Usenet,Facebook,Twitter. But still the blog carries on. Just not very often.
A mix of random things that I want to write something about, and then more often things relating to digital cultural heritage. Then sometimes, some cooking posts. It's my blog, I don't have to please any algorithm here.
Cost: £4.10 (!)
Chocolate Insets: 2
Chocolate Quality: Good
Chocolate Quantity: Good
Chocolate Distribution: Good
Lamination: Good
Shape: Good
Look: Good
Taste: Good
A decent pain au chocolat from Heidi in Richmond Station, but the price is hard to get over. It was just less than some of the other baked items which looked to have more expensive fillings, so either the chocolate in this is very expensive or the markup is large.
It's like A.S. Byatt's Possession crossed with Waterworld. But not in a great way, nothing ever seemed to really get going. The references to (real) people around now was also a bit jarring. Interesting on what gets preserved or not in some semi-apocalyptic future though.
Sure, Paris has museums, art, monuments, historic buildings, but in between visting all of those, where do you hang out ? At a Monoprix dept stores of course (to be clear - not at a Monop' express store, although those are fine for a quick purchase in-between all the touristing). Any time you visit one of Monoprix's stores there will be some newly designed homewares, clothes, stationary, gifts and as well as a huge supermarket. It's M&S, but French. It's Tiger, but French. It's Paperchase (sadly departed), but French. You get the idea.
Another collection of links on digital cultural heritage topics from the last few months, mainly for my own benefit but possibly of interest to others as well.
(I started on this in the Spring but never finished writing it. Posting now so I can move onto a links catchup post for Spring 2026 now and maybe actually post it on time...)
I think this is an issue unresolved in all cultural heritage collection websites (but please let me know if otherwise) and yet it's such a small basic web feature - the ability to link to other object pages in a collection from the text within an object page. For example in the V&A collection a record's description might say:
Following on from the announcement about Mistral's OCR model, I thought I would (unfairly!) test it against some examples of manuscripts and books from each century from the 11th to the 20th; to see how well it can recognise illustrations amongst text (or vice-versa). All examples taken from the National Art Library at the V&A.