Pete Johns - Blog entries of the highest uptodateness

One of the aspects of being a parkrun ambassador that I really enjoy is jumping in the car or on the bike on a Saturday morning and heading to a parkrun event. I have blogged before about using my NENDY to decide where I should go, which is all well and good, but it’s not the only way I choose. Each event can only be your NENDY once. I also very much enjoy returning to events and the “p-index” is a good heuristic for deciding which event to head back to.

It astounds me that I have never blogged about my love of Radio Paradise.

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One of the things that my career break has taught me is that I’m not yet ready to retire. This is good because the kids still need educating and that still needs financing. I also still enjoy playing with computers, much as I did when Dad first brought home a Philips G7000 and then a Commodore 16 with a spiral-bound manual when I was much younger and slightly more impressionable.

I run an Arlo-based home security setup, and most of the time it behaves as expected. A few months ago, Arlo shipped a major app update that broke the automations we depended on. I reconstructed them, only to encounter a new problem: whenever we came home, our phones would hound us with alerts that somebody was in the house. Yes. We know!

When Google killed Google Reader, I didn’t look for a replacement feed reader. Most of the blogs I followed since the early 2000s had died and their authors had switched to social media platforms. Posting to social media is a lot easier for most people than blogging, I suppose. And there’s that wonderful dopamine hit of incoming likes, comments, and subscriptions.

Last month, when two of Melbourne’s larger parkrun events were closed for the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix 2026 and associated works in Albert Park, I was asked, “How many parkruns can you get to in Victoria by public transport?”

I recently received an email from a travel-related service announcing a “new login experience”: