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Last October, Yahoo sold AOL to the Italian company Bending Spoons for approximately $1.5 billion (as reported by Forbes and others). If you're asking yourself, "What is Bending Spoons?" you aren't alone. They are a tech company known...
A few months ago I bit the bullet and installed Arch Linux on Prime, my Early 2011 13″ Macbook Pro. At this point in time, making Linux work on a Macbook Pro is no longer a challenge, especially of this vintage. It was amusing to see...
A worthy check-in question to ask ourselves from time to time — would the me from ten or twenty years ago have wanted to be the me today? If we find ourselves pausing on any part of that question, it’s worth leaning in to understand why.
Evolutie van twee bakken deze lente/zomer. Die kunnen goed tegen de hitte!
The Wild Trout Trust's annual auction provides a lovely way to experience 'once in a lifetime' days on far off, private waters.In this year's auction, I spotted a new opportunity - a day for two on the River Stour in Dorset.Bjorn...
After the school year was through, my family headed out of town to Toronto to do some touristy things. While there, I was able to sit trackside for a little while, taking in the continuous movement of trains in and out of Union Station,...
And the Oscar goes to...Written by MichaelOkay, this game was short, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to score in the single digits. Remember, this was a children’s title aimed at those barely starting to use computers at the...
The good folks at Thermal Master have sent me their DV2 camera to review. As their name suggests, this is a thermal / infrared camera - they've specifically designed this for bird watching and animal spotting. Let's put it through its...
Remember a little over three weeks ago when we ran a post about CNN's report on the oil reserves in Cushing, Oklahoma. We used this as an example of how highly important aspects of a major news story like the war in Iran, while not...
“The Lost Hotels of Paris” by Jack Gilbert But it’s the having not the keeping that is the treasure. Ginsberg came to my house one afternoon and said he was giving up poetry because it told lies, that language distorts. I agreed, but...
Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin) is a newlywed, who’s just married Lila (Jeannie Berlin) and set off with her on his honeymoon in Miami Beach. But while there, he meets Kelly (Cybill Shepherd), the “woman of his dreams”. And despite his...
Last Monday we had an afternoon session of the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Mathematical Society celebrating Micha Perles’ 90th birthday. The speakers were Nati Linial, me, Noga Alon, Ron Adin, and Rom Pinchasi. There was a very nice...
Meanwhile, in the free-market USA of 1887
What is Football Matchday Blogs? Football Matchday Blogs is a series charting my matchday experiences watching Blackpool home and away. There’s also non league content, largely following Chasetown, where I was Match Secretary. How did...
LaTeX is powerful, but writing it becomes tiring very quickly once a formula gets complicated. Most of the time, we end up spending more time jumping between braces than thinking about the formula itself. For years, I dealt with this by...