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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/58691834cc420
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content: Food, fireworks, and inside M Mall (Times Square)
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/586bb7b70b64e
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/586e73e639212
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/58710e47ea6ca
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content: Sweet potato pancakes on the Wholey Wonder grill at lunch, and a naked burger for MM for dinner.
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/587112c067b1b
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5871138f40907
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content: Smoothie: papaya, dragonfruit, orange juice, soy milk. Noodles: mee with daikon, seitan, chillis, cabbage and bok choi. Fried in coconut oil with a little soy sauce and curry powder.
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/587114317af52
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content: Pancake night for me and MM! Potato pancakes (with chilli and bok choi) followed by banana pancakes (with coconut). Bot made with soy milk and regular white wheat flour, dry fried.
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/58739c783e5e0
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content: Wander to Northam Beach Cafe and dinner in JanXDen. (Plus one evening sunset from apartment).
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published: 2017-01-09T21:21:41+08:00
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5874ab6a2c0bc
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summary: Amy added 'Cognonto - Data. Structure. Meaning.' to Bookmarks
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5879b0958a416
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5879bf3b00b09
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content: Hearty potato and lentil soup with bread and butter. Just what you need on a sweltering Malaysian winter's day.
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5879bf725fe12
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content: I made bee hoon (vermicelli) salad with cucumber, carrot, chilli and tofu for Malaysian Mum. She provided peanut Chinese New Year cookies, I made the almond ones, and the granola bars are Wholey Wonder castoffs.
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published: 2017-01-10T19:04:29+08:00
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5879bfd7281e4
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content: I tried to make pancakes with only almond meal (and soy and coconut milk). They tasted great, but totally fell apart. Threw in just a little bit of wheat flour, and they held together.
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5879c02bd05ee
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content: Wholey Wonder is innundated with almond meal, so I made cookies. Unmeasured quantities of almond meal, brown sugar, grapeseed oil, and baking soda; drizzle of vanilla extract. I thought my ratio of sugar to flour would make them crunchy, but almond meal is not flour... so they took much longer to cook than expected (over 30 minutes) and were pretty fally-aparty. A little better once cool. Taste good, because... how can you go wrong with almond?
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5879c66a13f1c
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content: Photos from the walk to George Town library; plus Behind 50, Ee Beng, and 24 hour curry.
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published: 2017-01-14T12:34:13+08:00
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/58872ff7f225e
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content: Photos by Rohan Chowdhary at the CS Penang meetup
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5887854a7fcbe
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content: Dinner at new Pin Xin with the Wholey Wonder gang
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content: Dinner at Wholey Wonder with MM and a quick wander around a WWA art display in Hin Bus Depot next door
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published: 2017-01-07T19:23:29+08:00
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content: Some views and some food..
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/588a12767c6a0
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content: Today I made loooads of exciting things. Banana almond muffins (destined for the homeless of George Town's KOMTAR bus station), marmalade, a gooey chocolate orange cake (containing the marmalade), and vegan nacho cheese. A good day in the Wholey Wonder kitchen!
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published: 2017-01-30T13:00:26+08:00
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content: Ferry from Penang to Langkawi, arriving in Kuah, evening at Tengah beach and Cenang beach
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content: Seven Wells waterfalls, various beaches and night market
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published: 2017-01-30T20:37:14+00:00
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content: Langkawi cable cars, sky bridge, and all of the silly things that come with it
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/5899febe1f491
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content: Gunung Raya (highest point in Langkawi), Tanjung Rhu (beach) and Air Terjung Temerun (waterfall)
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published: 2017-01-31T22:07:05+08:00
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content: Ice cream: coconut cream, cocoa, fig syrup, coffee
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published: 2017-01-09T15:20:31+08:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
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published: 2017-01-03T21:26:13+08:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
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published: 2017-01-18T18:27:05+08:00
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air-is-water
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content: Noticed the light outside was a bit weird. Went to investigate closer. It's cos the air is water. Malaysia doesn't do rain in half measures. It's either all the rain, or nothing.
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published: 2017-01-03T18:46:00+08:00
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annalakshmi
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content: So I knew there was a volunteer-run, pay-what-you-want vegetarian Indian restaurant somewhere in George Town, but somehow neglected to find it and save it on a map with the rest. And today I discovered... It's around the corner from where I live. So it's probably a good job I didn't find it sooner as I'd have neglected all of the other restaurants, but really. The food is so good, and the ambience is beautiful. It's part of a temple; roof but no walls, surrounded by trees and plants and bamboo, with tranquil music playing. While I was there, the sky opened and the downpour clattering on the sheet metal roof added to the peaceful atmosphere. To top it all off, one of the staff gave me a ride home as it was still raining heavily when they were closing up. Absolutely <3
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bookmarks-to-as2
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content: This is a script to convert a Firefox bookmarks export to ActivityStreams 2.0 so you can import it into your own website or ActivityPub system. You can export Firefox bookmarks as HTML, but if you choose 'backup' instead of export, you get JSON. So this is just a couple of PHP functions which parse that JSON, pull out the useful information, and shuffle it into AS2 objects. It turns each bookmark URL into an as:Article with a name. These Articles are the object of an as:Add Activity. The target of the Add you can configure yourself to be the URL of your bookmarks collection. The date from the Firefox data I use as the published date in the Add, and I also auto-generate a summary. The script generates a unique new URL for every Add using the pattern /yyyy/mm/unique-id. You can of course configure this to match your Activity URLs template. This is what one looks like: { "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#", "type": "Add", "id": "https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/06/58749e0b104c8", "published": "2016-06-13T15:32:44+00:00", "summary": "Amy added 'Web memex' to Bookmarks", "object": { "id": "http://webmemex.org/", "type": "Article", "name": "Web memex" }, "target": "https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/", "actor": "https://rhiaro.co.uk/#me" } It also generates the contents of your bookmarks collection: { "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#", "id": "https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/", "type": "Collection", "name": "Bookmarks", "items": [ "https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/06/58749f535ac7b", "https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/01/58749f535ce3e", "https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/04/58749f535cee0", "https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/09/58749f535d068", ... ] } The truth is, until yesterday most of my Firefox bookmarks are accidents; side effects of me accidentally clicking bookmark or mashing keyboard shortcuts. Then csarven shared his bookmarks export with me so I needed to do something to get a handle on all this data. The script includes a form which lists all of the bookmarks with check…
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name: Firefox bookmarks to ActivityStreams 2.0
published: 2017-01-10T17:54:00+08:00
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tag: socialwg

buddhist-temples
type: Note
content: There are a whole bunch of big Buddhist temples not far from my apartment. I went to see them today. They include many shiny things, giant domes, belltowers, and a sleeping ('reclining') buddha. There was a great big angry bird with a sword, which I decided must be Tigo's ancestor. From the top of one of the towers I could see my apartment. In general, they were a lot bigger and had a lot more to see than I expected. Photos and walking trail.
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published: 2017-01-21T21:00:00+08:00
tag: buddhist
tag: penang
tag: temples
tag: travel

burma-temples
type: Add
content: Buddhist temples near Jalan Burma, followed by lunch at IE Organic.
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change-in-academic-publishing
type: Article
content: Academic publishing is a hostage of a commercial industry. You've no doubt read a few million and a half thinkpieces and committments about how: academics' free labour is exploited by publishing houses for profit; universities, libraries, and other similar institutions are funnelling millions in taxpayers' money to private publishing houses in order to access knowledge their own employees or peers produced; the peer review process is BS (and, and, and, and, and, and, and) and the social web is doing a grand job; academia is elitist and knowledge is inaccessible; metrics for measuring scientific impact and quality are BS; reusing data or building on other peoples' work and ideas is hard with the existing tooling; physical-paper-based methods of knowledge dissemination (like PDF) and the tools to produce them are missing out on the potential of modern technology (particularly the Web); given low to zero cost of publishing thanks to the Web, it is even more ridiculous that access to these resources costs so much; ... I could go on. People have been writing about this stuff for literally decades. The Open Access movement isn't much younger than the Web itself. And yet. Don't worry, people aren't only writing about it. People are building things too. Things like: Tools for creating and editing academic-style documents and data on the Web, so you're less constrained by paper-based formats. Repositories for publishing 'papers' (research reports, articles). Systems for web-comment-style peer-review, feedback, and commentary. Open access, web-based journals (aggregations of selected articles, as approved by a knowledgeable committee). Mandates to publish research and data openly. Archives of publications or data, despite the terms of service of other publishers or copyright holders. Ontologies for describing scientific contributions and the connections between them. Open standards for social-like interactions in general. Systems providing researchers with unique identifiers …
generator: sloph
name: Effecting change in academic publishing
published: 2017-02-14T00:33:00+08:00
tag: academia
tag: eswc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: publishing
tag: science
tag: linkedresearch.org

cs-penang
type: Note
content: Last night I joined the CouchSurfing Penang meetup at coffeeshop/bar Behind 50 on Love Lane. They're a really lively and enthusiastic bunch, locals and travellers alike. They meet every Friday, and frequently arrange adventures. After a couple of hours and a group photo, they broke into two groups: beer and food. I joined the food party, and we got curry from a 24 hour place in Little India: a huge plate of cabbage, rice and dahl for 3.50myr (about 64p). Rohan, the main organiser, was kind enough to give me a ride home after that, since it was about midnight by then. They're going on a motorbike trip to the mainland this weekend, to see a ton of attractions and camp overnight. I'd seen the post about it on their CS group a week or so ago, but it read like it was for people who could ride motorbikes... it didn't occur to me to ask if anyone was going in a car with a spare seat. Turns out a few of them are, but now I have other committments this weekend. But I'll certainly be joining their next adventure!
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-14T08:45:00+08:00
tag: couchsurfing
tag: penang
tag: travel

currency-conversion
type: Note
content: My year in review is delayed because part of it includes a summary of everything I spent. I used six different currencies this year, and juggling them all into one so I can add them up (and then total per category, etc) is proving to be a pain. All APIs which have enough different currencies available are rate limited for their free tier, and I'm exceeding them very quickly. I need a new plan. Sneak preview though: I spent more than expected, and more than I should have :(
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-04T00:34:00+08:00
tag: late
tag: year+in+review

date-syrup-almond-milk
type: Note
content: Today I made date syrup and almond milk. The ingredients were dates and water, and almonds and water, respectively. In the first case, I soaked the dates in hot water for five minutes, then applied a blender; this took far longer than expected, but was well worth it. Actually I think the main ingredient is patience. Two parts dates, one part water. In the second case, the almonds had already been soaked overnight and drained. I applied a juicer. Two parts almonds, two and a half parts water. Both suuuuuper good. I might use date syrup for anything that requires any kind of sweetening in future.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-11T17:08:00+08:00
tag: mbaking
tag: procrastabaking
tag: vegan

disappointed-bashir
type: Note
content: I'm super disappointed with how sleazy Dr. Bashir is. He's clearly supposed to come across as the poor geek who just has no luck with women and we're supposed to feel sorry for him. But the way he is hitting on Dax every episode when she's clearly not interested is awful. No amount of boyish charm, cheesey jokes and British accent can make up for his blatant disregard for her wishes and... is just entitled and intolerable. And he's so arrogant. All the time. I hope his character grows. The way Dax reacts with kind of light amusement and appreciation of the attention is kind of sad, too. She should have smacked him in the face four episodes ago.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-21T01:14:00+08:00
tag: ds9

found-out-why
type: Note
content: I found out why my apartment number in Malaysia is 3A not 4! It's because 4 is unlucky for Chinese. Obvs.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-16T01:03:00+08:00
tag: chinese
tag: life
tag: malaysia
tag: superstition
tag: travel

gecko
type: Note
content: There's a gecko in the bathroom. Everywhere I go there's a gecko in the bathroom. Tenth floor condo, still a gecko in the bathroom. Her name is Petunia.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-06T10:41:00+08:00
tag: gecko
tag: malaysia
tag: travel

interrupt
type: Note
content: I interrupt the writing of this paper about quantified self to log my dinner.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-18T18:04:00+08:00
tag: phd
tag: quantified+self
tag: wow2017
tag: writing

json-decide
type: Note
content: Fatal error: Call to undefined function json_decide() I think I'm subconsciously trying to outsource my decision making to my website.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-09T11:19:00+08:00
tag: hacking
tag: php

langkawi-1
type: Article
content: First impressions: much more chill than Penang. After a totally boring three hour ferry ride in a tiny little boat where I couldn't even see out of the windows, I arrived in Kuah. It was immediately more welcoming than the jetty in George Town. I wandered around Eagle Square which I spotted from the jetty exit, and then towards the town center. Most of this walk was through a seafront park, with a little beach and lots of places to relax. It was very tranquil, and the temperature was pleasantly cooler than I have got used to. I stopped for some juice and tofu, before getting a taxi to Pantai Tengah, just south of Pantai Cenang. There's no public transport on Langkawi. It was 30 minutes and 30 ringgitts (5 less than if I'd got it directly from the jetty). I booked a hostel last minute; my CS host went AWOL before arranging to meet, and though I had others I could call on I realised I need some alone time. The hostel is super chill as well, complete with Bob Marley posters and hammocks. It's a five minute walk from the beach, where I went just as the sun was setting. I walked the length of Tengah beach in the lap of the waves, and then along the road to Cenang. This feels like a place people come on holiday, whereas George Town feels like a real place where people live. There are pros and cons for both, but right now the vibe here is exactly what I have been looking for. The road to Cenang is lined with market stalls and cafes, and bustling with people in sarongs and swimsuits; yet still relaxed. I picked up a coconut, and walked back to Tengah along Cenang beach itself. This, more touristy, beach is lined with little beach bars (coffee, cocktails, shisha), and people in huddles around candles or guitars. This morning I chilled out in hostel hammocks for a little while before heading to the closest beach. I brought my laptop, but used my backpack to rest my head, and alternated napping and feeling rubbish about the state of the world. I sat in the sea a bit before hea…
generator: sloph
name: Langkawi 1
published: 2017-01-29T14:13:00+08:00
tag: langkawi
tag: life
tag: malaysia
tag: travel

langkawi-2
type: Article
content: After a full day, the Langkawi party vibe is wearing thin. It's more expensive than Penang all round, and the food is catered for tourists. Veggie stuff is few and far between (thank goodness for Indian). The beach the hour around sunset is gorgeous though. Staff at bars are friendly but exasperated. Tourists are... tourists. But that's just Pantai Cenang. Tomorrow brings a new adventure. My hostel is still so fucking chill though. Even though I'm sleeping in what is basically a cupboard with four beds in, and share a single shower/toilet (one room) with at least eight other people, I still love it. It's probably the hammocks. Anyway this morning I napped on the beach for a while, continuing to despair about the state of the world. Dipped in the sea, sat on rocks, got covered in ants. Then I tried: Yam Yam - a normal cafe between Pantai Tengah and Pantai Cenang; with working wifi, but it closed at 3pm. Decent long black, reasonable homemade giant hash brown. Yellow Beach Cafe - a beachfront cafe with no less than three wifi networks, none of which worked. Dismal homemade sorbet. Nice view. Kelut - a beachfront cafe/bar with working wifi, beanbags on the sand, beach umbrellas, cheerful staff and a gorgeous view. Acceptable lime juice (customised to elevate sourness). Between the three of them, I got past the napping / beach bum phase, and conjured some thesis thoughts. Now I'm in an Indian restaurant (Indian Palace) on the way back to Pantai Tengah. I ate a spicy vegetable curry and roti. Pretty good, nothing magical. Wifi. More expensive than ideal. I'll go back to the hostel and make tea and see if I can squeeze another hour or so of typing out. In the long run, I think the superior food of Penang is actually more important for my happiness than beach paradise. Photos.
generator: sloph
name: Langkawi 2
published: 2017-01-29T20:59:00+08:00
tag: beach
tag: food
tag: langkawi
tag: review
tag: travel
tag: vegan

langkawi-3
type: Article
content: I was picked up just after 9 from the hostel and joined a mixed group of tourists on a boat for an 'island hopping' tour. I had no idea what this involved , and our boat captain was particularly uncommunicative. We were first dropped for an hour at Beras Basak Island beach. Everyone dived into the same bit of ocean. I went for a wander and a paddle and chatted to some of the other passengers. Next we stopped in a bay between islands to watch eagles soaring and diving to catch fish from the water. After that we went to Dayang Bunting Marble geoforest park. 6rm entry and a five minute walk down winding steps to the lake of the pregnant maiden, so called because of the shape of the surrounding hills. The lake is packed with people swimming (in a small roped area) or pedal boats. Life jackets are required for swimming and can be rented for 5rm. We had an hour here. I dangled my feet over the edge and enjoyed feeling them being bumped by catfish. There's an overpriced touristic food court by the entrance, and the return of boats (numbered) are announced over a tannoy. There are groups from dozens of boats, so the place is always busy. The boat returned us to a jetty different from Pantai Tengah where we departed from; a minibus was there to meet us. The whole thing took about 3.5 hours. Since it's cheap I'd say it's worth doing to get a feel for the nearby islands, but hundreds of other people are also doing it via dozens of tour operators, and the boats follow the same route at roughly the same times of day; so it's crowded. Photos of island hopping. I got lunch on my way back to the hostel, then read for a bit in a hammock before heading to Cenang to meet my CS host for the next two nights. My host, J, picked me and another, Ira, up from the same spot. He drove us to his place in Kampung Yoi and we hung out while he prayed and waited for his wife to get home from work. J and his wife are Malay, and have lived on Langkawi for four years, having moved for work reasons. T…
generator: sloph
name: Langkawi 3: islands and waterfalls
published: 2017-01-30T23:59:59+08:00
tag: couchsurfing
tag: justgo
tag: langkawi
tag: malaysia
tag: travel

langkawi-4
type: Article
content: J and I met Ira in Cenang, then we drove to the base of the Cable Car. J had been up before and the cheapest ticket is 55rm, so he went off to do his own thing while Ira and I touristed. We were there before ten and it was bustling. Though we were able to buy our tickets after queuing for about ten minutes and get into a cable car straight away. This is the steepest cable car in the world, and leads to not the highest point in Langkawi. At the top, you can walk to the SkyBridge down (and up again) steep winding steps for 5rm, or take a small tram for 15. Ira and I walked. The bridge felt pretty full but not packed; I'm glad I didn't go at peak times. We spent about 2 hours up there, ambling around and taking in the views. Looking out across 150 million year old mountain formations lent a moment of perspective. The tram is called the SkyGlider, the cable car is the SkyCab, and everything else in the vicinity is prefixed with Sky as well. I was disappointed they didn't have a wifi network called SkyFi. Really missing a trick there. We took the cable cars down again, and stopped for a snack in one of the terrible overpriced cafes in the complex. We didn't realise there's better, slightly cheaper, food as you get further from the ticket counters. When we got back down, the lines for tickets stretched to the carpark and they were giving out times rather than sending people straight to the cable cars. Glad we went early. The ticket (we got the basic package) included a subset of random shit in the complex at the bottom, so we went to check that out as well. The 3D art museum was silly, and I entertained myself as usual by taking pictures of other people posing with the displays from the wrong perspectives. There were many examples of irresponsible parenting. We saw the SkyDome, which is a screen covering one half of the inside of a sphere which you sit beneath; they played a series of short films, including an underwater scene and a space rollarcoaster. We skipped the Sky…
generator: sloph
name: Langkawi 4: high places
published: 2017-01-31T23:59:59+08:00
tag: beach
tag: couchsurfing
tag: langkawi
tag: malaysia
tag: mountain
tag: travel

late-https
type: Note
content: Late for something because just as I was about to leave I remembered my https certificates expire today.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-01T14:58:00+08:00
tag: https
tag: late
tag: life

north-west-georgetown
type: Article
content: I went for a walk around my neighbourhood today. As ever, in search of the nearest sand and sea. This time I headed in a straight line towards the nearest coast. It's consistently inaccessible, but there's a seafront seafood restaurant called Ocean Green and their driveway leads to a small tranquil beach. Barely a sliver of sand, but just enough to walk along or sit around for a while and listen to the rhythm of the ocean. And the caw of crows, which makes a change from seagulls. There's trash and boats making the water grimy, and the beach less than idyllic, but there are also no tourists. One or two locals working on boats or digging things from the sand. I made my way north, until I couldn't walk any further along the beach. I got as far as I got when I was coming from the other direction on my walk home from Gurney Drive a couple of weeks ago. I backed up, and entered Northam Beach Cafe, an open seating area outlined by hawker stands. It was just before 16.30, so they weren't quite open and the staff were just stirring. I took a seat in one of the blue plastic chairs, which had the KL Tower embossed in the back, and watched the sea. I could see distant mountains on the mainland straight ahead; construction and cranes off Gurney Drive to the north; and heavy equipment of George Town jetty to the south. It wasn't long before one of the guys wiping the tables asked me what I want to drink, so I ordered a small apple juice, no ice: 5myr. Steep, I think, but it came in a pint glass. He was also able to furnish me with the wifi password (northambeach123). Suddenly this becomes a viable place to work. At hawker areas like this, you order food at the individual stalls, but give your drink order to someone who comes to your table. In both cases, you pay when your item is brought over to you. It doesn't look like there's much in the way of veggie food. I saw signs for fruit rojak, beancurd, and grass jelly though, so maybe I could hang around for a while without starving …
generator: sloph
name: North West George Town stroll
published: 2017-01-09T19:35:00+08:00
tag: beach
tag: food
tag: georgetown
tag: janxden
tag: justgo
tag: malaysia
tag: northam+beach+cafe
tag: penang
tag: travel
tag: vegan

oops-duck
type: Note
content: Oops, DuckDuckGo craps out when I put an apostrophe in my search string.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-12T10:33:00+08:00
tag: duckduckgo.com
tag: technology

pee-on-it
type: Article
content: I had a vague plan of hiking from the Botanical Gardens to Batu Ferringhi. I found a trail from Batu Ferringhi which claimed to connect to a road to the Botanical Gardens, so I figured how hard could it it to be to reverse engineer it? So I met a bunch of my new energetic vegan yogi friends in the Botanical Gardens at 8am, and we wandered around a bit before embarking up Penang Hill, which all trails seem to lead to. About half way up Penang Hill we saw this dilapidated and entirely unreliable sign to Batu Ferringhi. We decided not to follow it, and instead carried on to the top of Penang Hill, as nobody else I was with had been up before. We had been following the jeep track, but diverged onto a muddy trail when we found one. This was the route I took last time, when I started at the Moon Gate. Starting by the jeep track is much faster, though far less interesting in terms of terrain. At the top I had cendol (twice the price of at the bottom..) and the far more experienced yogis than I piled up a bit, for a fascinated audience of tourists and locals alike. The beach was calling, so we decided to charge back to the Botanical Gardens as fast as we could, pick up T's car, and drive to Batu Ferringhi. Close enough, right? About one quarter of the way down the hill an unsmiling chap offered us a ride in the back of his truck. We accepted, enjoyed the bouncing rollarcoaster ride, and cut about 45 minutes of our journey. We drove to Batu Ferringhi, and chilled on the beach opposite the Tropical Spice Garden. It had been overcast for most of the hike (good) but the sun was emerging while we were at the beach. It was hot, anyway. I lounged around in the sun for a while, then relocated to lounging around in the shallows of the sea. Lying on the sand, letting the waves wash over me was thoroughly tranquil. The sand at this beach was great, too. Big grains, so they weren't annoying and sticky like normal sand. As it moved around underneath me due to the waves, it felt like a b…
generator: sloph
name: Pee on it: Penang Hill, Batu Ferringhi, and a close encounter with a jellyfish
published: 2017-01-24T13:30:00+08:00
tag: batu+ferringhi
tag: beach
tag: health
tag: hiking
tag: life
tag: penang+hill
tag: penang
tag: travel

pizza-thesis
type: Note
content: I thought about writing some of my thesis this evening, but I made pizza from scratch instead. But growing up, I was always told it's the thought that counts, so that's progress right?
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-11T20:28:00+08:00
tag: food
tag: phd
tag: pizza
tag: thesis

quark-and-odo
type: Note
content: Five episodes in, Quark and Odo are my favourite. But O'Brien is definitely coming into his own.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-18T23:37:00+08:00
tag: ds9
tag: star+trek

shipping
type: Note
content: I've been shipping Janeway and Chakotay for the last four seasons, but Chakotay and Seven... oh. my. god. They're adorable. They're all awkward and excited. They're doing the little thing where they pretend to be professional, calling each other "sir" etc, but with little smirks. I'm melting. In related news, this last episode is an emotional rollarcoaster and I didn't realise I was at the last one and I'm not ready :'o Update: Wow, seriously. They got back to the alpha quadrant, destroyed the Borg, Seven and Chakotay got together and broke up and got back together, Harry saved the day, Tuvok was flawlessly selfless, B'Lanna had a baby whilst Tom flew Voyager through a transwarp conduit being fired on by the last Borg ship, and there were two Janeways. That was fucking awesome. I will watch these again someday. But next up.. Deep Space Nine! Stay tuned for more in the exciting adventures of rhiario binges Star Trek.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-07T23:10:00+08:00
tag: star+trek
tag: voyager

stormy-evening
type: Article
content: I'm sitting on the balcony as waves of rain wash by. It started just before sunset; I noticed a change in the lighting which turned out to be caused by a dense downpour. First the mountains in the distance are consumed, then some of the tower blocks. As I watch, a dark black cloud rolls overhead, distinct against the grey-blue dusk behind. It brings with it bigger droplets, surging straight downwards instead of smattering at angles. The dramatic contrast between the clouds is lost as the sunlight disappears. It's replaced by flashes of yellow, blue, white, even pink, lighting up the inky black night. The flashes are quickly followed by ear-splitting roars, one every few minutes. The rain drowns out the sound of traffic, of anything. The balcony is set into the building, so I'm well-sheltered, but still the occasional spit of water reaches me. Before the darkness sets in completely, I see birds stumbling through the rain. I don't know how they're holding up under the force of the water. Gradually the torrent of water lessens, and the sounds of engines re-emerge. The lightning persists, though. And the mosquitoes are waking up. Time to go back inside.
generator: sloph
name: Stormy evening
published: 2017-01-03T20:30:00+08:00
tag: malaysia
tag: storm
tag: travel
tag: weather

this-and-that
type: Note
content: This and that. An amalgamation of standards held together with PHP and string and naive hope.
generator: sloph
in reply to: https://twitter.com/ringmaster/status/821726978944409600
published: 2017-01-18T22:37:00+08:00
tag: hacking
tag: php
tag: sloph

totalling
type: Article
content: I've been tracking everything I've acquired all year, and how much it cost. I even built a wee budgeting app on top of this feed last summer. This all worked fine until I was travelling a lot, and logging purchases in the local currency. I ignored it for a while, and could only budget for things I was buying in USD, however when it came to summarising all of this for the year-in-review I had to deal with it. I searched for currency conversion APIs, and found fixer.io which is not rate-limited and takes a date parameter for historical exchange rates. However, it only contains about 20 currencies, and didn't include Qatari Rial, which I need from my trip to Doha in March. There are various APIs which contain more currencies, but all the ones I found are rate limited and required API keys. They usually have other restrictions on the free tier, as well. Initially I wrote a script that cycled through every single acquire post and fetched the exchange rate for that currency from currencylayer, one by one. I immediately exceeded 1000 request (per month!) rate limit, fetching all exchange rates for all individual purchases in a year. So then I wrote a script that cycled through all of my posts and aggregated the currencies I used for each day, by date. I then grabbed the exchange rates for these from fixr.io in one request per day (rather than per post). Fixer.io is not rate limited, and this cut the number of requests down to about one third or less. Then only for rates that were missing from the fixer.io response, I called rate-limted currencylayer to retrieve those, again in one request per day. This worked in bringing the number of requests down, but for anything more than a couple of months was still a request per day in the time period to the API, and took a while. Also, while I thought I wouldn't exceed the currencylayer rate limit given I have a finite amount of posts with currencies missing from fixer.io (in this case ten days of QAR) in the whole year, this is not…
generator: sloph
name: Totalling my expenses
published: 2017-01-09T14:29:00+08:00
tag: hacking
tag: php
tag: sloph

