Archive: 2026-07

  • Sponsor me to walk to Canterbury

    As if cycling 240 km each way from London to Herefordshire and back again wasn’t enough, in a week and a half’s time I’ll be walking with a few others from London to Canterbury.

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  • Everything I learned at Electromagnetic Field 2026

    People like authenticity. When I introduced my talk, I apologised for the basic theme: “I don’t understand how LibreOffice Impress templates work, so this is just the basic Pandoc theme, but at least it’s not AI.” That received a huge cheer.

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  • Week 289: To EMF, the hard way

    After a quiet, normal Monday, I got up early on Tuesday morning, packed all my kit onto my bike, and set out for Herefordshire around 06:00.

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  • Week 288: Lost baguette

    This comes to you from a field in Gloucestershire, at the end of day two of my human-powered journey to Electromagnetic Field.

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  • Week 287: Network trouble

    A mysterious problem afflicted our home internet connection. The symptoms were strange: 50%+ packet loss to the outside internet, and anything that relied on a connection was very unreliable, except my desktop computer, which was also unreliable, but was able to communicate perfectly with the outside world when connected to a VPN.

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  • Week 286: Thunderclap

    Very late this week, but hey, I never promised an SLA on these weeknotes.

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