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I rewrote my project, The Old West, using vanilla PHP despite it not being glamorous. This is why.
A lovely day today, warm and sunny. Got moped done at Fred Rowe’s last night. Sent for new points. Derby day. Moving up the drive. Big sow to burn. Dot and Jane at home.
2014 contemporary police mystery, sixth in Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series. A few days before Christmas, an old woman is stabbed on the Tyne and Wear Metro. She was on her way home to the former fishing town of Mardle, and the more the...
Throughout our city’s long history, interest in croquet has ebbed and surged, sometimes in cycles briefer than a decade. One year, the Enquirer [19 September 1895] dismissed croquet as horridly passé:“Only a bold man would dare to be...
Throughout our city’s long history, interest in croquet has ebbed and surged, sometimes in cycles briefer than a decade. One year, the Enquirer [19 September 1895] dismissed croquet as horridly passé:“Only a bold man would dare to be...
I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot of energy, and companies hope to use it to lay off people, and oligarchs are using it to...
It started because I was noodling about with HTML and needed some ‘content’ (or ‘words on the page’ as I likely called it back then). Last year I marked 26 years of this blog by writing: It is odd to think of this blog through a...
So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed computer case with modern component support. It was absolutely, jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and has easily become my favourite modern case...
Daily Drawing 884
May was another weird month here in Belgium: the last weeks have been unusually hot. It’s pouring now, but I’m glad that it is as it gives our airconditioning units a few moments of respite. We’ll see what the upcoming summer months will...
According to YouGov, ‘Immigration and Asylum’ was the second most important issue facing the country in May, just behind the economy. According to IPSOS immigration/immigrants was the most important issue, rising well above the economy....