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And Yet It Fools Everybody

From Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus

Batched Delivery of Gmails to my Inbox

I am always and forever tweaking how I use Gmail.

macOS: Ignore Ownership on an External Drive

Finally fixing an annoying problem with using an external disk.

Clearing Automatic Album Ratings in iTunes

Fixing iTunes’ dynamic and frequently stupid rating of tracks and albums.

On Throwing Out My Old Memorabilia

Tonight, as part of our attic cleanup, I processed a box that I’ve probably not seen since I put it up there in, oh, 1995.

“Funemployment” During a Government Shutdown

Lessons learned from previous periods of unemployment.

Clearing Out Those “Someday” Projects

We’re downsizing in preparation for moving house in a couple of years. To that end, all those boxes in the attic and all those projects in the closet now have to be reckoned with. We thought we’d get to them “someday.” And so, right on its own schedule, “someday” has arrived.

Burkeman’s New Year’s Resolution

I love Oliver Burkeman’s weekly look at what’s trending in the self-help world. His New Year’s Resolutions column is typically sensible: pick your battles.

The Dumbest Publishing Platform on the Web

txt.fyi: Write something, hit publish, and it’s live. There’s no tracking, ad-tech, webfonts, analytics, javascript, cookies, databases, user accounts, comments, friending, likes, follower counts or other quantifiers of social capital. The only practical way for anyone to find out about a posting is if the author links to it elsewhere. Allen Jacobs notes in his …

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