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The hellbound horror of GCSEs This starts as the usual “don’t worry about your GCSEs kids, no-one will ever care about them” piece with an amusingly cringe photo of the author aged 16, but then Ian Dale gets into this really interesting...
Coming back from Calgary on Monday we had what might be considered a normal flight experience. Normal is worth celebrating in light of the barrage of negative experiences we have had. It's not lost on me that my constant harping about...
Amnesia Fortnight 2026 - Indie Reboot: A Double Fine Productions Game Jam, Documentary and Kickstarter Campaign launches on August 31st, and runs through most of September, but you can sign up here now to get notified when it goes live!...
Double Fine has announced a new Kickstarter starting on August 31, 2026. Amnesia Fortnight 2026 - Indie Reboot: A Double Fine Productions Game Jam, Documentary and Kickstarter Campaign launches on August 31st, and runs through most of...
Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.3.7-9 (tr. W.A. Oldfather): It is because of this kinship with the flesh that those of us who incline toward it become like wolves, faithless and treacherous and hurtful, and others like lions, wild and...
The 1987 McWhirter translation of Jose Emilio Pacheco’s selected poems is reviewed in the current issue of the Literary Review of Canada. I have been sitting this morning by the ocean with poems from his first book, The Elements of the...
Maintaining proper encapsulation is great, but can make it harder (or impossible) to optimize performance. Here are some examples: A function or service has the ostensible job of returning all items that satisfy criterion X, but all its...
John Flood gifted me a case of 14 pt. Weiss Italic last week, type he’d originally been given by Thaddeus Holownia. It’s a typeface unlike any other I own: precious, delicate, with a need to be very frugal with inking to avoid plugging...
In the Eighties, when this movie is set, there was a phrase that said: “don’t bore us, get to the chorus” referring to those songs with short verses and memorable choruses and it is this sort of philosophy that The End of Oak Street...
entertainment facilities on Eastbourne Pier Like other coastal towns, Eastbourne began to grow rapidly as the medicinal and leisure benefits of sea air and sea bathing became well known. Locals scrambled to provide a wide variety of...
The Man Who Knew Too Much is a film of peaks and valleys. There is little argument that it is a good film; whether you place it amongst the highest of Hitchcock's work depends on just how much you value the stratospheric heights it...
I’d been on the waiting list at my local library for Hayden Panettiere’s memoir “This is Me” for what felt like the entire summer. Finally, I got the email notice saying my hold was ready for pick up and I happily spent last weekend...
14-08-26 A whole week since I was last at Saltoun. I was trying to hold off for a better weather window but realised one may never materialise and today looked the best of a bad bunch. I had "enjoyed" a few cycles recently and wanted to...
After finishing my previous Stillman and Birn pocket Beta sketchbook I started a new one. I normally use the first page to draw my palette, but this time I just skipped the first page and started a full page spread. I was sketching in my...