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I think a root cause for why I have been struggling so much with everything in life is that I am desperately fearful and unhappy, and I don’t know what to do about it. Our civilizational crisis makes me feel more anger, sadness, grief,...
Perfume PosseVanille des Rois by FOMOWA Paris As I write this review, preparations are underway for our failing, hundred-year-old plumbing to be replaced. Fortunately, most of the work is happening under the house. Unfortunately, the...
Fremantle2026 August 25 (Tuesday), 8:20AM· DDD Perth · conferences · The DDD Perth programme is out now: https://dddperth.com/agenda I'd forgotten that I bought a ticket actually, but now I'm looking forward to going. I've not been to a...
The purpose of this post is clear from the title so I'll just get right into it. Start working out regularlyI started going to the gym regularly around 3 years ago, but I actually did workout occasionally before then. I am very lucky...
I'm always checking out new music and seeing what's trending. Sometimes I agree that an artist/song sounds good and am pleased when they start taking off and I hear their music on the radio (Dominic Fike has continued to grow on me)....
The Lego bricks of the web, HTML, are now available on your happy Pika (Pro) blog! You can insert custom hypertext markups in posts and pages, including your default blog home page, via the small text editor field in settings. Nice! So...
“Spending 4 hours writing a post that goes nowhere.” That’s the opening line of a rant I found on LinkedIn yesterday. I get it! What spend hours on something nobody sees? The algorithm always favors trending topics and big names. That...
The first recording today starts with the end of Louie. There’s a trail for ZingZillas. Then it’s Kerwhizz – Crazy Racy Golf. Media Centre Description: Children’s quiz. Teams Ninki, Twist and Kit aim for a hole-in-one as they arrive at a...
In Are You a Human? Jill Lepore discusses challenges of proving identity, particularly in modern online environments, where bots can outnumber people. Or where bots (agents) act on the behalf of humans.
For most of my adult life, my fridge had been pristine, with nothing adorning the front doors or the side panel. I was used to having clean sheets of metal, reflecting my face back at me whenever I approached the appliance. These days,...
The server now speaks the current MCP revision (2026-07-28, the stateless one) natively, while older clients keep working through the SDK's compatibility lane. Tool responses also got smarter about what to call next, and two...
Happy Paris Liberation Day! And Happy Birthday to yours truly! In my previous post, I introduced and surveyed three separate passages from The Wealth of Nations in which Adam Smith refers in one way or another to the concept of...
Produced in 1998 by Manasseh and Markie Lyrics aka Jah Lingwa of the R.D.K. Hi-Fi Sound System, Judith’s “Such Is Life” is a really cool cover, a fantastic female reading, of a song written by Trinidadian musician and singer Kenrick...
A guy’s dog finds a severed hand by the river, the guy says “ow my balls” and jaunty TV theme music starts. Fulci in TV detective show mode, it almost looks like a proper movie but all the dialogue and human behavior is wacked out in a...
Originally a series of Tweets published June 14, 2019, probably during a tech conference Dear women engineers: I am truly, deeply tired of hearing you complain about how terrible it is to be mistaken for anything other than an engineer....