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This bookshop receipt was Left Inside a copy of The Wallet of Kai Lung that I purchased many moons ago from John Chandler's long-lived but sadly now defunct bookstore Bookman's Corner on Broadway and Wellington in the Lakeview...
It took a long time this year but I finally made it to a conference! Last week OWASP organised the OWASP Global AppSec EU 2026 in Vienna. My wife had convinced me and so off we went to the Austria Center to learn what’s new in...
Why We Should Start Naming HeatwavesThe “Lucifer” Fallacy How Many Names? All In The Name On The BlogWords for a Departed Wizard Start Select Reset 📑 Photo 365 The Ministry Of My Own Labour Terminal Access Dipping the Stacks Reading...
Waiting Leaving I Leaving II Approaching I always enjoy seeing narrow boats on the Wigan Flight, especially on a warm day, when everyone stands about chatting as the lock fills. It is a long, hard day and can easily take seven or eight...
A few days ago I wrote about locating the 18th century publication of an early Coptic fragments of the acts of St Coluthius. This was important, not for the content, but for the preface explaining how Cardinal Stefano Borgia came to own...
Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series and the Insert Coin gaming arc. Tim Sweeney gave an interview to PC Gamer last week pitching a grand unified theory of gaming he's calling "Team Open." Sounds great. Also sounds familiar. The...
2022 post. While mowing June 26, 2026 I saw that this pole was savaged once again and more severely. There was a bite at the bottom from a bear on all fours which was unusual. Mostly they stand up to bite a pole\tree. I can’t believe...
It’s hard to imagine that the most anticipated — and expensive — video game of all time, GTA VI, started out as a top-down game where you stole cars, drove around and killed people. And except for the top-down part, I’ve just described...
Babrius 48 (tr. Robin Waterfield): A square-cut statue of Hermes had been placed by the side of a road, supported by a pile of stones at its base. A dog came up and said, "To begin with, Hermes, I salute you. But then I'd like to anoint...
Would you like to have some real impact on the tech industry? Do you have $100,000 to spend? If you answered “yes” to both questions, ask software engineering researchers (the kinds of people who participated in It Will Never Work in...
I was among the delegation of “open source experts” invited to the UN Open Source Week 2026 in New York City by the Sovereign Tech Agency. Thank you to the Sovereign Tech Agency for inviting and supporting my stay and travel for the...
Wherever Not Sure I stopped asking for an address Morning was enough destination Map folded into pocket I kept only the immediate Wherever not sure began to feel like home That is the mind Simplicity This Beat No more orders or...
At BSDCan 2026, I attended the pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview talk. What impressed me was the ease with which one could upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1 etc. Included in the demonstration was pkgbasify (“Automatically convert a...