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Fine at first but rain the in afternoon. Took my bike to Cameron’s. Stayed to dinner. Saw Harry Welch while I was in Neston. Did some mowing up the drive. Lot in to burn.
Write-first design prevents falling in love with the wrong thing by prioritizing reasoning over implementation.
Have you ever come across Zeller’s formula (aka Zeller’s congruence)? If not directly, you will have indirectly. For every digital device you have that shows the day of the week, whether your phone or your computer, there’s a chance this...
The highly lucrative trade in children in care reveals another level of cynicism altogether. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th June 2026 Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handing out money faster...
Whichever of the purple dots you look directly at turns more purple
After mentioning this idea of somehow being able to authenticate the source of a photo, I’ve implemented and tested the idea. Here is an update on the project. I added the ability to federate the system using only a DNS dependency. The...
1959 whodunnit, dir. Otto Preminger, James Stewart, Lee Remick: IMDb. The soldier killed the bartender who raped his wife. But is it really that simple?
Perfume PosseLate Spring/Almost Summer Recent Reading My laptop is seriously misbehaving. It is around 11 years old … In any case, I’m putting this post up so it will appear on Monday with the hope it actually will. And next I need to...
Today’s choice is a book I actually read a few months back, but at the time I decided just to enjoy it and leave the review for another day. That day has finally arrived, and after a leisurely reread a couple of days ago, I’m ready to...
In July of 2009, nearly 17 years ago, our writing group held Round 26 - another chance to try out hands at poetry. That spring had been quite a rainy one, and it got me thinking about how my thoughts and perspectives on rain had changed...
Work is progressing on a few new ‘zines… One about audax, based on an old post Stamp Collecting, that came about after being asked to give a talk about audax at the Glasgow Zine Fest last month. A 35mm photozine based on a ride in...
🤬 I hate being forced to use Windows at work. Every so often, a program in the background crashes, requiring me to restart my PC, which doesn't work, forcing me to do a hard shutdown. This morning, after doing such a restart, my...
Piketty gets wacky; Tokenmaxxing fails; Trump, drones, and Ukraine; Tariffs on China, again; India's growth; Borjas again