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One hundred years ago this month, Mary Pickford sent Grace Kingsley a letter from Montecantini, Italy all about her travels with her husband, Douglas Fairbanks: You would be most happy to see the delightful reception we have met with all...
Perfume PosseX at X Finishing this early Monday morning. Our heatwave has receded and we’re due rain later. The flowers have really enjoyed themselves. The village has smelled incredible with all the honeysuckle weaving through hedges....
Here it comes, the next entry in the Final ’90s Countdown of YOUR top votes for the best comics of an otherwise maligned decade in the industry. We’re almost done with the one-vote getters, and it’s kind of a two-fer here: Stormwatch...
Books lead on to other books… When I was offered the chance to review Denis Johnson‘s “Jesus’ Son” for Shiny New Books (I’ll link when this is live), I was reminded that I had also intended to read his “Train Dreams” for some years. As I...
Fighters Megamix stumbles right from the start. By default I have to make Virtua Fighter‘s legendary cast abide by Fighting …
In the previous article we took apart the select statement and saw how it’s really two features in one, with the compiler rewriting the easy shapes away and only the hard cases falling through to the runtime’s selectgo . The recurring...
¿Qué es un agregador de blogs? Se trata de una web que recopila blogs a partir de un nexo común como una temática o un idioma. Pero no solo es una lista de enlaces; dado que cada blog expone su contenido a través del estándar RSS, el...
For a long time I’ve been stuck waiting for my perfect alternative to GitHub to appear. Whilst I've been historically a fan of GitHub, and used it for almost two decades, of late the site seems to have its owners interests over those of...
I have no blog post today, just one scheduled and three almost complete. My review of the “Matthew Amt” kopis from Deepeeka in India is complete except for editing and photography (I need a sunny day with no day job). I have a post about...
This story is about the ideology that won. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two politicians on either side of the Atlantic didn’t only win elections, they reshaped what people came to accept as “common sense.” Margaret Thatcher in...