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LonM's Blog

LonM starts rambling and doesn't know when to stop

Helping set up a local Musical Instrument Library

2025-05-172025-05-17 — Posted inMusic — 3 min read

Talking about volunteering at a local library to help set up a musical instrument lending service

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Locked Tomb – Great Fiction

2025-05-112025-05-11 — Posted inLiterature — 2 min read

A short review of the first books in Tamsyn Muirs Locked Tomb Series, which I very much enjoyed

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Ranty complaint about the French Consulate in Edinburgh

2025-03-272025-03-27 — Posted inPolitics — 5 min read

An annoyed rant at the uselessness of the French Government’s overseas consular service

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Connected Files in Windows

2025-03-202025-03-20 — Posted inSoftware — 3 min read

Discovering the old windows 2000 connected files features and finding that it still works well

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Alt Rules of Acquisition

2025-03-172025-03-17 — Posted inMovies & TV — 4 min read

Looking at alternative interpretations of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, like most religious texts they are very versatile

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Scrapey Scrapey

2025-03-132025-03-12 — Posted inSoftware — 11 min read

Here’s some of the personal projects I’ve worked on that involved data scraping from the web. Scraping is a great skill and a key tool for any modern netizen to know

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Exploring the Vivaldi History Database

2025-03-04 — Posted inTechnology — 6 min read

An exploration into the structure of the Vivaldi browser history database file

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Political Tech Will Doom Us All

2025-02-212025-02-19 — Posted inPolitics — 5 min read

Politicians love technology as a magic cure all, and letting them believe that will doom us all

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Bad Handwriting

2025-02-202025-02-19 — Posted inPersonal — 3 min read

Musing about my bad handwriting

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Endarkening

2025-02-19 — Posted inLiterature — 2 min read

A new twist on the meaning of Endarkening: To be enlightened and unhappy about it

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R. F. Kuangs Babel – an excellent alternate history novel

2025-02-022025-02-02 — Posted inLiterature — 4 min read

My review of R.F. Kuang’s Babel. Great alternate history novel with an insightful look at imperial oppression.

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