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We went out to look at the eclipse with everyone else, it was fun.
Thanks to a lot of hard work by Liz Neeley, I had a chance to run the project closure workshop online yesterday. I think it went pretty well, and I really enjoyed meeting all the participants, but as the saying goes, no lesson survives...
Yesterday was exciting, it marked one of the mos insteresting cosmic event of the century where the moon starts blocking the sun until it becomes dark.
Hand and Knife led her People away from the Only Mountain’s steep slopes. They wandered northward, the Child God leading whither she would not reveal. They found a forest of plentiful pines and a slow, chilly river. Child God instructed...
From the February 1959 issue of Navy Aviation News comes this article about the month-long deployment of the “Checkerboards” of Marine Fighter Squadron (VMF) 312 to Cuba. Sent “down south” during the height of the Cuban Revolution, their...
While the Vortex M1157 Fire Control System is the electro-optic of record for the Army’s 250,000 Next Generation Squad Weapons in rifle (M7), carbine (XM8), and LMG (M250) variants to the tune of a fantastical $2.7 billion, Big Green is...
DaVinci: Fight between a dragon and a lion The coldest Christmas Eve on record and it was hands down my biggest order ever. I’d been driving for almost a year since The Daily Witness fired me. I used to be a features writer. And married....
I discovered Fabric, a Python-based automation framework. It’s a wrapper of Invoke and Paramiko (the Python SSH client). It’s thing is to run commands and automate tasks in remote servers. What’s the difference with Ansible? Ansible’s...
Martin Cahill Under Review:The Demon Star. Jesse Aragon. DAW, July 2026. Science fantasy is tough to get right. Right has multiple meanings, but in this instance I mean: crafting a story where these two specific genres are not only...
When OpenAI dropped the minimum $50k spend on their ad platform, I thought I should give it a try for my seating planner app. Perhaps I can get some cheap and well targeted clicks, before all the corporate behemoths lumber in and push up...
One of the (many) things that makes me feel like a dinosaur at work is my stubborn commitment to the principle of ‘make things open, it makes things better’. I mean I literally had it tattooed on my arm. My advocacy and support for it is...
The Go-Betweens - Baroona Hall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, December 6, 1983The Go-Betweens catalog always seems to drift in and out of print. But Beggars Banquet is reissuing a few of the band’s records in a couple months, so...
The Go-Betweens - Baroona Hall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, December 6, 1983The Go-Betweens catalog always seems to drift in and out of print. But Beggars Banquet is reissuing a few of the band’s records in a couple months, so...
I mentioned yesterday the links between the three men who hatched the Southampton Plot to assassinate Henry V and put Edmund Mortimer on the throne. Two of the men made a close tie with each other through the arranged marriage of their...
It never ceases to amaze me how consistently I underestimate the effect tiredness has on my demeanour and mindset. When I’m running on low battery, everything tilts to the wrong end. The small annoyance becomes a grievance. The neutral...