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June 19, 2026
Some 75 years ago this week. 17 June 1951. Company M, U.S. 27th Infantry (“Wolfhounds”) Regiment, “Somewhere in Korea.” Note the unit had just earned its third Presidential Unit Citation of the conflict after liberating Seoul (again)...
In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: TGVs Bruxelles - France, the unloved other high speed train from BelgiumBullshit Meter: NS to operate trains Amsterdam - Utrecht - Germany from 2028Good week: Trains from Luxembourg find new life in...
Over The Rainbow :: Down By The River (1969-2024)We closed out All One Song Season Two this week with a BIG song (“Down by the River”) and a BIG guest (Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo) … so let’s bring things to a crashing finale with a BIG...
Some policies are popular until people examine the details. This may be happening with social media bans like the one UK prime minister Keir Starmer announced this week. It will prohibit under-16s from using the main social media...
But you want a sentient being to share your meals with, and to lay their head on the pillow next to you at night. It’s the judgment that recognizes you don’t want to spend the second half of your life apologizing for what you did during...
I am looking into some regex work, and I ran into a performance problem. I need to run a particular regex over a large number (millions) of strings. That caused my spidey sense to… tingle. The code in question looked something like...
The Major Oak in 2014. Last summer, in response to this press release about the Major Oak’s concerning condition (which we’d just seen first-hand) I felt the need to alert others, and posted on Bluesky and Mastodon: The Major Oak means a...
This one was widely reported this week, and for once I think this is actually going to happen!The line from the Netherlands - Germany border to Duisburg (OpenRailwayMap) is currently being rebuilt, but once that is done there will be...
So, the second novel in the Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue, was first published on November 1st, 2006. And while it was superficially a pastiche of the Bond movie canon (as it existed at that time--I was writing before the...
I’ve gotten into the habit of cycling to Stratford with Lisa every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning. She heads to her workout, and I get an hour of work (or sketching, or reading) done.
A new Gift with Purchase (GwP) is available from today: 40902 Tribute to Leonardo da Vinci, and although it is a high threshold at US$150/ £135/ 150€/ AU$245, there is also a double loyalty points promotion on all products for LEGO®...
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