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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 …

Thanks again to my brother Paul for the scans, cheers Paul! Aphex Twin: The soldering iron becomes an instrument Who is Richard James, or what is he? Jimi Hendrix of Techno? The Beach Boys of …

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, …

If you keep bees in temperate latitudes your beekeeping year is more or less seasonal, depending on how far from the equator you are.The spring and summer are busy, with colony expansion, swarm control, queen …

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 …

I am excited to announce I have joined the editorial board of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. The Record, as it is colloquially known, is a peer-reviewed journal focused on scholarly research into …

In celebration of our fortieth anniversary, Criterion has built a replica of our famous film closet inside an eighteen-foot delivery van, and later this month, we’ll be taking our Criterion Closet Picks show on the …

Wearing Out The Refrain, the third album from Washington, D.C. quartet Bad Moves, has me bouncing off the walls. This band, and this record in particular, radiates nothing but good vibes. Part of it comes …

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 …