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I spent Monday doing nothing, watching TV series, taking a nap, and by the evening I felt mostly recovered from the previous weekend's exertions.

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that

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I've met Matz once, I think, at EuRuKo in Krakow in 2010. We chatted briefly in Japanese. He seemed nice, but also quiet and reserved. At the time, he didn't speak much English; perhaps he could speak more and just wasn't particularly confident, but he di

I didn't have to spend five days cycling across the country to and from a festival. I could just have taken the train. There wouldn't even have been any moral failing in doing so. Instead, I did it the hard way. In exchange I saw a slice across England in

Strictly speaking, I didn't have to cycle all the way back from Electromagnetic Field - I could have cycled as far as a convenient station and taken a train the rest of the way - but I was mentally committed to finishing what I'd started.

Here are some notes and materials to accompany my talk from Electromagnetic Field 2026.

As if cycling 240 km each way from London to Herefordshire and back again wasn't enough, in a week and a half's time I'll be walking with a few others from London to Canterbury.

People like authenticity. When I introduced my talk, I apologised for the basic theme: "I don't understand how LibreOffice Impress templates work, so this is just the basic Pandoc theme, but at least it's not AI." That received a huge cheer.

After a quiet, normal Monday, I got up early on Tuesday morning, packed all my kit onto my bike, and set out for Herefordshire around 06:00.