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A reader writes: Have you got any tips for maintaining motivation on a longer tour? I’m just past halfway through a Spain to Ireland tour, and I’ve just been feeling a bit burnt out. Been …

Before we moved to New Mexico, one of our favorite places to see the fall leaves was Missouri. Every year, we’d head to the Ozarks to soak up the vibrant reds and golds of the …

This is a talk I gave for the Toulouse Game Dev Master Class. I talk about my methods of discovering cool game art tricks (which I then document on this blog) by asking around, doing …

I do love me some video-games. But one genre I have loved since almost the beginning of my hobbyist career has been racing games. And any keen reader here will note that I almost always …

Even when the legal arguments in such lawfare cases are weak or absurd, the litigation itself can be of value to litigants who seek to utilise the court hearings to air a litany of real …

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One of the things that bothers me about how many people use their computers in the modern era is in how they feel like they need to baby them.I think a lot of people feel …

Reading this week: Visions from the Forests, General Editors Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortolot Sacred River by Syl Cheney-Coker Afro Sport This fall I got to visit the London Missionary Society archives kept at SOAS …

We recently rebuilt our merchant-facing help and documentation site to make it easier to update, and easier to use.User-facing documentation is an important element of good software. Sure, good software should always be as easy …

Now that all electronic issues are resolved, it’s time to update the PCB for my expansion board that adds a W65C22S Versatile Interface Adapter (VIA) to my Commodore 64....

I put this East Indian rosewood/European spruce guitar to one side as I proceeded with my usual process of wet sanding and buffing four other guitar bodies, the motivation being that I wanted to compare …

On a bus to Redmond, a passenger found a wallet and returned it to the driver. Shortly after, the owner joyfully reclaimed it at the next stop. The unexpected reunion brought a sense of wonder …

Since my last post on here I've actually done quite a bit of modelling so I'll start in no particular order with a loco kit I swapped for a 'Dolgochification' kit. I had intended to …

I am delighted and honoured to have been asked to present the November lecture at The Model Railway Club this Thursday 14th November. My presentation is on the history of the LSWR Adams T3 locomotive …

$\newcommand\C{\mathbb{C}}$ I came up with the proof below while preparing a lecture for my complex analysis course. I learned from Sinan Gunturk that Peter Lax showed him the same proof back in 2007. Let \(O\subset\C\) …