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The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the...
Kumla is a locality and the seat of Kumla Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with a population of 21,640 as of 2018. The name Kumla is renowned for its prison (“the Kumla Institution”, or Kumlaanstalten, commonly known as ‘The Bunker’),...
A reader recently shared something with me that I think a lot of people can relate to: “I’ve been contemplating a career change and starting my own business. Would love if you write about courage to take a risk, succeeding, pivoting when...
If you spent more than 30 seconds involved in Naval Aviation in and around Pensacola for the past 40 years, you know of the Flora-bama, a (formerly) tiny (formerly) biker bar on the Florida/Alabama Gulf Coast line between Orange Beach...
Operation Steel Box/Golden Python kicked off some 36 years ago this month, on 26 July 1990. It was about as joint as can be, and for good reason. It had to move legacy stockpiles of 100,000 Sarin (GB) and VX (nerve agent) filled chemical...
A Soldier with “Sykes Regulars,” 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, fires an M14 Rifle on March 7, 2019, at Nueva Ecija Province, Philippines. (Photo: U.S. Army) The country’s clearinghouse for milsurp rifles...
I’ve spent the better part of the summer isolated at home due to a rather nasty virus. However, recently I have been feeling well enough to go for short walks, and on one such occasion I decided to bring along my Canon AE-1 Program — an...
It’s incredible how quickly the video game industry used to change, in terms of priorities and design. That’s not a knock on the current standards, but a reminder that a whole lot of what you see today got its start at the beginning of...
Tere's not much to report today; I mentioned the addition of the Milwaukee listing for WTMJ on Saturday, and appropriately enough I've listed it after all the Chicago stations, just as it was in the issue. Besides, when you have the...
2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the weeks of Jul 20 – 26. Stats Stories Finished: 3 Submissions Currently Out: 8 Submissions Total:...
Good morning! Late last week, I was in a meeting when my wife walked in and quietly set a stack of (new to us) records down. That by itself was cool. What made it eve better was the how excited she was that she’d found them. She’d been...
For as long as I can remember, I have had the strangest OCD / superstition - it drives me crazy and I want it to stop. Whenever I think or speak about the good things in my life, there follows a crushing fear of losing said thing. As if...
One of the more painful traps to fall into is when we realize we’ve lulled ourselves into the belief that we’re above using the checklist.
By Marzia Genovese, Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher in Public Law at the European Documentation and Research Centre of the University of Pau (France).Photo: Bulgaria Palace of Justice; photo credit Bim in Garten via Wikimedia...
"A Torrid Extravaganza" the ad declares. "Daring Glamorous Beauties in Risque Dances." In Gadsden, Alabama, in 1941? Well! Let's investigate. In my wanderings through old issues of the Gadsden Times I've encountered many such...