In my last post, I wrote about debugging the Nordic Semiconductor nRF54LM20 when a peripheral, specifically the Key Management Unit (KMU), writes directly to memory while the CPU is halted. Or I should really say that I wrote about debugging the application core (Cortex-M33), as the nRF54LM20 also has a RISC-V coprocessor (VPR) referred to as the Fast Lightweight Peripheral Processor (FLPR). Around the time that Nordic announced the VPR core, I wrote two posts; one about its architecture and…

The crew have just arrived this morning and are about to fire up the 934. She was left slumbering in Langford’s yard yesterday and I happened to see them as I was passing this morning… The lights are back on after several months slumber, Coalbridge Street awakens… I am on the road again, taking the layout to Uckfield on the 17th and 18th of this month. It seemed sensible to get it down from storage higher in the workshop and dust things down, clean the track and check what stock to take with…

If you can always give in a little more in a negotiation, you automatically give the other side a reason to keep pushing: after all, there is still room. The counterintuitive solution is to remove that room yourself. Give up, in advance, the authority to move any further, and the pressure disappears. Not because you negotiate harder, but because there is simply nothing left to gain by insisting. This is exactly what a salesperson does with “I’ll have to check with my manager”: they can no…

Once again this will be a post outside of the mainstream of the historical evolution of calculus. It is also another example of an independent parallel discovery in the history of mathematics, this time in medieval India. More specifically the so-called Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, a group of connected scholars active between the fourteenth and the early seventeenth centuries, who made contributions to the field of infinite series. Kerala is a comparatively small state consisting…

A lovely sunny day again. Did T and also mopped them. Cleared truck load of stuff out of silage lab. Brushed creeper leaves up and burnt them. Dot and Jane home.

October 7, 2026 Our aspiring bank employee is our heroine today! I particularly love this woman; she’s doing things MUCH more cleverly than many of us did 40 years ago when we were trying to take over the world… Her inspiration is this lovely painting: At the end of September, our heroine had a 40-piece wardrobe. She’s never had any sense that anybody at her office every notices that she wears a lot of navy, a few accents colors, and nothing else. Clothing isn’t nearly the most important thing…

At the end of the previous post in this unexpected series about iOS Safari’s tab control design, I wrote: This is how interaction systems slowly fall apart. […] It is likely that Safari’s exception will now be treated as “blessed,” and start spreading further. Given enough time, more and more pills will go in whatever direction they want when dragged – and people will learn not to trust any of them. I didn’t quite get this right, as it seems this has already happened. It might have been Safari…

Before moving on to more pressing matters, a nod of approval for the label design of the two latest beers from Lineman. The calming blues and purple invoke placid oceans and mellow night skies. They make it clear from the outset that you're dealing with a class act.But it's the liquid that counts, of course. The first liquid is a pale ale called Cirrus. Strata and Citra is the no-messing hop combination, and there's no messing in the aroma. Citra's zingy grapefruit is to the fore, but Strata's…

I started these quarterly logs at the start of the year so this is the fourth one, meaning I have now covered a whole year. 📃 Blog: Four posts and the big thing being I hosted the IndieWeb Carnival and it got some very good submissions. Haven’t got around to the roundup post yet, but I will. Surprisingly my stream of conciseness writing on reading books on my phone got shared and read widely. On the science fiction blog I have covered a handful of really good highly recommended stories, with an…

Independent ships rely on the six great institutions in order to operate, so all captains pledge to an agreed set of terms, sworn by each new crewmember upon boarding.The ship’s continued independence is contingent upon being seen to uphold these six terms, each ratified by one of the institutions.We honour our deals - FXTWe respect autonomy - SovereignWe follow the rules - NCAWe leave peace in our wake - KonkordWe hold all to account - Justice UnionWe let none stand alone - StarpathIf a term…

Book review for The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow. I rated it 4.5 stars. The Everlasting had been on my TBR for a while, but when I heard it had won both the 2026 Hugo and Locus Fantasy awards, that bumped it up to the top of the list. From the cover and the name, I'll be honest I had the assumption it was going to be your run-of-the-mill fantasy novel (but decent, considering it won an award) but there were a couple of twists in there that I found quite interesting. For one the plot itself is…

Whenever I'm feeling a little low, I'll take a luxurious bubble bath (while listening to Kenny G), and then enjoy some Stuff From Da Box! Join me, won't you? I mean for the Stuff, not the bubble bath (which is only for me and my vinyl walrus).First up is this little employee pin given to somebody at Michigan Bell. Do the three stars mean three years? Or thirty? I would guess that this is from the 1930s.Next is another employee badge, from the Cadillac Motor Co. Car division, that is. It has a…

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries. Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson – there are few things as exciting as a new…

Not Quite Human II (1989)

It’s always a good day when a new title in the British Library Crime Classics range pops through the door, and a recent arrival looked to be an enticing read. It’s another one of their stellar anthologies, this time titled “Eat, Drink and Be Murdered”, and as you might have guessed, the setting and subject matter of these stories involves anything edible or drinkable, or indeed located in somewhere which prepares these items! Expertly curated, as usual, by series editor Martin Edwards, the…

