[Blog] In which a typography nerd prevents a Monotype "business development" person from, essentially, scamming his employer out of unpaid font licencing fees that weren't actually owed. Monotype font licencing shake-down | www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen... #typography #fonts #scam

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A crow at sunset.

Neighbourhood dog keeping a nose out for intruders.

Sad news for Australians (new parent company wants to focus its activities on mainly Europe). Last orders before midnight on Wed, 26 Nov. Menulog to stop Australian operations later this month | www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Good article, but honestly how can anyone be "alarmed" about the New York Times publishing an article like this? Folks should stop pretending the NYT has higher journalistic standards that they just fell short of in this case. That ship has sailed, my friend. womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-w...

Portrait of Toffee, my sister's orange tabby cat.

Testing out my new wide-angle lens at the bottom of a playground slide :)

When faced with an awkward outdoor seating situation, why not custom-build your tables to accommodate the footpath's slope? :) #melbourne

Sun reflecting off Eureka Tower in #Melbourne.

Tram-track crossing on Swanston Street in #Melbourne.

Dubai chocolate egg tarts and blueberry cube croissants in the display window at #1000Bread on Swanston Street in #Melbourne.

When I moved my desktop PC to Linux, I had to drop Sync.com as my E2EE cloud sync provider (no Linux client). I blogged about why I picked Swiss Post's Tresorit over all the other available options: www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen...

Flood-level markers on the banks of Merlynston Creek, as well as the opening to #Melbourne Water's regional drainage system that keeps the properties in Melbourne's north safe from floods. (These drains divert flood waters to a nearby flood retarding basin.)

*sigh* I'm sure all us nerds have been there. Though in my case it was my mother who taught me long division and whose documents I needed to print :) I never dared echo her exasperated tone back at her though!! www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...

Waiting for the baristas at Koko Black on Swanston Street in #Melbourne.

Royal Flying Doctor Service teddy bears ready to be tended to by visiting children at Avalon Airshow 2025. #ThrowbackThursday

Dirt-caked road signs under the elevated train tracks the run down the length of Flinders Street in #Melbourne (going from Southern Cross to Flinders Street railway station).

I've been using UNIX/Linux on and off since the mid-90s but I only switched my desktop/gaming PC to Linux this August. The distro I settled on was MX Linux and in this (long) post (that I wrote mostly for myself) I explain why. www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen...

Was looking at this typeface just this week! It's a lovely book Venetian and it has a display sibling, Nicholas. #typography

Goodchild, Nick Shinn's modern, highly-readable interpretation of Nicolas Jenson's roman typeface, is on sale for US $99: fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/shinnt... I find Goodchild more versatile and practical compared to Adobe Jenson and LTC Cloister, although the latter is also on sale from P22.

Nets behind the goals at a local community footy field in #Melbourne.

Get your coffee here! =) #Melbourne

Wat? ("Watch for cars" warning sign painted on the pavement.)

Nice garden behind the newspaper ring that's been built into the wall. #Melbourne

The forbidden hole: "Lack of oxygen and sudden rising water" 😨 (Part of the floodwater drainage system in Melbourne's northern suburbs.) #Melbourne

"[If] you wanted people to read your blog, you had to make it compelling enough that they would visit it, directly, because they wanted to. And if they wanted to respond to you, they had to do it on their own blog, and link back." — Elizabeth Spiers talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

Flood-level markers going up to 7m along a bank of a creek in a floodplain in the northern suburbs of #Melbourne.

Train tracks between the MCG and Melbourne & Olympic Parks.

Throwback to this MG at the Antique Car Show Karachi 2024.

Crown Towers building, as seen through 'The Guardians' artwork on Southbank Promenade in #Melbourne.

Woohoo! "More than 310,000 votes were cast after polling opened on 6 October and the tawny led the charge from the start, despite being hotly and persistently pursued by two cockatoos…" Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pillars of the Old Arts Building at the University of #Melbourne.

Scooting up the Webb Bridge, connecting Docklands to South Melbourne across the Yarra River in #Melbourne.

Grapes are like water you can eat. (This is a good thing.)

This is a little long, but it is glorious. A cartoonist's review of AI – theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_ar... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Excellent, as always, from The Juice Media. "Putting the 'n' back in cuts" 😆 Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand! — www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...

Waiting to depart from platform 4 at Flinders Street Station.

Stand behind this line (at the elevated tram stop). #TactilePavement #photography #melbourne #fujifilm

Blue-on-Blue at the Melbourne Aquarium sign.

A wall of take-away coffee cups at The Simple Foodie in Docklands, Melbourne.

I only figured out why U2's 'Silver and Gold' has been stuck in my head since yesterday when I saw the new @seananmcguire.bsky.social book I just started reading lying on my dining table without its gorgeous dust cover. 😆

Another year, another COVID-19 booster. 🎉 (Coincidentally *exactly* one year after we got our last booster.)

Good to see more musicians (at least the ones who control the publishing of their music) join the 'No Music for Genocide' boycott. nomusicforgenocide.org #boycott #genocide #BDS

#Wikipedia is awesome and you should become a Wikipedian. "Wikipedia omitted a step that was considered indispensable throughout the entire history of encyclopedias – verifying facts – and replaced it with a new step – verifying sources." pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/b...

Excellent, excellent paper in which Jazmín Acuña argues that #journalism in this day and age should shift from being content-centric (end goal is publication) to being change-centric (end goal is impact). reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/change-centr...

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

I'm participating in a panel on literary translation in Australia at the Emerging Writers Festival this September 12 in Melbourne. The event is pay-what-you-wish and bookings can be made below. Come along! emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/no-isl...

I wrote a thing about (not) translating place and time axonjournal.com.au/issues/15-1/... #translation #poetry #Faiz #academicsky #Urdu #French #English