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As I began understanding myself better, I realised that my understanding of the world is inverted. I understand almost everything through its absence rather than its presence. If you ask me what kind of furniture you should buy for your...
Week #807 Our WebRTC project has somewhat stalled. We meet normally on Fridays, and the consensus is that it’s moving too slowly between bug reports and fixes. We proposed to meet on Wednesdays for a short time, then Fridays to organize...
A rather uneventful visit to EKSN. It was windy, with a single airplane parked on the airside.
Last month, I drove all the way to Taynish National Nature Reserve on the west coast of Scotland to look for the marsh fritillary butterfly. I didn’t see one sadly, so about two weeks later, I returned with my mate Nick for another...
Torness Power Station is coming towards the end of its lifespan. In the next few years it will be decommissioned. I’ve caught a good variety of species from both the area where water is drawn in to cool the reactors and where it returns...
And there you are, at the moment you knew it was about to come. You feel you cannot stand another day as a physician. You want to leave. You’ve decided you’re going to leave. You could leave now. But now you’re in the middle of your...
Years before Github (or git, for that matter) existed, I was publishing my open source software on my own websites. However, larger projects (and eventually some of mine) used a website called SourceForge, which was a reliable source —...
Reading Maps plots fictional journeys on the map. Creator Aires Loutsaris explains: Reading Maps came out of a nagging thought that every story has happened somewhere. Odysseus crossed a real sea. The Pequod sailed real… More
When I went to bed on Wednesday night, I hoped I'd done enough to deal with an ant invasion into our home. I'd anticipated it. We live within the jurisdiction of a home owners association and periodically, when ant populations begin to...
Barack Obama has announced his annual summer reading list: Kin, by Tayari JonesThe Things We Never Say, by Elizabeth StroutA World Appears, by Michael PollanWhistler, by Ann PatchettThis Land Is Your Land, by Beverly GageVigil, by George...
I’ve never really held back from jumping in at the deep end, with both feet, not worrying whether in fact I can swim or not. I created my own self-belief long ago. Something I think I learnt from a very early age; maybe 3-4 years old?...
[He has no malice in his heart.] I fear it’s been a bit of a negative week here on OFT, so let’s end it on a higher note. There’s good news, as all “Chuck Norris Facts” are now about this Chuck Norris. He is very clearly the superior...
For my first full day back on Honshu, we set out for a quick convenience store breakfast and then headed to the train station. We were off to Nara Park. After sorting out which train and rushing around to make sure we caught it, it...
Archaeology magazine, vol 61, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2008 has a cool article about UK witchcraft.
The encoding finally finished! [20:44:04] Finished work at: Thu Aug 6 20:44:04 2026 [20:44:04] libhb: work result = 0 Encode done! HandBrake has exited. Took about 7 days to encode 56 DVDs from VIDEO_TS folders into more modern .mkv...