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Actual question: Say you're building a piece of software; the exact details are unimportant here other than to say it's an application, that it runs on a server and talks to a database while providing a service over the network. You want...
Fremantle2026 August 12 (Wednesday), 8:18AM· Fremantle · I wandered through Freo to the pub, getting some piccies for the wikis: And then on to the PSAS gallery: ← Previous My main RSS news feed: https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss(or...
other things said i don't know it's british countryside what did you expect Yesterday :: Tuesday, 11th August 2026
Well now, something rather strange is going on with the first recording today. It’s a repeat of Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Time-Warp Heals All Wounds. But I have three different recordings of it, and they’re not just copies. The first...
Thus far this week (see here and here), we have seen Adam Smith’s tedious and painstaking reconstruction of the rising fortunes of the East India Company. In brief, the company had accumulated massive amounts of debts, but it had also...
Having previously graced labels such as Good Morning Tapes, Gi Gi brings their sample-based sorcery to Mood Hut with a 10-track set titled “In Lieu”. A cool quote from the press one-sheet neatly lays out the method, and thinking, behind...
Ultimately a sappy social-issues message movie, worse than My Son John, ending up with an angry mob of college hunks assaulting the precinct. Everyone in this town should be in jail. But it had a promising enough beginning, when broke...
I played Brooklyn resident for a week. While I stayed at a friend’s Harlem-like brownstone on a tree-lined street reminiscent of my own, it was clear that I was in a very different place.There was a lot more restaurant/cafe bustle....
An Ancient Witch's Guide to Modern Datingby Cecilia EdwardGenres: Fantasy, Romance Pages: 311 Rating: Synopsis: An ancient witch explores the thrills--and perils--of online dating with hilarity and heart in a charming rom-com perfect for...
Translating documents isn’t hard these days, but when it comes to long documents, it still gets tricky as most translation services are limited to a few paragraphs and charge for larger texts. If you use Microsoft Edge, you can use the...
Mt Warusawa (悪沢岳, warusawa-dake) and Mt Akaishi (赤石岳, akaishi-dake) are two mountains located on the southern end of Japan's Southern Alps. Although the Southern Alps honestly don't look that far from Tokyo on the map, some of the peaks...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
I’ve been watching through every season of Frasier from the beginning over the last few weeks and it’s been great to see all the character development and watch the Niles & Daphne love story unfold (again). But what if you took one...
In 2024 I blogged about a study that found the lowest incidence of Alzheimer’s-related mortality among ambulance and taxi drivers. At the time I noted that the study had a bunch of caveats and was… More
Charli XCX “Camera” The aesthetic premise of Music, Fashion, Film is basically “pop-punk, but aesthetically interesting.” Charli XCX has been toying with rock sounds through her entire career, so it’s not surprising she’d tip in this...