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We found ourselves in Chesterfield in summer 2026's third or fourth heatwave - I'm losing count Peak temperatures of 33℃ aren't ideal conditions for rambling around a selection of the town's Beer Guide pubs. But we tried.We started our...
Last week I wrote a post on hiding cryptographic keys in decks of cards. I wrote some code for that post that shouldn’t work, but before fixing I noticed that it in fact did work. The code computes logarithms for integers larger than the...
In staff augmentation, the client is primarily buying capacity. In consulting, the client is primarily buying an outcome, judgment, or expertise. A useful test is: If the client already knew exactly what needed to be done and how to do...
You’re on holiday and something breaks at work. You drive back, you fix it, everyone applauds. And you feel it too: you were needed, and it worked. That applause is where it goes wrong. Praise is a signal: it tells the whole organisation...
This was inevitable, of course. ::chuckle:: [ day in progress... ]
Now reading…Waxing On
It's time for another trip to the dark and dangerous world that is Weird Tales, the essential pulp magazine, edited, from 1940 to 1954, by Dorothy McIlwraith. Today, the September 1943 issue. We've looked into this issue already to...
I fancied some non-fiction after all the fiction I’ve been reading of late, and this book piqued my interest. Written in 1946 by a british intelligence officer tasked with finding out from captured germans that were present in the...
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 - 14:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project This is the final item from the collection Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’. Once again, it's just a place-holder rather than a full summary,...
Last day of the kids' summer badminton camp. A fun, tiring few days. Back to work tomorrow!29 words · 1 image
This is specifically in reference to handwriting like it's 1895 where I am learning a more formal Victorian script. But it applies to any kind of learning. Lesson the first: I can be - am often - a lazy bastard. Lazy is also a fun word...
I talked yesterday briefly about how I love clouds, adore them really. There’s something dreamlike and peaceful, well, at the best of times. There’s also another element I was born to: water. I’m a Pisces and natural born water baby....
They say writing can be a good outlet for grief, but feelings might get complicated when the person you’re grieving was supposed to co-author the book you’re writing. Despite author Griffin Barber’s deep, personal loss of his mentor and...
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We're only on the 5th day of Blaugust and I'm already struggling to think of something to write about. I went through the list of prompts and nothing is standing out there either. I think I'll just do a little free-writing...