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We are now finally ready to tackle three of the thorniest topics the human intellect has ever grappled with, the concepts of information, knowledge, and belief. The relevance of these concepts to the scientific search for God should be...
A map of pub density per 10k people across British parliamentary constituencies with pub points from the Food Standards Agency. Quite simple and quick to put together thanks to Claude - a fin project.
Here’s Derek Sivers, a prominent advocate for a nicer Internet, on his recent escape to the woods: Last month, I moved into my new home in the woods. There’s no internet and no phone service here. It’s so productive. It doesn’t have to...
In the mid 90s I worked at a company called Cybersafe. Today it would get labeled an IAM/SSO vendor. What we actually built was a first-generation security platform: Kerberos, password management, PKI-based MFA, key management, host...
A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an excellent investigation exposing how the United States Mint buys its gold from Colombian drug cartels, despite a law that it should only purchase legally mined American gold.
Diagnosis of a problem, Satellite fan, Action!
An overview of the latest changes to the blog. *slaps stylesheet* This front-end has many years on it, but a lick of paint and it's good to go. I've wanted to reorganize the stylesheet's CSS layers for a while, and to no one's surprise,...
america the repressed
A limestone tablet from 1250 BCE lists 40 ancient Egyptian workers and their reasons for missing work, from scorpion bites to brewing beer. Meet the world's oldest attendance register.
As always you can get the full resolution image over on my Ko-Fi page.
Today I completed a job that I’ve had on my list for a few weeks. The specifics of the job —fixing the broken grey waste pipe on our motorhome— aren’t what matters. As ever, I prepped, researched, bought some bits I thought I might need...
One day late reflection on the previous week. Last weekend was so busy that I couldn’t find an hour to sit and write a few paragraphs. Yesterday, we had a Mother’s Day dinner with my in-laws (where did the morning go? who knows!). On...