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Media criticism from Reform UK’s Nigel Farage: The details of Ann Widdecombe’s murder revealed in court are horrific. Why will no one report on Joshua Kerry’s political views? The faux-bewilderment is meant to imply a conspiracy to...
Back in April I made my annual pilgrimage to Tokyo Disney, this time visiting Tokyo DisneySea. I used to be a big Disney fan when I was a kid and dreamed of one day living near the park or even working for it so I could visit all the...
What’s the most used thing in your house? It’s probably your phone, but that’s not very interesting. Let’s restrict it to things that are actually useful. (It hasn’t escaped me that I’m asking these questions on a blog that has no...
Day Elf in Nagoya. No news from the infirmary today. Nabatame defeated Fudoho. With Mita falling to Tenshoyama, Nabatame is the lone undefeated wrestler in Makushita and controls his own destiny in the yusho race. It’s his if he wins his...
For a long time I used Discord webhooks for notifications from my services. It was easy, it worked and almost every application knew how to send something to Discord. Create a private channel, copy a webhook URL, paste it into a service...
Recalled to Life by Reginald Hill published 1992 I’ve worked my way through rereading all the Dalziel and Pascoe books – I explain all in this post Dalziel & Pascoe, an Overview: the Early Years and give a rating for the first 11 books....
Does data lie to us when it captures the measurable but not the real? Yes, and it tells three lies. It omits, extrapolates and flatters, misdirecting and leading us astray.
Lincoln Highway bridgeNikon Df, 28-200 mm f/3.5-5.6G AF Nikkor2026 On the day before Independence Day I finished driving the 1928 alignment of the Lincoln Highway across Indiana. I found three bridges painted in Lincoln Highway colors;...
I need to get out of apathy/depression mode! Lately I didn't have stamina for anything but laying on the couch all day and staring at the ceiling. It's ok, there's a lot to process right now and at the same time I've been waiting for...
I’ve spent most of my working life on websites: building them, optimizing them, and helping millions of people do the same. So the question I keep coming back to lately is an existential one for my whole field: where are websites going?...
I want peace and quiet.Car alarms turned off promptly. People not invading my space. Sidewalks to walk on, not to be full of cars. Not to be gawked at for what I'm wearing. Not to be jeered at because I'm walking the dog. Enough garbage...
I have not been well for a while; my brain has turned to gamgee, and I find it difficult to concentrate on hard mathematics. So let me try to get things working by an easier warm-up exercise. There has been a lot of change recently in...
The driving distance between Needles and San Bernardino on US-66 is only about 212 miles and 3+ hours if you drive straight through without stops and assuming you don’t hit any traffic snags (or take wrong turns). Our mileage was more...
Boxcar Children #11 Caboose Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1966. Grandfather Alden has a friend who owns a railroad, and he rents out cabooses to people who want to travel with the railroad. It’s a bit like traveling in a trailer,...