Email config apology possibility

A few people have subscribed to 'email versions of this blog' via buttondown. I suspect you've not been getting them because I've configured it wrong. Sorry about that. Hopefully you'll get this on Sunday. I think that now, you can also subscribe

September 27th, as precisely as possible

Christa Wolf wrote this in the preface to One Day a Year, 1960-2000: “In 1960, the Moscow newspaper Izvestia issued a call to the writers of the world, one that instantly appealed to me—they were to describe one day of that year, the 27th of September, as precisely as

Lost in time, like tears in rain

This post is for everyone asking about migrating from Typepad to Ghost. It is not in the archive so it will disappear when Typepad disappears. (I will put a copy of it on Ghost, too, for the record.) 1. I do not know how to migrate a blog from Typepad

Non-fun run

I've slightly been in denial about this. Various things have prevented training. But, I'm going to do the Royal Parks Half Marathon in a few weeks. And that now means that I'm supposed to ask you to donate to a good cause. If you&

New news norms

Apart from a brief mention on the radio this is how I learned about the extraordinary events in Nepal. 1. Via TikTok 2. Via RSS Who are Nepal's Gen Z? This seems like a reasonably healthy situation to me.

Talks as leisure

The other day a friend emailed me to say 'Here's the Gen Z version of your Interesting thing'. And he linked to Lost Property. It looks brilliant. I'm going to the next one on October 4th. It made me realise that maybe there'

New WIP episode: the one with Stu about music in ads

Occupying TikTok with love

I kicked my Kindle back into life the other day. It had been sitting by my bed, dead, waiting for me to find the right, slightly archaic form of USB cable to power it. But when it came back I found an old instapaper saving I'd once been