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30 Jan 2023
Published by Norman Walsh

So. I’m starting over.

This weblog is my space to ramble on in bursts longer than 140 characters. The opinions are my own†. If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe to one or more of several feeds. Or just click the links below, that works too. So does searching.

30 Jan 2023 at 09:10 UTC
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I completely rearranged my office on Sunday. It meant moving the wall unit where the networking electronics had been piled up. I have bigger renovation plans, but I've mounted them on the wall for now. (“‘For now’, that's like a decade, right?” I hear you there in the back.) The only obvious drawback to the new setup is that the wall unit is now behind me and it's a chaotic, jumbled mess of a background for video conferencing. Virtual background of Swansea bay to the rescue!

29 Jan 2023 at 18:10 UTC
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The results of today's efforts. I'm confident they'll be entirely nommable, even if I still haven't sorted out how to get them into a more traditional size and shape

28 Jan 2023 at 16:10 UTC
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Enjoying this morning's crumpets before I started working on the sourdough starter for tomorrow.

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