Crucial Track 🎵 August 8, 2026

"Govinda" by Kula Shaker

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Apparently they are still going ... who knew? This had my ears at the time - as did the album - and still does. I can't fail to listen to Govinda and not feel uplifted.

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👁️ Normal service has been resumed. Again. My posts were once more failing to find their way on to the blog - much lesss out to the world.

FIXED - but this one was down to me.

I am officially now classed in ‘Myers Briggs’ as ‘EEJIT’.


🔗 EchoFeed is Shutting Down

I hadn’t heard of Echofeed before, so no comment - other than isn’t the vast majority of what it offered built right into Micro.Blog? Misunderstanding❓ Missing something❓


💬 Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without.


💬 the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it.


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👁️ Heh @AndySylvester - look what I just 🖇️ rediscovered ❗️


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💬 Life is defined by change, chance, and choice.


👁️ oh no … not Airtable.


🏗️⛑️ Interested to see an error suddenly pop up on my blog for a post that has been there for over three years. Never touched since.

I investigated - found the error - fixed.

I guess Micro.Blog is becoming less forgiving about amateur hour?


💬 The problem isn’t the advertising you see. It’s the tracking you don’t.


Time to do this in Auckland.


👁️ How long before the Shopify uprisings begin?


Watched 🔗📼🎵 10 Obscure Prog Rock Bands You Need to Hear Right Now

I think ‘obscure’ depends on who, when and where you are .. but that said - a good list none the less with 7 of them being represented in my vinyl and CD collections, you might think I am 💯 on board. I am not. Looking at you ‘Spock’s Beard’ and ‘Flower Kings’ - but I respect your right to be there its just that neither of you ever did ‘it’ for me … but for such a list - definitely worthy inclusions, despite some serious omissions.

Then today ..

🔗 Top Progressive Rock Albums of All Time, Ranked, which includes ‘criteria; for inclusion …

2b. Does anybody play keyboards with their feet? ….. If YES, continue to proceed to 3. If NO, they’re probably not prog, but proceed.


🖋️ Community - Again.

I know - I know. But this is important. It might be too late - but I want to make sure we don’t lose the ‘community’ war - like we seem to have lost the one around ‘content’.


👁️⚽️ Europe again rallies against corruption.

Why do I think it’s corruption? Because:

The only proposed investor so far is Thrive Eternal, a vehicle owned by Joshua Kushner.


Turns out Ted thinks about content 🖇️🔎 the same way I do.

🔗 Who knew?

Pretty sure I did - but never seen him speak directly to the issue.


Crucial Track 🎵 July 30, 2026

"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush


Happy Birthday Kate. You didn't change everything - but you sure changed a lot.

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