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Fremantle2026 August 19 (Wednesday), 3:41PM· Wikimedia · OCR · tools · The Wikimedia OCR tool is now at version 1.10.2. Nothing big in this change, I mainly made it because there were a bunch of localisation updates that had not yet been...
Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025, challenge #3 is from a list by Purple - "Futility of categorization." I have been gathering the various '... but also!' cultures of play people have articulated since Retired Adventurer wrote...
We took a trip to Mundenhof animal park yesterday. I’ve been hiding inside most of the summer, because temperatures around here have been insane. After a shorter heatwave with days over 40°C, this second heatwave hasn’t been quite as hot...
What do you do with a system that worked?The leadership literature is well supplied with accounts of systems that fail. Bad incentives, perverse metrics, cultures that eat their young: these are comfortable objects of study, because the...
Worrying about bills is never something I want anyone to experience. I remember three years ago when I was going through a phase where every dollar I earned was allocated to a particular bill due at the end of the month, leaving me with...
August 19, 2026 We’ve met this heroine twice – once in February, and then again in May. She travels every three months or so, so we catch up with her just in time to see what’s new in her wardrobe…. Her inspiration painting is a winner –...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
In memory ofTHOMAS HOMANwho died Jan. 17, 1832, AEt, 75.His WifeTABITHA HOMAN,died March. 11, 1837. AEt, 73.Also two DaughtersTABITHA died Aug. 24, 1812, AEt. 35HANNAH died Feb. 2, 1818, AEt. 32 [there is a verse under the grass that is...
One more week at number one on 16th April 1988You can't keep a brilliant track down it seems, and The Wedding Present returned to the number one slot for a further week once Erasure's sales weakened.As ever, we will use this as an excuse...
In the before-times, when Raspberry Pi CM5s were (relatively) affordable, I built a number of Pi clusters (example), and one of the most annoying parts of the build was flashing Raspberry Pi OS to all the Pis. One, two, or even three Pis...
Just a few days ago I shared on my Scribbles space the concept of Ferragosto with my readers. As always happens on the web, on a complete serendipity a friend shared with a (closed) group of readers of a particular newsletter the...
So in all that crazy amounts of free time I have, I’ve been poking through the supplement book in the Crisis on Infinite Earths slipcased edition. Among other things (like the constant drubbing the Flash comic was getting therein,...
The kids are tired of TikTok! They want Pins From the Bag! This first pin is special to me, because it belonged to my dad, who was a big fan of Walt Kelly's "Pogo", a comic strip that ran from 1948 to 1975. Dad had around a dozen books...
As I do keep saying, books lead to other books… I was unsure what to pick up after the Borges/di Giovanni and did spend a little time reading up on the state of Borges’ literary estate. And this reminded me that I had a book lurking on...
Between 1905 and 1943, Stanley manufactured the No. 52 Chute Board and Plane. In 1909, the Chute Board Plane No. 51 was made separately available. While a modern chop saw or table saw can instantly create a glass smooth square cut, hand...