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The rediscovery of Ralph Sheldon’s lost Portrait of King Henry VIII on BBC Midlands Today 29th July 2024.

Happy Sunday everyone! It’s been a doozy of a week professionally, so I’ve been relishing every opportunity to unwind and distract myself. First and foremost, I’ve been sucked down the rabbit hole of Civilization VI, …

I recently built a website that breaks down the cost of a UK electricity bill.electricitybills.ukIt's interactive, and I'd recommend visiting it before reading this post. Check it out here: electricitybills.ukHere are three interesting things about …

While we've been exploring 1982 over the last few months, there have been moments where it feels as if much of the chart activity has just been a stylistic extension of 1981; the same array …

Today, I’ve got a new essay to share with you. It will land in a few parts, and part one is up now. Read on: The Interfaces With Which We Think » Here’s the introduction: …

Michael Gene Sullivan’s version of Charles Dickens’ traditional “A Christmas Carol” is not about Scrooge, the miser who hates the holiday. Sullivan’s “A Red Carol” is “about everyone else,” a world unrepentant for its cruelties, …

Painting and Drawing ClassesWednesdays 10.15am – 12.30pm and 1pm – 3.15pm1a Cadbury Close, Whetstone N20 9BDSend me an email to enquire. I teach two mixed ability painting classes each Wednesdays during term time. The content …

Follow along with me as I participate in the 2024 Save Your Story Challenge by Quilt Alliance. You can find all of my blog posts that are part of this challenge. The final challenge has …

Thanks to the excellent Why Don’t YouTube, over on Bluesky, I was made aware of another short-lived Noel Edmonds curio. Noel Edmonds' first new series after The Late Late Breakfast Show's enforced cancellation was Whatever …

Building an unlikely brand from the ground up Unlikeliest, for sure. Luckiest, definitely. Since returning from the UK I’ve worked methodically to put together Hold Fast Bespoke LLC. It hasn’t happened over night, but piece …

THE FRIDAY PIC is an installation shot from “Amerika,” the wonderful new projection by Javier Téllez at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, a two-year-old space in Greenwich Village in New York. In today’s …

He was a giant of linguistics. The New York Times has an obituary. I had the chance to hear William Labov give a talk in 2007, “The Growing Divergence of English Dialects in North America.” …

A couple years back, people would joke that they were tired of living in unprecedented times. Well, we’re still there and I don’t really see anyone laughing. Inflation is a real problem and it comes …

I think this has been long overdue. I will be discontinuing the Mahabharat review series that I started more than two years ago. Despite promising multiple times that I will keep going on, I have …

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-assisted software development, a new category of tools has emerged: repository-to-prompt converters. These utilities address the growing need to feed entire codebases into Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, …