<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Published three years to the day -- my NLJ colleague, Victor V. Gurbo, wrote about the history of Love Henry, a classic folk ballad. In addition to writing about the history, he included a link to his Love Henry rendition with fellow Brooklyn NYC musician, Mark Caserta.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 134th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.
I hoped to welcome May with style, but I have been a bit busy this week with work-work and behind-the-scenes New Leaf Journal work. But I do have some interesting articles, links from around the web, and news and notes to share in this week’s edition of your favorite (I hope…) weekly newsletter.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I reviewed a niche search tool called Peekier in February 2022. Peekier, like many "alternative" search, was mostly a Bing front-end. However, it came with a strong, straightforward privacy policy (albeit with a bit of Cloudflare required .js to run) and a unique way of presenting search results as preview thumbnails. However, I discovered the other day that Peekier is no more -- its URL redirects to Kagi Search as of late February. I took a look at the demise of Peekier.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My good friend and New Leaf Journal colleague, Victor V. Gurbo, came to visit today. We are slowly playing through Danganronpa […]
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Whyever Do The Cicadas Cry - A Study of a Word
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Bird in Review 〜 Australian Grass Parakeet
Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)
NLJ Recommendations From Around the Web IV
The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A collection of 2021 duck and duckling rescue stories from around the web (storm drains appear to be a great struggle for ducklings).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I run the EndeavourOS operating system with the XFCE desktop environment on my main desktop. After discovering Ulauncher while installing Bodhi […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My December 1, 2010 (according to the file date) attempt to draw a "truth tree" turned into a mushroom cloud (but it really is supposed to be a tree).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I reviewed a niche search engine (or more aptly put, Bing front-end) called Peekier in February 2022. My Peekier review turned out to be a relatively successful post (by The New Leaf Journal's standards). The last time I had used Peekier before May 2, 2023, was in mid-January of 2023. This is because I have generally refrained from using Bing-based search after Bing arbitrarily blacklisted my project and removed it from its index. I ran a search through Peekier on May 2 as part of my day job working on U.S. immigration law research. My Peekier search unexpectedly redirected to the home page for Kagi Search. After determining that Peekier was indeed dead, I wrote an article on Peekier's demise and then updated my Peekier review to note that the charming little search tool is no more. While I am not certain of the circumstances of Peekier's downfall or why it now redirects to Kagi Search, the last Internet Archive capture of Peekier's home page came on February 19, 2023. The next capture on February 26, 2023, shows the Kagi Search redirect was in place.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Peekier search tool, once reviewed by The New Leaf Journal, is no more (or so the fact it redirects to Kagi suggests).
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Wallabag Custom Search Engine Shortcuts
Adding custom search shortcut for Wayback Machine]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Thunderbird Available as uBlock Origin Add-on]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[As of uBlock Origin version 1.49.2, you can now install the extension for Mozilla Thunderbird (see release version). The extension page on Thunderbird Add-ons states that it works with Thunderbird version 91.0 and higher. I use uBlock Origin with Firefox and I also use Thunderbird as my desktop email client (see my article on using Thunderbird with DecSync). I installed uBlock Origin on Thunderbird and restored my settings from my set-up on Firefox. The installation and export worked perfectly, but the non-uBlock Origin filter lists that I have enabled did not update (I am not sure if that is a general issue, but not important in my case). Consider this a PSA for Thunderbird users. If you want an aesthetic Thunderbird set-up, see my short post on the Two Little Birds theme.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[uBlock Origin is now available as a Thunderbird Add-on (as of version 1.49.2). I use Thunderbird, so I installed the Add-on and imported by uBO settings from my Firefox set-up. Everything worked but for one point -- the non-uBlock Origin blocklists are not updating for me in Thunderbird (not an issue for me, but worth noting -- have not looked into why yet).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[As of uBlock Origin version 1.49.2, you can now install the extension for Mozilla Thunderbird (see release version). The extension page […]
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Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook]]></summary>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[My photo of a rose at New York City's Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I took this photo on March 27, 2007, with my Nikon D40 DLSR camera (an older one from the collection).
