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Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up...
Somebody was awfully impressed with the ornate wrought iron of New Orleans Square, which had presumably opened relatively recently. We all need more wrought iron in our lives! Think about it. They should have had an animatronic Walt open...
As I mentioned in last week’s post about a pair of British Library Crime Classics, I have been very spoiled by publishers recently, and the second press to send some GA crime over has been Galileo Publishers. I’ve covered a number of...
It's been quite a few weeks since I've done any work on the NWNGR replica replacement carriage.A couple of nights ago while half the household were out for the night taking in some of the action at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow I ran...
they discovered that the minerals at this site contain record-breaking concentrations of gold, reaching as high as 1.9 wt% (19,231 ppm). Scientists strike invisible gold in the deep sea—locked inside fool’s gold How long before they are...
Surviving an accident is something, coping with the fact that it didn't happen is something else. Last weekend, our trip home from a card game event was met with the closest brush with death I'd had in a while. Luckily, no one was harmed...
German Döner Kebab restaurants have started popping up all over London. For some reason, the idea of a German kebab still strikes me as slightly incongruous - a bit like a Swiss curry or a French taco. However, according to a recent...
I am surrounded by reminders and good intention, of projects started that will not be used or finished, and duplicate models that take up space and are not my current interests…I don’t often have such a broad scale clear out but I have...
It's just out of reach, I close my eyes and I can sense it, just behind my shoulder. If I just slightly turn my head, and open my eyes to just before any shape are visible, this is the closest I get.
It's just out of reach, I close my eyes and I can sense it, just behind my shoulder. If I just slightly turn my head, and open my eyes to just before any shape are visible, this is the closest I get.
I was only able to catch the tail end, but Jose-Miguel Yamal, alongside Thomas Helton and Sam Knight, did an awesome tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ryo Fukui’s Scenery at Echoes in Houston. Jose-Miguel is the pianist who...
DNS Ad Blocking with MikroTik RouterOS Adlist RouterOS includes a built-in DNS Adlist feature that imports hosts-format blocklists and blocks matching DNS requests by returning 0.0.0.0. This setup uses: StevenBlack Hosts HaGeZi DNS...
I started last year by writing about my growing desire for human curation. In that post, I mainly focused on contrasting human curation with recommendation algorithms that had overtaken many aspects of the web: from media platforms like...
When I was a teenager, I spent a tiny bit of time at sea on a working ship. The gig was finagled for me by an old boyfriend of my mother. Note the passive tense: I did essentially nothing to make this happen. Nowadays, there is a whole...