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Happy day after Canada Day! I’ve been hiding in the basement near the air conditioner outlet myself. Because Wednesday days off are the worst of the days off in the schedule, aren’t they. But it’s still a day off for so many so we should...
A story I first told on 10 May 2017. It’s a good story, so I’m telling it again. I no longer live in a house that has a crawl space, hallelujah, amen. We’ve had a lot of rain lately. Days on end it has fallen. Inside my house, it was...
Ducking and weaving my way out of a rain squall, I took shelter under a stand of Hill’s weeping figs (Ficus microcarpa) in Hyde Park. Im not so good with my figs, so perhaps they were Moreton Bay figs, or even Port Jackson figs. Don’t...
Welcome to the Thursday Pressing Concerns! It’s a bit of a hodge-podge this week (it’s a holiday weekend in the States, which may have something to do with it), but there’s still plenty to enjoy here with a new album from Smirk, a...
Antología de la literatura fantástica, compiled by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. An extensive selection of fantastic stories, some more clearly so than others. My clear favorite was Enoch Soames, by Max...
Today I’m introducing the next generation of code editor. A modern app to satiate the needs of the discerning coder. We’re talkin’ blazing fast collaboration between man and machine.Try out the demo below (for best experience: desktop...
Posted on July 2, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear Many months ago I had been ordering some furniture from IKEA1 and on one of those orders I got tempted by a hair towel wrap: it mostly worked as an idea, but it was...
Possibly my most glacial of cameo layouts in recent years has been the development of this, big for me, 110cm long N gauge coal based scene…A mix of ‘firsts’ and complexities have slowed progress - it is in a few ways an expensive...
SIGH. Listeners of my podcast will know that earlier this year, the then-Labour Hackney council was trying to evict an 8 year old disabled boy and autistic boy, and his family from their council home with bailiffs. The Greens took the...
When somebody wants to dispute something that I say about the history of science or the history of mathematics on social media and can’t actually refute it with facts, they often resort to a comment like the one that is the title of this...
For the past 20 years or so, each January, I’ve jetted off to New York City for a retail technology conference, and while there, I’ve (obviously) ventured into many bars, breweries and taprooms. This year, I skipped my annual American...
I have started doing cold outreach to the people. Initially I use to dread it because the sheer amount of reminders and rejections. The worse is people not responding and even worse is when they say yes but they mean no. It’s kind of...
This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.What a bloody annoying bitch! I found this quite entertaining, although it was a little slow to start and it’s really trying hart to be shocking. And I actually found this slightly...
I have been invited to submit insurance tender for a site. This site is my competitor's stronghold. The last five years, my competitor has been servicing this building. No one in the market is able to win the site from this company. When...