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Podcasts are a good first pass to get oriented on a topic. I can convert some of my technical reading goals into podcasts then I can grok them better when I decide to go deeper into it. Google’s NotebookLM (Gemini Notebook now), has an...
July 20, 2026 I should be in Dublin when you read this. Yes. Back to Europe. Sometimes my plans aren’t the most efficient, or the most restful. But packing repeatedly makes me think of planning, and being organized… Just over two years...
A heavy thunder storm last night. Burnt a lot of stuff today. Started to cut privet hedge. Did some mopping in the office. Started to rain about 4.30.
i walked past a blooming golden wattle tree i was thinking about all the things i have left to do in life switching between doomscrolling on my phone and scrolling through possibilities in my brain of everything i don't have or will...
Cannibalising my work week notes for this one. Forgive me, but life is tough in the content mines… A reflection: how I write has changed. My current work project has thrown that into focus for me. I’m working in a small crew (two other...
A Coupla Things:Trump Assassination Victim's Widow Makes Stunning New Claim 😳 #Trump #Breaking #Politics - YouTubeICE Officer In Maine Shooting Has History Of Violent Behavior, Family And Records Say | HuffPost Latest NewsA...
The twists and turns wound me up. I'm just about to let go. How far you ask?
…Well, I was working on a new installment of the Final ’90s Countdown and I’m like a third of the way through the proposed entry and I just looked at the time. Eep! So, I’ll finish it up Monday night and have it out for Tuesday. Sorry...
The Swiss Family Treehouse in Adventureland is one of those attractions that I always looked forward to, growing up. When it morphed into Tarzan's Treehouse, I liked (but didn't love) it, though I was glad that it was changed and not...
As I hinted in my end of June post and my review of “Women of Iron and Velvet”, I’ve been off down a number of rabbit holes recently, particularly with French authors. Jean Cocteau and Jean Genet were involved, and Margaret Crosland...
Being passionate and enthusiastic about psychedelics – or even evangelical about them – can sometimes lead to seeing their influence everywhere. When you spend a lot of time thinking about these substances, as well as using them, it’s as...
I’m cautiously creeping through an old mansion on a stormy night in search of three pieces of a magical urn, the comforting warm glow of a match my only guide. A vampire bat appears close by, snuffing out the light as it chases me across...
Welcome to a new series! For most developers today, using a large language model means one thing: an HTTP call to somebody else’s computer. You send a prompt to an API, tokens come back, and everything in between is somebody else’s...
There have been a fair number of narrow gauge models through the workshop in recent months. Another pair of Fourdees examples were finished recently, L&M 2-6-4t Kitson in a freelance scheme…This is not a straight forward ‘plonk’ on model...
In April 1939, the self-proclaimed King Zog of Albania [L lifted from commons.wikimedia] fled the country with the country's gold-reserves in his carry-on luggage. The power vacuum was filled by the Provisional Administrative Committee...