For the past couple of months there have been problems with the comments on this website. For the most part I have been happy to solve them manually. There aren’t that many and I’m about to redesign everything (eventually) so no point dealing with it now. Then yesterday, thanks to my on-this-day facility, I noticed Comments plugin fixed from 2019.

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Normal service has been resumed.

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Having whined recently about listening to music and finding music I want to listen to I resolved, casually, to do something about that. A couple of days ago, I took a look at Bandcamp to see what they thought I might like, based on what I have liked. The first thing they sent me to was OK, but not r...

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I very much enjoyed Tracy Durnell's long post about listening without a streaming subscription, part of a series on wanting, or perhaps needing, less. It mirrors, at least partially, my own experiences of music in the past few years; having first reduced friction I now find that, in order to be more intentional, I need to reduce friction all over again

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There's a temptation to review the whole year, not the month, which I shall try to resist.

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