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Fremantle2026 June 14 (Sunday), 7:01PM· MediaWiki · military · history · I'm glad that the WA Military Digital Library (wamdl.com.au) uses MediaWiki. For example, a recently modified page of theirs is for Leslie Harry Hoddy (aka John...
Sunday Asides #99 This week is the one year anniversary of getting laid off from my last full-time job. There have been a lot of ups and downs over the year, but it's helped to look back and see that what I'm doing right now -- freelance...
The word entered common use as a meaningless but Dutch-sounding name, used by Washington Irving in 1809 as a pen-name for his fake history of the New Amsterdam colony. Later in the nineteenth century it came to mean whatever...
— One of those books I own and will never let go of is Mickey Rourke and the Bluebird of Happiness: A Poet’s Notebooks by W.S. Di Piero. In some ways, it doesn’t look like much, it’s a slim volume, but some of the thoughts it holds have...
CHET BAKER & THE DICK BOCK SCAM – Pré-digital practice of cutting and reshuffling made it hard to distinguish what is what. nyway you look at it, you have to call it a scam. I remember finding Chuck Berry’s On Stage in my dad’s...
Visiting the premiere of my friend’s shortfilm Yuragim.
#SilentSunday #flora #bees
The Anthropic case reminded me that vendor lock-in is not just a technical problem. A service can also be affected by the government and laws of the country where the company operates. For critical projects, you need an exit plan.
A wonderful book. Touches on so many things, some I know a bit about, trout flies, others new to me, the process of etching. Travels, walks, bird ringing & ecological surveys mix with family history. Lists of old Scot's words for...