Category: jobs
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June(sie) 01
🚨🚨Warning🚨🚨 I’m still feeling a bit sorry for myself. I can’t seem to shake it at the moment. Physically, mentally and emotionally I still just feel a bit off – not terrible or anything but definitely sub-optimal (and it isn’t like ‘optimal’ Jukesie is exactly much to write home about these days.) Work was okay.…
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May Days [04]
![May Days [04]](https://digitalbydefault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/screenshot-2026-05-29-at-13.32.06.png?w=1024)
The cognitive dance I am doing day in, day out continues to be pretty exhausting. Am I fatigued because of the heat wave or because my diabetes is running wild? Is that twinge in my abdomen a precursor to another bout of pancreatitis or because I am 53? How can a diet as unchanging as…
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AI = Ain’t Inclined
Originally I titled this post ‘AI = Not Interested’ but I realised that is not really my state of mind. I am somewhat interested. I am not dismissive of the discourse. There is something happening. I’ve enjoyed Tom’s experiments and Doug’s folk software (a term he introduced me to that I prefer over the slightly…
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May Days [03]
![May Days [03]](https://digitalbydefault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/pexels-photo-29509406-e1779436108325.jpeg?w=1024)
I’ve been back at work for 10 days and today should have been my 100th (working) day in this role. I actually think I’ve managed 65 – so I’ve been off sick a third of the time I have had this job. Which, I have to be honest, is making reintegration a little bumpy. In…
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100 novels (of limited literary value)
My inevitable response to The Guardian’s click-bait list is this list of a randomised 100 novels I have purchased online, read and enjoyed in the years since I had Gmail and used Amazon – as it was the easiest way to search. I’ve tried to only include one book from any series I devoured (and…
