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Weekends weren’t born from someone’s great heart. From this The Guardian post, it seems Henry Ford popularized weekends. He wasn’t thinking about his employees’ well-being, but his own pockets. More people in the streets = more cars =...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
Only three episodes left in season 3, and things get crazy from here right up to the final shot. Can’t wait to discuss everything with you all after the season wraps. But this week is a very special episode in the Howey household. It’s...
📜 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 10/?. I started writing this post in January 2026. I've been to a couple of courses at the Buddhist centre this year. I've been aware of it before, and having some spare time I decided to check it...
I once wrote here that sometimes I forgot about August 17, the (supposedly) Indonesia’s independence day had I didn’t checked my social media timeline and saw videos of folks doing the flag ceremony or kampung festivities. Today, I...
Our daily summer routine here in Las Vegas starts with a cup of coffee at 4 a.m. while we catch up on the news. Then we grab our water bottles and head out the door by 5 a.m. for our morning walk, taking advantage of what passes for the...
The end of an era hughhowey.com There will be meat-book fanatics. People who care about the stories behind the stories. Readers who will pick up my Molly Fyde books and care about the person who wrote them, the fact that I spent years of...
Simon, Tommy and I have started doing a little 5k on the seafront, then having a couple of beers by the beach huts. It's very civilised.132 words · 1 image
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After visits to (West) Germany and Russia, it’s time for our Women in Translation Month travels to take us back to Japan, and today’s choice is a book that sees us heading a fair way back in time, too. We’re off to thirteenth-century...
Holy Island – LJ Ross First in the DCI Ryan crime fiction series. Lots of groundwork introducing key characters and relationships, along with the main plotline featuring murders by a satantic cult on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. All...
Debunking Hollywood is LWON’s very occasional series that takes a hard science look at common TV and movie tropes. This instalment originally appeared in August 2017. Nothing says interstellar travel like a hibernation pod. The heroes of...
Our writing group was slowing down. It was again a whole year between rounds - but we weren't dead! After six years of writing several stories per year, we were all losing a bit of excitement I think. But our yearly Halloween round kept...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this scene at Antelope Island State Park in Utah, where rust-toned rocks anchor the foreground beneath a darkening sky. The Great Salt Lake stretches across the middle ground, its shallow channels reflecting...
One of the things I do struggle with when taking photos of people on the street is the question of ethics. Is it ethical to capture an image of someone without their permission? In Australia, as in the UK, it is legal to do this. But...