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English is one of, if not the hardest foreign language to learn. There’s so many little things about it that are as though we’ve made them up as a sick joke.
The solution? According to one guy, do what we’ve always done: crib some notes from other languages.
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My (re?)discovery of journalling – and how I reclaimed it from instrumentation.
Good intentions – or, when other people think they know your condition better than you, but they mean well.
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For Mum, what makes a good fantasy’s a fickle thing.
What is fantasy, anyway? Is sci-fi really just fantasy with its back turned?
We could do with a ‘Fantasy for Mums’ survey. Nothing for ’em without ’em. Right?
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Note-taking’s a miserable task – notebooks and siloed documents in word processors aren’t the only tools at your disposal.
Enter Zettelkastens – a method of linking notes together, built bottom-up, by you (with some general rules).
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Setting up my own blog locally on a Raspberry Pi was a proper treat. Moving that to the web was a bloody nightmare.
Hello, World: Twenty years late to the blogging party
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