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My Blog’s Clock Was an Hour Slow All Summer
A GMT offset saved as -8 is wrong half the year. How my blog’s clock ran an hour slow, and how I fixed it in ColdFusion and Lucee with Java time zone names.
Honda HR-V Road Test.
The current Honda HR-V came out back in April 2022. It has received a few small improvements since, like a larger screen, wireless CarPlay on all versions, new wheels, etc… Nothing much. The…
I like planned obsolescence, but only when it comes to people.
I like planned obsolescence, but only when it comes to people.
ICANN has an (unofficial) wiki
Today I learned: ICANNWiki is an independent and not-for-profit encyclopedia about Internet Governance, unaffiliated with ICANN. It contains 11,046 articles. To contribute, read our content guide,…
Readjustments
I want to draw your attention to some changes in the menu of this blog, most notably the addition of the “About this Blog” tab. I’m going to go grab the text I put there and paste…
Sestinas, Side Quests, and Five-Minute Sessions: How to Make Time to Write
There was no rifle to defend myself, only instinct.Cereus & Limnic: Escape From Okinawa Type BKeith HaydenToday's writing session took way too long and wasn't satisfying.When you pick a…
SkyTrain To Rootin Tootin Newton? It Must Be Election Time
It is the silly season folks and the NDP and Conservatives have made promises to build more SkyTrain and why not, as politcal promises are easily made but much harder to keep. The first question I…
Oppenheimer and coworkers suggest that Yak X is a different species from present-day wild or domesticated yaks
They’re calling it “Yak X”: The genetic data are described by Jonas Oppenheimer and a team led by Love Dalén, from bovid bone fragments of Denisova Cave and other nearby sites in the Altai and…
NetNewsWire Themes
A feature I sometimes forget is present in NetNewsWire is that you can change its theme. That is mostly because I set it years ago and forgot all about it. Dave Marquard recently created a theme…
Max Miller’s Tasting History: The Board Game
Tasting History with Max Miller is must-watch YouTube for me. Miller is a wonderful storyteller, and his show melds interesting history lessons with period-appropriate recipes. As it turns out, he’s…
Moving product forward
In product, we risk getting bogged down in all the what-ifs, questions about possibilities, uncertainty.When you're designing a product, you only have the limited information in front of you,…
Does GEX tell more than VIX? 14 years of 0DTE straddles say no
In my last post about the 14 year GEX backtest, I left one question open, does GEX (gamma exposure, how much hedging the option dealers have to do when the index moves) add anything beyond VIX? GEX…
Handmade Log #1: Setting Up
I started building Handmade right before I put out the previous blog post. I needed something to start building because, boy... a blank folder with an index.html document is quite daunting. So I…
The Telegraph’s Allister Heath* on the French riots
*I don’t think Allister Heath who is the Editor of the Sunday Telegraph has yet opined on the French riots (he will) but this meme from the New World’s Allister Heath headline generator…
So Long, G. Kelly Of Bethnal Green
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours G.Kelly in happier days This week, I was so saddened to confront the long-closed-up premises of G. Kelly at 444 Bethnal Green Rd – which…
Monster Mash: Brian's Halloween Band
It's nearly time! Just ten short nights! From Brian F. Monster Base New Jersey
jiyugaoka muse square
Back in September the Jiyugaoka Muse Square openedOn the first 5 floors there are shops and some eateriesThen on the 6th floor is office spaceAnd from the 7th floor up to the 15th are apartments(When…
From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-10-12 – Brainstorming!
12th Oct 2026 Dear Diary, Msgr. Tommy told me something the other day about priest morale being pretty low. I think he’s on to something. Priests don’t laugh like they used to, even when…
How to style the vertical tabs in Firefox with userChrome.css.
Fix the rounded corners and style the vertical tabs in Firefox.
New Subscriber Playlist: “A Slowcore Revival”
This month’s subscriber-only playlist and podcast episode explore the glacial stylings of the slowcore genre.
Hilary Duff at the Spark Arena
Tuesday night Hilary Duff gig with a room full of millennials.