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Finished improving my LDN endpoint so notifications actually go into my triplestore with everything else, albeit into a different graph. Contributed a bit to the LDN test suite. Updated sloph to display Add activities where the objects are many images and the target is a photo album.. and ported all of my recent travel pics to this format. Finally fixed my Acquire posts so they display photos. Made type-based post collections. Made progress on between-date summary aggregates (so I can use this for a year in review). Started yoga classes at Wholey Wonder. Joined a drive to Penang Airport in Bayan Lepas, and back. Successfully avoided New Year's Eve celebrations.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 26 Dec - 1 Jan
published: 2017-01-01T23:59:00+08:00
tag: hacking
tag: ldn
tag: life
tag: sloph
tag: travel
tag: yoga

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Made some progress on /summary, but stuck on silly bugs. Fixed /where to return my latest checkin, and updated botbot to read it properly. Finished Voyager :o Spent a lot of time in Wholey Wonder. Colossally failed to get my thesis act together.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 2nd - 8th Jan
published: 2017-01-08T23:45:00+08:00
tag: fail
tag: life
tag: sloph

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Got some of a report done on a year of using sloph as a personal datastore and 'personal web observatory', for submission to WOW2017, and inclusion in my thesis. Started on implementation report aggregation and viewer for LDN Test results (from the reports which are sent as LDNs to the test suite inbox). Wrote a script to convert Firefox bookmarks to AS2, and used it to import bookmarks into my site. Wandered around some more parts of George Town, including Northam Beach, to the library, and accidentally to Chew Jetty while looking for the Beach Street market. Met some cool CS people.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 9 - 15 Jan
published: 2017-01-15T23:59:59+08:00
tag: hacking
tag: phd
tag: travel

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Finished Observing the decentralised social web (one telescope at a time) for WOW2017 and my thesis. Reviews and feedback welcome. Went to see temples. Ate and cooked a lot.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 16 - 22 Jan
published: 2017-01-22T23:59:59+08:00
tag: hacking
tag: phd
tag: sloph
tag: thesis

week-in-review-5
type: Article
content: Climbed Penang Hill again and went to the beach at Batu Ferringhi. Made some improvements to paging for sloph. Went to Langkawi. Get this... actually though about my thesis. Braindumped some new titles, summarised contents of each chapter and braindumped some more about structure/intent.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 23 - 29 Jan
published: 2017-01-29T20:31:00+08:00
tag: hacking
tag: phd
tag: sloph
tag: travel

when-over
type: Note
content: When is this all going to be over so I can go back to being sad and stressed about my own stupid problems like php errors, finishing my thesis, and who I'm not allowed to be in love with; instead of this descent into fascism bullshit.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-29T10:48:00+08:00
tag: life

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/5899b9187afeb
type: Add
content: Last morning in Langkawi; breakfast, ferry terminal
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-04T10:58:50+08:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-01-langkawi/
target: 2017-01-langkawi

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/5899c71522b6b
type: Add
content: Last day, CouchSurfing and hitchhiking with Lucas and co. Durian Perangin waterfall and Kuah
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-03T22:09:35+08:00
summary: Amy added 24 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-01-langkawi/
target: 2017-01-langkawi

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/5899d28c0bb3f
type: Add
content: Two days at Wild Pasir Panjang on Pulau Tuba. No wifi, no aircon, no walls, no cars, almost no people, beach, sea, hammock.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-03T09:58:30+08:00
summary: Amy added 68 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-01-langkawi/
target: 2017-01-langkawi

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/5899f31e39c52
type: Add
content: Short scramble through the jungle to the next beach where I met Won from KL, who took me on his scooter to visit some other parts of Tuba for a couple of hours
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-01T16:00:29+00:00
summary: Amy added 46 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-01-langkawi/
target: 2017-01-langkawi

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/5899f3ae0f011
type: Add
content: The Langkawi Legends in Chogm Park
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-01T10:30:53+08:00
summary: Amy added 20 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-01-langkawi/
target: 2017-01-langkawi

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589ac8859cca3
type: Add
content: Thaipusam coconut smashing near Times Square
generator: sloph
object: IMG 20170208 140108.3gp
published: 2017-02-08T16:28:01+08:00
summary: Amy added 17 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
summary: Amy added 29 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589ada6dc7dd3
type: Add
content: Balloon Festival and Chinese New Year finale show and fireworks
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-05T01:44:24+08:00
summary: Amy added 27 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589ae3a8bf9ac
type: Add
content: Misc Penang, Gurney Drive
generator: sloph
published: 2017-01-28T19:23:47+08:00
summary: Amy added 11 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589ae42db15be
type: Add
content: Jade Emperor Temple (it was his birthday) early evening, and Kek Lok Si lit up at night
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-05T20:26:01+08:00
summary: Amy added 38 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589ae48a32a66
type: Add
content: Breakfast at Purple Stone in Air Itam, then a gentle hike from Kek Lok Si to Balik Pulau via the Air Itam Dam/reservoir
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-06T20:27:33+08:00
summary: Amy added 43 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589ae5135be7c
type: Add
content: Tasty packages from Luk Lea Yan
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-08T09:29:50+08:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589dfd11553ce
type: Add
content: Thaipusam evening
generator: sloph
object: IMG 20170208 202523.3gp
published: 2017-02-10T01:49:00+08:00
summary: Amy added 54 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589dfdd0b9977
type: Add
content: Thaipusam piercing
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-10T09:15:11+08:00
summary: Amy added 26 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589e74a270be2
type: Add
content: CS meetup, downpour, and surprise Thaipusam final day
generator: sloph
object: IMG 20170211 002102.3gp
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published: 2017-02-11T01:19:08+08:00
summary: Amy added 10 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
summary: Amy added 11 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589e92d258fdc
type: Add
content: Oat milk and crisps
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-11T14:27:57+08:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589eb771024bf
type: Add
content: Wholey Wonder smoothie bowl, and snickers bars
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-10T15:30:11+08:00
summary: Amy added 12 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589ec50319026
type: Add
content: The Wild Pasir Panjang cook was away so I made my own dinner with the provided vegetables and spices
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-02T21:26:35+08:00
summary: Amy added 1 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/589ec5323e719
type: Add
content: dahl and chaptai dahl and chapati
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-05T18:02:53+08:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58a2686a3dda0
type: Add
content: I marinated firm tofu in lime juice, soy sauce, and chilli flakes for about an hour, then dry fried it on the Wholey Wonder grill pan. It was amazing.. consistency of halloumi; a little salty for some people, but definitely hit a spot that used to be hit by cheese for me. We ate it with a bunch of stir fried veggies and lentils.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-12T17:16:05+08:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58a268f0c3584
type: Add
content: Improv chocolate cookies: white flour, cocoa, baking soda, dessicated coconut, oat pulp (from the oat milk), vegan margarine, coconut sugar
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-11T18:18:19+08:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58a26a249e757
type: Add
content: Lunch at Brown Poodle with Malaysian Mum. The food was good, but we were left really thirsty afterwards so I think they use lots of MSG. The best part was Poppy the puppy.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-13T15:23:27+08:00
summary: Amy added 11 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58a71cc9cd8c0
type: Add
content: Hiking George Town to Teluk Bahang via Botanical Gardens, Penang Hill, Western Hill and Teluk Bahang Dam. Photos with me in, taken by bengo.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-17T23:54:44+08:00
summary: Amy added 52 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
summary: Amy added 7 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58a71d8735931
type: Add
content: Veggie food quest in Bayan Baru
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-15T01:42:25+08:00
summary: Amy added 21 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58a71e77877a3
type: Add
content: On the way home we stumbled across two very old men who lived in a treehouse and invited up to share their wisdom.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-15T01:43:25+08:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58a71eabb95e6
type: Add
content: Far too much food at Woodlands with Dani (Sri Ananda was closed)
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-15T21:35:38+08:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58a71ee5b102b
type: Add
content: Lunch at Ee Beng with bengo
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-16T14:09:20+08:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58a7dd2a5048f
type: Add
content: My first WW mezze platter; dinner at Sushi Kitchen. Then I went to China House and made some dreads for Daein; we got quite an audience.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-12T23:35:32+08:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58afe5c64d292
type: Add
content: Food at Wholey Wonder and Zhu Yuan
published: 2017-02-19T20:04:56+08:00
summary: Amy added 8 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58afe80610d44
type: Add
content: Malaysian Mum brought bao for breakfast
published: 2017-02-20T09:35:23+08:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58afe8490dbb2
type: Add
content: Visiting Tammy and Jon's place at The Light Collection in Gelugor. Many pools, sharks, and incredible views.
published: 2017-02-20T23:01:06+08:00
summary: Amy added 28 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58afe8a222013
type: Add
content: Quay Cafe, and cendol from Armenian St
published: 2017-02-20T15:02:35+08:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58afe8e9e12c6
type: Add
content: Two meals in one day at Annalakshmi. Tried pal appam for the first time.
published: 2017-02-21T21:05:53+08:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58afe928a5953
type: Add
content: My time in Penang is almost at an end. Nasi lemak for breakfast, the view from my room this morning, and the bag of things I will leave behind.
published: 2017-02-24T12:00:46+08:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58afe96547a88
type: Add
content: Twice to Air Itam in one day. Breakfast at Purple Stone (with MM, E & K), then a raining evening wander around Kek Lok Si with Claire.
published: 2017-02-23T18:50:43+08:00
summary: Amy added 33 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58afe9bb67859
type: Add
content: Food questing. Adventist Hospital canteen, Chuang Yen, and way too much food at Mama Vege
published: 2017-02-22T19:30:25+08:00
summary: Amy added 21 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58b139743ed37
type: Add
object: as-goes-the-media-so-goes-scholarly-publishing
published: 2017-02-25T16:14:00+08:00
tag: linked+research
tag: media
tag: publishing
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58b6cbae79d3a
type: Add
content: Last meal in Malaysia (at BMS Organics in KLIA2)
published: 2017-02-28T06:23:19+08:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58d7eb87b55e9
type: Add
content: Chocolate chapati
published: 2017-02-25T20:25:37+08:00
summary: Amy added 7 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/02/58d7ebc775bc8
type: Add
content: Tofu quiche at WW, surprisingly structurally sound
published: 2017-02-26T17:26:40+08:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

a-day-in-ipoh
type: Article
content: I decided to spend a day getting back to KL for my flight to Bali, instead of taking a direct route. Fairly haphazardly, I booked a late-night bus from Ipoh directly to KL Airport, and figured I'd let the Penang to Ipoh part of the journey take care of itself. It did: someone (K) posted on the CS Penang facebook group that he's driving to Ipoh this weekend, and he rearranged his time to Sunday evening so that I could join him. Dani tagged along, and he also offered us to stay in his Mum's house in Ipoh. So K picked us both up on Sunday evening, and off we went. Ipoh should only be about a 1.5 hour drive... Unless you get a flat tire on the highway. We did. The car had a spare, but no jack. The highway rescue people showed up fairly promptly though, pulled a screw out of the spare tire and patched it up, and set us on our way. All part of the adventure. We slept well in K's lovely family home, and the next day he showed us around his hometown. Three Hindu temples: We stopped at Andersonians for tasty banana leaf, and really good chai. A walk down Concubine Lane, which is a bustling little street full of cute shops and cafes. It houses the most famous Tau Fu Fah at Ding Feng. I tried ginger flavour, for just 1.60 MYR. It was delicious. Dani found durian cendol, her fave. (Anything with durian is Dani's fave). There were also some cool abandoned buildings, and a film crew of some famous travel vlogger seemed to show up wherever we were. There's lots of really nice street art, too. We lounged around with coffee in Burps and Giggles, having super interesting in-depth discussions about diet and philosophy (actually this was all day). Burps and Giggles was a good place to chill for a couple of hours. We took off and managed to get to Kek Look Tong with an hour before closing. This is a cave temple, with some nice gardens. The cave was pretty spectacular, with great rock formations. I was sad about the stalegmites that would never form because of the concrete on the ground,…
name: A day in Ipoh
published: 2017-02-27T23:39:00+08:00
tag: ipoh
tag: malaysia
tag: travel

air-itam-to-balik-pulau
type: Article
content: For some time now I've been wanting to hike from Air Itam to Balik Pulau (which literally translates as 'the other side of the island'). We finally got around to it on Monday: GJ and H, and Tammy and Jon from Wholey Wonder. We started our journey at Purple Stone Vegetarian Food Center in Air Itam, around 8am. We ate loads of delicious and extremely cheap things to set us up for the day. A selection of bao to share, some people at the buffet, and I had won ton mee. I was delighted to be able to get a nasi lemak parcel. They sell the normal versions everywhere on street corners for between 0.50 and 1.50 rm, but they contain anchovies and egg. The little triangular parcels are so enticing, so I was happy to get a veggie one (containing peanuts, veggie sambal and a little mock meat) for the road. Tammy and Jon moved their car (with us in it) to the top of Kek Lok Si where there's cheap parking. We walked down a bit to find the start of the hiking route. It was blocked by a police barricade, and we were told there was a landslide and no way through to the Dam. Not the type of people to let a little landslide derail our plans, we walked to the road that goes around to the other side of the Dam to see if we'd have better luck there. It wasn't long before we were distracted by a trail into the jungle, and we left the road. This trail rapidly deteriorated until we found ourselves fairly stuck on a hillside. After a few false scrambles, Tammy noticed a trail of paper triangles stapled to various leaves and trees, so... we followed it. And followed it. And followed it. We climbed, sliding through the mud, clinging to trees, clawing at roots. Some of the trees have spikes growing out of their trunks; I grabbed them once or twice. We chatted about snakes and monsters. It was tenuous at times, but finally whoever laid the trail of paper triangles came through, and we made it back to the road. But not the road we started from... the road we had been blocked from heading down origi…
generator: sloph
name: Air Itam to Balik Pulau
published: 2017-02-06T19:00:00+08:00
tag: air+itam
tag: balik+pulau
tag: hiking
tag: justgo
tag: penang

cs-penang-photos
type: Add
content: My last CS Penang meetup! They made me make a speech. I said thanks for feeding me. Photos by Rohan.
published: 2017-03-09T01:22:41+00:00
summary: Amy added 7 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

day1-bali
type: Add
content: Day 1 in Canggu, Bali
published: 2017-02-28T23:23:19+08:00
summary: Amy added 14 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

going-hermit
type: Note
content: I was going to hermit and work really hard on my thesis (and related and semi-related things) when I got back to Penang, but I met loads of cool people in Langkawi who are now in Penang and want to hang out, plus there's still tons of Chinese NY stuff going on sooo... working might have to wait a couple more days.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-05T12:23:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: phd
tag: travel

ipoh-photos
type: Add
content: A day in Ipoh

ketogenic-vegan
type: Article
content: I'm going to try to adjust my diet whilst in Bali. K, who I spent the day with in Ipoh on Monday, eats a ketogenic diet. This is high fat and protein, and low carb. He mostly eats meat, a few nuts and pulses, and not many vegetables. This seems pretty thoroughly at odds with veganism, and he, Dani (who is also vegan) and I had some very interesting discussions. Mostly, as he was explaining the science as he understands it behind his diet, one or two things rang true to my experiences. Particularly how carbs, insulin, and glucose in the blood are related, and the physical effects of that. I get hungry a fairly predictable number of hours after I've last eaten, no matter how much I've eaten. And I get so hungry, I can't focus or really function until I've eaten. I make an effort because of this to keep meals small, because I know eating a lot now isn't going to reduce how much I want to eat later (and once I start eating I'm quickly satisfied). But that went a bit to shit in Penang because all the food was so great and I wanted to eat all of it, all the time. I also have been eating far more rice than usual, and a lot more greasy fried foods from Chinese economy rice places. I consistently eat a lot of bread. Anyway, I was reasonably convinced by K that a high dependency on carbs causes the hunger spikes thing. I've also been increasingly lethargic over the past month or so. I have been attributing this to a combination of eating too much, having some pretty terrible meals, and not running, in combination with general thesis-depression. Anyway, Penang is out of my hair, so it's time for a change. Basically I'm just going to try really hard to reduce carbs, and eat less overall while I'm in Bali. I will have to deal with being hungry for a few days or a week, but I don't think it will take me long to adapt back down to smaller or fewer meals. I observed this when going from the US (where I got used to large portion sizes) to Japan (much smaller) and back to the US agai…
name: Ketogenic veganism, and other dietary musings
published: 2017-02-28T23:44:00+08:00
tag: diet
tag: food
tag: ketogenic
tag: low+carb
tag: vegan

langkawi-5
type: Article
content: I spent the afternoon at Pasir Panjang, and now I'm spending the night. It was hard to get here, but worth it in the end. Partly due to me assuming locals knew what they were talking about and not triple checking the instructions sent by the accommodation. There are (at least) two jettyes from which boats leave for Pulau Tuba, but from one of them - Paken Rabu - they don't or won't stop at Pasir Panjang. This was the one I ended up at first, just north of Chopm Park. I asked after boats and was told to wait around (by a lady selling snacks and cakes). I got the same information from a random guy with a van. The only authoritative place I found was a tour desk in side a desolate mall-like building, and the guy there essentially told me to go ask random people outside. So having been given time estimates of between one and two hours, I wandered back through Chopm Park to see the Langkawi Legends statues (photos). I had never been anticipating getting on a boat immediately; just went to find out times. I needed to find an ATM and pick up some supplies. I did this in the main Kuah Jetty, which took a while due to crowds and queues, and then I walked back to Paken Rabu. I was told to wait some more... then as the boat arrived, they told me they couldn't drop me at Pasir Panjang after all. And pointed vaguely back to the main jetty. It would have been nice if they'd told me that two hours prior. I wandered around the main jetty asking after boats to Pulau Tuba for ages, with people pointing vaguely in different directions... all seemed pretty confident there were boats, just not very specific with information about where to find them. I eventually went far enough around the side to find an opening which looked like it led to boats. Some teenagers led me through a gate to a cafe attached to a small jetty, where they confirmed I could go to Pasir Panjang. This is Marble Beach jetty; and if I'd continued along the road I would been able to enter through a gate with a sign th…
generator: sloph
name: Langkawi 5: escape from Langkawi
published: 2017-02-01T21:37:00+08:00
tag: beach
tag: hammock
tag: justgo
tag: langkawi
tag: malaysia
tag: pasir+panjang
tag: pulau+tuba
tag: travel

langkawi-6
type: Article
content: I slept great. Falling asleep and waking up to the sound of the ocean so close on one side, and the trills of the jungle on the other... of course there's no aircon or even a fan in the dorm, but there are also no walls, and a pleasant breeze. The temperature was pefect. I awoke with the sunrise. An infalliable way to get me out of bed in the morning is to put me literally on the beach. The allure of the two steps to sand and sea is greater than a mattress. The tide was out, revealing mud flats and coral. After breakfast (bread, jam, beans, orange juice), I waded through the mud for a while. Now I'm back in the hammock. The tide has come almost all the way back in, and the other guests bar two have left. I'll leave with them tomorrow morning; no one else is due to arrive today. My original plan had been to couchsurf tonight and tomorrow. One of the guests lent me his data connection just long enough to change the plans with my host (but not long enough to find out what's going on in the world). It's warm and pefectly breezey. A little overcast, so no overpowering sun. I'm going to grab the litter picker and pick up trash from the beach. I had an urge to each time I walked down, and since the beach is of finite size I think it will be satisfying.
generator: sloph
name: Langkawi 6: home is where the hammock is
published: 2017-02-02T13:00:00+08:00
tag: beach
tag: hammock
tag: justgo
tag: langkawi
tag: pasir+panjang
tag: pulau+tuba
tag: travel

langkawi-7
type: Article
content: I filled two bags and a bucket picking up rubbish, and made it half the length of the beach before I stopped for a nap in a tree. Then there were loads of ants on the branches, so I switched to napping on the sand. There were ants there too. I swam the length of the beach, and rested on a floating jetty for.. I dunno, half an hour or more. There was a little water-walking insect I'd never seen the like of before; I watched it flit around. I swam back. I showered in the outdoor shower, and washed my hair with soap, which I hadn't done for a while. Didn't you want a blow-by-blow account of my day? There's not a lot to do here but chill out and then write about it :) Thesis Now I'm eating noodles by the ocean.
generator: sloph
name: Langkawi 7: the chilling diaries
published: 2017-02-02T15:53:00+08:00
tag: chilling
tag: justgo
tag: pasir+panjang
tag: sea
tag: swimming
tag: travel
tag: beach

langkawi-8
type: Article
content: Photos from the last two days on Tuba. After a leisurely breakfast yesterday I shared a boat back to Kuah late morning. I waited around the jeti for Lucas, my next CS host. He gave me a ride on the back of his scooter to his place, just outside Kuah. There I met his other guests, P and V from Russia, and GJ from the Netherlands. Together we headed out, attempting to hitchike as five to Durian Perangin waterfall. It took about 20 minutes for us to be picked up in a car big enough to seat us all comfortably, which took us about 1/4 of the way there. Very soon after we managed to fit five of us in the back of a normal sized car... The three guys took the seats, and us two girls sat on top of them. They took us the rest of the way there (even though it was a diversion from where they were going!). We climbed to the top of the waterfall and swam and relaxed in the sun. We wandered back, stopping on the way at a black bee farm where I stood in the swarm (they're stingless) but declined to suck honey from a hive with a straw. Then we hitched in the back of a pickup to Kuah town. We wandered through Chopm Park, got a snack from the Jetty, and Lucas, GJ and I went to eat nasi kandar (hitched again, even though it wasn't far) while V and P went to Eagle Square to busk. We hitched back to Lucas's place, actually picked up by a passing friend of Lucas. Photos of hitchiking, waterfall, and Kuah. Later that evening GJ and I wandered through the restaurants of the local area, discussed vegan food, and ate laici kang and rojak. We got a mango salad too, but OF COURSE mango salad is filled with teeny tiny staring anchovy heads. Who didn't know that? We left it in the fridge for Lucas. This morning I got up early and went for roti canai near Lucas's place. This might have been my favourite roti canai so far. Then GJ and I hitched to the jeti; we were picked up after about two minutes by a couple. I had budgeted a lot for taxis around Langkawi, but only took one on the first day. Barg…
generator: sloph
name: Langkawi 8: the rest
published: 2017-02-04T10:43:00+08:00
tag: couchsurfing
tag: hitchiking
tag: justgo
tag: kuah
tag: langkawi
tag: travel
tag: waterfalls

last-day-penang
type: Add
content: Last day in Penang.. breakfast with MM at Ee Beng, and the rest of the day at Wholey Wonder.
published: 2017-02-26T18:45:47+08:00
summary: Amy added 16 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2016-penang/
target: 2016-penang

make-crisps
type: Note
content: There are many reasons to homemake crisps. Maybe you like making everything from scratch. Maybe the ones in the supermarket are just so full of crap and all you really want to eat is potatoes and salt. Maybe you just have a lot of potatoes around. Those reasons are great. Me? My main reason is that I'm too lazy and antisocial to go outside.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-11T12:18:00+08:00
tag: food
tag: potato
tag: vegan

oat-milk
type: Note
content: I made oat milk this morning. It... could be nicer. The texture is really good, but it tastes weird. Maybe I'll add more coconut sugar, I just used a sprinkle. It could also be the water isn't great; maybe it'll be nicer chilled.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-11T10:30:00+08:00
tag: food
tag: vegan

penang-belly
type: Note
content: I'm definitely getting a Penang belly.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-16T15:28:14+08:00
tag: food
tag: life
tag: penang
tag: travel

penang-festivities
type: Article
content: So much for recovering from Langkawi, it's the peak of festival season across the various different cultures and communities in Penang. Balloon festival (4 Feb) After the ferry from Langkawi returned me to George Town, Malaysian Mum picked me up from the jetty without my asking, because she's nice like that, and delightedly exclaimed that my skin is now darker than hers. It wasn't long after I got home before I was heading out again. GJ had made it to George Town too, Ira was staying in a room in my apartment, and GJ had met H, another aspiring vegan, on his ferry. When I meet aspiring vegans I feel obligated to share my knowledge and food discoveries, especially when they're as excited about food as I am. So I took GJ to Ee Beng first, and we ate quite a lot. Then we met H on Love Lane, and walked through town to Little India. IN NR Thali Sweets they ate curries and I bought some of all of the vegan sweets to share. We stuck around until Ira could join us. We walked to the jetty and picked up a free shuttle to the Polo field, where a balloon festival was happening. There were loads of food options here too. We walked around then chilled on the grass and waited for the hot air balloon and fireworks show to start. Chinese New Year (4 Feb) We took the bus back to Chew Jetty then watched the Chinese New Year dancers, fireworks, and wandered around. Bumped into some others from the Penang CouchSurfing community. Walking back after midnight, in every direction were fireworks and on every street sudden firecrackers. Lots of people, lots of scared stray dogs. I've had a quite enough of the Chinese fixation with fire and loud noises. Pulau Penang is the best place in Malaysia to watch CNY celebrations, anyway, because of its about 70% Hokkien Chinese population. Photos of balloon festival and CNY celebrations. Ira and I got back to the apartment around 1, and jumped in the pool. My feet and legs were still on fire from mosquitoes and ants, plus the jellyfish stings from alm…
generator: sloph
name: Penang Festivities
published: 2017-02-11T02:08:00+08:00
tag: chinese+new+year
tag: festival
tag: food
tag: malaysia
tag: penang
tag: thaipusam
tag: travel

penang-hill-forest-challenge
type: Article
content: Today bengo and I inadvertently hiked the Penang Hill Forest Challenge ('the longest trail in Penang'). I had pieced together two other hiking trails and filled a gap in the middle, but it turns out that if you do this from the other end, it has an official name. Here is the GPS trace. Anyway, we started from home, and walked to the Botanical Gardens (about an hour). We took the 1500 steps route up Penang Hill, using Path A to reach the top (about 2.5 hours) where we relaxed with fruit and fruit juice for a while. We walked along Summit Road to Western Hill. There's a trail on the left going down, after about 20 minutes. We first missed it and continued down the road, which quickly became signposted as private property. We backtracked; the actual trial is pretty well signposted. From there there was lots of climbing - up and down - supported by a rope most of the way. Lots. Of. Climbing. And another hill. Then some more climbing. Oh look another hill. And a vertical slope. And some scrambling. And another hill. And so on. We encountered only 3 other groups of hikers on the way. There were a few points for nice views, but mostly trees. And hills. And another hill. But just because I was cursing every step doesn't mean I wasn't having fun. 4 hours later, the beautiful sight of local families splashing in pools nearby the Teluk Bahang Dam welcomed us. We dived in and sat in small waterfalls until our legs came back. The pools are in a nice park, which also houses the Forestry Museum. It was very peaceful. Once we'd recovered, we walked up the road to see the Dam and reservoir. Then we backed up and followed the road to Teluk Bahang village. We stuck our thumbs out but nobody stopped. We forged ahead to the beach, and immediately encountered Cat Beach - a cat shelter on a small, beautiful, secluded beach. Run by volunteers, in exchange for housing. I paddled, and hung out with the cats for a while. I think I see... my future. We stopped for vegetable fried rice at a sma…
generator: sloph
name: Penang Hill Forest Challenge
published: 2017-02-17T21:30:00+08:00
tag: beach
tag: hiking
tag: malaysia
tag: penang
tag: travel

rainbow-cheesecake
type: Add
content: I spent all day at WW yesterday making this rainbow cheesecake. I was interrupted a lot, and took a break to make the snickers bar (also pictured) but I still want to rename it the 'forever cheesecake'. The base cheesecake cream is cashew, cocoa butter, and coconut milk. The pink/red layer is dragonfruit, the yellow is mango, the purple/blue is blueberry, and the green is spirulina.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-16T16:27:59+08:00
summary: Amy added 10 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
tag: procrastabaking
tag: vegan
target: madefood

stepped-out
type: Note
content: I stepped out today and thought it's pleasantly cool. It's 30°C. I have acclimatised. Those who knew me in the UK might recall I I struggled with a British summer and thought 18°C was more than plenty hot enough for anyone, thank you very much.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-13T16:33:00+08:00
tag: malaysia
tag: travel
tag: weather

