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Thread of HK's Lady Liberty statue
Today’s blog come to you in three parts. Natick Farmer’s Market Natick is the next town over from us and their outdoor Farmer’s Market runs from May to October. We never made it there last summer so with not much on our agenda today I...
As I mentioned in a recent post (see here), I will be in coastal city of Nice in the south of France until the end of the May. Thanks to my fellow blogger and Francophile Sheree for pointing out the … Continue reading →
Discovering how my great-great grandfather George Pleau became a citizen was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle from different clues in records, historical facts, a newspaper article and one key find via FamilySearch Full Text Search....
Damn, I haven’t written since Christmas! For someone who wanted to blog more… 🫣 I suck at it, LOL ! That’s it for now. Will try to write more, as I miss this. Come and say hi!
Going mad for the sake of sanity.
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – What I Did for Love. May’s Eevee has learned Dig. Brock meets a co-ordinator called Yuma, and obviously falls for her. She persuades him that he can compete in the big contest. May...
Added gemini mirror. Somewhat broken, but readable and navigatable if you stick to the pages that were previously XHTML (so MozArchives and similar things won't work)).
In my last post I argued that high-assurance systems should stop asking to be trusted on the basis of institutional promises and start producing verifiable runtime evidence about what actually happened. This post is the worked example. A...
Get yourself a reins-taking Louisiana oil heiress aunt to take you globe-hopping and to leave you all the Fabergé hardstone plants she accumulated over the years from Armand Hammer’s shady Russian sources ig. And her 50-carat diamond...
I came across a recent article in the Washington Post about the benefits of talking to strangers (paywalled) that cited Nicholas Epley’s book, A Little More Social. When we make small talk at the bus stop or lament the lack of cambozola...
Brushfield St 1990 by Philip Marriage Next tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields on Saturday 6th June. Click here to book As a major new exhibition of the work of James McNeill Whistler opens at Tate Britain, we...
Friend Mayumi, sent us a box of veggies that she grew in her yard...potatoesshiso (perilla)komatsuna (Japanese mustard cabbage) huge radishes (the teeny perfectly round ones are the ones I had bought earlier in the week)garlicbags of...
The Linux apps I'm currently using are 'Fastmail' for email, 'RapidRaw' for photo editing, 'LibreOffice' for documents and slides, and 'Okular' for PDFs and E-Books. I only pay for one....