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“Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone. ” — Berry Gordy, Jr. Last weekend we had the opportunity to take in the ‘Magic of Motown’,...
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...
This week I really enjoyed the podcast about compression (The Hutter Prize) and the one about seashells. Quote of the Week “The thing about the future is that it keeps happening without you.” Normal Warren Ellis Leadership Board...
Welcome to Friday! A chance to reflect back on a busy week, two narrow gauge train trips and a few project updates. You know the routine now, so if the kettle isn’t on, give yourselves a minute to sort that before we start…Sunday seems a...
2024 fantasy, linked to the Uncertain Sanctuary series. Raisa is a lawyer who gets tapped as the advocate for a newly-discovered alien species. By the time she gets to the world, one of them has been killed…
Duncan Rawlinson created this image using artificial intelligence, blending digital techniques with a contemporary art approach. A column of deep red descends through a narrow passage flanked by textured walls of dense green and blue....
"A Dry, Quiet War" is a 1996 science fiction novelette by Tony Daniel. It is about a hero from the war at the end of time who returns to his home planet only to find more trouble. Non-Spoiler Summary In A Nutshell: "A Dry, Quiet War"...
One Night Only (2026) • View trailer3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for frequent profanity, sexual candor and surprisingly little nudityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick BangAlthough one first must accept this film’s ridiculously...
2012 RingZero Game Studios Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Nintendo Wii Founded in 1997, RingZero Game Studios is a game development company based in Thailand . The studio is often known for making casual and family-friendly...
I have some tripartite brand extendery for you today. The three beers are from Horizont of Budapest, who made one beer, and then tried to sell tweaked versions of it to idiots who just want new, slightly different, beers to satisfy their...
AI about to be disrupted with a move to local compute - your phone, your computer - driven by a swarm of agents.
I had determined not to post about Castle Map despite it being written about extensively elsewhere. There are already hundreds of maps of castles around the world and, although I have nothing against AI-generated maps, this one struck me...
August 7, 2026 Let’s check in our bank employee, with career goals clearly in her focus! She’s chosen to dress in a manner reflective of the way the upper executives dress, while still keeping a foot firmly planted in her current...
Not a bad day but the wind still cold. Did all the lawns and finished cutting the hedge. Went out with Bill Edwards. Stars and Nags Head. Saw Keith.
A while back, I refactored REDbot to separate out a HTTP message linting library. httplint checks about 325 aspects of HTTP messages, covering the syntax and semantics of almost 200 HTTP header fields. Then, I got curious: what happens...