How to Set Up a OneDrive-Only Account in Microsoft Office 365
If you use an account only to mirror data to OneDrive and run backup or other applications against the uploaded files, you may not need email or the other apps included in a Microsoft Office 365…
Life
In the natural realm, biological living beings act in view of five ends: nutrition, organic growth, self-defense, self-repair, reproduction. The analogies to spiritual life are present in the…
A way to securely transfer text information from mobile to desktop
Yonks ago, I started writing my passwords down in my phone, so I'd always have them available. No, I'm not stupid. They were encrypted. Eventually, I wanted to get the list out of my phone and on to…
New Orleans
For the fourth year in a row, the foursome of Luke, Nick, Walsh and I hit the road for a Vikings road game. After successful trips to Las Vegas, Nashville and Detroit where the Vikings won all three…
The Future Will Be Hacked
The Future Will Be Hacked - There has been so much political grist for the networks and the news world lately about hacked celebrity accounts that I wonder what sort of pretensions we are all…
Portti muurissa
Olin asunut kaksiossani seitsemän vuotta ja luulen, etten paljoa valehtele, jos sanon sinä aikana käyneeni hautausmaalla noin 300, ellen peräti 400 kertaa. Hautausmaa ei oikeastaan ollut matkan…
10 Most Haunted Rivers & Waterways In The UK
Water has long been associated with paranormal activity and ghost stories, and it's no surprise that many of Britain's most haunted places are located on or near rivers and waterways.
On the Need for Public Banking
mainstreetjournal.substack.com/p/raising…
What Is Medallion Architecture? Bronze, Silver and Gold Layers Explained with Databricks and Snowflake Examples
The Medallion architecture is a data design pattern, that organizes a data lake/warehouse into three layers of increasing quality: bronze for raw data, silver for cleansed and validated data, and…
The Work Hidden Inside “Just Ask”
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My Top 10 Favorite Albums Purchases in 2026
I decided to change things up today and list my top 10 favorite music purchases (so far) this year.01. Ayria: 13 Stitches 13 Stitches by Ayria 02. Bloody Woods: From the Forests and Highlands From…
What is a reasonable vitamin D level?
The figure and table below are from Vieth (1999); one of the most widely cited articles on vitamin D. The figure shows the gradual increase in blood concentrations of 25-Hydroxyvitamin, or 25(OH)D,…
Ron Koslow (1945-2026)
Producer and scriptwriter Ron Koslow, who created Beauty and the Beast (CBS, 1987-1990), My Life and Times (ABC, 1991), and co-created Roar (FOX, 1997) and Moonlight (CBS, 2007-2008), has died at the…
BRAVE SPLIT VIEW IS MY PRODUCTIVITY HACK
I’m good at putting things into Todoist, but I’m awful at actually looking at Todoist. Sure, it’s right there in my Dock, and sure, there’s notifications via my phone and in…
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10/20/2026, 6:00:22 PM Looks like the far right in France the same way about free speech as here.
llama.cpp, vLLM, and SGLang: Three Approaches to LLM Inference
llama.cpp, vLLM, and SGLang all run transformer weights and stream tokens, yet each is built around a different systems bottleneck. Here is how they differ across model loading, KV cache memory,…
Machines Read, Humans Sign: Code Review in One Year
What building our own review agent taught us, with our numbers, what Anthropic and one open-source pull request show about where review is going, and eight bets on how teams will review code by…
Independents Control The Board
Even if Republicans show up on Election Day Republicans bat last. It’s the warning I give to overenthusiastic rookie candidates excited by high Democratic turnout during ealy voting. G. Elliot…
My free Scrabble tool is 20 years old. A 666k-row search log told me what to fix first
MOPSiK is a free helper for crossword and Scrabble players that I built in the mid-2000s. It still gets 1,600-1,700 unique visitors a month. Here is how I used a 666k-row search log to decide what to…
How we’re dealing with a data space crunch
I can still remember a few years ago when people were claiming the cost of SSDs were going down so fast, that they could reach parity with spinning rust “within a few years”. This may end…
A Survey on Empathy
I started following Jack Jenkins , a prolific reporter/writer for Religion News, some time in the past year or so on BlueSKy. For an atheist, that may seem a bit of a weird thing, but he keeps me on…
A debate might have been revealing. I'd like to have seen one.
A FTER THE " LAST DEBATE " LAST last night, I'm still yet to see the first. That's because we seem to have forgotten what a debate is, how it's structured, how to ensure that one party doesn't…
On Courage
“Courage in work does not usually mean fighting wolves. This is unfortunate but survivable. It means asking the question when everyone else is pretending to understand. It means saying the plan is…
Large Language Models and Free Software
The ability to write and modify software with large language models (LLMs) is a well-trodden topic. My opinions are still forming, but my current thinking is that LLMs allow individuals to actually…
2025 Books
2025 Books A list of books I've read this year. The rating system: 1 star = Didn't finish it 2 stars = Finished it but can't really recommend it 3 stars = Good book - recommended - you can have my…
A first look at New Zealand's only artist alley store
New Zealand is getting its first artist alley store! I talk to the owner to see what's up.