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C++26 adds two new vocabulary types in <memory>, introduced by P3019R14 (Coe, Peacock, Parent). From the abstract: The class template indirect confers value-like semantics on a dynamically-allocated object. An indirect may hold an object...
Day 2 and over to Ron…. Sunny and breezy. Took bus to Douglas Station to take first train of the day to Port Erin. Then we had a round bus trip to The Sound where we had a snack in the panoramic cafe overlooking the Calf of Man. On our...
Another trip to the Farm Pond and the second part of my Carp Challenge - 50 carp - cracked (excluding commerical pond carp). But as the blog is getting a bit repetitive here's a photo of my cat instead. He has 9 teeth, 6 brain cells & is...
The Night of the Murdered Poets took place on August 12, 1952. Thirteen literary and intellectual figures were murdered on Stalin’s orders in the basement of Lubyanka Prison in Moscow. Four were poets who wrote in Yiddish – Perets...
(Continued from my part 1, read that part first.) Before tangling into the gameplay, one bit of bookkeeping and one bit of meta-discussion. From Akiba PC Hotline. For the bookkeeping, one thing I didn’t linger on is: what should I be...
Your article, Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal, has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, and is now available for you to access via Taylor & Francis Online. Woop! An...
Another Witchcraft Wednesday. Let's talk about my favorite witch. In most versions of Larina, she has lost both of her parents.I have used that for nearly forty years now, and honestly, I have come to realize it is a little lazy. Dead...
Looking away for a minute…
Image was taken with a Fujifilm X-E5 and XF 16-50mm WR lens
The last 6 months, in no particular order
I have never used Google Analytics on my personal websites. It always felt far too invasive and complicated for what I actually wanted to know: whether anyone reads my articles, which pages people visit, and where they came from. For a...
Beer Insider is pleased to bring you the latest Desert Island Pubs column, supported by Sunrise Beverages. So settle in and enjoy reading the stories behind the selection of pubs from… Dawn Browne, chief people officer at Fuller, Smith &...
In an earlier post, I talked about all the ’90s music I was digging up as I was learning it for a solo show this month. Which, by the way, had a complaint. Someone complained about a song. No information, no song, no other things were...
Twenty Yeas Ago on FITK Thin strands of hair congregated like rope splinters to hang down in front of his eyes, hanging in the soft summer gravity, making me furious, twitching my hand with primal anxiety.I awaited the perfect moment to...
Perfume PosseHow they all work me.. Afraid that this week has sort of caught up with me and I have nothing to say. Nothing interesting, that is. I’ll try to be interesting again next week.. Image: Pexels Perfume PosseHow they all work me..