I bawled my way through Nowhere Special, a 2020 movie about a terminally ill man who needs to find a new family for his four year old son. I’ll be thinking about it for years. It’s the story of a window cleaner with a terminal| Ben Werdmuller
As the boy knelt to lay down the flowers he’d brought to the gravestone—lilies, they were—he felt suddenly struck by something. Not grief, which usually visited him at this place, but a very strange thought. It occurred to the boy that the dead man in the ground under him had once been young. In fact he had lived a whole life. He had done all the things men do. He had owned shirts and ironed them, had made eggs in […] The post Lilies first appeared on The New Journal.| The New Journal
Earlier this month the Cambridge University Library blog uploaded an article telling the story of a letter recently rediscovered among the papers of Sir Harry Parkes by Jiyeon Wood, who is in charge of the Korean and Japanese collection at the library. According to Professor Kim Jong-Hak from Seoul National University: “[Prominent politician and leader| London Korean Links | Covering things Korean in London and beyond since 2006
I’ve been at something of a blogging impasse recently, stymied by my own self-censorship. I was going to say something about the new AI start-up Matter and Space and in particular what I perceived as a bit of white saviour complex in their promo, but a) Audrey digged deeper than I would and b) it’s not really my place to comment on it. After turning down a prestigious invite to the UN recently (because of travelling to the US), I also wanted to say something about the difficulty of hostin...| The Ed Techie
I took part in a Reclaim Hosting session as part of the blogging community yesterday. Maren ran the session on How to Get Your Blogging Mojo Back and Lee Skallerup Bessette gave a fascinating talk on her blogging history. One topic she raised was a thorny one that many of us have wrestled with in the blogging area. And that is, whether to have specialised blogs or an all-encompassing one. Lee talked about how she had established different blogs for swimming, knitting as well as ed tech. Jim G...| The Ed Techie
WP Engine has filed hundreds pages of legal documents seeking an injunction against me and Automattic. They say this is about community or some nonsense, but if you look at the core, what they̵…| Matt Mullenweg
Pushing hard on a collection of 250 poems. The title has been difficult, but finally settled: will i, will you So there you have it. Miss you all and the fantastic work I discover here. I will be b…| Krater Café
