Back to the office is bullshit
I know this will be a controversial opinion, but I strongly believe that forcing people to work in an office when the option exists for them to work from home…
PHP2Shell: updating to PHP 8.5.12
To quote Wikipedia: PHP2Shell is a set of two high-impact vulnerabilities in PHP versions 5.4–8.5, known under Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures IDs CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that allow remote code execution…
Wainwright Base Fire
On Saturday, October 17, a fast moving brush fire overcame a group of 84 soldiers from C Company 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry who were training at the…
Throwback: Mobile internet circa 2008
I wrote about my failure to become one with the mobile internet back in 2008. My focus was on my disagreement with Rich Miner's thesis at the time that the…
On friendship and habits
I read a post back during Blaugust on JCProbably's site on the topic of friendship. It was a touching bit of thinking on the topic of habits we persist in…
How do I stream
Irene and I watch a fair amount of TV. But I believe we do so rather inefficiently: we have several streaming services that only get occasional use and yet I…
RAM prices on overdrive
I wrote about the impacts of AI development a while back. One of the factors I mentioned was technology waste which touches on the concept of AI being a massively…
Death of an icon: Margaret Hamilton
I was saddened today to read of the death of Margaret Hamilton. She was one of the key programmers on the Apollo program having been responsible for much of the…
Superconductors in your home
Superconductors are kind of bizarre even in their 'normal' state. Normally all materials have at least a little bit of resistance to electrical current: pass a signal through a wire…
Dealing with down days
I have a lot of days, possibly the majority of my days, when I feel more negative than positive. Lyteforce has a post wherein they talk about their own experiences…