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SL4, Stopping Lots When the Silvertown Tunnel opens next week, one thing the Mayor will enthuse about is the new...
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When the Silvertown Tunnel opens next week, one thing the Mayor will enthuse about is the new Superloop bus route running through it. People like the Superloop, they know it gets them places fast, so no doubt they'll be enthused too. But the new SL4 isn't going to be as super as...
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A New Nobu Opens at Hotel del Coronado With Ocean Views
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Herbert Lui
The jellyfish knows how to survive uncertain times A lion’s mane jellyfish can release up to 45,000 eggs per day. The jellyfish’s strategy is to lay as...
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A lion’s mane jellyfish can release up to 45,000 eggs per day. The jellyfish’s strategy is to lay as many eggs as possible and leave them to fend for themselves. Most of these eggs don’t survive, probably fewer than 0.1%. In ecology, this approach is known as a high reproduction...
Herbert Lui
Top of mind My partner, my cat, and I once missed a connecting flight due to a luggage hiccup. The staff got us...
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My partner, my cat, and I once missed a connecting flight due to a luggage hiccup. The staff got us replacement tickets for another flight 12 hours later. Maybe we could catch an earlier flight if there was space, they said. That was a possibility we were eager to explore. So I...
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Visit These 10 Malta Filming Locations from TV + Movie Hits
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Herbert Lui
The time will pass anyway There’s something meaningful that you want to do. The only problem is it’s going to take a long time...
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There’s something meaningful that you want to do. The only problem is it’s going to take a long time to do it. Maybe it’s schooling of some sort, or chipping away at a big project. Yes, it’s going to take a time horizon of years, maybe even decades. The time will pass anyway,...
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Scotland’s Best Eco-Luxury Hotels and Sustainable Adventures
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Herbert Lui
Kinetic and energeial living Kinetic life is focused on reaching a destination. You harness your drive to complete a journey. In...
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Kinetic life is focused on reaching a destination. You harness your drive to complete a journey. In this way of life, it naturally makes sense to find the shortest possible route and take it. Imagine it like a commute. If you were to choose between an express train and a local...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Cadogan Arms, Chelsea There's no sign of a cost of living crisis on the King's Road, but then the people of Chelsea aren't...
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There's no sign of a cost of living crisis on the King's Road, but then the people of Chelsea aren't known for their frugality. The Cadogan Arms is a grand old Victorian boozer - which means it has nice high ceilings, stained glass and a big carved wooden bar - but then this is...
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Best Small Ship Cruise for Alaskan Wildlife and Wilderness
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Spoon & Tamago
Tomoko Kubo is Embroidering the Entire Hiragana Lettering System Illustrator and embroidery artist Tomoko Kubo has embarked on an epic linguistic journey of...
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Illustrator and embroidery artist Tomoko Kubo has embarked on an epic linguistic journey of embroidering all 46 characters in the hiragana lettering system. Each piece is carefully designed so that within each character are individually embroidered images that depict foods,...
diamond geezer
Route 60 Route 60: Streatham to Old Coulsdon Location: London south, outer Length of bus journey: 12 miles,...
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Route 60: Streatham to Old Coulsdon Location: London south, outer Length of bus journey: 12 miles, 75 minutes It's traditional around every birthday that I take a numerically significant bus journey. Eighteen years ago I took the 42 to Dulwich, then subsequently the 43 to Barnet,...
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TfL website Status page The TfL website last underwent a thorough design upgrade in 2014 and hasn't changed much since,...
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The TfL website last underwent a thorough design upgrade in 2014 and hasn't changed much since, template-wise. But times move on, not least the increased necessity for accessible responsive design, so a change is arguably long overdue. And here we go... I think it's just the...
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6 Top Hiking, Biking, and Climbing Spots in Tucson
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diamond geezer
Denton and Reddish South The least used station in Britain: DENTON Greater Manchester The problem thus isn't Denton's...
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The least used station in Britain: DENTON Greater Manchester The problem thus isn't Denton's location it's the timetable, which these days consists of just two trains a week. Between 1992 and 2018 it was only one, so this is an improvement. Saturdays...