I did not understand the value of keeping my own data back in 2007 (I was in high school way back when). I uploaded those photos to Picasa (dating myself) and my only copies were on Google Photos (I remember when Picasa transmogrified). I did Google Takeout before I cleared my photo accounts, but my 2007 photos were low res. Fortunately, I have Upscayl as a free and open source solution for restoring my low-res Google'd photos to something resembling their former glory.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My photo of a rose at New York City's Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I took this photo on March 27, 2007, with my Nikon D40 DLSR camera (an older one from the collection).<br />
I did not understand the value of keeping my own data back in 2007 (I was in high school way back when). I uploaded those photos to Picasa (dating myself) and my only copies were on Google Photos (I remember when Picasa transmogrified). I did Google Takeout before I cleared my photo accounts, but my 2007 photos were low res. Fortunately, I have Upscayl as a free and open source solution for restoring my low-res Google'd photos to something resembling their former glory.<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A post by blogger/webmaster Dariusz Więckiewicz about his site being arbitrarily banned by Bing inspired me to share our own Bing […]
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Removing pages from Yandex Turbo
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A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a report in Grist: Typically, when consumer tech companies reach out to lawmakers concerning right-to-repair bills — which seek to […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My 2007 photo of a rose at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I use Nomacs as my photo viewer on all of my Linux computers. I like it because it is easy to manage and make light edits to photos. I resize photos (usually such that the largest dimension is 800 px) for publication in The New Leaf Journal. Nomacs provides a side-by-side screen of the original and new photo in the save dialogue. Something about this one...
(Note: I only had an 800 px version of this, so I used Upscayl to make it bigger for Pixelfed, which may make the text look a little off.)
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I use Nomacs as my photo viewer on all of my Linux computers. I like it because it is easy to manage and make light edits to photos. I resize photos (usually such that the largest dimension is 800 px) for publication in The New Leaf Journal. Nomacs provides a side-by-side screen of the original and new photo in the save dialogue. Something about this one...<br />
<br />
(Note: I only had an 800 px version of this, so I used Upscayl to make it bigger for Pixelfed, which may make the text look a little off.)<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My three photos of an April 28, 2020 Blue Angels-Thunderbird joint-flyover of New York City, taken from Columbia Street Waterfront District in Brooklyn, NY. In light of the fact that my only camera was my BlackBerry Classic, the photos were a bit better than I would have expected under the circumstances.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Brave’s news announcement: Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We’ve removed […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the (syndicated) version of the 133rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal. I (e)mailed the flagship edition of the […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Building a Fairy Kingdom in Britain (JSTOR Daily): In the late sixteenth century, people across Britain became obsessed with fairies, […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 133rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.
April 27 marked the third birthday of The New Leaf Journal. I made sure that we had plenty of new articles for our birthday week. Below, you will find links to our newest articles along with twelve links from around the web and other news and notes.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have watched the first few episodes of a currently airing anime series called My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999. While I have not been impressed thus far, it did inspire an article. The first episode begins with the viewpoint protagonist, Akane, in the dumps after her boyfriend left her for another woman he met in an online game that he played with Akane. There is a scene where Akane opens up her laptop to log into the game. When she turns it on, I noticed a problem.
Her relationship with her cad of an ex-boyfriend may be over, but her toxic relationship with Windows continues. I suggest she consider a new relationship with Linux.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have published two posts hear on Bear Blog about my main website project, The New Leaf Journal, having been blacklisted by Bing.
De-indexed from Bing (1.17.23)
Bing de-indexing update (1.18.23)
The Bing blacklisting not only persists, but has also become worse. I discovered in the Bing Webmaster Console that all of The New Leaf Journal's pages had been purged from Bing's index.
I subscribe to an RSS feed for Hacker News Page 1 in my feed reader. I saw an article titled Bing Jail a few days ago which caught my attention. In that post, a webmaster described his Bing blacklisting experience. I found that it was almost identical to my experience, right down to his site having been blacklisted in January 2023 and his pages being removed from Bing's index in March. He noted that several other …]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On using Syncthing to sync my modded Umineko When They Cry game files and save directory between my main computer, a mini PC I use with my TV, and an always on Syncthing device.
<title type="html"><![CDATA[A wet duck standing on Pier 5 of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The duck was drying in the Sun. Note the very pretty dark blue/purple feather on its wing. The duck made a good photo subject because it did not pay its surroundings any mind as it calmly stood in place. A small Park vehicle (essentially a golf cart) drove by about 3 feet from the duck and our avian friend did not flinch.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A wet duck standing on Pier 5 of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The duck was drying in the Sun. Note the very pretty dark blue/purple feather on its wing. The duck made a good photo subject because it did not pay its surroundings any mind as it calmly stood in place. A small Park vehicle (essentially a golf cart) drove by about 3 feet from the duck and our avian friend did not flinch.<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[While we are The New Leaf Journal, our focus on perennially virid content leads us to appreciate trees and leaves of […]
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[PocketBook InkPad Color 2 brings a faster processor, IPX8 rating, and more storage (7.8 inch eReader) - Liliputing]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[For example, the older model had a 1 GHz dual-core processor, while the new version has a 1.8 GHz quad-core chip. Since the company is tight-lipped about exactlywhichprocessors are powering these devices, it’s hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison, but it sure sounds like the new model should be a bit more responsive.Both models have just 1GB of RAM, but the original InkPad Color had just 16GB of built-in storage, while the new model has twice as much. That said, it seems like the company might have omitted one feature when building the new model: there’s no longer a microSD card reader.
