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The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Great Divorce. He tells the story as a dream. Souls in Hell get a chance to visit Heaven for one day. A bus takes them there. Each person meets someone from ...

Lunastationärer Orbit

Gibt es ein Äquivalent zum geostationären Orbit für den Mond? Nein, gibt es nicht.

Grokipedia Thinks I Wrote About Persona Q2 (I Have Never Played Persona Q2)

I became aware that Grokipedia, the Grok-powered AI answer to Wikipedia, had cited to my NLJ article Outline Guide to Persona 3 FES The Answer. I previously wrote about Grokipedia making questionab...

Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa

Requirement to be added to “jobs in which Japanese is used.” For foreigners wanting to work in Japan, one of the most common paths into the country is through a Specialist in Humanities/Internation...

Even in 2026, Linux Is Still Adding Support for Sega Dreamcast’s GD-ROM from the '90s

Linux continues to surprise. Linux kernel saw a new patch that adds support for Sega Dreamcast’s GD-ROM, a ’90s-era console technology that refuses to fade away.

I Hate Insurance!

So yesterday I received an email from Admiral, our insurance provider, where we have a combined policy for both our cars and our home. Last year this cost £1,426.00, but this year the renewal had g...

A 5,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Bread Found in Türkiye Reveals an Unusual Ritual Use

During the 2024 excavation campaign at Küllüoba Höyük, an archaeological mound located west of the Turkish province of Eskişehir, researchers encountered something unusual. Beneath a half-meter lay...

Daily News Stuff 6 April 2026

Break Fast And Move Things Edition Top Story Samsun has raised its contract memory prices by another 30%. (Notebook Check) That's after doubling their prices in the first quarter, and whatever they...

Happy Public Health Week

We're off this week!

Apple's Rare Concession: When Critical Vulnerabilities Meet the 'Update Refusal' Wave - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #130

For iOS users, recent news about the Coruna and DarkSword vulnerabilities has become unavoidable. Both exploit chains use watering hole attacks, requiring no user interaction — simply visiting a le...

Aimery versus Ralph

The King of Jerusalem, Aimery of Lusignan, had a problem with his seneschal, Ralph of Saint-Omer: he accused the seneschal (who had hopes of becoming King of Jerusalem before the election went to A...

Actually overflowing

So we are preparing the plants that we are going to have in our garden in this season (cucumbers, courgettes and tomatoes), but we are going on holidays when we need to take care of the little plan...

Killing Open Source

NOTE: As usual, this blog expresses my opinions and not those of my employer I first got exposed to modern open source in the late 1990s, and I think it was via Red Hat Linux version 5, or perhaps ...

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 6] - Monday, with Government Weather

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 6]Day Six Well, if it’s got to be Monday, at least it’s a Monday during Na/GloPoWriMo, so the work-week can start off with a bountiful crop of poems! Our featured participant ...

Uma’s first proper trail walk at Bidjigal Reserve

It wasn’t planned that she would walk all the way. I was ready to carry her at least three-fourths of the way. I would have been more than happy if she had walked a kilometer. But it so happened th...

Alice Kilpatrick and the Richmond Hotel

In the first decades of the twentieth century, when segregation narrowed opportunity and Black mobility was constrained by law, custom, and violence, African American women quietly built institutio...

Weeknotes 2026-04-05 Easter Sunday

It is a new month! Yesterday was Easter Sunday. These weeknotes are a day late because I was busy yesterday. The World And yet, the Iran conflict is still ongoing. Trump has made his Nth ultimatum ...

Grammar

The Uncanny Valley

Or, why almost-human is worse than not-human at all.

Nourishment

Palm Sunday was good yesterday, thanks for asking. Getting through the Divine Liturgies has been easier. My feet still hurt, but not as much. I'm usually quite drained afterward, and instead of cha...