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Blank screen on boot and external monitors not detectedI recently installed Kubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) on a laptop and all was well. I had been using flavours of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but when I …

Google Maps “Location History” is now called “Timeline” and is no longer available on desktop. Gone as well is the method we all used to back up the Location History, which involved downloading the history …

I was going through the blog archive the other day and noticed that it's coming up on three years since I started reviewing again. Three years! The time has flown by for me. I also …

1 Ani DiFranco– The Million You Never Made2 Ashley MacIsaac– Ashley's Reels3 Mae Moore– Deep Water4 Spirit Of The West– Kiss & Tell5 Jane Siberry– When Spring Comes6 Holly Cole– Petals In A Stream7 The …

All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: “Play” Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story” 01/01 BELOW DECK, PRINCE ANDREW THE MUSICAL, THE BEST OF COMEDY 2022 …

Apparently, Israel, while still playing the role of eternal victim continues the ever so dangerous game of continual escalation, daring, infuriating and attacking nearly everyone around them with whom they have both legitimate and perceived …

Yup, that's right. We've revamped our program. The New Phoblographer membership is now based on our website. Yes, we moved away from the app. It was a bittersweet move -- but what we're offering you …

McGurk Mysteries The Case of the Invisible Dog by E. W. Hildick, 1977. The members of the McGurk Organization are having their annual picnic in McGurk’s backyard when, suddenly, a doughnut leaps off the table …

At Today in Books (scroll down) Rebecca Joines Schinsky assures us that a company called The Black List has been very successful at bringing “forgotten” screenplays to the Hollywood screen; she anticipates similar success now …

Since 2013, States have repeatedly reaffirmed in multilateral institutions that the principle of sovereignty applies in cyberspace, and in particular that “in their use of ICTs, States must observe, among other principles of international law, …

If there was ever a type of camera that you could clearly define as a niche product, it would probably be infrared converted cameras. While very neat from a technological perspective, they don’t get a …

Tom Ewing has continued apace through the first year of 2000AD. Six Million Dollar Man rip-off Mach 1 is an utterly forgettable strip which—unlike Dan Dare, Invasion, Flesh and Harlem Heroes—I had utterly forgotten. Maybe …

Salvaging 18650 li-ion cells from dead battery pack of a ThinkPad T530.

Last night I won the Flower Cup in Mario Kart—I really put the petal to the medal!

In recognition of those who have served our country in the military, Heather Wilkinson Rojo of the Nutfield Genealogy blog started the Honor Roll Project. It’s an opportunity to publicly document the names on military …