Jeremy Cherfas

I cannot believe this actually worked. Thanks @kenalbala All will be revealed in tomorrow's episode.

Quick gotcha: I moved this WithKnown site from shared hosting to a VPS yesterday, and today photos were not displaying and not uploading. Turned out that in the move the path to the Uploads directory had not changed. Fixed that, and all seems to be well again. I hope.

Replied to a post on memex.naughtons.org :

John Naughton's bookmark about the Douglas Bader story ("... these f***ers were in Messerschmitts") reminds me of the equally good, and possibly equally apocryphal, one about the celebrated Antarctic explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs giving a lecture in Leeds.

Essential prep for Monday's episode.

Essential prep for Monday's episode.

Sometimes a chap just needs to make an almost plain (5% rye) loaf.

Sometimes a chap just needs to make an almost plain (5% rye) loaf.

David Simon on Twitter: "In the pantheon of visual metaphors for America today, this is the money shot. https://t.co/09COuDutBC";

Replied to a post on www.macdrifter.com :

In his article A Problem with Apple News Sites, Gabe says: "I don't wonder why indie blogs are dying any more. Link posts are killing them." I'm not sure it is blogs that are dying, but I do agree that it is why most "independent" news sites are dead, at least to me.

Sitting pretty, until the replacement seat pan (!) arrives for the big boy at the back, at a price double that of the temporary job. But will the ikea job still be here in around 39 years? Seems unlikely.

Sitting pretty, until the replacement seat pan (!) arrives for the big boy at the back, at a price double that of the temporary job. But will the ikea job still be here in around 39 years? Seems unlikely.

Sitting pretty, until the replacement seat pan (!) arrives for the big boy at the back, at a price double that of the temporary job. But will the ikea job still be here in around 39 years? Seems unlikely.

Sitting pretty, until the replacement seat pan (!) arrives for the big boy at the back, at a price double that of the temporary job. But will the ikea job still be here in around 39 years? Seems unlikely.

Thoughts on “This Tiny Little Country Feeds the World.” a little bit of a counterblast, from @rachellaudan