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The Locked Room, by Paul Auster is the final book in The New York Trilogy and demonstrates that the trilogy really is a single book divided into three large sections. I thought this was substantially better than the other two, being able to build on the foundations they laid, and I had to take a two-week brea...

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I have a Divoom Timebox Evo - it is 16x16 (10cm x 10cm) LED display which also doubles as a portable bluetooth speaker. It's a lovely device with decent sound and bright LEDs. By default it will show you animations that people have posted online using the Divoom app, or you can draw your own, as well as displaying the weather, time and more.

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In merely the order I remembered them: Back to the Future series Avengers: Endgame Hot Tub Time Machine (because it's mentioned in Endgame!)

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After playing with some web publishing tools in March, I spent a few hours in April teaching my 11-year-old daughter some HTML. She loved the idea of being able to publish her own words on the internet, and was delighted by the concept of nekoweb, not least because s...

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A quiet month for reading, mostly of the first two books in The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, who died recently. These are post-modern detective stories and really quite curious beasts, although well-...

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I use my local library a lot, and use the LibrariesWest app and website to do my browsing and make reservations. While website is "ok", the app is a travesty, and has been for years (my app review in 2016 started with "Works, after a fashion, but i...

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Back in March when I was working on my Wordpress-to-Zola exporter I'd written some PHP to generate a .zip file with my markdown site in it, but there was a problem. Although the file size was correct, opening it with Windows Explorer revealed that there were no files in it, but opening it with 7-zip showed that all the files were there as expected. Baffling!

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