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Made some improvements to paging for sloph. Explored Langkawi at length, met lots of new people. CouchSurfed, stayed in a hut on the beach, swam a lot in the sea and waterfalls, hitchiked, climbed, hiked, sat in boats, slept, ate (mostly fried rice and roti canai), and got eaten alive by ants and mosquitoes. Watched Chinese NY celebrations in George Town. Went to Jade Emperor temple and Kek Lok Si temple to see the lights. YES I know blog posts and logs are missing, getting on it.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 30 Jan - 5 Feb
published: 2017-02-05T23:57:00+08:00
tag: chinese+new+year
tag: hacking
tag: justgo
tag: langkawi
tag: sloph
tag: travel

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Hiked from Air Itam to Balik Pulau. Reviewed a paper for LD-DL WWW workshop. Started work on converting my not-quite-finished #ownYourData ten-page paper into a 1200 word extended abstract for the AoIR conference. Went to Thaipusam celebrations on a couple of occassions. Cooked and ate a lot. Caught up on my Langkawi blog posts.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 6 - 12 Feb
published: 2017-02-12T23:59:59+08:00

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Announced the call for our ESWC workshop Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communications #LinkedResearch Reviewed two papers for LDOW Juggled some AS2 stuff.. Made progress on sloph's feed paging, aka fixed a really stupid think-o that had me stumped for a week (thanks to csarven). Hiked from George Town to Teluk Bahang. Ate at lots of new places. Found a treehouse in the middle of George Town occupied by two 70 year old stoners. Made a rainbow cheesecake.
name: Week in review: 13 - 19 Feb
published: 2017-02-19T23:59:59+08:00
tag: food
tag: linked+research
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: More AS2 wrangling. Shortlisted three titles for my thesis. Ate at lots more new places. Wrote up my #ownYourData study as a 1200 word extended abstract for AoIR. LEFT PENANG ;_; :O After 80 days, many new friends, and a lot of food. Arrived in Ipoh.
name: Week in review: 20 - 26 Feb
published: 2017-02-26T23:59:59+08:00
tag: food
tag: penang
tag: phd
tag: travel

workaway
type: Note
content: I recall seeing Wild Pasir Panjang on workaway.com. I'm not staying long enough this time to qualify, but there's potential for the future... I'm going to look for a hostel workaway in Bali I think; if I can trade a few hours of cleaning/admin for free accommodation, I'll do it.
generator: sloph
published: 2017-02-02T12:03:00+08:00
tag: justgo
tag: pasir+panjang
tag: travel
tag: workaway

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58b9815c90272
type: Add
content: Wandering around and eating in Canggu
published: 2017-03-03T22:44:39+08:00
summary: Amy added 41 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58bbfae4ae7b1
type: Add
content: Food from Serenity and My Warung in Canggu
published: 2017-03-05T19:47:43+08:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58c0b1ee9ec59
type: Add
content: Food, food, food, and Serenity's pool
published: 2017-03-09T09:37:45+08:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58c209186f0f5
type: Add
content: Foooood
published: 2017-03-10T10:01:54+08:00
summary: Amy added 12 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58c2095f450ad
type: Add
content: An adorable puppy stole my socks and destroyed them whilst I was sitting by the Serenity pool. It was a good death.
published: 2017-03-10T10:03:05+08:00
summary: Amy added 7 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58c4dc38f3cd3
type: Add
content: Bali food update
published: 2017-03-12T13:27:15+08:00
summary: Amy added 21 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58c6b6940c5d2
type: Add
content: Canggu: food (Shady Shack, Warung Dandelion (with bunnies), Memoh Warung, Warung Pook), beach, and some hostel interiors or views (Monkey House and Surfer's House)
published: 2017-03-13T23:11:10+08:00
summary: Amy added 22 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58c7ee3e987ba
type: Add
object: https://twitter.com/dabjacksonyang/status/841249118823538688
published: 2017-03-14T21:38:00+08:00
tag: linkedresearch
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58c9e70bf1887
type: Add
object: academics-can-change-the-world-if-they-stop-talking-only-to-their-peers-55713
published: 2017-03-16T09:51:01+08:00
tag: accessibility
tag: linkedresearch
tag: publishing
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58c9ef420e65e
type: Add
object: what-counts-as-an-academic-publication-34549
published: 2017-03-16T09:51:00+08:00
tag: linkedresearch
tag: peer+review
tag: publishing
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58c9efba97d2e
type: Add
object: vanity-and-predatory-academic-publishers-are-corrupting-the-pursuit-of-knowledge-45490
published: 2017-03-16T09:53:00+08:00
tag: journals
tag: linked+research
tag: publish+or+perish
tag: publishing
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58caa48701403
type: Add
content: You guessed it.. more photos of food. And some of the interior of Surfer House. Food at: Avocado, Love and Coconuts, Cafe Organic, Roti Canai, and Serenity
published: 2017-03-16T22:43:13+08:00
summary: Amy added 19 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58cd4412a5e0d
type: Add
content: Food at Love and Coconuts and Serenity, and a wander around Canggu
published: 2017-03-17T22:28:28+08:00
summary: Amy added 10 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58ce964459239
type: Add
content: Another day of eating?! Who'd have thought.
published: 2017-03-19T22:31:25+08:00
summary: Amy added 14 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58d08de84db3f
type: Add
content: Food aaaatttt... Roti Canai (roti canai), Crate (BEST smoothie bowl), Love & Coconuts (tempeh and broccoli and iced matcha), streetside roasted pumpkin with Ninni, Dandelion, nasi campur
published: 2017-03-21T10:20:18+08:00
summary: Amy added 15 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58d290a6e50de
type: Add
content: Last two days in Canggu. Yeah I was just eating and hanging out at Serenity.
published: 2017-03-22T22:56:32+08:00
summary: Amy added 29 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58d4988c027ed
type: Add
content: Serenity puppies
published: 2017-03-22T18:54:44+08:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58d7eb269c90b
type: Add
content: Ocean Reef, Perth suburb by the beach
published: 2017-03-26T23:24:00+08:00
summary: Amy added 22 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58d7ebefed3a8
type: Add
content: Charred tempeh..
published: 2017-03-06T21:27:21+08:00
summary: Amy added 1 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/03/58d7ec1574108
type: Add
content: Tofu, black beans, various vegetables, lots of chilli and hot sauce, in a spelt wrap
published: 2017-03-26T22:27:58+08:00
summary: Amy added 1 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

amys-spa
type: Note
content: Seems about right..
published: 2017-03-18T22:33:44+08:00
tag: life
tag: travel

argh-rash
type: Note
content: Argh, I have definitely broken out in a weird itchy rash, all over my arms, hands and feet. Probably not insect related. Heat/humidity I guess?
in reply to: suppose-pertinent
published: 2017-03-12T21:25:45+08:00
tag: bali
tag: health
tag: travel

bali-first-impressions
type: Article
content: Well I've been here for a week and a half now, so maybe late for very first impressions. To be specific, I've been only in Canggu, aside from some of a day in Ubud. I'm staying about a 15-20 minute walk from Batu Bolong Beach and a little further to Echo Beach. It's not built up, and there are lots of rice paddys. The streets are lined with villa-style guesthouses, restaurants, and small shops. There's nothing that feels 'local', not that I have any basis for comparison, having never been to any other part of Indonesia. Actually, there are little temples everywhere and they're somehow inconspicuous and impressive at the same time. Several times a day, locals place 'offerings' of banana leaves containing rice, flowers and incense (and sometimes sweets and cigarettes) on the ground in front of temples, homes, and guesthouses. Most people I see around are tourists. People come here to surf and yoga. The beaches are good for surfing, but the waves are too big to swim. They're fairly unspoilt, not much trash or anything like that. There are a couple of bars on the beach, but nothing excessive. No massive hotel or apartment complexes, like Penang. I also haven't seen any shopping malls or even supermarkets. But I haven't been far. It took a little while, but I did find cheap local (probably) food at nasi campur places. There are actually quite a few, but they're unassuming and I guess I skipped over them nestled between the fancier salad-and-smoothie-bowl-packed places that cater for health-conscious tourists. Rather than helping yourself from a buffet (like nasi kandar in Malaysia), you point at dishes and they're plated for you. Tempeh and three or four types of vegetables has so far come to between 10k and 15k IDR (less than 1GBP). For context, main dishes or even smoothie bowls and fancy cakes are upwards of 50k at other cafes. But the nasi campur stops aren't ideal places to stay and work, being largely wall-less and power-less, so hot and not particularly comfortabl…
name: Far away in time
published: 2017-03-09T13:06:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: canggu
tag: justgo
tag: travel

bedbugs
type: Note
content: For everyone panicking about me getting dengue fever, fear not! I'm not getting disproportionately bitten by mosquitoes after all! It's bedbugs. The hostel have called the anti bedbug people and put all of my stuff in plastic bags. But the hostel staff also suspect I might be having an allergic reaction to the bites because I'm so thoroughly covered and red and itchy, and they all seem to think it's not normal. I've never been bitten by bedbugs before, so I wouldn't know. But they match pictures online. Oh, and I found two dead ones and a live one in my bed, so there's that for evidence. They're so much bigger than I thought. Nobody else has noticed bites yet though. If I picked them up somewhere, I'm not sure where. The bus to KL maybe? Even if I brought them they should have occupied the rest of the dorm by now. My other theory is that just like I'm a mosquito magnet, all the bedbugs are just hanging out with me and leaving everyone else alone, cos I taste so good. You're welcome.
published: 2017-03-03T09:44:00+08:00
tag: health
tag: travel

bitten
type: Note
content: I'm getting bitten to shit by mosquitoes even when I wear repellent. If I get dengue fever, someone finish my thesis for me please.
published: 2017-03-02T10:40:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: health
tag: phd
tag: travel

breakfast
type: Article
content: There are two wee streetside nasi campur warungs next to each other a few minutes from where I'm staying, on Jalan Nelayan. They don't look inviting, but a couple of days ago I braved one of them and of course, because Balinese people are super friendly and accommodating, I was welcomed and fed.. so if you're ever in two minds about whether somewhere that is obvious extremely local, probably just go in anyway. In the first one, they didn't really speak any English, and I don't speak Bahasar except for key food-related words, but pointing at food is all you need to navigate. And "kopi" of course. I was too late to ask for without rice, so I had a plateful, including several kinds of green vegetables, alfalfa sprouts, tofu and tempeh, with a sambal so spicy it made my eyes water. The coffee came black, but sugared up. This cost me 10k IDR (60p). Inside is pretty grimy and myself and the food were constantly under siege from very persistent unwaftable flies. But the lady was smiley. This morning I went to the other one. The people inside were younger and spoke some English include "oh my god is your hair real?!" The overall food selection was smaller but the number and type of veggie things was about the same. I had more or less the same food as before, and it tasted as good. The sambal was less spicy but I also had peanut sauce, and managed to opt out of rice. I asked for no sugar in the coffee, but it was sweet anyway; I think part of the instant mix. This time it was 18k IDR. The second place was even smaller, and didn't seem to be set up for actually accommodating people, but place was quickly cleared at a table so I could sit down. There were fewer flies, but it was also less hot today. Half way through my meal, an old lady came out from the back, topped up the food in the counter and then stopped to chat. In Bahasar. I understood at one point that she was commenting on the fact I didn't have rice so I was like 'yep, no rice, lots of tofu' and then she rubbed my a…
name: Breakfast at warungs
published: 2017-03-21T09:59:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: food
tag: travel

captured-mosquitoes
type: Note
content: I captured and released two mosquitoes that were inside my net. I am a paragon of virtue. What I captured them in was the lid of the mosquito repellant though, so they had a really shitty five seconds. I'm not that nice.
published: 2017-03-09T21:12:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: mosquitoes
tag: travel

catte
type: Note
content: Important announcement: (this is a taro latte from Cafe Organic, Canggu, Bali)
published: 2017-03-09T15:19:00+08:00
tag: cafe+organic
tag: food
tag: latte+art
tag: travel

chocolate
type: Note
content: The other evening around 9pm I just fancied a chocolate with my tea. I walked 3 minutes down the road to the organic grocery store and was able to buy a single delicious handmade vegan chocolate. Ah, what is this life.
published: 2017-03-08T11:04:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: chocolate
tag: food
tag: travel
tag: vegan

csarven-springer
type: Note
content: Troublemaker csarven just won't lie down and sign whatever publishers ask him to. Full Article, Immediate, Permanent, Discoverable, and Accessible
published: 2017-03-14T21:19:00+08:00
tag: http://csarven.ca/#i
tag: academia
tag: csarven
tag: linked+research
tag: open+access
tag: publishing
tag: linkedresearch.org

day-in-ubud
type: Article
content: I went to Ubud for most of a day with A from Romania who I met at the hostel, and met up with N from Denmark who I met at the airport when I arrived. It wasn't a crazy jam-packed day, but we managed to get a few things in. Photos here. GPS trace here. The taxi drive was about an hour. We ate breakfast at Atman; the 'famous' raw, grain-free porridge was pretty good, and the coconut oil latte was super interesting and creamy. A and I went to the Monkey Forest (entrance 50k IDR) and spent about an hour there. Lots of curious baby monkeys. Bigger monkeys fighting over bananas and sharpening rocks. Old monkeys lounging around looking wise. We stopped by the Ubud Palace, but it was mostly closed for renovations. Wandered through the market, then stopped for juice. It was hot (though perhaps cooler than Canggu) and none of us were feeling particularly energetic. I found a trail on the map and we walked along it a little way, and saw a waterfall and some nice views. N had found a driver willing to take us back for 220k, which was a really good deal between 3 of us. On the way, he stopped at a coffee farm, and we tried many different flavoured coffees and luwak coffee. The luwak coffee was 50k for a cup which we shared, and the others were free. The luwak coffee is the one that is made from beans pooped out by a civet. It was really sweet. We had to get them to promise this was naturally its flavour and they hadn't added sugar. Apparently most people find it sour, but because the three of us don't each much sugar are tastes were different from the average tourist. All of the flavoured coffee samples also had sugar added, and coconut creamer (or honey in the teas). They managed to make six of them without sugar for us, but they were all pre-mixed with creamer. Not what we really wanted in a coffee tasting... We couldn't really taste any coffee. So if you go to one of these places and are a sugar-free kinda person, ask in advance for no-sugar versions of the samples. The only …
name: 3/4 of a day in Ubud
published: 2017-03-04T17:00:00+08:00
tag: ubud
tag: travel
tag: coffee
tag: bali

does-mosquito
type: Note
content: Does mosquito repellent work on bedbugs?
published: 2017-03-12T21:25:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: mosquitoes
tag: travel

extra-hot
type: Note
content: People who order their sit-in coffees in takeaway cups and "extra hot" must really hate the planet.
published: 2017-03-14T12:27:00+08:00
tag: coffee
tag: life

fit-itching
type: Note
content: So I'm back in the dorm with bedbugs until the dorm at the yoga retreat becomes available on Thursday. But in a fit of itching and feeling like bugs were crawling all over me in the wee hours of this morning, I grabbed my phone and booked the next three nights in the hostel next door. I didn't need to be logged into booking.com, or put my card information in xD Technology is amazing. In the cold* light of day I feel like I must have been imagining it and I'm crazy, and moving seems like an overreaction... but I do have new bites. And even if it is all in my head, it'll just be like that again tonight, and I can't go on like this. It's a shame, because everything else about this hostel is lovely. Hopefully the one next door is just as lovely, minus bedbugs. However, since I got back on Saturday, I haven't seen any of the owners or staff... So I'd like to like, pay for the two nights I just stayed, and tell them I'm not coming back, but it's proving difficult. * Not really, it's 31 degrees c
published: 2017-03-13T10:48:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: bedbugs
tag: travel

fixed-bedbugs
type: Note
content: So I fixed the bedbugs problem. By moving from the hostel dorm to a room shared with one other person at a yoga retreat with a pool. For 20k less. I'll be here until Saturday, then decide what to do next. May go back to the original dorm for a few days until the equivalently priced dorm at the yoga retreat becomes available.. The tradeoff is no kitchen at the yoga place.. but the pool... and 25% off in their veggie cafe which has lots of raw desserts.. but I like the location of the hostel better... Man, life is hard.
published: 2017-03-08T10:20:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: travel

gado-gado
type: Note
content: Past time, I finally ate gado-gado. Boiled vegetables in a peanut sauce; usually comes with egg, which I swapped for tofu. This one also had tempeh. SO good. And, at Warung Nelayan, I accompanied it with hands down the best Bali coffee I've had since I've been here. It's so thick and rich it actually tempered my cake craving. I think the total price of this meal is 25k IDR (about &pound1.50), though the coffee is on the menu in two places, for 5k and 10k, so we'll see..
published: 2017-03-10T12:38:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: coffee
tag: food
tag: nelayan
tag: travel
tag: vegan

happiest-when
type: Note
content: Honestly one of the times I'm most happy is eating in a restaurant by myself. One of the reasons I love travelling solo. Sharing meals with people who are as into the food as me is also super enjoyable.. but I do love eating alone.
published: 2017-03-17T19:41:00+08:00
tag: food
tag: life
tag: travel

headstand
type: Note
content: I held a headstand for a few seconds by myself today. I don't think it's an unreasonable goal to be getting all the way up by myself before I leave Bali..
published: 2017-03-13T22:00:00+08:00
tag: yoga
tag: headstand
tag: bali

love-and-coconuts
type: Article
content: Last week N and I walked past a cafe in Canggu called Love and Coconuts. We checked out the menu, but didn't stop to eat because we had our stomachs set on elsewhere that night. But while we were there, we were both given a free matcha coconut bliss ball :) I went past by myself a few days later in the evening intending to eat, but they close at 6. I said hi to the staff who were just closing up, anyway. Today I finally made it at lunch time. I plugged my laptop in and got comfy in the nice surroundings. I was brought a free turmeric and betel leaf shot before the menu even made it. I ordered and ate a veggie burger and moringa tea, which was seriously filling and delicious. Later I got a free refill in my tea. I've been here for over 4 hours now. I'm still too full to move.. Nothing here is disposable, except the toilet paper. Even the hand towels in the toilet are normal small towels. The bamboo straw in the tea, I get to keep, and if I bring it back I get 5k off my next drink :) And the music is really nice. It's good covers of lots of songs I know really well. Most of the food is vegetarian, lots is vegan, and it's all well labelled. Yeah I like it here. Update: Free vegan chocolate cake! They were experimenting last night. It's so good! They've been open a week!
name: Love and Coconuts
published: 2017-03-15T15:18:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: food
tag: love+and+coconuts
updated: 2017-03-15T15:56:00+08:00

mobile-hotspot
type: Note
content: I bought a mobile wifi hotspot with enough data to watch Netflix even if hostel wifi was bad and Netflix is blocked by mobile carriers in in Indonesia *splutters* The fact that it took me til my last week to find this out shows you how productive I've been though!
published: 2017-03-19T22:19:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: censorship
tag: netflix
tag: travel

omg-imagine
type: Note
content: Omg imagine if I was allergic to mosquito repellent.
in reply to: argh-rash
published: 2017-03-12T21:26:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: health
tag: mosquitoes
tag: travel

on-my-own
type: Note
content: I'm really enjoying being on my own again. I'm really grateful for all the new friends (family?) I made in Penang. But there's something to be said for being in a new place and not knowing anyone, and nobody knowing me. That said, I met someone at the airport who is also trying to finish her thesis here (on plant-based cooking!). She'll be in Canggu at the weekend, and we'll be study buddies.
published: 2017-03-01T21:45:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: life
tag: travel

perth-photos-2
type: Add
content: Afternoon jaunt to Fremantle
published: 2017-03-29T18:37:25+08:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

review-terrace-ampels
type: Article
content: I booked two nights in the dorm at Terrace Ampels Villa near Padang Padang beach, in Uluwatu. I stayed zero nights. When I arrived the staff were kind of grumpy and didn't smile (which I normally wouldn't notice, but because of the attitude of all other Balinese, it stood out). I ate in the restaurant, and worked on my laptop there for a few hours. There's a really nice infinity pool overlooking trees. There were lots of bugs and bats and geckos, which I thought was cool, though some people might not like. A locker in the dorm room was 50k non-refundable which is unusual but whatever. Around 11pm I went into the dorm, changed into my pyjamas and climbed up to my bunk. I saw bedbugs crawling along the wood frame. I immediately got down, moved my stuff, and went out to find staff because no. fucking. way. was I staying in a bed with bedbugs again. Not after last time. I found the kitchen staff, and they woke the desk staff. By this time a couple of other dorm occupants had come back and were sitting around/in the pool. One of them, H, had been badly bitten the night before and she was covered in bites and itchy like I had been a couple of weeks ago. A forth dorm occupant heard about the bugs, and collectively we asked to be moved to another room. The staff offered us another dorm, downstairs, completely empty. We went to check it out, discovered more bugs and giant cockroaches in the beds. So we came back upstairs, and all the staff had disappeared. Sooo... four of us packed our stuff and moved down the road to a hotel, to share twin rooms. We checked into the new place about 1am. The next day we came back to Terrace Ampels to ask for our money back for the night we hadn't stayed (and for me, the next night which I'd pre-paid for). The staff were to start with kind of unwilling and dithering, until eventually becoming outright rude. They kept saying the had to talk to the boss, we had to wait for the boss.. And meanwhile aggressively asking the other guests why they h…
name: Review of Terrace Ampels Villa
published: 2017-03-24T11:05:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: bedbugs
tag: hostel
tag: review
tag: terrace+ampels
tag: travel
tag: terrace-ampels-villa.en-gb.html

seminyak
type: Article
content: Today I wandered from Canggu to Seminyak and back again. It takes about an hour and a half and for some reason people think that's crazy. I stopped several times for food obviously and planned my route around vegan restaurants also obviously. Roads here are narrow and fairly busy so not super fun to walk down. Sometimes it seems like it's about to come to a choice between being hit by a van and being up to my knees in rice paddy mud. Fortunately I didn't have to make that choice yet. Here's the route. I had a breakfast burrito and juice (and later coffee) at Peloton, a vegan cafe not far from Canggu, and stayed there to work for a few hours. I walked to Seminyak partly by way of the beach, and visited Seminyak Square and a market. Not really much of interest. I enjoyed the air conditioning in a mall for a while. Seminyak seems to be mostly fancy villas and tourist shops. It feels a bit less chill than Canggu even, though more going on. Didn't feel bursting with exciting vegan food like Canggu is! Maybe more upmarket, less hippie. I read about and pinpointed on Google Maps a tofu-specialist cafe. I didn't find it, but around the corner was a street cart selling tofu, so that seemed close enough. I chatted with the vendor as he fried tofu, liberally applied a pile of beansprouts and coated the whole thing in a huge layer of peanut sauce with some chopped chillis and a drizzle of soya sauce. It was super tasty, and 20k IDR. I ate it on the roadside, and while I was doing so, his friend came along with a cart of brightly coloured liquids in jars. They looked sugary, and neither of them were able to explain to me what it was apart from "ice" so I declined. But then I watched someone else get served - he spooned some of each jar into one cup - and my interest was piqued that this was more than just syrupy drinks. It turned out to be es daluman, a cincau grass jelly, coconut milk, and coconut sugar syrup dessert which is on the whole pretty nutritious. A cup was 10k, and v…
name: Seminyak
published: 2017-03-18T23:28:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: food
tag: seminyak
tag: travel
tag: vegan
tag: weather
tag: yoga

seminyak-photos
type: Add
content: Walk from Canggu to Seminyak and back. Food at Peloton, Spicy Coconut, and a tofu food cart. Couple of Serenity.
published: 2017-03-18T22:29:49+08:00
summary: Amy added 37 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

shame
type: Note
content: Local culture/traditions aside, this is such a shame. They should be in trees, in the wild, free.
published: 2017-03-22T23:08:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: travel
tag: vegan

south-kuta
type: Article
content: Yesterday I got in on a car rental tour of South Kuta / Uluwatu area. Between 6 people it came to 85k each including parking/tolls. The driver was cool and easy going, took us to wherever people wanted to go. This ended up being a bunch of beachs, until the Uluwatu Temple for sunset. Here's the GPS trace. We went to Dreamland beach, which was fairly busy, not particularly special. Plenty of places selling food; I had a coconut. Then Belawan beach where the sea was crystal clear blue/green, the rock formations were cool, and it wasn't so crowded. We chilled out here the longest. Bingin beach was down a long track and a lot of steps, busy and small. We at lunch at the Cashew Tree cafe. Entrance to Uluwatu Temple is 30k, and this includes a mandatory sarong. We were there for sunset, but it was cloudy, so nothing interesting to report. There was a fire dance, but I didn't really see it. The stadium was full, and tickets were 100k. Which I would have paid, had the stadium not been full. Everyone else on the tour had seen this before. The tide was in, so we did not get to go in the cave underneath. Photos here.
name: Tour of South Kuta
published: 2017-03-24T11:30:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: travel
tag: uluwatu

suppose-pertinent
type: Note
content: I suppose a pertinent question is: does mosquito repellent work on mosquitoes?
in reply to: does-mosquito
published: 2017-03-12T21:25:30+08:00
tag: bali
tag: mosquitoes
tag: travel

surfer-dudes
type: Note
content: Listening to surfer dudes trying to discuss vegan smoothie bowls with funny names without diminishing their masculinity.
published: 2017-03-18T10:32:00+08:00
tag: life

the-presentation-of-self
type: Article
content: Preamble Even though my deadline is coming up fast, I still have a lot of work to do on this thesis. I am, and have been from the start, doing this in the open; my thesis is in a public GitHub repo, and you can see it at dr.amy.gy (aspirational URL which redirects to github pages). Lots of pieces are still to be written, so don't expect a coherent start-to-finish reading experience. With that in mind, feedback and suggestions are welcome in the form of issues; but unless you're my supervisor or someone who knows for a fact I take your opinions on this topic seriously, they might not receive a ton of attention :) Abstract Self presentation is evolving; with digital technologies, with the Web and personal publishing, and then with mainstream adoption of online social media. Where are we going next? One possibility is towards a world where we log and own vast amounts of data about ourselves. We choose to share - or not - the data as part of our identity, and in interactions with others; it contributes to our day-to-day personhood or sense of self. We imagine a world where the individual is empowered by their digital traces (not imprisoned), but this is a complex world. This thesis examines the many factors at play when we present ourselves through Web technologies. We optimistically look to a future where control over our digital identities are not in the hands of centralised actors, but our own, and both survey and contribute to the ongoing technical work which strives to make this a reality. Decentralisation changes things in unexpected ways. In the context of the bigger picture of our online selves, building on what we already know about self-presentation from decades of Social Science research, we examine what might change as we move towards decentralisation; how people could be affected, and what the possibilities are for a positive change. Finally we explore one possible way of self-presentation on a decentralised social Web through lightweight controls which all…
name: The Presentation of Self on a Decentralised Web
published: 2017-03-10T11:03:00+08:00
tag: abstract
tag: decentralisation
tag: phd
tag: social+web
tag: thesis

thesis-boring
type: Note
content: I don't want my thesis to be boring, how do I make it not boring
published: 2017-03-21T14:13:00+08:00
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: writing

ubud-photos
type: Add
content: A day in Ubud. Breakfast at Atman, Monkey Forest, wander around, stop at Luwak Coffee farm on the way home.
published: 2017-03-04T14:45:19+08:00
summary: Amy added 53 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

uluwatu-photos
type: Add
content: Beaches in South Kuta and Uluwatu Temple
published: 2017-03-24T11:30:33+08:00
summary: Amy added 40 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-bali/
target: 2017-bali

vegan-cake
type: Note
content: But on a related note, now when a cafe doesn't have any vegan cake at all I'm proper offended. (Like Betelnut, where I am working from this morning. Cracking smoothie though).
in reply to: chocolate
published: 2017-03-08T11:07:00+08:00
tag: bali
tag: food
tag: vegan

