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In March this year, I wrote about failing to track and borrow the only copy on the books of a title in the Irish public library system. I mildly moaned about this to Dau.I the Librarian: books are effective fungible, one is as good as...
You don’t owe anyone your attention In the immortal words of Janet Jackson, what have you done for me lately? We don’t know how much time we have left on this world and what will be the next thing to happen in our lives. It’s a resource...
One of the movie series I've really enjoyed over the past decade is what's typically referred to as the Fast and Furious saga.I first saw THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001) a decade ago and then caught up on all the films released to that...
How long is the coastline of Great Britain? Go on. Have a guess.It sounds like the sort of question that should have a straightforward answer. Surely someone, at some point, has walked around Britain with a very long tape measure and...
I recently posted about going on a walk into a tunnel. Well, I went back into the tunnel recently with a different group of people, but this time I was "in charge" and my safety rules were the ones we were using. It was a much better...
A gentleman by the name of Gustav emailed to say hello, and to let me know he found my blog via Bubbles. I’d never heard of it before, but I’m partial to the name and colour scheme. They characterise my blog thusly: Tech 40% Life 38%...
Nine, Eight, Seven . . . It's a black, white-button toy, which is yellow and red! Which reminds me of a joke about a well read newspaper on a Zebra Crossing! That's it, an unknown maker, pocket-money toy robot/mech/power-loader,...
I’ve been trying to relearn cursive and it’s made my handwriting eligible because I keep switching back and forth. I forgot how to do certain letters and my r, n, and m keep changing.
When I was in University, I was in a student symphony orchestra. One thing we often did was go on tours to other cities, meaning that we found a student orchestra abroad. We’d visit them and have them visit us the next year. We did that...
Perfume PosseShalimar L’Essence I am going to try not to talk about the weather to start my posts for a while. The weather is what one talks about here frequently when chatting to neighbours or talking to someone in a shop. The topic…...
Capa was on Omaha Beach under fire on the morning of D-Day, the 6th June 1944, putting himself in danger to make images that he thought were important. He pushed the shutter on his Contax II rangefinder ten times, maybe eleven. Those...
If you've driven all the way to France you might as well stop somewhere else on the way back. ✉ A postcard from Saint-Jean-de-Luz On my summer holidays we went to Saint-Jean-de-Luz which is in France but only just. It is six miles from...
In this blog post, I look at the night my agent-built app collapsed in front of its largest crowd, and at what a census taken afterward says about every surface that has not collapsed yet. Zabriskie is a social app I am building around...
Sometimes the best breakfasts are the ones we make just for ourselves — simple, cozy, and full of flavour. These Easy Oven Baked Breakfast Tacos for One are exactly that kind of morning treat. With minimal prep and just a handful of...
Casey Newton, writing at Platformer Wednesday: On Wednesday, whatever legal cover Meta’s Potemkin well-being teams were meant to provide fell to a settlement of up to $17.1 billion with 47 US states, the District of Columbia, and US...