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In this edition:Customer sentiment deterioratesComCom reports on Satellite impact2300 MHz and 2600 MHz band redistributionJason Paris steps down at One NZConsumers unsatisfied despite world-class networksWriting in the 2025...
My concentration was at its highest, and I could not understand why that backup was so slow. The heat would not let me focus, and I was sweating, and the sweat was distracting me. All of a sudden, the sound of the intercom. I jumped in...
Jon and Megan Brooklyn, NY ☀ / 103 ℉
This 4th of July, I think we should officially recognize that shouting into the void has replaced baseball as America's national pastime.
Things didn’t go right from the very beginning. Mr. Valerian Tudori, his baby face shaved squeaky clean, his dimples ready, hopped down the aircraft steps, and almost moaned with pleasure as the soles of his shoes bounced against the...
For many years the game of foot-the-ball has been played in the back alleys of Ankh-Morpork, with teams formed from street communities coming together in sporting comradeship (involving violence and pies, not necessarily in that order)....
https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/tea-or-books-151.mp3 Thanks again for all your questions for our special Q&A episode of Tea or Books? It took longer than planned, but here is part 2… Do get in touch at...
I'm so back in Emacs it isn't even funny. Also Linux. Dank Linux, to be precise.Toy Story 5 was pretty fun.I still can't focus long enough to write more than a few sentences at a time. I'd consider it a debilitating problem, if I...
So I first saw Claire Foy in Little Dorritt in 2008 and she kept cropping up in other things. She was in the adaptation of The Night Watch, the Sarah Waters novel, in 2011. I wasn't keen. I found her a weak link. In 2015 she was going to...
It’s a bit light, maybe, to be a day’s sole post, so I’m throwing this in as an extra. I was looking through my saved post list on Bluesky and found a few entertaining images that speak to me. Largely they say, “@!#?@!“, just like Q*bert...
Strawberry Earl Grey for the Full Strawberry Moon Adagio's tea blends that are only available on the day of the full moon feel very specifically targeted to my interests.
Not to bury the lede (and in true meme manner) I have some ‘personal news’. I’ll be leaving my role at the National Data Library / Government Digital Service at the end of the summer (September 4th to be precise) and before you ask, no I...
The latest in a sequence of claims of very large scale structures in the distribution that violate the cosmological principle emerged a week or so ago with a paper in Nature. The paper is behind a paywall but here is the abstract: I’ve...
Big news: according to Sony's latest blog post dated July 1st, 2026, quote:In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be release on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.That's right!...
Ok here's what we've got from last month (published in the UK in hardback). With the World Cup in full swing and England not yet out of it, I'm pleased to see at least one football history book on the list! Here are the three that appeal...