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➜ wow, 6 weeks of school holiday flew by! our last week started now and it went by slow and fast at the same time. just one more week before the school run starts again... I'm happy to get back into my normal routines, but I'm also a bit...
This is the second of Elizabeth Chadwick’s two novels about Jeanette of Kent. If you haven’t read the first, The Royal Rebel, it’s not essential, particularly if you’re already familiar with this period of history, but I would still...
Sean Goedecke wrote a post arguing that you should never be angry at work — a post with which I strongly agree. Anger can be a useful signal, but being angry at work rarely improves the situation. More often, it makes life worse for the...
In the preceding essay I put the competence problem at the moment of appointment; in this one I ask who carries the cost of it, and the answer sits in Champniss's own data, largely unremarked.Employees in their first five years of...
This is a recap-ish of the latest podcast episode. You can listen to the episode below before or after you read. That’s because I tend to expand on topics from the pod as well as straight-up write about things that we did not discuss....
Ampersound creates audiovisual non-fiction stories with a particular emphasis on the power of sound. Founded by George Lavender, the company develops all of its material by collaborating with real, live humans—a quality that became...
August 24, 2026 Ah, some of you still need to dress conservatively… And there’s a lot of struggle around the wisdom of owning a good navy suit. If you don’t like wearing navy, DON’T DO IT! But if you like wearing navy, and you’re...
Yesterday I mentioned that my LLM was generating some fairly good Lisp code and showed some examples of the code it generated. An anonymous reader commented: This continues to baffle me. On the one had we have Mr. Heresies here...
A narrow gauge model of an unusual prototype, this 00-12 model features an EDM 3D printed body, heavily modified to sit on a Hornby TT:120 chassis and has turned out to be a delightful little thing…The EDM ‘kit’ is more of a scratch-aid....
This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. It is clear that India’s relationship with the countries in its neighbourhood is at an impasse. There are many reasons for this: global power shifts, political...
No hyperbolics, zero partisan rants, just rational, logical in your face, common sense- a lovely change of pace on the insane card we've all been dealt...
So I’ve been otherwise occupied, both at work and at home, and with doing some behind-the-scenes tinkering with this here website, so today I’ll show you a picture of stacks of 1960s/1970s DC war comics I picked up over the weekend: What...
I have a pair of Skyway-related pix for you today, beginning with this portrait of a little girl, up in the charming Fantasyland Chalet; the Teacups, Flying Elephants, and a few of the old dark rides can just be seen through the branches...
I've been wanting to build a structure like this for some time and now I have a possible prototype. It looks like a simple and fun build with polystyrene sheets.
I’m sure Capcom’s PSP puzzler Airou de Puzzle will look familiar to some of you; and no, I’m not talking about the adorably stylised felynes borrowed from the pretty much purrfect cat-village experience MonHun Nikki either. This is...