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"Wonder of wonders! Miracle of miracles!"This seems to be the year during which half of the books on my want list have turned up for sale. And of course I pounced upon all of them. Of the final six books on a want list I have on various...
"Lucky is he who lives unaware Doesn't get bothered by those who don't care Lucky is he who lives unaware Who doesn't get bothered by all that's unfair Unlucky me who knows way too much Who fights to make changes and music and such...
First, I work at a great place, with an awesome boss. I came into work a few months ago and he said “Hey, people were asking about getting a pizza oven for the office…” and I was like “Hell Yeah!” and then I had some comments and...
Time to get back to the Age of Shakespeare, the non-Shakespeare parts. Please read along if it strikes you. Last spring’s reading list was a bit of a trip to graduate school; this fall’s syllabus is nothing but masterpieces of one kind...
Up to the shops, a barramundi for dinner and fresh bread for the weekend. Home again over the bridge. Same trip I’ve been doing for years. Sadly, same driver behaviour. Angry old mate in a large smoky 4WD parked at the side of Portman...
I've deleted my Mastodon account. I only had it because a number of Pagecord customers hang out there, so I won't miss it. Pagecord continues to support Mastodon and the Fediverse, of course. I've also deactivated Bluesky (deadzone), but...
The AI Era (or, as I like to say, AI Crisis) can really be attributed to a single company: OpenAI. As such, it’s an important enough subject that I’m glad someone wrote a book about it before they vanish into a puff of debt. The folly of...
I’ve spent the better part of six months building piclaw–my personal AI assistant, workspace and, occasionally, agent swarm–on top of Mario Zechner’s pi engine, and I think it’s time to write about not just my motivation but also how I...
Frank Beard, the drummer for rock band ZZ Top, died on August 17, 2026, at the age of 77. Frank Beard was born on June 11, 1949, in Frankston, Texas. He grew up in Irving, Texas. He met future ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill as teens when...
I successfully jailbreaked my 14 year old Kindle Touch 🎉 This after support for it was ended by Amazon back in May. Currently my plan is to use calibre in to load new books onto it and KOReader to read them. As a first step I jailbreaked...
Reading Ian Buruma’s New Yorker review/essay (archived) on the history of ideas of European integration, I was struck by a couple of names that turned out to have interesting backgrounds. First came “the half Japanese Austro-Hungarian...
(Continued from my previous post.) First, a resolution of the technical mystery with the caps-swap, courtesy of Andrea Pachetti in the comments (who has a blog dedicated to the history of Italian videogames, I liked this post on...
I still really like this post from three years ago, in which I did some investigating/speculating into the impact “new” highway 37 had on our town.
Gegege no Kitaro is one of those series I think everyone's aware of through its influence, but it's not widely seen or read by English-speaking audiences. This game was apparently released to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the...
NO ONE told me that the nesting you go through when sending your kid off to college is very similar to what it's like right at the end of pregnancy.So we're trying to move back to the other house, and get her packed, and do everything...