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The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me as I write. Roget's Thesaurus (4th...
Around this time I often see some people posting about the Blaugust blogging challenge to post every day during August. I will often see those posts and think that maybe I should participate, but I very quickly decide that it's not for...
Well... I picked two movies that shared a few things in common, mainly guys who try to make women into exactly what they want and end up regretting it. Neither movie was amazing, but both kept me interested and I didn't once feel the...
In TinyMCE 6.8.1 (the WYSIWYG editor used by Bludit) iframe sandboxing was introduced. This automatically adds the sandbox="" parameter to all inserted <iframe>-tags. This blocks all embedded videos from playing, even when the...
Today’s frontier models can do some pretty incredible things with animation. My first real dose of it was the axial-flux motor. I prompted Fable’s Mythos to make a The Way Things Work version of Mercedes-Benz’s new large-scale-production...
Had my first lobster roll in North Berwick today. Verdict? Scoffable but expensive and a little underwhelming.
Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities. Because they’re less performance sensitive, 5-series cores tend to be superseded less often than their more...
Finalising a design ahead of private beta. Going to see Neutrals, The Flaming Lips and The Streets. Back from hols and straight into it This week was busy, both in and out of work. I got back from my hols to find a few user research...
In a troubling world, people often appeal to higher powers for protection.Or to lower ones. Holy Clay DiscStrung on a length of very fine chain to allow it to be worn around the neck. Marked with the Maker’s Holy Icon. Created in...
Asides from miscounting the days and nights of LA DOLCE VITA — and I WILL finish that up this week — I also omitted to mention Polidor, because I don’t know him. But this silent comic appears in the nightclub scene with Marcello’s dad,...
Time once again to check in on Big Finish’s First Doctor-themed output. The last time we took a look at this, we enjoyed a set of four Companion Chronicles split evenly between those featuring the original TARDIS crew of the Doctor,...
Climbing.
I'll be honest, the topic of this blog comes from a shame I feel in... Yearning for attention without knowing how to play it off in a way that still gives me what I want. Bit of a word salad there, hope you get what I mean. It's also...
In Chapter XXIX of Two Years Before the Mast Dana wrote of a time of hard physical labor, packing a ship with hides to be carried around Cape Horn to Boston, thatDuring all this time,--which would have startled Dr. Graham--we lived upon...
Everything I ever wanted to know about Mett.