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Covid signage five years on Five years ago PM Boris Johnson addressed the nation from 10 Downing Street and told us "You must...
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Five years ago PM Boris Johnson addressed the nation from 10 Downing Street and told us "You must stay at home". All sorts of extraordinary restrictions were subsequently introduced, many of which were conveyed to us in signs and stickers slapped across our immediate environment....
Herbert Lui
Surrender, control, and anxiety What do you think you’re in control of?  What’s not in your control?  Where do you decide to draw...
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What do you think you’re in control of?  What’s not in your control?  Where do you decide to draw the line? “You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control,” Elizabeth Gilbert writes (via Oliver Burkeman). “But you never had control; all you had was anxiety.”...
Herbert Lui
Putting it out there Brett Goldstein worked as a writer for Ted Lasso. As he worked on the scripts, he realized that he...
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Brett Goldstein worked as a writer for Ted Lasso. As he worked on the scripts, he realized that he really understood one of the characters. He wanted to put himself forward for the acting role.  “I also knew no one was thinking of me for Roy, so right at the end of the writers’...
diamond geezer
Stockport Gadabout: STOCKPORT Stockport is a former textile town on the Lancashire/Cheshire border, since...
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Gadabout: STOCKPORT Stockport is a former textile town on the Lancashire/Cheshire border, since swallowed up by Greater Manchester. Of the ten metropolitan boroughs it's the southeasternmost. Previously I'd only ever seen it from the train while crossing the lofty viaduct over...
Herbert Lui
Chatter vs. inspiration For many years, whenever my brain had an idea, I felt a compulsion to write it down. What started...
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For many years, whenever my brain had an idea, I felt a compulsion to write it down. What started out as bursts of inspiration slowly—and, eventually, quickly—transformed into a habit driven by anxiety. I didn’t want to let any idea “get away from me.” I felt like if I forgot, I...
Herbert Lui
Contentions: Apple TV’s billion dollar loss There’s a possibility that Apple is losing over $1 billion per year on Apple TV. The so-called...
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There’s a possibility that Apple is losing over $1 billion per year on Apple TV. The so-called “loss” is plausible, it’s also a rather ordinarily-sized expense considering Apple’s relatively high scale other marketing expenses. Consider this: Another report suggests that Apple...
Herbert Lui
Writers and readers as co-creators When you read a comic strip or a graphic novel, your eyes move from one panel to the next. What...
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When you read a comic strip or a graphic novel, your eyes move from one panel to the next. What happens in between the panels? Your brain filled in the gaps. You participated in a co-creation process.  An experienced author or artist knows to intentionally create these spaces in...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Duke, Henley It's coming up on a year since I was last in this part of the world, when I had a very lovely lunch...
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It's coming up on a year since I was last in this part of the world, when I had a very lovely lunch in the sun at Dominic Chapman, then a brand new restaurant in the Relais hotel on the banks of the Thames. Strolling around town before lunch last week I was pleased to see he was...
Herbert Lui
A place for feelings that interfere “Did you ever tap into something that you feel is bad in you to win?” That’s a question Donald...
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“Did you ever tap into something that you feel is bad in you to win?” That’s a question Donald Glover asks in this interview, before confessing that he made one of his most popular songs because he felt a drive to prove somebody wrong. In response, LeBron James says that he not...
diamond geezer
Non-folded e-bikes From Monday e-bikes will be banned from TfL services because they pose a fire risk. From next...
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From Monday e-bikes will be banned from TfL services because they pose a fire risk. From next week that won't be allowed and e-bikes will have to stay at street level, protecting passengers from the dangers of potential conflagration. It's bad news for Londoners who've bought...
diamond geezer
Unblogged March 31 unblogged things I did in March Sat 1: The world is still reverberating after Trump and Vance...
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31 unblogged things I did in March Sat 1: The world is still reverberating after Trump and Vance admonished Zelensky in the White House yesterday, and you can sense that 2025 is going to be a turning point in geopolitical history but not in a good way. Sun 2: Fish and Ships, the...
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UnCruise's Best Small-Ship Cruises & Why Travelers Love Them
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diamond geezer
post-Stockport housekeeping 10 items of post-Stockport housekeeping 100 largest towns and cities by population. At the start of...
