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As part of wrapping up the work I’m doing toward a PhD, I realized the other day that I’d never actually compiled anything like a comprehensive bibliography, and that it’s well past time I fixed that. Here, then, is a reasonably complete roundup of things I’ve published in all the years since I was SPIN‘s worst and most teenaged staff writer, back at the tail end of the foul Eighties. …

In today’s attention economy, authors and publishers are competing not only with each other, but also with the many distractions of life 一 from streaming platforms to social feeds. Book covers have long played a vital role in driving sales by appealing to the book’s target audience. Yet now more than ever, they’re an author and publisher’s best chance to compel people to stop what they’re doing and find out …

Following on from my previous article I added GPS1 (well, GNSS) to my tiny drone – the Meteor 75 Pro. I wanted to add GPS so I could make use of GPS rescue in betaflight as well as see the altitude, speed and distance in the OSD.

In my previous role, we frequently employed ‘living off the land’ strategies, rarely using C2 infrastructure and instead relying on insider threat credentials or access to systems via legitimate means. Consequently, I have developed strong skills in manually searching for data and hunting based on keywords. Using built-in tools, manually searching network shares and SharePoint, and finding practical ways to manipulate legitimate data.The LOLBAS/GTFOBINS projects have been written about tonnes …

Film If you've been wondering why wind has been whistling through this old place lately it's because all of the excitement has been happening on BlueSky where I've been live skeeting (jesus) a read through of Empire Magazine. All of it. You can see the story so far here. Part of the process has included retrospectively catching up on people or places mentioned in articles and while I'd usually do …

A few months ago, a veteran upland bird-hunter on Facebook asked people to list their favorite pocket knives. I have owned a few since I started carrying one at age 11 or whenever. Most popular brands have ridden in my jeans: Schrade, Case, Old Timer, Gerber, Buck, and so on.But then one day I needed a knife -- apparently I had donated my last one to Amtrak -- and I …

I put this East Indian rosewood/European spruce guitar to one side as I proceeded with my usual process of wet sanding and buffing four other guitar bodies, the motivation being that I wanted to compare wet sanding with the dry sanding alternative.There was an unavoidable delay as I waited for delivery of the Eagle Abrasives' Super Assilex and Super Buflex papers from Stewart MacDonald in the U.S., but as this …

(⏱️ ~8 min read) Once again I got swamped with work so I missed last month's Signal Boost / Links post, so here's a two-fer, for all the stuff I recommend that I found last & this month. Previous months' Signal Boosts: July/Aug 2024, June 2024, May 2024 This month's Signal Boosts: 🐦 Trans furry hyperpop conlang musical mockumentary ↪ 👋 DynamicLand is back, bay-beeeee ↪ 🍞 "I put a …

Still chipping away at this quilt I started on a whim in the spring.

Bronx Zoo, New York, NY, 2024

Some of the most impressive churches and historical sites are found along the Camino de Santiago routes that twist through the length of Europe. While tourists and pilgrims alike will be drawn to the grand cathedrals on the Camino de Santiago, I find the most special places are the tiny chapels, churches, and unplanned hidden...

I’m not sure if this will ever see the light of day, but what the hell, I’ll do it here in case I can turn it into a proper write up. At the moment, I’m only concerned with emulating Ed’s ‘multi’ workflow. If I get that working, I’ll hopefully have a leg up on implementing the other modes. Also, I’m assuming we’re working with an unset tempo to begin with. …

October's Pylon of the Month is from a fan of the website who encountered it whilst cycling from Zurich to Rapperswil. He notes that it is a tension tower where the line of cables changes direction vertically as it descends to the valley and lake below. A quick look at the open infrastructure map leads me to believe that it's a 132/110 kV line descending to the Rapperswil substation. If …