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October was a month of pelts in prams, reflectors on jackets, low sun, pumpkins and gourds, rustling leaves, blue light, piles of apples,…

In my first post about this strange lash-up I saw in Stratford, I shared some photos of the CN crew bringing a short string of cars into Stratford's rail yard. The crew did a little switching, which was perfect for someone like me who never gets to see freight trains. My time in Stratford earlier this summer was quite prolific from a railfanning perspective. Not only did I get shots …

In 2015 I made a keyboard guide to help people find the keys on their muddled-up keyboards. At the time I used Apple computers myself so without really thinking too much I made it as an Apple keyboard, however a few people complained that as PC users this diagram was confusing and bewildering to them. Now, almost ten years later I am releasing an updated PC version. You can order …

Prime accompanist goes solo. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Norman Simmons (piano), Victor Sproles (bass), Vernel Fornier (drums) Recorded in 1956 in Chicago Released as Argo 607 in 1956 Track listing Side A: Capacity In Blues/Stella By Starlight/Jan/My Funny Valentine/Peppe Side B: Chili Bowl/Moonlight In Vermont/You Do Something To Me/Love Is Eternal/They Can’t Take That Away From Me/Tranquility [/half] [row-end] This gets you through the night. Good bounce, sassy Carribean …

Lily – Rose Tremain Chance find in Belmont Library. A less rosy view of the life of young girl / woman abandoned at birth and taken into the care of Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital. Victorian gothic? Author page: Lily – Rose Tremain

The sequel is co-directed and co-written by Samoan-American filmmaker Dana Ledoux Miller, who is co-founder and board chair of the Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti, or PEAK, a nonprofit organization working to promote innovative storytelling that honors the richness and diversity of the Pacific Islands.

Book Review by George S: David Garnett was one of the younger members of the Bloomsbury set. His father was Edward Garnett, the critic and publisher, and his mother was Constance Garnett, the translator of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky. Born in 1892, David Garnett had been a conscientious objector during the Great War, working on a fruit farm in East Anglia. This short novel was published pseudonymously in 1919 by …

This 1984 debut record by The Cult (after they changed their name from Death Cult) addressed lead singer Ian Astbury's interest with Native American cultures and themes that would continue throughout most of the The Cult's career. Guitarist Billy Duffy hadn't quite found his signature guitar sound yet (that would happen on subsequent album Love covered here), but you can get a sense of where he was heading with it. …

The Beano and Dandy Comic Libraries were digest-sized spin-offs of the two full-size comics, which were published at the rate of four per month (two Beanos and two Dandys) from 1982 to 1997. Each one was 64 pages long and told a single, long-form story starring one or more of D. C. Thomson's main characters, often pairing them up in unusual crossovers. In 1997 the Comic Libraries were supplanted by …

Summary of previous episodes (CH32v3):1- Reallocate shadow ram to have 128k of RAM2- In flash, put a basic harmless loop3- Tweak the linker script to put everything in ram4- Load the code (to ram), change the PC to the code in ram5- You now upload much faster with infinite software breakpointsVscodeYou can use the cortexm extension with riscv, it works fine with one caveat : you cannot "attach"You can only …

Leaving Mastodon and Bluesky earlier this year was a great decision and I don’t regret it one bit—except for the part where some of my friends don’t blog at all and I miss them terribly. But that’s okay because the intense doomscrolling burnout continues to be too big of a tradeoff, and up until about ten days ago my time away from the electrically charged firehose of rage bait and …

The Wayback Machine, Archive.org, Archive-it.org, and OpenLibrary.org came up in stages over the week after cyberattacks with some of the contributor features coming up over the last couple of weeks. A few to go. Much of the development during this time has been focused on securing the services so they can still run while attacks continue. The Internet Archive is adapting to a more hostile world, where DDOS attacks are …

Well, huh... here we are.This post has been in the queue for two weeks or so now. It's involved a lot of note-taking, thinking, writing, and rewriting—rinse and repeat.For this post, I wanted to jot down a bunch of random things, take a step back, and then come back later when I had some additional thoughts sorted out in my brain.And don't fret - I won't get into politics here. …

Pulled from a memo posted around the Idaho State Correctional Institution Nov. 15, 2024. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO __________________________________________ Reuben Cortes, Pete Kimball Roberts, et al., Plaintiffs v. Josh Tewalt, et al., Defendants __________________________________________ Case No. 1:18-CV-00001-BLW Notice of Petition for Payment of Attorney Fees and Court’s Intent … Continue reading "Notice of Petition and Intent to Grant Payment for Attorneys Fees in …

Micropayments, microbilling, microtransactions, call it what you will; it is one of those ideas people say they want but actually do not. In particular, micropayments are not a viable replacement...