① The Story: The Deer’s Gratitude (Shika no Ongaeshi) Once upon a time, deep in the quiet mountains of J […]

England’s local election results are revealing a dramatic political shift. Reform is making major gains across poorer regions, coastal towns, and former Labour heartlands, whilst Read the full…

I was reading the post of Mikael Nystrom, who regularly consults and assists with businesses and deployment. One of his comments caught my eye — the boring but important stuff. He offers up a…

I am starting a new category for liquor. It will feature my personal takes on liquors I had tasted. Here’s the list of the bottles I have enjoyed: Bourbons New Riff (Bottled-in-Bond) Old Fitzgerald…

I genuinely did not see this coming. Cloudflare has been building one of the more coherent AI developer platforms out there–Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize, their edge inference stack–all sitting…

The following fictional text was extracted from William Firebrace’s Scaletales (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2026). The book investigates the various meanings of…

Ever wondered how difficult it would be to communicate with aliens? Probably a bit harder than Star Trek makes it appear - in fact a person might have to change her whole view of the space-time…

Poop App Posted on 5/8/2026 Tags: Programming , Games , Parenting My 4-year-old son enjoys traveling... except for having to poop in a strange bathroom. It doesn't matter if it's a hotel or a…

Added some more useful links, including some revolving around Linux.

The Sheep Detectives (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG, and needlessly, for mild dramatic intensity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • P ublished in The Davis…

Nine times out of ten, when an engineering team starts complaining about “slow database performance,” the database itself is perfectly fine. The real culprit is almost always hiding…

This Lap Cheong Mei Fun is a deliciously simple way to enjoy mei fun, or thin rice vermicelli, with Chinese sausage and a bright variety of vegetables!  We enjoyed a dish similar to this at a…

Sunday, April 26 I came back from my friend’s farewell ceremony. She was my oldest friend, 99 years old. I would rather celebrate her beautiful life than feel sad about her passing. I feel so lucky…

There is something especially appealing about smaller cancelled games. Not the giant, headline-friendly projects that get brought up every few years whenever somebody wants to lament what might have…

Becasue I’m working in Health Informatics at the moment, initiatives like OpenMed are really interesting to me. I’ve gotten it working on my Raspberry Pi. 1. Prepare the Directory Ensure…

CD – Soleilmoon Nikola Tesla’s legacy is a symbolic device, a device that continues to radiate potential. His experiments do not remain confined to the domain of technique, but are articulated as…

4 DAYS until Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony tickets go on sale (12 May 2026).

It's been a week or so since veteran comics and screen writer Gerry Conway passed away, and here's 2 more examples of leftists exploiting his rejection of his own creation, Frank Castle, for the sake…

yodaprod:Ebay (2005)

Having made a bit of a fuss over Tallaght's Priory Market, and its built-in brewery, when it opened last summer , I was overdue a revisit. I stopped by on a recent Friday afternoon to find it's all…

Floppy disk art in one of the computer pools at Martin Luther University.

“Oui, la récompense la plus agréable qu’on puisse recevoir des choses que l’on fait, c’est de les voir connues, de les voir caressées d’un applaudissement qui vous honore.” “Yes,…

You really have to wonder why nobody is reporting the news as it is. Neither Anthropic’s blog post nor SpaceXAI’s mentions anything about data isolation, customer-managed keys, or an…

At a large enterprise I recently worked with, the board asked the Chief Digital Transformation Officer to develop an AI adoption strategy to drive innovation, growth, and cost efficiency. His…

A Madness of Angels (2009) 613 pages by Kate Griffin Matthew Swift #1 First sixty pages are a slog. Those are the times I wish I was a speed reader. The narrator doesn’t introduce himself…

This time it's Coinbase, PayPal, and Cloudflare who all cite AI as a primary driver. These companies are hurting real people....

A rough mix from my next album. I didn’t write the song. My friend Greg did. He insisted I learn it. Two years later, when he commited suicide, I realized it was his goodbye note. I could never…

Another day, another Linux exploit. It’s been hard to keep track over the last few months. Vulnerabilities are inevitable, but they do highlight my concerns again regarding monocultures. Any…

Matt Mullenweg recently gave a small group of trusted contributors the authority to overhaul the site without approval....

May 8, 2026 I don’t know if the character in the painting is sad, or is just getting away from the news – and other people – for a few minutes… This heroine remains quite…

There is something raw and exciting about an election night. For someone who has been an eager election result observer since the 1970 general election, Read the full article...

* Why explore Venus * VERITAS, NASA’s Venus mapper * EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus * ISRO’s plan to study Venus in unprecedented detail alongside NASA and ESA Related: Coverage of India’s…

Generative AI has hit the peak of inflated expectations. The Gartner Hype Cycle reminds us we've been here before - and shows why governance, not hype, and doing the work still matters.

Can someone artistic come up with a graphic mashup of John Lydon & Nigel Farage? 😀 BTW, Lydon is actually a very bright and in many ways deeply admirable figure.

Discover how SwiftUI provides built-in formatting support that makes it easy to display and edit numbers, currencies, dates, measurements, and more directly in Text and TextField views.

Still under the weather and suffering somehow I’ve managed to keep the show on the road. There have been some new developments and a bit of fun on the way so grab a coffee whilst I make a Lemsip and…

Some thoughts about the past and dwelling on it

So the new hot book of the week is Dynamite’s Ben 10 #1, based on the cartoon from some years back and apparently in short supply in these here parts. Notably, this wasn’t an item that…

Here are two fun RANDOS for you today, starting with this particularly pretty photo of Skull Rock, from an image marked "November 1961". The photographer must have had a decent camera, this picture…

When creating a fantastical world, less can be more.

Tombstone (1993)

The Colorado Department of Transportation says it will issue its detailed financial and operating plans for its Front Range rail proposal in June, but in the meantime it has published the service…

As I was migrating my online backups to Restic, I was concurrently building a system that would allow me to use Restic to complete full-disk backups to external USB drives, thus replacing my use of…

Six years have passed since I started building EndBASIC: a retro-looking BASIC interpreter that works on the web, on the desktop, and on embedded hardware—and that allows writing cross-platform…

At a glance this 1991 PC Engine exclusive may appear to be some sort of unspectacular Galaxy Force style into-the-screen …

Two people walk into the room. One had a soft landing. The other had a hard start.

I built something that makes my life a little easier, maybe: a tiny mental math quiz: Daily Math. I want to maintain a little bit of mental math skills with minimal effort, and I heard one of the…

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The AI Readiness Assessment They Cannot Sell You What Is an AI Readiness Assessment? An AI readiness assessment is a structured diagnostic service that helps organisations understand whether they…