Rock rose and lavender and some kind of orchid. Collected lots of wild asparagus too. It's a good day if the little dog is all tuckered out.
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“Media coexist,” Kirsop says. “These modern forms only continue to be in existence and usable if the hardware continues … Whereas the printed book is still here... All you need is a weatherproof room to put it in and natural light to read it.” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/22/melbourne-rare-books-expert-wallace-kirsop
No Genocide Pavilion in Venice. https://hyperallergic.com/the-case-for-boycotting-the-2026-venice-biennale/
I'm giving a talk at TU Delft on Saturday. Will be around for a couple of days if anyone has interesting tips, or does cool stuff and wants to share. https://www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/2026/sg/03-mar/digital-revolt
Apropos of nothing, remembering a briefing from the head of cybersecurity at the RAF, who said the two times Britain had been closest to disaster since the Second World War were Able Archer 83 and the fuel protests which blockaded refineries in 2000.
There's a brief epilogue as well, when I completed the original walk; once more, tinged with a violence that only seems to have grown both more intense, and more infrastructural, in subsequent years: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2015/01/08/epilogue/
And for the third, I cycled from West to East, Slough to Basildon, tracing the microwave links between datacentres, invisible at ground level, but portents of so much else to come: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2015/01/04/low-latency/
In the second, I drove around the wide edge of the city, into the hinterland of abandoned airfields and old radar stations: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/12/08/living-in-the-electromagnetic-spectrum/
In the first, which was violently and judicially interrupted, I attempted to walk the perimeter of the congestion zone, looking at London Walls and what surmounted them: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/11/07/all-cameras-are-police-cameras/
Moving and fixing an old website, as I've been meaning to do for some time, it seems a good moment to point to the Nor, as both war and psychogeography are in the air again. Eleven years ago, shortly before leaving the city, I undertook three journeys through London...