At the deep-end, I suppose! I had a massive Heart Attack on Thursday gone, and when I say massive, I was fighting the fucker for an hour before I agreed with my friend Julie (who almost certainly saved my life) that an ambulance probably did need to be called! And this is not to paint me as the macho hero, valiantly fighting death with the sword of survival and the shield of unfinished

I’ve been rocking an LG monitor that has noticeable burn-in. The old dog takes a while to flicker into life too. I’ve had it around eight years (the Dell before it lasted ten). I think the monitor is too dumb to be spying on me but I’m due an upgrade anyway.I picked up the BenQ RD280UG — the UG is the new 120Hz model.This dramatic reenactment is not me but my work day is worryingly similar.Was it worth the cost? It’s certainly not the cheapest monitor nor is it the most expensive. If it lasts…

Looks Unfamiliar with Mic Wright talking to Tim Worthington about the NatWest Piggies, Eerie. Indiana, Musical Chairs by Kinky Friedman, High On A Rocky Ledge by Moondog, the National Record Of Achievement and more...!

Dancing with the Stars 35's celebrities faced their first week of a speedier, 7-day schedule. How did they do? And whose holes need filling? Marshal Knight recaps for us!

How a makefile turns the SQLcl, Git and dbLinter commands of an APEX project into short make commands, and how a Git-based sync script stops APEXlang imports from overwriting your colleagues' App Builder changes.

We first discovered the wonders of burger chain Lucky Pierrot while staying in the city of Hakodate but decided to come back for a second visit to the store right next to Onuma Quasi-National Park - their Togeshita (峠下) store. As it turns out, this is their flagship store, and it was huge. The Japanese call clowns ピエロ or “piero” after the French/Italian pierrot clown, hence the name and clown mascot. Each of the 17 Lucky Pierrot stores has a different theme, and this one was birds. More…

Recent Comments balcony — miawiwhbse: “True, fully involved attention is something extremely difficult. At its best it often is an achievement. How hard it is to let an object be…”

I think more people ought to have personal websites. Most of the websites people visit regularly belong to businesses, like newyorker.com or cafemochiko.com. Nike designs nike.com to make you feel like you would in their flagship store in SoHo. For your personal site, you might design it like you’d arrange your living room, kitchen, or garden. You want a nice space for yourself, alone, and maybe to share with others. Your website can have words and artifacts that signal to your friends, family,…

[1966]A Mexican garage classico. We all know because La Flama Blanca: Kenny Fucking Powers!Mesmerising bass, mucho twangery and a groovy beat baby.

When I was a young boy, we used to get the official XBOX magazine, and the demo discs that came with it. That’s how I first played Brute Force, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and even NCAA Football.¹ It’s also where I first played James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing’s co-op mode — where you play as two anonymous MI-6 agents — and two sample missions: the game’s starting mission where you rappel down the outside of a mountain base, and another where you chase down a tanker driven by Richard Kiel’s…

After agreeing in August with Germany’s competition authority to make changes to the App Tracking Transparency prompt, Apple has now announced the options available to developers. Unfortunately, the post on its Developer News page is terribly brief; here it is in its entirety: As part of agreements with select European competition authorities, Apple is introducing changes to its App Tracking Transparency framework in the European Union. Beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, developers will…

It's been awhile since I've put someone in the spotlight for the It's About TV Interview, a process so terrifying that it's been known to send people fleeing in abject horror. But enough about the readers... (And, by the way, they love the subjects; it's the interviewer himself that they can do without.)However, David Hofstede, author of the Comfort TV website, has bravely stepped into the breech to talk about the upcoming second edition of his book,When Television Brought Us Together:…

With this in mind I wondered how far I could get in removing the parts of Liquid Glass I don’t like in NetNewsWire. Turns out I could get pretty far, though it comes at the expense of using NSToolbar (as predicted). Note: this stuff is just on a branch. One night of play, not real design or consideration. (But this is code, not mockups.) It’s not about to ship this way. But I’ll share anyway, because it does hint at some possible ideas for NetNewsWire’s future. Source: inessential: That About…

This time of year, I end up writing grant proposals to fun my summer field work. This year, there’s the added fun of writing a sabbatical proposal and a proposal for a one-year, named, research chair. All of these proposals will try to get support for my work at Isthmia. In particular, these proposals will ask for time to transform our current work into a book length manuscript (and catch up on bibliography to frame the project in recent studies of the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Greece, the…

Morning comes with fog. 7:00 sail off anchor, light north wind and less fog. A half dozen tacks, gentle sailing, almost ghosting, out of the cove. Rounding the northern tip of Spruce Island, I find Mark out rowing a skiff with his dog. He lives on Spruce Island four months of the year. He points to his Contessa sloop moored nearby, and we talk about sailing the Maine coast. We talk about my slow drift across the water, going fast versus going slow, the trade off between traditional cruising…