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10 items of post-Stockport housekeeping 100 largest towns and cities by population. At the start of the year I had 13 to go but since then I've ticked off Sunderland (32nd), Hartlepool (84th) and Stockport (60th). Of the ten that remain the largest is now Huddersfield (33rd),...
diamond geezer
Route R6 RIP London's next dead bus R6: Orpington to St Mary Cray Location: southeast London, outer Length of...
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London's next dead bus R6: Orpington to St Mary Cray Location: southeast London, outer Length of journey: 4 miles, 25 minutes 347, 118 and 414 have already been extinguished and at the end of this week it's time for the R6 to join them at the big terminus in the sky. You won't...
Herbert Lui
Books and lifestyle The Starfield Library in Seoul is a beautiful, vast, library. It reminds me of the short visit I had...
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The Starfield Library in Seoul is a beautiful, vast, library. It reminds me of the short visit I had to Singapore’s library@orchard. It fits in with a pattern I notice in Asia, which is the rise of these incredibly glamorous spaces for books. They’re usually bookstores (I...
Herbert Lui
Micro-meditations When you make just a few seconds of space between stimulus and response, you create an option to...
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When you make just a few seconds of space between stimulus and response, you create an option to respond intentionally. Imagine closing your eyes for as little as 15 to 30 seconds. Questlove calls this a micro-meditation, describing it in his book Creative Quest, “In some way, if...
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What Makes Disney the Best Family Cruise in Alaska
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What you missed Some of the places I've been since my broadband disappeared a week ago BestMate's sofa: 45 minutes...
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Some of the places I've been since my broadband disappeared a week ago BestMate's sofa: 45 minutes of proper broadband and I managed to catch up on all sorts of things, including adding the photos and links to Unblogged March which was previously bereft. Bank: I'm always amazed...
diamond geezer
March 2025 eclipse Tomorrow is partial solar eclipse day, peaking at 11:03am in London. The eclipse will be visible...
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Tomorrow is partial solar eclipse day, peaking at 11:03am in London. The eclipse will be visible across northwest Europe, peaking in eastern Canada where 92% of the solar disc will be obscured. In London it's 31%. Nova Scotia 80%, Reykjavik 68%, Stornoway 47%, Glasgow 42%,...
diamond geezer
Estimated fix time Estimated fix time: Tue 01/04/2025 at 19:00 then Estimated fix time: Sorry we can't provide a fix...
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Estimated fix time: Tue 01/04/2025 at 19:00 then Estimated fix time: Sorry we can't provide a fix date at the moment. Please check again later. then Estimated fix time: Mon 31/03/2025 at 02:34 then Estimated fix time: Sorry we can't provide a fix date at the moment. Please check...
diamond geezer
Annoyance I got home yesterday after watching the eclipse, put the kettle on and opened up my laptop. No...
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I got home yesterday after watching the eclipse, put the kettle on and opened up my laptop. No internet. Well that's annoying, I thought. My BT Hub was displaying the dreaded red ring of doom, a bit like an eclipse in itself, and rebooting it didn't help. OK that's more...
diamond geezer
Dover to Deal Dover to Deal (10 miles) Dover is a town most people pass through, a swirl of traffic converging...
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Dover to Deal (10 miles) Dover is a town most people pass through, a swirl of traffic converging on a mighty seaport, but also a historic town in its own right primed for national defence. I was merely passing through, launching off through the more ordinary side of town where...
Herbert Lui
Don’t fight back, fight forward with forgiveness A restaurateur speaks up publicly for what he thinks is right. The people who think he’s wrong take...
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A restaurateur speaks up publicly for what he thinks is right. The people who think he’s wrong take action. They vandalize his restaurant. Glass is shattered. Mirrors broken. Furniture destroyed. He had invited his father to town to dine at the restaurant. That can’t happen now...
diamond geezer
It was nearly Easter Sunday today It was nearly Easter Sunday today. Easter, as you may know, is the first Sunday after the full moon...
