Book reviews for October 2015

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017.

The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5) by Charles Stross

4/5

Follow You Home by Mark Edwards

4/5

Make Me (Jack Reacher #20) by Lee Child

3/5

Everything you need in a Reacher book, and nothing you don't. Too well oiled.

The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3) by Charles Stross

3/5

The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4) by David Lagercrantz

3/5

The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files, #4) by Charles Stross

4/5

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Corona Heights

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, June 7, 2025.

Corona Heights

Photo of downtown San Francisco seen through a crack in the rocks at Corona Heights Park.

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Street View

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, June 7, 2025.

Chestnut and Richardson San Francisco August 2015 Self Stalking

Behind 38 Keyes Avenue San Francisco August 2015 Self Stalking

My new hobby: finding photos of myself on Google Street View.

Updated 2016-08-04 17:57:

Street View

Updated 2018-01-07 10:40:

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Spire

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, June 7, 2025.

Spire

Andy Goldsworthy's Spire sculpture in the Presidio of San Francisco (before it was badly damaged by fire).

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25th Centuary

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, February 19, 2022.

25th Centuary

Video of hypothetical sea level rise through 2407 set to the theme tune from Buck Rogers.

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Book reviews for September 2015

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017.

The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files, #2) by Charles Stross

5/5

I wanted to like The Atrocity Archives more than I did (which is still quite a bit)... I'm glad I pressed on to The Jennifer Morgue which is a tight spy thriller, a send up of spy thrillers and manages to be funny and moving in turns. I'm stuck in for the duration of the Laundry Files at this point.

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

4/5

Armada by Ernest Cline

3/5

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Autumnal Equinox 2015

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Thursday, November 12, 2015.

Autumnal Equinox 2015

Autumn begins right now in the northern hemisphere, Spring for the hemispherically challenged. Rendered in Catfood Earth (Windows, Android).

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Catfood Weather 2.20

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Wednesday, February 22, 2017.

Catfood Weather 2.20

Catfood Weather 2.20 fixes a problem with the forecast failing to update (the National Weather Service changed the URL of the web service that Catfood Weather uses and while they were kind enough to put a redirect in place it was a form of redirect that didn't play nicely with WebClient so a patch is needed).

In addition this release should fix the ignore alerts feature. It's one of those cases that after not having looked at the code for a couple of years I suddenly realized that the implementation was fatally flawed (bordering on idiotic) and could never have worked. Should be better now.

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(previously)

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