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Tuesday 12th May 2026 I travelled by bus from Eastbourne to Gatwick Airport last Thursday. It took three hours and 41 minutes using three buses. I made the same journey yesterday afternoon when it took two hours and 24 minutes using just...
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about old Dan Thurot: I’m a scuba diver rated for search and recovery. There aren’t many of us here in the desert, which is probably why I receive unexpected calls to dredge the ponds of the...
Asked for a one-line mental model of what synchronized does, most have a simple answer: making sure only one thread at a time can access the synchronized block or method.
Book review for The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. I rated it 4.5 stars. A fantasy book with some great plot twists. The story centres around Neema, a High Scholar for the Empire who belongs to the Raven faction. The setting of the...
On 14 April, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the New York Times’ Canada bureau chief, quoted Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, calling the spate of floor crossers “turncoats”. He apparently said this — and more — in a speech in...
I like books. You’d probably know that if you’ve seen my bookshelf page. But, I don’t like physical books. Yeah they do look good on a physical shelf, and I do like that part of them. I just don’t like reading them. The main issue for...
I just finished this tremendously readable and provocative book: Escape from Shadow Physics. The book is about foundations of quantum mechanics. To be precise, it’s about why we should not give up on trying to find a deeper theory of...
★★★★★ - Malaga Creek carves a canyon through the coastal bluffs down to a narrow pebbly beach. The canyon is too choked with trees to follow in most places, but an informal trail runs around the top of the canyon, climbing down to the...
Scope this scene. End of the meal at the back of a dimly lit restaurant, your belly bursting with bowls of bread, free soda refills, sugary salad, and half a giant stir-fry, you’re thinking twice about the waiter’s offer to wrap up your...
Talon is a game of tactical spaceship battles. It is a game for two players. One plays Earth and the other plays an invading alien civilisation. You each control a fleet of spaceships. Your goal is to destroy all of your opponent’s...
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Manual Lift – Havana, Cuba I saw something like this more often than you can imagine as I walked the streets of Old Havana. This was the first time I was close enough to take a good wide-angle picture of it. Instead of going down the...