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It was nearly Easter Sunday today. Easter, as you may know, is the first Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox. First Council of Nicaea set the rules for determining the date of Easter. spring equinox was always on 21st March, even when it wasn't. 2019 it made four...
diamond geezer
Balgores Square 45 45 Squared 11) BALGORES SQUARE, RM2 Borough of Havering, 110m×30m Romford Garden Suburb was the...
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45 45 Squared 11) BALGORES SQUARE, RM2 Borough of Havering, 110m×30m Romford Garden Suburb was the brainchild of Liberal politician Herbert Raphael who in 1909 offered up his estate at Gidea Hall "to provide families with a well-built, modern home regardless of class or status"....
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Broadband update After waking up yesterday I checked my router in case my broadband had restarted overnight. Still...
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After waking up yesterday I checked my router in case my broadband had restarted overnight. Still red, so no. "We wanted you to know that the fault you reported to us is now fixed. Please turn your router off and on, and your service should be fully...
Herbert Lui
Letting go of the scene I live in downtown NYC. I wouldn’t consider FiDi a particularly cool neighborhood. Geographically...
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I live in downtown NYC. I wouldn’t consider FiDi a particularly cool neighborhood. Geographically speaking, I could probably be further from the scene—I’m not in the burbs!—but socially speaking, I haven’t broken in. To be honest, I could not be less interested.  Yes, there is...
Spoon & Tamago
The Ultra-Narrow Rakuragu Hotel Offers a Stylish Stay in Central Tokyo This 9-story Rakuragu hotel rises from an ultra-narrow site in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. If...
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This 9-story Rakuragu hotel rises from an ultra-narrow site in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. If it’s nightlife you’re in search of, this hotel may not be right for you but if you’re looking for understated stylishness and rare outdoor space, this is a gem of a hotel. With...
Herbert Lui
Professionalism and pressure The person who holds the world record for basketball free throws shot over 2,000 consecutive baskets...
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The person who holds the world record for basketball free throws shot over 2,000 consecutive baskets in a row. But if you put them in a stadium and a tight score between the teams, they might not have been able to shoot two. The main difference between playing basketball in a rec...
Herbert Lui
Why you feel lost, what to do next The story of The Courage to Be Disliked is told mostly in dialogue, between a student and a...
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The story of The Courage to Be Disliked is told mostly in dialogue, between a student and a philosopher. Spoiler alert: While the student starts off opposing the philosopher, hellbent on proving the philosopher and their school of thinking—Adlerian psychology—wrong, he starts to...
diamond geezer
Unchosen Overground line names Unchosen Overground line names an excellent scoop yesterday by publishing the longlist of names...
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Unchosen Overground line names an excellent scoop yesterday by publishing the longlist of names which were under consideration for the six Overground lines. I'm not sure how much much of the list is behind his Substack paywall so what follows is abbreviated from someone else's...
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TfL FoI requests from March 2025 25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in March 2025 1) On average the seat moquette on a New...
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25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in March 2025 1) On average the seat moquette on a New Routemaster bus lasts 7.3 years before replacement. Used moquette is recycled by foreign aid charities. 2) Only 0.003% of Elizabeth Line journeys result in Delay Repay payments even...
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A Walkable Food Tour of Historic Madrid de los Austrias
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Herbert Lui
The privilege and point of writing  Last weekend, my good friend showed me how I could train an LLM to write blog posts just like me....
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Last weekend, my good friend showed me how I could train an LLM to write blog posts just like me. The LLM generously assessed my voice and tone (which made me feel understood!), and then spat out a blog post that could’ve been a first draft for me. While I felt curious about it,...
diamond geezer
Route 129 Route 129: Lewisham to Gallions Reach Location: London southeast, crossriver Length of bus journey:...
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Route 129: Lewisham to Gallions Reach Location: London southeast, crossriver Length of bus journey: 9 miles, 70 minutes 129 has been searching for a purpose ever since it was introduced as a stumpy three mile route in 2006. The original idea was to connect the new Millennium...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in March 2025 25 things we (genuinely) learnt from TfL FoI requests in March 2025 1) Only two refurbished Central...
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25 things we (genuinely) learnt from TfL FoI requests in March 2025 1) Only two refurbished Central line trains have so far entered service. Three more are planned to enter service by January 2026. The overall programme is planned to complete in 2029. 2) Seat cushions on...
