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“What's the greatest inconvenience for experienced beekeepers?”.If I were to ask this question I'd expect a lot of different answers; cheap supermarket (p)honey, the fubar'd differential on the Landy, the daft licensing restrictions on...
I bought this book many years, possibly as long ago as 6 (eek - I know!), but at long last I picked this title up from my TBR pile. I wasn’t sure what to expect with this one, only knowing the author’s name, whilst not having a sense of...
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, had been slowly turning from friend to foe of Henry VI ever since Henry allowed Gloucester’s wife Eleanor to be arrested and imprisoned for witchcraft and treason. The Treaty of Tours proved to be the last...
The Last Escapeby E.C.R. LoracGenres: Crime, Mystery Pages: 152 Rating: Synopsis: In this final detective novel to feature Superintendent Robert MacDonald, we find the police officer setting up his retirement plans on a hill farm to the...
Week #801 We offer UnOffice Hours. It’s a 30 minute slot for anyone to book and chat with us about anything. On Monday, we had a lovely chat. It’s been awhile since a random person reached out, and it was great to meet some new folks and...
So last year I got super-hyped for the new Superman movie. I loved it and it was a great new start to a new DC Universe on screen. Tonight I am going to see the new Supergirl movie and I have heard some good things about it. Milly Alcock...
Almost nine years ago, I decided to write my own website generator. Static-site generators (SSGs) were sort of new back then, and somewhat fascinating to me. After failing to start a website/blog for a decade, I realized that I’ll never...
Note: The literal first pause button was probably on a tape recorder in the 1930s or 40s, but this post is about video games. I was playing some Caverns of Mars for the Atari Home Computer and noticed, through trial-and-error, that you...
Or should that be the other way around? Probably, but I think Jones may have liked it this way!Here's the story. In the winter of 1970, British television viewers were given thirteen new episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, with a...
Twice in the last month, I've woken up in the morning to find that someone during the night has made a severe violation of my commenting rules, and because I was asleep, it was up for hours. There have been a about a dozen times in which...
Alistair Davidson writes about migrating a form-heavy web application from a React SPA to a traditional server-rendered HTML-first website. The entire article is worth reading, but I want to draw attention to this bit about analytics...
En plots was er de drang om iets te schrijven. Het is niet nagelezen, het is gewoon mijn gedachtenstroom vandaag, op mijn blog. Klinkt het niet, dan botst het, en dat is ook oké!fertiliteitIk kwam daarnet deze video tegen van de...
There's a big-studio franchise movie clocking in at under two hours this weekend. Is that allowed? Seriously, Supergirl runs 108 pretty-decent minutes, adapting Woman of Tomorrow in less-idiosyncratic but still entertaining fashion, with...
A week in the Oude Abdij Drongen, near Ghent in Belgium, accompanying Rosemary to the mODa14 conference. The name of this conference gives a double role to the initials OD: model-oriented design and analysis, and optimal design, hence...
Check out the Furry Books Summer Sampler on itch.io! (Southern hemisphere folks experiencing winter are also invited.) The bundle runs from June 26 – August 17, $10 for 10 books ranging from shorts to series, science fiction to...