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M’s speech to Bond in GoldenEye has to go down as one of the great monologues in the Bond movies. Pierce Brosnan was the new Bond, and we had a female M in Judi Dench, which people weren’t so sure about, but this one scene likely laid...
Life is beautiful. Life is filled with little bits of joy and comfort, and grief and sadness. Life is about memories. And also hope. Life is short enough that Death is not far from the mind. Life is long enough that Death can be far from...
Write about escape. When do you need to escape? How do you escape in healthy ways? How do you escape in unhealthy ways? What can you learn from this? I need to escape when the terrible ambiance of the local cafe gets to me, and my...
The title refers to an ongoing series with two videos so far. Part 1 (28 minutes) is about how the tokenizer works and how programs are stored in memory, and Part 2 (19 minutes) is on what the BASIC interpreter does to execute the...
Not what we had planned! We drove our coach just 46 miles / 74 km, about one hour of driving, from Mile 0 Park in Dawson Creek to Fort St John, British Columbia, Canada… where our truck’s front frame broke off while leaving a fuel stop,...
Epic Games Store will officially support Linux, Epic confirms videocardz.com Epic Games is working on official Linux support for the Epic Games Store. An Epic staff member confirmed that Linux support is coming “soon,” although it will...
It is fiercely hot. I won’t be heading out for a while. I also have a mead delivery on the way from Horns Of Odin. Hopefully it won’t boil in the van. Did I mention it’s FUCK OFF HOT? I joined the BFI, because I’ve decided I should go to...
Link: Diddit — A simple, shareable logbook for iPhone I’ll always be a sucker for great software tools that help people get things done together. Diddit is a new one from Chris I’ve been using for awhile now. It’s a log of stuff you need...
It's Been Some YearsWay back in 2011, I wrote about awesome scenes in two movies that were otherwise terrible. Six years passed, and in 2017, I discussed two movies that contain fantastic scenes, even if the flicks are otherwise merely...
i have said it before and i will say it again: %%green%%silence is largely a myth%%. i live in a fairly rural place. not much for noise around here apart from braying donkeys, gobbling turkeys, the hoof clop of our neighbour's cows,...
I moved sshd from TCP port 22 to a higher port 2026-08-01T23:31Z. I also put the endlessh tarpit on port 22. sshd has not seen a single password guessing attempt since then. The combination of ssh tarpit, and non-standard port works.
Part 2:Yesterday, August 13, was the 20th anniversary of this blog.I want to mention the people I have met through this blog and through riding who have enriched my life and made the journey enjoyable so far.In no particular order or...
Before health and safety, before helicopter parenting, there was Guy Fawkes Night in 1960s Swansea. For anyone outside the UK wondering what any of this is about: in 1605 a Catholic man named Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament and...
I recently watched Pompeii: Out of Time (2026) hosted by Tom Hiddleston, and it’s left me
This seems like a good little idea. BookRiot has set up a survey researching this question. There’s a link to the survey here. If we only knew what we all think about AI, we might be able to discuss it a little less emotionally.