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Brek @ Snax 1 - Derek Demko Lunch @ Nile Valley 3 - MC Hammersmith 4 - Gyles Brandreth Dins @ Noodles Home 7 - David O’Doherty 930 - House of Life where you come alone but end up bowing onstage with Rev, so after get into Drinks @...
Continuing the letter writing fever, I’ve been exploring the academic work called Letters As Loot by Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal. It’s a treasure trove of information on how letters were written in the 17th and 18th...
Earlier this month my blog turned 11 years old and, truth be told, I never thought in August 2015 that I would still be at it in 2026 (though admittedly, for the past year my output has diminished from 3-5 to only one post per week as I...
[This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll...
I would be very grateful for pointers to other recent empirical studies of the impact of AI on programming education that are more rigorous than the gushing slop being tossed around on LinkedIn. I’d be particularly grateful for studies...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 29-31: This region is often referred to as ‘maritime South East Asia’, with the more general term ‘South East Asia’...
For those who don’t know my history before becoming a full-time content creator and stationery maker, I worked as a graphic designer for Hallmark Cards for almost 20 years. I worked with some of the most talented lettering artists,...
VH Belvadi chose The Mulai by Munir Hachemi as this month's IndieWeb book club. I read the summary on his site and it sounded right up my street. Indeed, it was right up my street! The basic summary, the back cover blurb, is an...
This was another wild card choice I picked for this month’s reviews. Today’s read was Cornish’s sole foray into writing crime fiction. Information on the dustjacket of my copy states that: ‘Constance Cornish spent the first fourteen...
Perfect weather for a final day at the beach! I should mention this more often: I am in the process of finishing my 10th anniversary zine – to celebrate this blog turning 10 years old in just a couple of days (on the 26th). The format...
Bob Marley and the Wailers with the mighty "Exodus" I have always heard the lyric as "movement culture people" which I prefer to what I have just established is the actual lyric "movement of Jah people""movement culture people" expands...
i have spectacularly failed the challenge and have toyed with the idea of deleting old posts, pretending it had never happened. nobody would know... i wonder why it feels so vulnerable to fail publicly, irregardless of how big of a...
Overheard: “He’s the kind of guy who leaves the sticker on his laptop.”
The number of grains of sand on a beach is a classic example of an “infinite” number, in the sense that it would be impossible to count. But sand itself isn’t infinite. Demand for sand is way up, around the world, because it’s a key...
I caught wind of the news that MacStories is back posting on X, the “everything platform”, and that seems to have caused some backlash. I am not a reader of MacStories (because tools are tools and I don’t read about new computers the...