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A visit to Kuala Lumpur

29th June 2022 well_chuffed 3634 Comments

Back in the 80s and 90s in my IT life I did a lot of work on something called platform migrations. If your eyes haven’t already glazed over imagine taking Windoze programs and automatically converting [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse, A “Mini” Postcard, The Right To Choose

28th June 2022 Colin Cross 3134 Comments

I never enter the greenhouse these days without at least a sense of trepidation. The worst’s over, that much is clear and those plants which haven’t been totally ruined, even if they aren’t looking as [more…]

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A Post Covid Postcard From Vilnius (It’s War!)

2nd June 2022 Novak and Goode 3479 Comments

Some of you may remember my earlier Postcard from Vilnius Postcard From Vilnius much to my surprise that article is now 2 years old. I reference it only because it still contains much current information [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; (Pain and Loss)

31st May 2022 Colin Cross 2899 Comments

Welcome dear readers; before we get started, a warning. Those of you that aren’t interested in the maudlin, or the philosophy of loss, or the pain which accompanies it, look away now, this isn’t going [more…]

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“Real innovation and progress happen beyond Big Tech”, Part Two

25th May 2022 Going Postal 1763 Comments

Claudio Grass (CG): A lot people still consider it safer to go with a huge, established corporation, thinking these solutions would be more reliable and robust, especially for business applications. What is your take on [more…]

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“Real innovation and progress happen beyond Big Tech”, Part One

18th May 2022 Going Postal 3032 Comments

Those who know me and who have read my writings before will be very well aware of how important the topic of decentralization is to me and to my way of looking at the world, [more…]

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Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (iii)

16th May 2022 Tom Pudding 2646 Comments

Introduction It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-July 2010. I was sitting outside our tent on the Municipal Campsite at Bléré, in the Indre et Loire département of central France doing a crossword and [more…]

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Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (ii)

9th May 2022 Tom Pudding 2845 Comments

Introduction From January 1943, with the commencement of American daylight bombing of German targets complementing the existing night time raids by the British Air Force, Luftwaffe superiority in the skies over Germany and its occupied [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Bath, A Chance Encounter, Long “Covid”

3rd May 2022 Colin Cross 3158 Comments

It’s been a month now since I last posted from the greenhouse, although, somewhat thankfully, it hasn’t been a month since I visited it. With the arrival of spring we see ewes and lambs arriving [more…]

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