suspension of scribblanity
An informational posting. Told you. Scribblanity is pausing for a bit. A bit in the sense of an undefined quantity of time, rather than the...
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2024
third person
The scribblanity blog was saved from scrapping by the simple switching of the blog to being written in a third person perspective, thereby hopefully making...
turning scribblanity off
It is time to turn scribblanity off.  Goodbye. Installing updates.Beep. Updates have been installed. Your blog is now ready to read. Hello. For a...
nothing new
In further 'finding all sorts of old stuff that I hadn't realised I'd saved' news, and the resulting 'might as well publish it again because...
575 - northerly wind
I like doing 575 verses. Strictly, haiku don't have to be in the syllable format of 5-7-5, but mentally I need all the help I...
subtle
You may have noticed that the humour I use in my blog posts is very subtle. If you hadn't realised that I do sometimes use...
decisive
This is how I work. Â I want to make a change to something I use or do, particularly computer software or work systems based....
for readers of scribblanity
For transparency, here are the terms under which you are reading this blog. Policy and Terms i/. By engaging your eyeballs with the variable quality...
575 - clocks
The clocks are changed this weekend in the UK, springing by an hour forwards to BST - British Summer Time. Unfortunately the weather in general...
avatar image
You will have noticed the avatar image that I use to identify scribblans, both here and in many other places around the web. I am...
new things
Scribblanity is on Scribbles, a simpler blogging platform - certainly simpler than I was used to with the mind-boggling and AI bandwagon-feeding complexity maelstrom that...
lightweight
I'm now using the Scribbles platform to do my blogging, with its much simpler interface for both readers and writers than I had been used...
not barcode
My wife was returning a parcel via the company Evri. Not our choice, they were specified by the company that the item came from, and...
the goldilocks blogging platform?
Like many newcomers to the fediverse, I started with a Mastodon account in November 2022. Possibly unlike many fediverse users, I have since moved around...
wake up
Brain: Come on, wake up! Me: (groggily) Eh? Brain: Come on... time to wake up. Me: (looks at clock) Aww, come on brain. It's seven...
man on a bench
I set myself a bit of a challenge. I gave myself an hour to write a flash fiction 'live' as it were. I had the...
2023
I'll order a little box of screws online...
Inevitably, ordering anything online will result a flurry of Inbox spam of epic proportions. Even for just a box of screws. They have an email...
poem-shaped: blackbird
A small poem, inspired by watching a blackbird out on the lawn through my office window. I think its particularly moving... in that it's about...
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