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LonM's Blog

LonM starts rambling and doesn't know when to stop

Category: Personal

Thinking About Spelling

2025-12-082025-12-07 — Posted inPersonal — 3 min read

Thinking about spelling and language in an age of the automatic checker

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On Enjoying Art

2025-05-242025-05-24 — Posted inPersonal — 4 min read

On art, a request to publishers, and a story of the future

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Bad Handwriting

2025-02-202025-02-19 — Posted inPersonal — 3 min read

Musing about my bad handwriting

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If you go down to the woods today…

2024-05-052024-05-05 — Posted inPersonal — 4 min read

A short story about that time I got stuck in the woods as a kid and how unamusing I find hypotheticals

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The Five Basic Literacies

2023-06-152023-06-15 — Posted inPersonal — 10 min read

Numeracy, Language, Philosophy, Technology, and Creativity – How I would want formal education to reprioritise its approach to learning.

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Completing WaniKani Level 60

2023-03-162023-03-16 — Posted inPersonal — 6 min read

A reflection on my journey through learning to read the Japanese kanji with the help of WaniKani.

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Goodbye 2022, and Looking forward to 2023

2023-01-032023-01-03 — Posted inPersonal — 3 min read

I look back at some of the things that went well for me and others this year, and some of my hopes going forwards.

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Unstable Property Ladder

2021-04-162021-04-15 — Posted inPersonal — 4 min read

I have recently had conversations about home ownership and mortgages. That whole property ladder thing seems a bit fraudulent.

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2020年末日本語の進行の報告

2020-12-312020-12-19 — Posted inJapanese, Personal — 1 min read

2020年は私の進行の報告がある。日本語を勉強する!

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漢字勉強する

2020-03-232020-03-27 — Posted inJapanese, Literature, Personal — 1 min read

In this blog post I talk about some of the tools and books I’ve been reading in my quest to teach myself 日本語

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Aberdeen & ITiCSE 2019

2019-07-302020-03-27 — Posted inPersonal, PhD Diary, Photography, Science, Travel — 8 min read

I recently attended the ITiCSE Conference in Aberdeen.

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