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Spent a day in Ipoh. Took the bus from Ipoh to KL, spent most of the night in KL Airport, then flew to Bali. Settled into a small dorm in a nice hostel in Canggu, Bali. Got bedbugs. Finished and submitted AoIR extended abstract called #ownYourData in networked publics. Found some cracking new literature to read in the process. Did yoga once a day, except on Wednesday, when I did it twice. Went to a 90 minute gong meditation class. Fell asleep a bit. Ate loads of good but slightly more expensive than anticipated, and almost entirely non-local, food. Spent 3/4 day in Ubud. Opened my thesis in my text editor.
name: Week in review: 27 Feb - 5 Mar
published: 2017-03-05T21:00:00+08:00
tag: academia
tag: bali
tag: meditation
tag: travel
tag: yoga

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Relocated from Monkey House (bedbugs) to Serenity (yoga and pool) and back again Almost finished writing up the results of a descriptive study about online profiles, in chapter 3. Did yoga every day, including a full king pigeon for the first time, and almost unsupported headstand. Ate...
name: Week in review: 6 - 12 March
published: 2017-03-12T23:59:59+08:00
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: week+in+review
tag: yoga

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Moved from Monkey House to Surfer House, then back to Serenity. Continued work on chapter 3. Walked to Seminyak and back.
name: Week in review: 13 - 19 March
published: 2017-03-19T23:59:59+08:00
tag: bali
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: travel

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Continued to do yoga every day. Finished the profiles study in chapter 3, and cleaned up most of the rest of the chapter; it's 4/5 done now. Spent 2 days in Uluwatu. Flew to Perth.
name: Week in review: 20 - 26 March
published: 2017-03-26T23:59:59+08:00
tag: australia
tag: bali
tag: perth
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: travel

writing-technique
type: Note
content: Today's writing technique: I'm only allowed to order cake when I've finished a section.. I'm working from Shady Shack in Canggu, and all of the food going past looks amazing so.. it's working.
published: 2017-03-12T14:50:00+08:00
tag: phd
tag: phdchat
tag: youshouldbewriting

yoga-improvements
type: Note
content: Just last week I was telling my friend how I'll never be able to straighten my legs in downward dog because my hamstrings are so uncooperative, and I just accept that. This week, I'm straightening my legs in downard dog pretty much off the bat from the start of class. I'm still never expecting to get my heels down... but... Yesterday I did my first side crow. It was a sort of mutant side crow. Maybe like a very old one-winged side crow. But it was there.
published: 2017-03-15T13:18:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: yoga

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/04/58e4678254f98
type: Activity
type: Add
object: possible-distributed-anti-abuse
published: 2017-04-05T12:37:00+08:00
tag: abuse
tag: decentralisation
tag: social+web
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/04/5921664166e36
type: Add
content: Food and landscapes in Perth
published: 2017-04-21T19:04:41+08:00
summary: Amy added 15 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

at-least-mastodon
type: Note
content: WELL at least Mastodon is keeping me off twitter.
published: 2017-04-23T23:49:00+08:00
tag: fediverse
tag: life
tag: mastodon
tag: procrastination

at-wow2017
type: Note
content: At #WOW2017 Wendy Hall kicks off with ten years of Web Science #www2017
published: 2017-04-04T10:17:00+08:00
tag: wow2017
tag: www2017

disparate-mistreatment
type: Note
content: Disparate mistreatment: different error rates for two groups (eg. men and women) if you minimise error rates overall data. The semantics of the errors also matter, even if the error rates are the same for both groups. They found an algorithm for predicting likelihood of criminal re-offending disproportionately favoured white people in terms of false negatives, and biased against black people for false positives. Algorithms learn correlations between features, but what actually are the features and what does this mean in the real world? This is a really nice look beyond the numbers to who is affected by algorithmic decisions... and how to correct for it! And the speaker was excellent, explained things really well. (Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Isabel Valera, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez and Krishna P. Gummadi)
published: 2017-04-06T16:23:00+08:00
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/www2017
tag: algorithms
tag: bias

doing-jobs
type: Note
content: Watching my relatives in Perth puttering around in the garden and house, and also recalling my own parents doing the same at weekends as I was growing up. Both sets of family call it "doing jobs", ie. "I'm just going out to do jobs in the garden for a bit" or "I've got some jobs to do in the kitchen this afternoon". As I try to imagine myself in that situation, I realise I do exactly the same, just digitally. When I'm not working-working (writing my thesis or W3C stuff) I'm pruning, planting and weeding, rearranging and cleaning... my website.
published: 2017-04-15T11:49:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: sloph

important-puns
type: Note
content: The most important part of writing a literature review chapter is to make as many of my section titles puns as possible. Thanks, pungenerator.org!
published: 2017-04-22T14:16:00+08:00
tag: phd
tag: phdchat
tag: thesis
tag: youshouldbewriting

just-sleep
type: Note
content: all i want to do is sleep, and nothing tastes good.
published: 2017-04-23T13:26:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: phdchat

mastodon
type: Note
content: I am rhiaro on toot.cat, boop me. I have grand plans for posting to mastodon from my own posting clients via ActivityPub, and bridging Salmon to LDN so I can get the notifications back.. but right now I'm exhausted and overwhelmed and trying to finish my thesis, so hang tight.
published: 2017-04-21T13:30:00+08:00
tag: boop
tag: decentralisation
tag: federation
tag: hacking
tag: mastodon
tag: ostatus

oh-dont-talk
type: Note
content: OH: no more talking to Amy until she's finished her thesis.
published: 2017-04-30T11:23:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: thesis

ok-left
type: Note
content: Okay after like a week of hermitting in my room, not changing my clothes (pyjamas), minimal interactions with other people in the house, oversleeping, and forgetting to eat... I finally left the house and today I'm working from coffee shops and maybe the library in Joondalup. I realised after I got on the bus though that I should probably have showered before I left the house oh well at least people will leave me alone.
published: 2017-04-26T12:26:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: phdchat
tag: thesis

penang-lightning
type: Note
content: Ahh, Penang skies display purple sheet lightning for several hours, many nights. I'd almost forgotten. It's beautiful. Then comes the RAIN.
published: 2017-04-30T22:45+08:00
tag: penang
tag: travel

perth-cavesham
type: Add
content: Caversham Wildlife Park. More of a zoo than a conservation area than I would have liked.
published: 2017-04-18T19:03:11+08:00
summary: Amy added 44 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

perth-penang
type: Note
content: Australia is too expensive, I'm going back to Malaysia.
published: 2017-04-29T06:09:00+08:00
tag: perth
tag: travel

perth-photos-1
type: Add
content: Exploring Perth CBD
published: 2017-03-29T18:36:33+08:00
summary: Amy added 30 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

perth-photos-3
type: Add
content: Exploring and eating Perth CBD, King's Park, Leederville
published: 2017-04-02T18:38:17+01:00
summary: Amy added 54 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

perth-photos-4
type: Add
content: UWA beautiful campus
published: 2017-04-02T18:40:01+08:00
summary: Amy added 8 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

perth-photos-5
type: Add
content: More eating in Perth CBD, and WWW conf
published: 2017-04-07T17:40:42+08:00
summary: Amy added 16 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

perth-photos-6
type: Add
content: Perth festival for Buddha's birthday, skies, Loving Hut
published: 2017-04-08T19:41:44+08:00
summary: Amy added 8 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

perth-photos-7
type: Add
content: Day in Joondalup, cafe, lake, library
published: 2017-04-11T23:53:59+08:00
summary: Amy added 18 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

perth-photos-8
type: Add
content: Running around Ocean Reef
published: 2017-04-17T23:55:43+08:00
summary: Amy added 21 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-perth/
target: 2017-perth

phone-update
type: Article
content: Last month my Fairphone stopped charging unless I propped it upside down at a very specific angle. I tried several cables and diagnosed the problem to be with the charging port, though I can't completely rule out the battery. Anyway, it charges if pressure is applied to the point of connection from below (assuming the phone is flat on its back) and slightly to the right. This pressure can be achieved by balancing the phone upside down (the charge port is on top) against something so it is standing on the cable, but this angle also destroys cables. I can get a connection which is slightly gentler on the cable by putting something underneath the cable, and adjusting the angle of the phone just so. Anyway this was annoying as I can't charge on the go, but I was getting along fine until a few days ago. Switching topics for a second, a week or two ago it started complaining of no storage space. Internal memory was full, though phone memory and the SD card have plenty of GBs. I've told every app to store everything it possibly can on phone storage or the SD card, but okay. I don't really understand the difference between phone storage and internal storage. I started hitting 'clear data' for apps I could afford to regularly, and noticed that Google Play Store, Google Play Services, and the fucking Google keyboard were immediately filling back up again after I cleared them. The last two days, the phone has been charging veeerrry slowly, and last night it was plugged in all night (and carefully balanced to maintain the connection) and the battery level had decreased by morning (from about 50% to 12%). I had just changed the cable I was using, so I switched back to one that had been working fine previously and that didn't help. Frustrated with the no storage space problem, this morning I disabled Google Play Services and Store completely. Gmail now refuses to work, and I keep getting other random operating system error messages, but whatever. I have just returned to my phone …
name: Phone update
published: 2017-04-22T17:16:00+08:00
tag: fairphone
tag: google
tag: life
tag: phone

pioneering-ldow
type: Article
content: This year, the Linked Data on the Web workshop at WWW2017 held an open discussion session about academic publishing. In particular, about what is getting in the way of us getting more research outputs into the LOD Cloud. The discussion was led by Sarven Capadisli, the loudest voice behind the Linked Research initiative, who did his best to remain a neutral facilitator, and let others in the room argue about the things he is normally arguing about. There was a general consensus that we should have research from the Linked Data on the Web community in the form of Linked Data, and on the Web. Sounds like kind of a no-brainer, but you'd be surprised. Or maybe you wouldn't. The group, around 30 people, discussed the reasons why we, as a community, are lagging. One of the reasons is tooling. Nobody wants to hand-author HTML, especially not with RDFa in. Nobody really wants to turn their research articles into datasets in any other syntax either. There are (apparently) still a large portion of researchers even in CS who use MSWord to generate their final PDFs so they need something that works at least as well as that to generate Web-friendly submissions. There is also a matter of incentives, on several different fronts. Most researchers are a-researchin' and publishing their work to advance their career, and to get funding so they can do new cool stuff. So how are individual researchers incentivised to put in the extra effort it takes to generate HTML? On another level, how do we incentivise researchers to improve the state of tooling and resources? The first can be tackled along multiple fronts, one of which is petitioning publishers to demand HTML (just like today they demand LaTeX). What are the incentives for publishers to do this? There were a few ideas thrown around, including how they can improve their SEO, access, discoverability, and creating more pleasurable reading experiences than PDFs can deliver. But there's a large faction ill-at-ease with depending so much …
name: Pioneering the Linked Open Research cloud
published: 2017-04-04T09:51:00+08:00
tag: academia
tag: academic+publishing
tag: csarven
tag: ldow2017
tag: linked+data
tag: linked+research
tag: open+access
tag: www2017

political-context
type: Note
content: Prof Denemark crystallises some of the complex political contexts in which people use the Web and social media globally. When we study social media it's easy to forget the real people in real places with real events occurring around them.
published: 2017-04-04T14:30:00+08:00
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/wow2017
tag: context
tag: social+media
tag: social+science
tag: www2017

re-without-a-home
type: Note
content: A bunch of stuff I really relate to in here :D Slow trains, and breaks from socialisation. Writing and travellling.. Balancing cost-saving and comfort, mental health. I'm still working on my own definition of 'home'.
in reply to: without-a-home
published: 2017-04-18T22:39:00+08:00
tag: travel

revolutionised
type: Note
content: I have revolutionised my productivity by ordering the tabs in my text editor by chapter number. Rad-i-cal.
published: 2017-04-28T14:07:00+08:00
tag: phdchat
tag: thesis

seriously-doing
type: Note
content: How do I have so much left to do with two days remaining?? Seriously what have I been DOING for the last four years??
published: 2017-04-28T20:42:00+08:00
tag: phdchat
tag: thesis

struggle
type: Note
content: It's about keeping our jobs and keeping publishers in business. It's not about advancing the state of the Web. Boring. Keeping your job is more important than your research having an impact. Okay fine, you can have that opinion. But get out of my way. I struggle to relate to pushback against Linked Research ideas because of money/job/norms problems. I get that these are important issues for some people, but I'm so TIRED of people using this to blockade even discussing it. It's like they don't want the status quo to change; it's comfortable. They know one way to keep their job or get funding, and won't contemplate developing others. Use the goverment funding assignment as an excuse. Easy out, no point in bothering, the government will never change. Reinforce this for the next cohort of student. Keep perpetuating the problems for the next generation. This isn't what I want from academia, and I won't play.
published: 2017-04-04T17:00:00+08:00
tag: academic+publishing
tag: linked+research
tag: wow2017
tag: www2017
tag: linkedresearch.org

tfw-reviews
type: Note
content: TFW you really want to see the reviews for an academic paper but academia sucks.
published: 2017-04-23T13:11:00+08:00
tag: academia
tag: linked+research
tag: open+science
tag: peer+review
tag: phdchat
tag: linkedresearch.org

tfw-wifi
type: Note
content: TFW you've been away from somewhere that felt like home for a while, and you get back, and your devices connect to the wifi automatically. I'm finishing my thesis from Wholey Wonder, the vegan cafe in which I basically lived for the three months I spent in Penang before. I'm being fed and looked after very well, this was a great decision.
published: 2017-04-30T14:17:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: wholey+wonder

this-morning
type: Note
content: This morning I got on a train and went for brunch and to the beach without my phone. It was wild. I had to ask people for the time, look at streetside maps to navigate, and could only pretend to take photos of my food.
published: 2017-04-06T14:25:00+08:00
tag: life
tag: travel

week-in-review
type: Activity
type: Article
content: Explored Perth city center Finished a complete and somewhat coherant draft of Chapter 3
name: Week in review: 27 March - 2 April
published: 2017-04-02T23:59:55+08:00
tag: perth
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Went to the Linked Data on the Web workshop at WWW. Took part in a discussion about getting the community's academic work better represented in the LOD cloud: Pioneering the Linked Open Research Cloud Went to the Web Observatories workshop at WWW. Talked about my personal Web Observatory (ie. my website). On and off attended the rest of WWW. Ate a lot around Perth CBD, and went to Fremantle a couple of times.
name: Week in review: 3 - 9 April
published: 2017-04-09T23:59:59+08:00
tag: conference
tag: event
tag: ldow2017
tag: perth
tag: travel
tag: wow2017
tag: www2017

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Started running again. Helped with getting WebSub to CR and AS2 and Micropub to PR. Had a couple of days of mini-meltdown thesis-panic low productivity and oversleeping. Did my US federal taxes. Finished integrating Social Web Protocols into a draft of chapter 5. Finished a fairly large overhaul of Social Web Protocols.
name: Week in review: 10 - 16 April
published: 2017-04-16T23:30:00+08:00
tag: activitystreams
tag: micropub
tag: phd
tag: running
tag: social-web-protocols
tag: socialwg
tag: thesis
tag: w3c
tag: websub
tag: week-in-review

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Pretty much finished Chapter 5 Got distracted by Mastodon.
name: Week in review: 17 - 23 April
published: 2017-04-23T23:59:59+08:00
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: week-in-review

week-in-review-6
type: Article
content: Finished chapter 4 Did most of chapter 2 Finished chapters 1 and 6, intro and conclusions Flew from Perth to Penang Polished some things up Wait what? is that all the chapters?? Hahaha no you still have to spend two days fighting with references and literature you forgot to read! The thesis is late now. My RSI is bad.
name: Week in review: 24 - 30 April
published: 2017-04-30T23:59:59
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: travel
tag: week-in-review

wow2017-keynote
type: Note
content: Wendy Hall: We had ten years of the Web before we had Google.. We take for granted the future of the Web, but it's really only been around for a tiny fraction of time... Because we put content on the Web is why it grows. If we stop, it dies. Technologists can't study the web alone. We need a whole interdisciplinary relay to try to understand the Web and make sure it stays good for humanity. Right now I'm worried it's on the cusp of *not* being good for humanity. Today we're talking about the Web Observatory, and then about decentralisation of the world. They're connected by data. We want Web Observatories around the world... lots of telescopes, links to datasets eg. webobservatory.soton.ac.uk. Twenty years ago, we started Southampton eprints. People thought we were mad. The rest of the world caught up... but I did not forsee a world where I'd have to pay thousands of dollars to publish an open access publication. That's not we envisioned. To me, a Web Science approach to studying this issue is absolutely overdue.
in reply to: at-wow2017
published: 2017-04-04T10:54:00+08:00
tag: decentralisation
tag: linkedresearch
tag: wow2017
tag: www2017

back
type: Note
content: I am back online, but I don't really want to be.
published: 2017-05-14T13:01:00+08:00
tag: life

dder-edsc
type: Note
content: "...if our scholarly infrastructure is no longer fit for purpose, can we use it to change itself?" Dave de Roure asks the hard questions, talking about Scholarly Social Machines at EDSC2017.
published: 2017-05-29T09:30:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: social+machines
tag: linkedresearch.org

discovering-trieste
type: Article
content: I spent the first few days wandering around the center of Trieste, and easily stumbled upon all of the Piazzi (I'm going to assume this is the plural of Piazza without looking it up), piers, statues and Roman ruins that todo-in-trieste guides tell you to see. The core of Trieste is small and compact, as well as alive and beautiful, day and night. The town is set into the base - and creeping up the side - of hills which turn to mountains. From any perspective the backdrop is stunning. Green mountains dotted with orange rooftops in one direction, and the bright blue Adriatic Sea in the other. More photos from wanderings here and here. You probably know you can't confine me to a new town's core for very long though. Yesterday we took the 42 bus to Grotto Gigante, a giant cave about a 30 minute ride up and over some hills out of Trieste. Well worth the 9 EUR entrance fee (for student; 12 for 'adult'), this enormous chasm is one of the largest publicly accessible caves in Europe. Guided tours are hourly, and we learnt about the history of the cave's discovery and usage, the growth of the stalagmites and stalagtites, and the scientific research that goes on down there. Our tourgroup was occupied by an enormous pack of schoolkids, but the guide did a great job at distracting them so we (the handful of non-Italian speakers) could take undisturbed photos, and keeping them quiet whilst she recapped the information in English. The cave really is enormous, and the rock formations are really cool. It took about an hour to tour through it. The temperature inside is a cool 11 degrees C, and damp. The tickets included a 10% discount at the nearest restaurant, but the staff there were surly and none of the food looked good. There was nowhere to buy a bus ticket around the Grotto Gigante, so I figured we could walk along the bus route a bit and somewhere would surely pop up in one of the villages. Bus tickets here are bought before boarding, from corner shops or (less available) tick…
name: Discovering Trieste
published: 2017-05-24T18:00:00+02:00
tag: castle
tag: cave
tag: italy
tag: travel
tag: trieste
tag: walking

discussion-edsc
type: Note
content: Great discussion at Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication on the topic "what did third-party publishers ever do for us?" Notes so far on etherpad.
published: 2017-05-29T10:44:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: linkedresearch.org

edsc
type: Note
content: Starting in ten minutes - Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication. Live notes on etherpad. (Room Aurora I)
published: 2017-05-29T08:49:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: linkedresearch.org

elsevier-ghost
type: Note
content: Elsevier keeps 'ghost profiles' for people who don't have Mendeley accounts. You can "claim" your ghost, and it's "yours".. but uh.. not really because it's centralised. And this is presented like a nice fun helpful thing. Ghost profiles is some facebook-level creepy surveillence profiling shit. Makes me sad :( But not surprised.
published: 2017-05-28T15:00:00+02:00
tag: academic+publishing
tag: eswc2017
tag: social+web
tag: surveillence

eswc-fun
type: Note
content: ESWC is fun and all but when is it time to go in the sea?
published: 2017-05-28T16:50:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017

eswc-ldn
type: Note
content: At 12, csarven will present Linked Data Notifications.. Come to the talk for an overview, then if you want to integrate a part of the protocol into your existing applications, or build a receiver from scratch, we're both here all week and ready to help!
published: 2017-05-31T10:52:00+02:00
tag: csarven
tag: eswc2017
tag: hacking
tag: ldn
tag: linked+data+notifications
tag: w3c

eswc-ldn-2
type: Note
content: csarven presents Linked Data Notifications at ESWC2017... Starting with some motivational use cases in the social web space to which this W3C Recommendation has been applied so far.
published: 2017-05-31T12:04:00+02:00
tag: csarven
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: linked+data+notifications

guess-who
type: Note
content: It was only a matter of time. Lightning talk by csarven about Linked Data Notifications.
published: 2017-05-28T15:18:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: linked+research

ldn-enables
type: Note
content: LDN is based on Linked Data principles, enables decentralisation, and persistence of data.
published: 2017-05-31T12:09:00+02:00
tag: csarven
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: linked+data+notifications

ldn-questions
type: Note
content: LDN questions from the audience... About reference implementations... The test suite automatically checks compliance, and most implementations are open source. From people who are already considering to include LDN in their projects, asking for technical tips. Authentication/login part... this isn't part of the protocol, orthogonal. About LDP and Web of Things... can devices send notifications? What if applications can't use JSON-LD? Well, that's part of the Rec that applications must be able to at least do JSON-LD, but to cooperating applications can use content negotiation to agree on a more lightweight RDF format if they want. It's important for interoperability to be able to send JSON-LD in case a receiver can't understand any other RDF syntaxes; but if your sender and receiver both agree on another format (via the Accept-Post header) they can use that. Do additions to the simple protocol make it complicated? What about spam? LDN recommends application-specific constraints to deal with issues like this. We don't have a blanket suggestion for how to deal with these kinds of problems in every domain though, we leave it to more focused experts.
published: 2017-05-31T12:34:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: linked+data+notifications

meditate
type: Note
content: Now I am literally going to meditate on a hill in Malaysia for ten days. Ciao.
published: 2017-05-03T01:38:00+08:00
tag: life

penang-photos
type: Add
content: A few days in Penang. One night in a capsule hotel (covered by the hostel that double-booked me) and then a few days being fed and looked after by Tammy and Jon of Wholey Wonder whilst I desperately finished my thesis. A trip to Chew Jetty and the underwhelming Crystal Museum. Breakfast with Malaysian Mum at Purple Stone in Air Itam before heading up the hill to meditate.
published: 2017-05-03T12:06:25+08:00
summary: Amy added 31 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo/
target: 2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo

penang-photos-2
type: Add
content: Some photos from the Vipassana meditation center on Penang Hill East, with a view over Air Itam and Kek Lok Si temple. I took them on the last day, when I got my phone back. Then I hauled a number of co-meditators to Wholey Wonder and chilled out there for the rest of the day. Many people had spent the last ten days silently contemplating my dreads (particularly the people who sat behind me in the meditation hall and dining hall), and a few concluded they wanted some of their own.
published: 2017-05-14T16:20:19+08:00
summary: Amy added 22 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo/
target: 2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo

photos-kl
type: Add
content: One night and a morning in KL. Three hours in a bed-bugged bunk in an otherwise nice hostel. I meditated on the rooftop, and met a cool Syrian guy who advised me where to get breakfast.
published: 2017-05-15T07:13:21+08:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo/
target: 2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo

photos-tokyo
type: Add
content: One day in Tokyo with Dave and J, who looked after me in shifts as they were never both free at the same time. I did Dave's laundry and made him eat vegetables for lunch. J made me a super romantic dinner, with candles and light jazz. She homemade vegan spaghetti bolognese, chocolate cake, and coconut ice cream! It was incredible. I gave her a dress I picked up in Egypt a few years ago and haven't been wearing much. Then I flew to Moscow.
published: 2017-05-18T13:30:18+08:00
summary: Amy added 14 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo/
target: 2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo

photos-trieste
type: Add
content: Eating and wandering around Trieste.
published: 2017-05-21T11:27:03+02:00
summary: Amy added 71 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-2
type: Add
content: More food, more wandering, Trieste.
published: 2017-05-22T22:10:43+02:00
summary: Amy added 38 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-4
type: Add
content: An hour walk to get vegan pizza at Le Agavi
published: 2017-05-23T21:32:20+03:00
summary: Amy added 22 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-5
type: Add
content: Castello San Guisto in the center of Trieste, featuring gelato from Gelato Marco and lunch at Zoe Market.
published: 2017-05-24T20:45:04+02:00
summary: Amy added 42 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-6
type: Add
content: The port, Pedocin, pizza
published: 2017-05-26T16:52:44+02:00
summary: Amy added 25 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-7
type: Add
content: Molo Audace and views from Ostello Tergesto
published: 2017-05-26T16:56:22+02:00
summary: Amy added 37 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-8
type: Add
content: Final evening in Trieste
content: Wandering around Miramare
published: 2017-05-27T17:25:46+02:00
published: 2017-05-27T23:03:11+02:00
summary: Amy added 25 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-venice
type: Add
content: A brief stop near Mestre in Venice, some vegan food in a bookstore cafe, then the train to Trieste.
published: 2017-05-18T14:24:15+02:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

