Friends and I compete at the NYT Mini Crossword, a daily crossword published by the New York Times which can be completed in a couple of minutes. The crossword is made from a mixture of cryptic, pop culture, and typical crossword style clues. When you begin the crossword the timer starts and when you finish it displays the time it took you to solve it.

In this series of blog posts I create a crossword engine using in F# using Fable, Feliz, React, and Bulma. To start with we get familiar with the …

An extract from Chapter 7

Finally Micromegas said to them, “Since you know what is exterior to you so well, you must know what is interior even better. Tell me what your soul is, and how you form ideas.” The philosophers spoke all at once as before, but they were of different views. The oldest quoted Aristotle, one mentioned the name of Descartes, another Malebranche; another Leibnitz, and another Locke. An old peripatetic spoke up with confidence: “The soul is an entelechy, …

Nicholas Chevalier, a Russian painter, visited New Zealand several times during the 1860s. These are a few of his works of South Island landscapes from 1866.

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Twelve Mile Creek is, more accurately, a river. On this bright morning it flows quickly over steep drops and under fallen trees along the valley floor. The Mt Crichton walking track starts on the left side of the valley and soon gains altitude leaving the river behind in at the base of the valley. A quick look to the right shows a vertigo-inducing view of the rough canyon below.