I have the original PocketBook InkPad color and I generally like it. Most of the improvements in V2 would be welcome (albeit well short of prompting me to upgrade), but dropping the microSD card slot is a bad move. The article suggests that this may have been done to increase the tablet's water resistance, but I will take the SD card over being able to submerge my e-reader in 2 meters of water.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The New Leaf Journal was blacklisted from appearing in Bing's search results on January 14 and then fully removed from Bing's index in March. The reasons for our blacklisting/de-indexing appear to be unknown to every other search engine with its own index, including Google, Brave, Mojeek, Yandex, Seznam, InfoTiger, and Marginalia... only Bing. I read an article by a different webmaster who described almost identical Bing problems. That post inspired me to chronicle our ongoing Bing ban. (Note: The worst effect has not been Bing itself, but losing DuckDuckGo, from which we received many more referrals than Bing).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We celebrate our humble online writing magazine's third birthday with a curated selection of article recommendations based on our most-read content from our first three years.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the (syndicated) version of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 132. We mailed the original newsletter on Saturday, April 22, 2023. […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I came across a very dry Christmas Tree on the sidewalk in APRIL 2021. While moving on from a Christmas Tree can be a pain, I thought that April seemed a bit excessive even by procrastination standards.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a report by Mr. Brad Matthews for the Washington Times: Stanley Black & Decker has recalled 2.2 million DeWalt, Stanley, […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A heartbroken anime girl is recovering from her jerk boyfriend breaking up with her to be with another woman. But what if I told you she needs to end her toxic relationship with Windows?
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The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A new anime series tackles naturally brown hair, dyed brown hair, and Japanese school dress and grooming codes in two interesting scenes.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have received odd spam emails to my site domain email addresses promising millions of dollars or asking for donations for life-saving surgeries. However, a spam email offering a "proposal about [my] last name" might be the oddest yet.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 132nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. This past week was a bit slow at The New Leaf Journal on account of my having to do my taxes, finishing a couple of work assignments, and having problems with my right wrist. Nevertheless, I did publish a few new articles, and this humble newsletter will come with your usual assortment of links from around the web and other news and notes.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Many keyboard keys have been pressed on the effect of AI text generation tools on various industries. I offered my two […]
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Reviewing Buddy Simulator 1984 for Switch
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The Japanese Citizenship Requirement for Sumo Stablemasters
An Essay on Productivity, Production, and Productive Leisure]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the (syndicated) version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 131. I am a bit late in syndicating our Saturday newsletter this […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Shumplations recently published a translation of a 2011 interview with a former manager at Jaleco who went by Y-san. I was […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Justin and Justina discuss a Consumer Reports study revealing troubling levels of cadmium and lead in some dark chocolate brands.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[1954 years to the day (April 16, 69 AD), the Roman Emperor Otho ended his brief reign by his own hand rather than continue in a Civil War for the throne against Vilettlius. Otho's seemingly noble(-ish) end captured the imagination of Roman historians in light of the fact he had previously been noted for his relationship to Nero, having serious debt problems, and seizing the throne by murdering his predecessor in January 69. I wrote a very long article about the enigmatic life and death of Otho, focusing on comparing four Roman historian accounts and their different opinions on the matter.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 131st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. In addition to our usual assortment of links from the week that was at the NLJ and links from around the web, I will introduce a new addition to the site, not previously discussed on The New Leaf Journal, in our News Leaf Journal section.
Table of contents
New leaves from the week that was
Leaves from around the web
The Old Leaf Journal
Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
News leaf journal
Notable leaf journal
Taking leaf
Leaves from the week that was
I published three regular articles since mailing new…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Shawn Respert was one of the best college basketball players of the early 90s, winning NCAA player of the year in 1995. After going 8th overall in the 1995 NBA Draft, he had a short, uneventful, five-year career with four different teams. While college success by no means guarantees professional success, some of Respert's troubles were linked to the fact he was diagnosed with stomach cancer during his first season (he went into remission in his second season). What prompted my article was the story of his response. Respert opted to keep his diagnosis secret, not only from the public, but also from his family -- even when he was being criticized in local media for his poor play. He resolved to only tell his story after his playing career was over in order to ensure that no one could say, succeed or fail, that he made any excuses (to be sure, he had a decent one).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On April 12, 1908, the Great Chelsea Fire in Boston, Massachusetts destroyed a large chunk of the city. Last year, I came across a June 1908 book on the fire and summarized its contents, along with original photos, in an article.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I recently finished the second episode of the currenly-airing My Clueless First Friend anime. This series, set in a fifth grade […]
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The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I use the Ghostwriter markdown editor (see my Ghostwriter review) to draft articles for The New Leaf Journal and briefs and memoranda for my day job as a legal research specialist. In both cases, I have to convert my documents from markdown. I convert New Leaf Journal articles to .odt for editing while I convert my legal work to to .docx. (See my article on my New Leaf Journal workflow.)
