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Publishing Pratfalls - My tussles with blog post storage over the years
Remastering chaostangent.com exhumed a question that had haunted me for years: how should I store the blog post content? On the face of it the answer seems straightforward: HTML.…
Listening Intentionally - Moving Off Spotify
It began to feel like a moral imperative to leave Spotify. The curse of knowledge about it that accrued over months and years: not paying artists even close…
John's Newsletter of Nouns #30
What a sublimely normal week. I reflexively reached for my little work time tracker widget to remind me what I've done these seven days before realising: oh wait,…
John's Newsletter of Nonograms #29
This is going to be like when a serialized TV show has a clips episode in terms of effort because I'm just going to ramble about various media…
John's Newsletter of Non-Euclidean Thoughts #28
I almost bought an air conditioner last Saturday. The temperature that day peaked at about 24°C which, for me, is about the ambient limit for sitting comfortably at…
John's Newsletter of Nonsense #27
It was only a few of weeks ago when I was saying how healthy I'd been and now, less than a month back, my body creaks and groans…
John's Newsletter of Nerdery #26
From around Newmillerdam Definitely a better week than the last one, and in retrospect last week wasn't that bad. It was a rude re-introduction to…
Issue 25 - data vis
Not a huge amount to say this week, it has been tough on the brain being re-introduced to the working life. I put together the infographic above last…
Issue 24 - adjustment
Now that my trip is over I can say things that I didn't dare say during it for fear of karmic retribution, like: wow was I flipping healthy…
Issue 23 - overlooking view
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 98% That's it. I have a final full day in Tokyo and then it's the long (15 hour plus) flight back to the UK. I don't have the…
Issue 22 - (mostly) happy trails
Well, I definitely wanted to get away from the crowds and all I needed to do was trek into the sparsely populated interior of the Kii Peninsula. I…
Issue 21 - castles and a cold mountain
Why are you stopping? Oh you're looking at your phone right at the top of the escalator. Oh you're unsure which way to go so you're standing right…
Issue 20 - crowds and shrines
I definitely feel like I'm on the home stretch now. My toiletries have begun to run out raising the necessity of visiting a pharmacy to buy more, and…
Issue 19 - putting art in my face
And that's Shikoku all done! A flying visit but definitely a part of Japan that I hadn't experienced before. That leaves my last four weeks in Honshu, with…
Issue 18 - mountains, valleys, bridges
In my head this odyssey was broadly composed of five parts - the snowy north, the balmy south, Kyushu, Shikoku, and finally Honshu. Technically I've already done a…
Issue 17 - atomic age
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░ 50% Six weeks is the longest contiguous time I've been outside of the UK. I'm finding it difficult to comprehend the amount of things I've done in those…
Issue 16 - vulcanology
Just wrapping up week five and thus far on this trip the only place I've been to before has been Sapporo though I remember very little of my…
Issue 15 - warmth! (eventually)
This and future issues will be light on photos - my laptop suffered a fairly critical and likely unfixable failure this past week which has meant I've not…
Issue 14 - closed doors
I am now safely ensconced on Ishigaki island, almost as far down the Japanese archipelago as you're able to go, marking the end of my time in The…
Issue 13 - candles, snow, hotsprings
I'm beginning to get my travel legs back, I've already repacked my bag several times to make it easier to get to the essentials. I've of course taken…
Winter is coming - Six perfect winter scenes in anime
I spent a large part of my childhood in the north eastern part of Scotland which, to those who aren't familiar with the area would describe as “the…
Summer 2017 roundup
Or “it’s halfway through the new season and I still can’t think of much to say about these shows.” …
Ardent - A review of the Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul anime series
The final ending card of *Rage of Bahamut: Genesis’ warned us: “I’ll be back”. For a time that seemed to refer to the indefinitely delayed Manaria Friends (not…
Mysteria Friends, Rage of Bahamut: Genesis, Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul
Boondoggle - Sakura Quest's exploration of rural depopulation
Sakura Quest is the most recent series from studio P.A. Works’ “earnest girls working earnestly” genre that it started back in 2011 with Hanasaku Iroha. Sakura’s story starts…
Fireball - A review of the Kizumonogatari anime films
It’s finally finished. It feels like I’ve been hearing about the Kizumonogatari movie since I finished watching the first TV anime, Bakemonogatari. In my reviews of past entries…