Ikea for cats. And yes, that is a cat house for Kallax!

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Recent Rereads: The Lost Worlds Of 2001. Finishing up my return to Clarke's take on Kubrick's film with this book of story sketches for the movie. It's a fascinating look from one side of a collaboration, at two disciplines creatively colliding. I wonder what Kubrick's story was?

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On my second listen-through of the new Taylor Swift album (which is excellent) and I keep circling round the thought that her experience of relationships is much like listening to Best Of Reddit Update and I can’t help but thinking we should be better at this by now…

Recent Rereads: 2001 A Space Odyssey. Continuing my reread of Clarke's writing around Kubrick's film. The novel was written in parallel and while the beats remain the same, the places are different. Discovery goes to Saturn and the stargate is more tangible. A classic travelogue.

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By John Callaham - Microsoft has announced that student teams from Turkey, the UK, and the US are the three finalists who will compete to win the grand prize in Microsoft's 2024 edition of the Imagine Cup event. #Microsoft #ImagineCup #2024 neowin.net/news/turkey-uk…

Egyptian goose on the remains of the lower weir on the Wandle delta.

Recent Rereads: Sundowner. The final part of Chris Claremont's space soap opera finally goes to the stars, if only to end abruptly and somewhat rushed. Was the book too long for more than the deus ex machina space squid? Or for Nichole and Ben's reunion? Many many loose threads.

May 1st 2024 is the official end-of-support date for much of Xamarin, including its Forms cross-platform UI layer. Over at @infoworld I look at migrating to .NET and how to choose a new UI toolkit. MAUI, Uno, or Avalonia? And how do you make the move?

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Spotted in a bookstore in the City of London just now…

Einaudi's film music played with a guitar sounds remarkably like Yann Tiersen.

I need brain bleach. I just read through all of the candidate statements for London Mayor and there were some that were... well, just... I have no words.

So, I have spent the last 30 years or so in tech journalism reviewing products, for consumers and for businesses. My responsibility is always to my readers, not to the company who's product I'm looking at.

Honest reviews are the trust barometer of the industry.

Liz Truss' ghost writer didn't like her very much, didn't they?

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Someone wants dinner.

Who Killed Nessie? Paul Cornell & Rachael Smith answer that question with their #graphicnovel comedy cryptozoological whodunnit. Let's get it past the halfway funded point this weekend. Rally time, share it around and support it now!

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Recent Reads: Astro City Metrobook 5. The fifth collection of Kurt Busiek's ongoing story of life in a world of superheroes is a bittersweet volume. At its heart are stories of loss and change, of the things that happen when we move on to other things. But there is still hope.