Recently updated blogs

Madame Web: “The real culprit here is the greed manifested by studio suits who keep hawking cheap knockoffs. ‘Madame Web’ feels like a random collection of half-baked ideas thrown into the air and allowed to land, with the cynical assumption that we’ll buy any lazy hack-work that is Spider-Man adjacent. Kill me now.” — Peter Travers, ABC News Bob Marley: One Love: “If you’ve never heard of Bob Marley before …

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma's Macbeth is being staged in an industrial warehouse in Canada Water, south east London, which means there is space around the auditorium to start setting the scene. As you step in from the dockside entrance, there are banners emblazoned with an 'M' and the sound...

I recently started playing Terraria and have to say it is a very fun game! To let anyone play at any time I decided to spin up a dedicated server. Unfortunately the Terraria server isn’t what I would consider great server software. Here is how I got a good setup working on NixOS.The main flaw with the Terraria server is that it doesn’t gracefully handle SIGTERM. Generally it is expected …

As photographers, our journey is not just about capturing moments but understanding the gear behind each photo. In this post we’ll dive into the EXIF data, a feature ingrained in digital photography that often goes unnoticed yet holds a wealth of information. This comprehensive guide will explore what EXIF data is, its significance, and how you can use it to enhance your photographic expertise. Let’s dive in. Table of contentsWhat …

Immunotherapy to treat people with type 1 diabetes genotype granted fast track designation by Jill Rollet for Healio.com/endocrinology, 16 February 2024. The FDA granted fast track designation for an immunotherapy to treat type 1 diabetes among people with the human leukocyte antigen DR3-DQ2 genotype, according to a press release. The immunotherapy will be invested in the phase 3 DIAGNODE-3 trial. “We are very pleased with the FDA’s decision to grant …

by Charles Mines. Les was fat with crooked eyes and messed-up teeth. And he told me he’d died at age twelve. Died in a bike accident, revived, died again, and revived once more at the hospital. He was grown, but the trauma from the accident made it so I had to drive. “Take me to Waffle House,” he’d say. “Four more jobs before we go home.” He tried to monitor …

The fifty-fifty split—or 50/50 for a dash of brevity—is a classic layout pattern where two elements occupy the same amount of inline space inside a row. These two elements will stack once it becomes too narrow to properly display them side by side. Both flexbox and CSS grid can accommodate this pattern. I had recently shared a demo on CodePen built with this layout pattern, but the component in the …

The title means «When birds sing gloriously» which again is taken from a British medieval song titled «Lenten ys come with loue to toune». Speaking of the Middle Ages, the musical content of «When briddes singeth breme» is so-called Early Music based on material dating back to the 13th up to the 15th century. In the olden days life was brutal and ugly, but miserable lives calls for art of …

Gladstone, who is NiMíiPuu, or Nez Perce, and Siksikaitsitapi, or Blackfeet, recently made cinema history with her best actress Academy Awards nomination for "Killers of the Flower Moon."

Session 221 was played on 7/9/23Morgana, Magic User (Rob)Borumar, ½ Orc Thief (Josh)Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)Continuing along in the dungeon, the party finds a mostly empty store room, but searches through it anyway. Nick finds a slashing blade trap the hard way. Sadly nothing of value could be found among the trash and debris. Moving on, they come …

Flashlight Fanatics podcast launched! @DarrenYeoYT and I (@TorchHacker) have launched an Australian-based podcast about flashlights. Our first episode is now online: Power outages: Are you prepared? Today we are discussing recent power outages in Australia due to a storm. 0:00 Welcome Flashlight Fanatics! 0:19 Power outages in Victoria 3:04 Your time to shine! 3:29 Lanterns 6:04 Torches 12:48 Internet and phone services 14:28 Power banks 15:25 Clean drinking water 17:37 …

Lots of people often tell me a similar story: someone they know is planning to go professional, but they can’t sing in tune. Should they be told, or be allowed to make a fool of themselves in public? Someone wrote to me recently with this dilemma: “A person I know sings really badly: flat, off-key, and loud. They have no idea how awful they sound. Their friends and family tell …

It was St Valentine’s Day this past week, a day for pairs. This of course can create potholes in the path of those un-paired or de-paired. When I entered the local supermarket on Tuesday morning, I was as mentally ready for it as I could be. I’d seen the red and pink displays in previous weeks, lurking in wait just inside the front doors. There was still a twinge, although …

I’m feeling much better at last. I’m coughing a lot less, which is great, because I broke a rib coughing a couple of weeks ago and it hurts to cough. At least that particular rib doesn’t hurt except when I cough or sleep on my left, and I usually sleep on my right. I have woken myself up a couple of times after rolling onto my left, however. I applied …