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A new article of mine has just appeared in the journal Anglican and Episcopal History. It is available in JSTOR, and so is accessible both to subscribers and to non-subscribers after creating a (free) JSTOR account. ‘George Bell, the British… Continue reading →

First new work of the year in support of the ongoing BDS boycott of Coca Cola products, and in recognition also of Coca-Cola's murderous repression of union organisers in South America. In 2017, Coca Cola donated $14000 to the extremist Israeli far-right organisation Im Tirtzu, which aims to "promote Zionism" by attacking and delegitimising Israeli left-wing and human rights groups and individuals. Coke also operates facilities in Atarot, an illegal …

I do love a wander in a cemetery. I visited all of London's 'Magnificent Seven' last year, some for the first time, others were repeat visits because there's always something new to see each time whether flora, fauna or man made monuments.Kensal Green Cemetery as designed to resemble Paris's Père Lachaise, indeed some people have memorials at both sites (I say 'some' becausee I know of one, so it's likely …

The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out less than 50% of the usual cost is to go for a weekday lunch or early bird menu. Some of the most exciting dining spots in the country have some remarkably reasonably priced off-peak offers, designed to fill tables at times where otherwise they'd be empty, and as we all know there's …

Learn how to make easy Kinako Mochi at home with roasted soybean flour, sugar, and packaged plain mochi for a tasty Japanese rice cake snack. READ: Kinako Mochi (Rice Cake with Soybean Flour) きな粉餅

I was invited to speak at the University of Nebraska’s Data Storytelling Workshop & Data Art Jam to share how I have incorporated data into my quilts. This was an opportunity to showcase some of the quilts I created from my time at sea on JOIDES Resolution (Taking the Temperature and What Goes Up, Must Come Down), including my BTAA award-winning Blue Skies and Cloud Cover JR quilt from Love …

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (January 6, 2024 - January 12, 2025). Enjoy! Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - GitHub Repos Here are some posts I’ve written in the …

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This morning I shared an article about Balancing text in CSS (it's a great article, read it) on LinkedIn. To give a quick preview I decided to create a simple GIF of the first interactive example in the article. The GIF showed more or less how I clicked a button, which, after I clicked it, applied the CSS text-wrap: balance; to the text, and the text visually looked more balanced …

Anyone in Britain will tell you that the weather has been truly Baltic over the past week. January started with heavy rain, then continued with snow, ice, frost and freezing fog. Here in Caithness we’ve been lucky, and have only had a minimal amount of snow and ice, although it has been cold. Other parts of the UK have been badly affected. But this morning, as if activated by a …

Throughout my life, I have often found myself in a situation where I feel like I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, and so I go and try to find someone who has it all figured out so that I can do it right. And so, so often, what I learn is: nobody has any idea what they're doing, almost everyone else is doing it worse than me, and …

Pulp Books, Pulp Movies --- Where's the Difference?Remember when Arthur Mayer booked The Lost Patrol after nobody else wanted to? He knew what they did not … that The Lost Patrol was a Pulp Movie, one made with men, for men, of action. At least ones that dreamt of action. Most limited participation to slump in fleapit seats where exertion by others wash over them, life as lived vicarious through …

Before we get started, I can’t stress the following enough: the choices we make at Set Studio don’t challenge your choices. You might also not agree with our choices and that’s fine, but we don’t need alternatives evangelising to us. To paraphrase Rachel Andrew: If it works, it’s right I do, however, get asked a lot about what technologies and frameworks we use at the studio, so I thought I’d …

“You can’t argue with scientific fact” says one of the characters in Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s Kyoto, but over 2.5 hours @sohoplace and 10 years in play terms, that is exactly what the gathered delegates at a series of conventions do as they try to advance or delay international action on climate change. Taking […]