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Happy June! I spent the last couple days of May on a little road trip around the Izu Peninsula. The latter half of May had been looking rather rainy and I was scared that the June rainy season was making an early appearance, but I saw...
Bounty Hunter is a new finding and recovery at Games That Weren't, and a relatively advanced multi-screen platformer for the Amstrad CPC. The game has a main character navigating slopes and throwing grenades, and with land-mines that set...
As a struggle against capital, the struggle against data centers is a struggle on the side of workers who are at risk of job loss, deskilling, and greater intensification of the work they are already doing. It’s against the imperious...
Best Record of 2001: Day 50 Good morning! Today we’re taking a quick look at Yeah Yeah Yeahs self-titled EP. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s self-titled, 5-song EP was self-released on their own Shifty label in 2001. Their decidedly garage-punk sound...
Part III of a IV part series: thirty-four per cent of organisations claim to be deeply transforming with AI. Eighty-four per cent admit no jobs have been redesigned. These two findings cannot both be true in any operationally meaningful...
This Month’s Picture… ex SER crane tank No.1302. Originally numbered N°302 in SER stock, then A302, it was built for service at Folkestone Harbour, it spent time at Ashford work, Dover, Richborough. Renumbered as N°A234S by the Southern...
Musings on all the little things that niggle and humour around the home and out and about. From filling handbags with every which knick-knack, to hearing aid shenanigans and the wonders of the television remote control.
June 1, 2026 I believe that Summer has arrived! watch, it will snow tomorrow… Although this painting is of clouds later in the year, I could certainly pretend that the beautiful green landscape is mid-summer. Those are greens vivid...
Photo by me. Poetry by WS Merwin
That is the title of a new book by Anthony Gottlieb on the life and ideas of the great but perplexing 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Right now, I am on Chapter 3, which is titled “The teacher who taught himself.” …...
One hundred years ago this month, Mary Pickford sent Grace Kingsley a letter from Montecantini, Italy all about her travels with her husband, Douglas Fairbanks: You would be most happy to see the delightful reception we have met with all...