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The graphic adventure game that put Rika Suzuki on the map.
Warship Wednesday will be back next week! I am on the road with limited access to the interwebs. Until then, enjoy this shot, some 115 years ago this evening. How about this great shot of the RN’s 1st Destroyer Flotilla illuminated at...
This is a history of ancient Persia. It is unlike other histories of Persia (not that there have been many). This history uses genuine, indigenous, ancient Persian sources to tell a very different story from the one we might be familiar...
Eden Kupermintz Under Review:Moon Over Brendle. Jeff Noon. Angry Robot, May 2026. Even though Jeff Noon’s Moon Over Brendle begins by naming its protagonist “Joe Sutter”, it’s hard not to read it as a memoir. Sutter, like the author of...
A friend, after significant career success, found herself in rooms with some incredibly rich and successful people. She shared that the biggest learning she took away was that people are the same. Many insecure. Many jealous. Some smart....
A travel journal from my visit to Tasman-Marlborough, New Zealand.
Read the full post at - 6+ Favorite Books on Modern Africa (So Far!) A Roundup of My Favorite Books on Modern Africa...so far.
In the last post we used simulated consumer processing time to reveal how important it is to set an appropriate value for max.poll.records. The rule of thumb was a value somewhat lower than: group.share.partition.max.record.locks /...
OK, delving back into Awful British Comedians. It’s a rich field. WHERE’S THAT FIRE? stars Will Hay and was made by the usual people — Frenchman Marcel Varnel directs, Arthur Crabtree shoots, Val Guest is a writer, regular co-stars Moore...
🥶 Looks like the airco at the office is trying to compensate too much for the hot weather outside. It's freezing inside. Happy I brought my sweater.
I have a silly idea, I needed to test something. https://chomikuj.pl/retrotub2/As+serial
My experience of Shona MacLean’s work has so far been limited to her historical thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness, set in Scotland in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rising (and published under the name SG MacLean). Her newest...