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[This is the second half of the hidden backstory of ‘Til Death. The first half can be found here.] A thousand years ago, the woman who came to be called the Ashen Empress founded the solar empire that governs humanity. After an inhumanly...
So, you used AI to write the reply to accusations that you used AI? A bold move, sir.
It has been 20 years since The Devil Wears Prada became a box-office hit. The Devil Wears Prada 2, a belated sequel, reunites the principal players -- Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci -- for a movie that loads...
We live in the age of the “Instant Economy.” In 2026, the tolerance for waiting has effectively vanished. Whether it is same-hour delivery of groceries or real-time streaming of 8K content, consumers expect immediate gratification. This...
As I’m often on the lookout for inexpensive things to add to my Apple collection, I recently scooped up an instruction manual for my Macintosh SE. It also contained a much newer packet of information for some early-1990s model of...
I gave blood on Wednesday. I usually go to Stratford, but they’re currently refurbishing the donor centre, and the temporary replacement (a van in a car park) has far fewer slots. And, of course, it’s a van in a car park, which is not...
A Chit Chat strategy!
The 2026 Open Test is now in the books. It was a good two-day stretch that saw only a little over an hour lost to weather. Both days were partly sunny, cool and breezy – much like what everyone can experience in a couple of weeks. I’m...
I noticed one of my sites was running slow. So I logged in and saw that my server load was climbing. Being a webserver the first place to look are the serverlogs. With a quick tail -f in the /var/log/apache dir I saw 1000s of these...
I started this blog with my first post on February 4, 2005 and as of this post right here, I now have 6,040 entries. I knew I was getting close to 6,000 but then kind of forgot about it until I saw another blog post talking about...
Back in January, I raved about the first volume of Solvej Balle’s seven-part On the Calculation of Volume, translated from Danish by Barbara J. Haveland. Uncharacteristically, it has only taken me a handful of months to read the second –...
VOL 6, NO 1 ★ No good read goes unpublished. / I’ve had a very strange three months where a little novel I wrote nearly a decade ago suddenly became a Canadian best seller, sending me onto radio programs, TV and live events around the...