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Imagine an epic of nine years having a happy ending.I’ve written so much about what is now called the Manuals Plus Collection. Let’s go find those: In Realtime: Saving 25,000 Manuals In Realtime: Prepping for the Transfer of 25,000 Manuals In Realtime: It Is Almost Halfway Done In Realtime: Day 2 Felt Like Week 4 In Realtime: It Is Done A Small Dark Detour In Realtime: Post-Mortem A Little Bit …

Thomas Hardy and circus are perhaps not two terms you’d usually hear in close proximity, but Ockham’s Razor defy all expectation with their adaptation of Hardy’s 1891 novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Atmospheric, evocative and… More

I think about the first xkcd post every once in awhile. There is something about it that resonates with me. My wife tells me I tend to go with the flow, feels about right. I wonder how much it has helped or hurt. Am I happening to life, or is life happening to me? Sometimes I surprise myself with how much I love to code. If my life were a …

It worked and I wrote--and kept writing. In the decade beginning with my first calendar year of blogging (2012), I published between 100,000 and 200,000 words on A Pilgrim in Narnia. It has been wonderful. And then, after all of that, it just kind of ... broke. Continue reading → The post “The Hateful Feeling of Breathlessness I Have Had for Years”: A Personal Note on the One-Thing-After-Anotherness of Life …

This delightful, colourful piece of cartography, is the first map by illustrator, limerick-creator and Walthamstow resident Angry Dan. The piece is a 60cm x 60cm

Con esta entrega llegamos al final de la re-publicación del Avant Garde Project, que (creo) se divulgó originalmente entre 2006 y 2011. Espero que la colección os haya gustado y que la hayáis disfrutado tanto como yo. ***** With this installment we come to the end of the re-publication of the Avant Garde Project, which (I believe) was originally released between 2006 and 2011. I hope you liked the collection …

There has been a lot of talk in recent years how running your own email server is too hard. But it’s quite healthy for the email ecosystem to not have everyone use Gmail and Outlook. In my experience it isn’t too hard, just takes some work.

This is about the horror of liminal spaces, and the intrinsic surrealism of our digital world... That beautiful awful loneliness of existing in the electric void of shared virtual fantasies that video games are. Video games are the closest thing that we have to existing in someone else's dream. Carefully constructed fantasies that we share with players. These are our fever dreams, both pleasant and awful.

The active volcano Kilauea, on the Big Island of Hawaii, is heating up. In the days between January 27 and February 1, 2024, scientists have observed more than a thousand earthquakes and ground deformation that indicate pulses of magma are moving at shallow depth beneath the surface. The Hawaiian Volcanic Observatory (HVO) is closely monitoring this activity and notes that because the summit of Kilauea is now pressurized by magma, …

The Illustrious Ladies Tour on Saturday 9th March, led by Jane Hart, ties in with International Women’s Day, and will explore the lives of some of the women commemorated in the two cemeteries.Meet 2pm at the Ladywell gate for this free tour which will be very informative.Josie Kennett Bletchley Park code-breaker

A superb poster for a brilliant gig last night at Future Yard.

Ernest Torrence. She had a warning for leading men: “once Ernie Torrence grabs the baby from under the horse’s heels and cries over it…the handsome leading man had better beat it to the Town Hall and form a union to get back the heavy heroing.” One hundred years ago this month, Grace Kingsley noticed another trend in the movies that annoyed her: leading men weren’t getting to commit enough violence: …

His ability to unveil the truth through humor offers a window into the soul of 19th-century France, Daumier's biting caricatures and poignant paintings, provide a timeless commentary on his era's political and social upheavals.

Hello again, This month I've been plugging away on the project I mentioned in the previous post which involves among other things a PDF generator and now an implementation of ML (as in Standard ML, but also the other one). This is probably the 10th "compiler" I've written in my life, and it's kind of fun to revisit these problems that you've done many times and try out different approaches, …