Gently shaking
  • The FeedLand blogroll on Drummer blogs was a snip to set up. Here is mine. Looks very nice imo. I've not been blogging via drummer for a year, but Dave says there is a WordPress plugin in the works. #
  • I've had my feedland blogroll on my WordPress site in a couple of different ways, via Jan's plugin on the sidebar and my own script on a page. This is more interesting. Like Frank, I hope I can get the blogroll on it's own page on my WordPress site. I am also just dumping my whole FeedLand list at the moment. I think I'd want to edit that down for a blog roll, perhaps missing out the more obvious links in favour of folk who I interact with. #
  • I've had a blogroll on my site for most of its existence. There seems to be a bit of a resurgence at the moment. Hopefully this will lead to a more open and connected web. Dave's version expands the concept from a list of links towards a feed reader experience. I am wondering if it is heading towards the way Ton's feedreader seems to work. As it stands it is a great way to get reference links while writing.#
  • Finally I and enjoying writing this post in Drummer, and am going to post it to my WordPress blog with a script Frank shared.#
Testing embedding of toots#
Looks like the https works for pi.johnj.info and my FeedLand, which is on a different port works ok. I probably need to understand and rethink how this is all put together. #
Not so fast, I seem to have messed up the dns, so all of my raspberry pi domains and sub domains point to my drummer blog… eeek!#
The Links tab and about tab are back.#
The Glossary is working. I've also now got the blog back on http://drum.johnj.info#
I've not got much in my glossary, so this is a test: John’s WWWD#
doing some testing#
I've got an idea for how I can use this.#
Here we are again, drummer blog up and running from drummer.land the new Drummer.#
A tiny thought on the current uk news. It worries me they way politicians use Twitter to post letters of resignation & the like. Trusting Twitter with something so important seems like a mistake. Surly they should post somewhere they control & forward to Twitter #indieweb#
A good few years ago I bought an iRig Mic for making short podcasts at conferences and the like. It worked well for me. I’ve not got much of an ear or wallet for mikes. Last week I dug it out for my class to use in their podcast. It still works well enough for our needs.#
Interesting the increase in covid 19 during cop 26 was in primary aged children, not cop attendees. publichealthscotland.scot#
Below with br tags added#

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass
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Struggling to figure out. Multi line quote. #

And the days are not full enough

And the nights are not full enough:

And life slips by like a field mouse

Not shaking the grass

  • Read: Snow by John Banville ★★★☆☆ 📚
    A nice trip to Ireland & crime fiction’s past. Country houses, local colour and character. Somewhat disrupted by the gory details.#
  • Read: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie ★★★☆☆ 📚

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  • Read: The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner ����★���★★ 📚
    Super book, full of small incidents, ageing, illness, deaths & disappointment in a 14th century nunnery. The Black Death, a phoney priest, riot, rape & murder. A really sense of time passing, & quite a few laughs.

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  • Read: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch ★★★☆☆ 📚
    Pretty good 🦠 recovery material. Light on character, mad plot, very fast moving.

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  • Read: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler ★★★★★ 📚
    A re-read, from 9 years ago. I love the narrator’s voice, funny & smart. A tricksy telling that worked even though I knew the twist.

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  • Read: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead ★★★★★📚
    Lighter than The Nickel Boys.I was expecting something akin to Chester Himes but this was gentler, more thoughtful & a more absorbing read. Politics handled lightly. I hope Ray, keeps out of trouble, if not I want to read about it.

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  • Read Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal ★★★★☆ 📚
    An introduction, for me, to a strange artistic world painting trompe-l’œil. Lovely long sentences. The heroine has a ‘lazy’ eye looking two ways at once. The eye recalls Dory Previn – The Holy Man on Malibu Bus Number 3

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  • Read: The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner ★★★★★ 📚#
  • Super book, full of small incidents, ageing, illness, deaths & disappointment in a 14th century nunnery. The Black Death, a phoney priest, riot, rape & murder. A really sense of time passing, & quite a few laughs.#
Squeezed uncomfortably into a corner the chaplain looked at him with a malevolence so habitual that it was almost indifference
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Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them, really enjoying this book.#
An update to the Drummer to WordPress script - Digging the Digitaldiggingthedigital.com#
Change notes: GitHub scripting is deployedscripting.com#
Read: Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd ★★★★☆ 📚 This 1946 novel is a lot of fun. Miss Ranskill Returns from a desert island to war time Britain. Confusion and poking fun ensue. #
Trying out the new drummer static pages, Park Birds#
Silly Games#
Watching cop 26 play out in my home town. The most positive thing, as a Glaswegian teacher is seeing how confident and articulate some of the local young activists are. #
The new http.client verb in drummer looks interesting. The mention of strut in the docs reminds me of using the xml-rpc, metaweblogAPI in AppleScript to post to WordPress. #
Another busy week and not beating on the drum. #
I do not generally post about music but this is lovely. Empty Room by Michael Timmons. Sound fills your head and a west of Scotland voice. #
3 years ago I was posting occasional lists of interesting posts on microblog, this one, 🗓️ ♥︎<280 Turned up on my on this day page today. A lot of broken links. #
Busy week so far. I've been reading some of the drummer issues, but not much more. #
I noticed in today's change notes Dave explaining how Drummer linking works. This for folk who had been asking for markdown to make linking easier. This made me think about about how folk write text with links. I suspect the markdown folk do not like leaving their keyboard for a mouse. Although I occasionally write markdown I am not click adverse. A middle way might be to have a keyboard shortcut for the link button. WordPress uses ⌘-K to open the link. ⌘-K seems fairly standard for this. it certainly works in Apple Notes where I use it most. #

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