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Obligatory intro about AI because it's 2026
It's 2026, and would you look at what I managed to slop up. That's me, too slim but with accurately greying beard, wearing a jacket onboard (as if I would) and writing with a fountain pen (as if I would), sat in a business class airline seat with a waaaaaaay too large window. I'm awkwardly holding some champagne and looking a bit smug, as if Nano Banana just knows.
Pointless dive into a history no-one cares about
Anyway. I'm posting this to say I've gone away. Not gone away as in gone travelling, although that is happening in the near future. No, what I mean is https://blog.darrenf.org/ is no more. Yes, yes, I know it's what you're reading right now. But that's only because it hasn't actually gone away yet. It's going away.
I haven't been happy with it since, what, 2015? When writing stuff on the iPad first became viable. And then I tried a somewhat better organisation using Dropmark at https://trips.darrenf.org/ but that was also never satisfactory, and the absolute pain in the arse workflows of writing with an Adobe app then sharing the embed snippets here plus doing Dropmark's own thing over there, with no control over the URLs... let's just say, travelling and writing about it is something I really do love, but I was genuinely never happy with the additional work nor how everything was organised and presented en masse...
The actual thing I'm saying here
... until now! Because now I have YET ANOTHER URL, just what the world (of darrenf) needed: behold, https://darrenf.blog/ ! So if you really are here deliberately, well, that's where you should all bugger off to. And if you don't bugger off, in a few weeks (yeah right) I'll just swap the DNS and/or shove in a redirect anyway and you'll have no choice.
Pretty much all the trips I wanted to import have made their way across there, many in significantly upgraded form (e.g. the 2006 wall of text round the world trip has -- get this -- photos!). All the non-travel stuff I used to blog about in the really dim and distant past, treating it like a long form of social media before Twitter and stuff existed, that can all fuck off. So long blog.darrenf.org, long live darrenf.blog.
The jarringly unrelated plug from nowhere, on the way out
Also since you're here why not look at https://www.5kviz.com/ and install the extension, to satisfy all your parkrun statistical curiosity. Go on. Please. It's not like I'm shilling for NordVPN or something is it.
