When the Third Council of Braga was held in 675 (a century after the Second), the Visigothic king at the time tried to influence it.Wamba, whose name means "big paunch," became king in 672. There was an immediate double revolt to deal with. A rival for the kingship, Hilderic the governor of Nîmes in southern France, was suppressed by a general named Paul sent by Wamba.That general, however, convinced the men under him to renounce their loyalty to the king and support Paul himself instead. He…

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I arrived with a map my father had copied for me. On the first evening it led me to a kitchen, and from there to a small room with a bed. He had even…

TPAC is W3C's yearly work week. A large part of the Working Groups and all sorts of committees get together to collaborate in person (mostly hybrid). This post has some things I got out of it this year. Some of my week had been slightly overbooked, as is the faith of most TPAC attendees. There is so much going on! Like last year, FOMO was had. Accessibility I spent some time with the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG), which is primarily focused on developing WCAG 3. I missed the…

It's that time of the year again when people start planning a visit to America's Hometown, Plymouth, Massachusetts. We visited the Plimoth Patuxet museums several times in 2026. The museum includes several sites, including the English village, the Patuxet Wampanoag homesite, Mayflower II and the Grist Mill. Here is a collection of photos we took on those visits. For the truly curious:Plimoth Patuxet Museums https://plimoth.org/ See Plymouth (the official tourism site for Plymouth County)…

'Do it all by ourselves, cos we can'The 1977 punk scene brought to life, warts and all: a song cycle about the beginning of it all. Thursday 12th November, Glasgow Old Hairdresser'sSupport from Lorraine LucasTickets: https://wegottickets.com/f/26674/

Swimming is a big part of Icelandic culture. So much so that the city of Reykjavik has a website that shows you the current capacity at their swimming pools. If you inspect the webpage and dig deep enough, you can find the page where the API lives. There is no mention of how official this is, or if it is even open to use, but the JSON can be fetched via a simple GET request. The JSON is (currently) available here: https://rsconnect.reykjavik.is/gestafjoldi_api/nuna It is their only pool-related…

Here’s a question that comes up more often than you might think: If you publish a DMARC policy of p=reject, do the biggest mailbox providers actually reject the mail that fails? Or are Google and Microsoft letting failed mail through, maybe dropping it into a spam folder or placing it in quarantine instead?The short answer: No, Google and Microsoft are not ignoring your p=reject. Consumer Gmail and Outlook.com (what we used to call Hotmail) reject failing mail. Yup. And on the business side,…

To optimize the performance metrics of this blog, I relied on Amazon CloudFront to serve the assets,1 and Route 53 for the geo-aware DNS2 to direct readers to the closest host serving the content. But Route 53 is expensive: US$0.50 per zone per month, US$0.70 per million geolocation queries, and US$0.75 per healthcheck per month, plus US$1 per month for the KMS key needed to sign zones with DNSSEC. When I discovered that Bunny DNS is almost free for up to 500 domains and features scriptable…

Through a series of events this morning, the John Birch Society came to mind. We have a local gas station that (years ago, at least) used to sell their literature. It’s where my dad bought a bumper sticker that read “Get US out of the UN.” Funny that anyone ever saw the UN as a threat.

It's just one thing after another: Having recently retired from playing the Victorian steam powered banjo with the mighty Capital Models I now find myself thrust into an unexpected performance piece with the eternal but unreliable force that is impossible songs. Thankfully it's a small slot, sub 20 bleak Scottish minutes, in an eclectic programme curated by the Heartbreak Diet/Uhersky Brod people. A fine bunch. Not for the general public either. Somebody has a rather big birthday it seems (and…

Eiichiro Sasaki had wanted to make a point-and-click adventure game since joining Capcom back in 1996. Instead, he worked on arcade games like Star Gladiator and Tech Romancer, then ended up in the planner role for Dreamcast fighting games like Power Stone 2 and Project Justice before sitting in the director’s chair for Resident Evil Outbreak. In the time in between Sasaki joining Capcom and 2007, when Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure released on the Wii, point-and-click adventure…

The mid-term elections were held in the United States and the Democrats won on a scale that I suspect we won’t see again for a long time (ABC News). Donald Trump will still be the president for another two years so it’s difficult to assess the impact at this stage but I hope it portends a broader rejection of authoritarianism in Western democracies. It felt like it’s been a while since I went to an art exhibition (it was back in July) and even longer since I last visited the National Art…

The old, dangerous method of making applejack is as follows: gather your apples and press them into cider ferment the soft cider into hard cider barrel the hard cider and leave it out overwinter Each time a nice thick skin of ice has formed, pull it out and re-close the barrel. After a few cycles, ice won’t form any more due to the high alcohol percentage, and it is ready for bottling. Don’t do this: methanol concentrates just as well as ethanol. Back to coffee: there is an area at the back of…

Just now starting to sort through the photographs. Hope to begin posting the daily log next week. Great trip all around!

