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John Wyver writes: Just leaving Provence now, which is why there was no Sunday dozen last week. I loved the landscape, and was struck time and again by memories of the artworks of Paul Cezanne. So here is ‘Montagne Sainte-Victoire’,...
Last weekend I went across to Dorking for a model railway exhibition at Denbies Wine Estate, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Roxley Models. Lovely location, and a pleasant show. I was very good and didn’t come home with any trains …...
Mike Ripley is well-known for writing the Albert Campion continuation novels, but today’s read, a standalone modern mystery, is my first experience of his work. I was intrigued by the premise of Buried Above Ground, and it has a...
Yesterday (Friday), I checked into Vancouver General Hospital for my first-ever surgery at 8:30 a.m. I was to undergo about a two-hour procedure to remove a fatty mass my surgeon described as the size of a “big marble.” The mass had to...
Most image codecs you know about such as JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XS, WebP are like layer cakes. You have transform sitting on top, entropy coding at the bottom, and rate control floats somewhere in the middle. And then there's a metadata...
This is a terrible solution for running Windows software on your Mac through Parallels: Lowering the resolution of the virtual machine seems to speed up every element of the virtual machine itself, from opening files, to improving button...
Kitty Catt & Suzie Q …..
When SensorTower acquired AppMagic earlier this week it got me thinking about why. AppGoblin and many other tools offer many free and open resources for what SensorTower and AppMagic charge thousands for. Take a look at the paid vs free...
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share the far and wide! The post Sunday picdump for Sunday, May 24...
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 sliver An ‘archival sliver’ of the web. A bit like a ‘data lifeboat’ for making or replicating web archives of small sets of pages. Uses shot-scraper to drive a web...