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Quoted Fujinokawa Gives Kyoto 1st Sekiwake in 2 Centuries by The Yomiuri Shimbun (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp) According to the JSA, Fujinokawa becomes the first wrestler from Kyoto Prefecture to reach sekiwake in 198 years, following in the...
August is over, and that means Blaugust 2026 has ended. This was my first time participating, and I set myself the goal of writing 15 posts this month (the silver tier), which I'm happy to say I managed! Two of them ("tech sucks" and "I...
Companion to “The Book Nobody Can Recommend.” That essay argues fiction’s distinctive offer is an occupiable position — a stance you can sit inside long enough to meet its costs. This one is the working table that follows from it, kept...
Camera Camp Snap Pro Data 20/09/2026 Location Bruxelles, Belgium ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your comments by emailing me.
My sites had a few TLS problems during the last few days. It was due to some Actalis certificates being revoked and OCSP failing for them. I don’t really know why Caddy wasn’t able to renew all of them correctly, but it should be fixed...
A while ago I completed the Decision Making Intensive workshop by AORTA. Making a decision as a group often takes incredible patience and no small amount of skill. I've been in groups that stumble to a resolution even where our values...
One of the hardest problems in distributed systems is conflict resolution, or the same basic problem as merge conflicts in Git. Git merge conflicts happen when your branch differs from upstream in a way that Git can’t easily work its way...
I came across a blog post today that hit me harder than expected. It’s nominally about one specific action and person—companies and people giving money to David Heinemeier Hansson’s “Omacom Foundation,” despite DHH’s well-publicized turn...
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I had a moment yesterday. A touch of the OhFuckingHellItsAllGettingABitTooMuchNow's. I was taking the dog for her longer walk of the day at a local woods. The forecast was saying the day would be punctuated with very heavy showers, so we...
One of my desires for writing is to be able to just write. To sit down however many times a day I feel it and have the way to get things down. Lately it has been these meandering thoughts on retirement and how people I know settle for a...
]media guideTrying something new this month and shifting the media guide to monthly. We will still cover all the releases for the month, but the format will be a bit different, and more of it will be exclusive to our paying subscribers...
Me dejarían ser ser una bolsita hecha con residuos de tripa. No quiero ser esta cárcel que llevamos como cuerpo, ¡qué ternura y qué plan!!! Se ha liberado la producción de desear el deseo, un campo intenso sin jerarquías. No siento dolor...
La série Dark Matter, dont la première saison avait été diffusée en 2024 par AppleTV, vient d’entamer sa deuxième saison. Elle met en scène le personnage de Jason Dessen, professeur de physique dans une université moins prestigieuse que...
En una amplia entrevista, el fundador del Movimiento del Software Libre analiza GNU, Linux, la división dentro del código abierto, los grandes modelos de lenguaje, SaaSS, vigilancia digital y por qué la libertad del software sigue siendo...
What’s your favorite song about moving forward? What’s Next? The refrain commonly heard in The West Wing has always sat well with me, always seemed like a good way to focus on what’s ahead. Of course that’s not always the best thing,...
We went to a nice Italian place we had never been to before. Food was good, didn't get sick after eating. They make their own tiramisu which was great, most of the places closer to us use Sysco premade stuff and still charge five bucks...
Participating in Blaugust this year got me out of my cave. I haven’t really written in quite some time, for a variety of reasons, but I wanted to push myself to start again this month. I din’t have a goal, at least not one that I said...
I wonder when "people" will realise that taking videos (and photos) on your mobile device should be done in wide mode, rather than tall. So many News websites now utilise crowd-sourced video content when reporting stories, but the...
Ok, I did it. I wrote and posted a blog post every day for the month of August. At first, it was pretty easy because I had many partial posts just sitting in my drafts folder so I just needed to finish those. As the month continued, it...
I can’t believe it, it’s the end of August and I’ve posted every day this month! I’m so bloody grateful. I finally have a routine in my blogging again, after years of struggling. Forcing myself to post something every day also made me...
