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An ongoing series This Is A Gardening Show. Heard about this new Zach Galifianakis limited series on Netflix from friends, and it’s a delight. Funny, informative, family- friendly. Great hang. Project Hail Mary. Saw this with some dad...
The idea to implement some kind of LQIP (Low Quality Image Placeholder) came about as part of working on supporting type: image posts on this here website. I didn’t want to deal with generating thumbnails (though in retrospect this...
Last week, I went on a trip to Oxford with three quilter friends to see an exhibition of quilts from Hawaii entitled ‘Hawaii Ma uka to Ma kai’. Click on this link to exhibition on the Museum website:...
My wife is going through chemotherapy right now and, when it became known, friends and family all bought her various gifts that they thought would help. In addition, I researched various forums and cancer sites for additional ideas too....
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,...