A quick round-up of several Commodore 64 findings for September 2026, thanks to Nicol Walder, who has been digging through various disk collections and comparing their contents against missing titles within GTW and other archives. Among the games located are the missing Orbyte Software titles French, Italian and Spanish, along with Rats & Cats and an incomplete copy of Escape from Alcatraz from our Stack Light Rifle Games searches. Nicol has also located Inferential Anne 1 and Inferential Anne…

This month’s theme for Read Christie 2026 is ‘Best According to Agatha’, with the option of choosing any of the books on Christie’s own list of her top 10 favourites which she compiled in 1972. My choice was easy as the only one I hadn’t already read was The Moving Finger. First published in 1942, this is a Miss Marple mystery, although Miss Marple herself doesn’t appear until near the end. The book is narrated by Jerry Burton, a pilot who has been injured in a plane crash. He and his sister…

Double Maths First Thing is fair drawing in. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight in doing and talking (and singing) about maths. This week I’m in the undelightful state of “writing up maths I’ve already done”, which is preventing me from doing new maths. I don’t like it. Links Fractal Kitty is responsible for the Mathober prompts. Maths Week England is barely six weeks away, and starts on my birthday. This year, they’re running a prize…

In my recent visits to German and Polish museums, I noticed a recurring theme: modular industrial dashboards, which I imagine have by now been all replaced by software. I don’t know much about these – please write me if you do – but I wanted to share them anyway, perhaps for context, or amusement, or inspiration. They’re interesting design systems, and interesting interaction systems as well. This was a very cool physical display for air traffic control, at the The Deutsches Museum in Münich:…

Recently, I commented on Jake Ricker's trials and tribulations concerning his most famous body of work; and while I still deplore how his particular project ended, in retrospect, I think those copy cat jerks may have just done him the favor of his life. That is, after amassing his considerable body of work from years of persistent, daily commitment... it may just have been the right stimulus, at the right time, to make the right decision to call it a day and move on to other creative subjects…

Arriving late for summer, Witty Banter is a new limited edition witbier from Dew Drop Brewhouse in Kildare. It seems to be a very orthodox take, using orange peel and coriander, and one always has to ask: in a world that includes Hoegaarden, why bother?440ml barely touched the sides of my enormous Hoegaarden glass. If the recipe is orthodox, they've immediately veered from the archetype with the clarity: it's barely hazy at all. The aroma offers lots of Belgian banana, though the fruit and herb…

Absolutely here for the apple juice. Don't know who did this but 👍

I’ve been watching the launch of Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots somewhat… bemusedly, if you will. Being a regular Verge reader/listener, I am partial to Nilay Patel’s take that Silicon Valley’s “software brain” mentality has obscured both a lot of the actually practical uses of AI, and the unvarnished truth that the vast majority of people simply don’t care—or that they do care about the privacy and productivity impacts. Being too close to the coding agent madness (I am still poking at various…

Has this ever happened to you?You check your private messages and emails and have one that says:Your site doesn't show up on Bing!"Hmmm... that can't be true", you think to yourself, but when you check... It is, in fact, true.You've been de-Bing'd!Oh, the shame...Well, folks, don't dispair. I've been where you are. In fact, I am where you are, or have been, now! My little footprint on the web has been paved over and erased from Bing (and consequently DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, Yahoo, and a…

I wrote last week that my post-race blues after the 70.3 came from not being pushed to my limit. I have been thinking about it since and I don't think that's true. I am never satisfied. I have never celebrated a single thing I have done, not the marathons, not the 48 hours of running, not this. I am pleased when it is over and then I am on to the next one. Get across the line, get the medal, get in the car, and start thinking about what's next before we are out of the car park.I always thought…

The Great Dictator by Matthew Sweetpublished 2026 Writing about the Royals for the I newspaper recently, I picked up Matthew Sweet’s new biography of Barbara Cartland, marvellously titled The Great Dictator. I am a big fan of Matthew Sweet’s writing (click on the tag to find more from him), and although I was initially looking for the Dame’s connections with the royals - she was Princess Diana’s stepgrandmother, and a good friend of Lord Mountbatten - the book was hugely enjoyable all the way…

rose Started feeling a lot better; more hopeful, more together, more focused and motivated. I met up with Xaya, her girlfriend, and Kami in real life. :) went to a café, then went back to my place to play some games. I added new pictures to my blog - on my /now page and my author page. I bought new matcha and a Poron plushie. I love her so much, she is my favorite from Sanrio, but never really gets any merch or it is ugly (doesn't get her fluffy ears right). This one I really love. My Stardew…

I put my Steam Machine to sleep. The TV goes black. Three seconds later it's back, glowing, with Samsung's "check device power, turn on the device" screen, and the bastard stays there until I get up and find the remote. It's annoying AF, especially that I paid a fortune for this supposedly top tier fucking Samsung TV (designed for gaming). The TV doesn't have internet access, because I only use it for gaming, and the TV manufacturers' anti-consumer, privacy violating crusade does not bolster my…

