* On foot
* 41.886868, 12.440913
* Sunday 17 March, 2024
* 423.58 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
After two long days in front of the computer, happy to see the quest in the local park again. The photo is facing directly away from the location.
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Probably not relevant, but I have to transfer a site from WordPress to ClassicPress and I might do it on Saturday and take the opportunity to make it a bit more IndieWeb.
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@bradenslen Thanks. I've done it for one of my own sites too, absolutely painless. This is a bigger site that was failing a PHP upgrade to 8.2. I knew this day would come, and as I have no need for the bells and whistles of WP these days, time to make the change.
, Mar 21 2024 on micro.blog
Here's a fun one from this day in 2007: Dr Watson and the Missing Money
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/dr-watson-and-the-missing-money
Cracking piece from Max Walker in Vittles, on the Devon Split, as a vehicle for the industrialisation of London's milk supply. I've never tasted one, but I kept thinking, which came first, the Split or the Marritozzo. Still none the wiser.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/cream-is-thicker-than-blood-the-rise?r=1ahjl&utm_campaig...
2024-03-17
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240317-W-AY68O8
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The on-this-day feature on my main site threw up a little gem today from way back when in 2006. I was so thrilled by the fact that the post is still live, and by the fact that it is as relevant today as it was then (perhaps more so) that I am linking to it again. https://lancemannion.typepad.com/lance_mannion/2006/03/living_large.html
A new Eat This Newsletter: the other shoe drops on lead in cinnamon; rye in Scandinavia and the recent oldest bread, which requires a small qualifier; doubts about agricultural subsidies that “that when reached will make them redundant”; and a history of British pies https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-233-leavened/
Peasants are not revolting. Farmers are revolting
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That’s my take on the agricultural unrest happening across Europe.
Of course we would not be here if we still relied on peasant farmers and the meagre surplus that could be extracted from them without actually killing them. Nevertheless, today’s farmers are not their descendants.
Just one item in the latest Issue of Eat This Newsletter.
2024-02-24
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240224-W-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.8765579, 12.46266
* Saturday 24 February, 2024
* 423.34 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
In the garden of a nunnery.
2024-02-23
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240223-B-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.895401, 12.453739
* Friday 23 February, 2024
* 423.32 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
NB: The bicycle quest was a lot closer than the walking quest, but it was still a good long walk of 7.5km round trip.
Also, while the quest itself was visually boring, it was very close to the Russian Orthodox church, which is less so.
@jeremycherfas I've set up a ClassicPress site and the Indieweb plugins all worked. I detailed it here: cyberzettel.com/successfu...
The major hitch was from my host which runs an auto-update robot for all Wordpress installs, for security purposes, which kept reverting my ClassicPress site back to Wordpress every half hour. I had to get them to turn that off for my ClassicPress install.
bradenslen, Mar 21 2024 on micro.blog