I found this on an ancient university site preserved by the Wayback Machine. The timestamp on the page says "Last modifed: Wed Sep 12 12:17:03 BST 2001". That feels like pretty solid rapid response songwriting.

This is certainly not the original tune, but it's probably more interesting than whatever tune I had back then.

"Tracey" was a girl in my class who died in a car accident in sixth form. I didn't know her well, but friends of mine did.

Like today, I was on a train

Like today, I nearly prayed

Like today, I sat down and cried

c’était le 1er août 1942 à Zéralda, près d’Alger

Ce jour-là, le maire colonial de Zéralda, Denis Fourcard, accompagné notamment de gardes champêtres et d’un inspecteur de police, fait arrêter 38 Algériens, dont plusieurs adolescents. Ils sont entassés dans une pièce d’environ 15 m² située au sous-sol de la mairie, pratiquement sans ventilation.

Pendant la nuit, les prisonniers crient et appellent à l’aide. Le lendemain, lorsque la pièce est ouverte, 25 des 38 détenus sont morts asphyxiés. Seuls 13 survivent. Parmi les morts se trouvaient plusieurs mineurs, dont un garçon d’environ 14 ans.

Le contexte est particulièrement important : sous le régime de Vichy, le maire avait instauré à Zéralda des mesures discriminatoires contre les Algériens et les Juifs, notamment des restrictions d’accès à certains lieux publics et à la plage. L’historien Jacques Cantier rapporte qu’un document administratif de l’époque décrivait l’affaire comme révélatrice d’une « atmosphère d’arabophobie » en progression.

Les responsables ont bien été inculpés. Mais, selon les récits historiques disponibles, les sanctions ont finalement été extrêmement faibles : deux ans de prison avec sursis sont notamment rapportés pour les responsables.

Dive! Punch! Catch! Sea Sniffers is a unique take on collecting fish where you play as a seal that throws a mean punch. Check out the Sea Sniffers announcement trailer for this upcoming game to see gameplay, characters, and more. Sea Sniffers will be available on Steam in 2027.

In Sea Sniffers, explore sunken ships, uncover hidden caves, and meet the ocean’s eccentric inhabitants, whose mischievous stories range from silly escapades to chaotic adventures. In Sea Sniffers, quirky quests weave together a blend of RPG-progression and offbeat storytelling.

Here's a look at the Announcement Trailer for Full Belly Breakout, a first-person, decision-based adventure game developed by Zxima.llc. Players will seek out what lies among the plethora of dishes to enjoy every bite and ultimately escape their cell. Full Belly Breakout is coming soon to PC (Steam).

Get another look at gameplay and the fantasy world of WildMagic Frontier in this latest trailer for the character-driven, deck-building tactics RPG designed to capture the creativity, strategy, and camaraderie of tabletop game night. Playable directly in a browser, WildMagic Frontier invites players into Astara, a verdant world reawakened by volatile wild magic. Adventurers from across countless realms arrive through mysterious portals to explore the Frontier, uncover ancient secrets, and face dark forces that never truly disappeared. A Kickstarter campaign for WildMagic Frontier is live now.

Watch the Gameplay Trailer for Nailcrown, a dark fantasy boomer shooter developed by Destructive Creations. Players will shoot through waves of enemies from level to level with an arsenal of weapons. Drench enemies in their blood in Nailcrown, coming soon to PC (Steam and Epic Games Store).

Check out the Reveal Trailer for Emissary, a turn-based dark fantasy RPG developed by Weevil Workshop. Players will take on enemies across a stylized world to overcome challenges and restore the world from the brink of oblivion. Emissary is coming soon to PC (Steam).

Don't miss the Release Date Trailer for Huglings, a cozy co-op adventure game developed by Cuddlecados. Players will set out to restore a peaceful village to its original serene condition. Craft items, decorate the town, and live the life of leisure. Huglings is launching on September 17 for PC (Steam).

I got nerd-sniped and developed a bit of an obsession with constructing a particular sequence of 7th and 9th chords that had been earworms (off and on) since the early 1990s. I tried to live code them in Strudel REPL by starting from a single note and then stacking notes to build the chords, while also adding notes to the repeating sequence. These chords didn't sound correct when using the default voicing dictionary. It is mostly in D-minor but a decided note-by-note construction would be clearer if I didn't use any scale().

Do you recognise this chord progressions? At what point in the video did it click for you?

The tail end of a Pacific Northwest winter brings a yearning for warmer weather. In this episode, HRV attempts to abide the late winter rain to capture some trains to video. It quickly becomes apparent that what's really needed is a change of scenery.

The Trains:

00:43

04:02

04:48

08:45

10:43

11:25

13:31

15:14

17:29

Thank you to all the railroaders who report for duty at every hour of the day and night to make train operations possible.

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Production Notes:

Video for this episode was shot with a Fujifilm X-H2S and on iPhone. Edited in Davinci Resolve.

Half Range Vision explores the aura of railroad landscapes.

Footage from February 2026.

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