Despite the persistent nags to accept or decline tracking cookies on websites, the online surveillance industry already has more advanced techniques for monitoring your wanderings across the web. Collectively, this is called...
You can change your future1 No, it's cool Possum. Make yourself at home up there. We did it, friends and foes! Another year of Blaugust behind us and I'm kinda thrilled to say that this year felt even more natural than last. 2025 was not...
Esta mañana me enteré de que existe el World Blog Day, o sea, el Día Mundial del Blog y es justo hoy 31 de Agosto. Eso se suma a que por estos días —hace una semana exactamente— se cumple un año desde que retomé la aventura...
Últimamente estoy recibiendo bastantes blogs para sumarse al directorio de blogs personales en español ¡Blog!¡Blog!. De verdad lo aprecio mucho, la acogida que tuvo hasta ahora el proyecto. Pero quiero hablar de ellos al respecto. Todo...
Lo dije hace dos semanas. Ya no estoy en verano. Pronto termina la jornada intensiva y entro en septiembre, que es un mes que tradicionalmente en mi caso tiene muchos compromisos con muchas cosas a la vez. La vida me ha atropellado en...
I spent most of this weekend moving, so Friday’s edition slipped past me. I am publishing it late rather than pretending the week was quiet.OverviewPaperCut and NetScaler both moved into active-exploitation territory, Next.js shipped...
When I see a hummingbird I feel like is gonna be a good day, or at least is gonna be a better day. Today I saw one when I got outside of the house and it made me feel like I was ready for the day. The weather was unexpectedly not hot...
On the last day of their visit, I spent the day with my niece. She liked yogurt as a beverage and watching AI-generated memes on YouTube. At eight years of age, she was more solemn than she had been the year before. She used to tell me,...
I'm complaining and I'm gonna sound whiny and bitchy and self-deprecating!!! You have been warned !!! 8:04 I don't fucking get how people with less followers on me on bluesky just have more interaction with their posts, like even their...
The wife and I left our 10- and 12-year-old kids at home last night and set off walking to a nearby restaurant. Our dinner instructions: “Can you guys just figure it out?” Their response: “Yep.” And they did and were fine. We’ve come a...
AI text is clogging our minds, and clogging the internet's series of tubes. With tools like Pangram, it is easier than ever to confirm my suspicion that a lot of the text that I encounter online is, unfortunately, AI generated. I want to...
My house has the following features: Solar panels on the roof. These were heavily subsidized and on a 10-year lease, so excess electricity is taken by the power company for the first 10 years. After that, I can export it for profit...
In today’s inbox (at least this scammer puts the $$$ request up front): From: Stig Abell <stigabell.timesradio@gmail.com>Date: August 31, 2026 at 10:08:54 AM CDTTo: Brian Leiter <bleiter@uchicago.edu>Subject: Invitation to discuss From a...
Well, the month is over, and with that, Blaugust is gone as well! This is the second time I have participated on this challenge, and it has also lead to quite a lot of interesting interactions and a decent amount of posts. To be honest,...
En su nueva novela, Gustavo vuelve a hacer gala de su capacidad abrumadora de narrador: juega con el tiempo y el espacio, dejando al lector, en primera instancia, fuera de la comprensión más corriente que implica la lectura. El lector...
It’s always 1993 at this 4 train stop on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. That’s where an above-ground station still sports a pay phone on the mezzanine level. Surprisingly, the phone is in decent condition. The cord hasn’t been ripped from...
August 2026. Cambridge. I drove down to Waterbeach yesterday to see Dad. The back pain is worse than the pain from lack of recognition now, and I at least got to watch “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. Having sold Sunnyside I’ve got to find...
That sounds like a bold claim. But such vehicles are already transporting passengers in Chongqing and Wuhan in China, and a number of cities in the United States. Australian entrepreneur Tim Kentley Klay, who several years ago designed a...
Udenstue is a Danish term for a sunroom. The word itself has fairly simple origin in Danish language and comes from: ude (outside, outdoors) and stue (room) and is typically a glazed room built onto a house, with walls roof largely of...
