I love baked ziti. Growing up in Connecticut every event called for a baked ziti. It is the east coat equivalent of the midwestern hot dish. Your neighbors invited you to a backyard barbecue?…

A little look over the penultimate week of my summer break. Happenings Bat! In my bedroom. With a follow-up here. So yeah, I was lying in bed, it was raining outside, and the window I heard a…

What is Dave wearing today? Dave says that's none of your business. How does Dave feel today? Dave says that's none of your business. What are the factors affecting Dave's mood? Dave says that's none…

Last weekend we went to the Woodward Dream Cruise to meet up with friends who were in town. I didn’t take many photos since I was enjoying the moment, but...

My partner bought this pre-made bake-it-yourself garlic bread from Trader Joe's : I resented it. Maybe because it was wrapped in plastic, maybe because it's unhealthy and greasy. Plus, its form…

and there were all these aisles

I think I'm cooking with this one. No explanations, just screenshots.

Afternoon, Tokyo. A big red car called Rubicon crosses my path. What exactly did you win and die for, Julius Caesar? A nightmare in which a lesser woman wins a grander prize. Wait, I was awake when…

Edinburgh Fringe shows, books, comics, movies, video games, and escape rooms galore!

I was sorting through some of my things and realized how many of them will probably outlive me. Books are obvious, but even smaller things like medals and rosaries could easily be around long after…

We’ve sadly lost several familiar faces in Abingdon recently. The first three appear on the memorial pages of Tonks Funeral Directors. I’ll start with Tony Grealy, as I was asked to…

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist. Ok, who am I kidding, I'm a massive perfectionist. I won't even buy a chair without going into a 6-day rabbit hole into the history of sitting, and how ancient…

Linus was in town this week so I met up with him and a few other friends on Tuesday near our old office in Holborn. It was a lovely evening if a little boozy for a Tuesday, some things don’t really…

Last year I bought a new teapot that I’ve since been using daily. It was inexpensive, and sure enough, it turned out to be cheap as well. The retailer that sold me this item no longer carries…

South Dakota Mines Following directly on the heels of our visit with dear friends last week , on Sunday we flew from Orlando (via Denver) to Rapid City . The reason for our trip was an all-day…

South Dakota Mines Following directly on the heels of our visit with dear friends last week , on Sunday we flew from Orlando (via Denver) to Rapid City . The reason for our trip was an all-day…

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Sometimes the smallest steps are the greatest. The ones people say are not a big deal. When they ask why you are crying and you don’t even dare to try to explain because you know it only makes sense…

Tom Blomfield’s five elements of a self-improving loop: sense, decide, act, verify, and learn.

A busy week at work, juggling a few fairly complex things that have meant I've been a bit brain busy outside of work Wrote a couple of blog posts, Why I still hand write my commit messages being the…

I'm working on a couple of those unreasonably long posts I post here from time to time. That's why you haven't heard much from me here this weekend. And this is kind of funny. Somewhere out in the…

Test post for formatting MathJax

A 3-tier utility cart filled with stationary is in my room next to my bookshelf. I started getting into washi tapes back in early community college. The animal and food based ones are the best! Such…

I’ve always been someone who kept to himself. During my early childhood, I was an only-child who spent his afternoons playing with his toys and dolls, watching handicraft shows and imitating them,…

What I think about this: I’m not going to go for a drink in a pub where the landlord is an arsehole, just because it’s busier out on the terrace. I’d rather spend time in a safe and welcoming place,…

I have such a hard time writing when I’m going through something. I get too paralyzed with whatever I’m stressing over and I end up wasting my whole day distracting myself with whatever means I have…

Greetings, programs. Once again, I'm a bit behind on these posts, but I just got back from two weeks of travel and I'm so happy to be home for a while. My last trip was pretty stressful. On the way…

Abandoned Iron Truss Bridge, Denton TX. I've been thinking about love, lately. What it really means. I used to think love meant you'd do anything for the other person, but now that I'm older, I…

So, yesterday I saw that the trees are slowly turning yellow in my neighborhood. That can only mean one thing. It's time for fall soon. I'm a university student, and fall means lectures, exams, and…

Oh no the Roncy QBC is ending! :-( Things are impermanent, and that's just part of life. Today I called with my friends, one of them has a 5 month old baby and they couldn't stop gushing about her. I…

August 23, 2026 Anyway, what I really want to remark on here is the idea of using AI to brainstorm . In the past, I may have written this off as well. But actually, with the rise of the very good AI…

I'm still here!

here it comes again every single day the pavement whispers screams of the seed of the fall other things said Fadd9 Yesterday :: Sunday, 23rd August 2026

Professional services firms have traditionally treated sales and delivery as two parts of the same operating model. The partner who owned the client relationship usually also controlled much of the…

It's been a week!

I looked at my Outlook calendar for the forthcoming week and found it reassuringly empty of meetings and deadlines. That means I can get on with some useful work. In fact I’ll have to because…

A life update on what I've been up to, and what I'm working on.

The baptism went great yesterday. We assembled a group of 39 people, and headed to a church located somewhere out in the woods near Cēsis . It was a very beautiful place. They even had horses there.…

A short one this week, because summer hols. AirPods Pro are getting cameras. Here’s how Apple can avoid the Meta ‘pervert glasses’ trap. That’s my Stuff column this week, which…

Happenings A cyst in my right ovary burst. It's one of the most painful things I've ever experienced. I silently cried all four hours 1 waiting in the hospital. When I finally saw the gynecologist, I…

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When I look at death and everything I’ve done with my life, I think about my goal: to improve people’s lives and leave this world a little better than I found it. But when I think about the scale of…

I paid some attention to detail and lost a chunk of time.

I have finally integrated an AI agent into my daily work. It helps me to perform daily prioritisation and strategy brainstorm. I have been experimenting with AI for many months; it is only until…

125 Covington St, Loganville, GA, 30052 Catfish College is an educational institution offering a range of courses and programs in various disciplines. The college aims to provide students with a…

These occupy a liminal space in my array of writing implements and accessories: I only learned of their existence a month or so ago and immediately took a flutter. Turns out these 4" x 6" notepads…

Aftermath of the cyclone from yesterday in my neighborhood.

Are you busy? I mean, really busy? So busy you barely have time to read this post? It is easy to fill our days with endless tasks, whether they are assigned to us by others or self-chosen. It is in…

I woke up at 10:30am.The weather is sunny.The temperature is 85°F.It feels like 85°F.

I woke up at 06:30am.The weather is cloudy.The temperature is 80°F.It feels like 80°F.Texts I visited:Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation by Gérard GenetteHeart Lamp by Banu MushtaqWalking…