The seventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:In Episode 7, I chat with Ana, the author of ohhelloana.blog. We talk about, among other things, the growth we see in our websites over time, finding an in-person indie web community, and connecting with people using personal websites.I hope you enjoy the episode!Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts. Ana ohhelloana.blog The seventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out…
Despite all banks repeatedly telling us as customers about being wary of unexpected calls, and not giving out personal information,...
Well, if the Met Office are to be believed, Stratford-upon-Avon could be nudging 40 degrees this week. Forty! That's not weather for Warwickshire; that's weather for lizards, tourists with regrettable sunburn, and blokes who insist on wearing socks with sandals. I spent most of the morning wondering whether to fill the bird bath or simply climb into it myself.The talk everywhere seems to be air-conditioning. A few years ago, buying an air-conditioning unit in Britain felt about as necessary as…
One night is all it takes Developer: Takumi Corporation Publisher: Takumi Corporation Release Dates: 2001 (Arcade), October 10th, 2002 Available On: Arcade, Playstation Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up (Vertical) You ever feel wholly unqualified to do something but go ahead and do it anyway? I don’t typically fall prey to negative thoughts like that or imposter syndrome- I’m happy just doing my thing here with the audience I’ve cultivated- but Night Raid is a game that has me doubting myself perhaps more…
I'll admit it. I will. Just watch me! You think I won't but I'll surprise everyone! Uh, what were we talking about? Oh right. I have two "mid" Knott's Berry Farm scans for you. They're OK, but not that special. But I've zigged at the end for a little extra something. The cherry on top. The "Inferno" hot sauce from Taco Bell. Here's a nice lady (I can just tell) having fun posing with Whiskey Bill. Hey Bill, here eyes are up HERE! The lady is nice, but it's fun to pretend to be a little bit…
101 Dalmatians (1996)
We used to compose in solitude, without industry or recordings. https://strolling.rosano.ca/0267/ 09h00 from Berlin / Germany
Green thoughtsChurchyards. I’ve been in a lot of them in my time and mostly I can concur with the narrator of Samuel Beckett’s First Love, ‘Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.’ I’ve known churchyards where grass grew knee-high, and others mown to within a millimetre of their lives; churchyards in Leicestershire full of elegantly cut slate gravestones and ones in the Cotswolds…
Here is a beautiful grafted buttonhole for double thick fabric, such as a folded-over button-band. These are GORGEOUS buttonholes: blue-ribbon, state-fair stuff. But! They are very stretchy because grafting does not constrain the buttonhole in any way: structurally, grafting IS knitting. Rough handling will stretch these out. (For a good-looking buttonhole that can take a beating, use my&
My company is in the process of moving out of offices we've occupied for more than 40 years.It means decades of paperwork is being slung out, and with it a lot of storage devices which are increasingly a thing of the past - the humble box file.There are many uses which can be found for these for the railway modeller who has an urge to recycle.For example, slice up a redundant shoe box and you can transform you old box file into a cheap & cheerful stock box perfect for storing up to half a dozen…
The Most Transparent Administration Ever!
I'm in need for some lighthearted stuff. I finally finished a painting from a few months ago, and did a quick gouache doodle in my notebook using the Google captcha look (but slightly wrong). Gonna redo that on proper paper some time with taping off sections, nicer letters and the correct amount of squares; but I think that is so fun, I can think of so many things to draw in this design. I really wanna make (and post) more art. Over the weekend, we hosted friends for some MtG. Baked a cake,…
This post was written entirely by a flesh-and-blood human and therefore represents the pinnacle of artistic expression and human achievement. Too many slop grenades these days. LLMs are cool and all, but does every Slack message need to be a bulleted list where the first sentence of each item is bold? I recently read one too many blog posts with the phrase, "it's not X, it's Y" as a one-line paragraph and finally snapped. It is now my life's mission to purge selfish LLM usage from the internet.…
A poem by David White. Your great mistake is to act the dramaas if you were alone. As if lifewere a progressive and cunning crimewith no witness to the tiny hiddentransgressions. To feel abandoned is to denythe intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,even you, at times, have felt the grand array;the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowdingout your solo voice. You must notethe way the soap dish enables you,or the window latch grants you freedom.Alertness is the hidden discipline of…
I noticed the first drops of rain from this event riding back over Wanstead Flats from the Holly Tree around 10pm, thoughts of Messi’s majesty in Argentina’s win against Austria fast being replaced by watching clouds bubbling overhead. Reaching home the drops didn’t come to much and I wondered if the action would miss us, like so many damp squibs in the past. Nevertheless, I closed the roof windows and sure enough the first heavy rain arrived at 0130. And rumbled on and off for another four…
We have three rescue cats. People ask me what that’s like, and I never know how to answer. It’s like running a small, chaotic republic where the government is feline, the laws change daily, Jane handles Interior Affairs (litter logistics, vet diplomacy, treaty negotiations), and I am merely the Minister of Food Distribution. They arrived in our lives the way most good things do: by accident. The rescue centre in Trento had a habit of calling us whenever they had a cat that was too weird, too…
May was a great month for casual gamers, with pretty much every week having a release for every taste and mood. Thrifty Business was released during this cozy-indie wave on the 18th of May and just like the name gives away, this is a management game where you run your own thrift store. The game was developed and published by Spellgarden Games, the same studio that made Sticky Business, another game I really enjoyed and recommend whenever someone asks for a laid-back game recommendation. I’ve…
Last full day in the UK, where they do doorbells well.
