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JulyReply-ing: rustgeek.me/tag/julyr…

#ThrowBack

For the chill

Finished Reading: Odyssey by Stephen Fry 📚

Waiting…

St Catherine’s, Brielle.

The Age of Asterisk; Barney Ronay in the Guardian on the 114: "But the fact is the rules do matter, even if you think they shouldn’t exist. They matter because other teams were abiding by them. Other teams didn’t buy players, ... https://social.rustgeek.me/2026/09/26/the-age-of-asterisk-barney.html

Received!

Re-reading: The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart

Finished reading: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths 📚

Will the Love continue when the walk becomes a crawl..

Komunyakaa

Self-hosting is truly a gateway drug…. After nearly a year down that rabbit hole, I have dived deep into Audiobookshelf and old classics from LibriVox. Just in time for my soon-to-ballon-to-ninety-minutes-each-way commute!

Currently reading: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths 📚.. Pausing to reflect on the outsized impact of the five Boole Daughters 🙌🙌🙌

Currently (re)reading: A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik 📚

The Wallace Bros.. Southampton

Last Friday of Summer (Hols)

Hard at work.. 2 yrs ago

The 18 month old loves Ubuntu.. in a manner of speaking…

Finally, Rain

Back to the early 2,000s #GRITS #Navidrome

Splurged on a bunch of old Integrity Music Urban Praise and Worship albums from the good old days #Navidrome

The view.. Staines

Surprisingly quiet at Feltham station today..The Heat, or the summer holidays finally making a difference?

Dried out…

#OnThisDay

Abeedeen’s shiprow is getting a makeover. Found quite a few new food places, and a coloured umbrella installation.

I fear I may be the sort of chap who - rather than dance at a Nigerian party - casts his mind to Zadie Smith’s essay -Joy. Is all this dancing (unfettered) joy, a trick of the mind to distract from the reality of life, or simply a pleasurable activity?

Old Haunts

Penultimate leg of three hectic weeks… Plus side, i might wake up to this:

Finished reading: How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds seven years ago today 📚. For some reason i thought a picture of the thinking person’s checklist qould be great.

Today I learned of Poortugaal, the Portugal of the North-ish

10 years ago today I was at the Hillsong London Conference. A lot has changed since then, both personally and otherwise.

Long non-EU passport lines at Schipol… Brexit dividends! Faces blurred by Gemini of course…

Currently reading: Work in Progress Confessions of a Busboy, Dishwasher, Caddy, Usher, Factory Worker, Bank Teller, Corporate Tool, and Priest by James Martin 📚

Finished reading: In Pursuit by Osaretin Oswald Guobadia, Chukuka Chukuma 📚 Moral of the story - building a business in Nigeria has, and remains, a Sisyphean task of sorts. It helps if you can capture the State of course…

Today, I learned about perpetual stews - a fascinating metaphor for the web (and link rot) "Perpetual stews work by adding ingredients, eating the stew, and then adding more ingredients to replenish, and then repeating th... https://social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/20/today-i-learned-about-perpetual.html

In which we go walkies in the Birmingham city centre: rustgeek.me

Siderite on the broken world of technical recruiting: "And finally, when the improbable happened and both employee and company are happy with the arrangement and it all works fine, you get the AI meddling again. Because you ... https://social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/18/siderite-on-the-broken-world.html

Passed by The Church of St Martin in the Bullring

Continuing to plumb the depths of my old music collection… #Navidrome

Dumpster diving in my old USB Hard drives; a massive total of 1GB.. Sadly, there are no bitcoin recovery keys to find here!

Lunchtime walk by the lakeside

On the cessation of Longwave radio in the UK.

Today in SWR shenanigans: Delayed due to trespassers

A different kind of “Why I write” post. For practice, and as a public notebook

Currently reading: In Pursuit by Osaretin Oswald Guobadia, Chukuka Chukuma 📚

150 parking slots for school drop offs gone in 15mins… Thats a new record..

When authors find their books in fhe wild. A moving piece from Elif Shafak

A fitting final word from Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries by Kate Mosse 📚: "This, then, is it. The truth of a life, the quality of it, the value of it. Out of all these individual lives – some dazzling and brilliant, b... https://social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/03/a-fitting-final-word-from.html