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The 2026 Open Test is now in the books. It was a good two-day stretch that saw only a little over an hour lost to weather. Both days were partly sunny, cool and breezy – much like what everyone can experience in a couple of weeks. I’m...
I noticed one of my sites was running slow. So I logged in and saw that my server load was climbing. Being a webserver the first place to look are the serverlogs. With a quick tail -f in the /var/log/apache dir I saw 1000s of these...
I started this blog with my first post on February 4, 2005 and as of this post right here, I now have 6,040 entries. I knew I was getting close to 6,000 but then kind of forgot about it until I saw another blog post talking about...
Back in January, I raved about the first volume of Solvej Balle’s seven-part On the Calculation of Volume, translated from Danish by Barbara J. Haveland. Uncharacteristically, it has only taken me a handful of months to read the second –...
VOL 6, NO 1 ★ No good read goes unpublished. / I’ve had a very strange three months where a little novel I wrote nearly a decade ago suddenly became a Canadian best seller, sending me onto radio programs, TV and live events around the...
TL;DL has a new look. Inspired by classic broadsheet newspapers, the redesigned site puts episode summaries in a layout that's calmer to read and easier to…
Something more wonderful has been happening for the last couple of days: the number of people who reached me by email reached (or is about to reach) double digits for the first time since… well, since I started having a blog, I think....
OpenAI, in a nameless blog post: Mass shootings, threats against public officials, bombing attempts, and attacks on communities and individuals are an unacceptable and grave reality in today’s world. These incidents are a reminder of how...
In more and more places recently I have seen that people tend to have 1 hyperfixated hobby, 1 thing they spend all their money on and because of that they end up having better art or photography or cycling gear than me or better...
I got off to a later start this morning for reasons (I swear I wasn’t being lazy), but still managed to begin my run in the morning, which was important because it was yet again going to be warmer than usual and my body is still...
I was asked today how to make square crops in Acorn while keeping the aspect ratio when you resize the square. It’s pretty easy to do if you know a couple of keyboard shortcuts. First, press the 'c' and 's' keys in quick oder (this is...
Yesterday the Open Journal of Astrophysics published a paper by Porredon et al which will feature in the usual Saturday round-up. That paper, which is based on the First Data Release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)...
Achen is a vibrant city. I didn’t expect that. Unfortunately I’m now in a hotel 1.5k from the vibrant center and the pizzas located therein. The nearest pizza is a 20 minute walk over a hill. I’d leave now but the laptop is dead and...
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