A couple of weeks ago, I went to the “Spiders of Paradise” exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. This is a small collection of photographs and video by the artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso. The exhibition is about the Maratus...
Count Releases 0 Commits 2 Contributors 1 Pull requests merged 1 Issues closed 0 At a Glance My Mental Health v2 Life is still difficult Taylor v0.5.0 Progress Where the new release is at My Mental Health v2 Life is still difficult right...
Earlier today I saw a comment on a post on BBS that was really quite disappointing. The post itself was announcing a new Gemini client, in this case a fully-native macOS one called MajorTom. It's early days for the project, but it looks...
“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without...
Lots of clouds in the sky for tonight's sunset by the 2nd St. Lifeguard Tower. タワーの夕日 今夜は2nd St.のライフガードタワー付近、夕日の空に雲がたくさん
The earliest written source related to the inhabitants of the Venetian lagoons, is a letter from Cassiodorus, written in 537.
Blaugust 2026: Final WordJames, a fellow blogger and friend, kindly offered me a chance to guest post on his blog: with words, wonder, so that I could tick off one more task in the Community Builder award list. This means I achieved the...
Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience. For example, he suggests Netflix provide some feedback buttons to indicate the kinds of experiences we all...
Books and some interesting stuff I read in August 2026 Fiction Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011) 374 pages 5 stars Dystopian science fiction story about a virtual reality world, called OASIS. In his will, the creator has left the...
Above: A prized piece of art adopted many moons ago at a craft con in Columbus, Ohio. This little critter was handmade by a wife and husband team from Cleveland that fly under the moniker Horrible Adorables. They’ve since expanded beyond...
Heute Morgen berichtete mir eine enge Freundin, die selbst Mutter einer jüngeren Tochter ist, von ihrem kräftezehrenden Besuch einer Minigolfanlage am Wochenende. Geplant war Spaß, heraus kam Frustration. Sie war dort gemeinsam mit ihrem...
Source INDIA TRAVEL POSTER, 1935. K I Nixon, artist. Never heard of her but an impressive poster worthy of a Jim Corbett cover. I was very late in seeing the panther. A 100 years ago this scene would have been a lot more plausible. 200...
Now, August 2026: Wrapping up Blaugust and other titbits These days, I’m unsure of how to reply to simple questions like How are you?. My default response is now something along the lines of, health issues aside, I’m okay. Recently, an...
I love it here on the small web. The simplicity and minimalist nature keeps me focused on creating and frees me from the cumbersome clutter found on large sites and blogs. Because of the nature of the small web, people (including me)...
♠ Problem statement: create a git alias / script to diff against the default upstream branch, inspired by chromium depot_tools(7) git-upstream-diff(1): git-upstream-diff — Print a diff of the current branch, compared to its upstream. I...
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense. July and August were filled with bike rides, 5K races, friends in town, life changes and logistics.For a friend's birthday, we rode the...
Asha Leena Bhandary, recently professor of philosophy at University of Iowa, has moved to Stony Brook University. Professor Bhandary works in social and political philosophy, ethics, feminist theory, and philosophy of race. She is the...
Title: Everyday Contentment Website: everydaycontentment.com RSS Feed: everydaycontentment.com/rss.xml A diary of slow living in Auckland, New Zealand. Simple pleasures, no-spend months, an alcohol-free year and seasonal life in the...
So here we are, at the end of August, and the end of Blaugust as well, and so as not to bury the lede: I have learned from participating this year that I really am not designed to crank out a daily post unless I have something I want to...
I was a voracious reader as a kid, and I noticed a funny phenomenon: whatever writer I had most recently read, my next paper for English class would sound like them. If I read a bunch of Stephen King, I’d sound like Stephen King. If I...
Having flirted (if that is the right term) with bullet journalling before I’m going to give it another go. September seemed to be a good month to try it, everyone is getting back into a routine after the summer break and I’m trying to...