My Carluccio's habit is something something something and a Bloody Mary. Especially in the morning. Isn't Searcy's the one stuck out on the platform with the howling gale and the city … (View Post)

Productivity (along with quality) has been a core issue in UK housebuilding since the 1990s, at least. You can go back to at least The Egan Report, Rethinking Construction, done for Prezza when he wa… (View Post)

Mr S and the interviewer could be long-lost twins. But he's quite diplomatic. (View Post)

The are two blue fits happening here - at Chez-T and Chez-TSE. The Telegraph has am unsourced piece with a series of speculations, and is less reliable than the Beano as a newspaper of record - as we… (View Post)

I still have a box of those, including the original Smalltalk edition. Jerry Pournelle is archived on his own website: https://www.jerrypournelle.com/ And Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar is still… (View Post)