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Sherlock Holmes and the adventure of the Speckled Band

A look at the Sherlock Holmes story of the Speckled Band, including how it does its job and why it is still the ‘high water mark’ for ‘locked door’ mysteries over a century later

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Logan Robinson

Logan Robinson, ex-Airforce, 28 yo and too heavily freckled for women, shares in the sadness of his best friends when their 6yo daughter is killed.

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Dunkirk

The fear of the men stranded on the beach, under intense fire from the Germans, was written in blood on their faces. The blood of their comrades and friends was not just splattered but splashed across the faces of the nearby living. Well, living-for-now. The sea at the back of both the fallen and the…

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Meningie Man and Stephanie McBride

Andy Delmonte, a crime journalist with the only newspaper in Adelaide, introduces cyber-crime specialist Stephanie McBride, who is about to meet her maker

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Evanston Gardens, September 2023

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Getting the best out of ChatGPT

By Eran Malloch 14th August 2023 How to get a great article out of ChatGPT I see a lot of people struggling to get high quality content (articles, blog posts, etc.) out of ChatGPT. In most cases, it’s because you are not giving it better guidelines to help write your content. Most people just instruct…

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Wanting to discover who we will become

“As we live our lives, we find ourselves confronted with a brute fact about how little we can know about our futures—just when it is most important to us that we do know. For many big life choices, we only learn what we need to know after we’ve done it, and we change ourselves in…

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Chu’s Asian Restaurant, Unley

Vietnamese Chinese fusion that sings! I’ve written before about Chu’s Vietnamese Chinese restaurant in my Google Reviews. Had a wonderful evening here with three friends. Food was fabulous, the Pinot Gris was excellent, the host/owner was witty and knowledgeable. Will definitely come back, many times. ——— Months later: Have been back many times. Owner Wen…

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Mitch Vahldieck – after the eviction

More on the Mitch Vahldieck saga. Oh, boy!

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Week 13: The joke

Person 1: “I say, I say, I say, what is the secret to successful comedy?” Person 2: “I don’t know, what IS the secret to successful co-“ Person 1, interrupting Person 2: “Timing” Comedy, as with most of life, is a subjective thing. I love the tv show ‘Lucifer’, yet some staunch Southern American Christians…