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Sometimes subtlety is overrated, and the direct approach is needed.One must have tact. There is a time for patience and for choosing one’s words with care, for the sake of hidden meanings or to let another arrive at the truth in his own...
Tuesday 18th August 2026 READER ALERT (+ high pitch screeching sound from smartphone/tablet/computer).……. The following contains opinions. So those one or two readers who often comment they reckon this blog should only contain factual...
And day 5. Ron…. Day 5. Sunny and breezy. Bus into Douglas to take the minibus route to Peel through the back doubles including a long one way loop to Niarbyl. Afterwards took bus to Castletown for a midday break before carrying on to...
In the great pantheon of Austin clubs, live music bars, dives, and dumps, Hole in the Wall on Guadalupe Street looms large. Probably top five. It’s been a thing since the early ’70s, and plenty of people have come out of there and played...
Currently working out the kinks in a tampermonkey userscript to clean up the empty paragraphs AO3's WYSIWYG unintentionally encourages authors to put in between every actual text paragraph. If I get it working reliably would anyone be...
A few days ago I was sitting in a café in Sofia, thinking about things that were normal when I was a kid, or even when my parents were, and that now take real effort to get. It’s not that they’re out of reach. It’s that you have to go...
Iris longs to be a reporter, and she got a job at a well-regarded newspaper and has a nice apartment in Knightsbridge but is stuck sketching hats and writing meaningless columns – far from serious journalism. When her unpleasant boss...
I like being able to slot parts of a kit together without glue. In this case, the glass-filled nylon solebars and axleboxes can be slid into the floor with a little bit of a wiggle. Handy, as there has been a change to slate wagon kit...
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Time to, once again, update all your operating systems. ~ Links: Apple Backpatches Beta Security Fixes into macOS 26.6.2, iOS/iPadOS 26.6.1, and iOS/iPadOS 18.7.10, by Adam Engst, TidBITS Hackers Exploit macOS Screen Sharing Flaw to...
Look at That!: Discover the Joy of Seeing by Sketching Bar chart showing 12 resonances across 72 pages, one bar per page. Resonances 120406072 11 resonant pages PageResonances 61101141151161182191211221241251
It’s time to wrap up my survey of Adam Smith’s digression on joint stock companies, which first appeared in his 1784 pamphlet Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and...
It seems there will be AirPods with cameras attached, as MacRumors discovered a video inside a macOS beta demonstrating Visual Intelligence. My first thought: I hope this will not greatly affect my future AirPods purchasing budget. ~...
This is the way.
Babies are funny. While zooming down the highway with my friend Agostino last week he broke into a story about his one-year-old daughter. Apparently while feeding her a bowl of mushy peas she suddenly started sticking her tongue out,...