Read: The Colony by Audrey Magee ★★★★☆ 📚
engrossing exploration of colonisation & its woes in Ireland. 1979 adventures of an English artist & French linguist appropriating, each in their own way, the culture of an Irish isle are interspersed with reports of death in the north.
Read: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout ★★★☆☆ 📚
I think I liked this better than the original Lucy and not nearly as much as the Olive books. I think I prefer her older characters.
The following bit of CSS takes care of the blurring of content in the WordPress Multisite admin users view.
This is really useful looking. I spend a lot of time taking screenshots of Glow Blogs. Blurring usernames while leaving useful information is a pain.
Read: The Woman of Troy by Pat Barker ★★★☆☆
We went along to Barbara Hepworth Art & Life at the National Galleries of Scotland. Really enjoyed it, beautifully put together & lit.
Walk to Duncolm. A sparking day, photos map & notes walkmap
I’ve now plotted 61 walks on the same map which is quite interesting. Spacebar hides the map tiles for that abstract look.
Had a walk around Ardinning this afternoon, few dragonflies about, photos of Common Darter (pretty sure)
and Black Darter, perhaps?
Just gathering a few podcast feeds. Problems:
1. Search finds links to podcast aggregators/apps rather than original site 2. These sites tend not to show the RSS feeds.
I know I can search & sub in Castro (or other app), but I just wanted to gather rss urls.
Mood Grumpy
We had an outdoor learning day at school yesterday. Took a snap of these pretty wee guys growing on the mossy side of a tree. No idea of species.
Listened: Really Specific Stories – Daniel Jalkut
Uh, you know, you could imagine a history of podcasting, that evolved more just like a digital version of radio, and didn’t have this, this idea of a feed. And there are services out there, I think, trying to get back to a more controlled, like not, not a feed-based system,
I’ve been really enjoying dipping into Really Specific Stories which is about the creative practice of RSS-based tech podcasting. So far a lot of the episodes I’ve listened to have been from duel point of views as listeners & producers. I’ve found the ‘listener’ views particularly compelling.
I’ve not managed to post any notes about the episodes I’ve listened to but I’am delighted that they come with full transcripts. I mostly listen to podcasts while driving, ideas pop into my head and vanish. The transcripts let me go back and skim to be reminded.
I didn’t really need to skim this episode except to grab a quote. Daniel’s passionate arguments for RSS and publishing in the open came across very strongly. I both enjoyed and agreed with it all.
Although Really Specific Stories is about tech podcasting I think anyone with an interest in podcasting would enjoy it. I’ve listened to several episodes now and will continue to follow it.