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Sixty years ago England was hosting the football World Cup and pubs were very much part of the story. In 2026, it’s quite normal for pubs to have television screens and for people to gather there to watch big football matches together....
Boxcar Children #28 The Mystery Girl by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1992. The Alden children are visiting their Aunt Jane, and Aunt Jane takes them to her local general store. The general store, like all old-fashioned general stores,...
I recently bought a mousepad that contains many Excel shortcuts printed on it. It cost me less than 5 USD. By far it is the best productivity tool that I have used. If I needed a refresher on an Excel shortcut, I just look at the...
This week was hectic. Work mostly. There was a team dinner on Wednesday, at a place close to the office. Pretty chill, honestly. I socialised with coworkers and had fun. Next Sunday I'm watching The Odyssey at Allu Cinemas with my sister...
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved finding properties of arrays. (Note that this ends today.)
A quick confession before we start. I told you across the last two posts that I was working towards building my own local inference rig, and I’ve decided to hold off on the hardware for now. After my analysis, it was clear that the...
Duncan Rawlinson created this abstract image using artificial intelligence to explore motion and color in floral forms. Red and white flowers appear to sweep diagonally across a soft gray-green backdrop, their petals stretched into...
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I’ve always been in favor of gay marriage. How could I not be? Gay marriage means gay divorce and gay divorce means more work for lawyers. I’m in favor of any law that can create more work for lawyers. Shutting out partners in time of...
Lego of my stuff!
What have I let myself be roped into here then!?! Larkrail 2026, a thoroughly enjoyable day talking to many of you, catching up with old friends, putting faces to names and enjoying meeting several new wonderful individuals - a rather...
Recent Updates to Posts grab bag vol. 9 — Updated the RSS template for photo gallery pages to only show the pictures once, with their captions if they have them, and look more coherent in the feed. Recent Comments balm — Ali: “They...
#TIL that #Emacs also has a Global Mark Ring: the global mark ring records a sequence of buffers that you have been in, and, for each buffer, a place where you set the mark For programming buffers / projects, I've been using the xref...
What's been happeningIt's been another quiet week. Having got our car last week, this week has been take-the-car-everywhere. We've been fully sub-urbanised. The week started with my swimming classes - and of course, I drove over to the...
After 7 years of being a consistent user, the highest for any platform I have ever used, I am really unhappy about the recent news that Netflix, Sony Pictures, and Paramount are all bidding to acquire Letterboxd. While my love for that...