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evacide: If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and...
Tuesday 12th May 2026 I travelled by bus from Eastbourne to Gatwick Airport last Thursday. It took three hours and 41 minutes using three buses. I made the same journey yesterday afternoon when it took two hours and 24 minutes using just...
Chris Holland has spent over three decades helping people – young and old – find their way back to the natural world. In this ... Continue The post EP60: Connecting Children and Families to the Wild – with Chris Holland appeared first on...
Plain stockinette fabric can become double knitting by the process of "transformation." An earlier post shows how to hold two stockinette fabrics back-to-back (purl sides together) drop a column, then re-latch the back ladder on the...
Hallie Rubenhold is an author whose work I have enjoyed in the past. You can read my review of The Five (2019) here. She is good at restoring the voices of women when it comes to writing about true crime. In The Five she did this for the...
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about old Dan Thurot: I’m a scuba diver rated for search and recovery. There aren’t many of us here in the desert, which is probably why I receive unexpected calls to dredge the ponds of the...
Asked for a one-line mental model of what synchronized does, most have a simple answer: making sure only one thread at a time can access the synchronized block or method.
Book review for The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. I rated it 4.5 stars. A fantasy book with some great plot twists. The story centres around Neema, a High Scholar for the Empire who belongs to the Raven faction. The setting of the...
On 14 April, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the New York Times’ Canada bureau chief, quoted Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, calling the spate of floor crossers “turncoats”. He apparently said this — and more — in a speech in...
I like books. You’d probably know that if you’ve seen my bookshelf page. But, I don’t like physical books. Yeah they do look good on a physical shelf, and I do like that part of them. I just don’t like reading them. The main issue for...