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Ghost Squad is a faithful arcade port that really nails the feel of the genre and makes unreal use of the Wiimote. It's a blast while it lasts, just don't expect it to last very long.
My first sense that recent college grads are in hell is when I realized the job hunt process is totally broken. Kids use AI to write their resumes, screen ads, and fill out applications. Meanwhile, AI is sorting resumes for companies,...
I recently finished my first ultra marathon – Wildhorse Traverse, spanning a beautiful 50 kms between Kelowna, BC and Naramata, BC. It was a very rewarding experience for me and taught me a lot so I wanted to give an account of how the...
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For the small percentage of engineering orgs who’d genuinely like to be shipping more reliable software and be more responsive to the needs of their business and their users – it’s a niche, I know – I’m running a public 3-day online Code...
Opera Australia presents a glorious tribute to the evergreen canon of Gilbert & Sullivan, long revered composers of their own special topsy-turvy style of operetta. What a difference a director makes. Where […]
Whinging Pom here - too hot to bloody sleep! So, it turned out that Chris had actually sent me shots of his LJN figures ages ago, and they were languishing down the bottom of Picasa (I look upon my numbering of image folders as a...
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
Last weekend I went across to Dorking for a model railway exhibition at Denbies Wine Estate, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Roxley Models. Lovely location, and a pleasant show. I was very good and didn’t come home with any trains …...
Mike Ripley is well-known for writing the Albert Campion continuation novels, but today’s read, a standalone modern mystery, is my first experience of his work. I was intrigued by the premise of Buried Above Ground, and it has a...
John Wyver writes: Just leaving Provence now, which is why there was no Sunday dozen last week. I loved the landscape, and was struck time and again by memories of the artworks of Paul Cezanne. So here is ‘Montagne Sainte-Victoire’,...