pizza-backlog
type: Note
content: I've been in Italy less than a week and I already have a pizza backlog.
published: 2017-05-24T20:39:00+02:00
tag: food
tag: italy
tag: pizza
tag: travel

plug-edsc
type: Note
content: Hate the state of academic publishing? Love it? Somewhere in between? Come to Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication workshop in room Aurora 1 at 9 tomorrow!
published: 2017-05-28T09:48:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: event
tag: linked+research
tag: linkedresearch.org

response-to-scholarly-social-machines
type: Article
content: This article looks at the scholarly communication ecosystem through the lens of social machines; something I have thought about a lot but only partially articulated through my contributions to Linked Research. In particular, the hypothesis that we are struggling to improve the state of scholarly communication despite advancements in technology because we are trapped in a machine we have ceased to see is interesting. I've had many conversations with people over the last couple of years who balk at any suggestion of a radical upheaval of scholarly communication, hiding behind notions of futility of incentivising researchers to do anything other than pubish or persih, the immovability of the for-profit publishing industry. They complain about the state of things, yet are transfixed by the status quo. I think that framing this problem as a 'trap' will perhaps nudge folks into looking for a way out, and social machines is a useful concept to work with, something very demonstrably real in other domains, and this might help with finding a perspective on scholarly communication. The article mentions the 'ecosystem' and lists some of the stages. I think it's worth noting that in Linked Research: An Approach for Scholarly Communication we characterised the different stages, roles and actors in scholarly communication in detail (there's even a diagram!). It's important because this is a hard problem, too big a space, to talk about all at once, and breaking it down into smaller chunks that nonetheless interlink (and the interlinking is critical) can help. Dave writes that we see the same articles about how to improve being published over and over again, and this is true. I assembled a collection of some of them here. People lament that it's too hard to change, and us Linked Research-y types release software and publish our work in a Webby decentralised way (just like Dave has done, for the version of his article that I'm reading) and shove it under peoples' noses and cry that h…
in reply to: scholarly-social-machines.html
name: A response to "Scholarly Social Machines"
published: 2017-05-27T15:47:00+02:00
tag: academic+publishing
tag: edsc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: reviews
tag: social+machines
tag: linkedresearch.org

review-of-creation-nas
type: Article
content: This article addresses quite a specific problem: collaborative document editing without third-party servers. The reasons for not wanting to rely on Web servers, even if they're under the control of the document author, is fairly well explained and motivated. Addressing authoring solutions to MS Word users is diving in the deep end, but a worthy goal as this reaches a lot of researchers. However, I question that the idea of installing software is too complicated for most people.. do you not think it's possible to get the installation process for FW to be as simple as for MSWord? I realise that this article is not about FidusWriter, but rather collaborative document editing via a NAS, but it would be helpful to explain more about what FidusWriter does and how it is normally run, ie. not on a NAS, and some comparison. The authors seem to feel strongly about data ownership, mentioning privacy potentially being violated by corporations and governments. It's not clear however that FidusWriter provides a publishing solution, only an authoring solution. That is, once an article is finished it seems that a PDF is exported and turned over to third parties anyway? Relatedly, I would love to know more about how the authors envision this fitting in with the rest of the scholarly communication process, as mentioned in the abstract, particularly peer-review. Could a similar setup be purposed to permit reviewers to control their review contents as well? I assume FidusWriter takes care of access control, citations, formulas and figures, though the article does not state that. The article mentions that there are other web services for academic authoring, but doesn't name any. I'd be interested to know which ones the authors analysed. Is it only the ones in the footnote? In which case only Authorea and Overleaf are problematic in the ways mentioned for running on third-party servers. I don't really see evidence that the authors have performed a comprehensive search for alternatives in…
in reply to: decentralized-creation-of-academic-documents-using-a-network-attached-storage-nas-server
name: Review of "Decentralized creation of academic documents using a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server"
published: 2017-05-27T17:05:00+02:00
tag: academic+publishing
tag: authoring
tag: decentralisation
tag: fidus+writer
tag: linked+research
tag: reviews
tag: linkedresearch.org

review-of-instrumenting
type: Article
content: I like how this article seeks to accommodate a broad view of viable data sources for research, and particularly encourages data sharing and reuse between researchers. The authors provide three examples of existing tools which could do (or be adapted to do) parts of the suggested pipeline. I hope that publishing this encourages others who are developing tools along these lines to come forward and let the authors and others know so that the community can start a comprehensive directory, as I'm sure there are plenty more. It would be helpful to also have a characterisation of what is definitely missing as far as the authors know, and what the authors think are good directions to priortise for near term research and development. Obviously I agree with the authors' call to open source such tooling for community benefit. I'd be particularly interested to hear your thoughts on the "agreed-upon integration platform" and what you think the best forum for discussing such a platform would be. Hopefully we can come up with ideas for that during the EDSC workshop discussion sessions!
in reply to: instrumenting-continuous-knowledge-extraction-sharing-and-benchmarking
name: Review of Instrumenting Continuous Knowledge Extraction, Sharing, and Benchmarking
published: 2017-05-19T13:01+02:00
tag: academia
tag: academic+publishing
tag: edsc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: review
tag: semantic+web
tag: linkedresearch.org

review-of-utilising-semantic-workflows
type: Article
content: I can see how the ultimate goal described by the article - to publish semantic representations of experimental workflows - contributes towards the vision of decentralised scholarly communication. Unfortunately I'm missing how the work described in the article contributes towards this ultimate goal. The abstract says you want to see how semantic workflow creation can "be combined with traditional forms of documentation and publication" but I don't see a result pertaining to this. To begin with, the purpose of the tool is quite narrow. How do you know for sure that "advancing knowledge about the use of vocabularies in facilitating sharing and repeatability of experiments and replication of results" ultimately contributes towards reproducability of results, which is the high level goal of this work? How does knowledge of OPMW tie in with the authoring or experimentation process, for example? Are researchers expected to document their workflows as they go along, or retrospectively after the fact (I imagine this depends on the task at hand). For which stage is your tool intended? Or is it simply a teaching tool rather than designed for actually documenting workflows? This isn't clear. I thought I might understand better by running the tool, but it seems to be broken. I'm skeptical about the open world assumption and the "nature of Linked Data" being used as a reason to not provide any instruction for using the tool... I would have thought that whether instruction is needed is a UI concern. There is no results or analysis section, and the tense makes it sound like the described experiment hasn't actually been carried out. Are you asking for feedback about the design of the experiment? If so, you should state this clearly in the introduction and abstract. if not then I'd like to read this again when your findings are ready. The background work sections appear to be fairly comprehensive, but this is not my area of expertise, so if there is related work or other background i…
in reply to: eswc
name: Review of "Utilising Semantic Web Ontologies to publish Experimental Workflows"
published: 2017-05-27T18:35:00+02:00
tag: academic+publishing
tag: edsc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: reviews
tag: semantic+web

smalltalk
type: Note
content: Okay I'm burnt out on small talk after the first coffeebreak. If anyone wants to just stand together without conversing so as not to look lonely/lost I'm game.
published: 2017-05-28T11:10:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: life
tag: social

thesisnt
type: Note
content: This looks quite heavy. My thesis is, and always has been, online at dr.amy.gy. You can read it, and you can even annotate it with dokieli, or open github issues, so long as you acknowledge that I rushed a lot of parts (my own fault). I will continue to improve it over the coming months, and my defense/viva will be in September, after which I expect lots of corrections and to republish a better version. So don't feel bad if you want to wait until then to read it :)
published: 2017-05-03T01:18:00+08:00
tag: phd
tag: phdchat
tag: thesis

trieste-more
type: Article
content: After drafting my last post from Zoe Market cafe, I was struck with the urge to see what the Trieste coastline had to offer further south. I walked to the port area, and discovered it's not really a place for wandering.. big highways and industrial buildings. Nonetheless, even the warehouses and apartment blocks were fairly aesthetically pleasing, and at one point a long park runs parallel to the coast, almost like an apology. GPS trace of the walk here. I did make it to Pedocin beach eventually though. It took a while to find.. I walked around the pier, which felt quite dead, and found the lighthouse. But industrial buildings in every direction seemed to be preventing me from accessing the coast.. though as I walked past one large wall, I could hear children, so I persisted. Eventually I found the entrance, through an unassuming concrete cabin. I think the entry fee is 1 Euro, but there was no-one there to take it. The cabin has two exits, on the left for women and the right for men. A wall divides the beach in two. The beach is pebbles, with immediate access to the sea; small and peaceful, with one vendor selling drinks and snacks. I napped until I was woken by the tide lapping at my feet. Super pretty white and purple barrel jellyfish fill the bay around here, and Pedocin was no exception. It was only 20 minutes to follow the coast around back into town. More photos here. In the evening I ate cake from Giardina Tergesteo and pizza (oops) from DNapoli. I had to add the remaining half of a Marinara to the pizza I had already accumulated from Le Agavi the day before. The next day we picked up gelato and took that and the pizza backlog to Molo Audace, a long concrete pier off Piazza Unita, for a picnic. Later in the evening I walked by myself to ErbOsteria, a charming vegetarian restaurant which uses aromatic herbs for all dishes. I was the only one there for most of the evening, and was treated to a three-course vegan meal with homemade iced tea. It was a wonderful …
name: Treiste some more
published: 2017-05-26T17:28:00+02:00
tag: beach
tag: italy
tag: sea
tag: travel
tag: trieste
tag: vegan

trieste-photos
type: Add
content: Grotto Gigante, walk to Miramare, Castello di Miramare, and the seafront

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Returned to Penang. Finally 'finished' chapter 2 but I hate it. Wrote some JavaScript that automatically figures out numbers for referencing from the list at the end. HANDED MY PHD THESIS IN only a day and a half late really Went to meditate in total silence on the side of a hill in Malaysia for ten days. (no really)
name: Weeks in review: 1 - 14 May
published: 2017-05-14T23:59:59+08:00
tag: life
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: week-in-review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Flew from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo. Hung out with Dave and J, and Mike S and family in Tokyo. Flew to Venice (via Moscow). Train to Trieste. Ate all of Trieste. Reviewed an EDSC article. Woefully failed to attend any W3C meetings. Got Micropub and AS2 ready to be published as RECs.
name: Week in review: 15 - 21 May
published: 2017-05-21T21:05:00+02:00
tag: linked+research
tag: socialwg
tag: travel
tag: w3c
tag: week-in-review

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Explored Trieste. Watched all of the new WestWorld series. Tinkered a bit with sloph, but nothing to report right now. Reviewed or responded to the rest of the contributions for EDSC2017. Went to Portoroz for ESWC2017.
name: Week in review: 22 - 28 May
published: 2017-05-28T23:59:59+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review

words-pages
type: Note
content: 216 pages. 79,165 words. 4 years and 7 months and 2 days 21 countries.
published: 2017-05-02T10:51:00+08:00
tag: phd
tag: thesis

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/06/5942ea4d1ff16
type: Add
content: Homemade pita/chapati with salad and burger.. and fries of course.
published: 2017-06-15T22:12:54+02:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/06/594ec179106ba
type: Add
content: Flatbread 'n' beans
published: 2017-06-24T21:45:54+02:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

ancona-split-photos
type: Add
content: The bus from Rome to Ancona; the ferry from Ancona to Split
published: 2017-06-10T23:51:00+02:00
summary: Amy added 42 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

been-sloph
type: Note
content: I've been really really wanting to work on sloph for ages but I'm in the middle of a data model update and didn't branch, so my local backend is completely b0rked, making it impossible to add new features. I wrote some frontend code instead. Now my image-to-album-add posts (eg) and articles with many images in have a slideshow, complete with keyboard controls (arrow keys and escape). Better than nothing.
published: 2017-06-25T23:26:00+02:00
tag: hacking
tag: sloph

brain-shape
type: Note
content: My brain is changing shape.
in reply to: day-1-week-3
published: 2017-06-26T16:57:00+02:00
tag: data+modelling
tag: life

cfc-webconf
type: Article
content: You can now contribute to the material presented at The WebConf 2018! I'm cochairing the developers track with Thomas Steiner, and we are, naturally, explicitly encouraging non-Paper or more Webby contributions. If the developers track can't do it, no-one can! Authors should be creative in finding the most effective way to communicate their work, and we welcome dynamic or interactive contributions. Contributions using native Web technologies, or otherwise in a format which exemplifies or demonstrates dogfooding of the technology in question are particularly encouraged. More details about the submission process coming soon, but we will accept (nay, encourage) a publicly accessible URL pointing to your material, and we will snapshot it at a web archive or download it on the submission deadline. For some ideas and tools for communicating academic work on the Web, check out LinkedResearch. I'm hopeful we have the option for an open review process. Still working that out. The WebConf organising committee will hold the copyright over works included in the proceedings, but release it under a CC-BY 4.0 license, which allows ACM to publish their proceedings. We haven't worked this out yet, but I'm hopeful that we can allow contributors to opt out of handing their copyright over at all and release their work under a CC-BY 4.0 license themselves. It might be that we have to exclude these works from the ACM proceedings and publish an alternative proceedings to include these, but we'll see.. stand by.
name: The WebConf Call for Contributions
published: 2017-06-22T14:55:00+02:00
tag: chairing
tag: cv
tag: linkedresearch
tag: resume
tag: webconf18
tag: www2018
tag: linkedresearch.org

cool-ds9
type: Note
content: Cool! I can spend a Sunday staying inside and watching DS9 in my pyjamas, but without not-writing-thesis guilt! (This is the first time I've been stable and had the opportunity to since I handed in). Instead, I just get not-doing-other-side-projects guilt. Can't win 'em all.
published: 2017-06-18T18:57:00+02:00
tag: ds9
tag: life
tag: star+trek
tag: thesis

day-1-week-3
type: Note
content: Day 1 of week 3 of Real World job with Real World database. Slowly coming to terms with things that aren't triples. Slowly.
published: 2017-06-26T16:38:00+02:00
tag: data+modelling
tag: database
tag: life
tag: linked+data

dokieli-icwe
type: Note
content: It's dokieli o'clock at ICWE2017. Sarven Capadisli presents tooling for a read-write Web which helps you own your data, and have more control over the user interfaces you use to create and edit content. dokieli includes social features, including sharing and annotations, across decentralised personal data stores. It's open source and there are plenty of issues... help out :) Decentralised Authoring, Annotations and Notifications for a Read-Write Web with dokieli article is here.
published: 2017-06-06T12:20:00+02:00
tag: dokieli
tag: icwe2017
tag: linked+data
tag: linked+research

dokieli-icwe-2
type: Note
content: Some questions about dokieli: You can 'save as' to somewhere... where exactly? Your personal data store can be accessible at any URL, you just need write access and a script that understands HTTP requests and dokieli can talk to it. The UI/authentication flow depends on the choices you make about how your server is set up. ... how will it compete with other [centralised] approaches in the editing marketplace? Well.. dokieli is not trying to take over the world. It's a prototype, to show how we, can decentralise content creation, designed to encourage experimentation in this space. What happens to annotations when text changes? You can annotate a static copy of your own. But we have open issues around that. How do authors know when an article gets a notification? They can use any LDN consumer to read that inbox.. This is orthogonal to dokieli. An LDN consumer could give them a desktop notification, make their mobile buzz, or print something out of a receipt machine, or whatever is useful for you as an alert. What about privacy? Access control is orthogonal, you can apply these rules on your personal data store when you store documents and comments etc. ...and some things to do with trust and provenance.
published: 2017-06-06T12:42:00+02:00
tag: dokie.li
tag: dokieli
tag: icwe2017
tag: linked+research

downsizing
type: Article
content: When I first began my #justgo adventure, I had a 52L and a 40L backpack, both of which had some stuff attached to the outside. I've shed a lot of stuff since then. On a brief return to the US a month in, I reclaimed my small laptop backpack, because I missed having something daypack sized. From then, when all packed up, I had to keep my laptop in the daypack and the daypack inside the 40L, and stuff other stuff around the outside of it. Since the 40L is side-loading and the daypack top loading, getting my laptop out (eg. at airport security) became a massive PITA. Anyway, I digress. In Australia, I swapped my 40L with my cousin Tim for a top-loading ~50L at full capacity, but which zipped to a smaller size, a little smaller than my 40L. It was also much lighter when empty, not weighed down by the novel and exciting but actually not very useful satchel-style facilities, and general extra toughness that my 40L has. It nonetheless has decent side, front, and top pockets. I still traveled with my daypack inside the Tim backpack, but being top-loading this was now less inconvenient for access. I kept the extra capacity at the bottom zipped and strapped up, as tight as could be, so it was at its smallest size. Tim's backpack is good overall, but a little dodgy in some places. The top handle was missing when I got it, I broke a toggle, and one of the strap sizey things is broken so it takes some manual jiggling to tighten the straps. The main straps are not particularly padded or robust, so if I was packing it at full capacity I'd worry about how long they'd last, or be comfortable for. When I made the swap, I intended to downsize such that I'd ditch my 52L somewhere, and pack Tim's to capacity, then have just that and the daypack. Now, I have repacked again but left Tim's backpack empty. I have reached a point where I could ditch my 52L and just use Tim's and the daypack, but I've made the executive decision to keep the 52L and rehome Tim's instead, due to the higher qual…
name: Downsizing
published: 2017-06-10T22:07:00+02:00
tag: justgo
tag: travel

elasticsearch
type: Note
content: Today, learning ElasticSearch.
published: 2017-06-22T14:48:00+02:00
tag: cv
tag: elasticsearch
tag: hacking
tag: resume
tag: work

email
type: Note
content: Since I switched from gmail to thunderbird this week, email has become a lot less distracting since it's a lot harder to look at. I also haven't applied any filters to my inbox yet. Maybe I never will.
published: 2017-06-16T17:01:00+02:00
tag: email
tag: life

finally
type: Note
content: Finally, we did something right. Publishing your article as HTML doesn't damage your chances after all :)
published: 2017-06-01T17:40:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: linked+data+notifications
tag: phd
tag: phdchat

gh-burnout
type: Note
content: I think I may have suffered minor burnout at the beginning of last month.
published: 2017-06-15T17:19:00+02:00
tag: burnout
tag: github
tag: hacking
tag: life

icwe-springer
type: Note
content: At the ICWE conference dinner last night, it was proudly announced that they have finally signed a long term contract with Springer for proceedings publication. I. Am. Confused. This seems like a backward step. Locking another generation of researchers into a broken system of academic elitism and inaccessibility of knowledge. This does not conjure an appropriate picture of the future for the Web engineering community. Why have we engineered ourselves into a paywalled corner of static PDFs? Aren't we supposed to be pioneering here? Why is it such an "achievement" to pay a huge pile of money to a for-profit company to keep all of our hard work in a dead end, which our libraries and institutions have to pay again to get it back out of? Is everyone just cool with this?
published: 2017-06-08T14:25:00+02:00
tag: linkedresearch.org
tag: academic+publishing
tag: icwe2017
tag: linked+research
tag: springer

interesting-matter
type: Add
content: Some interesting projects funded by Matter
object: meet-matter-seven-d07f02683108
published: 2017-06-17T10:42:00+02:00
tag: benwerd
tag: hhalpin
tag: journalism
tag: matter
tag: tech
target: bookmarks

ldn-net
type: Article
content: This article was published in issue #296 (Summer 2017) of net magazine! You may by now have come across the notion of 're-decentralising' the Web, particularly the Social Web. This is about gaining better control over where we store our personal data. It has become common practice to hand over our data to a few major companies in exchange for 'free' services like games, productivity apps, email, and of course social media. Linked Data Notifications (LDN) is a W3C Recommendation, and one of several protocols standardised by the Social Web Working Group as a core mechanism to make decentralisation possible. Decentralisation Right now, when you get a notification from your favourite social networking app (or your calendar, or your hotel reservation site) you can view it once within that closed system, and then it tends to disappear. Imagine if you could choose a trusted location to store your notifications data (for example a personal data store or server) and grant access to different applications. Notifications are no longer locked in to the system which generated them in the first place; data from one application can be reused by another. There are clear benefits of this practice. The end user is free to switch between applications without having to input the necessary data from scratch each time, as well as changing where their data is stored without disrupting the apps they use, because applications can just re-discover the new location. This benefits application developers too, who can now focus on their core product or service. LDN integration means that applications can nonetheless enhance their functionality when users choose to share notification data from complementary services, and benefit from a standard mechanism for doing so rather than depending on the proprietary API of a third-party social network provider. The Protocol LDN is a simple HTTP-based protocol which describes three roles in notification-oriented interactions: senders, receivers, and consum…
name: Web Standards Column: Linked Data Notifications
published: 2017-07-17T09:30:00+02:00
tag: cv
tag: ldn
tag: resume
tag: socialwg

learning-journalist
type: Note
content: This week I'm really learning deeply about investigative journalism. MY LIFE IS SPREADSHEETS.
published: 2017-06-29T12:34:56+02:00
tag: journalism
tag: work

nah-triples
type: Note
content: Nah but everything is triples really and we're just waiting for sparql engines to get faster so we can actually treat them that way right?
in reply to: brain-shape
published: 2017-06-26T16:59:00+02:00
tag: data+modelling
tag: linked+data

note-eid
type: Note
content: Note to self: it is Eid, everything is closed. Including supermarkets. And the flea market I walked 6km to get to. It was a nice walk though.
published: 2017-06-25T14:28:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: sarajevo
tag: travel

note-to-self
type: Note
content: Note to self... tomorrow my LetsEncrypt cert and travel insurance expire. Renew both.
published: 2017-06-29T11:30:00+02:00
tag: hacking
tag: letsencrypt
tag: life
tag: travel

occrp
type: Article
content: The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Sarajevo Proud to be joining OCCRP as a contractor for a while to work on data wrangling and software for investigative journalism.
name: Investigative Data Engineer, OCCRP
published: 2017-06-13T10:00:00+02:00
tag: cv
tag: data
tag: occrp
tag: resume
tag: sarajevo
tag: work

photos-le-bistrot
type: Add
content: Last night in Rome: fancy pants veg*n dinner at Le Bistrot
published: 2017-06-09T06:52:40+02:00
summary: Amy added 12 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-portoroz
type: Add
content: Food, sea, and sunsets in Portoroz and Piran
published: 2017-06-02T09:32:54+02:00
summary: Amy added 18 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-rome
type: Add
content: Walking around and eating Rome

photos-rome-2
type: Add
content: Day two of walking around and eating Rome, featuring the Catacombs of Callisto
published: 2017-06-04T21:37:29+02:00
summary: Amy added 17 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-rome-3
type: Add
content: Hanging around in Rome with ICWE peeps
published: 2017-06-07T23:38:36+02:00
summary: Amy added 28 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-sarajevo
type: Add
content: The road to Sarajevo, some photos of the city center, and places I stay(ed).
published: 2017-06-15T22:11:32+02:00
summary: Amy added 23 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-2
type: Add
content: Drizzly in Sarajevo, but holy fuck this town is beautiful.
published: 2017-06-17T18:04:41+02:00
summary: Amy added 33 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-3
type: Add
content: A run around my local hill. Distance view of some large graveyards, the place where the trams are born, and a lovely sunset.
published: 2017-06-20T09:33:37+02:00
summary: Amy added 15 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-4
type: Add
content: Sarajevo sunset from Kod Biban restaurant
published: 2017-06-23T09:24:00+02:00
summary: Amy added 19 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-5
type: Add
content: I looooove this town. A short wander to Ciglane market and around the nearby hillside and somehow everything is stunning. In an abandoned, broken down kind of way. I thought I'd found the place where the city trams go to sleep, but turns out it's a standalone little track with four tiny cabins which take you up the hill and back. The journey time is less than a minute, and I watched it trundle up and back several times, a driver inside, no passengers. It's adorable. No ticket machines or anything.. not sure what the deal is. Maybe it's free. It and the nearby steps are all beautifully decorated with graffiti.
published: 2017-06-24T17:54:31+02:00
summary: Amy added 15 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-6
type: Add
content: Walk down the river to find the flea market at Stup, which wasn't there because it's Eid. Checked out an abandoned factory. Took the tram back to the Old Town. GPS trace.
published: 2017-06-25T15:26:46+02:00
summary: Amy added 31 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-7
type: Add
content: The anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand seems like a good day to post the pictures I took a couple of days ago of the bridge where it happened.
published: 2017-06-28T12:02:06+02:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-trieste
type: Add
content: Lunch at Draw in Trieste
published: 2017-06-02T14:04:05+02:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

sarajevo-shopping
type: Note
content: Sarajevo is bursting with second hand shops! Time for my annual shopping trip.
published: 2017-06-17T13:28:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: sarajevo
tag: shopping
tag: travel

sia
type: Note
content: Late to the party, but last month I discovered Sia and omg <3 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKSRyLdjsPA.
published: 2017-06-16T09:51:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: music
tag: sia

split-again
type: Article
content: I wandered around Split and swam in the sea today. It was busy, and felt more touristy than last time, though I'm about two months later than last time, a month into to summer and high season. It's mostly as I remember it, but some improvements. There are more vegan food options around for a start. Last time I asked at lots of gelato places for dairy free, and got either blank stares or definitive nos. This time, everywhere had vegan sorbet, and one had a vegan sugar free chocolate ice cream. I returned to MakroVega and Vege Fast Food, places I ate before. I also stopped at Marta's Fusion, a veggie restaurant I did not come across last time. The hostel I'm staying in (En Route) is a bit out of town, and beside a super weird semi-abandoned mall/stadium. It's new and really nice. The 18-bed dorm is enormous, loads of space, and private curtained pod-beds. Unfortunately it's full of party animals. Right now (7pm) there's music blasting from the common area or outside. When I took a nap between 9am and 11am, there were also ravers in the room. So I'm anticipating the same late tonight as well, or at the very least boistrous late returns. Oh well, such is dorm life. My main mission today was to get a bus ticket for tomorrow. After being distracted by the beach for a few hours I finally made it to the bus station. Online, tickets cost 210kn, but not all bus companies are represented. There's supposedly a Bosnian company with shorter travel times, but I couldn't find anyone representing them there. In the end I paid 166kn (less than £20) for a one way 8 hour journey, leaving at 7am, with Globtour. Then I wandered around town... ate food, bought food for tomorrow.
name: Split again
published: 2017-06-10T19:15:00+02:00
tag: split
tag: travel

though-city
type: Note
content: Though I live in a city and can easily get everything I need and almost every thing I want, I feel like I am living the simple life because I have neither kettle, toaster, nor microwave.
published: 2017-06-24T21:54:00+02:00
tag: life

transporter-lunch
type: Note
content: If I had a transporter, I'd go to Penang for lunch every day.
published: 2017-06-16T12:08:00+02:00
tag: food
tag: life

vegan-portoroz
type: Article
content: Portoroz and Piran are touristy parts of Slovenia, close to the Italian border. There's not an abundance of vegan options, but I did find raw cake at Caffe Teatro in Piran (a big yellow building near the port). For 5 EUR a slice, this was a one-time indulgence, but it was very good. At the other end geographically, in a Portoroz hotel spa you can find a rawfood cafe called Fresh4You. I tried some really great cakes and smoothies, and took a raw lasagne and hemp salad to go. A few hours later, they were still pretty good. The portions were decent sized, and the savoury dishes were not mind-blowing, but not bad either. The chocolate cake on the other hand did blow my mind. It closes at 6.
name: Vegan in Portoroz and Piran
published: 2017-06-02T11:30:00+02:00
tag: food
tag: slovenia
tag: travel
tag: vegan

vegan-rome
type: Article
content: I didn't make a particular effort to explore Rome's vegan offerings, but outside of pizza marinara and spaghetti pomodoro, I did eat at a couple of fantastic places worth writing about. Ecru: All raw, all vegan, with a very extensive menu. It's north-west of the city center, near the Vatican and the river. There's power and wifi, but not much seating. I spent a couple of hours there early evening, recovering from a day of walking, and it wasn't busy. I shared lassi (cashew yoghurt), smoothie, two mains: seaweed spaghetti which was salty and filling, avocado tartare which was refreshing and came with crackers and vegetable rolls; and two desserts: almond granita, which was super creamy, and a grain-packed granola bar covered in chocolate. Dharma Cakes: An entirely vegan bakery that understates it; seems like a normal bakery unless you know otherwise. Inside is spacious and a nice place to sit, with a play area for kids. While I was there, a parrot on a leash brought her two humans for lunch. I think she was a regular because one of the menus at my table had very recognisable beak marks, which I noted when I sat down, before the bird even showed up. Power but no wifi. A lunch and brunch menu, coffees with a variety of milk options, and of course an abundance of cake. I shared two to accompany an almond cappuccino, and two to go. Sugary, not the healthy kind, but delicious and varied. Wadi: Another vegan bakery, but this one is upfront about it. South of the city, near the University area. I went here a couple of times as it was convienent from my conference. They usually have wifi, but their router was broken last week. There's power though; it's small, but nice to sit. The cakes are again not the healthy vegan variety, but change every day and there's a wide selection, at good prices. I had a chocolate doughnut twice in a row.. and also tried various small cookies, croissant and cake. They have some savoury offerings, including a pizza-like quiche with vegetable topp…
name: Vegan in Rome
published: 2017-06-09T20:30:00+02:00
tag: food
tag: rome
tag: travel
tag: vegan

vegan-trieste
type: Article
content: Trieste is small, so as you'd expect pure veg*n restaurants are limited. There was nonetheless more than enough to keep me occupied for a week though. Of course, every Italian restaurant offers the chance to take vegetarian pizza and pasta dishes without cheese, and most offer pizza marinara and spaghetti pomodoro anyway if you don't feel like making special requests. Giardinio Tergesteo: a vegetarian restaurant with a lot of vegan options that I returned to over and over. They have ample seating options outside, inside, and outside-inside in a kind of mall area. There's power and wifi, and it's the sort of place you could go for a formal dinner, or to spend an afternoon with your laptop. At lunchtimes on weekdays they have a changing pasta dish, and the rest of the time they have salads, sandwiches (various breads and fillings) and a variety of vegan cake. Erb Osteria: somewhat out of the way and in an odd part of town, this is a small vegetarian restaurant where all dishes are oriented around aromatic herbs. The menu changes daily, so it isn't written down. The decor was very cute, and it wasn't busy when I was there early evening. I asked the owner to furnish me with courses of vegan dishes, and was not disappointed. I was even more surprised by the price at the end, which was 13 EUR for a starter, main, dessert, iced tea, and another dessert to go. You would have to go out of your way to pass here I think, but worth a detour. Draw Food: Draw is raw, but not all vegan. The menu is mostly meat and fish options, but one section is veg*n and some dishes can be tweaked to remove non-vegan cheese. They have their own cashew-based ricotta which I couldn't get enough of. There's power and wifi, and the decor is great. I spent an afternoon here with my laptop, as well as returning for several other meals, lunchtime and evenings. I had the aubergine ricotta dish twice, and it was slightly different but deliciously creamy both times. I also tried courgette spaghetti with m…
name: Vegan in Trieste
published: 2017-05-27T08:00:00+02:00
tag: food
tag: travel
tag: trieste
tag: vegan