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Filling holes One of the key drivers behind London’s bus network is that 95% of the population should live within...
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One of the key drivers behind London’s bus network is that 95% of the population should live within 400m of a bus route. There are indeed very few residential holes, at least with any significant population, as I documented in a past post called “Where in London is furthest from...
Herbert Lui
How replaceable is your work? If you drive for Uber, you work in a software supply chain. The software facilitates a bunch of...
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If you drive for Uber, you work in a software supply chain. The software facilitates a bunch of people’s requests for the service, and decides when you—the driver—get to do a ride. The only reason you’re driving is because Uber’s software can’t drive the car itself yet. The...
Herbert Lui
Progress ebbs and flows This was a lesson one of my bosses shared with me: most people don’t improve consistently every...
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This was a lesson one of my bosses shared with me: most people don’t improve consistently every quarter. Instead, progress ebbs and flows.  Sometimes—maybe many times—you might feel like you’re going through a plateau. Many other people would quit. If you remain confident you’re...
diamond geezer
Trinity Church Square 45 45 Squared 12) TRINITY CHURCH SQUARE, SE1 Borough of Southwark, 75m×60m garden square fronted by...
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45 45 Squared 12) TRINITY CHURCH SQUARE, SE1 Borough of Southwark, 75m×60m garden square fronted by Georgian terraces, although you can't go in the garden unless you're a resident because it's one of those. Trinity Church Square lies just off Borough High Street, and is accessed...
diamond geezer
Travel options from North Greenwich pre-1897 late 19th century Blackwall Tunnel (→ Blackwall 1897) early 20th century 58 tram (→...
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pre-1897 late 19th century Blackwall Tunnel (→ Blackwall 1897) early 20th century 58 tram (→ Lewisham, Camberwell, Victoria) 108 bus (→ Bromley-by-Bow, → Crystal Palace 1934) mid 20th century 108A bus (→ Bromley-by-Bow, → Eltham, 1944-1968) 185 bus (replacement for 58 tram...
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Housekeeping Broadband update Abbreviated version: Hurrah, my broadband finally started working again yesterday...
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Broadband update Abbreviated version: Hurrah, my broadband finally started working again yesterday afternoon. I had eleven days without. What happened: A couple of Saturdays ago a fibre optic cabre somewhere in Mile End failed. Before dawn on Monday Openreach sent an engineer...
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A Walking Tour of Madrid’s UNESCO Sites, History, and Views
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Herbert Lui
AI and living tutorials A couple of years ago, I published a post on how I thought AI would disrupt writing, editing, and...
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A couple of years ago, I published a post on how I thought AI would disrupt writing, editing, and marketing. I wrote, “The notion that people won’t get replaced with A.I., but people who work with A.I., rings true in each of these fields.” One reason this happens is because AI...
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4 Under-the-Radar Madrid Neighborhoods for Tapas
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Herbert Lui
Commit first, plan later My former colleague at Figma, Claire Butler, recently wrote a really great post about what she...
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My former colleague at Figma, Claire Butler, recently wrote a really great post about what she learned working at Figma. The lesson that stood out to me most was this one, “When you’re stuck, commit to action. Strategy will follow.”  In other words, if you’re making something...
diamond geezer
Flickr +20 Twenty years ago today I posted my first photo to Flickr. I'd been to Lewisham for the day as part...
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Twenty years ago today I posted my first photo to Flickr. I'd been to Lewisham for the day as part of my Random Borough project and thought you deserved to see 13 of the better pictures in greater-than-microscopic size. For my inaugural upload I picked the ever-photogenic Laban...
Herbert Lui
“Why is this important to me?” When you know why you’re doing what you want to do, you do it better.  You can prioritize clearly,...
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When you know why you’re doing what you want to do, you do it better.  You can prioritize clearly, adapt when you need, and endure the inevitable setbacks. More importantly, you’ll know when you’re heading in the right direction. This sense of clarity doesn’t just magically...
Herbert Lui
Whose task is this? Is it a child’s task to study? Or is it a parent’s task to get them to study? “There is a simple way...
