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Blog entry Being on Instagram Jan 7. 2021 Social media can be a strange experience. It’s really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!	Nerd alert Blog entry Counting newsletter openings and clicks Dec 5. 2020 I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and clicks on links in it	Nerd alert Blog entry Merging Wordpress content into Drupal Dec 2. 2020 There’s a bunch of modules to help importing content into Drupal. My experience is that they are inadequate, and don’t do what I need. I prefer DIY.
Blog entry About getting skunked Dec 17. 2019 A part of fishing is not catching anything. If you’re only in it for the catching, there’s something you have misunderstood.	Blog entry Does anyone proofread this crap? Oct 4. 2019 Yes, a non-native English speaker proofreads material from a host of mostly non-English amateur writers, and sometimes errors do slip through	Blog entry I'm on the air! Sep 26. 2019 Dave Stewart from the podcast "Wet Fly Swing" contacted me for participation in one of his podcasts, and it’s now online to enjoy.
Nerd alert Blog entry The magazine image system Sep 10. 2019 The blocks of nicely laid out images on GFF has required quite a bit of work to refine.	Blog entry Flies Photo Gadget v2.0 Aug 30. 2019 Russian Ramil Yamaliev has upgraded his fly photo ringlight, and improved its performance significantly	Blog entry All your book are belong to us! Aug 16. 2019 A rather far fetched transcript of an internet meme* actually quite well covers my book situation right now.
Blog entry Bob brought two books Jul 20. 2019 GFF partner Bob Petti visited, and even though we didn’t fish or tie flies, we talked quite a bit about fishing… and he brought two books	Blog entry Some books arrived Jun 19. 2019 A few things happened during the last couple months that made me think of, buy and read nice fishing books again.	Blog entry Danish Fly Festival Impressions Mar 7. 2019 Another Danish Fly Festival is over, and as always it was a great experience. Lots of people to meet, lots of things to see.
Blog entry Why I like tying at shows Feb 25. 2019 In a few days I'm leaving for the Danish Fly Festival, and there I will be tying in the tyers row, an activity that I love	Blog entry Unlimited access... not Feb 19. 2019 In principle there's free and unlimited access to all coasts in Denmark. That's what the law says. But in many places reality is different.	Blog entry Flies for a friend Jan 20. 2019 A good friend offered me a macro flash he didn't use any more in exchange for a handful of flies
Blog entry My book register Jan 9. 2019 My books used to be ordered by black magic, essentially a system where I stuffed in new titles where there was space. Things have changed.	Blog entry Danish Fly Festival 2019 Dec 8. 2018 The biennial gathering of fly anglers, casters, tyers, vendors, artists, artisans and other good people will take place again in Denmark in early March 2019	Nerd alert Blog entry Lazy loading Nov 24. 2018 Lazy loading is a performance improvement where images (and other assets) are loaded when needed, not when the page is loaded
Blog entry No tsundoku here! Sep 15. 2018 Stacking up fishing books and never reading them… not here!	Blog entry When real life takes over Sep 13. 2018 The publishing pace on GFF has almost come to a standstill. Real life has stuck its ugly head in the door and brought paid work	Blog entry Three strikes... Jun 11. 2018 No, not strikes from fish, but strikes from spammers and wannabe guest posters who try to get their spam published on GFF. Three strikes and they get this.
Nerd alert Blog entry Why I hate complexity Jun 10. 2018 It seems to me that a lot of software problems are solved by adding complexity. It's a bad solution. I hate it.	Blog entry Do you like this site? May 6. 2018 If you do, you might consider supporting it in a slightly more substantial way. It's been free for decades... literally... but could use a little saltwater injection. Now accepting PayPal...	Blog entry Not a single cast Apr 28. 2018 I just returned from a week-long fishing trip with my wife and a bunch of good friends – and I didn’t make a single cast.

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