By Matthew Davidson, 9 April, 2023

This past few months, I have been mostly working, rebuilding myself from the top down, and going insane. I have no memory doing anything else other than sleeping, but my notes insist that in addition to all that, I was mostly reading:

By Matthew Davidson, 25 December, 2022
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A hotel room doorway at the end of a corridor.
The door of a double room with ensuite at the Sawtell Hotel. I barely slept there during my first night in Sawtell early in 2004 as rain dripping from the roof drummed on the awning of the bottle shop below. Photo taken on my last day in Sawtell, May 2022.

Travel is remarkably easy here in the far future of the twenty-first century. At your point of departure you make a series of electronic financial transactions, in exchange for which you receive a bunch of PDF files with barcodes on them.

By Matthew Davidson, 2 October, 2022

You've got to start somewhere, I suppose, and this is somewhere. A brand new Drupal 9 website! 

Over the coming little while, I'll be migrating what content I want to keep from the old site and adding new functionality to make my life easier in ways undetectable to the casual observer.

I've been having the usual fun/frustration getting up to speed with Drupal after an eight year absence. It's actually almost sorta-kinda possible now to keep code, config, and content separate. Well, not separate really, but at least hierarchically dependent in a manageable way.

By Matthew Davidson, 7 August, 2022
This fortnight, I have been mostly working, but when I did get to the pub, I read: The Fed’s Inte