The ankle injury appears to have made some good progress. It's feeling less painful and wobbly today, and that's good because I did a bit of walking yesterday, so I was half expecting it to be all swollen today. I think I've also mostly recovered from yesterday's horendous alergy flareup, though sinuses are stil a bit red and irritated. Difficult getting going this morning though. #
2025/04/29 #
Bit of a disaster getting places today because of a general strike, but the weather is nice. Having to make sure I'm not putting too much weight on the ankle, and not walking too much. Working on the mobile device today, listening to tech podcasts and writing cover letters as best I can. #
Seen on an old bronze / brass plaque, turned a metalic green by time and weather, over a small bridge in a small town earlier:
"Hommage a la 1ere armée americaine et la brigade piron - 5 September 1944"
Reminder that something big happened here 80 years ago. It's just part of every day life. #
Today’s links:
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Don't make Google sell Chrome - DHH gives his take on the whole Google anti-trust thing as far as it relates to Google Chrome. He knows a thing or two about the open web. world.hey.com #
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Electricity restored to 90% of Spain and most of Portugal after massive power outage - Heck of an unusual thing to happen. How does an entire country, and it's neighbour country have an electricity blackout? What is going on with that? www.theguardian.com #
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The EU can’t replace the US as a global player until it sheds its own colonial thinking - I think Shada Islam makes some pretty good points here. I'm interested to learn more about this european colonial thinking. The UK always gets pointed at as being the old big bad colonial power, but surely Europe has some things to address in this domain too. www.theguardian.com #
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Vince Lanci and the Trump Powell Accord Ep#215 (Goats, Gold 'n Guns Podcast) - What I linke about Tom Luongo's podcast is that though him and his guests to peddle in kind of wild conspiracies, they do at least base them on the latest financial markets data. The transition away from LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate, definitely appears to be causing some big shifts in markets and perhaps exposing very old power structures. podcastindex.org #
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Alternative Browsers, Discord vs Circle, and AI in the Browser Ep#662 (Shop Talk Podcast) - Some great developer discussions around the Google Chrome anti-trust situation, and also some interesting ideas about how AI could be used to create some cool new features in browsers. shoptalkshow.com #
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Mozilla’s CEO weighs in on U.S. v. Google - He doesn't say this explicitly but it sure sounds like 'hey lawyer folks if you fuck this up then you will completely fuck the open web, as in game over, and a lot of us think you aren't heading in the right direction'. blog.mozilla.org #