Category Archives: Administrivia

The Twitter That Was

Posted on 2022-11-14 by Garrett Wollman

Attention conservation notice: 6,000 words about the decline of a social-media platform, none of which are particularly original or well-informed. Since Elon Musk took control of Twitter at the end of October, like many people I’ve had to ponder a … Continue reading →

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My decade, 2010–2019

Posted on 2020-01-01 by Garrett Wollman

Attention conservation notice: about 8,500 words about me and what I did for the past ten years, what I previously wrote about that, and how I feel in hindsight. Minimally edited, rather disjointed, and jumps around in time a lot … Continue reading →

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In preparation for writing my end-of-decade review, I wanted to get a quick, plain-text listing of my posts on this blog, so I requested an export from WordPress — but then I realized that the export was in a modified … Continue reading →

Posted on 2019-12-30 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on A little XSLT hack for extracting titles from WordPress exports

Post-vacation status update

Posted on 2018-03-29 by Garrett Wollman

Last year around this time I went to the World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki and generated a whole bunch of posts about it. I went to Worlds again this year, in Milan, and bookended that trip with train travel … Continue reading →

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I have worked up quite a backlog of posts that need to get written. I was hoping to make some progress on that this weekend, but that didn’t pan out. Neither did the 55-mile bike ride I was planning on … Continue reading →

Posted on 2017-09-17 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Still here

Hi, folks. Just wanted to note that I’ve been blogging less this summer by intention, due to a combination of increased travel, the regular summer bike commute (finally!) and decreased baking (due to increased weight :-( ) Expect regular service to … Continue reading →

Posted on 2017-07-29 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Administrivia: service interruption

I promised another post about Helsinki (which has somehow turned into three posts) and one about Reykjavik, and these are still in the works. Unfortunately, the trees in this part of the world are very busy having sex right now, … Continue reading →

Posted on 2017-04-10 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Administrivia: Promised posts delayed somewhat

This year’s holiday baking, for a variety of reasons, will consist of things that I’ve done previously and have already written about, so I won’t be posting any more recipe walk-throughs for the rest of the year. See you in … Continue reading →

Posted on 2016-12-17 by Garrett Wollman | 1 Comment

One or two of you may have noticed that I’ve not posted very much lately. Mostly this is because I’ve been bike commuting, which means I can only bring small things into work (not carrying a cake or pie in … Continue reading →

Posted on 2016-08-23 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Blogging status update

Not sure if there will be any more posts here

Posted on 2016-01-16 by Garrett Wollman

I was all set to put up a short post here about last weekend’s baking when I found that WordPress.com had, without any notice, replaced their usable posting user interface with a horrible new one — and they also broke … Continue reading →

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