Chantalouette

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us Wicked question. I could write an essay on why you should never do that and yet sometimes...

@82mhz@oldbytes.space Your friend could set up a custom domain and web site and then use Google's Blogger.com and attach that to the custom domain and site. I suggest this because the Blogger.com tools are pretty intuitive and easy to use.

Caveat: I have not yet done this myself but intend to do so soon. Instructions for setting this up can be found at https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1233387

Our new UK government continues to disappoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/06/uk-government-scraps-plan-to-ban-sale-of-gas-boilers-by-2035

Does this mean they do not believe in the drive to net zero? Or do they not think they can deliver the electricity generating capacity and infrastructure? Or are they just in thrall to the Sheikhs in the middle East? Or are they just incompetent wimps?

As a long term fan (and childhood user) of logarithms and (later) sliderules I was delighted to see that Charles Petzold has started an on-line book on the subject
https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2025/01/2025-Project-The-Lost-Art-of-Logarithms.html

Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs AI (sic)
https://harimus.github.io//2024/05/31/motortask.html
Focus on the wildly different processing between unconscious brain capabilities and LLM trained models

Turns out that legs are intrinsic to small bird flight but that larger birds need perches
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bird-drone

The external wall construction and inner stone walling of Structure 27 at the Ness of Brodgar is astonishingly impressive
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/about/trench-t/structure-twenty-seven/
The 3d models are well worth viewing

Remarkably good write-up of the Ness of Brodgar excavation from the Smithsonian magazine.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/discover-astounding-secrets-scotlands-stone-age-settlements-180985627/

The Marsh family singing it like it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_N4UmUjJeo

So, are Chester Zoo just entering the hotel market?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lg3www8y9o or are they going to let the animals view the humans in their lodge habitat?
Feeding, possibly copulating and maybe feeding their young. The first symmetric zoo experience?

See your incised entrance orthostats here

https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/2024s-top-finds-decorated-orthostat-marked-twenty-sevens-entrance/