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Pressure (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for war violence, bloody images and brief profanityAvailable via: Peacock (free to subscribers) and other paid VOD optionsBy Derrick BangDirector Anthony Maras’...
"Ender's Game" is a 1977 science fiction novelette by Orson Scott Card. It is about an eleven year old boy who is drafted to command other kids in a very important military game. Non-Spoiler Summary In A Nutshell: Ender Wiggins has...
Three years ago I wrote a post about boundary conditions, those irrevocabilities that set limits on our lives. (You don’t like having limits? you want to negotiate limits? too bad. Boundary conditions like uncertainty and change, for...
Once upon a time, there was much unemployment, poverty, and homelessness across the land. Leaders tried one thing after another to end these grim conditions. Nothing worked. In the midst of these bad times, however, a small group of...
1996 Yavor / Metropolis Platforms: PC and Commodore Amiga One of the most ambitious Polish role playing games of the 1990s. Tower of the World was a huge fantasy RPG that had been quietly evolving for a number of years before eventually...
Nau maiYesterday we traveled from Changi airport in Singapore to the megalopolis Jakarta. My internal alarm clock roused me at 5:45am with the precision I was used to. It was only a few hours of rest but we were all grateful for it. A...
The Alchemist’s Secret is the story of two women separated by four centuries but linked through one house – Woodham Hall in Suffolk. In 1672, Jeanne is living at the Hall with her older sister, Marie, and young niece, Hélène. Jeanne is...
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke published 2026 In my recent piece for the i newspaper on a new Netflix series Little House on the Prairie: Laura had me at the hat I mentioned the concept of the tradwife – an online definition is as...
Free Map Tiles Providers:OpenFreeMapVersaTilesMaptoolkit.orgOne of the biggest barriers to building web maps has always been the cost and complexity of map tiles. Services such as Google Maps and Mapbox offer excellent infrastructure,...
I had been typing /clear in the Codex App whenever a task got too long. Every time, the agent replied: Context cleared. Except it hadn’t. I found out by asking which skills it had used in the current session. It named a skill from before...
The Furious (2025) • View trailerFour stars* (out of five); rated R, for strong, bloody violence, gore and profanityAvailable via: Amazon Prime and other VOD optionsBy Derrick BangThe dramatic paradigm shifts in martial arts movies can...
More rain this morning. Little Jane very good through the night. Came in our bed at about 7a.m. Had a bit of a fun with her. Did big lawn and gave Jane a swing.
July 24, 2026 She has room in her bedroom to hang 16 garments. Well, maybe 20, but certainly not more than that! Her clothes live in an ante-room off the main part of the attic. Old houses… Her plan for the upcoming cool weather is to...
"Just stay out of Temple Bar" is my general advice to anyone coming to Dublin and looking for beer. Today's subjects were both found in pubs, and both of them technically in Temple Bar, although they're some distance from the Auld...
Well gosh that was quite the week wasn’t it? Oh my. The dissolution of DSIT didn’t come completely out of the blue – I’d seen some online speculation bandied around and then there were articles in the Sundays but it was still shock...