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• Crosswords 2! Guardian Friday Cryptic 29,367

  Dave Gorman - aka Bluth, aka Fed - dropped an experimental video onto YouTube recently, which I spotted while browsing YouTube and then spotted again via Dave’s Mastodon account. It’s worth a watch. The idea is, essentially, that Dave creates a custom cryptic for a friend - in this case the actor Tony Gardner - and uses it almost as a casual interview or chat. Tony dives in and does the solution, Dave acts as mentor and coach and teases out some conversation as he goes. It’s worth a watch on Dave’s Gormhub Youtube channel. I think this has potential, although setting an entire themed crossword for each guest would probably make it somewhat labour-intensive, even for someone as productive as Gorman.

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• Weekend Update 21 Apr 2024 - what's going on?

  Sunday April 21 2024. Liege Bastogne Liege day. Well, technically the day after because I got a little caught up in double-screening the race coverage alongside playing Steamworld Build on the XBox, so I’m catching up.

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• I updated this blog a bit

  So yesterday’s blog post was quite well received on the fedi. By which I mean a few people read it and I got some feedback saying “Do more!”. So today I spent a little while actually making the site Better For Blogging.

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• Crosswords! The New Quick-cryptic, and Guardian Cryptic 28,880

  The Guardian just launched a new cryptic crossword format, and it’s a beauty.

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• Musings - Metadata, Work and the Broader Landscape, and a linkdump.

  Well, another month rolls by and life in startup world, as sometimes happens, has got very complicated and then very static.

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• New Blog!

  So it’s been a while since I’ve had a blog. I used to have a blog around skepticism, atheism and the like, which was very unserious. Subsequent to that, I established a technology blog, which I used to detail solutions that interested me, tech news, things like that.

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