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I was going to go and see Life Without Buildings play in London later in the month, but decided the logistics were getting a bit complicated (and expensive; train, hotel) just for one gig. So I sold the ticket via the approved service, Twickets. Which was a bit of a pain – having to upload the same PDF three times for some reason – and also required having a PayPal account. I closed mine a while back because I never used it, and this meant I didn’t have to worry about whether emails from…

After the digital palimpsest I was thinking about crosswriting. Hover or click to see the text better. The effect will absolutely be lost in an RSS reader and I've no idea how it will look, sorry. The last one also doesn't look great on mobile. Another way people were saving money on parchment - and postage - was crosswriting. When stationery is expensive and postage is charged by the sheet (as well as distance) you are going to maximise your usage of that sheet. Envelopes counted as a page,…

I’d be remiss if i didn’t answer my own prompt for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival. I don’t expect anyone to answer the whole quiz, let alone without prior research, but i wanted to have a go at the full twenty questions. So here’s where i’m at. 1. Trace the water you drink from precipitation to tap The Rhône begins its life in the eponymous glacier, near the Gotthard Massif, and flows through Lake Geneva. It reaches Lyon from the north-east, but a few kilometres before the city, the Jonage and…

Tekkoh on an iPhone Duo opened flat: the margin of the day on the left, your words on the right. (All the screenshots here are of a made-up demo journal.) Tekkoh is a journal for iPhone.

The slide into autumn was a welcome one. The heat of summer now forgotten, the darkness fell quickly. The trees have erupted in flame colours, a beautiful show. Maybe it's Halloween or maybe it's this slide into the dark nights, but I read and watched a lot of horror this October. More on that later. Life I had ten days off work in the middle of the month, which was great. We went up to the Peak District and walked along Bamford Edge and through Chee Dale. It was very needed to spend some time…

Last week, the Wikimedia developers switched mathematics rendering on the English-language Wikipedia to a new system, so badly broken that it cannot correctly render the inequivalence relation symbol \(\not\equiv\), with formulas often partially obscured by other content such as images preventing them from being viewed, and intermittently not showing some formulas in footnote mouseovers at all. The changeover does not appear to have fixed old and long-unfixed bugs such as the inability to use…

What can’t “AI” do? Recursive next token prediction is so powerful because it names actions. Power is an action. AI with hands, with executing environments, with padded enablers written by the brightest minds in software engineering and financed by endless pockets – that is very powerful. It can do just about anything. So … what’s…

As noted recently plug plants are effective and economical if you are willing to play the long game. These are Lesser Calamint (Calamintha nepata), exceptionally good value at 10 for £15.50 including delivery- in fact there were 11 in the box so even better! Moreover these arrived as tough little specimens (probably divisions) rather than tender seedlings. These were ready to plant out plus several I potted up position tbc in the spring. It's a great little plant for well drained soil in sun…

Couldn’t prevent myself from implementing support for socialspec.org as a plugin in GoBlog, given it already supports most of the pieces like automatic blogroll and feeds, and I must have just had to add redirects and some CORS handling. As I’m not an iOS user and can’t use the HyperTexting app, I don’t really have any use out of it, but initiatives supporting the open web are nice anyway. You can see my profile at sodir.org. Interactions & Comments

Sunday, November 8, 2026 - 09:32 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project When we know essentially nothing about the personal lives of people being referenced in intriguing ways, the temptation for historians is always to fill in the details with speculation or assumption. But that's when the world-view of the person doing the speculating and assuming can have an outsized impact on how the facts are interpreted for posterity. Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #584 D’Angelo 1990 Women Partners in…

Recently, I set out to read and reread, watch and rewatch, and view and review The Porn Library archives. This time, I reread David Foster Wallace’s “Big Red Son,” which was published under a pseudonym in Premiere magazine in 1998.Here’s an excerpt:“It is difficult to describe how it feels to gaze at living human beings whom you’ve seen perform in hard-core porn. To shake the hand of a man whose precise erectile size, angle, and vasculature are known to you. That strange…

Not to play the white knight, but I don’t understand abusive men. I can’t comprehend being so upset that I would act out against people I love. When children do that, we get them help, look at them sideways, whisper, He needs to see someone. That’s not right. But a grown man gets a slap on the wrist, maybe a police report and a recommendation for anger management? I awoke to some drama. My wife has a best friend who lives in a city four hours away. They grew up together, both children of…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Excitement mounts as Marvel celebrates its 25th birthday!And a thrilling, action-packed cover tells us that Iron Man's on board with it.And he's not the only one present, because this issue sees Simon Steel inflict an updated version of the Iron Monger upon no lesser target than Dominic Fortune.However, as you might expect, Shellhead gets in the villain's way.But not in time to save…

