Back to the Minnow theme. One of these days I’ll stop experimenting and settle on a theme.

Oh, and I suppose I should say something about “may the fourth of May be with you,” right?

I sometimes forget how easy it is to post to my blog. Then I go into Micro.blog…

When you’ve got a child who’s on the electoral register, but they’re not yet old enough to vote; and they have the same initials as you? That can cause problems.

Good day today: spent most of it struggling to get Java — running in Tomcat on the Mac — to call functions in R. Successfully in the end, thanks to Stack Overflow and others. Tonight: Infinity War!

What?!? Commando comics are still a thing? I used to love them when I was a kid. And look at those issue numbers: up in the five thousands!

Today was the first day wearing shorts this year. And also the first time ever wearing shorts to work. Another reason to love this new job.

Merlin Mann just said what I thought was “Trump loyal” on the Reconcilable Differences podcast. Intriguing.

Then I realised he said “trompe l’oeil”. Which made more sense in context, but was less interesting.

Why do Americans (or at least American podcasters) say “soddering” for “soldering”? Is it just a weird pronunciation (and if so, why?) or is it a slightly different spelling, like aluminium?

Ev Williams on the future of reading and writing on the net:

Now we can’t stand to sit through ads…

Where I come from we never could; because we grew up on the BBC. Whose funding, when you think about it in modern terms, is essentially a subscription model, though paying the subscription —  the TV Licence fee —  is mandatory if you have a TV.

In the early days that made sense, because the BBC was all there was on the TV. Now it seems harder to justify, but I’ve yet to see a solution that would be both as successful and as egalitarian. Because the licence is very, very cheap compared to the alternatives.