I’m amused by the number of double cab utes I see towing trailers with the capacity to actually accommodate the materials they need to cart…

I’d be completely out of luck!

They’ve become a regular part of my Sunday morning routine

Is it compatible with my 3D TV?

There’s an apostrophe between the t and the r

Congratulations, if you made it through 2025 intact. May 2026 be better than you hope, and, as always, be kind to one another

Best thing I discovered, this year, was setting a focus mode, on my Apple Watch, to kill notifications during my daily walk. I don’t know why it took me years to figure out I could do that.

Mine too. Better get it resurrected!

That just unlocked memories of using MKS RCS, but predominantly I used SCCS.

Email and calendar made better Fast, private email hosting for you or your business. More productive, lightning fast, simple and built to save you time.

Yes, to both. I have several domains mapped to my account, and I can create aliases. There’s a product tour and migration guides at www.fastmail.com that should give you a clear idea if it will be a good fit for you.

Very happy with FastMail

FIFAFO

And a touch of Pentangle…

Do you think the bubble will burst?

Are you advocating Violets?

I've just been doing this very thing!

Photograph of The Mythical Man-month, a book by Frederick P Brooks Jr, bought at the University Book Shop, Dunedin, 1986, for the princely sum of NZD64

Just behind me on my book shelf. Can you believe what I paid for it as a poor student in 1986? (NZD)

Because, of course, terraforming Mars will be a doddle compared with, say, terraforming, er, Earth…

They need to signal this hard and often, in opposition, too; give notice to that not plans should be made to benefit from these harms.

And now, in your twilight years, explain how you meet the bank’s income requirements to actually pay a mortgage… hmmm.

“Hey! Wayne! Not there!”

You can drop them off at your local lab (Awanui Labs in our neck of the woods), I find that just as convenient as trying to find a post box!

They brought back gaslighting, so I guess, paper rounds and chimney sweeping, why not?

^out == our

We have one paper delivered to one house in out cul de sac of around 40 households, at two in the morning, by car. Opportunity abounds for the young jobseeker!

Imagine if you had a coworker who credibly lied to you two days out of five. How long would that working relationship last?

"Save" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline

Aphex Twin, though… balm!

Up to her elbows in debt

These clowns don’t see the huge windfall for business that could be built on affordable infrastructure, education, and health. Always in it for the short-term gain. Fools.