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I really liked Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls so when I saw a copy of Girls In Their Married Bliss for £1 in a local charity shop, I snapped it up even though it had the worst cover you could possibly imagine. This is the second and...
It’s fun being on the “trailing edge” of technology, when you get to catch-up on things you’ve always wanted to find out about, at a price you can afford. To that extent, I’ve been collecting optical media and drives, enjoying the...
As I mentioned last week, the Department of Physics will be hosting an Eclipse Event, this week on Wednesday August 12th. This sold out very quickly so we expect a good turnout. In the last few days we have been featured prominently in...
Photo of Tracy Arm after megatsunami on 10 August 2025 (from Wikimedia) 9 August 2026 A year ago, on 10 August 2025, a mega tsunami flooded the Tracy Arm fjord south of Juneau, Alaska. It began at the foot of the South Sawyer Glacier....
This was a work-heavy week. I also fell sick in the latter half of the week (a cold, blaming the weather). I’ve almost recovered now. This Friday, I finished reading Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky. I really enjoyed it (having read...
Vera by Laura Casparybook published 1943film released 1944 My old friend Sergio Angelini has a wonderful podcast called Tipping My Fedora (following on from his blog of that name) looking at All Things Noir. Tipping My Fedora | Sergio...
Ivory has this feature where, when you remove an account from your client, you can also link to the admin UI to delete it. I thought that, because I'm the admin on my instance, it would let me delete that account, but no it was deleting...
Welcome to Day 10 of 13 of my Great Balkans Road Trip with Just You. So far in this series, we’ve travelled from Romania through Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia. We’re now back in Romania for the final few days of the tour....
i did make another zine this past fortnight but otherwise feel like i haven't worked much because fallen aces episode 2 came out and i haven't done much else but play that. i'm a big fan of the game, so i was very excited when it finally...
The “valley of ashes” as portrayed in a graphic-novel adaptation of The Great Gatsby: A pile of coal ash in the dump created in the swamp adjacent to the Flushing River, circa 1920: The site was drained and cleaned up for the 1939-40...
Sunday Asides #107 OpenAI recently hosted a brand trip, which had mixed results according to social media. Most of the backlash was wrapped in general anti-AI rhetoric, but I find it funny (and odd) how so many modern influencers view...
What's been happeningI flew back to Seattle this week for AWS Heroes Summit, 2026. I've been an AWS Hero since 2018 and the Heroes Summit is probably the best time to meet and chat with fellow Heroes - apart from re:Invent (though...
What a week, huh? Captain, it’s only Wednesday. This was me on Tuesday evening. Someone hit my car while it was parked and ran away. Since Tuesday, this has been the biggest thing occupying my mind. The problem is not that the car is...
HTML Day London 2026 @ SET Social Yesterday I attended HTML Day London 2026. I set myself the challenge of working entirely offline for the event. Other than offline documentation for HTML and CSS I was on my own. Unfortunately, I was...
Everyone knows that AI sycophancy is when the model tells you how smart you are. Wow, you’re absolutely right. That’s not just a new idea — it’s genuinely groundbreaking. You’re a very special user. Easy to spot, isn’t it? The discussion...