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Is it a child’s task to study? Or is it a parent’s task to get them to study? “There is a simple way to tell whose task it is. Think, Who ultimately is going to receive the result brought about by the choice that is made?” Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi write in The Courage...
diamond geezer
The Silvertown Tunnel opens The Silvertown Tunnel opened this morning. comments if(postComments['199122220152314'] !=...
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The Silvertown Tunnel opened this morning. comments if(postComments['199122220152314'] != null){document.write(' (' + postComments['199122220152314'] + ')')}else{document.write(' p(0)')}; (I'm only interested if the answer is 'Yes') I have also had the entire top deck to...
Herbert Lui
Do you borrow from your future to pay for the present and past? A ponzi scheme takes place when the schemer uses cash from later investors to pay returns to early...
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A ponzi scheme takes place when the schemer uses cash from later investors to pay returns to early investors.  My friend Peter makes the case that when an entrepreneur borrows from their business’s future to pay off present and past obligations, they are operating it like a ponzi...
Herbert Lui
One step at a time In my 20s, I spent my working hours at different gigs—running my editorial studio Wonder Shuttle,...
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In my 20s, I spent my working hours at different gigs—running my editorial studio Wonder Shuttle, doing Prologue, writing at Medium, and a bunch of other cool projects. I had found or created a lot of opportunities, and I gave in to my ambition to pursue all of them. I was...
diamond geezer
Stoneleigh One Stop Beyond: Stoneleigh In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London...
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One Stop Beyond: Stoneleigh In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Stoneleigh, one stop beyond Worcester Park on the line between Wimbledon and Epsom. For positioning purposes it's...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #20 The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout are complete, indeed were completed five weeks ago apart...
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The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout are complete, indeed were completed five weeks ago apart from the opening of the contraflow beneath the flyover. Now it seems this filter lane won't be opening until later in 2025 while TfL "complete more works to protect the structure,"...
Herbert Lui
From research to imagination You remember a fragment of a song that sounds like it’s from the eighties. You do some research, but...
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You remember a fragment of a song that sounds like it’s from the eighties. You do some research, but you struggle to remember where you heard it, and when. Your guesses are more imagination than recall. No hints come to mind.  When this happened to Questlove, he was stumped. He...
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The Best California Beach Escape at Hotel del Coronado
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The £5 pint I saw this poster outside a bar in Hackney. I can do a very rough check of beer prices in London...
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I saw this poster outside a bar in Hackney. I can do a very rough check of beer prices in London by scrolling back through this blog. • At the 2012 Olympics a pint of lager cost £4.80. 2016 I cringed when a bottle of Becks cost £5.25. 2019 a pint of lager cost £5.95 and I...
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Why the Restored Hotel del Coronado Feels Like a Movie Set
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The Square 45 45 Squared 13) THE SQUARE, UB7 Borough of Hillingdon, 40m entire village is pencilled in for...
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45 45 Squared 13) THE SQUARE, UB7 Borough of Hillingdon, 40m entire village is pencilled in for demolition, every last building, because we're just outside Heathrow Airport and a Third Runway is coming. Longford, a key staging point on the old route to the West Country. It's...
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How it unfolded A couple of weeks ago when e-bikes were banned from TfL services, we mused on what TfL's...
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A couple of weeks ago when e-bikes were banned from TfL services, we mused on what TfL's announcement might be. • All types of e-bike, e-scooter and e-unicycle are banned except foldable e-bikes. We now have TfL's wording which you can see on this poster. Big letters: No...
diamond geezer
Down the country lane Down the country lane Scraped-out ditch Speed limit begins Table of eggs for sale Footbridge...
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Down the country lane Scraped-out ditch Speed limit begins Table of eggs for sale Footbridge to the paddocks Customers for the swimming pool White sofa on the first floor landing Workmen making the garage habitable Nosey neighbour walking repeatedly past Once we're home...
Herbert Lui
Don’t let AI determine your intentions Intention is the determination to do a specific thing, or act in a specific way. When you’re being...
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Intention is the determination to do a specific thing, or act in a specific way. When you’re being intentional, and deliberate, you are taking the first step to exercising your will into the world. Everybody else might accept what’s happening, but you won’t. At its finest, AI...
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