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June 16, 2026
Warning: slightly treacly. There’s a children’s picture book I love: Barbara Cooney’s Miss Rumphius. I wrote about it some years ago at more length, but for today’s post all you need to know is that Miss Rumphius begins as the story of a...
Sure, the whole thing smacked a bit of “bread and circuses,” but you have to admit the Super Delta last weekend coming over the White House was stirring. Who doesn’t love seeing the Blues and the Birds in one 12-plane formation? Plus, it...
Feel like some light reading? Step back into the Cold War and the defense of West Germany with the Army University Press’s latest (free) publication, the 422-page Lariat Advance: Insights from the Cold War for the 21st Century, edited by...
Saab recently published a great and highly moto 17 minute video of the unveiling of the new two-seat multirole Gripen F (powered by a GE F414G) in Brazil and handing over the first logbook to the commander of the Brazilian Air Force....
Deep in the heart of Corax (RavenDB’s querying engine), everything deals with something called a Posting List. Posting Lists are a way for the engine to say “all of those documents have the term Fast for the field Speed”. Conceptually, a...
Act 3 : The conclusion This afternoon I thought it would be fun (clearly I need a life!) to try some of these AI checking websites against my own written material. I copied and pasted a few random articles from this very website into the...
"For every project, I make a playlist. I rarely listen to it while I write, but I use it as a towline back into the mood, characters and world of the story."
Crystal-clear and unseasonably cool, with dew dripping from the roof. Downy woodpeckers rattle back and forth. Tree trunks glow and fade as the sun climbs through the forest.
🎨 Impressions Richard Ringer ist zur Zeit einer der besten deutschen Marathonläufer. Mit seinem Sieg bei den Europameisterschaften 2022 in München ist er zum ersten Mal auf meinem Radar erschienen und hat seitdem auch in mehreren anderen...
Back in the late 1990s, I did a brief stint of work experience at the BBC. One of the most memorable moments was sitting in on a meeting about early forms of Interactive TV. I saw a demo of "Two Way TV". A flimsy grey box which (somehow)...
What is something you care about more than most people realize?