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This is another catch-up post while I’m busy working through Season of Scenery bits and pieces. No World Cup to watch now while I’m typing so it doesn’t take as long to do! It’s just over two years (yikes!) since I did an update on my...
There are times in life that things are just not your fault, but you have to suffer the consequences. You are late for an important meeting because the train got delayed. When you walk into the meeting do you explain first and apologise...
sourcereplying to a reply is probably stupid buti agree with thisai seems to be about completely ripping out the invisible costs of making somethingthe parts that nobody thinks about but are absolutely required to make something...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***It seems like I can't stop talking about Mars, of late.And that may be because we've reached the 50th anniversary of the week in...
We’re back from the DC Pen Show, fully loaded with new merchandise not just from the show but from recent summer trade shows and Japan! In addition to new Galen Leather items (including the Galen x Nock Co. Sinclair leather pen cases),...
Seen at Finnegan’s Wake, Cole Valley, SF. Marked Canterbury Posters. Haven’t found a source online yet.
Back to June. All of these were part of the Super Saturday Movie Club, whose monthly theme this time was "Best of Jacques Demy", consisting movies #29 to #32. July 4 - Lola (1961)One of two movies I hadn't seen before from this list, and...
The unveiling ceremony is scheduled for September 29th: The Milestone plaque recognizing Colossus is to be displayed outside Block H at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, England. The plaque is to read: Six Colossus codebreaking...
This is saying from my brother when we were younger. My mum is asian, and part of being asian means she loooves getting the best deal.
I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how they eventually led us to find an SQLite bug that predates my entire programming career. I’m incredibly proud of this, both the work and...
My favorite birthday songs are both by Henry Purcell (1659-1695). The first is Sound the Trumpet (performed here by Alison Balsom, Iestyn Davies, and company), and the second is Now the Night is Chased Away (performed here by Lea...
I mentioned in the previous post, that I was off to Frome, the following weekend. It was for a one-day visit to this pleasant, Somerset town, on a visit that would be the first for me. The trip had been a long time in the planning,...
A nice moment I spotted in Asana – you can quickly record your name pronunciation: As someone who has “How to pronounce my name” in the footer of his website, it’s much appreciated! The result appears as a simple icon next to your name:...
I gave the first of this year’s Ihaka Lectures at the University of Auckland this past July. It revisited and partially updated things I’ve been talking about for the past eighteen months or so on trust in data visualization (and by...
Every time I leave the hotel for a bit, I'm thankful I'm not at the campground with no AC. It's not hot but it sure is humid. The humidity level, combined with a high dew point, is beyond my ability to contain any amount of grumpiness -...