COVID Shipping Costs
A few days ago I needed to arrange shipping for a package from Ireland to here and in the process of checking a quote on the DPD website I happened to notice their prohibited items list, and one item...
View ArticleOh the delicious irony
So every morning my routine is that I wake up, brush my teeth, and pour out a big bowl of muesli. Then I sit down at the kitchen table and catch up on my RSS feeds in Feedly whilst I'm eating my...
View ArticleSky gods are angry
At 1.30am this morning I was dreaming. I can't remember the exact content of the dream, but I think it was a pleasant one. And yet something dark intruded on the dream. Something which introduced...
View ArticlePeacock Island Berlin
With the recent visit of my mother in law, we tried to find some new activities to do in Berlin. One friend recommended a visit to Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island) which I discovered is a UNESCO World...
View ArticleAlways write it down
The night before last, just before I went to bed, I was reading an article about a new investigative journalism site and it gave me an idea for a new blog post. I finished reading and as I brushed my...
View ArticleFamed German Punctuality
So we recently returned from a most wonderful trip to Sicily where we spent a week staying with friends of ours who split their time between there and Berlin. I can look back at it and laugh a bit now,...
View ArticleEnding 2023
So this year I decided to reboot my long-since languished blogging and photoblogging efforts. Previously I had both sites in one at my alex.leonard.ie domain, but I decided to separate them out and...
View ArticleRound and round we go
It's 2024. A completely arbitrary number signifying the number of times our planet has orbited the star in our solar system since a particular someone was possibly conceived or born, as decided by...
View ArticleNew music: Offset One EP by Exan
I'm really excited to announce that my latest work under my "Exan" moniker is available on Bandcamp now! Buy Now I was so delighted when the Errorgrid label boss said this to me: "It's one part liquid,...
View ArticleHours of work out the window
Oh man. So a year ago or more I discovered a weird glitch with three UAD plugins by Softube whereby any non-realtime rendering in StudioOne resulted in latency being introduced. This glitch had not...
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