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[Article] Trump’s Strategy
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[Note] Reading more rolled papyri
5 Feb 2025 |
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In kind-of local news, I see that the folks at Diamond Light Source (which I got to visit last year) have been helping the Bodleian (who I used to work for) to X-ray one of their Herculaneum scrolls (which I've written about before). That's really cool.
[Article] Sabbatical Lesson #2: Burnout
4 Feb 2025 |
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The second lesson I took from my sabbatical was that it's possible to risk burnout (and therefore, it's important to be aware of and ready to counteract it) even when you're not working (in the conventional sense). Fortunately, my coach is on hand to help.
[Article] BBC News RSS… with the sport?
3 Feb 2025 |
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Somebody commented on my blog to say they liked my "BBC News... Without The Crap" script, but still wanted sports news in their RSS feed. Luckily, I know just the person for the job: me!
[Note] Cafe Proximity Principles
1 Feb 2025 |
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Possible future presentation concept: using a cafe/dining metaphor to help explain the proximity principle in user interface design (possibly with a “live waitstaffing” demo?). Great idea? Or stupid idea?
[Note] Yr Wyddfa’s First Email
31 Jan 2025 |
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On Wednesday, Vodafone announced that they’d made the first ever satellite video call from a stock mobile phone in an area with no terrestrial signal. They used a mountain in Wales for their experiment. It reminded me of an experiment of my own, way back in around 1999, which I probably should have made a […]