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Passionfruit Cheesecake with slices taken out
Posted inCheesecake Cooking & Baking

Passionfruit Powder Perfection

Well, it's spring and the chickens here have ramped up egg production to the point where I almost need to be making more cheesecakes just to keep on top of…
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Posted by John Clayton April 13, 2026
Posted inReading

A long time ago in a bookshop far, far away…

Some of the oldest possessions I've got are books. Sometimes, like the Ship of Theseus, they're copies of books many times removed - I'm on my fourth copy of Good…
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Posted by John Clayton February 4, 2026
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Warning! Reading can be bad for you!

On the 18th January 2026, Winnie the Pooh turned 100. Quite incredible, really, that a bear of very little brain should have such a long-lasting place in the collective memory…
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Posted by John Clayton January 28, 2026
Posted inRPGs

Where Do You Get Your Great Ideas?

This week, one for the Dungeon Masters/Games Masters/Keepers/whatever your game happens to call it. Fair warning, this doesn't work for all roleplaying games. It's not great for dungeon crawls (whether…
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Posted by John Clayton January 19, 2026
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The Great January Reading Reset

Got to make a start on organising things this year. Prioritising. Making sure stuff gets read. And that means tackling the TBR pile. And that's scary.
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Posted by John Clayton January 12, 2026
Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine
Posted inEducation

Oh, Good. There’s a Tiger Behind Door 3

The way I see it, we've 2 potential futures ahead of us. Behind door 1 is The Terminator future. Rise of the machines. Technology going from being our slave to being our master. And there's plenty of other examples of this in dystopian fiction. On the other hand, we've door 2. Behind door 2 is the Star Trek future. The protopian future...
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Posted by John Clayton December 30, 2025
Posted inStuff

Unplug the mouse, you don’t need it any more… #applicationoftheweek

We're tethered to our computers these days.  Tethered by the mouse.  That thing that hovers under our hand and slows us down as we hunt for just the right icon,…
Posted by John Clayton April 4, 2011
Posted inStuff

Pakoras – snack, meal all by themselves, lunchbox fodder.

It's Friday again and, as I like to remind people from time to time, I don't work Fridays.  However, it's also the school holidays up here so I've got the…
Posted by John Clayton April 1, 2011
Posted inStuff

Can we have another power cut, please?

It's Random Wednesday, we had a power cut over the whole of Shetland last night, and I've just finished going through the aftermath of that. Now that computers have become…
Posted by John Clayton March 30, 2011

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