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Another nice preservation update to highlight today, this time thanks to the Atari community. John Hardie has recovered a previously unseen prototype of Mountain King for the Atari 8-bit computers from a disk that once belonged to a...
In the discourse around beer, one often sees it noted that the simplistic veneration of ever-bigger numbers, common a decade and more ago, has subsided. The IBU race is over, and conscientious beer drinkers, some of them even in the US,...
The #Fediverse is an accidental reboot of the #openweb, it wasn’t designed from the top down, it emerged because thousands of people built alternatives to the #dotcons. That’s its greatest strength, it’s also why it’s so messy. Herding...
For years, the above has annoyed me: It’s the padlock to the attic storage. Every time I go up there to stash something away, I have to put that something down in order to unlock that stupid padlock. Opening it requires holding it with...
For love, men would kill men. For love, men would let men die. For love, men would kneel before their enemies. Yet, The world runs with the fuel of hatred. The world rots with the taste of power. The world kills men for the love they...
In a bid to make my previous flat cosy (fuelled by dreams instigated by pastel youtubers) I bought a few plants. Of course, in my frenzied megalomania I bought a Strelitzia (bird of paradise) for a hefty amount and marvelled at its...
The SwissDelphiCenter (archive.org) site closed down a few months ago and I could not find any other way to get at the Delphi Tips database they were hosting. So I vibe coded a scraper script that extracted them from the Internet Archive...
July 17, 2026 Why yes, I take photographs of all kinds of seemingly random things when I travel! I take a lot of food pictures, to send home to Belovedest. It reassures him that I am indeed eating (as if I ever skip meals!), and more...
Funny old week here, it seems much longer than it has been despite it being shorter! I was travelling back from Bath and last weekends wonderful holiday on Monday, and since have been finishing off a number of commissions. I suppose the...
Photo: © Rob StephensonIf you're a photographer in NYC, you're a street photographer- unless you got a studio and shoot portraits. What's that... landscape? How many shots of the skyline can one possibly take? Obvious questions lead to...
One more week at number one on 23rd January 1988Throughout the Autumn of 1987 and the winter of 1988, "Birthday" was the single which just wouldn't lay down and die - modest sales of the record dripped in week after week, which meant...
When working on my latest book, The Secret Life of Circuits, I wanted to keep the artwork real. My main beef with the diagrams in popular electronics textbooks and online tutorials is that most of them are fake. At best, they’re retraced...
Up at 9a.m. A nice morning. Warm and sunny. Cut dead roses from the big bed. Started with a bad back. Went to the pub at night. Saw Nick.
Happy Friday! I have two Leftuggies™ for you today. This first one is date-stamped "May, 1967", and seems to be taking place during a parade featuring members of the Horseless Carriage Club. I thought that the HCC stopped participating...
July is a month with a lovely event, hosted by Emma at Words and Peace: “Paris in July“, where we read books about all things pertaining to France and its capital. Now I have all manner of possibilities to choose from (so many French...