Razoni is on the move, possibly to ...

Razoni is on the move, possibly to Egypt, but not updating her position. Navi Star in the Eastern Med, heading to Foynes, Ireland. Polarnet steaming to anchorage south of Istanbul. Rojen moored in Ravenna, Riva Wind expected in Iskenderun in a day or so.


Currently reading: Night Soldiers by Alan Furst, ...

Currently reading: Night Soldiers by Alan Furst, ISBN: 9780375760006


Riva Wind nearing Athens, Rojen passing Puglia ...

Riva Wind nearing Athens, Rojen passing Puglia on the way to Ravenna, Nav Star about to pass Sicily.

Razoni and Polarnet have not moved.

No change in the bulk carriers in Odessa.


Odd. The buyer of the Razoni's wheat ...

Odd. The buyer of the Razoni’s wheat cargo has refused to accept it, “citing a more than five-month delay”.

Polarnet still moored, Riva Wind still at anchor, Rojen passing Athens.

No further departures I can see.


New issue of Eat This Newsletter out ...

New issue of Eat This Newsletter out now, with raw material provided by @kitchenbee @historicuk @minimaxir and a minor kerfuffle in the august pages of @PNASNews.

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Razoni still at anchor. Navi Star at ...

Razoni still at anchor. Navi Star at anchor in Istanbul. Polarnet tied up in the Gulf of Izmit. Rojen on its way through the Marmara Sea. Riva Wind heading for the Bosporus queue.

Doesn’t look like there have been any further departures from Odessa.


Time's the revelator

Many good thoughts and conclusions.


Riva Wind left Odessa this morning for ...

Riva Wind left Odessa this morning for Istanbul. No word yet what it is carrying.

Navi Star, Polarnet and Rojen all in the queue for the Bosporus.

Razoni at anchor near the Turkey/Syria border.


We got ourselves a convoy. Navistar leads Polarnet and Rojen, carrying 33,000 12,000 and 13,000 of wheat to Ireland, Turkey and UK. But, why those countries?


Biggest mistake I ever made was starting ...

Biggest mistake I ever made was starting a “free trial” of @RealVNC because now my original Home VNC Viewer no longer works and I cannot find a way to revert.

Not surprised that only 25% of people found this useful help.realvnc.com/hc/en-us/…


The worst is over. Razoni has made it past Istanbul, next stop Tripoli.


So far, so good. The ship Razoni, loaded with 26,000 tonnes of wheat, is one day out of Odessa.


14th century watermelons, from Liber de herbis et plantis by Manfredi de Monte Imperiali. Latin for watermelon is citrullus, but Italian is cocomero or anguria, while cucumber is cetriolo. Confused? I was, till Harry Paris sorted me out a while ago


@SheilaDillon It could never be simple, not ...

@SheilaDillon It could never be simple, not if you want to cover the externalities of both products in adequate detail.


Stop aggregating away the signal in your data - Stack Overflow Blog


@bonjouryannick You might want to look at ...

@bonjouryannick You might want to look at indieweb.org/Micropub which has a few examples, libraries etc that you can modify or, depending on your system, adopt directly.


Latest issue of Eat This Newsletter is ...

Latest issue of Eat This Newsletter is about to drop, racing through the backlog so normal service can be restored ASAP. There’s hops, heritage grains and climate change, plus agricultural policy in South Africa and the US.

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@decarola Devo trovare l’ora dell’ultimo treno a ...

@decarola Devo trovare l’ora dell’ultimo treno a Roma, ma sicuro m’interessa.


City of the dead, part two

“… (a symptom of the malaise: the spellchecker on my computer is happy with the word ‘urbanization’but not ‘ruralization’).”When, I wonder, are we going to get to the art/culture arguments in favour of cities. Those are what have kept me urbanised for the past many years. Irrationally, perhaps, but the result is the same.


Slightly puzzled by Epilogue for MB for ...

Slightly puzzled by Epilogue for MB for those of us who do not have a paid account. Does it feed my timeline, eventually? If it does, I might consider PESOS rather than indiebookclub and POSSE. Also, two way traffic, to open someone’s link in MB would encourage conversation.