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Introversion in the Time of Plague

I’ve had this file on my computer for a while and I keep tinkering with it and then ignoring it again, but the recent talk of H5N1 virus (bird flu) particularly in the US, a country that no longer has protective health safeguards to prevent spreading their diseases to the rest of us out here in the real world, reminded me yet again how vulnerable we are to pandemics.

…and the world improves

Fireworks over the city of Melbourne, Australia

As we approach another arbitrary temporal boundary, or New Year as some would have it, I am prompted to consider my place in the world and my responsibilities to society. So because social media reflects so much of society these days, I reflect on social media. As a member of […]

Aiming for Something Better

I decided celebrate my fedi-versary by finishing a half written blog post from a few weeks ago, about xitter v mastodon. I had got bored before finishing it, but the purpose of the blog is supposed to be to leave information about the past for my grandchildren and other descendants, […]

Names in Genealogy

A genealogy question on Mastodon, about households containing people with identical names, started me thinking about the number of different version of names we find in old documents and I wondered if it might be explained by the tendency in times past to name children after parents or grandparents, or […]