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Sir Garfield Sobers, former West Indies and Nottinghamshire cricketer sadly passed away on 17th July. He was a beloved cricketer and one of the greatest all-rounders in history. “Sir Garfield Sobers was not merely the outstanding...
I enjoyed Soderbergh’s new film THE CHRISTOPHERS but somehow don’t feel I have much to say about it. But here goes. Maybe the lens of “late style” would be appropriate, since that’s partly its subject, and Soderbergh as director, editor...
All investors with holdings in foreign assets are doing macro investing – but very few have decided which macro trade they are actually running. So argues long-time Monevator reader and commenter Ho Simpson in this special guest Moguls...
A commercial for Meta was playing on TV. I looked up from our jigsaw puzzle. “Wow,” I said. “What is it?” my best friend asked. “This commercial for Meta,” I said. “It’s really pulling out all the stops. Don’t you remember how much you...
Not so sure about coming back as a duck, but it really depends on the other options being offered up. Just take your time if you get the chance to choose. So, I've mentioned this before but @beetlemoses is currently my favourite...
In 1998 the Department of Physics at the University of Nottingham was struggling in both esearch and undergraduate recruitment. To remedy the situation it decided to add a new group in Astronomy. The main idea was that having astronomy...
This is the test post mentioned yesterday which will self-destruct sometime today after I’ve been able to check if it worked. I’m sorry if it hit your email/RSS feed/etc and spammed things up. Basically, WordPress has had a long-standing...
Here was are. Even though full seven months will soon be behind us, the mid-year slide now begins. So you take the little day trips in the sun instead of those little afternoon naps that you might have had in June, back when there was...
I've recently been utilising and customising Claude Code more - rather than just sticking with what comes out of the box. With more and more of my colleagues and friends adopting AI (and, specifically, Claude), I thought I would share my...
“If you’re using an LG monitor and you suddenly see blaring ads for McAfee scam protection, it’s not because your PC’s been hacked (or, rather, not hacked by some unknown third party). LG, the maker of popular high-end screens, has been...
I went to the posh loo in a posh shopping centre. There were recordings of a forest with birds singing, and trees swishing in a gentle breeze. It did smell rather horrible in there, though.The conveniences themselves had fancy hard...
Now that I now have a working drive, let’s take a look at some media. Even if I didn’t have a working drive, I would have collected the media simply because I could – even when there’s no practical value to having it nowadays. It’s...
Since my contracts wrapped up at the end of June, I’ve been using some of my suddenly free time to walk more. My part of town is technically walkable, but walking anywhere involves a busy four-lane artery and no shade on hot days....
Welcome to a Thursday Pressing Concerns! We have two albums coming out tomorrow, July 31st (from Mopar Stars and Bondo), plus two albums that came out earlier this week (from Cheekface and Grass Jaw). Check them out below, and if you...