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Thursday 6th August 2026 Okehampton’s doing well for rail service restoration. Not only did the town (population: 9,500) gain the return of a daily hourly train service to and from Exeter along the ‘reopened’ Dartmoor Line in 2021...
This short novel is weird in ways in which only M. John Harrison can be. A futuristic literary dystopia, the story is set on the southeastern English coast and centers on Phillip and his aunt Marnie. Sometime in the past, some sort of...
Forgot to post yesterday but nothing special happened. I got off work and me and my boyfriend hung out and played board games. Managed not to spend any money and had fun in the mean time. We finally had the brain cells to understand how...
Sure, I like electronic gadgets. But I dislike planned obsolescence more. It’s one thing when the newer model really is that much better. “All About the Pentiums” exaggerated it, but computer hardware in the 1990s really was improving by...
Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, Football Picture Story Monthly is back with two incredible graphic novel volumes out now! Volume One: The Best of Stark and Volume Two: The Best of We Are United!First published in 1986, Football...
Open House gets all the attention, but it’s not the only festival throwing open doors this September. Heritage Open Days runs alongside it, from 11 to 20 September 2026, and its shortlist skews a little different: fewer grand civic...
If you live in the Tampa Bay area, which has been my home for the past dozen years, you already know we’re a weird, beautiful, heat-soaked paradise of chicken-walking Ybor streets, Cuban sandwiches, unapologetic swagger, and no small...
Still no perch. Perhaps I should just concentrate on the carp until the weather changes, see if I can get 20 doubles before pike-time? Double #16 above at 12lb 0oz - four more to go...
You could say one of my practicals in BRM is a bit rubbish - well I was asked to take a modern dustcart, and work it into a diorama. The good news is that as well as the modelling, I've written a little history of wheelie bins!As a...
Wellington in Winter
Introversion Software is quite known for its, "Prison Architect," where you attempt to design and run a successful prison (with things often going wrong). They've been hard at work on, "The Last Starship," for some time now, and have...
I’m trying out this thing, it’s trained on my blog posts and public talks, that you can chat with as me on Telegram. Behold: AutoMattBot.
Clint (who among other things, does all sorts of OpenZiti development and co-hosts Ziti TV with me) recently posted a video, OpenZiti 2.0: A Management API With No Open Port. It’s a quick but deep dive prompted by a great question over...
It’s a completely counterintuitive concept, but that’s the thesis of API Gateway Security: A Zero Trust Approach, an article we just refreshed on the NetFoundry blog. Read the article here:...
Nobody likes bedtimes. Nope, nothing’s worse than lying under the covers in hot, flannel PJs with wide, unblinking eyes while the late autumn sun slowly droops outside your window. As the sky fades to a burning orange the streetlights...