me up.

Sunday, January 18th, 2026

Lots of fiddlers with the occasional banjo and tin whistle playing round a pub table.

Sunday session

Thursday, January 1st, 2026

A modern hand-crafted oval-hole mandolin made in Australia. A classic bowl-backed mandolin from eastern Europe. A red wall covered with Italian bowl-backed mandolins of different sizes. A classic F-5 mandolin from Gibson with its distinctive scroll.

More mandolins

Reading Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood.

Buy this book

Friday, December 19th, 2025

Going to Arizona. brb

Wednesday, December 10th, 2025

Street art in Cork that reads: Met him eating mushrooms in the People’s Park.

Sultans!

Going to Cobh. brb

Thursday, November 27th, 2025

Today was my last working day for 2025. I’m off until January. Christmas starts now!

Friday, November 21st, 2025

A woman playing fiddle, a man playing tin whistle, and a man playing uilleann pipes, with another fiddler's hand coming into view, all around a table in a pub that has drinks and other musical instruments on it.

Thursday session

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025

The headline of the story reads: Google boss warns 'no company is going to be immune' if AI bubble bursts. The image is of the meme of the guy dressed as a hot dog saying: We're all trying to find the guy who did this.

Front page of the BBC right now.

Sunday, November 9th, 2025

A trio of people on a rocky beach under a blue sky on sunny wintery day.

Dan, Sue, and Jessica on Brighton beach.

Thursday, November 6th, 2025

When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2025

56 years ago today:

Talked to SRI Host to Host

— IMP log, 1969-10-29 22:30, Charles S. Kline, Boelter Hall, UCLA

The message:

LO

The ARPANET was born.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2025

Two women playing fiddle and a man playing accordion.

Wednesday session

Wednesday, September 24th, 2025

A fiddle on a table in front of a young man wearing a baseball cap playing banjo.

Wednesday session

Monday, September 22nd, 2025

Old stone buildings and a blue sky. Old stone buildings and a blue sky. Old stone buildings and a blue sky.

Adios, Cáceres!