I’ve decided that cactus cats and splitercats are related to each other, why not.

Vancouver, British Columbia, is something of a conundrum. Why would the better part of a million people pack themselves in at 15,000 people per square mile in a province whose average population…

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Choose between a single-page app, server-rendered pages, and interactive islands by looking at navigation, shared state, loading, and maintenance.

The Quatuor Elmire was part of the String Quartet finals at Geneva a few years back (see here); currently in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation and the Chapelle Musicale, Reine Elisabeth…

Most parents of adult children have said that they lost sleep worrying about their kids when they were younger, but perhaps surprisingly, some stress and wonder nearly as much about them when they…

Setting up a remote BirdNET microphone on a Raspberry Pi is a great way to pick up bird calls from the other end of the garden, but it's no use if you have to SSH in and start the stream by hand…

This daily blog is not a journal, and yet it kind of is. It’s not a journal in the traditional sense because if I wrote down my thoughts stream-of-consciousness style, the result would be a jumbled…

My Last Poll Vote: Bratwurst. Most of these are my favourite kinds of sausage, but a few of them I haven't tried. Never have I ever had Blood Sausage or Kielbasa (or penis), but have been wanting to…

This post is the companion to the short film The largest henge in the world? , which revisits a post from October 2016 with fresh LiDAR. The measurements, sources and caveats follow. The earthwork In…

It will take a brave person to lay Marine Le Pen in next year’s election, I certainly am not that brave, everything is aligning for Le Pen. The striking thing from that poll, conducted post…

“After the sight of masked men at British ports and a sacked former home secretary using social media to vilify volunteer lifeboat crews, I don’t feel any Australian could give money to Reform UK…

The Maclock hack I linked to many months ago is now a finished product (with various flavours of kit), which is kind of fun to see. I have managed to procrastinate assembling mine for a stupefying…

Testing AI-generated code without the noise: lint the patterns coding agents follow, share one test harness, and add tests only where a file leaves its pattern.

This was last night's YouTube short video: For reasons that are defeating me as yet, these do not seem to be embedding properly in WordPress, Read the full article...

Today is Bijoy Dashami (or Vijay Dashimi) the final day of Durga Puja or simply pujo as we Bengalis call it. It is the most important festival for Bengalis. Today, Durga, the beloved daughter of the…

80 users online HE tracker has been back up for over a week and it shows that we have a steady community that after 18+ years is still online and still chatting in real time. This has significantly…

Watch any address on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Base, Polygon or Solana, or a price, and get an email, a push or a phone call when it moves.

“The Rise and Fall of MSN Messenger” chronicles the journey of Microsoft’s iconic chat application from its launch in 1999 to its eventual demise. The video explores how Microsoft…

The world is still sad and annoying, let's talk about classic video games instead! Previously: SNES Games I finished ~30 years ago!, 30 NES/Famicom Games I finished as a kid, my list of completed…

Two Books. One Purpose. A Better Life. It was early afternoon on 10th May 1996. Rob Hall was leading a group of climbers toward the summit of Mt. Everest. Hall had climbed Everest several times and…

  This prize-winning sci-fi novel about wolf rewilding made me cry When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift somehow delivers both a determined call for more wildernesses globally – and a great…

If my last week of incident work is predictive of everybody's next month, you're going to be doing more incident response too. Here's what the first few hours of an incident look like. Let's be real,…

Last Updated on October 21, 2026 by Kay Thinking about visiting Rusutsu Resort in Hokkaido with your kids and wondering if it’s worth the trip? Better yet, what should you know before you go?…

My new ranching novel Grasslands, coming in April 2027, has all the elements that my readers love: a strong female protagonist who encounters adventure and romance on the Canadian prairie. But this…

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THE STRUCTURE OF COMPULSION Lived experience is characterized by a non-optional dependence, contingency, and relationality—conditions that precede and exceed one’s individual control, conditions that…

I had a great idea in my early days at The Institute, which finished up creating a Dr Kavanagh, PhD, while generating some quite noisy [ ie useless] data about Lithium in the groundwater . There are…

Oviedo, Asturias By mid-October 1936, the northern front of the Spanish Civil War had reached its most dramatic climax. For three months, thousands of Republican Asturian miners had kept the…

The last street in East London still lit by gas street lamps could see them replaced with electric LED bulbs under plans by the local residents' association.Read more ›

Today is the feast of St Ursula and Companions . St. Ursula has always intrigued me, and was one of the most popular saints in the Middle Ages, although she has since been banished from the Roman…

Happy Wednesday all! Thankful to have a day off in the middle of the week to get my chores done. Mom's still in the rehab center, so I am chatting with her everyday now. She's getting better and…

Wakusei Closet, Volume 2 is the second tankōbon of Tsubana’s science-fantasy-horror manga, about which online information still appears to be scarce. Aimi has no idea why when she…

Testing pblog - GP Wednesday 4-19-23 This line has four pound signs in front of it They look like little waffles OH or they could be hashtags I’m attempting to make this work. Dont’…

My learning bits for today.

The Daniel James Gang is Daniel James’ garage power pop songwriting soaked in rock ‘n’ roll romanticism and glittered with glam swagger. Here, the gang consists of Daniel James…

British rock ‘n’ roll quartet The Lotts have been shaking up stages for about eight years now (we previously wrote about 2022’s Ice Cold EP), so we’ve had quite a long wait for this…

When Google Goes Down, Your Bank Goes Down. Who Is Really in Control? We spent decades worrying about banks being too big to fail. Now we have a handful of technology companies that are too important…

I started with a real task: let an AI coding agent containerize a Product Catalog app, and make it pick Docker Hardened Images (DHI) for its base layer by talking to the DHI MCP server at…

Sometimes it’s all you can do.

Things we’re reading today include … Digital bank Revolut suffers worldwide outage: everything you need to know Google Cloud down: Revolut and other banking apps crash after system outage…

One of the reasons I started this blog was to connect with others with similar values, and who are interested in similar things as I am. I find it a...

Everyone has probably heard of Wordle, which is a fun game itself, but I think I prefer this one to it. It really makes me think a lot more, and I usually can't get all the categories. There always…

I will be presenting on African subsea cables at the Nigeria Peering and Interconnection Forum next week. I arrive Tuesday and depart Saturday. There are many ways to reach me:…

A photogram I did way back when. Actually I made the belt part. The ass stole from somewhere online. Bill Evans playing something beautiful.

You need something soulful that'll make you do the funky chicken? You got it.

Last Updated on October 21, 2026 by Kay Hokkaido is one of the best places in Japan for skiing and snowboarding, thanks to its amazing powder snow. When we visited this year, my husband (who happens…

The flagship program of FDPPI for 2026 namely the IDPS 2026 is scheduled for November 21 in Bangalore at Hotel Fairfield Marriott, Rajaji nagar, Bengaluru. The program will be a day long event from…

TL&DR: Programmers writing Cisco Nexus OS code should have known better. They didn’t (care?). One can understand that an operating system written in the late 1980s generates crappy suboptimal error…