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Very interesting; 10C refused to post my latest when it had more than one section of quotes.

I've been spending a little time (after a very busy period) bringing some more of the old stuff over here to the new shiny. Looking at posts from 12 years ago -- how time flies -- is bittersweet, but I'm not here to dwell. I'm here to point to a glorious piece from Paul Ford [ftrain.com], which I'm very happy to say is still up.

Of course, you don't arrive at a morally profound motto like “don't be evil” without some serious thought. Here are some of the mottoes that Google tried out and rejected:

• Google! Dance with the devil, but go home before it gets serious.
• Google! We won't commit genocide in most circumstances.
• Google! Don't eat no babies.
• Google! We could do good, but we're like, whoa.
• Google! Begone, demon!

I laughed the first time. And I'm still laughing. Especially when you know what Google has become.

@matigo Not sure. I was very severe with the orchids, and there doesn't seem to be anything else succumbing. I wonder now whether I might not have watered too late in the day a couple of times, so the leaves stayed wet.

@matigo I thought so, but you never know.

Disastrous morning here. I noticed last week that some of my Phalaenopsis orchids had something nasty going on in their leaves. Finally checked it out and it seems it may be a leaf rot. So I brutally hacked away at any leaf with damage, dusting cut wounds with cinnamon, as advised, because it is supposed to be a fungicide.

I have five of these, all looking a bit sorry for themselves. The only one untouched (so far) has purplish leaves, which makes me wonder whether anthocyanins may somehow protect against fungal infection.

@hazardwarning The body (sometimes) knows what's best for it.

@matigo Are those all panoramas, or are you cropping ordinary shots?

@keita Same as over there, but a lot more present.

Interesting. Just took a slightly more detailed look at my AWS charge for the past three months. Data transfer is around USD14 per month, which pays for around 45 Gb of transfer. Almost all of that is my podcasts. ¹ Assuming an average podcast size of 20 Mb, which is not far off, that would seem to amount to 2000 downloads a month, unless I've got my exponents wrong. That's more than other stats are telling me, but not by much.

I reckon I can afford to stay in S3 for a little longer, at least.

1. My static site is hosted there too, but I can imagine the downloads for that are huge. I need to see whether I can break them out.

@gtwilson
The fastmail iOS app is excellent.

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