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This article appeared in The New York Times, July 27, 2026 “Ms. Millman is a designer and brand strategist, the host of the podcast “Design Matters” and the chair of the master’s program in branding at the School of Visual Arts. There is...
Yesterday was ‘business as usual’ weather wise, in North Wales. Welsh sunshine from wall to wall, Blaenau to Porthmadog…I enjoyed a trip on the Quarryman service that leaves Blaenau about 11:40am and returns arriving back about 16:40pm...
If you think there are too many cats featured on this blog, then you're quite right. I do think that we can learn a lot from cats, but... we're clearly not cats and are unlikely to evolve in that direction. It wouldn't be a good...
Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month. IndieWeb Carnival is a monthly blogging event where one person chooses a topic and invites others to write about it. For...
In 2009, I co-authored a paper titled Formal vs. Agile: Survival of the Fittest, in which I argued that rigour and agility in software engineering were not antithetical. I first had to explain to my co-authors that Agile Software...
Memory expansion has been attractive for years, and is more relevant than ever because ML models have an insatiable appetite for memory capacity. In response, XCENA has worked with Samsung to create a CXL memory expansion device that can...
Chevron-locked games Stargate fans don't have too many video game options these days. Most Stargate games were multiplayer-only and were shut down after a while. Currently, the only option to try is Timekeepers. On the other hand, there...
One week at number one on 14th May 1988Bill Drummond once argued that anybody could have a number one in 1988, and it felt as if he had a point. There have been few moments in music business history where non-musicians could grab the top...
And I don't think I want to... There's a Pokemon Convention/Celebration/Championship currently in San Francisco. I don't know much, if anything about it, other than being some kind of cartoon character game/creation that seems to be...
Location: You need a large, flat, grassy area (comfort is king). As close to the carpark as you can get. Bit of shade and near the toilets. Presentation: The cast is important, direction doesn’t matter, distance is key. Cast at least 100...
OK-zles™ are Snoozles™ - but they aren't as bad. But you figured that out already! Today's examples aren't too dark, or blurry, they're mostly just kind of boring.See what I mean? The Submarine Lagoon should be exciting. "Liquid Space",...
After leaving Malcolm Island, we headed to Holberg to stay in the adventure huts at the Scarlet Ibis Pub. Like the umbrella says, The Scarlet Ibis is the Island’s most remote pub. A bumpy and very dusty ride on a logging road dodging...
This is one of these weeks where not much interesting has happened. Quite some energy has gone into projects at work — projects that are so interesting that they take up mental space even in my free time. It’s a privilege to be working...
Ask a language model something about your own life and it has to guess. It never saw your data, so it reconstructs what is probably true, and every so often it hands you something that never happened. No amount of clever phrasing fixes...
It has been over a year since I last read a novel by Anthony Gilbert, my previous read being the excellent Something Nasty in the Woodshed (1942). A friend recently mentioned reading one of Gilbert’s books, which reminded me that I still...