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The summer moons will soon be over. You should not wait until the grass is yellow. (Happy AAPI Heritage Month!)
Walking and birdwatching on the Camargue, near Saintes Marie I have just finished reading Frederic Mistral‘s Mirèio in English through a florrid but free translation hosted at Project Gutenberg. I was slowly reading it during the two...
Princo is a brand which might be quite divisive. On the one hand, they aimed to bring affordable high-quality recordable optical media to the market. But on the other hand, many of their recordable discs failed rapidly due to poor …...
§ Almost exactly 14 days after sowing and at the first sign of warm sunny weather, the beans I planted all suddenly started sprouting. Also, I found a lone breba crop fig on our tree. It’s obviously not much but maybe a sign of more to...
How do I stop a chunk of artificial bad traffic to my sites
Today, I feel like using Ghost. Tomorrow? Who knows?I've been having so much fun the past few days with computers. I had some new ideas and installed some new software and worked with Claude to link 'em all up and it was a blast. I may
Walking back from the screening of Josh Geer’s wonderful film Leaves of London at the Castle Cinema, I stopped on the bank of the River Lea to capture the sound of the birdsong on my phone. They were in full voice, determined to sing...
CineMortuary is a podcast that reviews sequels, prequels, remakes, and anything canonically related to a horror series other than the original film. If I recall correctly, I took co-host Rob’s pitch for a general bad-movie podcast —...
24 May 2026 As of Saturday 23 May, the Pitt peregrine chicks reached the age of four weeks old. Here’s a look at their development in the past week in a day-by-day slideshow from the National Aviary’s falconcam at the Cathedral of...
There’s a great story from the late Prof Clay Christensen that I think about from time to time. Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, requested Prof Clay Christensen to visit Intel headquarters and explain his theory of disruptive innovation. When...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Blondie,...
We keep an eye out for ephemera relating to brewing and pubs and were pleased to stumble upon this bit of prestige bumph by West Country Breweries from 1960. You might not have heard of West Country Breweries. We certainly hadn’t. That’s...