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2023 Blogging Highlights

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A GBU letter to Car Magazine (U.K.)

Sent to the 'letters to Editor' email 2023-12-23: CARMAGAZINE.CO.UK IN A BROWSER THE GOOD: Content, photography looks so good on screen THE BAD: Web layout and user interface. SLOW loading times even on fibre, why do I ever see a spinning load wheel? THE UGLY: Poor reading experience the way pages respond in a browser. PDF magazines from car clubs better emulate reading a high quality publication. THE ONE TO BUY: Yes, but get the pulp format if you don't live on the other side of the planet* * where it often arrived weeks late and (if on a wet... Read more →

A form I'll never fill out... UOA Body Bequest Section Two

Part of my 'doing things I should have done long ago' was actually organising donating whatever collection of atoms I comprise of at the end for a useful purpose. I'm not religious so consider once dead the container I formerly occupied is just that. Now the medical school get first refusal, then transplant donations etc. if they don't want it. Still felt a bit odd to look at part two of the UOA Body Bequest form and wonder when and how it will be filled out... Read more →