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Pliny's encyclopaedia.

January 16, 2024 - 16:54 -- Admin

I’ve been reading Pax, Tom Holland’s awesome history of Rome’s ‘Golden Age’, the two centuries beginning in AD 69, with the Empire teetering on the edge of collapse and civil war. It’s heaps good.

The tragedy of the commons.

January 16, 2024 - 08:42 -- Admin

I was listening to The Self Publishing Show this morning while I walked the dogs around the hill. James Blatch was interviewing Alex Smith from a service called Book Vault, which lets indie authors sell hard copies of their books direct from their websites.

Smith explained that they launched the service with free uploads, but quickly had to introduce a one-time upload fee of about $20 per book because some grifting arsehat uploaded 20,000 different kitten picture books.

Robot smoker.

January 15, 2024 - 06:29 -- Admin

Apropos of yesterday’s beefypalooza, I saw this pick of consumer electronic goodies from CES in the New York Times over the weekend. And I was… unsure of my response.

It’s basically the Nespresso machine of smokers.

Beef time.

January 14, 2024 - 17:24 -- Admin

With Jane interstate for a couple of days my thoughts turned immediately to barbecue. I had an emergency beef slab laid away at the back of the freezer, waiting for just the right moment.

And today was that moment.

Breakfast wrap showdown.

January 13, 2024 - 07:50 -- Admin

We became a one-car family when my old car somehow became my daughter’s uni car. It’s meant that even though I work from home, I’m out on the road most mornings dropping Jane to the pool or gym before dropping her to the office. (It’s always gym for me. I’m not a swimmer.)

I realised the other day that I’d eaten the same breakfast for about three weeks running. The old reliable breakfast wrap. Probably called a burrito on the other side of the lake.

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