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Just enough room for a loco! We now have enough track for a loco to stand on! The double slip is being built first, thick wooden timbers/bearers, steel bullhead rail and Exactoscale chairs to P4 …

Outside the church of St Brynach, in Nevern, Pembrokeshire, is a fine celtic cross. On the saint's feast day, April 7th, the first cuckoo of the year will be heard calling from the top of …

Thirteen years ago, my wife Dimitra wrote a children’s story about a magical kite for the teacher training course she was doing in England. Today is Clean Monday, a day when Greeks traditionally fly kites, …

The Damned first played New York City’s CBGB in 1977, the first British Punk band to do so (along with having been the first British Punk band to issue any vinyl). During that maiden voyage, …

. On June 1, 2019, I posted portions of an article [i],“There is Still a Place for Significance Testing in Clinical Trials,” in Clinical Trials responding to the 2019 call to abandon significance. I reblog …

A fellow coder shared with me this recent manual (in French) entitled python (for the computer language, not the snake) written by Nathalie Azoulai as he found it an interesting literary (if not computer) program. …

I checked my old syllabi, and Jul Maroh’s Blue is the Warmest Color is tied for my most-taught graphic narrative. Beautiful Darkness will likely move to a lone number one slot next time I teach …

H. L. Mencken? Alistair Cooke? Apocryphal? Picture of wood type used in letterpress printing from Unsplash Question for Quote Investigator: A prominent journalist once celebrated the display of competence in any discipline from A to …

(My mother picked an abusive man over me – twice.) The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.

I guess I knew about this somewhere in the rarely-visited recesses of my mind but the Library of Congress has this thing called the National Recording Registry which — well, it'll be simpler if I …

Back in 2014, I was invited to join the AGU Blogosphere to post about geoscience education and educational technology (see my very first post, Join the Trek to explore Geoscience Education). Over time, as my …

Grace (G), Lucas (L) and Price (P) Glacier’s in 4-6-2024 Sentinel image top, yellow dots mark the 1987 terminus position when all reached tidewater, blue dots indicate 2024 terminus. Below is the South Georgia GIS …

I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are complicated to make. They’re even more complicated to make accessible. I’m proud of our efforts here, especially because …

The link-peek Web Component allows you to turn a regular anchor link to a rich preview (also known as an 'unfurled' link) to show description, meta image, website name and more using a JSON API.OriginFor …

The original purpose of this blog was for me to document solutions that I spent hours figuring out at work, which means it’s not my code therefore I cannot take it wholesale with me. I …