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Last year, I made a rudimentary attempt to capture some Perseids on video from my London home. Inspired by the fact that I managed to get something, I decided to try again this year. I was better prepared this time. I knew what camera...
This Friday and Saturday were hot here in Germany. We were close to 39°C. Again. So we did the only thing that felt right and spent some time at the Herthasee. It’s a 15-minute drive and easy to reach. After some time in the water, the...
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1. My favourite translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wikipedia) - 1,000 year old Persian poetry - is by Robert Graves from 1967. Graves, it turns out, unknowingly based his translations on hoax sources. Which might not have gone...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 128-130: The 1987 Constitution was intended to promote ‘maximum decentralization short of federalization’. It...
Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025, challenge #2 is from a list by Prime - "Books as treasure. No spellbooks." A list of books that were scattered throughout the Hexcrawl25 campaign: 1. Ruins of the Wild Woods - tree art,...
When the papacy becomes vacant, a new pope is elected through a procedure known as the conclave. Cardinal-electors from around the world gather in the Sistine Chapel and vote in successive rounds. In each round, every elector casts one...
Info: German content only, sorry. I was pondering for the past three years if I should give some sort of TLS basics talk at FrOSCon. I finally stepped up this year and gave that talk today, with the title "TLS, mTLS, SNI, ECH, CAA,...
Total solar eclipse over Zaragoza, Spain, 12th August, 2026. Photograph by Ruiyu Zhang. • Kenneth Anger (again), in a transcript for another KPFA radio interview, in which we Anger have mentioning HP Lovecraft. Not a major revelation in...
It's feeling quite arty-creativey in the links today. Otherwise the usual mix of history, writing, fun projects, and IndieWeb stuff. Starting off with a list of Blaugust participants. I hope everyone taking part is having a fantastic...
There’s nowhere to go but forward, but that’s ok because today we are creating tomorrow’s memories.
Sent to us as part of Kimberly’s Laban Pens - A Quick Comparison, the Laban Taroko is an excellent offering from this Taiwanese maker. I have one Taroko in their Pinnacle material, with a Fine Steel nib, to give away this week, and the...
Emilee Hackney: To this day, I’ve never been to an Appalachian funeral where there wasn’t a preacher and a sermon. It’s the same around here. I keep hearing that cremation is now the majority practice but I can count on one hand the...
So. AI Slop. Fun topic, isn’t it? Anyone you talk to seems to either discuss it as the second coming or the antichrist. It’s rare you come into contact with someone who treats it like what it is - code. Algorithms. Lines of logic run on...