Inspired by paintings of the Riviera, I am considering visiting Marseilles. Here are my notes and links …
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Michael J Rumsby
I visited the the Clarendon Gallery in Greenwich again and they had a picture by Michael F Rumsby which spoke to me. I checked out his web site and made the slide show below. The web site illustrates a series of collections. The picture I saw was quite big and so even if I could…
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Fabian Perez
I walked into the Clarendon Gallery in Greenwich and they had three of Fabian Perez‘s pictures on the wall. They were all listed at a price well outside my price range but I enjoyed them and wonder what else he does/has done. …
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Compression cubes
My compression packing cubes are broken and I need some more, or at least one more. It needs a sturdier zip. Here’s what I found …
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Helsinki
Not been at the top of my list, but since, I have limited Scandinavian plans for 2026, let’s have a think.
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The Democratic Odyssey 2024
In the EU Parliamentary year, 2024/25, there was an experimental citizen’s assembly incubated by the EUI. I attended their Florence assembly 22/2 & 23/2, and made some notes. These stayed in my notebook for too long but I have decided to make this page, which collects some reviews and views and may even have some…
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AI and images
I have been playing with AI image generators. See my notes …
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Copernicus & Brexit
The European Space Agency celebrated its most recent launch of a Copernicus Sentinel Satellite, which made me wonder how Brexit had impacted the UK’s participation in the EU’s space programmes. This post looks at what I found.
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Labour Conference 25
Here is my #lab 25 page. Conference is to be in Liverpool again.
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Capitalism
I recently read Ingham’s “Capitalism Divided?” which has, I believe, some important insights into the nature of the British economy. The last two days I reviewed my notes I looked for further comments and reviews. He will have written a number of books but at the moment this page looks at, “Capitalism” and “Capitalism Divided”….
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Prague
I have not been there yet, maybe it’s time.
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Raspberry Pi IV
I am rebuilding my virtual pi, I think we have the basics, buster, git, gh, ssh, xrdp, ufw, vsftpd, postfix, mailutils, & apache2. (I need to fix my whatsnew for buster.) So next steps …
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Water Jug
A sign of the 21st century Britain. I need a filtered water jug. I have one from Brita, which comes with instructions.
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Enhanced Privacy with Meta
There has been a viral hoax circulating, about the use of whatsapp’s new enhanced privacy features. This has been described and debunked, in the article below,
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Sidekicks in D&D 5e
Hmm, we used to call them henchmen. The rules it seems are optional, and I am not sure I am ready for this, as I need to learn to play my classes better than I do.
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