This is an excellent explainer on how these tariffs will directly affect, well, everything.
Here’s the adoption agency’s glamor shot of our new family member, Ernest Ducky Rhone. We’ve only had him for a couple of days but he’s already settled in. A happy little good boy who loves to play and snuggle. He’s sleeping right up next to me as I type this.

I have the concepts of a plan for today…
- First: Coffee and Breakfast.
- Next: finish client project.
- After: Email triage (Crouching actions, hidden projects).
Blogging as a Gift | Jamie Thingelstad
I would encourage bloggers to not think about the individual post. Instead, think about the collection of writing, over weeks and years, as a body of work. It is a body of work that you are constantly adding to. Growing and improving. The individual post is but one breath. It comes and goes. But over the course of time this adds up. It is the cumulative action that creates something truly great.
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart– work on the images imprisoned within you.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Crucial Tracks 008: Annie Mueller
My soundtrack for the day.
My wife talks about organizing our bookshelves with egg cartons.
As I’ve been saying for {checks post date) 12 years now, tomorrow is a perfect day to take a digital sabatical.
Seems that Jason Kottke is having a similar crisis and questionings about the current and only gonna get worse crisis for colleges and universities as I am.
Manton Reece – No one cares… for now
The act of writing itself helps us think, helps us learn, helps us discover how we feel about a topic. It’s creative and has value even if no one is reading.
Yep. I had to work a long time to get over this emotionally. It was, in fact, part of the calculus in going nonline several years back now. I needed to remember who I was writing for and why.