Small milestones, near and far, from this week. Next to me on the bench is an older lady. She is clearly a grandma and her job this afternoon is to watch over her grandson as he goes on the biggest slide in the playground. The slide is so steep that my son refused to go on it for years. But this small kid slides fiercely and every time time the boy lands in sand grandma sends cheers and claps from the bench A two-hour fight from me, is my brother. His daughter, my lovely 18-months-old niece, is…

Before you push the shutter button, before even you leave the house, everything has been decided. You might not have a list of photographs you expect to take on the day, but your visual values have already decided what will come out of your day. Building Vision exists before the encounter. When I walk out of the house to take a landscape, I have already something in mind: a location, a relationship between forms, an atmosphere, elements in the frame. Sometimes I know exactly what I’m looking…

I've been getting more email from agents lately and it's all both formulaic and irritating. My favorites (sarcasm) are the ones that cite a post where I explain a problem I'd already solved and then offer me a solution. They all read the same: polite, bland, slop. Agent email lives at the intersection of slop and spam. Nobody wants to read or receive either. I have a running sieve rule that I expect to grow and it looks like this: if address :domain :matches "from" ["ilands.app",…

Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest places.- Christopher Eger If you enjoy my always ad-free Warship Wednesday content, you can support it by buying me a cup of joe at https://buymeacoffee.com/lsozi As Henk says: “Warship Coffee – no sugar, just a pinch of salt!” Warship Wednesday 23 September 2026:…

I've genuinely haven't had much to write about. There's been some post ideas, but most of 'em have ended up shelved for one reason or another. These past months have been a real creative drought for me. I think I need a shit-post side blog. One where I can kind of write about whatever without worrying about the content or if the posts starts to sound like a journal entry1. I think since this is my first blog, I overthink too much about what I put into it. Speaking of getting too into my head, I…

My story writing brain has become rusty, but I am trying to lubricate and clean the pieces for a few months now. However, when I saw James prompt for the Fiction IndieWeb Carnival, my creative soul begged me to take part. I took to writing this story with all seriousness on the matter. Having spent considerable amount of time learning to revise and edit my blog posts, I decided using this approach and learning to create the kind of atmosphere which I look for in stories. “Moonlight” is one of…

Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The right place to ask why Oktoberfest starts in September, and how Lo-Fi music snuck into your cookingHi there! On September 19th, Oktoberfest began in Germany, which literally means "October festival." So, naturally, it starts in September.It reminds me of Russia's October Revolution, year 1917, which by our calendar actually happened in November, because the tsars were still running on a different one.Two perfectly mismatched facts to sum up the disorientation…

George Hammond and Stephen Morris, reporting for the Financial Times: OpenAI copied millions of copyrighted articles in an effort to build technology potentially worth “gazillions”, despite recognising the “existential threat” it posed to publishers, according to a new filing in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times… But lawyers for the newspaper claim the “defendants repeatedly copied millions of… copyrighted articles in their entirety without permission to produce substitutive commercial AI…

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow— dr. rich traditions, JD (@helldude.bsky.social) September 22, 2026 at 11:37 AMAt a time when everybody seems to be criticizing AI and particularly the large frontier LLM base models of companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, it is helpful to distinguish between the different schools of arguments.The group which initially dominated the coverage but which seems to be losing ground is the…

Work hard, study well, and eat and sleep plenty! That is the Turtle Hermit way! An apt quote from our beloved Master Roshi. If Dragon Ball has taught me anything, besides that screaming your lungs out during strenuous work does in fact make you stronger, it’s that rest is as important to one’s success as the hard work you build around it. Rest of course, is earned. There’s an obvious difference between someone who is bone idle and someone who rests because they’ve worked hard or is feeling…

Mad Max: Fury Road is a great movie. I was thinking of it again today in relation to our current economy.

I returned home from an afternoon swim the other day and saw a juvenile cat literally eating the heart out of a bird’s chest cavity. She growled. Cats will stiff-arm each other over dry cat food, but they growl and viciously defend real meat. The ravenous cat ate her meal on some pine straw under an old holly bush near my front door. I could not identify what species of bird the cat was devouring–an unusual failure for me because I’m very knowledgeable about local wildlife. The bird was white…

This morning while I was doing my morning routine of drinking my coffee. That routine is setting up the weather page for the current day. Sure, I could automate it, but it takes little time to do it by hand, and I’d have to edit the markdown file anyway to put in the summary. I actually do glance at it, and today I glanced at it out of curiosity to see what yesterday’s rain total was. Normally I would have looked at the Ambient app, but I had this page open, so I scrolled down to look. I…

Via Newspapers.comThis account of your basic friendly neighborhood monster appeared in the “Mexico Weekly Ledger,” December 13, 1883:MEXICO, Mo., December 8.--The neighborhood of Hopewell Church, near this city, is much excited over the appearance in the locality of a strange creature, which is thought by the credulous to be a ghost, and which is a puzzle at least to the most skeptical. The apparition is simply that of a lean monster man, between eight and ten feet in height, wearing a long…

I’m not gonna bother with the preamble about how I got to part six in this series1-5. You can read […]