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Now there are moments in life when you think you've absolutely nailed it. Booking a father-and-son trip to the River Wye seemed like one of those moments, right up until the Wife wandered past, looked over my shoulder and casually...
Steady temperatures are the preserve of the rich. The billionaire press wants everyone else to suffer. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st July 2026 Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new...
July 6, 2026 I’m home from Paris. Well, I’m actually writing this the day BEFORE I leave, so I’m assuming that everything went swimmingly… Let’s revisit our heroine who spends her work time listening to others. She draws her personal...
Been trying to get into the habit of writing something about whatever games I finish. Hasn't gone as well as I'd hoped so far (lack of time and energy, mostly), but I managed salvage these from some larger, messier drafts and posted them...
Using Kirby without the Panel, editing files and folders like a caveman. Read more
Went to my first Poetry Stanza this week. Stanzas are linked to the Poetry Society, a cluster of poets in a given area. Felt like a good way to bring that into life in Hastings early on. I took ‘Estuary’ along, a poem I’ve been shuffling...
Another Monday, another blog post, another round-up of recent Irish pale ale. This one is the blog's 3000th entry. It's best not to think about what that means, and move right along with the reviews.Spent bread beers were a bit of a...
Am not feeling particularly patriotic this go round of July 4th, but we did wind up downtown along the riverwalk during fireworks for Js usual karaoke gig. Though no one saw much, due to the thick bank of fog that moved in after the...
I found myself wondering the other day whether I was still interested in, let alone excited by, technology. I think that this is partly down to “AI”, and the breathless hyperbole about how it is Going To Change Everything. In my spare...
[This post contains SPOILERS for the endings of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, the Supergirl movie, and also one chapter of The Ballad of Halo Jones.] So one of my favorite incomplete works from Alan Moore is the science fiction strip The...
The walk-around characters of Disneyland are real rock stars, everyone sees them and wants a piece of them. They remember their innocent, early days, before they knew of the double-edged sword of celebrity. Well, boo-hoo! That's what I...
A kind of cocktailWalking along Weymouth Street the other week, a number of houses caught my eye, not least this one which in spite of visual obstructions such as cars revealed itself as cramming a lot of architectural incident into a...
This time around the included adventurer’s journal opens with a letter written by an amusingly exasperated man named Rolf, trying to catch up with my party in a well-meant attempt to come to our aid. Our heroic exploits in Pool of...
Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing. A merchant, or anyone really, can create a product (or source it from China), then resell it on amazon....
When you build a storage engine in Go, sooner or later you need to answer a very plain question: “How should the code read bytes from files?” This sounds too low-level to matter. A database has bigger ideas: partitions, blocks, indexes,...