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Things are reasonably OK these days, but I thought I’d list a few work hacks that I’ve come to rely on over the years (and that are now a part of my daily routine). But there’s a couple of caveats. For instance, a lot of these work for me because I happen to use Microsoft 365 (neé Office) for my day to day work. In fact, I can do 95% …

It’s that time of year again: Indie App Sales is currently boasting over 400 Mac and iOs apps for sale. There are some real gems on the list.

The day shone sunny and bright at the last outdoor farmers market of the year. title="end of the road"> (Photo: The low November sun kisses the last apples of the year at the Davis Square farmers market in Somerville, Massachusetts, earlier today.) There were 11 different kinds of apples to buy.

A former researcher at Nemours Children’s Health in Wilmington, Del., admitted to falsifying and incorrectly reporting data in at least two published studies, both of which were supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. The studies have been retracted. The researcher, Valerie Sampson, reported herself to Nemours, which launched an inquiry into all of her publications, according to a hospital spokesperson. The institution’s findings are under review at …

FROM (2022) s03e09 “Revelations: Chapter One” [2024] D: Jack Bender. S: Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey, David Alpay, Elizabeth Saunders, Scott McCord, Ricky He. Penultimate episode of the season and the cliffhanger reveal is something from last season, unaddressed until now. Or it’s new. It’s impossible to tell without paying too much attention… or binging. Everyone tries being extra nice to one another this episode, which is a …

My print-on-demand provider, Fine Art America, is joining the annual holiday shopping madness with a 25% discount for Black Friday (Nov 29th) through Cyber Monday (Dec 2nd)*. In case you have some room on your walls that you’d like to ... Read moreThanks for following Alexander S. Kunz Photography via RSS & keeping independent websites alive. Buy me a coffee? Support @ $3/month. Visit My Print Store. Browse My Photo …

It’s been four years since I last wrote about Dishoom. In those four years they have established themselves as part of the Birmingham hierarchy, taking what is prime real estate and encouraging neighbours like Alberts Schloss, the voom-voom racey-racey place, Le Bellezza and the Yorks Coming Soon signage into the area. They’ve cooked bacon naans galore, served-up bottomless chai, and explained on numerous occasions that Ruby Murray is not in …

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A stopover in Leeds for a gig with a few beers in a mixture of pubs and bars, which with some decent food to be had made for an enjoyable time predominantly wandering around a former edgy part of the city....I caught the train over to Leeds from Halifax, arriving in the city just before 5.30. I popped in to one of the several drinking places close by, the Friends …

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Chameleons* are among the most distinctive and charismatic of lizards, and a long list of anatomical features make them very unusual... Caption: Jackson’s chameleon Trioceros jacksonii in profile, one of the most famous and familiar of chameleon species. I’m one of many people who grew up knowing of this species as Chamaeleo jacksonii. Image: Benjamint444, CC BY-SA 3.0. Yes, here’s another effort to rescue a squamate article from the Tet …

There were a ton of 64DD games we didn’t get in the West for the Nintendo 64 but one that intrigued me the most was Mario Artist, is a suite of games and an app, including: Paint Studio Talent Studio Polygon Studio Communication Kit The suite transformed the N64 into a multimedia hub with Internet access and released in stages from 1999–2000 in Japan. In the above video, DidYouKnowGaming traced …

Welcome to Bees in the News, an irregular newsletter that is even less regular than it should be due to my house move, and is only available to sponsors of The Apiarist. Each contains short(ish) newsworthy articles and comments on a range of bee and beekeeping topics. Some might justify a full post at some point in the future, others you may never hear about again.Inevitably - reflecting my bias …

I’m not sure there’s been any product I’ve had a more mixed relationship with than the AirPods Max. I returned my first pair…then missed them just enough to buy a second, which I’ve kept. Rarely a day goes by where they don’t piss me off in one way or another…yet rarely a day goes by where I don’t use them anyway. What I like If I’m buying headphones, I’m buying …