Listen to this episode here. Further Reading Liminal Horror, Heart, Blades in the Dark, Cairn Socials Craig on Bluesky and Linktree Sam on Bluesky and itch The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory, our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey, and our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show! Credits Our logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is…

In September, we were graced with the Movie Scene Map, an interactive map that makes it easy to find where iconic movie scenes were filmed, and the World Cinema Atlas, which allows you to discover movies by where they were set Now, a new interactive map lets you discover films by both where and when they take place.If you have a keen interest in watching a movie set in a particular time and place, then TitleAtlas is the interactive map for you. For example, you could use TitleAtlas to search…

A Victorian style rustic fence over a streamI grew up near Central Park, but I am less familiar with its northernmost parts. Last Saturday had fabulous weather - a great time to explore the park. The north end of the park was intentionally designed to be an area of hills, hikes, and nature. Since the park's opening, a large public pool and some ball fields have been added, but this part of the park is very much substantially the way Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, the park's designers,…

That Terrible Trumpeting, That Questing BeastWhat am I pursuing in all this writing and re-writing? There is a noise, a call, the sound of laughter and a tale well-told. It looms just over the horizon, taunting me ever on. As soon as I crest the hill... gone. There is joy in planting a tree, in watching it grow, but what a tragedy to let the fruit rot on the limb. These games are meant to be played. Folks of LuneOld Ideas... Tinfolk - People of clockwork and churning gears. They often adventure…

For a long time I've used laptop touchpads with the buttons that were placed somewhere above or below them. You wanted to click or right-click, you had a button for it. Then they stopped putting buttons near touchpads, which was incredibly annoying. You see, I rest my laptop on my belly when I am lying in bed and it's rather cumbersome to reach that bottom right corner to tap in order to right-click, so I often accidentally just click, which is enervating. What made it more confusing is that…

I think I blogged about this the last time this happened, too, but tonight I did another crosstown metrobike ride. I don't have good pictures of this, and I won't share the route because it is a bit too revealing of my physical location, but basically: I rode a dutch bike over eight miles across west LA in complete darkness, and it wasn't very comfortable! I am still grateful that we have rent-a-bikes in LA at all - they have saved my ass several times - but riding long distances on dutch bikes…

When it comes to fantasy RPGs that revolve around the balance of the natural world, the four classical elements are basically your standard starter pack. But not every real-world philosophy limited itself to wind, water, earth and fire — and as a result, more than a few fictional video game philosophies cast a broader net as well. In fact, the Mana series uses eight elements and even perfected its conception of elemental magic in Legend of Mana, only to inexplicably step away from it in later…

The June 2026 LEGO® Creator 3-in-1 releases provided three "decor" sets with a pastel colour palette. I received two copies of 31383 Floral Decor Perfume Bottle and one each of 31392 Music Decor Piano with Cat and 31390 Floral Art Decor Painting to use in my own mini parts-fest, to make MOCs with some of the interesting pieces.Continue reading »

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What is a wall rosary? A wall rosary is just like a regular rosary with the following difference: it’s too large to fit in your pocket. To non-Catholics it makes look like a gigantic necklace but it’s so much more than a mere decoration. The rosary is a Catholic devotion that includes the Our Father, … Continue reading The Significance of a Wall Rosary in Your Domestic Church The post The Significance of a Wall Rosary in Your Domestic Church first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The post The…

Finished reading: Blood rising by Markus Redmond 📚 This book follows up on the Markus Redmond’s Blood Slaves. It’s not as brutal as the first book, but can still be pretty hard to read during some of the violent parts. Still has some scenes that made me wonder what exactly the author wants to do.

Last year, as I approached forty years old, I mused about one of the things I missed most about being a kid -- enthusiasm. Not having it, but people being responsive to it. Everybody loves when a kid is excited about something, and they'll often go out of their way to indulge in that excitement. The kid who loves flying gets a tour of a cockpit; the kid who loves cooking might get some tips from a chef. Adults don't get that. That's not wrong -- it's wholly understandable why not -- but it is…

At the very end of last year, we were exchanging books in the Local Local Library LLL [see L]. The same building hosts a Community Hub meeting room outside of which there was a scrappy timetable indicating which aspects of 'community' were hubbing in town. I wasn't pushed about cross-stitch Wedneesday but was interested in the local chapter of Fáilte Isteach: which is a community project involving predominantly older volunteers welcoming migrants through conversational English classes. I am…

Didn’t Watch: See Seasonal Impressions Three shows that any other season would all be anime of the year contenders. And I’m doing better at watching less bad anime!!! Goals!!! 19. Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky — F I was mostly enjoying this until a twist near the end made me furious. What a stupid show. 18. From Overshadowed to Overpowered: Second Reincarnation of a Talentless Sage — D- Ok I still watched one anime I really shouldn’t have… 17. That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime —…

DRAFT DEPT OFLABORSEALGOESHERE U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration Denton Area Office Route 2181, Denton, Texas Inspection Number: 1975-RHPS-0001 Inspection Date(s): One night in November, rain Issuance Date: 06 Oct 2026 Citation and Notification of Penalty To:Frank-N-Furter, d/b/a RKO Radio PicturesThe Castle (no street address; follow the light over at the Frankenstein place) Denton, Texas Inspection Site:Laboratory, upper floor. Access via elevator.…