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I recently entered the Shropshire Shufflers’ Severn Bridges 10k in Shrewsbury (after a little bit of a kerfuffle where it wouldn’t accept my affiliated club name) and ran with Gaz to celebrate his birthday. Never expected Gaz to choose a 10k to as a birthday celebration and yet here we are; I like to think of it as my good influence as a long time runner Katie, at lifeofamissfit… Source

A website for family, friends, and anyone who lands there to enjoy my photos. For a long time after quitting Instagram in 2021, my photos were nowhere to be seen. Sometimes I would post a few pictures on my blog but it never felt quite right. I thought there had to be a reason to publish one or more pictures, or a similarity between them to build a story. With …

After 7 long years, Linkin Park is back with their new lead singer Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara, new song "Emptiness Machine", new album "From Zero" (out on November 15), and a new tour.

Tourists and surfers strolling down the Santa Monica pier in 1979 would have passed a mysterious awning advertising “The Natural Museum of Modern Art”. A nearby explanatory panel did little to clarify: “The Natural Museum of Modern Art project is part of an ongoing interest by the John Doe Co in natural objects and phenomena.” […]

Thurs. Sept. 19, 2024 – On Sunday, I pushed the Publish button to start my debut novel’s adventure out into the Big Wide World...

Recently, I started a new project. I react to the accessibility of more or less randomly picked websites.Before you get too excited, It's in German. I feel more comfortable recording live reactions to websites I have never seen in my native language. However, I may try it in English if there's demand. So far, I've recorded four videos: Wie barrierefrei ist gruene.at? Wie barrierefrei ist fpoe.at? Wie barrierefrei ist bierpartei.eu? …

Recently, I started a new project. I react to the accessibility of more or less randomly picked websites.Before you get too excited, It's in German. I feel more comfortable recording live reactions to websites I have never seen in my native language. However, I may try it in English if there's demand. So far, I've recorded four videos: Wie barrierefrei ist gruene.at? Wie barrierefrei ist fpoe.at? Wie barrierefrei ist bierpartei.eu? …

The SC29 is a general-purpose flashlight running on a single included rechargeable 21700 battery. It features USB-C charging and a distinctive TIR optic. Introduction Manufacturer Specifications Package Details Build User Interface Circuit Measures Emitter Measures Beamshots Testing Results Runtimes Pros and Cons Overall Rating Preliminary Conclusions Acknowledgement Introduction Still working through my backlog – this SC29 sample was received back in March of this year. The SC29 is another in …

mambo vipi from kenya!Last week at the Apple keynote event, the iPhone camera features that stood out the most to me were the new Camera Control button, upgraded 48-megapixel Ultra Wide sensor, improved audio recording features (wind reduction and Audio Mix), and Photographic Styles.When I finally landed in Nairobi (after more than 15 hours of flight delays), these were the features I was most excited to put to the test.Over …

DDoS Update The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is ongoing. Even after I moved our load balancer to new hardware and a new IP address. This means that the attackers are not just targeting the IP address of the load balancer, but they are targeting “runestone.academy” by name. This is a much more serious attack and it is taking a lot of time to mitigate. I’ve learned a lot …

I've shared these at work and thought it might be helpful to post my notes from the launch of the Museum Data Service at Bloomberg last week in public too. The MDS aggregates museum (and museum-like) metadata, encouraging use by data scientists, researchers, the public, etc. The MDS doesn't include images, but link to them … Continue reading Notes from the Museum Data Service launch

I just learned that the painter, illustrator and writer known as Ul de Rico (his full name was Ulderico Conte Gropplero di Troppenburg) passed away on 3 August 2023, a bit over a year ago, aged 79. I've written about him before, and here is the link. The Rainbow Goblins has been a favorite of mine since I first discovered it not long after U.S. publication in 1978. His family's …

Researching another piece of writing, I discovered today with great sadness that the American composer and instrument builder Chas Smith died earlier this year, on 13 May. I can’t say that I knew a huge amount about Smith’s life before today – although he found success in Hollywood, particularly through his work on Dune, he … Continue reading Delayed memorial: Chas Smith →

We understand that a community has built up over the years and some of you will find this disappointing, however, in line with changing audience behaviours a decision has been made to direct users to our social channels where there are active communities discussing the show on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. The Strictly blog and its comment section will soon be closing in line with other blogs across the BBC, …

The cheatsheet that came with the Teenage Engineering KO II was pretty but a bit hard to parse, at least for me. Meanwhile the manual seems to leave some features undocumented. So I scratched together what I could, plus tips from forums, and condensed everything down to this.Things still unclear:The difference between "Reset fader" and "Erase fader"Does group FX send (hold FX, move fader) override the fader's own FX send …