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Co-chaired the ESWC Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication workshop. Transcribed a panel about the Future of Proceedings Publication. Morally supported the presentation of our LDN article. Went to some talks and ate some food and stuff. Won the Best Student Paper prize. Took the train to Rome for ICWE2017; spent the weekend exploring Rome and eating pizza.
name: Week in review: 29 May - 4 June
published: 2017-06-04T23:59:59+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: phd
tag: rome
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Attended ICWE2017 in Rome, talked to people about dokieli and Linked Research. Took the bus from Rome to Ancona, the ferry from Ancona to Split, and the bus from Split to Sarajevo.
name: Week in review: 5 - 11 June
published: 2017-06-11T23:59:00+02:00
tag: icwe2017
tag: linked+research
tag: travel

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Moved into a studio apartment on a hill in Sarajevo. Started working at OCCRP. Generally settled into Sarajevo. Explored town, bought groceries etc. Remembered what it's like to write Python every day and also have a desk. Figured out how to make Bosnian coffee with the tools available to me in my apartment. Finally set up PGP for email \o/ Drafted an article that isn't published yet.
name: Week in review: 12 - 18 June
published: 2017-06-18T23:59:59+02:00
tag: occrp
tag: sarajevo
tag: travel

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Sloph frontend improvements. Started learning ElasticSearch stuff. And learning important key phrases to do with optmising search engine results. Explored Sarajevo a litte more. Found a good smoothie bar with some vegan desserts and lots of plant milk options in the SCC mall. Went to a yoga class.
name: Week in review: 19 - 25 June
published: 2017-06-25T23:59:59+02:00
tag: hacking
tag: sarajevo
tag: sloph
tag: week-in-review
tag: yoga

weeks-eu
type: Article
content: After 7 months in the southern hemisphere, I returned to Europe by way of a cheap Aero Flot flight from Tokyo to Venice that I booked ages in advance. I've enjoyed manageable temperatures and weather conditions, but missed Malaysian hospitality and food variety. I have a new appreciation for medieval stone architecture and winding cobbled streets, and forests without monkeys in them, but my bank account is hurting thanks to comparatively overpriced and substandard accommodation. I spent approximately a week in Trieste, a week in Portoroz/Piran, and a week in Rome. In Trieste I relaxed, explored, reflected, deflated. In Portoroz I attended the Extended Semantic Web Conference, co-chaired a half day workshop, scribed a panel and Sarven and I won a best paper award for Linked Data Notifications, and otherwise socialised extensively. In Rome I walked a freaking lot, attended the International Conference on Web Engineering, socialised a little bit, and didn't really manage to get any work done. This morning I took a bus across the width of Italy, from Rome to Ancona. Last time I was in Ancona I noted that this place is probably beautiful in good weather, and I was right. Two years ago I arrived here on delayed trains, worried I was late for my ferry, in torrential rain, with no idea how thoroughly nonsensical the ferry boarding process is. This time I arrived with several hours to spare, and wandered around a little in the glorious sunshine. Now I knew where to go for ferry checkin and boarding, the process was quick and easy. I had a leisurely lunch at Zazie, a small vegetarian cafe in the town center, and bought supplies from a supermarket. The ferry has not departed yet, 20 minutes after its scheduled time. But not to worry, I've got all night. Just like last time, I'll arrive in Split, Croatia, at 7am tomorrow morning. In Split I'll take the day to myself, spend a night in a hostel, and then on Sunday I'll take a bus to Sarajevo, where new adventures await.
name: Some weeks in Europe
published: 2017-06-09T20:02:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: ferry
tag: icwe2017
tag: italy
tag: slovenia
tag: travel

what-if-html
type: Note
content: Why are technology conference organisers scared to innovate? Why are they scared of taking risks to advance and benefit the community? Where do they get their excuses from? They're all the same and all debunkable. Is there a centralised excuse provider? Do the publishers have dirt on all organisers?
published: 2017-06-08T15:32:00+02:00
tag: linkedresearch.org
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/academic+publishing
tag: linked+research

yoga-update
type: Note
content: I did yoga every day for the month I spent in Bali, but then in the two and a half months after that I only did one class. I finally started going regularly again in Sarajevo. Today's was a challenging class with lots of arm balances. New progress was managing a wobbly eka pada koundiyanasana on my left side, which looks a bit like: But my leg was bent back not out sideways. I think the trick is not to be afraid of faceplanting into the floor, and let the momentum from leaning forward lift your back foot off the ground.
published: 2017-06-28T21:48:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: yoga

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/07/59591946f2866
type: Add
published: 2017-07-02T17:03:13+02:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/07/597c976c05db1
type: Add
type: Note
content: Meet the Man Who Has Lived Alone on This Island for 28 Years... Morandi endures long stretches of time - upwards of 20 days - without any human contact. Goals.
object: photos-of-life-alone-on-a-paradise-island
published: 2017-07-29T16:42:00+02:00
target: bookmarks

brb-bus
type: Note
content: BRB going on another 43 hour bus ride.
published: 2017-07-28T11:08:00+01:00
tag: bus
tag: travel

breakfasts
type: Add
content: Breakfasts. Vegan not-omelette is gram flour (equal parts with water), nutritional yeast, ground flaxseed, herbs and spices, vegetables.
published: 2017-07-08T14:01:40+02:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

failing-sleep
type: Note
content: Failing to sleep on the night bus. Maybe.. maybe it's because I slept on the day bus.
published: 2017-07-29T23:38:00+02:00
tag: bus
tag: travel

finished-ds9
type: Note
content: I finished DS9.
published: 2017-07-31T23:23:00+02:00
tag: ds9
tag: star+trek

home-food
type: Add
content: Zucchini courgette noodles with courgette fresh from Mum's garden (plus chilli, tomato, lemon juice, lime juice, soya sauce, sesame seeds). Two curries and chapati. Lentil and potato; mushroom, kidney bean, tomato, peppers, onions.
published: 2017-07-26T11:02:22+01:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

nog
type: Note
content: Nog is class. That is all.
published: 2017-07-08T20:20:20+02:00
tag: ds9
tag: star+trek

nog-spinoff
type: Note
content: See? Is there a spinoff of his time at Starfleet Academy? Would watch.
in reply to: nog
published: 2017-07-08T20:26:00+02:00
tag: ds9
tag: star+trek

other-news
type: Note
content: In other news, I discovered I clean up spreadsheets much faster with DS9 on in the corner. Wish I'd discovered this last week.
published: 2017-07-03T17:56:00+02:00
tag: ds9
tag: life
tag: star+trek

photos-brussels
type: Add
content: An evening and morning in Brussels with Michael. Sunset at Calais.
published: 2017-07-16T20:49:38+02:00
summary: Amy added 19 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu-2/
target: 2017-eu-2

photos-frankfurt
type: Add
content: A few hours wandering around Frankfurt between buses
published: 2017-07-15T10:30:26+01:00
summary: Amy added 23 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu-2/
target: 2017-eu-2

photos-karuzo
type: Add
content: Good times and great food at Karuzo.. The only place in Sarajevo that deliberately makes vegan food.
published: 2017-07-07T14:49:40+02:00
summary: Amy added 11 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo
type: Add
content: Karuzo, Kibe, flea market, misc.
published: 2017-07-02T18:01:00+02:00
summary: Amy added 17 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-2
type: Add
content: Photos from my run up to Hum Tower, a disused TV transmitter. Stunning views and sunset, tempered only by disconcerting presence of stray dogs. Home just in time for a lightning storm.
published: 2017-07-08T15:04:30+02:00
summary: Amy added 42 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-3
type: Add
content: Misc city at night, and Drew's band.
published: 2017-07-13T23:05:50+02:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-uk
type: Add
content: Southampton, Oxford, London.
published: 2017-07-23T20:59:54+01:00
summary: Amy added 12 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu-2/
summary: Amy added 14 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu-2/
target: 2017-eu-2

photos-uk-2
type: Add
content: Lincolnshire.
published: 2017-07-26T10:43:16+01:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu-2/
target: 2017-eu-2

photos-uk-3
type: Add
content: Hanging in London with nice people and eating a lot. Starring the Sky Garden, Borough Market to excess, two Toms, and Squidge the bird puglet.
published: 2017-07-27T21:23:20+01:00
summary: Amy added 42 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu-2/
target: 2017-eu-2

photos-uk-4
type: Add
content: Greenbay vegan supermarket in West Brompton; lunch at 222 Veggie Vegan; pictures from buses back to Bosnia.
published: 2017-07-30T19:08:56+02:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu-2/
target: 2017-eu-2

re-fb-mom
type: Note
content: Heh, my mum does exactly the same thing on Twitter, liking every single one of my tweets regardless of what it is about. Fortunately, as far as I know, Twitter's algorithm isn't using this for anything meaningful. Also, her account is protected so nobody can see the likes but me so it doesn't even make my tweets appear more popular than they really are. But anyway, relatable.
in reply to: the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem
published: 2017-07-13T09:53:00+02:00
tag: algorithms
tag: social+media
tag: social+web

tech-marvel
type: Note
content: Experienced two technological marvels already this week and it's only Monday. Either that, or technological failings entirely on my part. The blender I bought from the flea market didn't work. Czesiek disassembled and reassembled it today and now it works. Nothing changed. Guess it just needed shaking up. After I reinstalled Fairphone OS at the weekend, my 3G stopped working. Fairphone has a number of places to tinker with SIM card and data connection related stuff, and I tinkered with them all. Figuring maybe my contract had expired a few days early, I went to find out from the m:tel shop. The lady confirmed my contract was still active, and fiddled around with my phone for five minutes shrugging and saying 'I don't know' the whole time. Then she handed it back to me, suddenly working. She had no idea why or how.
published: 2017-07-10T23:18:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: technology

update
type: Note
content: Update: My Bosnian SIM can receive texts... from one of my work colleagues, at least. My landlady appears deeply concerned about the oven thing, and is calling an electrician.
in reply to: week-in-review
published: 2017-07-03T17:53:00+02:00
tag: life

vego
type: Note
content: Important announcement: Vego is the best non-dark chocolate ever, and if you get the opportunity just buy it for me okay? I particularly love the chunkiness of the bars which are perfect for just filling your whole face with chocolate. It's also made with pureed hazelnut or something so the chocolate is kind of fluffy and not as hard as normal block chocolate. Mostly available in Germany or places that import health foods stuff from Germany. Keep an eye out.
published: 2017-07-30T20:56:00+02:00
tag: chocolate
tag: food
tag: vegan
tag: vego

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Continued to read many docs on new topics. Started to properly understand aleph's data model, and poke around with the code. Wrangled spreadsheets. Renewed my LetsEncrypt certs. Mostly dockerized IndieAuth.com. Didn't get around to checking I could get various ID providers to work properly though. Made it to the Flea Market at Stup. Pretty cool. Discovered my Bosnian SIM card doesn't seem to want to receive SMS ever. Phone shop was mysteriously closed when I went to try to debug this. The power socket of my oven started smoking. My landlady was mysteriously absent when I went to try to debug this.
name: Week in review: 26 June - 2 July
published: 2017-07-02T21:24:00+02:00
tag: aleph
tag: hacking
tag: indieweb
tag: life
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Spreadsheets. Spent a day tracking down bugs that would have taken someone else 30 seconds to fix BUT learnt a lot about Python packaging in the process. Accidentally went to a yoga class taught in Bosnian. It was fine. My oven outlet was repaired in a timely manner and is no longer a fire risk. Climbed Hum Hill. Ate at Karuzo twice. Signed a new contract with OCCRP to come back part time (3.5 days per week) until December (my initial contract was only until this month). Made some progress with converting my site and logs data to the updated AS2 namespace and reshuffling everything into useful graphs to separate content produced by me from notifications created by others, and things that aren't (b)logposts from things that are. Factory reset my phone. It works normally again! Watched a lot of DS9.
name: Week in review: 3 - 9 July
published: 2017-07-09T21:41:00+02:00
tag: food
tag: sloph
tag: travel
tag: vegan
tag: week-in-review
tag: yoga

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Spreadsheets.. Work stuff.. Took buses to Southampton via Frankfurt, Brussels and London. Left at 9am Friday, arrived at 3am Monday. Some delays. Figured out how to watch great quality netflix over Megabus restricted wifi (a VPN and periodic mac address change). Stifling my social media use whilst travelling so my mum wouldn't realise I was coming back to the UK.
name: Week in review: 10 - 16 July
published: 2017-07-16T23:59:00+01:00
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Spent the week in Southampton and one day in Oxford talking about decentralisation, scholarly communication, LinkedResearch, personal data stores and the like with cool people like emax, csarven, bblfish, TimBL, Wendy, Nigel, Ramine, Jun, DDR.. Imagined eprints as a tiny LDN-powered JS app (ldprints). Net magazine issue 296 came out in print.. With an article about Linked Data Notifications! Missed a bunch of buses. Spent a couple of hours eating great food at the Southbank Center food market, just like summer 2014 weekends. Remembered why I love and hate London. Surprise visited my Mum. Now I can tweet again.
name: Week in review: 17 - 23 July
published: 2017-07-23T10:35:00+01:00
tag: academia
tag: academic+publishing
tag: decentralisation
tag: ldn
tag: linked+research
tag: social+machines
tag: sociam
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: workshop

week-in-review-5
type: Article
content: Visited family in Lincolnshire. Ate lots of chips. Dealt with another wisdom tooth infection. This time resolved by UK dentist. Cheaper than Japan. Visited friends in London. Ate lots of chips. Went to the TAG Developer Meetup. Took a bus to Sarajevo via Brussels and Cologne. My flat has been overtaken by spiders. I cleared cobwebs from the bathtub. Everything is fine. Had lunch at Superfoods in Sarajevo. It was underwhelming.
name: Week in review: 24 - 30 July
published: 2017-07-30T23:40:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: travel
tag: w3c
tag: week+in+review

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/59844e7e9d58c
type: Add
content: 'Mince' made with finely chopped cauliflower, chilli tofu, mushrooms, tomato, soy sauce. Pizza with a base of chickpea flower and flaxseed (fried on the stovetop to solidify before baking to make it crispy) with Tesco jalapeno not-chedder cubed (super melty) and Violife not-parmesan grated (only the bits not directly exposed to the grill melted, the top went dry/crispy) on top. Grilled not-cheese, with the Tesco jalapeno chedder. Did I mention this melts super well?
published: 2017-08-04T12:37:44+02:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/598b55e4a96a6
type: Add
content: Food I made when I was home. Mum sent me to Gram's with instructions to make lunch from whatever I could find. There wasn't a lot in the cupboards, but I managed to rustle up tomato and mixed peppers soup. I made curry and chapati for Mum, Dave and J too. Also featured: blue not-cheese (coconut oil based) on toast.
published: 2017-08-09T20:35:09+02:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/598efd32d0fef
type: Add
content: Pasta with not-cheese.. and a chocolate coconut fudge cake.
published: 2017-08-11T21:05:48+02:00
summary: Amy added 7 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/599346c4ed1f5
type: Add
content: Pasties stuffed with potatoes, herbs, spices, and not-cheese. Entirely spelt flour pastry, which is pretty dense, but works out.
published: 2017-08-13T20:08:46+02:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/59a31bc2a6143
type: Add
content: I coated soy chunks (twice) in a wet batter (soy sauce, sambal, flax egg, oat cream and various spices) and dry (wheat flour, corn flour, nutritional yeast, spices), then deep fried in coconut oil for a few seconds. I covered potato chunks in dry batter and fried those too. It was good with onion and mushroom gravy, and the next day cold with salad and sambal to dip.
published: 2017-08-20T20:21:31+02:00
summary: Amy added 13 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/59a31d9187914
type: Add
content: Cookies! Wheat flour, spelt flour, baking soda, white sugar, coconut oil, dark chocolate chunks, 8 minutes low oven. Equal parts oil and sugar, 2x flour, take out of the oven whilst still soft. Good texture, but brown sugar will be better.
published: 2017-08-22T20:29:14+02:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/59a31e68d8d2d
type: Add
content: Chilli. Good with homemade chips, good in cevapi bread, good by the spoon. Mixed beans, leftover mushroom gravy, lentils, sweetcorn, soya mince, tomato puree, sambal, various spices.
published: 2017-08-25T20:32:50+02:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/59a31ee60d122
type: Add
content: Chocolate hazelnut cookies. Equal parts coconut oil and sugar; 2x that of flour (spelt and wheat); baking soda; cocoa; flaxseed; dark chocolate chunks and hazelnut halves. Smaller and flatter than the last batch, improved the texture, but I still need to ditch the white sugar. The coconut oil makes them so creamy. Best after refrigeration.
published: 2017-08-25T20:34:54+02:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/59a31f5eb9f64
type: Add
content: Omelette made from chickpea flour with a sprinkling of flaxseed, vegetable stock, turmeric, basil; topped with cherry tomatoes, lightly grilled mushrooms, and coconut oil not-cheese.
published: 2017-08-27T17:36:55+02:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/59adba9882010
type: Add
content: An approximation of quesadillas
published: 2017-08-27T20:41:54+02:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/08/59adbae9aaeab
type: Add
content: Curry, salad, veggie burger and chips.
published: 2017-08-29T20:43:16+02:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

diy-ldn
type: Article
content: Linked Data Notifications is a protocol to facilitate sharing and reuse of notifications between different Web applications. It's a W3C Recommendation from the Social Web Working Group, and part of a push to help people own their data and re-decentralise the Web, particularly the Social Web. You can read more about why you might want to care about this here. For this post, I'm going to jump straight into implementation. I've chosen PHP, without any frameworks, because if you already have a (local or remote) server it should be quick for you to get going with, without needing to set up or configure anything. The "Linked Data" in the name implies involvement of RDF; in fact LDN uses JSON-LD, but I don't presume any existing understanding of these things for this post, I'll just try to introduce the minimum that you need as we go along. (For a nice intro to JSON-LD see Manu's YouTube video JSON-LD Basics.) I am assuming though you have a basic understanding of JSON, and what HTTP Headers are. LDN is a three part protocol. We expect front-end applications as well as servers to play the roles of senders and consumers of notifications. The third part is receiving. As the human in the mix, you need to tell the applications you use where to send notifications that are meant for you (or your software to pick up), as well as where applications can read them from (in order to display them back to you, or to process them and trigger other tasks to run). This 'where' is your Inbox. Applications might, for example, discover it from your homepage or a social media profile. You should host your Inobx somewhere you trust. Just like with email, some people might want to rent space from a provider, or maybe your workplace or school supplies one to you. At the moment the market for this is.. pretty small. This Web-data-owernship thing is in its early days. So for the pioneering developers among us, we can write our own, using around 50 lines of quick and dirty PHP. Part 1: accepting an…
name: DIY LDN Inbox
published: 2017-08-13T17:03:00+02:00
tag: hacking
tag: php
tag: tutorial
tag: linked+data+notifications
tag: ldn
tag: standards

duolingo
type: Note
content: Why does duolingo have High Valarian but not Bosanski?
published: 2017-08-15T21:54:00+02:00
tag: language
tag: bosnian

last-night
type: Note
content: Last night, in a seamless blending of the current state of my professional and personal lives, I dreamt that Putin and Chief O'Brien held me hostage in a secret underground luxury hotel.
published: 2017-08-03T19:29:00+02:00
tag: dream
tag: life
tag: star+trek

photos-sarajevo
type: Add
content: I left my window open today and a cat came in. She chased a fly, hung out, took a nap, left the way she came in. I call her Ishka because she as an independent woman who does what she wants.
published: 2017-08-04T23:06:52+02:00
summary: Amy added 20 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-2
type: Add
content: A hike to Skakavac waterfall (just north of Sarajevo). GPS trace. The good photos are by Edin.
published: 2017-08-12T15:15:46+02:00
summary: Amy added 64 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-3
type: Add
content: Road trip to Sutjeska valley, the site of one of the biggest battles of WWII, which now features a somewhat neglected but nonetheless impressive memorial sculpture. We took the scenic route, winding through the mountains, with a stop in Gorazde for lunch, and drove for about five hours. After a swim in the 'lake', the more direct return journey took about an hour and a half, but also took us through some impressive sheer cliff faces and through tunnels bored into the mountains.
published: 2017-08-19T23:13:53+02:00
summary: Amy added 50 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-4
type: Add
content: Film Festival; Karuzo food
published: 2017-08-17T22:18:27+02:00
summary: Amy added 8 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-5
type: Add
content: Misc Sarajevo, Karuzo. Trebevic during Eko-fest, hammock time with Boudicca and Renee. Sunset from the Yellow Fort.
published: 2017-08-27T21:04:28+02:00
summary: Amy added 71 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-uk
type: Add
content: I went to the UK for a long weekend cos Dave and J were visiting from Tokyo. I flew in and out of Tuzla and Luton. The WizzAir minibus from Sarajevo to Tuzla takes about 2.5 hours and winds through the mountains. The train between Luton and King's Cross takes just under an hour. On the way out my flight was early and I ultimately gained 2 hours at KGX before my train to Newark. Time for Nando's. On my way back the flight was delayed 45 minutes, but the airport transfer waited and I got back to Sarajevo around 2.30am. Sunday: Dave and J went airsofting. J looks like an action hero. I went to Gram's and made lunch. Monday: We went for a leisurely stroll around Woodhall Spa, and to the Kinema in the Woods. Tuesday: A day out in London. Lunch at Camden market, coffee in the Sky Garden, a walk along the river to Westminster and Buckingham Palace, and then I left them to fly back.
published: 2017-08-09T20:38:03+02:00
summary: Amy added 48 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201708-uk/
target: 201708-uk

pizza-mousse
type: Add
content: During today's Social Web WG call I made the best pizza I've ever made. It was helped by four kinds of vegan cheese, three of which were part of the new (to me) Tesco range. I stuffed the crust with Violife, and on top put chunks of Tesco blue cheese and chedder, and covered it liberally with grated mozzarella. Somewhere underneath were red onions, yellow bell pepper and courgette. The base sauce was chilli paste and tomato. The dough is a mix of spelt and wheat flour, and water. Last week I made a cake, and recalled that I'd put leftover frosting in the back of my fridge in a cup. This is an unknown ratio (because who measure things) of date paste, coconut oil and cocoa, and it is a perfect chocolate mousse! What a glorious evening.
published: 2017-08-15T21:04:53+02:00
summary: Amy added 7 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

summer
type: Note
content: Summer in Sarajevo peaked yesterday, and now my coconut oil is back to being solid at room temperature.
published: 2017-08-13T23:35:00+02:00
tag: weather

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Worked on aleph's v2 API. Finished DS9. Proof read my friend's Masters thesis. Re-launched sloph with actual working conneged AS2 feeds.. mostly Flew (eugh) to the UK for a flying visit with Dave and J who are visiting from Tokyo.
name: Week in review: 31 July - 6 August
published: 2017-08-06T23:59:59+01:00
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Started basic graph-based access control in sloph. Flew back to Sarajevo from London. Worked on aleph's v2 API and docs. Learnt the basics of Celery. Memorised numbers from 1-10 and the general principles of bigger ones in Bosnian. Hiked up to Skakavac waterfall. Wrote tutorial for a quick and dirty PHP LDN Inbox. Went to some showings at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Started Star Trek: the original series.
name: Week in review: 7 - 13 August
published: 2017-08-13T23:15:00+02:00
tag: hiking
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: hacking
tag: ldn
tag: bosnian
tag: sloph

