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Twice a week, whilst Tabitha is playing badminton, I sit in the car and try not to be bored for two hours. I am not always successful.79 words · 3 images
A month ago, I posted a request for people to send me their magazines about comics so that I can scan them and incorporate them into the kwakk.info search index. I got a response from Ben Hansom from the UK. And today the magazines...
I’m writing something about the ontology of “independence” in popular music, and if you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time you know it’s where I make my first drafts of whatever I’m writing. So this is rough...
A report commissioned by mobile carriers and tower companies challenges the idea that fibre should be the first choice for rural connectivity.
Airspace, an app I downloaded today, has a lot going for it. It removes a classic Apple friction point by letting you name your virtual desktops, customize their appearance, and assign keyboard shortcuts to jump between them. It also...
Airspace, an app I downloaded today, has a lot going for it. It removes a classic Apple friction point by letting you name your virtual desktops, customize their appearance, and assign keyboard shortcuts to jump between them. It also...
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff 🎵 Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major Sir George Benjamin Concerto for Orchestra Richard Strauss Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)
There are a bunch of news articles saying the doj is seeking tips on collusion or price fixing by meat packers… But there is no way to submit the tip. My tip is that the government needs to look at itself and remove all of the...
Peter Phillips’ LRB review (Vol. 48 No. 8 · 7 May 2026; archived) of Composers in the Middle Ages, edited by Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne and Gaël Saint-Cricq, is very enlightening to me, since I’d forgotten what little I once knew about...
This morning I did my last teaching session of the Academic Year 2025-6, an informal revision lecture/tutorial on Computational Physics. It was optional, for the students, as this is officially a study break, and was at 9am, and only a...
I'd have given it 5 stars if not for the hug.