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Poem by David White, photo by me.
I noticed the first drops of rain from this event riding back over Wanstead Flats from the Holly Tree around 10pm, thoughts of Messi’s majesty in Argentina’s win against Austria fast being replaced by watching clouds bubbling overhead. Reaching home the drops didn’t come to much and I wondered if the action would miss us, … Continue reading Hours of thunder on June 23, 2026 →
Could both honor the same behind-the-scenes Capcom exec?
Spectacular footage likely to be seen everywhere soon. Prime fodder for Ozzyman. Text article. Many more videos, etc.
Whenever one of my lectures covers the topic of Greco-Roman agriculture, I always include the ‘Aristophanes the Astrologer’ passage from Agathias Scholasticus – it may be 6th century CE, but it expresses a timeless reality that speaks to the countless generations of Norfolk tenant farmers in my paternal line as well as to the facts […]
We left Bedford last week in the midst of war but, like many towns in the country, thinking ahead. Planning …Continue reading →
I’m hosting July’s IWBC and the timing is perfect since I split my reading year into to halves, which means I’m starting with an empty shelf in July. The book I picked is “To Have or to Be” by Erich Fromm. I read this book now more than 20 years ago, and I remember having a great impact on young me. And so I started wondering what current me would think of it. And the IWBC is a good excuse to pick it up a second time. If you decide to read it and post a review on your...
When Intel designed the 80386, they gave it a trick for hiding memory latency: Early Start. Instead of waiting for an instruction to reach its memory micro-op, the 386 begins the next instruction's address work — effective address, segment relocation, the bus cycle — in the last cycle of the current instruction. Intel put it at about 9% of overall performance. It is also the source of the POPAD bug.
The icons in the forthcoming version of macOS have been subtly tweaked to retreat from last year’s “Liquid Glass” appearance. CC-licensed photo by Yeray Hdez Guerra on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by … Continue reading →
Early morning musings about a huge part of my identity
I was originally going to try my first baby run post-surgery today, but then the forecast came out with a high of 31°C (it got to 32) and I noped right out of that. Instead, I walked to Burnaby Lake and back. In fact, I walked all the way to Piper Spit, which is about ... Read more
Koriander CMS on PyPI Open in new tab (full image size 81 KiB) Try installing Koriander CMS from PyPI. All you need to run is the following, provided that you've installed pipx: pipx install koriander You can use Koriander CMS in your terminal with the koriander command. For example, to access Koriander CMS in your browser and create or edit new pages, use the following command: koriander serve You don't have...
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I’ve put “Femme Prédatrice” up for sale on itch.io. I’ll doubtless put it up elsewhere, too, but I mainly wanted to get it in an upcoming book bundle and maybe get some more eyes on Animal Noir. I also enjoyed making a noir movie style title card using GIMP and a photo (originally in color) […]
Last Saturday was the 11th Bodies from the Library conference at the British Library. This is always an annual treat for me. It must be for a few others as well, as this year saw a record number of attendees.