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Ideated from: some recent releases I’ve been spinning Blood Incantation is fantastic. Their 2019 release Hidden History Of The Human Race is one of my favorite modern metal albums. Then they made an ambient record …

The Old Royal Naval College dominates the riverfront at Greenwich. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, the complex was originally a Royal Navy hospital, but from 1873 to 1998 was home to the Royal Navy’s officer …

for we must know in advance, if we are prepared for that conflict, that the combat may have truces but never a peace. If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there …

The truth does not matter. A knight (Matt Damon) must defend the honour of his wife (Jodie Comer) after she accuses another man (Adam Driver) of raping her. The only way they can reach an …

I really appreciated Cory LaViska’s take on #WebComponents here. Especially this bit:You know what framework I want to use? I want a framework that aligns with the platform, not one that replaces it. I want …

Ruby on Rails has built-in support for managing uploaded files with ActiveStorage, which both cleans up your application code and acts as an abstraction over different storage backends. Azure Storage is one of the supported …

This is my second in a series of guitars which take inspiration from the work of Dominique Field, this time in Red Cedar and 640 scale. With the addition of an elevated neck and a …

Spent a few days over in Lithuania at the end of October, visiting our lad in Vilnius. The city is spilt by two rivers, the Vilnia and the much larger Neris, which are home to …

Every 11 years or so, the Sun’s magnetic poles flip, at which time the cycle of solar activity reaches a maximum. This is when there are a lot of sunspots that eject charged particles out …

I have this mate called Long Tall Tony who climbs mountains and is always going on about thrutching.'Sssh!' I said once in a posh pub. (You could tell it was posh by the way the …

A letter from Alexander Deriev, husband of the late poet Regina Derieva. The Russian couple have a helluva back story. I wrote about her in “Writ on Water,” an 2014 essay for the Times Literary …

German poet Jürgen Becker has passed away; see, for example, Zum Tod von Jürgen Becker – Was man verschieben kann und was nicht by Martin Oehlen in the Frankfurter Rundschau. Becker won may of the …

A post on the Transit Toronto Facebook page here has revealed that two cars from Toronto's Scarborough RT rapid transit line, which closed in 2023, have found their way to the Halton County Radial Railway. …

This rough looking shed was made using boards made from tree bark from my yard. The part of the bark I used was from the inside of the bark - the part next to the …

In my first post about this strange lash-up I saw in Stratford, I shared some photos of the CN crew bringing a short string of cars into Stratford's rail yard. The crew did a little …