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If you listen to podcasts about endurance sports, you'll hear a common theme come up among the hikers, cyclists and runners whose idea of fun is covering long distances under their own power. Many of them are recovering addicts and...
Tags: #rss-club #photosHey hey club people, it’s been a month so I thought I would trip through my photo roll and share a few pictures from July. As usual, I take quite a few pictures of random things that I see, but there are also a...
For Women in Translation month, I pulled Deborah (1936) by Esther Kreitman, translated from Yiddish by her son, Maurice Carr, in the 1940s. It was a gift from a Virago-loving friend called Alex back in 2020, and it definitely ticking off...
On tech publishers platforming individuals tied to military institutions under investigation for war crimes, implicating the wider developer community and normalizing atrocities.
In this episode I will give my review of Doggerland by Ben Smith
In any group of decent size, some people will be more involved than others. For years I learned and taught about communities of practice (CoPs) in public health. The principles I learned have applied to pretty much every group I've...
Building on the use of red string earlier in the series [NST #1361], Absolute Batman #23 (DC, October 2026) adds even more. ▲ Absolute Batman #23 (DC, October 2026) ▲ Absolute Batman #23 (DC, October 2026), cover ▲ Absolute Batman #23...
The full moon setting off the Kohala coast.
There’s a common script about about artists who live hard and die young. It says that the combination of a self-destructive lifestyle and art means that they were in some way fully alive, in a way that would be impossible, say, for some...
This is a work week for me, however I have managed to get a couple things done. Duplicati started throwing errors so I finally took the time to go back through my backup research and picked out...
If there is one thing that will capture and hold the attention of most people, it’s a fast-paced game. It might be a video game, played competitively between family members or friends. It could be an intense esports match or even one of...
I was back at work this week but it has felt pretty odd if I am honest. Having two weeks off then returning for just 14 working days over three weeks (just 10 now) has left me with a motivation deficit – not helped by the fact so many...
Broken Cellphones Introduction So, I had planned to spend a lovely evening watching the returns in the Clacton by-election, but it seems that there are a few things I need to address on the topic of technology and voting with your...
In the last article in this series, I got caddy up and running and told it about all the services I wanted it to know about. Now I need to setup the mapping between the names (grafana.lifewaza.com) and the IP address where caddy is...
In a post in November, 2020, I wrote about Castle Mandragora, a thriller with uncanny elements by Mary Durham, and I noted that nothing seemed to be known about the author, who published eleven novels in the Nineteen Forties and...