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Time for some links, time for some reading? Democracy v the Machine: the Birth of the Digital Age and the Warnings That Were Ignored, by Jill Lepore, The Guardian The Great Romance Slump, by Faith Hill, The Atlantic Your Friendly...
Projects I’ve finished installing minidlna on my home server. Now I can finally disable another service exposed, until now, by Qnap. The goal is always the same: The Qnap NAS should work only as network drive. In the future my aim is to...
I couldn't keep up with my weeknotes this year but I enjoyed writing them :( especially the media round-ups - books and film - as I found I often had something to say if I sat down and thought about it for a second or two. So here are...
The Gunpowder Plot is having a surprisingly good Fringe. Having already encountered TheatreGoose’s take on 1605 elsewhere in the festival, it is striking to find another company returning to exactly the same historical event. The...
Saturday was one of those days where my twin brother Chris was living his best life somewhere down in Westward Ho! attending an all-day rave. Apparently the bass was so loud he could hear it while walking to the venue, which is more than...
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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC is from long time friend Sheri and asks us to: Create a butterfly of your own in whichever medium works for you. I really want...
One of the most interesting things about Antigone 1989 is not what it currently is, but what it might become. This ambitious musical from Vine & Light and Rhymes with Purple relocates Sophocles’ tragedy to Thebes, California at the...
One really nice thing about the climate here at Sunset is that when I pick blackberries, I can wear a long-sleeved top to protect my arms from the thorns; in Louisiana and Oklahoma it’s much too hot for that. So when I noticed late last...
Night-blooming cereus (probably Epiphyllum) in my sister’s yard, 17 August 2026, 8:47pm (photo by Kate St. John) 18 August 2026 My sister has a night-blooming cereus plant that produces beautiful flowers with a lovely scent. Each flower...
The most remarkable thing about Alice Stanley Jr’s The Second Best School Shooting is that it understands exactly what not to write about. This is not really a play about a school shooting. The shooting is the event around which...
Back in 2022, LSP implementations could find errors and other diagnostics in code and send them into the editor, but editors lacked good interfaces to actually present this. The best at the time was a panel with a list of errors (not...
Surprise dentist appointment, so no time to finish.
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
There is a wonderfully simple idea at the heart of Shakespeare x 5.The Bulgarian company Hand Theatre arrive armed with little more than two performers, Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy and a determination to reinvent it repeatedly....