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May 21, 2026
Poetry

Crowded Places

Crowded placesswirling likemaple walnutice creamcold but sweetin the momentswhen eyes meetand a tiny smileflickersbefore the tidemoves onwardleaving a memoryfaint but realin the plastic crowdthat surrounds us.Maybe one daythe crowd will returnand another smilefaint and shortwill leaveits own memory. ml’25

Life

Windows 11 Strikes Again!

How do I love thee Microsoft? Less and less every day! As you may have noticed I have taken down the Geekstuff / Freebies, for the time being. Originally I was compiling the exe’s with Pyinstaller, but as anyone who codes will tell you, Pyinstaller gives you two options: a.

Geekstuff

PYng Finally

Sometimes the simplest parts of an app are the real headscratchers! I had PYng all ready to go with simple fill in the blank boxes for the date and start / end times when I decided to use a popup calendar and time dropdowns. Now you think that would be

Words Worth

Wabi-Sabi

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi centres on the acceptance of transience and imperfection, often described as the appreciation of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.  We often think of the imperfect aspect of wabi-sabi on its’ own, imperfection something almost foreign to those of us living in the West inundated with ads for products,

Poetry

That Certain Beauty

I saw that beauty once,through the window of a passing car,or perched on the naugahyde chairat the end of my melamine table. I heard that beauty once,heralded by a tinkly bell laugh,that raised the hair on my arm,and spoke of joy. I touched that beauty once,the electricity lingerslong after the

Geekstuff

CapPYccino

If there are two things you might have guessed about me IRL they would be that I have a rather strong admiration for coffee (French roast, black with sugar please) and a love of ‘lists’. While I was working on PyCommando I realized if I made it more generic the