San Francisco Bay, as seen from Alcatraz Island. The post Alcatraz View appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

this blog in a Tweet ARR should mean "annual[ised] recurring revenue" but it is getting bastardised in a chase for flashy metrics. Don't get dragged into the nonsense or you'll lose credibility with the investors you actually want. what is ARR?The proper meaning of ARR is "annual[ised] recurring revenue". Each one of those three words is important, so let's take them one by one. annual[ised]To annualise something means to approximate an annual equivalent of a point-in-time number. Most…

Clear skies and unseasonal warmth.

The Jillon is one of those things, like car crashes, large buildings falling and public assassinations - in as much as you cannot tear your eyes away from it. No matter the fact that you have more than an inkling how it’s going to end for everyone involved (and maybe that’s why we can’t turn away), you just keep on watching. While crashes, falling and assassinations have variable results and rewards, I do have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of The Jillon, even though at times my…

I've seen a couple of people around the "blogosphere" (we still use that term right?) post about how they have created a photo "slash page", similar to how many blogs have a "now" page.As I've recently changed my camera system I thought this is the perfect time to create my own which you can find here and also in the navigation bar.I'm planning to write a post about my new camera and why I've changed it in a future (likely next) post.

Recently someone on BlueSky asked ‘would 20 year old you be impressed or disappointed by who you are today?’. My immediate response was ‘both, in spades’. There’d be certain things about my life that she’d be wildly impressed by, others that might cause significant disappointment. But you don’t have to take my word for it, […]

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Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950 It’s Noirvember, a time to celebrate the shadowy riches of film noir, and in Where the Sidewalk Ends, the badge is no guarantee you’re on the right side of trouble. In Otto Preminger’s Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), Gene Tierney reunites with her Laura director and co-star Dana Andrews, this … Continue reading Noirvember! Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950: A Badge Is No Alibi

I noticed that the markdown version of my daynotes was not displaying links and upon review of the source I notice that it has HTML tags that are not rendered in Dave’s markdown browser, which he is calling BonBonWeb. I had Claude update the script to convert HTML tags to markdown.

For many, many years I considered Shenandoah National Park to be the setting of one of the worst experiences of my life. It was a Boy Scouts camping trip, and more specifically a canoeing trip. We set out early on a Saturday with all of our camping gear in a fleet of canoes, and were to camp overnight by the side of the river before proceeding again the next day to the pull-out point. I remember every single thing as having gone disastrously. By definition I was a young teen at the time, and…

“Furries, Uh, Find a Way” TO MY EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS For your convenience, I make the full content of my posts available in the email you’ve requested to receive, rather than in the form of an excerpt. However, the careful formatting I give to each post never shows up quite right when displayed in email form. For this reason, I highly recommend you look at it on your browser in a desktop computer. This post is long overdue: Megaplex took place almost three months ago. It is now early November and…

See below for the module's analogue. I enjoyed Ravenloft, but I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it as much if it had been my only exposure to the Ravenloft setting. In all Dungeons & Dragons computer games, there's a sense of being part of a larger, ongoing world, and the player's enjoyment of those games is heightened if he catches various allusions and references. I personally don't catch most of them, I hasten to add, but it happens a few times per game. A player who comes to Ravenloft…

Back in 2019 I wrote about moving my side projects from dokku to Google Cloud Run. I loved dokku’s git push workflow but got tired of tending a Linux box like a pet.

I need more Curson. I need more Curson. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize I’m on a mission to try and find more of Ted Curson’s stuff. I have a couple of his albums since before and I have been looking for this one on Fontana for quite a while. Very happy to file this original mono sample copy which is in outstanding condition. The first tune, which is a Curson…

We had a lot of fun this weekend in the Nashville store. IYKYK We had a lot of fun this weekend in the Nashville store. IYKYK What’s Still “Worth It”? (via Rachel’s Reflections). An interesting look at recent fountain pen price increases, in context. Bloggiversary. Fountain Pen Blog is 10! (via Fountain Pen Blog). Any bloggiversary is a worthy accomplishment now that everything is seemingly moving to social media more and more. 10 years is amazing!Larger Notebooks from My Collection (via…