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Went to loads of films at the Sarajevo Film Festival, including some in an open air cinema, and one where John Cleese made a terrible speech and then it rained heavily and we had to watch the movie indoors. Cooked and ate various tasty food. Broke and fixed aleph stuff. Also did some research to improve aleph's data model. Went to Sutjeska national park. Started watching Rick & Morty.
name: Week in review: 14 - 20 August
published: 2017-08-20T23:26:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Made a thing with DataTables. It is fucking amazing. Who even needs to write code any more? DataTables for president. General investigative data wrangling. Finished the application process for my Bosnian residency permit thing. Added functions for pagination to sloph, but haven't integrated them yet. Made two batches of cookies and a damn good chilli. Got up to date with Rick & Morty (nb. that's a lot of Rick & Morty considering I was barely aware of it last week), and watched more Star Trek TOS with my mouth open in horror at constant sexism. Socialised at the weekend :o Chilled on Trebevic in a hammock. Watched the sunset from the Yellow Fort. Had a successful flea market day, with lots of great fruit and a wok and rolling pin.
name: Week in review: 21 - 27 August
published: 2017-08-27T22:16:00+02:00
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: sloph
tag: hacking
tag: food

when-cut
type: Note
content: When people lightly cut their hands on TV to drip blood onto something for like a pact or a ritual or for some dark magic thing, part of my mind was always slightly skeptical about the amount that just pours out. Having previously had no experience of hand-slicing, and comparing it to when I've cut my arms or legs on something, it seemed like you'd have to try harder to get that much free-flowing blood from a skin-deep cut. Anyway I cut my finger making dinner this evening and it immediately generated more than enough to participate in any Klingon ritual you can think of. And it's so bright red! I have never been queasy at the sight of blood before, but today I guess I was feeling generally off all day, and hadn't eaten much. After a few seconds of staring as it pooled up in my hand and thinking about TV hand-cutting rituals I almost blacked out. Anyway I'm fine now. Back to the pizza.
published: 2017-08-02T22:07:00+02:00
tag: life

yak
type: Note
content: Current status:
published: 2017-08-15T12:22:00+02:00
tag: hacking

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/09/59adbb27b6cc5
type: Add
content: Pear and blackberry tart, made with gluten free flour and not quite enough coconut oil. The pastry was not flaky, but the fruit carried it. I ate one slice, and OCCRP wiped out the rest.
published: 2017-08-31T09:00:18+02:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/09/59adbb65e6aed
type: Add
content: I made spicy battered tofu for Elizabeth. Inspired by kung-pao style. The batter was equal parts gluten free flour, cornflour, and water; coated the tofu then deep fried in coconut oil for less than a minute. Turned out fantastic. The sauce is chillis, leek, garlic, ginger, carrots, peppers, peanuts and soya sauce. Spicy. Served with brown rice noodles, and blackberry lemonade.
published: 2017-08-31T21:45:20+02:00
summary: Amy added 8 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/09/59c777e1a9e99
type: Add
object: survival-guide-how-to-be-a-vegetarian-or-vegan-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina
published: 2017-09-24T14:49:00+02:00
tag: sarajevo
tag: vegan
tag: travel
tag: food
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/09/59cf8feb3e991
type: Add
content: Quinoa granola (charred). Smoothie.
published: 2017-04-14T20:02:53+08:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/09/59cf905f650ab
type: Add
content: Avocado mess on toast. Pasta with vegetables, cabbage, tomato, soya mince. Cheezey quinoa. Not-omelette with not-cheese.
published: 2017-09-15T21:38:48+02:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/09/59cf90b47883d
type: Add
content: Elizabeth and I made stir fry, bbq cauliflower, roasted marrow, and zucchini noodles. We ate most of it.
published: 2017-09-30T13:40:13+02:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/09/59de7f1edbff1
type: Add
content: Cakes, mushroom pie, etc..
published: 2017-09-29T21:29:12+02:00
summary: Amy added 11 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/09/59de7f55a8852
type: Add
content: Barley with vegetables and tomatoes.
published: 2017-09-30T21:30:07+02:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

klingon-fashions
type: Note
content: Klingon fashions and hairstyles sure changed over a couple of centuries. I love their (the Klingons') diversity though. I'm disappointed by the lack of space in the opening sequence. Never enough space. I anticipate great lolz from Saru. But yeah, I think we're off to a good start.
published: 2017-09-25T23:33:00+02:00
tag: star+trek
tag: discovery

money-laundering
type: Note
content: A major Azerbaijani money laundering scandal story was launched yesterday, and the raw data of almost 17,000 bank transactions between potentially implicated companies went up today. I played the tiniest role, but I'm dead proud to see my name up there. ICYMI I'm super psyched to work with all of the amazing, unstoppable folks at OCCRP.
published: 2017-09-05T20:47:00+01:00
tag: occrp

morning-cat
type: Note
content: Another beautiful morning in Sarajevo. I see on average one cat per minute on my ten minute walk to work in the morning.
published: 2017-09-15T10:58:00+02:00
tag: cat
tag: sarajevo
tag: travel

nanowrimo
type: Note
content: I'm thinking about doing NaNoWriMo this year. I last took part in 2013 (and feebly at that), before my phd and associated distractions took over. That was a long time ago. My fiction writing foo is completely out of whack. I can barely remember how. I don't know what to write about. This definitely means I should commit to it, I guess.
published: 2017-09-30T15:44:00+02:00
tag: fiction
tag: writing
tag: nanowrimo

phd
type: Note
content: I passed my PhD viva yesterday, subject to minor corrections! Just call me Dr. Guy. Thanks to my intrepid examiners Dave de Roure and Mark Hartswood for reading my whole thesis and spending three hours on a really interesting discussion of my findings and the implications. I don't even have words to express how grateful I am to my supervisor Ewan Klein, who has humoured me faultlessly for the last five years. Fun fact: I haven't written my thesis acknowledgements yet because every time I try to think about all of the amazing people who have supported me over all this time I cry.
published: 2017-09-07T21:41:00+02:00
tag: thesis
tag: phd
tag: ewan
tag: David De Roure
tag: phdchat

photos-birb
type: Add
content: Tigo and I had apple and peanut butter for breakfast.
published: 2017-09-09T12:18:43+01:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

photos-edinburgh
type: Add
content: What's the first thing you do when you roll off the night bus in Edinburgh after being away for 2 years? (Answer: veggie haggis and tattie scone roll from Snax).
published: 2017-09-06T08:33:28+01:00
summary: Amy added 1 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

photos-edinburgh-2
type: Add
content: Viva day. New cafe in AT basement. Level 4 coffee machine is still going strong. Edinburgh castle from Codebase. Prewired. Rigatoni's.
published: 2017-09-06T22:53:11+01:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

photos-edinburgh-3
type: Add
content: Eating! Pizza Express have a rice mozzarella pizza now. Much cake at Henderson's. Pakoras at Pakora Bar. Pancakes at Herbivore Kitchen. And some books and stuff I gave away.
published: 2017-09-08T22:58:28+01:00
summary: Amy added 21 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

photos-edinburgh-4
type: Add
content: A day of auld haunts. Raspberry tea and chocolate raspberry tart at Anteaques with Sergio. Dropped by SHRUB to leave some textbooks, and was lucky enough to catch Joe. SHRUB is doing great, and has grown an arm for food sharing too. Went by Forest Cafe for an excellent vegan burrito. Walked back through the Meadows, and detoured to the Crags to watch the sun set.
published: 2017-09-09T20:19:39+01:00
summary: Amy added 39 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

photos-edinburgh-5
type: Add
content: Sunrise run around Holyrood. Seemed shorter and easier than I remember, and downhill most of the way. I remember it being uphill most of the way before. Drizzled a bit. All the running I did in Boston must have paid off.
published: 2017-09-10T07:45:04+01:00
summary: Amy added 29 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

photos-edinburgh-6
type: Add
content: Chips on the beach at Portobello, and a visit to Rikki's new place. The weather gave us a perfect 20 minute window of moody sunshine to enjoy the beach, raining heavily only when we were on the bus or inside. Cheers, Edinbrah. Whilst eating we were protected by our Seagull Defender, who chased all of the other seagulls away (except the one who was bigger than him) and waited patiently to be rewarded with a chip at the end.
published: 2017-09-10T17:29:56+01:00
summary: Amy added 15 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

photos-edinburgh-7
type: Add
content: Wandering around campus; views from the new and improved Appleton Tower. Jane and I attempted to go up the Scott Monument, but it was inexplicably closed. Giant vegan nachos in the Auld Hoose. A wander down the Royal Mile. Dessert in David Bann. The bus to London. Thus ends this visit to Edinburgh.
published: 2017-09-11T22:33:06+01:00
summary: Amy added 25 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

photos-jahorina
type: Add
content: A beautiful weekend on beautiful Jahorina, with inspiring and insightful women, great food, and striking surroundings. Higher contrast photos or photos with me in, borrowed from Aida.

photos-london
type: Add
content: Return to Sarajevo, via London.
published: 2017-09-13T09:37:55+02:00
summary: Amy added 8 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

photos-sarajevo
type: Add
content: Misc Sarajevo. Fancy mint lemonade from Talks & Giggles.
published: 2017-09-03T20:54:44+02:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-2
type: Add
content: Leaving Sarajevo..
published: 2017-09-05T12:31:55+02:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-3
type: Add
content: Misc; cats, Aleks' last day, Karuzo.
published: 2017-09-16T23:55:44+02:00
summary: Amy added 8 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-4
type: Add
content: From the Avaz Twist Tower with bengo. Food at Blind Tiger, Biban and Karuzo.
published: 2017-09-20T23:57:09+02:00
summary: Amy added 20 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-trebevic
type: Add
content: Climbed Trebevic. First stop, the bobsled tracks. Then on to the summit. Took longer and was more challenging than anticipated. Only got lost in the woods a couple of times. Photos with me in taken by bengo. GPS trace.

procrastination
type: Activity
type: Note
content: Okay, I went out for lunch, went to the market, sat in the sun, uploaded photos from the last week, took a nap, and made chocolate muffins. 7pm seems like as good a time as any to start the day's thesis corrections.
published: 2017-09-23T19:14:00+02:00
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: phdchat
tag: life

social
type: Note
content: During 90% of group social interactions I'm happy to be there but would prefer to be invisible. I think that's why I like IRC so much. I'm in a room full of people chatting amongst themselves, nobody is really aware that I'm there but also nobody minds that I'm listening. I can interact if I want, but there's no expectation that I do, even if addressed directly. Real life more like IRC rooms please.
published: 2017-09-25T16:21:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: irc

star-trek-tos
type: Article
content: Watching The Original Series has actually been really challenging. I can't binge it and sometimes even making it through an episode is work. Taking notes is helping, and now I've started I feel I must continue. The really horrifying thing is how groundbreaking and revolutionary the role of women in this show was at the time. Wtf was the rest of TV like?! S1E0: Captain Pike "isn't used to having women on the Bridge." Captain Pike is somewhat disgruntled when trapped by aliens with a beautiful woman whose sole desire is to make babies with him. The woman is actually old and wrinkly and somewhat disfigured from when her ship crashed. She's so ashamed of her true appearance that she'd rather stay with the aliens in the end. This pilot got bad reviews because there wasn't enough punching, and almost killed Star Trek before it began. The female first officer didn't go down well with the network either. S1E1: Bones still has the hots for his ex-girlfriend so he doesn't notice she's a shape-shifting alien who drains the salt from peoples' bodies, killing several members of the crew. Most conversations are about how hot Bones' ex-girlfriend is. S1E2: Charlie, a human teenager raised by aliens, has never seen human women before. His re-assimilation into human society doesn't go well, because all he wants to do is follow Yeoman Rand around and touch her inappropriately. Everyone is awkward about this and nobody does a good job of explaining to Charlie why this isn't going to work out. Also he has destructive psychic powers. They let the aliens have him back. Spock and Uhura have a strangely intimate public moment involving song and harp. S1E3: The episode opens with bridge officer Gary Mitchell making inappropriate comments about psychiatrist Elizabeth Dehner. In front of everyone, on the Bridge, during work hours. Apparently this is fine. Gary is the hero of the story when he accidentally becomes imbued with ever-expanding psychic powers which make him think he's better than …
name: Where no MaN has gone before
published: 2017-09-23T23:49:00+02:00
tag: star+trek
tag: tos
tag: sexism

thesis-issues
type: Note
content: I'm doing my thesis corrections. As you may know, my whole thesis writing process has been public on Github throughout, in the interests of #OpenScience and #LinkedResearch. The feedback from my examiners during my viva is documented as issues with the 'viva' tag, and I also opened more issues from my own notes during the defense. If there are bits of my thesis you've read on the past or are particularly interested in, now would be a great time to file any other issues you've spotted for things you'd like to see updated or fixed in the final hardbound copy of my thesis which will, I presume, live in the University of Edinburgh library, survive the impending technological apocalypse, and generally outlive all of us. I aim to print the thing by the 31st of October.
published: 2017-09-17T11:42:00+02:00
tag: linkedresearch.org
tag: academic+publishing
tag: linked+research
tag: open+science
tag: thesis
tag: phd
tag: phdchat
tag: academia

tigo
type: Add
content: Birdbirdbirdbirdbird.
published: 2017-09-07T11:57:57+01:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201709-uk/
target: 201709-uk

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Restarted yoga, finally. Made some good food... curry, salad, spicy tofu, pear and blackberry tart. Learnt things about email formats. Prepared for my viva. Implemented proper paging for AS2 Collections (eg. /tags/..) in sloph. Went on a weekend yoga retreat on Jahorina (a ski resort mountain south of Sarajevo) and relaxed and centered myself, hiked, shared experiences with some wonderful women, learnt a bit about ayurveda, and definitely didn't panic about my viva.
name: Week in review: 28 August - 3 September
published: 2017-09-03T22:20:00+02:00
tag: travel
tag: sloph
tag: phd
tag: food
tag: yoga

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: OCCRP launched the Azerbaijani Laundromat investigation, a small bit of which has my name on. Flew to London from Tuzla and took the night bus to Edinburgh. Ate a haggis and tattie scone roll at Snax. Passed my PhD defense, with minor corrections. Ate curry at Mosque Kitchen. Went to Prewired. Ate pizza at Rigatoni's. Ate pizza with vegan cheese at Pizza Express. Ate cake at Henderson's. Ate pakoras at Pakora Bar. Ate pancakes and cake at The Herbivore Kitchen. Tea and chocolate tart at Anteaques. Dropped stuff at charity shops, the Bike Station, and The SHRUB. Ate a vegan burrito at Forest Cafe. Ran around Holyrood Park. Ate chips on the beach at Portobello.
name: Week in review: 4 - 10 September
published: 2017-09-10T23:50:00+01:00
tag: vegan
tag: thesis
tag: week+in+review
tag: food
tag: phd
tag: edinburgh

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Ate soup from Union of Genius. Took more stuff to charity shops. Ate giant vegan nachos at the Hoose. Tried and failed to go up the Scott Monument. At dessert at David Bann. Took the night bus to London. Ate at Vx and vegan pie and mash from Piebury Corner. Flew from Luton to Tuzla; got back to Sarajevo at 3am Wednesday. Learnt more about ElasticSearch. Surrounded myself with broken instances of aleph. Started season 2 of Sense8. Started thesis corrections. Went up the Avaz Twist Tower with bengo.
name: Week in review: 11 - 17 September
published: 2017-09-17T22:26:00+02:00
tag: vegan
tag: phd
tag: sarajevo
tag: london
tag: thesis
tag: week+in+review
tag: travel
tag: edinburgh
tag: aleph
tag: food

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Work stuff. By the way, OCCRP is hiring developers. Dabbled in Postgres (yes yes I know I'm a late bloomer). Dabbled in docker-compose. Dabbled in RabbitMQ. Climbed Trebevic with bengo. Finished Season 2 of Sense8. The most unrealistic thing in the whole show is how do Nomi and Neets afford that apartment in SF? Started Season 2 of the Expanse. Got some of my thesis corrections done. It got cold in Sarajevo :( I forgot how to handle this.
name: Week in review: 18 - 24 September
published: 2017-09-24T23:59:59+02:00
tag: thesis
tag: travel
tag: hacking
tag: week+in+review
tag: postgres
tag: docker
tag: rabbitmq

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/10/59d7b95e2f9a4
type: Add
content: Social media and even the Web are just a phase, and we're phasing them out again.
object: uk-41509402
published: 2017-10-06T20:11:00+02:00
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/10/59d9d5734c24a
type: Add
content: Related.
in reply to: https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/10/59d7b95e2f9a4
object: smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia
published: 2017-10-08T09:49:00+02:00
tag: social+media
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/10/59de7ebfc7260
type: Add
content: Burgers and krompirusa
published: 2017-10-10T21:27:37+02:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/10/59de8025b58c0
type: Add
content: A visit from Ishka.
published: 2017-10-08T21:33:35+02:00
summary: Amy added 17 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/10/59de80eec803e
type: Add
content: Pita... and Sarajevo.
published: 2017-10-09T21:36:56+02:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/10/59ee13aa7eb50
type: Add
object: what-is-mastodon-and-why-is-it-better-than-twitter
published: 2017-10-23T18:43:00+02:00
tag: twitter
tag: socialwg
tag: mastodon
tag: social+web
tag: social+media
tag: decentralisation
target: bookmarks

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/10/59f65330660fa
type: Note
content: Well I just did five hours of unnecessary debugging because of a typo. How's your night going?
published: 2017-10-29T23:17:00+01:00
tag: hacking
tag: sloph

bladerunner
type: Article
content: Last night I watched the original Blade Runner. I've definitely seen it before, but I didn't remember it well. I was completely thrown by the rape scene. Not because it was necessarily out of character, but it was just a huge fucking unnecessary sidetrack from all of the other interesting things happening in the movie. The first thing I did was search "bladerunner rape" to see what the rest of the Web has to say about it. There are a handful of posts by people who are shocked and appalled, and the rest is people defending it along the lines of: It was the 80s. you didn't understand these scene because you weren't paying attention to x y z complex imagery and film themes blah blah it wasn't supposed to be rape they just acted it badly (I'll say, their acting very thoroughly convinced me it was 100% rape). it wasn't rape because she initiated it. *double take* .. *back up* .. I'm sorry, what? Some of those people even went so far as to point out that "she initiated it" by playing the piano and taking her hair down. You have got to be fucking kidding me. Some people said if she'd said no he would have stopped. She literally ran for the door! jfc Some people pointed out that after he told her to say she wanted him, and she did (with pure terror in her voice) and then she said other sexy things without him telling her to that meant it was okay. His job is literally to hunt her down and kill her and every move she made after she realised she was trapped in his apartment (including staying here after he left) appeared to me to be out of abject fear for her life. That doesn't seem a whole like like consent, eh. That is all.
name: Blade Runner rape scene
published: 2017-10-08T11:36:00+02:00
tag: rape
tag: feminism
tag: bladerunner

discovery
type: Note
content: The REAL mystery is: how does captain dangerman mcwhitedude keep a consistent population of ONE tribble on his desk??
published: 2017-10-03T00:12:00+02:00
tag: star+trek
tag: discovery

discovery-2
type: Note
content: (Star Trek Discovery) That was a really good episode. We were due a kooky time loop one of course to match previous series. Ugh Mudd though. When he said "that won't be last you see of.." I was hoping he was addressing the audience not the crew, and meant his ToS episode.
published: 2017-10-30T22:33:00+01:00
tag: star+trek
tag: discovery

hey-guys
type: Note
content: More annoying than "hey guys" is "hey guys... and girl." (Traditionally I don't mind being incorporated in the "guys" because my last name is Guy so I can identify easily. But I know 99% of the time people aren't including me in that way on purpose. I know when they are because they say something along the lines of "ohhh see what I did there!?" which kind of ruins it. Also I take a stand against guys-as-gender-neutral on principle these days). (In case you're stuck "hey everyone", "hey folks" or just plain ol' "hey" are actually not that challenging with practice. You can even get used to using them on rooms of people you think are all the same gender).
published: 2017-10-10T23:25:00+02:00
tag: sexism
tag: life

landlady
type: Note
content: My landlady is nice, but she's also a benevolent overlord who controls my heating and I can't figure out the pattern yet. Sigh. (I can turn radiators off, but when they're on I don't know when they're actually going to emit heat. The last few days they were on in the evenings, but tonight not. Last week they started coming on at 6am which was loud and pipe-bangy and not ideal, and they were cold again by the time I actually wanted to get up).
published: 2017-10-08T23:21:00+02:00
tag: life

nanowrimo
type: Note
content: Since I started thinking about nanowrimo, my brain has changed mode. It's like I'm listening on frequencies I haven't listened on for a long time. To start with, there was nothing. It was horrifying. Where did story ideas even come from before? Have I lost the connection with that part of myself? Total static. An endless black page with nothing to write about. A couple of days in - not specifically trying to think of ideas, but just having opened that door in my mind again - I started to hear sounds in the distance. Whispers. Then I saw a place. Felt an atmosphere. Then I met my character. She introduced herself and showed me around. Very slowly, she has been feeding me tidbits about her life. Out of nowhere, when I'm wrapped up in something else - from yoga, to buying groceries, to writing bash scripts - I gain another little insight. She tells me something new about herself. She hints at what she's up to, and what might happen in the future. Just hints. At the same time, I can feel echoes of things I have written in the past and media I am consuming recently, as well as things in my own life. I can really feel these influences painting the backdrop in a way I'd never noticed before. It is absolutely thrilling to have made this connection. I used to have this all the time, when I wrote a lot. Non-stop, characters were chattering at me, spaces were inviting me to explore them. I got used to it I guess, and then didn't notice when it went quiet. Now it's back, I realise what I was missing. I have a person and a place, and a general sense of the world, but no plot. I get the feeling we're going to find out what happens together, in November.
published: 2017-10-03T20:09:00+02:00
tag: over+the+moon
tag: nanowrimo
tag: writing
tag: fiction

nanowrimo-freenode
type: Note
content: I joined #nanowrimo on Freenode but nobody is there :o Please nerds join me.
published: 2017-10-31T23:06:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo
tag: irc

oats
type: Note
content: Can someone explain to me why everyone is tooting about oats?
published: 2017-10-31T23:02:00+01:00
tag: mastodon

phd
type: Note
content: Finally! It's official See also: dr.amy.gy.
published: 2017-10-27T11:03:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: cv

photos-dk
type: Add
content: Eating my way through my first evening in Copenhagen with Ninni.
published: 2017-10-13T21:13:22+02:00
summary: Amy added 7 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201710-dk/
target: 201710-dk

photos-dk-2
type: Add
content: A morning run around Copenhagen's lakes. Avocado rye toast.. I'd forgotten what it was like being in a real city. A wander around the city center and indoor and outdoor markets. Lunch at Bahn Mi.
published: 2017-10-14T15:14:14+02:00
summary: Amy added 21 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201710-dk/
target: 201710-dk

photos-dk-3
type: Add
content: Ninni had a party, then stayed out until 8am (I didn't). The last photo is: I fetched her a veggie burger and fries for 'breakfast' before she went to sleep.
published: 2017-10-15T10:15:52+02:00
summary: Amy added 8 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201710-dk/
target: 201710-dk

photos-dk-4
type: Add
content: I walked 12 miles around Copenhagen, through various parks, the Kastellet, the Little Mermaid, to Christiania for great vegan food, mega hippie vibes, and a walk in the woods, and back via Rosenborg Castle gardens.
published: 2017-10-15T19:17:40+02:00
summary: Amy added 63 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201710-dk/
target: 201710-dk

photos-dk-5
type: Add
content: Green Burger for Sunday dinner. Monday wandering, from Zee's for breakfast, up the Rundtaarn for overcast views of Copenhagen; a couple of hours in the library and a leisurely lunch at Yellow Rose; the sky turned blue in time to wander through a park and watch the sun set; AYCE vegan Chinese buffet for dinner at Veggie Heroes. The return bus via Berlin; two nights and a day.
published: 2017-10-17T09:35:51+02:00
summary: Amy added 73 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201710-dk/
target: 201710-dk

photos-mum
type: Add
content: Flea market, old town, yellow fort, white fort, dinner at 4 Sobe, with Mum and Julian.
published: 2017-10-22T20:23:50+01:00
summary: Amy added 48 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-mum-2
type: Add
content: Climb to the bobsled track, lunch in Brus, with Mum and Julian.
published: 2017-10-23T16:22:31+01:00
summary: Amy added 35 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-mum-3
type: Add
content: Sarajevo town, Karuzo and War Tunnel with Mum and Julian.
published: 2017-10-02T11:20:41+01:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-pancakes
type: Add
content: Celebrating Canadian thanksgiving with pancakes and chocolate banana bread.
published: 2017-10-09T23:25:14+03:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

photos-to-dk
type: Add
content: The bus from Sarajevo to Denmark, via a couple of hours in Berlin and a ferry, only takes two days.
published: 2017-10-13T17:48:45+02:00
summary: Amy added 14 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201710-dk/
target: 201710-dk

pita-stop
type: Note
content: In most places, it's a pit stop. In Bosnia it's a pita stop. An hour out of Sarajevo, and the bus driver needs burek.
published: 2017-10-12T09:45:00+02:00
tag: travel
tag: bosnia

plans
type: Note
content: Wait people make plans during October? I forgot how this works. Did I ever plan? Doesn't ring a bell. I should go to bed and deal with this tomorrow. I'm exhausted but somehow psyched. Argh.
published: 2017-10-31T23:15:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo

read-papers
type: Note
content: I read, made notes on, and wrote a small literature review on some papers yesterday. Part of me loved it, it's been a while. Part of me suffered greatly from PhD PTSD I guess.
published: 2017-10-05T12:46:00+02:00
tag: phdchat
tag: phd
tag: thesis

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Babysat a server. Continued to learn more about Docker, queuing/task management, and generally debugging systems with lots of parts. Did some thesis corrections but not enough goddamnit. Went thrice to yoga. Started daydreaming about NaNoWriMo. Filled up this site's server with email. As a result MySQL threw up on itself. Spent five hours fixing that.
name: Week in review: 25 September - 1 October
published: 2017-10-01T21:29:00+02:00
tag: yoga
tag: nanowrimo
tag: hacking
tag: thesis

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Learnt a lot about bash and makefiles. Got a 24 hour bug. Vomited my way through the last of my thesis corrections. Elizabeth and pudo brought me emergency supplies. What do I do to deserve such wonderful people in my life? Finished S2 of The Expanse. Very into this now. Watched Blade Runner. Had opinionz.
name: Week in review: 2 - 8 October
published: 2017-10-08T23:24:25+02:00
tag: week+in+review
tag: thesis
tag: pudo.org
tag: phd
tag: life

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Ported scrapers. Took the bus to Copenhagen via Berlin. Ate my way around Copenhagen (Friday evening, Saturday, Saturday evening, Sunday).
name: Week in review: 9 - 15 October
published: 2017-10-15T23:59:59+02:00
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: copenhagen

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Further walking and eating around Copenhagen. Took the bus back to Sarajevo via Berlin. Ported scrapers. Touristed around Sarajevo with my mum.
name: Week in review: 16 - 22 October
published: 2017-10-22T23:59:59+02:00
tag: sarajevo
tag: week+in+review
tag: travel
tag: copenhagen

week-in-review-5
type: Article
content: Touristed around Sarajevo with my Mum (went to the Bobsled track and the War Tunnel). Worked on Memorious. Pulled an all-nighter to get my thesis to have page numbers and the correct margins for print. When I've recovered from the trauma, I may write about it. (Spoiler: I ended up using latex for page numbers). Spent way too much time researching convoluted ways to get around Europe. Booked one of five upcoming journeys. Actually went shopping and bought winter clothes!! Worked on sloph and burrow but got sidetracked by fixing annoying bugs instead of implementing new stuff. Revamped my homepage layout a mite. Started Stranger Things 2..
name: Week in review: 23 - 29 October
published: 2017-10-29T23:35:00+01:00
tag: life
tag: hacking
tag: week+in+review
tag: sloph
tag: sarajevo

