At BuzzFeed, in London. I exist plenty here but I’m also elsewhere.
Books I’m Reading
| Date | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Mar '20 | The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone | Olivia Laing |
Films I’ve Seen Recently
| Date | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Mar '20 | Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness | 2020 |
| 30 Mar '20 | Watchmen | 2019 |
| 22 Mar '20 | Volver | 2006 |
| 22 Mar '20 | Honeyland | 2019 |
| 22 Mar '20 | Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | 2018 |
See more about what I’m reading/watching here.
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27 March 2020
God be with you till we meet again
I don’t wish you any hard luck Old Man but do wish you were here for a while at least. It’s more comfortable when one has a friend about. The men here are all good fellows, but I get so damned sick of Pneumonia that when I eat I want to find some fellow who will not ‘Talk Shop’ but there aint none nohow. We eat it, live it, sleep it, and dream it, to say nothing of breathing it 16 hours a day. I would be very grateful indeed it you would drop me a line or two once in a while, and I will promise you that if you ever get into a fix like this, I will do the same for you.
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23 March 2020
Get Static
If you are in charge of a web site that provides even slightly important information, or important services, it’s time to get static. I’m thinking here of sites for places like health departments (and pretty much all government services), hospitals and clinics, utility services, food delivery and ordering, and I’m sure there are more that haven’t occurred to me. As much as you possibly can, get it down to static HTML and CSS and maybe a tiny bit of enhancing JS, and pare away every byte you can.
— Get Static, Eric Meyer on his blog
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22 March 2020
The Crisis Could Last 18 Months. Be Prepared
From a public-health standard, the pandemic will not end for another 18 months. The only complete resolution-a vaccine-could be at least that far away. The development of a successful vaccine is both difficult and not sufficient. It must also be manufactured, distributed, and administered to a nation’s citizens. Until that happens, as recent reports from the U.S. government and from scientists at London’s Imperial College point out, we will be vulnerable to subsequent waves of the new coronavirus even if the current wave happens to ebb.
— The Crisis Could Last 18 Months. Be Prepared, Juliette Kayyem in The Atlantic
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26 February 2020
The Markup Launches
You also deserve to hear these facts from an independent source. We want to investigate the ecosystem of data exploitation, and we don’t think we can do that while shackled to it. And so we make a privacy promise to you, our readers: We will not track you. Unlike many companies, we put your privacy first. We collect the minimum amount of data possible when you visit our site, and we will never monetize this data. We won’t display advertisements on our site, because they too often contain tracking technology. This makes our work more complicated and more expensive-but your privacy is worth it.
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25 February 2020
Sailors On Wikipedia
For example, some sailors download the whole of Wikipedia for Kiwix while at port so they can browse it while at sea.
I just thought it was cool to think of modern sailors at sea for weeks at a time turning to Wikipedia to pass the time. Also nice that we have the technology to support it.
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