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The rain started early this morning, and hasn’t really stopped since. We were getting thunderstorm warnings but, from the look of the weather radar, our weird climate bubble is in action again, and the most severe parts of the system is...
Tickets are available for my tour through July, August & September . . Garden scene with photographer’s cloth backdrop c.1900 These beautiful photographs are all that exist to speak of the life of Charles Jones. Very little is known of...
‘For he who leads the contemplative life cannot help influencing the active ... Philosophical and psychological theories, historical doctrines and all sorts of speculations and discoveries, have changed, and keep changing, the lives of...
We had a gardener round to look at our front and back garden – well, expanse of paving slabs – to start the process of getting them turned into something with less concrete and more life. The good news is that they can do it all from the...
Mike Isaac and David Yaffe-Bellany, reporting for The New York Times: Polymarket and Kalshi, prediction markets where users can bet on outcomes as varied as the Super Bowl and the length of the State of the Union address, have been some...
In Tokyo, since the roadways are sometimes narrow, there are areas to put trash out, this is so the garbage truck can easily access itFor homes, they seem to have "groups" where they (the housewives) take turns cleaning their trash area...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 3rd April 2026 Glasgow’s Void of Light have just released their debut full length record, ‘Asymmetries’, through Ripcord Records and have been building themselves quite a reputation for their wall of...
I work from a big corner desk and part of the space on that desk is taken up by a small TV positioned in the corner. I use it occasionally and, for the longest time, it's had a Roku stick attached to it. It's reliable, but the UI has...
North is right. 0.52"/pixel (18'x9' field) FWHM=4.5" The pair of galaxies near the center is NGC 6285 (top) and NGC 6286 (bottom). The lower one has a distinct tidal trail below it, and a faint bridge to the upper galaxy is visible. Both...
Recently I've had to delve into a lot of legacy products to understand how we can migrate them to a newer, more modern stack. This is something I've done a number of times throughout my career under the broad banner of digital...
The Tokyo Game Market has long been a hotbed of innovation, especially where trick-takers are concerned. Sometimes the games don’t work entirely as intended, but, hey, that’s what it takes to transform the world one small iteration at a...
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It’s so cold in Sydney this morning, I can see my breath. Parked cars have frost on them, and leaves are heavy with dew. I have to walk with my hands in my jacket pockets, because the wind is too cold. One scarf doesn’t feel like enough....
Marbled White takes flight.
Prism is our preferred Minecraft launcher, because it’s significantly faster than the stock Microsoft one, and includes cats. It’s also written in Qt, so it integrates well into our Fedora KDE Linux desktops. That reminds me, I’m overdue...