Garage door adjustment is going to be the death of me. Whatever combination of screws I turn, I can’t get it right.

New nerd achievement unlocked: I created a Digital Ocean droplet and spun up an instance of a Discourse Forum today.

Episodes of The Last Dance fly by so quickly. I’m just settling in and then - bam - they’re finished. Such good TV.

I’ve been investigating best value podcast editing software for my Mac. Then the penny dropped; the best software isn’t on the Mac - it’s on iOS, and it’s called Ferrite.

Our work had an online Zoom-based quiz game today using Kahoot.it. It was fun and I got bragging rights - came second in the first game, and won the second game. In your face, team! 😂

I got out and shot some basketball hoops today; first time in months. I loved it. Playing basketball is the physical activity that feels perfectly natural to me. My body knows exactly what to do. There’s nothing else like it. 🏀

I watched Episode 1 of The Last Dance and was reminded of why I fell in love with basketball. 90s-era NBA offered genuine competition in what was a small commercial enterprise. Also fashion!

I have no idea as to what represents a ‘good’ number of downloads for a podcast, but I’m excited to have seen 767 for my latest effort. Thanks to everyone who did listen!

Writing for the Web

Why Word documents are not great for the web, and why plain text files written in ‘Markdown’ syntax are the way to go when writing anything destined for online delivery. Microsoft Word was designed for writing in an era when the finished result would be a printed page. There is still a place for that - and often the printed page is now a generated PDF. The web, however, is of different origins.

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