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For the small percentage of engineering orgs who’d genuinely like to be shipping more reliable software and be more responsive to the needs of their business and their users – it’s a niche, I know – I’m running a public 3-day online Code...
Opera Australia presents a glorious tribute to the evergreen canon of Gilbert & Sullivan, long revered composers of their own special topsy-turvy style of operetta. What a difference a director makes. Where […]
Whinging Pom here - too hot to bloody sleep! So, it turned out that Chris had actually sent me shots of his LJN figures ages ago, and they were languishing down the bottom of Picasa (I look upon my numbering of image folders as a...
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
Mike Ripley is well-known for writing the Albert Campion continuation novels, but today’s read, a standalone modern mystery, is my first experience of his work. I was intrigued by the premise of Buried Above Ground, and it has a...
John Wyver writes: Just leaving Provence now, which is why there was no Sunday dozen last week. I loved the landscape, and was struck time and again by memories of the artworks of Paul Cezanne. So here is ‘Montagne Sainte-Victoire’,...
Last weekend I went across to Dorking for a model railway exhibition at Denbies Wine Estate, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Roxley Models. Lovely location, and a pleasant show. I was very good and didn’t come home with any trains …...
Yesterday (Friday), I checked into Vancouver General Hospital for my first-ever surgery at 8:30 a.m. I was to undergo about a two-hour procedure to remove a fatty mass my surgeon described as the size of a “big marble.” The mass had to...
Most image codecs you know about such as JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XS, WebP are like layer cakes. You have transform sitting on top, entropy coding at the bottom, and rate control floats somewhere in the middle. And then there's a metadata...
This is a terrible solution for running Windows software on your Mac through Parallels: Lowering the resolution of the virtual machine seems to speed up every element of the virtual machine itself, from opening files, to improving button...