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Thursday 9th July 2026 After a 23 year absence, direct trains are running again between Bristol, Bath, Swindon and Oxford using the western ‘avoiding curve’ section of track to bypass Didcot Parkway. A similar direct link, operated by...
I’ve got to say, if you’re looking to get into MPCs or computerless music production, the MPC Sample is super cool. But for about the same price right now, especially with the G2 MPCs coming out, you can actually get the original MPC...
tag(s): #failures #programming A couple days ago I read a post by Kev Quirk about moving his code off GitHub and into Codeberg. It resonated with me because I've been meaning to make that change myself for some time now. But... Current...
I try to commute to work via bus as much as I can. My local bus-stop is in the middle of the local village center. There is also a small store next to this busstop, where tourists tend to congregate. And next to this store, there is a...
Richard Serra, Wake, 2004, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Turns out Olympic Sculpture Park is *not* open 24/7; I just walked into the other entrance from the guard closing it for the night. I realize I’d not seen a Richard Serra work in...
I found this post from a few months back sitting in my draft folder. I’m not sure why I didnt post it then…but nothing has changed. Right now Australia is engaged in a █████ of its hate speech laws. There is some concern that increased...
There is a lot written about how engineers use Claude Code. It’s a far more versatile tool than that. I am an engineer at heart, and the highest-leverage thing it did for me had nothing to do with writing code. Over the last few months,...
Gareth's been in a mood all week. Turns out it started with a hosting bill. Not his own, mind. He doesn't have a website. Gareth thinks websites are for people who've run out of pub to shout in. But he heard about someone switching...
Over the 14-year history of this blog I’ve tried to give equal attention to shows throughout the Comfort TV era. But looking back it’s perhaps obvious that more pieces have been devoted to 1970s television than any other decade. I have...
I love Michael Brough's mobile games all so much that I've kept several of them installed on my phone for years. Cinco Paus dominated one of my Christmas vacations to the point where my husband started joking about my love for pontos, or...
Although he died at just 36, Toulouse Lautrec was able to both live a remarkable life and produce art that will persevere through the ages. Yet, astonishingly, during his lifetime he was little-known as an artist outside of Paris....
Meta: Once complete, our Sturgeon County data center will represent an investment of more than CAD $13 billion. We anticipate approximately 3,000 construction workers will be onsite at the peak of construction, and the data center will...
There's more practical Phil in August's issue of BRM than we've seen in the last few months. I start by showing how to add coal to a coaling stage. It's the same process as adding coal to a locomotive tender, something anyone can do to...
Hands up if you drive on the snowy side of the planet. If so then you know how your icebox on wheels gets sick when the weather dips. Washer fluid smears and freezes on your windshield, windows jam shut, and those nasty, rock-hard clumps...
Malaysia is a country which has many public holidays. We have three major ethnicities and many minor ones. We have different religions and traditions. We have national holidays as well as many state specific holidays. Every year towards...