Since switching to Linux in 2020, I have used Arch-based Linux distributions. I began using Ghostwriter on Manjaro after my experiences using markdown to compose
our Buttondown-powered newsletters inspired me to begin working in markdown. I moved from Manjaro to Arch's closer cousin, EndeavourOS, in August 2022, where I remain today.
Ghostwriter has generally worked for me without issues. Early on, I had an issue with it sometimes not connecting to Pandoc, but that went away at some point. Since KDE took over development of Ghostwriter things were largely flawless. However, a few days ago, I noticed after updating either Pandoc or KDE (I did not catch which) that Ghostwriter was no longer recognizing Pandoc as a conversion option. This was a mild problem for me because I never took the time to learn the Pandoc CLI syntax (I really should get around to that). I could use MultiMarkdown to convert to .odt, but that vitiated many of my markdown formatting choices.
However, before I had to deal with the issue for a work project, Pandoc returned as a conversion option after something was updated. Problem solved. It only proved to be a pain in the case of one somewhat long article wherein I had to re-do some of my formatting in Libre Office Writer.
If you enjoy strange Ghostwriter issues, take a trip back in time to learn about a segfault issue I had on a fresh Manjaro install in 2021.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I received a very peculiar email at my @newleafjournal address (see contact page). This is not the first strange email I […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[They say that the problem is always caching, but what kind of caching? I briefly describe a small visual display issue on my WordPress site that I resolved by clearing our Redis cache.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Nintendo Life asked readers whether they used motion controls in Mario Kart Wii. I had (probably still have) the plastic steering […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I review an anime series primarily for its interesting concept... but it is a decent series in its own right, granting its faults.
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Hyacinth as a name in Fire Emblem Engage]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of the 130th Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. We mailed […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In a 2019 interview, a representative of the Czech-based Seznam search engine (interesting Czech-based project with its own crawler) discussed the challenges of indexing English-language sites due to the fact that many block all crawlers except Google. Being a supporter of independent search indexes, I wrote a brief PSA for webmasters on the subject of allowing independent search engines with their own crawlers. In addition to Seznam, I singled out @Mojeek , InfoTiger, and Marginalia Search as being worth whitelisting for sites with generally restrictive robots.txt rules.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The tagline of my main project, The New Leaf Journal, is "where the leaves are perennially virid." As I explained in a post on the inspiration for the tagline, the slogan gets at two ideas. The first is that I try to write evergreen articles. The second is that I try to produce unique articles worth your time. There is no shortage of writing online. Some of the writing even comes from the keyboards of human beings writing in a language they are fluent in. While I try to bring a fresh perspective to all of my articles, I cannot always say that my topics are unique. However, I published a short "leaflet" aside yesterday which I think is unique.
I used to regularly watch professional golf. While I have not watched much golf in several years, I stay somewhat abreast of the goings on. Back in 2…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I previously wrote about how I will watch the upcoming third season of the Rent-a-Girlfriend anime, either on account of inertia […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On March 14, 2021, I published a lengthy research article titled The Mystery of Sōseki and Tsuki ga Kirei. In that post, I collected English-language sources on a certain legend that Natsume Sōseki had suggested "tsuki ga kirei" (the Moon is beautiful) as a Japanese translation for "I love you." I had learned about the tsuki ga kirei legend from the excellent 2017 anime series (it featured in my decade review, Tsuki ga Kirei, and while it is likely a work of fiction (I knew that going into my research project), the phrase is aesthetically elegant.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Nancy Lasselle’s Washington Novels (Matthew Willis for JSTOR Daily. April 7, 2023): Nancy Laselle (née Polke) was born in Indiana […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I remain undecided whether to interpret this as an inflatable egg dressed as a bunny, a bunny dressed as an egg, or a hitherto undiscovered egg-bunny.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 130th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.
We had a relatively normal week at The New Leaf Journal with a mix of regular articles and short posts. Below, you will find our recap of the week that was at The New Leaf Journal along with links from around the web and other news and notes.
Table of contents
Leaves from the week that was
Leaves from around the web
The Old Leaf Journal
Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
News leaf journal
Notable leaf journal
Taking leaf
Leaves from the week that was
I published four regular articles and six short posts…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I took a look at my Bear Blog analytics. Unsurprisingly given my small number of posts and the fact that I tend to reserve my best content for The New Leaf Journal (I largely leave quality determinations to others), I only have a handful of Bear Blog readers. From this small sample, I have noted that a majority of my readers are based in Romania. Nearly all of the referrals are from Bear Blog (not surprising). Are there a large number of Bear Blog users and readers in Romania or are people using VPNs? The sample size is too small for me to make much of it. I personally use Mullvad VPN, but I set the location to New York instead of Romania.]]></summary>