Well, Valve bounced the Eggnob page because of my "comedy" reviews, which was a simple enough fix, meaning Eggnob is now officially on Steam! Flex those fingers, reader, and wishlist Eggnob here! Web Demo Performance Greatly Improved The web demo's always been a little disappointing, perf-wise, which I put down to "the browser", but... It turns out that if you're a dumb-ass, it's trivially easy to slip SDL into a mode where it's busy-waits its frame pacing, instead of using the vsync. Games in…

November’s Home Assistant update is here, and Frenck wasn’t messing about. They’re calling 2026.11 the biggest release they’ve ever done, which usually means either wonderful new toys or three hours spent trying to figure out why a template sensor is screaming at us in the logs. Since you can read the official changelog yourself, I’m just going to scrape off the fluff and look at what… Source

Viktor E. Frankl – who I did not know before finding this quote.

This week, Bethesda confirmed that the next game in their mega-selling Elder Scrolls series will be called The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. This was the most substantive information released about the game since a teaser trailer in 2018 confirmed it was in development. But the previous game in the series, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, was released in November 2011. Even granted that Bethesda has released several games in the interim in other series, that's a huge amount of time to wait for a game…

Winding down is a nice way to spin a big goof. It sounds business-like and responsible. It ignores the foolishness and the hubris that launched the idea to begin with. Elon Musk announced that Tesla is winding down its Cybertruck production line to make room for manufacturing more Cybercabs. It must be nice to have that much “fuck you money” to burn. I laughed that in the article linked above that Bloomberg is quoted as comparing the Cybertruck to the Edsel. Intriguingly we’ve seen a few more…

★★★★: Gripping. Great performances out of all of the main cast, especially Tom Wilkinson. Full of long, intense shots that really heightened the tension. Thoughts, questions, comments? Reply to this review.Note that my reviews are scored out of 4. And thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!

Cool and damp. The forsythia at the woods’ edge is yellow again, though this time not from blossoming. Bluebirds and blue jays are calling at the same time, an irrepressible burbling under the jeers.

After dinner we watched the darkening skies with wary eyes. Two occluded fronts were due to pass us, bringing buckets of rain and thunder. Somehow the first one missed us, and there’d be a few hours before the second one, maybe enough to reach harbour? Once we got to the lee of New Zealand, we dropped sail and started the engine. Navigating into an unknown port in the dark is always interesting. The channel to Opua is well lit with lateral marks and sector lights, but it was still useful to…

A Friday Hodgepodge 1. Alex Tabarrok shows off his "sky roomba" robotic window cleaner and makes a good economics point while he's at it.I'm going to look into getting one of these... 2. A role-playing enthusiast, upon reading phrases like apply your full hp to the task in a text from a century ago knows that the abbreviation doesn't stand for hit points -- and makes the neat/amusing connection that:a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual…

“So long as you keep getting up in the morning, putting one foot in front of the other, and trying to do the right thing, sometimes good things happen.” - Heather Cox Richardson 11/4/2026Hello friends! The world looks brighter to me today, and it’s not just because the sun has finally emerged after several gray and cloudy days. The cold fronts have come in earnest too, bringing lots of feathered friends.Here are my photo choices for today:The view at sunrise on November 3, 2026 - a great…

13:59 - Went to the pet store to buy Boba food and saw that all the Lambchop (and Paul Frank) toys were on sale. I guess the Swiss are unfamiliar with this icon. 🐑 Bought this "companion" toy for Boba myself. It's for animals with anxiety (good for puppies, read the box). It has a battery-operated heartbeat!

Beretta is celebrating its 500th anniversary, and this unique piece is amazing. I give you the SO10 Kronos. The presser: Gardone Val Trompia, October 2026 – Beretta and the Italian timepiece maker La Vallée proudly unveil the SO10 Kronos, one of the most groundbreaking one-off creations conceived to celebrate Beretta’s 500th anniversary. A masterpiece of mechanical engineering, the SO10 Kronos celebrates the passage of time by bringing the artistry of haute horlogerie into the heart of…

A young Hungarian girl, Erika Kornélia Szeles, emerges from a building housing resistance fighters in Budapest, carrying a Mauser, November 1956. Note the knocked-out Soviet ISU-152 heavy self-propelled gun casually in the background. Photo by Danish journalist Vagn Hansen. After 11 years under a generally disliked Soviet occupation, a series of quiet events led to a full-blown rebellion in Budapest, with ripples across Hungary, in late October-early November 1956, remembered today in the…

Not long ago, a Mosin-Nagant cost under $100. Today, a plain Soviet M91/30 sells for about $300 to $500. SKS rifles and M1 Garands have climbed too. If you’re thinking of selling or trading in one of these, old price assumptions can cost you. Here’s how to tell what you’ve got and what it’s worth, so you don’t do that blind. We’ll also cover what else to know about these rifles before you sell. Why Mosin, SKS, and Garand Prices Keep Climbing One big reason is import restrictions. Chinese rifle…