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Its August and I am about to make the long pilgrimage to Australia to visit family. Just to be clear I am not from Australia so this isn’t a journey home for me. Australia is very similar to my home or once home, South Africa so there is...
The current ransomware situation is a bit of a kludge (deep breath): a lot of ransomware (which often doesn't even involve "ware", it's just extortion) is carried out by kids who successfully make a truckload of money but can't spend it...
Yesterday, on my Substack Newsletter, I ran my first gimmick promotion for the Brisbane to Gold Coast Ride against Cancer [1]. I invited anyone who donated $100 to nominate a topic on which I should write a post. Reader Daniela...
From the Bundeskartellamt’s press release: Under the commitments that have now been declared binding, Apple will align the consent prompts for its own offerings and for third-party apps much more closely. This involves removing possibly...
The link. The paragraph: “The philosophy is to be respectful of the history, tradition, and techniques of brewing saison, while also being aware of and responsive to advances in brewing technology, or flavor technology, or just the...
On my last day in Japan, I ate a strudel based breakfast fit for a champion at the local konbini1. Next, I traveled by bullet train to Shinagawa and then made my way to the Narita Airport via JR train. Riding the trains one last time, I...
vibe: drinking vietnamese iced coffee, just came back from eating dinner (braised pork and rice and soup dumplings), nick is changing guitar string that he broke another week i did nothing!!! i'm so sorry!!!!!!!!! sometimes life is like...
Dream Downtown – New York, New York This building immediately attracted my attention, for obvious reasons. It’s a striking and daring design that feels progressive for New York City. Despite its tall towers, I don’t think most of New...
Tags: #places #attention #sketchesThe courtyard on the outskirts, between Nordstrom’s EPUB coffee bar and the blank side of the Crate & Barrel, wasn’t the first place I noticed, but it is where I spent the most time observing. I was...
In 2015 I was in Paris for a spell. At one point during that spell, my friend Rich Aucoin, was also in Paris for a spell of his own, and we met up a handful of times to drink, carouse, carouse, and drink. One on of those occasions, he...
Hi it's 10pm it's Monday I'm gonna get this blog out before I go to bed. Another busy week (I could probably start almost every post with that). Monday I did get my Switch 2 about 30 minutes after I hit post on last week's blog. I like...
One of the most influential 20th century pieces of writing about AI is Isaac Asimov’s The Last Question. Although there are many humans in the story, the protagonist is the computer Multivac, who evolves over the course of ten trillion...
I made two songs this month made while writing and painting and learning about minor chords. The title track comes from a wild dream I had about killing a digital crocodile by carving an ancient glyph into its eye, and it contains a...
This post is a response to My perfect laptop by Michael Harley. In short, the Framework 13 is essentially my perfect laptop, or damn near close to it. And I'm lucky enough to actually use it as my daily driver; it comes with me...
Long time no read, I should say. It has been a week since I wrote I’m saying goodbye to my hometown, it has also been more than a week since I moved to my new home, in a town in the province of Buenos Aires. It has been cold since. While...