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We’re currently experiencing the second major heatwave in Germany. After the 41 degrees Celsius we had a few weeks ago in June, the 35 degrees now actually feel quite pleasant. Contrary to my usual habit, I didn’t manage to get around to...
I need a place to describe this algorithm, since it seems to be undocumented on the 'net, so here it is. SRC is a replacement for MTF in BWT-based compressors. According to OpenBWT, it’s the best known MTF replacement measured by...
Some days all I can say is ay yi yi. Or oy. Or fuuuuuuuuck. You know, those wordless expressions of mostly-vowel sounds the outbreathing of which, the offgassing of which you hope will take away some of the poison, some of the poison...
I’m not a huge ice cream consumer, but I found myself watching this video on YouTube where professional chefs try a frankly crazy number of vanilla ice cream varieties.Vanilla is one of my favorites, but it can be highly variable, as...
Last night I found myself watching Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums again. I say 'again' but I hadn't seen it since I watched it, in a cinema, when it was released, all of 25 years ago. It was the first of his films I'd seen (I only...
Jul 13 2026 There is a scourge of AI-designed signs taking over America, especially small businesses and organizations. I will not mince words: these signs are disgusting. They are maybe the most aesthetically ugly and repulsive things I...
Hello RSS readers! Project Inbox 2026 is coming along very nicely, thank you. Don't worry, that's still my only MAIN project. I do other small things in parallel with the main project. This entry is a small thing I did recently in my...
This ↑ is what happens when Joe Dart breaks the sound barrier playing “Dean Town”. (And not when i drop my phone on a 2,000-year-old theatre’s stone steps trying to put it in my pocket — my back pocket.) Vulfpeck’s concert at the Jazz à...
Its a biographic movie of Michael Jackson which takes you behind the scene in his real life. He was talented from his early childhood, and so does his four brothers—basically whole Jackson family. His father trained them all, but he was...
After replacing the leaking fuel pump yesterday, today I had the pleasure of fixing (or I thought) the steering-pulling-to-the right problem. When it happened I thought it was one of the following… Steering Hubs (manual 4×4) Brakes Took...
Lots of links shared on social.omgmog.net between 6 and 12 July, from old handheld games to a live map of Britain’s railways.
In 2024, I attended ICST in Toronto. I went to attend the first "Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing" workshop (AIST), where I gave a tutorial on a potential competition and participated in a panel (which, turned into a...
July 2026. Bradford. Back from the Ginger Goose, Mrs RM said she didn’t want anything to eat, which I took as instruction to head out immediately and come back with a healthy tea. I headed out into Little Germany, a part of Bradford with...
“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to time — we live here suspended between the time of insects and...
Replied to Journal Prompt July by Laura Cameron (The Well-Apportioned Desk) I found a great list of July journal prompts over at BaronFig from 2024. The thing I love about this list is that there are 50 prompts to choose from ... A few...
Life Notes Busy busy at work, which has dominated most thoughts this week. Vera MOT passed thanks to my father-in-law having the tools, know how, and bloody mindedness to replace the failed headlamp unit. What a faff, but what a hero!...
First off, where did the disconnect stem from? Why is it such a hard concept to follow? If the people are fed, sheltered, and clothed then supportive politics will follow. Its almost disgusting to see they want us to become more...
Con este post es como si estuviera volviendo a loa orígenes del blog, cuando lo alojaba en Bearblog y estaba temporalmente sin PC, escribía todos mis posts con un editor de texto llamado Markor, escribía en markdown, como siempre. Sin...
Coartadas es una comedia romántica de risa fácil protagonizada por Jaime Lorente y Adriana Torrebejano. Es una adaptación de la película francesa Alibi.com. Esta película fue dirigida por Philippe Lacheau en el año 2016. La versión...
🗓️ 6 to 12 Julyfavourite thing this weekWaiting on a bench to be picked up and staring up into the leaves of a large tree, mesmerised with the sunlight playing with the leaves.writing I have finished edits on a mini journalling workshop,...
