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These were in the fridge an extra 20 minutes, so there’s a learning right there. 

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Search Engine Etiquette: Never, Ever Ask for a Backlink

In a nutshell ...

Once Google set the plot point, backlinks became hard to ignore. And marketers looking to get an edge started using a variety of tactics to gain a coveted spot on the front page that didn’t involve actually creating good content that people want to read.

Tim Bray, reflecting on the numbers for his Bye Amazon post.

But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope. For every discipline-with-depth that I care about (software/Internet, politics, energy economics, physics), if you want to find out what’s happening and you want to find out from first-person practitioners, you end up reading a blog.

Was true, is true, will be true.

This Plumeria blossom has been struggling for days to open. It is still quite cold. But I have never had flowers this early nor on a tree as bare. 

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Did a bit of domestic baking today. 

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2020-05-09

I'm not saying I agree with absolutely everything in these two articles, but The Economist has an Editorial and a Briefing on what it calls "the global food supply chain" and "the world's food system". They make for interesting reading.

Spoiler: The Economist doesn't think it's broken.

The Technium

I know everybody and her mother have already linked this and bookmarked it, but I want it here for myself, because there is some good stuff in this list.

I believe this is Tecoma stans, and it really is that colour. Scarcely bloomed last year and I was questioning whether to keep it, so this year it looks like it will be putting on a fine show. This is just the start. 

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