It will be now soon…
Work
Working 8 hours a week on Glow Blogs as product owner.
12 Jul 2025, just retired from teaching. Officially 11 August 2025, but I am on holiday till then.
Latest Toot
"What is radio? Kind of an early form of podcasting"
Scripting News: Times I’ve been ambushed at conferences
http://scripting.com/2025/10/14/154258.html?title=timesIveBeenAmbushedAtConferences
Priceless aside by @davew
Bonus link from Dave : Attard and McHugh on podcasting’s democratic dream: https://www.mediaweek.com.au/sxsw-sydney-monica-attard-and-siobhan-mchugh-on-podcastings-democratic-dream/
Also: Why did podcasting work? – links.daveverse.org http://scripting.com/2025/10/14/154258.html?title=timesIveBeenAmbushedAtConferences
Last Book
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Read: Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis ★★★ 📚
UN newbie gets caught up with isis bride. Interesting, engaging & very mixed up on several levels. The mix of humour & seriousness felt slightly off kilter to me. The authors credentials made this more surprising when I read them.
iNaturalist
In the last couple of years I stared adding photos of flora & fauna to iNaturalist, a citizen science project. Mostly as a way to id things. Here are the last 6:
This Site
2025-07-20 Updated the way I display iNaturalist
Site Wishes
- Understand the IndieWeb a bit more
- work out the differences between the post kinds & IndieBlocks.
- Have a Block Theme that supports microformats 2 so I could use a block theme.
- Change theme
- Start to untangle from Jetpack
- Update my home page (just html not wordpress)