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This section of the App Store seems like a great spot to promote small but popular indie apps that could use some extra attention. I doubt we need anyone to discover YouTube.
I’ve been quietly seething for months now about the dumb emails I get from people wailing about my podcast’s invisibility on YouTube. Increasingly urgent, promises that this is the last time, more in sorrow than in anger, blah, blah,...
In everyday European discourse there are only a small number of scientists whose names are widely known within the general populus–Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Curie–and even then the people only know very...
It’s been a busy few weeks on the wagon front with new SR arrivals from both Rapido Trains UK and Bachmann Europe. Firstly from Rapido Trains UK The all new tooled, announced in November 2024, LBSC D8, later SR Diagram 1433 8 ton covered...
I'm not even sure how to verbalize my difficulty
Wealth does not mean having everything at the expense of others. Wealth means having what you need thanks to others.
I knew I would have to tackle this, to address the factory fresh stainless steel finish of my Rapido RDC. A wash had transformed the underframe realism but the bodywork remained, gleaming, beautiful…These machines spent their lives...
Anyone who has ever flown from America to Europe has probably noticed that the outward flight usually takes considerably less time than the return journey. The reason is the jet stream - fast-moving winds high in the atmosphere that...
All my afternoon plans were thrown out the window when we found a horrible bug in a client's plugin.170 words · 1 image
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
One of the worst incidents of the German air raids on Britain in the First World War was a stampede at the Bishopsgate Goods Yard, Shoreditch, on 28 January 1918, in which fourteen people were killed. This has been almost entirely...
You never know when June Gloom will hit - it might even happen in May! It's like when Friday the 13th falls on a Wednesday. Judging from the number of guests, this was a fine time to visit the park - perhaps it was Mother's Day. Or...
New light on an old boxI interrupt my flow of blog posts featuring buildings seen on my travels to turn my attention to something only a few miles from where I live. Nowadays the village of Guiting Power is typical Cotswolds: well kept...
By Edalat Hope from Virtue Books Editor’s Note: Article originally published on December 29th, 2025. If you’ve ever watched Dead Poets Society, you might notice something about that teacher. He doesn’t dump all the information on the...