Recently, I came across two different elements in Capcom games that seemed to be related — one in the original Street Fighter and the other in Final Fight. The popular explanation online says that both are homages to the same real-life Capcom employee, but because they manifest differently in their respective games, I wasn’t sold. If there’s one takeaway I’d want from my Mario 101 project, however, it’s that confusing, overlapping and sometimes even contradicting origin stories can exist…
Spectacular footage likely to be seen everywhere soon. Prime fodder for Ozzyman. Text article. Many more videos, etc.
Whenever one of my lectures covers the topic of Greco-Roman agriculture, I always include the ‘Aristophanes the Astrologer’ passage from Agathias Scholasticus – it may be 6th century CE, but it expresses a timeless reality that speaks to the countless generations of Norfolk tenant farmers in my paternal line as well as to the facts of life in the classical Mediterranean. Will my harvest be successful this year? the client asks. If you carry out all the necessary tasks at the appropriate time,…
We left Bedford last week in the midst of war but, like many towns in the country, thinking ahead. Planning for a better Britain to emerge from the destruction and sacrifice of war was a motif of the time and in this Bedford’s civic leaders were typical. In the event, the grander aspirations of the era were rarely fulfilled but they left a significant mark in the town as did a broader post-war revolution in housing provision In December 1942, the more energetic ambitions of Alderman SB Morling,…
Last month I visited Uruguay for the second time since I moved out. The first time I visited I took my German boyfriend, who also wanted to trade a winter month for a summer one, and spent most of the time introducing him to everyone and showing him around in what I sometimes call a nostalgia tour. I am proficient at nostalgia touring. Doing it with someone else is always a bit disappointing, because, although they can, if you're good at talking about it, understand what you feel about things,…
Bruno posted today about the impact and utility of different approaches to choice in narrative games. It's a very good post! You should read it! Bruno approached this topic, in my opinion, with an enormous amount of restraint. He's responding to a Narrascope talk which annoyed me so much I was unable to finish it. So I'll say something more emphatic than Bruno: if you read Bruno's post and the stuff he's saying about choices feels very natural to you... or if reading it opens up a landscape of…
I’m hosting July’s IWBC and the timing is perfect since I split my reading year into to halves, which means I’m starting with an empty shelf in July. The book I picked is “To Have or to Be” by Erich Fromm. I read this book now more than 20 years ago, and I remember having a great impact on young me. And so I started wondering what current me would think of it. And the IWBC is a good excuse to pick it up a second time. If you decide to read it and post a review on your blog, make sure to send me…
When Intel designed the 80386, they gave it a trick for hiding memory latency: Early Start. Instead of waiting for an instruction to reach its memory micro-op, the 386 begins the next instruction's address work — effective address, segment relocation, the bus cycle — in the last cycle of the current instruction. Intel put it at about 9% of overall performance. It is also the source of the POPAD bug.
It's all going on! KEIR STARMER RESIGNS This is the sixth time a Prime Minister has resigned in the last ten years. 24 Jun 2016: David Cameron 24 Jul 2019: Theresa May 07 Jul 2022: Boris Johnson 20 Oct 2022: Liz Truss 05 Jul 2024: Rishi Sunak 22 Jun 2026: Keir Starmer Note that only Rishi Sunak resigned as Prime Minister on these dates, the others resigned as leader of their party forcing a leadership election. Only Rishi lost a General Election, the others were all personal decisions. Note…
Pagalache the clown walks into a patisserie. Behind the marble stands the owner, a man with cold hands and a folded white life, who looks up from his wiping and says we’re closed; and Pagalache, who has never in his life heard a closed thing, says: she had a smell. You have to start at the smell, he says, or none of the rest of it lands. She smelled like the inside of a tuba; the spit valve specifically, not the bell, any idiot loves the bell. He loved the valve: the warm brass and the held…
There’s nothing quite as comforting as a bowl of homemade White Chicken Chili as a quick supper on a busy weeknight. This creamy, hearty dish is a delicious twist on traditional chili, made without tomatoes and instead built on tender chicken, mild jalapeños, soft white beans, and a warming blend of herbs and spices. A swirl of sour cream and a splash of cream at the end give it that velvety finish that keeps everyone coming back for seconds.It’s simple to make, wonderfully satisfying, and…
The Trump Administration Just Keeps Losing in Court... It's not exactly a secret that lawsuits brought by the Trump administration don't generally go well in court, outside of the Supreme Court. But even with that caveat, the White House has been on a very bad run lately, with judges across the land saying: "Yeah, I don't think so." Click here for full story
