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My tradition on this blog is to take a break (mostly!) from current events sometime in mid- August. Instead, I pre-schedule daily posts based on things I read during the previous year about three of my preoccupations: economics,...
Some Blaugust-related links and the usual mix. Going into Week 2 of Blaugust, a few relevant links that have popped up: owls has posted to make note a few sites who joined blaugust but don't have RSS feeds. Owl created the 'Blaugust...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 25-26: Despite the best intentions of some Spanish officials and priests, the overall low standard of Spanish...
Ian Wilson: Circles announcement card, 17 July — 16 August 2026, designed by ko_haubrok for Yoshi Hill/Camel Gallery This is the last week to see Ian Wilson’s Circle on the Floor, Circle on the Wall, two 1968 works presented by Yoshi...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 12th January 2026 The newest EP from atmospheric funeral doom project Man of Sorrows was actually released all the way back in January, but I missed it then because I get a hundred emails a day. But,...
Jan Sobieski (1629-1696) — king of Poland and “Saviour of Western Christendom”. No. The different kind of royalty. Publishing Perspectives brings us a report on an effort in Poland to get the government to legislate a 10% royalty based...
A new costume change for this one. I’ve been reviewing this range literally for decades – they’ve always been readily available and honestly pretty good. Let’s give this spicy flavored variant a sampling. Lucky Me! Pancit Canton Chow...
Today, finally, the first passenger trains since 1988 have crossed the border bridge between Tornio 🇫🇮 and Haparanda 🇸🇪 (OpenRailwayMap), services finally resuming more than a year after the border bridge was repaired and...
おちこんでいるときには、どうしたらいいか、 いつかの方法を決めておくと便利です。 これはぼくが独自に考えたことなのですが、 胸の上のほう、鎖骨の下ぐらいのところに手のひらを当てて じわぁっと温めるのは、とてもいいです、理由は知らない。 ー糸井重里が『今日のダーリン』の中で At times when you're feeling down, when you're unsure about what to do, it's useful to have a...
Young men these days are so disheartened by the world that they have given up all hope. Every time you talk to them, they cite economic statistics, their struggles, their traumas, and how they have been systematically exploited. Of...
TL;DR: CaptionSnap is a $9.99 one-time menu bar app that saves your Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet transcripts by reading the live captions the meeting app already displays. No audio recording, no bot in the call, no cloud, no model...
TL;DR: CaptionSnap is a $9.99 one-time menu bar app that saves your Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet transcripts by reading the live captions the meeting app already displays. No audio recording, no bot in the call, no cloud, no model...
I enjoy reading The Guardian's monthly round-up of new SF novels, which can be found in their Science Fiction Books section, and can also be read via feed. Since the round-up is of new books, at the time the round-up is published they're...
Ten years and one day ago, on August 9, 2016, I abruptly quit my job. I mark this occasion as the beginning of my indie software developer career. Happy anniversary to me and to my customers! I didn’t formulate a plan until after I quit....
Andy rounds up the games at a recent society meeting. Only one historical game at the society at this meeting, a Fields Of Glory clash between Alexandrian Macedonians and Later Selucid armies using 6mm figures. A pike block appears over...