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I have been mulling over free speech since my previous post on the topic. Despite the response my blog post got from BD's crowd, I myself am certainly not anti-free speech. I've come to realize that my fundamental difference with...
I love pets, I love the Middle Ages, so how could I resist this book! As with most of my book reviews I’ll just share some bits I found interesting and talk a bit about what I think here and there, if needed. I will also share a few...
It’s happening again. The staff where I live now have mostly taken to addressing me as Mr. Arnold — because to lots of Americans (of whatever origins), Mr. Zwicky seems to be simply unpronounceable, a hurdle too high. This produces a...
(Previous chapter)“I, Matteu, take you, Alessandra”—Matteu sighed with galaxies in his eyes—“to be my wife. I vow to be faithful to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. You,” he broke, “are the light of my life. I...
In 1976, after a period of unemployment in Connecticut, my father accepted a job with Save the Children (US), as country head of their operations in Bangladesh. He and I and my stepmother Nancy moved to Dhaka (then spelled Dacca) around...
Odd human trafficking spy/rescue story, less furious than The Furious but overall better, set in 1900ish San Francisco. Yet another movie where newspaper men have to solve local crimes themselves, sneaking around to find kidnapped brides...
You have probably seen Joule Work Desktop on LinkedIn by now. Sebastian Steinhaeuser showed how it prepares him for a customer meeting. Philipp Herzig called it the new SAP GUI, with a smile, and demonstrated a workflow across email, a...
I received some helpful feedback the other day. Something along the lines of: I like the photos you take but I am not interested in all that ‘rabbit-hole’stuff you post about….and I am pretty sure many other people feel the same way....
This pair of short stories by Dragonsteel employees Dan Wells (who is also an author in his own right) and Isaac Stewart (the illustrator of many Cosmere books and head of art at Dragonsteel) was originally created for the Sanderson...
This week brings with it a couple of things, one of which is the beginning of the school year! What?! "It's barely August!" I hear you say. Yes, yes it is. We've had one helluva short Summer, filled with band camps and choir camps and...
I was up this past weekend visiting family in Connecticut. Small towns and other suburbs are always interesting because everything is so close together that things should be walkable, but the sidewalks disappear so clearly they don't...
I'm not sure how one measures the passage of time for a blog. Posterities? RSS-uscitations? Whatever the unit, today marks my blog's twenty-fifth birthday. It's old. (Reader, I assure you I've remained the same age throughout.) I started...
Lee Schwartz, current CEO of the American Geographical Society and former Geographer at the U.S. State Department, has some words about the U.S. government map that messed up Africa at a conference last month (previously).… More
Actual question: Say you're building a piece of software; the exact details are unimportant here other than to say it's an application, that it runs on a server and talks to a database while providing a service over the network. You want...
Fremantle2026 August 12 (Wednesday), 8:18AM· Fremantle · I wandered through Freo to the pub, getting some piccies for the wikis: And then on to the PSAS gallery: ← Previous My main RSS news feed: https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss(or...