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Lower Inver morning view upstream from the Scrambles Over the years I have been privileged to fish in many beautiful places, but nowhere else moved me as much as these two small Highland rivers. As …

Again truly massive thanks for Alberto from Japan for going out of their way to precure this magazine and scanning it in for me. I can’t thank them enough. Cheers! Catch the melody, tell the …

This post comes from London where two roundabouts have been redesigned to add protected cycling space.The first is the Old Street junction which is right on the border of the boroughs of Hackney and Islington, …

For the majority of beekeepers, Varroa monitoring and management is an integral and necessary part of their beekeeping year.If omitted, incorrectly applied or mistimed, Varroa levels rise, virus levels rise and overt symptoms of virus …

I don't love how this painting turned out, but I enjoyed every moment of creating it. (I did the best I could on the photography with a tripod, my phone, and my office lights.) I …

David Friedman recently created a daily word puzzle called Gisnep! I’ve been hooked on it ever since I discovered it last week. As a non-coder, he created it using a form of guess-and-check programming with …

Medieval selfies and the earliest selfie-stickSelfies are by no means an exclusively modern phenomenon. During the Middle Ages artists would portray themselves, even realistically. The person seen here made two selfies of himself and even …

Here is an overview of the new sources, projects, and other news from the last month. Sources Death records of various municipalities in Noord-Brabant 1971-1973 have been digitized and indexed and can now be consulted …

In Juan Pablo González’s short documentary Las Nubes (2016), a man named Jésus drives around the arid Mexican countryside and talks about a period in his life when he and his family were terrorized by …

I’m at the point where I recognize a band name, know I’ve heard them before, but need to press play to know for sure. A quick look at the album covers in their discography, I …

The summer is almost over, time to reflect on how it all went. I hiked a bit, worked a lot, read even more, went to a couple of concerts, traveled a bit. All in all, …

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 …

David Bowie– Cat People (Putting Out The Fire) 6:43Peter Schilling– Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst) 4:58Health – Blue Monday 4:46Tyler Bates– C**k**cker 1:48Nena– 99 Luftballons 3:52George Michael– Father Figure 5:37After The Fire– Der Kommissar 5:41Siouxsie And …