Blog | Princes and Madmen

We’ve got to get off this rock before we blow it up or cause it to go Venus!*

impression of the top of a man with bottom half being a DNA double helix

Single is Great Except Biology Hates Me

I’ve been single most of my life except for a brief disastrous marriage and am currently single and happy except that biology hates me.

Tired of Not Having Skills to Stop the Hate

Theoretically I know that it’s not all on me, but I’m still tired of my lack of skills for damping down the hate that is destroying us.

Abstract graphic of a network of people (collaboration)

And We All Get Together

Of course, I’m talking about collaborating virtually on the design of a website theme, not a gathering …

A Design Less Funky

If you’ve been here before, you have probably noticed that I’ve switched to a less off-the-wall design.

Wooden Oware board with polished gray pebbles as counters.

Counting Myself In

I have taken steps to ‘count myself in’ at the MPL MakerPlace, rather than being stuck on the idea that I have included myself out.

A fiddle lying down beside a glass of beer

No, I Have Not Sold My Soul

This is true despite the fact that I am moving my websites (including this one) away from OVHcloud and includes a shift to using Microsoft 365.

A Small Fix in Silence

At the reminder of a friend I added the date of the posts to the post listing, and some personal notes.

Grayscale photo of man standing outside the building

Including Yourself Out

For mental health that you need to remember to take care of yourself, not just others, which explains the frustration I expressed in a previous post.

Black queen chess piece standing beside fallen white king chess piece

The Site Is Dead, Long Live The Site

I’ve begun the process of killing off all my WordPress sites and replacing them with sites built using Hugo.

A screenshot of a web page with buttons and a table, in an blue/aqua colour scheme

A Little Aqua

I think the ‘silly little’ style I create for more pleasant testing of a debug theme for Hugo turned out being a not bad aqua/blue theme.

*Okay so I exaggerate, it’s only Earth becoming hostile to most species — including humans… (And of course we’re not going to be able to make a mass exodus, so we really need to work on what we’ve got down here!)