September 30, 2026 I don’t know why I never think of combining these two colors – they’re both classic, and they go together beautifully. Sometimes, I have to see someone really eye-catching and elegant (but NOT expensive or dressy!) to get my brain started! First – of course I found a painting! There is always a painting… The first woman I saw was wearing the MOST simple jeans and chambray shirt, but her cardigan and boots were both burgundy, her scarf was perfection incarnate, and I have no…

Wednesday morning at World’s End and an imported locomotive and carriage arrive to be greeted by a rather average ukulele duo. In matching attire of course, for everyone knows that ukuleleists love a uniform, especially in red.However the somewhat out of tune rendition of Bad Moon Rising has forced Latin speaking horse whisperer Shamus O’Shandy and Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse to face the other way and take brief refuge behind the arriving train. The engine is without a crew,…

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One week at number one on 25th June 1988One undisclosed afternoon (or was it evening?) Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty – aka the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The KLF, Disco 2000 and now The Timelords – were fiddling around in their recording studio (or was it The Village recording studios in Dagenham?) trying to come up with a House beat which combined neatly with the “Doctor Who” theme tune. Their reasons for doing so made absolute sense at the time. The Doctor Who theme is one of the most…

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A song from a genre you didn’t think you’d like—what changed? Growing up, and through my time at Hospital Radio Lennox, there was one genre I just didn’t get. I begrudgingly would admit I enjoyed specific tracks but, the genre on a whole just wasn’t for me. It sounded like music for old people, those looking to a nostalgic past whereas I —young, vibrant, and very alive for the future— was plunging head long into grunge, electronica, dance, hip hop, and the other subgenres that exploded through…

Flixy asks me again to buy some of the bin bags that Trombone Tracey 'misbought'. I tell her no and say it's between her and TT. As is the whole issue of Flixy allowing TT to move out without paying the last month's rent (using the deposit) and failing to do a walk-through with her. Having done that, I say, Flixy should then have kept money back from the deposit for damages and for proper cleaning. The botched blue paint, scrapes, the nails and hooks, the daubs of Polyfilla, the dried slime (is…

The Mysterious Benefactor's many folders of scans contain a LOT of photos relating to the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Here's a bunch more, all featuring the little mine trains careening out of control along the rickety tracks.This is a nice one, with the landscape appearing particularly lush and green. So lush and green that I believe that the guests on that train are going to get slapped in the face by some leafy branches. GOOD! You know they did something bad, even if we don't know exactly…

When Harry Met Sally (1989)

I don’t quite know what it is about September, but it always seems to whizz past; maybe because I’m always back to work after the summer break and so things are frantic, with a lot of catching up! Whatever it is, this month has flown by in a flurry of busyness, but I *have* managed to get quite a lot of reading done, and here is the evidence! As always, a list of the titles in case all is not clear from the picture: The Country of the Pointed First – Sarah Orne Jewett A Happy Death – Albert…

Having a drink with Matt and JuliaHeres a shout-out to Julia Kalthoff, the Swedish axe-maker. We first became acquainted with Julia via an article in Quercus magazine, and immediately started carrying her axes thereafter. We finally met Julia in person at Handworks. She came all the way from Stockholm! Weve been out of stock of the axes for a while but good news were expecting a shipment next month. I also met for the first time Matt Johnson, a woodworker based in Iowa who was helping Julia…

Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Wiki, added portland island, and updated alcohol stove. Donsol, released on Itch.io! Legs, we made a last minute gizmo for Catjam 2026. Rabbit Waves, finished a page about One-time Pads. Rejoice, discovered infinity. Tote, added support for I/O. Korokobot, added a page on Processing Analog Art. We're disheartened to see a lot of the organization for direct action done on platforms that spy…

Anthropic released new eval tooling for Claude Code. Their claude-api plugin now includes a new build_eval and hill-climb command that helps you build evals, check the graders, and improve your application against them. I usually don’t review eval tools. Software changes so often that a review has a short shelf life. But a first-party tool from Anthropic is likely to influence how people approach evals, so I wanted to try it. Isaac Flath and I livestreamed ourselves using it on conversation…

A fresh project can be a great tonic. A distraction from procrastination and an opportunity to focus on achievable yet tangible results…Over the weekend, despite a busy day out on Saturday I made steady progress on Defiance throughout a lazy Sunday. Parts for the lid had been cut and assembled in the week, holes for plug sockets had been drilled so all the enablers were in place - it just needed me to sit down and make it happen. If you’re like me then you know how difficult that can…

I have been running models on my own machine for a while. Then I gave a few friends the URL, and a question came up that I could not answer: what does the server do when all of them press send at once? My guess was simple. One person gets about 60 tokens per second. Ten people split that, so each one gets 6. That guess is wrong. These are my notes on why. Short answer: A GPU running an LLM spends most of its time reading the model from memory, not doing math. Once the weights are read for a…