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In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: EU railway ticketing proposals are out. What now?Bullshit Meter: Berlin - Oslo ICE direct train in 2028Good week: FS Engineering wins a contract in SerbiaBad week: Only the length of the delay is a...
May 15, 2026
I love a third-gen Smith & Wesson Wondernine. I mean, have you ever seen one? They look great and shoot like they look. Thus: Canada’s federal law enforcement agencies, the famed Mounties of the RCMP/GRC and the fish cops of Fisheries...
“The Flag, Albuera, 16 May 1811.” Painted by William Barns Wollen. In the collection of the British National Army Museum. The scene depicts the destruction of Col. John Colborne’s British 1st Brigade (part of the 2nd Infantry Division)...
Aurora 26 just wrapped up in the Baltic, with 18,000 soldiers from 13 countries participating in the Swedish-led NATO exercise. It notably included some Ukrainian drone operators to serve as, among other things, a very capable and modern...
My new E-Book, Future Hindsights / Selected Writings on Photography and Experience, is now available for purchase! The E-Book is in PDF format and offered for a limited time at an introductory price of $17.95. ~~~ Future Hindsight is the...
According to DB there is going to be a daily direct train from Berlin to Oslo, via Hamburg, København and Göteborg, running from summer 2028. DB's news story about it is here.I am not altogether convinced by this idea, but I think it
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My foray into more comfortable trail shoe choices started back in 2022 when Carmen and I discovered Topo athletic shoes. In actual fact, it really was Carmen’s spearheaded research that led us to finding what we think is the the ultimate...
I’ve been asked a lot recently what it’s like to switch from a big company to a small startup. The analogy I keep coming back to: it’s like moving from F1 to Rally. In F1, the racing is high-telemetry, high-precision. You have metrics...
Today's devotional can be summed up in one verse: “"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” — Psalm 19:1” God's grandeur and glory...
Last month, CORRECTIV released an interactive map, Where Europe’s Population is Shrinking, which visualizes Europe's general pattern of rural depopulation and the subtle trends of where European towns and regions are growing or...
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta arrives with Plasma Bigscreen, new Union theme system gamingonlinux.com Another big exciting addition is Plasma Bigscreen, which is KDE's attempt to make Plasma look good on bigger TVs, HTPCs and set-top boxes....