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Adore. Adore. Adore — Sprints set the year ablaze last January with their blistering, barnstorming & breathless debut Letter To Self. A record, like the cover art, full of red swirling fire — young & hungry, they know… Like I knew, when I heard the Dickies for the first time as a teenager — that if the Ramones pointed to NY & the Dickies to Los Angeles then my heart …

Thoughts on 2024 The Big Stuff:Family life in full flow. School going well. House coming together. Kids settled and happy. Meanwhile, a year of wintering at work. Slow sign-offs, hard decisions, unpleasant conversations. But pockets of brilliance to be found across the agency – something to grow from. Wist moved from her London agency and started working remotely. Pottery slowed down, as busyness took hold – some Tuesday mornings and …

Interacting with AI chatbots like ChatGPT can be fun and sometimes useful, but the next level of everyday AI goes beyond answering questions: AI agents carry out tasks for you. Major technology companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce, have recently released or announced plans to develop and release AI agents. They claim these innovations will bring newfound efficiency to technical and administrative processes underlying systems used in health care, …

This post documents a saga of speaker design dating back to 2019. Since then, I’ve been gradually working on a CAD model for a new set of what started as (yet another) subwoofer, but became some compact 2-way office ribbon speakers.

Computer Game History | Computer Game Reviews | Amiga Game Reviews1996 PC GamesThis is a list of PC games that came out in 1996. The PC games are listed in alphabetical order. Both MS-DOS and Windows PC games are included. I will expand on this list in the future.Hardware and software technologies that gained ground in 1996:Pentium and Pentium Pro CPUs (100-200 MHz)256-512K level 2 cacheXMS RAM (32-64 megs of …

This comes from the OSR subreddit (via QuestingBeast’s newsletter) and I think it’s a great idea for adventure writing. The original author was considering this for a table of contents, which I think would be a misstep. It is a really nice, evocative piece of work though. From u/Raphael_Sadowski on Reddit.

So far as I know, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author of such magisterial fantasy stories as "The Aleph" and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," mentioned Tolkien only twice--and not favorably. I wondered why, for it would have seemed, knowing Borges's other interests (from Anglo-Saxon to Lewis Carroll--Borges was especially well-read in British literature), that he might have been a fan.

I recently finished 10 years as a trustee (governor) at University of the Arts, London. As a leaving present they gave me these wonderful espresso mugs by ex Camberwell students 4AM studio, Haoran Bie, Shuyu Bai, Ying Qian and Jingnyu Wang. You can buy the mugs here.

Unless you’re retired, and maybe not even then.Assumed audience: Despite the programming languages in the opening, this applies outside tech and across industries. It is about careers, not about computers. Many years ago, when I was working at Olo, a colleague asked me, “Why are you interested in Rust? It’s not like we’re going to use that here!” Olo was and is a .NET shop, and my enthusiasm for Rust …

I have already seen the movie A Complete Unknown and enjoyed it very much. It took more than a week, however, for me to be reminded of one of the funniest things I have ever seen on youtube, which is highly relevant to the movie. Enjoy.History Unfolding

I did not expect to be moved to tears by my greenhouse, but there I was, this sunny afternoon, at my allotment, phoning my Longest-Serving Friend. 'It sounds like you're crying,' she said, her voice full of concern. 'I am,' I replied. 'Please don't worry - they're tears of joy.'I explained how I had replaced the panes of glass broken by Storm Darragh. She was delighted for me and felt …

(click on the image to see the full issue) Cover: Wham! Centrespread: Madonna Back cover: Morrissey Interviews: Ian McCulloch; Alannah Currie; Wham!; Gary Glitter Lyrics: Julia - Eurythmics; Shout - Tears For Fears; Step Off (Part 1) - Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five; And That's No Lie - Heaven 17; Resurrection Joe - The Cult; Sharp-Dressed Man - ZZ Top; I Hear Talk - Bucks Fizz; Valotte - …

The Buck Rogers Movement, April 1968, from left: Karl Larson (Carl Larson), Beverly Rogers, Buck Rogers, Rod Trembley, Cynthia Trembley, and Bill Wanat From Holyoke, Massachusetts, the Buck Rogers Movement cut three singles on their own 21st Century Records label in 1967 and 1968, then continued for a couple more years until tragedy struck. The first mention of the band I can find comes from the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram on September …

I have a new book coming out on Tuesday 7th of January: it's A Conventional Boy, a short standalone novel in the Laundry Files. (It takes place at roughly the same time as The Rhesus Chart.) It's published in the USA (and Canada) by Tor.com and in the UK (and EU) by Orbit. Both publishers are dropping hardback and ebook editions at the same time: as is usual Tor.com is …

Hello. Over the coming year, I’ll be moving away from WordPress to jpreu.com using bearblog, a simpler and more intuitive blogging platform. Feel free to hop on over there and grab the RSS feed if you’re so inclined to watch the blog there. I’ve been with WP a looooong time so it will take a minute for this place to completely go away but you’ll start to see posts migrate …