We could not go today to the temples for whatever reason. Very disappointing to find out at the last minute that our tuktuk driver had simply forgotten we wanted him to get us. My wife gave up I guess so I just went out and stayed out...
I wrote before about my (mis)adventures in photo backup along with some technical musings about bit rot which can lead to corruption of old files across backups. Ever since I wrote those posts I have been working on a solution custom...
I blame a running tap, the boiler firing, as I washed up, for what the voice said...
The book weaves together stories of people connected to Steller’s sea cow and its extinction, though only indirectly. The focus is on their personal fates, though only indirect. It also explores other species driven to extinction....
It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to his cricket match, and our oldest is upstairs playing with his Lego out of the heat. Me? I'm sitting in the sunroom, listening to the goats and chickens,...
(I have so many things to write about that I’m just throwing up my arms and posting about the most trivial thing to come my way today; this is about my misreading of one word from an article in The Economist issue of 7/4/26). The item...
Your browser does not support the audio element. After a brief wait, I have finally released the first of TNT. This was a fun project, and while some of the transitions were a bit hacked together, there's a few in there that are...
The pencil was invented in 1565 in Borrowdale, Cumbria, which is not Wales but is close enough for our purposes. The gas bill has been available since the introduction of domestic gas supply. Together, they constitute a complete...
Un aspect de ma personnalité est l’introversion. Ça veut dire que j’ai le disposition de me renouveler par l’introspection ou, autrement, par minimiser les stimulais externes. J’écris beaucoup parce que ça me donne la chance de diriger...
Mid-century modern chairs on a colorful, rectangular deck overlooking The Strand in Hermosa Beach. モダンアート ハーモサビーチの「ザ・ストランド」を見下ろすカラフルな長方形のデッキの上のミッドセンチュリー・モダン風の椅子だ。
As icons continue to change across Apple’s platforms, I have thoughts. They mainly revolve around two perspectives: What I think of icons as a long-time user of Apple’s platforms. What I think of icons as a digital collector and physical...
I've just released Rogallo v0.6.0, which contains the last big feature that was missing to make it a viable daily-driver Gemini Protocol client. That feature? Client certificates. From now on, if you visit a capsule that requests a...
Che bello, che fatica, che caldo, che tuoni! Bellissimo concertone, bellissimo goderselo con Efi e Zel e beh, dopo qualche mese ho rivisto Michele e soci quindi non posso che essere contento!
Writers and bloggers, does this happen to you? You sit down to write a weeknote or some journal entry, but suddenly, one of the topics becomes really long and you decide to split that off into its own separate post. You continue with...
Alles wie immer, ab morgen darf ich wieder an anderes als Judith Butler denken. [14/1000] Habe gerade in Nummer 6 nachgeschaut, was ich dort über Butler geschrieben habe und musste ein bisschen schmunzeln, weil ich statt...
Rose Horowitch, writing for The Atlantic (gift link): Reading has come to seem extraneous even to some of the best-educated members of society. Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support,...
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was I Can’t Stop Me by Twice and it is 100% because Instagram keeps showing me reels of that girl who screams along with it...
helecho Las cosas del mundo son intrascendentes.Fuente: Salva Más De Cerca
Léon Guérin, La Morale en histoires, 1842. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. When a book leaves me feeling vaguely ambivalent, the would-be-writer me should probably ask why; was it something about the book’s style, the subject...
My reply to James Zhan's blog post.
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Last week I picked up the EP-1320 Medieval and I’ve been tinkering with it all weekend. Besides it’s buck-wild look, it comes with a bunch of expertly recorded medieval samples: flutes, bowed harps, gitterns, reeds, trumpets, bells,...
Inspired by Andy Bell, a few years ago I added a music page to my website. It is a mirror copy of my Discogs collection that I have meticulously maintained for over a decade now. A few folks have asked me before “how I keep my Discogs...