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You can go and download Yarr, unzip and it and (for the windows version) double-click the .exe. Straight away you will have a working web-based RSS reader.

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Gosh, April nearly slipped away without me noting what I read last month. Here we go: Gateway by Frederik Pohl, one of the S.F. Masterworks series and an odd book, more about a man’s visit to his (robot) psychiatrist than exploring the galaxy (and certainly not the space opera I was sold by the blurb on the back), but an interesting start to a series of books for sure.

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What did I get done this week? What am I doing next week? Is there anything where I'd like some support to help me move forward? Well, the confidence to drill into walls and doors without making a colossal mess of it all would be great on the last point. 😬

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This week I had to chase a badger out of the garden because it was trying to break into my food waste bin, and break up a fight between some robins and goldfinches. Spring on the edge of the city is literally wild.

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So after titling the last post "Finding out how to write", it turns out I broke just about every single link in it by writing in one tool, pasting into another, not checking it had pasted in OK and then hitting "send". Excellent work Phil, good job.

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Posting to a statically-generated site is theoretically easy - it's just a file on your desktop after all. But whilst the words are easy, it's also easy to mess up the metadata, and wouldn't it be nicer to get it right in one shot? After all, the ideal for writing on your blog is hit the keyboard with your fingers until your point is made and hit "send".

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The move is finally done and sometime last week I switched my blog over to a statically-generated site powered by Zola. This is the first post I’ve written directly into Zola. In a month’s time I’ll have been writing this blog for 22 yea...

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