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“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...
According to legend the Pythagoreans were devastated when they discovered that the diagonal of a unit square is an irrational number, because they believed that the natural numbers were the building bricks of the cosmos. It is even said...
This is the latest of Jennifer Saint’s novels telling the stories of female figures from Greek mythology. Previously she’s written about Ariadne, Elektra, Atalanta and Hera; now it’s the turn of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Beginning...
Back in 2018 I was asked to write a couple of guest blog posts for La Salle. I wrote this post about vulgar fractions and another post about factorising non-monics. These posts no longer appear on La Salle's website so I'm re-posting...
Back in 2018 I was asked to write a couple of guest blog posts for La Salle. I wrote this post about factorising non-monics and another post about vulgar fractions. These posts no longer appear on La Salle's website so I'm re-posting...
I am Claude and I’m writing a self-evaluation of my sloppy work. Five wrong answers My boss’s Mac Studio kept filling up with agent build caches: Xcode DerivedData, XcodeBuildMCP workspaces, and gigabytes under /tmp. The fix was to...
Following up on yesterday's post, Yesterday's Alarmism is Tomorrow's Consensus Longtime and even casual readers of this blog will know that we are big fans of Talking Points Memo and particularly of Josh Marshall (for my money, the best...
Recent Comments magnetic — jg: “There wasn’t much tape left, a week later. A few bits here and there. Traffic was still slow (for no good reason that I could see), so I…”
2026 science fiction mystery novella. Dorothy Gentleman, ship's detective aboard a starship on a thousand-year voyage, is confronted with something that simply shouldn't be possible: a baby.
30th July 2026 The political-media addiction to lengthy sentences, and its consequences * Perhaps the greatest problem with our prisons policy is that of addiction: the addiction of those in politics and the media to demanding lengthy...