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We’re here because every time I’m in The Devonshire I get a message from Tom telling me that the Guinness at Nortons is better. This is despite it quickly transpiring that Tom hasn’t been to …

So, the Burton Unions are saved - well, one of the sets at least. As revealed by Pete Brown, or rather, as followed up by Pete, here in Drinks Business, Thornbridge Brewery, with technical help …

Langkawi LRT is a proposed light rail transit system in Langkawi, Malaysia. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed on 29 April 2024 between the state-owned Kedah Investment Authority (Permodalan Kedah Bhd (PKB)) and South …

I guess this does. We’ve been in the house two days. Moving took all of one. There’s something subtly different in the new place. Kind of a relaxed vibe. I really did this whole thing …

Paul Ford is wonderful on the shameless usefulness of AI: “So I should reject this whole crop of image-generating, chatting, large-language-model-based code-writing infinite typing monkeys. But, dammit, I can’t. I love them too much. I …

The Tidö party leaders. Photograph by Tom Samuelsson - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128410949 Marcus Larsson, with the think tank Balans, has recently published an audit that shows how elected politicians in Stockholm are …

An abandoned boat and dilapidated shed, remnants of a once-thriving fishing era, are now overtaken by nature. This scene captures the essence of past vibrancy fading into decay. Duncan Rawlinson explores the use of traditional …

I’ve been running Mac-based home servers since 2011 when I purchased my first Mac Mini for that very purpose. It started as a way to record over-the-air television with an Elgato EyeTV and to store …

Most days I sit down to write a diary entry, so I open a new text file, save it with a filename like 240422.txt and then use the text editor's built-in date command to paste …

You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web. Today I’m pleased to announce that we are …

Today I had my first microlighting lesson with Brad Wagenhauser of Great Western Airsports. I booked it about 6 weeks ago, but it has been cancelled 7 times due to the weather. I was beginning …

Molly White on the good old days of the web. Life outside the walled gardens is nice and relaxing. Terence Eden on what a blog post is. Yep. Makes me wonder what other forms of …

Molly White: Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it’s become a lot easier. We can return. Better, yet: we can restore the things we loved about the …

I'm developing the new program Insphex (inspect hex), a hex dump tool that is created with and runs on the Medley Interlisp environment. Similarly to the Linux command hexdump, it shows the contents of files …

Hey, did you know I make really good BBQ chicken wings? I use a recipe I invented myself, and every time I make it I’m terrified I’ll forget how to do it; I’ve never written …