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  I had thought that my relationship with contemporary music was over until clips of the track Back on 74 by Jungle at the Brit Awards started appearing on my Twitter and Instagram feeds. I have to say that I’m hooked and the performance at the awards as well as the tune has gotten me addicted. Just wonderful!    

First of all, I read this piece from the Guardian Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests | Climate crisis | The Guardian Then I saw the following thread on Twitter Oh my god. The @Guardian needs to issue a correction here, as quickly as possible, for this sloppy reporting.https://t.co/J6AOSw5Azt — Dr. Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy) July 25, 2023 Finally, I watched this…

Drone shot – Achill Island – 28 December 2022

After using a Mac for 6 years

This video was really a surprise at how much I didn’t know about the system. The enlargement of thumbnails was shocking at how simple it was and how hidden it was to me.

Happy Easter from Helsinki!

Saturday afternoon in St Urho’s pub

Morning caffè a Stazione Centrale a Milano

It’s 2021! Happy New Year!

Thank feck for a new start! Just got the blog moved over to another host. It’s something that I do every 3 years or so. Something happens at a web host that means that a move becomes necessary.  This time, the renewal fees were costing 1 year what I got for 3 years before. I can see why this works with admins who don’t have so much experience with databases and PHP. And this was a pain going…

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Today I learned that Jazz Bagpipes Exist

Love this performance!

People get less sick from an airborne virus if they wear a mask – Infectious Disease Doctor

An infectious disease doctor writes

It seems people get less sick if they wear a mask.

When you wear a mask – even a cloth mask – you typically are exposed to a lower dose of the coronavirus than if you didn’t. Both recent experiments in animal models using coronavirus and nearly a hundred years of viral research show that lower viral doses usually means less severe disease.

and more

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The Mother of All Demos – In 1968, a demo showed video-conferencing, hypertext, the mouse and online collaboration.

This is an incredible video showing what was being developed in 1968. It just took over 20 years for mice to be considered normal on a computer. Video-conferencing much longer.

TIL – Where the term logbook came from.

From Neil Kakkar

The log is an interesting invention. It began with 16th-century ships – surrounded with water, no land in sight, no sense of direction, and no sense of speed. What did you have to compare your speed with anyway?

The sailors were ingenious. They used a log – a real piece of wood – attached to a string. They’d throw it in the water and use it to measure speed.

Then they’d track…