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I haven’t written anything since Christmas because, as is so often the case in winter, I didn’t have anything useful to say. Now it’s April: the salmon season is open in Yorkshire; the rivers are …

Many thanks to Kyle for helping me import this one, and My brother again for doing the scanning, cheers Paul! APHEX TWIN By Tim Haslett In January, 1992, a record emerged from the massively influential …

When I visit the Netherlands, one of the things I enjoy doing is cycling between towns and cities because it is a great way to experience just how the cycle network operates separately to the …

If I used AI-generated post titles, this week's offering would have been called something like "Ten things you need to know about mite treatment" or "What Vita-Pharma doesn't tell you about Apivar".But I don't. Instead, …

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 …

From Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple Maps on the web is available in public beta, allowing users around the world to access Maps directly from their browser. Now, users can get driving and walking directions; find …

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 …

A gaarder is a collector, typically of taxes or tariffs. You may come across the term doing research in the province of Holland between 1695 and 1806, when a special tax (“impost”) was levied on …

It may be difficult to remember that fifty years ago New York was headed the way of Detroit. New Yorkers fled the city by the hundreds of thousands, arson was measured by the square block, …

Dublin’s Big Tears burst onto the scene in 2023, self-describing as “bubblegum trannycore.” Their debut EP Love & Misery delivers on this premise with four raw, ramshackle lo-fi garage pop-n-roll tunes. Imagine Girls in the …

New job, new games, new projects. Everything is new, but somehow it all feels the same.

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 …

Close had for their job application on Wellfound a coding challenge. I’m slightly miffed that they ask someone to write code without even screening them first to see if they believe on the surface I’m …

I hope everyone is doing okay with the heat of summer so far. Here in New Jersey, we've been facing excessive and unrelenting heat for weeks. It's not a lot of fun, especially because my …

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