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/25
type: Note
content: Day 25: 25,000 words. Better late than never. I alternated writing with cooking and listening to Syre. I made bulgar wheat with lentils and veggies; baked a loaf of bread; and now I'm making leek and potato soup to accompany the bread.
published: 2017-11-25T19:20:00+01:00
tag: syre
tag: nanowrimo
tag: food
tag: cooking

5-is-steep
type: Note
content: $5 is steep. I guess you're paying to not have to maintain a server yourself..
in reply to: frst-pst-im.html
published: 2017-11-15T15:07:00+01:00
tag: indieweb

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/59fb8fa7c7e77
type: Note
content: Phew. I'm aiming for a 750words streak for the whole month at a minimum. I expect I'll be maintaining the 1667 daily average in fits and starts. Tomorrow I'm not going to work.
published: 2017-11-02T23:59:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a19e7dfa652f
type: Add
content: Contributions to the Prana Yoga potluck. Aubergines stuffed with veggies and bulgar wheat, sprinkled with vegan cheese that my mum brought me from the UK. A sugar free beetroot cake with lemon cream cheese icing. The cake turned out a bit weird, but was enjoyed by people who already had weird diets.
published: 2017-10-28T18:30:54+01:00
summary: Amy added 13 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a19e85e2b400
type: Add
content: Fried tofu with quinoa.
published: 2017-11-19T22:02:00+01:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a19e890c83c0
type: Add
content: Sugar free chocolate beet cakes.
published: 2017-11-04T17:02:50+01:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a19e92c4903c
type: Add
content: A chocolate pear cake, anticipating Mum and Julian's 2am arrival in Sarajevo. This was the correct thing to do.
published: 2017-10-21T22:05:25+01:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a19e97a92f08
type: Add
content: Excessive pizza with vegan cheese from Mum. I used yeast in the dough and let it rise once, and I am never going back.
published: 2017-11-05T17:06:44+01:00
summary: Amy added 3 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a19ea35b0ee5
type: Add
content: Various comfort foods... chips, chilli, stews, mac 'n' not-cheese.
published: 2017-10-28T22:09:52+02:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a19ea681cb43
type: Add
content: Grah.
published: 2017-11-12T22:10:41+01:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a19ea86d1ced
type: Add
content: Today's Bosnian word of the day is hljeb. With a side of leek and potato soup.
published: 2017-11-25T23:11:12+01:00
summary: Amy added 11 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a21ee9a186dc
type: Add
content: Antics.
published: 2017-11-02T00:06:44+01:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a21f09e04e5e
type: Add
content: Random things in Sarajevo... Running, food at Bibana, Karuzo, Vrbas, Cejf, and the coffee place with the tree.
published: 2017-11-19T20:15:20+01:00
summary: Amy added 12 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/11/5a21f1856a5a9
type: Add
content: Taj Mahal food with Elizabeth... coffee place with the tree.. random Sarajevo.
published: 2017-11-21T00:19:11+01:00
summary: Amy added 9 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

actually
type: Note
content: Actually I think what's nice is just that I spend a lot less time watching netflix whilst drowning in crippling guilt these days.
in reply to: sometimes
published: 2017-11-19T15:47:00+01:00
tag: life
tag: phdchat

broken
type: Note
content: My database has been broken for twelve days, and for all of those of you who were missing reading what I had for breakfast fear not! It's fixed, and I kept logs on paper. Regular service will resumse shortly.
published: 2017-11-12T22:32:00+01:00
tag: hacking
tag: sloph
tag: life

darkness
type: Note
content: hello darkness my old friend
published: 2017-11-02T22:35:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo

day1
type: Note
content: it's fucking day 1 and I'm already highly sleep deprived. Only a few sentences under the daily target, but completely incapable of producing more at the moment. If only this post counted.
published: 2017-11-02T00:20:00+01:00

discovered
type: Note
content: I discovered today that my Nanowrimo (Of the Moon) is set on the same planet where I started another story (Quest for Brothers) several years ago, but thousands and thousands of years in the future, after an apocalyptic event wiped out the first inhabitants. One of the characters in QfB, whose story I didn't get very far with at the time and was the least interesting to me of the three MCs, apparently had great adventures and went down in her peoples' history in a series of legends about her deeds. Anyway looks like my MC in OtM knows more about other characters I've met in the past than I do.
published: 2017-11-15T23:05:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo

feeling
type: Note
content: Dunno if it's a coincidence, but since I've been writing fiction every day I have had fewer mega-lows, and zero urge to curl up on the sofa with a colouring book and pens. This also coincides with my phd finally being actually properly and for real wrapped up, so I can't scientifically identify a correlation here. But definitely writing is making me feel good, everything else aside. Hey I have almost 15,000 words and a whole world that I didn't have two weeks ago.
published: 2017-11-15T23:55:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo
tag: life

fulltime
type: Note
content: Concluding this month's inadvertent how-long-can-rhiaro-do-a-full-time-job experiment, during which I went to work for 8+ hours per day, five days a week, for three weeks straight, and had some overly social weekends and evenings, I have determined that the answer is 3 weeks at a stretch and now I am out. Of. Steam. I will retreat henceforth back into the safety of antisocial part-timeiness. I know most people work at least this much in non-solo environments. What I don't understand is how.
published: 2017-11-24T12:47:00+01:00
tag: life

not-done
type: Note
content: I'm not done with this topic yet. Spending all day every day either working dedicatedly at one thing, or feeling overwhelmingly guilty about not working dedicatedly at one thing, seemed to make complete sense at the time and had a kind of honour associated with it. But in hindsight it was really stupid and more often than I think I even realised, especially towards the end, I was hellishly miserable. Don't get me wrong, I loved doing a PhD, and I got a lot out of it. I got travel opportunities, and great friends, and fantastic mentors, and learnt a lot about myself. One thing I always tell people I love about postgrad was the freedom to work under my own steam, on topics that interested me. I could work when I wanted, how I wanted. In hindsight.. I should have used that freedom to not work all the time. That makes it sound like I worked all the time. I did not. I spent an awful lot of time not working, but because most of that not-working time I could have been working, I felt terrible about the fact I wasn't working. On and off over the years I tried a schedule - to build in non-work-not-guilty time. Sometimes it worked. And sometimes I'd go off on an adventure (a walk around a new city, or climb a mountain) and tell myself I need a break and it's okay not to work that day. Sometimes it escalated, and I'd spend an entire day watching Star Trek and tell myself it was okay and I needed a break. Then I'd do that a few days or even up to a week in a row, and realise that I could no longer justify this as a mental-health preserving break, and all the good energy-saving would be undone in one fell swoop of crushing guilt. Then I'd watch Star Trek for a bit longer out of misery. The lesson here is probably something about better time planning.
in reply to: actually
published: 2017-11-19T19:51:00+01:00
tag: phdchat
tag: life

not-rain
type: Note
content: I spent all day hoping for the rain to stop. This is... not what I meant.
published: 2017-11-13T21:30:00+01:00
tag: travel
tag: sarajevo
tag: weather

novel-novelties
type: Note
content: Nanowrimo 2017, Of the Moon. The first (long) story I've written: Confined to a single location (technically). With a single character (technically). With no dialogue at all (I always hate writing dialogue, so.. why should I).
published: 2017-11-17T18:01:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo
tag: writing

photos-edinburgh
type: Add
content: A foray up the Scott Monument with Jane, and dinner at Nova Pizza.
published: 2017-11-29T20:36:36+00:00
summary: Amy added 25 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201711-uk/
target: 201711-uk

photos-graduation
type: Add
content: My PhD graduation! I'm legit now. Starring my parents and Sergio; featuring McEwan Hall and the Auld Hoose.
published: 2017-11-30T14:37:41+00:00
summary: Amy added 45 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201711-uk/
target: 201711-uk

photos-home
type: Add
content: Sweet home Sarajevo.
published: 2017-11-20T11:10:19+01:00
summary: Amy added 12 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-munich
type: Add
content: The night bus from Sarajevo to Munich, then a flight to Edinburgh from Munich airport. In between, a burger (one of 4 vegan options!) at the airport.
published: 2017-11-29T12:40:57+01:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201711-uk/
target: 201711-uk

photos-sarajevo
type: Add
content: The usual.
published: 2017-11-28T21:51:45+01:00
summary: Amy added 11 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

sometimes
type: Note
content: Sometimes I take a moment to just revel in how much more free* time I have with a full time job compared to doing a PhD. * time for decentralised social web stuff** and Nanowrimo. ** what was my thesis about again?
published: 2017-11-19T11:56:00+01:00
tag: life
tag: nanowrimo
tag: phdchat

steve
type: Note
content: I'm dead serious. Stranger Things 2 exists entirely for Steve's character development. Right? It was fine and all, but all I really cared about by the last few episodes was Steve. Go Steve.
published: 2017-11-12T22:35:00+01:00
tag: stranger+things
tag: life

syre
type: Note
content: I've had Syre on repeat for two days now. I'm starting to forget how to function without it in my ears. Gently psychedelic weird rap, the album as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It varies in pace and style, and is chaotic throughout in a way I love. Louder is better. I particularly love B.L.U.E and Lost Boy, and Icon has grown on me enormously. But it really makes the most sense as one 70 minute track.
published: 2017-11-23T19:48:00+01:00
tag: officialjaden
tag: music
tag: syre

tfw-nano
type: Note
content: That feeling when you are now so far behind the finish-on-time Nanowrimo target that you stop writing for the word count and start writing for the story, and then it gets easier again.
published: 2017-11-14T23:50:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo

time
type: Note
content: I have allowed twice as much time tonight to write as I manage on most nights! I can write twice as much! Or I can write 750 words and watch a movie. I miss movies.
published: 2017-11-23T20:12:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo

waiting
type: Note
type: Activity
content: Waiting for a docker image to build? That's time for at least 100 words.
published: 2017-11-21T10:07:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo
tag: docker

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Ported scrapers. Learnt how to use Python Image Library and Tesseract for breaking captchas totally legitimate reasons. Stared Nanowrimo. Managed to scrape 750 words per day, but dropping below the average I actually need. Went to a party, got drooled on by a baby, left before 11pm.
name: Week in review: 30 October - 5 November
published: 2017-11-05T23:59:59+01:00
tag: nanowrimo
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Started reorganising Aleph's data model and associated paraphernalia. Went to work every day as procrastination from Nanowrimo. Woah have I gone two weeks without leaving the country?? Booked upcoming trips to Edinburgh, Leipzig and Malta. Wrote words at home. Wrote words at work. Wrote words in Goldfish Bar. Wrote words in Karuzo. Wrote words in Kamarija Cafe with Elizabeth, above the smog. Wrote words in old town falafel place. Wrote words in Dia Cafe. Went to Mala Kuhinja. Managed not to write words. It was very fancy and delicious. Climbed up to Sunnyland. It was everything I hoped it would be.
name: Week in review: 6 - 12 November
published: 2017-11-12T22:25:00+01:00
tag: nanowrimo
tag: week+in+review
tag: travel

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Na Messed with aleph's new schema some more. No Ported more bulk data mappings for use with the new schema. Wri Added some stuff to followthemoney. Mo FIXED SLOPH PAGING (nanowrimo)
name: Week in review: 13 - 19 November
published: 2017-11-19T23:37:00+01:00
tag: sloph
tag: nanowrimo
tag: aleph

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Dabbled in Travis-ci. We released Memorious, OCCRP's open source scraping framework. The SocialWebWG voted to take ActivityPub to PR (though we're still waiting on some processy bits before we can actuall publish). Wrote words. Hit 28k, which admittedly is not 43,333 but I'm still pleased. Listened to Syre a lot. Cooked a lot. The weather was uncannily great, then it snowed again.
name: Week in review: 20 - 26 November
published: 2017-11-26T23:01:00+01:00
tag: travis-ci
tag: memorious
tag: syre
tag: nanowrimo
tag: life
tag: activitypub
tag: socialwg

34c3
type: Note
content: I have made it to 34c4, registered as an Angel, procured a SIM card for internal comms, and wandered around this enormous venue. It's all coming together. There is buzz and excitement and many many nerds.
published: 2017-12-26T18:50:00+01:00
tag: 34c3
tag: events

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/12/5a2d26813f9db
type: Add
content: Waaay too sweet cookies. Just brown sugar, flour, raisins, and coconut oil.
published: 2017-11-26T17:30:11+01:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2017/12/5a2d26c621a24
type: Add
content: Emergency cakes chez Mum. Self-raising flour, bicarb, baking soda, 3 bananas, Vitalite, almond essence, dessicated coconut, and coconut milk until it was the right consistency. Dark chocolate chunks. Shockingly good.
published: 2017-12-06T12:21:19+00:00
summary: Amy added 2 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
target: madefood

cheese
type: Note
content: Usually my problem is that i can't get vegan cheese or chocolate but right now i only have vegan cheese and chocolate which is overall an improvement i guess but i dunno what i'm having for dinner??
published: 2017-12-10T20:36:00+01:00
tag: vegan
tag: food

ghent
type: Article
content: This month's convluted travel routing took me through Ghent, Belgium. The bus timetables didn't quite line up to let me go straight through from Boston (the original) to Sarajevo, so I figured if I have to spend a day in a city I should pick a nice one, and one that I haven't been to before. I arrived, early, at 0530. It was very cold. Thankfully one of the earliest opening coffeeshops happens to be an all-vegan one - Full Circle Coffee. Unfortunately I still had two hours to kill before 0730, which I spent shivering in a corner in the train station. It wasn't the best. When I made my way to Full Circle, it was still dark. The place is super welcoming, with sofas, comfy chairs, as well as tables, and a wall-facing bench lined with power sockets, so it's clear laptopping is welcome. I started my day earlier than usual, with an oat milk flat white, and chocolate pie (8EUR total). Their other offerings included carrot cake and chai carrot cake. The wifi was fine, and there was a power socket by a sofa. I curled up there and watched the sun rise out of the glass door which leads to their back terrace. The sun didn't so much as rise, but the sky turned a lighter shade of grey. I thought about leaving for a walking tour at 10, but just as I was making my mind up to close my laptop it started to sleet. I stayed. Just after 11 the weather had improved, and I headed to Mie Vie, a vegan cafe in the town center. I had a somehow spectacular cheese salad sandwich on crusty bread, and a danish pastry. This place was also welcoming, and also had good wifi and power options, and a decent amount of space. It didn't get busy over lunch time. I joined this walking tour at 1300. It lasted two hours, and was fun and informative. I learnt that French Fries are Belgian, there are three peeing children statues (compared to Brussels' one), and there's art in one of the cathedral's that is the most-stolen ever. It rained, hailed, and the sun came out a little, but mostly it was just overcast…
name: A day in Ghent
published: 2017-12-08T23:30:00+01:00
tag: libraries
tag: vegan
tag: food
tag: travel
tag: tourism
tag: ghent

good-talk
type: Note
content: The first really good talk I've seen at #34c3 was BGP and the Rule of Custom by cjd. Good thoughts about the interplay between network structure/hardware and the social surroundings. And a pretty solid Mastodon plug at the end :)
published: 2017-12-27T23:34:45+01:00
tag: 34c3
tag: event

leipzig
type: Note
content: I wandered around Leipzig for a couple of hours this morning, looking for food. It turns out that lots of places in the city center are open, but the ones which are are packed, full of families being festive. They were also on the fancy and expensive side. None of these appealed. I could not find a fast food place or a supermarket. Eventually I found myself in the main train station. This is a small bubble of the city where on the 25th of December, life continues as normal. A lot of the food outlets are open, and I enjoyed a coffee and a pretzel in tranquility. I also saw a dm and a smoothie place on my way in, so I can get supplies for later. I'm sitting in a bakery in the station right now. There are a few people about, and it's interesting to observe the folks who are doing not-christmas things this afternoon. A few families with small kids; people not speaking German to the cashier who probably just arrived or are waiting to depart; old couples and old solos. Cafes and restaurants in the city center didn't feel like places it was okay to sit alone, even if there was space. But the train station vibe is safe and comforting.
published: 2017-12-25T13:56:00+01:00
tag: travel
tag: solo
tag: leipzig

photos-edi-mum
type: Add
content: An Angry Vegan at Bread Meats Bread. A train ride with the bird. Chips at Mum's.
published: 2017-12-04T20:48:44+00:00
summary: Amy added 13 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201711-uk/
target: 201711-uk

photos-edinburgh
type: Add
content: Edinburgh times, with the bird, and Holyrood, and food.
published: 2017-12-02T09:40:01+00:00
summary: Amy added 27 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201711-uk/
target: 201711-uk

photos-edinburgh-2
type: Add
content: A day in which I went to Snax, Anteaques, the SHRUB, and Holy Cow.
published: 2017-12-02T23:43:44+00:00
summary: Amy added 22 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201711-uk/
target: 201711-uk

photos-edinburgh-3
type: Add
content: Doughnuts at Considerit, unexpected jaunt to Calton Hill with Harry, Soul Sushi, and Star Trek ToS projector-sized.
published: 2017-12-03T22:46:53+00:00
summary: Amy added 23 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201711-uk/
target: 201711-uk

photos-ghent
type: Add
content: Walking, eating and typing in Ghent. Blog post.
published: 2017-12-10T12:23:35+00:00
summary: Amy added 43 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201712-ghent/
target: 201712-ghent

photos-holyrood
type: Add
content: A morning run around the glorious Holyrood Park.
published: 2017-12-03T10:45:49+00:00
summary: Amy added 29 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201711-uk/
target: 201711-uk

photos-leipzig
type: Add
content: A few days in Leipzig, from the 24th of December to the 31st. Mostly for attending the 34th Chaos Communication Congress. Post about the trip.
published: 2017-12-31T23:36:57+01:00
summary: Amy added 39 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-leipzig/
target: 2017-leipzig

photos-sarajevo
type: Add
content: Sarajevo has been remarkably kind to me upon my return today.
published: 2017-12-10T20:51:56+01:00
summary: Amy added 17 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-sarajevo-2
type: Add
content: Food and fun in Sarajevo. Featuring Sushi San, Karuzo, krompirusa, making pizza with Elizabeth.
published: 2017-12-30T15:27:45+01:00
summary: Amy added 16 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-sarajevo/
target: 2017-sarajevo

photos-uk
type: Add
content: A gloomy run from Stickford to Stickney; Boston (original) early morning; a train to London.
published: 2017-12-07T20:49:45+00:00
summary: Amy added 15 photos to https://i.amy.gy/201711-uk/
target: 201711-uk

shrub
type: Note
content: Now my student card has expired and I can't access Edinburgh University buildings to bum around with my laptop at the weekend, it's nice that I can cosy up on a sofa at the SHRUB for a couple of hours. It's a lovely welcoming place and community of people, and it's come so far since I volunteered here a bit about three years ago. I also bought a hat.
published: 2017-12-02T17:33:00+00:00
tag: edinburgh
tag: travel
tag: life
tag: shrub

slip
type: Note
content: I did slip over on my ass twice on the hill 1 minute from my front door though and the neighbours saw.
in reply to: photos-sarajevo
published: 2017-12-10T20:59:00+01:00
tag: sarajevo

swp
type: Note
content: I published Social Web Protocols as a Social Web Working Group Note today. It's supposed to be a one-stop shop for understanding the various specs of the WG. Hopefully it makes your life easier not harder.
published: 2017-12-25T16:08:00+01:00
tag: w3c
tag: socialwg
tag: social+web+protocols

travel
type: Note
content: tl;dr In a spectacular feat of learning absolutely nothing from my recent three-consecutive-nights-on-buses excursion, I have now booked an upcoming trip involving two night ferries and a night bus (and two day buses). I was tryna do it in three ferries and one bus, but the Bari-Dubrovnik line is apparently ~seasonal~ and not running in January how selfish. tl For anyone interested in further details of my folly, my goal was to get from Malta to Sarajevo in the first week of January without flying. During high season it is possible to go in basically a straight line. After I found out (thanks to an unexpectedly fast and helpful email response from Jadrolinja) about the Bari-Dubrovnik line not running however I had to work out a more indirect route. The ferry from Malta to Catania (Sicily) is a given. It's 9 hours overnight, and a steep 60EUR. But no way around it. (Tirrenia ferries.) The next most obvious option was to bus from Catania to Ancona, and take the Jadrolinja ferry from there to Split (Croatia). Split to Sarajevo is easy. To my surprise, there's a direct bus from Catania to Ancona; 15 hours and 80EUR. But I've done the Ancona to Split ferry twice before. There's nothing wrong with it, but I'm seeking new experiences. It's about 50EUR, and 12 hours. OH and one other thing. It only runs on Tuesdays and Fridays. The earliest I can leave Malta on a Thursday night and there is just no way I can make it to Ancona by Friday evening, so started planning to spend 4 days in Catania, because it would be cool to climb Mt Etna and more interesting than waiting around in Ancona for the next available ferry. I found accommodation for about 40EUR for the whole time. In total, this would get me back to Sarajevo on the 10th of January, and cost about 190EUR in transport and accommodation. If I take entirely buses though, I can shave off three days and 60EUR, but I also sacrifice an extra vacation in Sicily. I could do this with a bus from Catania to Venice (80EUR, 14 hours…
published: 2017-12-16T14:49:00+01:00
tag: ferry
tag: bus
tag: travel
tag: italy
tag: transport
tag: sarajevo

vegan-edinburgh
type: Article
content: I lived in Edinburgh for 4 years, but the vegan offerings have ramped up in the 2 years I've been away since. On my last two visits, in September for my viva and December for my graduation, I visited old favourites, as well as crammed in as many new places as I could. The classics The Auld Hoose I went to the Hoose almost every Monday evening for 4 years. They have a 20% discount on food on Mondays. They also have a ton of vegan options in a laid-back grungy pub atmosphere. They had vegan cheese on their GIANT nachos before it was cool. The menu changed while I was away, and these days along with their vegan chilli, vegan burrito and vegan burger they also have a fried tofu sandwich and raspberry sorbet sundae. I miss the veggie haggis and mushroom pie of ye olde days though, gotta say. But you really come for the nachos. Anteaques I practically lived in Anteaques when I ran SocieTea. They were our best sponsor, and I am as unfailingly loyal as you can be to a tea shop. They also have at least one homemade vegan tart at weekends, usually chocolate and raspberry. Rhubarb apparently briefly put in a seasonal appearance last month, but I missed it. Anyway I'm happy to eat the chocolate and raspberry tart with a pot of tea every single time I go, it's fantastic. The tea is also good. Rigatoni's I used to eat at Rigatoni's a lot. It's a lovely family-run pizza and pasta joint. It's not the cheapest, but the quality is outstanding. Over the years I developed my perfect topping combo: spicy kidney beans, artichoke, and mushrooms or olives (depending on what I was in the mood for). I went so regularly they'd remind me to remove cheese from my order if I forgot to mention it. They don't have vegan cheese, but the pizza sauce is so good it holds up a pizza all on its own. The XL is best value for money, and would usually last me one and a half to two meals. It's great cold the next day, smothered in hot sauce. Henderson's An Edinburgh veggie institution, there are now about t…
name: Vegan in Edinburgh
published: 2017-12-10T14:24:00+01:00
tag: travel
tag: food
tag: vegan
tag: edinburgh

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Finished Nanowrimo at 30,413 words, which is a new second place. Went to Edinburgh (via a nightbus to Munich and a flight). Climbed the Scott Monument finally. Graduated. Saw my parents and lots of people I haven't seen for a while. Ate at many of the new vegan establishments in Edinburgh.
name: Week in review: 27 November - 3 December
published: 2017-12-03T23:59:59+00:00
tag: food
tag: travel
tag: phd
tag: nanowrimo
tag: vegan
tag: edinburgh

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Spent a couple of days at my Mum's house. Took the bus to London then the night bus to Ghent. Spent a day eating Ghent. Took the nightbus to Cologne Airport, and slept there for a few hours. Weird dreams. Cold. Food offerings have improved though. Took the final 24 hour bus back to Sarajevo. Fixed some aleph things I'd been stuck on, but no huge progress. Shipped sloph's AP outbox endpoint. It works with curl but I haven't tested it with clients yet.
name: Week in review: 4 - 10 December
published: 2017-12-10T23:59:59+01:00
tag: activitypub
tag: sloph
tag: ghent
tag: uk
tag: travel

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Spent the 25th of December in Leipzig train station eating pretzels. Attended 34c3. Lots of nerds, tea, and Isaac Asimov. Took the night bus to Munich and a plane (ugh) to Malta. Rang in the new year in bed with Lizziepoop and a movie.
name: Week in review: 25 - 31 December
published: 2017-12-31T23:59:59+01:00
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tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: 34c3
tag: malta

weeks-in-review
type: Article
content: memorious has some good new features, so I spent a chunk of time updating all of the OCCRP crawlers to use them. Parsed some things. Sanitized some things. Started moving generic endpoint discovery mechanisms in to a library to use with AP clients. Finished Season 1 of Salvation. After the first two or three episodes, it became surprisingly good. Updated Social Web Protocols so we can publish it as a Note this month. Took a bus from Sarajevo to Leipzig. Discovered that at this particular time of year, everything in Leipzig is closed.
name: Weeks in review: 11-24 December
published: 2017-12-24T23:59:59+01:00
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personal-web-observatory
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content: This article was accepted to the 2017 Workshop on Web Observatories and I'll present about it on the 4th of April in Perth. As an article on my site it is subject to ongoing updates and improvements. To comply with submission deadlines for the workshop, a static snapshot from 22nd January 2017 is at archive.org. Abstract This is a short report on iteratively developing and using a Personal Web Observatory for one year. Herein are described the architecture of the technical system and, subjectively, the social and personal impact of daily use. The goal is to provoke further conversation about what it means to 'observe' individuals, and the benefits and drawbacks of this on a personal scale. We also discuss how peoples' attitudes towards social media and personal publishing may impact the quality of data collected by Web Observatories. Introduction Studying communities through passive and active digital traces, as Web Observatories are designed to do [9, 26], brings with it a host of privacy, ethical, and methodological concerns. Attempts to address online privacy issues in general are being made with a push towards re-decentralising the Web [8], in part through open Web standards and work on promoting personal data stores as alternatives to centralised or third-party services. Using this momentum can benefit the Web Science community as well as their observees (though it brings with it its own set of challenges). Decentralisation is applied to Web Observatories in particular through the idea of a Personal Web Observatory [11] as a user-controlled (as opposed to third-party imposed) means of collecting and tracking data. <!-- Even assuming uptake of decentralised technologies for online activities... --> <!-- This article builds on the idea of , through iteratively developing and using one such system over a year. --> <!-- Experimenting with new standards for decentralised online social activities has given rise to the development of my personal website into a system …
generator: sloph
in reply to: wow2017
in reply to: calls
name: Observing the decentralised social web (one telescope at a time)
published: 2017-01-22T18:26:00+08:00
updated: 2017-01-22T18:26:00+08:00

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