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Detective Weekly magazine: ‘famous for long, complete Sexton Blake stories’ This issue of Detective Weekly carries the 18-page Crossword Murder Story written by Coutts Brisbane, one of many hack writers who produced the stories. Crossword puzzles were relatively new then having first appeared in Pearson’s Magazine in 1922 and becoming a national craze by 1925. So this story will have been capitalising on their popularity. They were popular with advertisers …

I've tried a variety of times to keep month notes, week notes, logs, all sorts. Failure, all of them. However. I still need to solve these anxieties for myself: Feeling like time slips by too fast. Feeling like I'm not getting anything done. The system that's finally worked for me is one that's private and low-effort, scrappy and ugly. At the beginning of the year, I started a fresh daily …

Exterior -Image © Wellu Hämäläinen It’s often quite hard to make direct comparisons as to the sustainability of different buildings in the industry as costs, supply chains, and methods of construction to name just a few things are all variable. This is even before size, location and programme are taken into account. So this project in Turku, Finland is really interesting as it is twin identical apartment blocks identical visually …

I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have multiple “Recently” headings in the blog listing, so I’ll give them short subtitles from now on. Anyway, what’s up? October was …

Using Mailpit as my default MTA Three years ago I blogged about Using Mailhog as my default MTA and that worked great for me. However, Mailhog development seems to be stalled and it had occasional problems with some perfectly fine mails. So when I stumbled across Mailpit, it was time to switch. The setup is basically the same. Install via AUR: yay -Sy mailpit-bin Adjust the systemd service file using …

Earlier this week I was in Manchester for a conference. I didn't have time for a proper look around at what's new, but I did manage to jump on a tram to Stretford before it got dark on the day I arrived.Why Stretford? Well, in a previous job, I became aware of a project planned for Kingsway which is part of the wider regeneration of the Stretford Mall Shopping centre …

Nearly at the end of these posts! During my two weeks in London researching, I also managed to fit in some sightseeing (it helped that none of my archives were open on Sundays). Mostly this meant the British Museum, but there were also a couple of other favourite haunts plus a museum I'd never managed to make it to before. St George's Gardens, my favourite Bloomsbury spot. Sadly, I didn't …

I’m giving a number of talks this November, and two of them are going to be streamed over the internet. The first one is this coming Friday November 8. It’s part of the Biopower at 50 conference at Rowan University...

Collapsible markdown works You need a markdown="1" attribute in the details tag and markdown="span" in the summary tag Hat tip to the folks who found this in github.com issue: Update docs for “Organizing information with collapsed sections” to include GitHub Pages support #32988 Click me yes, even collapsed code blocks work print("hello world!") Full code from issue 32988 <details markdown="1"> <summary markdown="span">Tips for collapsed sections</summary> ### You can add a …

🔦 Convoy S2+ Brass Flashlight Review on ZeroAir Reviews 🔦The Convoy S2+ Brass flashlight - finally brass! It offers high CRI in an extraordinarily photogenic brass host. It's the same S2+ as usual, but so great! The post Convoy S2+ Brass Flashlight Review first appeared on ZeroAir Reviews. RSS feed managed by AIOSEO.

On Thursday Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2024. From Apple Newsroom: CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2024. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64,1 up 12 percent year over year …

Not quite an example of critics totally missing the significance of an epochal record in real time, as this does get a measured 3 and a half stars out of five from Gaz, with Entertainment! further described as "erratically brilliant". Included in the series more because the critique comes from a well-informed position (SWP member conversant with Brecht etc) yet advances a stance contrary to the now historically sanctioned viewpoint …

The post 2024 KC Art Market appeared first on Schliefkevision - Paintings & Art Classes. Hey Kansas City! It’s time to plan for the schliefkevision Art Market 2024! Kansas City t-shirts, oil paintings, drawings, Kansas City prayer candles and more art oddities will be on sale! Come on out the first weekend of December and pick up some cool, unique and original gifts for yourself and others! Kansas City Art… …

I’ve been working on the broughlike pretty steadily since my last update. The gameplay loop is pretty much unchanged, but I’ve added a fair bit of polish, and fixed a lot of bugs. I think it is honestly sort of boring to play, but I am excited to have this as the starting point for future projects…can you smell the roguelike!? I can! The major fixes and improvements that I’ve …