Email Antipatterns
There are two particular varieties of email address that I don't often see, but I've been known to ridicule when I have:

Geographically-based personal email addresses, e.g. OurHouseName@example.com. These always seemed to me to undermine one of the single-best things about family, finances, polyamory, email, shopping, relationships, houses, published on gemini

Doors
As our house rennovations/attic conversions come to a close, I found myself up in what will soon become my en suite, fitting a mirror, towel rail, and other accessories.

Wanting to minimise how much my power tool usage disturbed the rest of the house, I went to close the door separating

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This week, I received a ~240V AC electric shock. I can't recommend it.

We're currently having our attic converted, so we've had some electricians in doing the necessary electrical wiring. Shortly after they first arrived they discovered that our existing electrics were pretty catastrophic, injury, houses, hospital, memorable, electricity, health

This post is part of my attempt at Bloganuary 2024. Today's prompt is:
What do you complain about the most?
I'm British. So I complain about very little. Instead, I tut loudly to myself.

But the thing that makes me tut the loudest, perhaps, is when I discover that somebody has put a roll of

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Almost a decade ago I shared a process that my domestic polyfamily and I had been using (by then, for around four years) to manage our household finances. That post isn't really accurate any more, so it's time for an update (there's a link if you just want the updated spreadsheet):

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I've been playing with a Flic Hub LR and some Flic 2 buttons. They're "smart home" buttons, but for me they've got a killer selling point: rather than locking you in to any particular cloud provider (although you can do this if you want), you can directly program the hub. This means you can

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As I mentioned last year, for several years I've collected pretty complete historic location data from GPSr devices I carry with me everywhere, which I collate in a personal μlogger server.

Going back further, I've got somewhat-spotty data going back a decade, thanks mostly to the fact that I geography, javascript, moving, cartography, graphs, nostalgia, infographics, maps, houses, covid-19, open source

Seven years ago, I wrote a six-part blog series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) about our Ruth, JTA and I's experience of buying our first house. Now, though, we're moving again, and it's brought up all the same kinds of challenges and stresses as last time, plus a whole lot of bonus ones to boot.

In

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