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Sunday, July 12th, 2026, 6:07 pm Filed under:  by Roy Schestowitz at 6:07 pm AM travelling to London (again) tonight, as does my wife. This will hopefully be the last time. The last time we voluntarily went to London it was to meet my sister, who gave birth a few days ago. It was her first child and that’s important because I am close to my sister and the delivery went OK; it’s a boy, like me. It might even be my sister’s only child.

Friday, July 3rd, 2026, 1:29 pm Filed under:  by Roy Schestowitz at 1:29 pm don’t typically write about pets here, I tend to cover that in another site. The shells will soon mark 8 weeks in their dedicated water tank. So far I’ve found no dead shells, so it probably went well. Earlier today I did partial water change of the shells and they seem happy with that so far. It’s hard to interpret their “feelings” about this, harder than it is to assess the emotion of fish e.g. stress.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2026, 5:26 am Filed under:  by Roy Schestowitz at 5:26 am here are cyber attacks against our Web sites this week. These attacks take several different forms. These are clearly censorship attempts. We have paper trail to prove that. Any attacks – no matter their form – tend to indicate fear. In this case, the fear is that information that we published will be available and remain available for many years to come. Sustaining attacks is one thing; reporting them is another.

Wednesday, July 1st, 2026, 8:02 pm Filed under:  by Roy Schestowitz at 8:02 pm t’s ending. After 4 shows in the local stadium. “Doors for Take That on Wednesday 1 July open at 5:00pm with support from 6:25pm.” They’ll finish and pack up in an hour or so, back off the limelight again. No more “Shine”. Maybe we’ll see them again in 5 years when they turn 60 and maybe by then England will have won a World Cup again. Seems unlikely. They have barely beaten DR Congo.

Wednesday, July 1st, 2026, 12:00 pm Filed under:  by Roy Schestowitz at 12:00 pm still remember finishing my thesis about two decades ago and working on experiments that compared my algorithms to those of Bill Crum. We used different approaches and compared them. Bill was always nice to me and today I discovered that he has medical problems and he wrote a book about it. In a way, we sort of coauthored works (or collaborated with his division down in London).

I had a tougher week than usual. Someone I deeply care about had a bad fall, followed by the passing of Om. It made me think again about the impermanence of life: the mundaneness of every day can seem like this can go on forever, but suddenly in just a moment everything may change. I can’t help but keep thinking about Om and how he was writing so much till the end. Sometimes I feel like I take my writing for granted. It seems to be always there. But what if one day it wasn’t?

Tuesday, June 30th, 2026, 5:58 am Filed under:  by Roy Schestowitz at 5:58 am oday is the last day of the first half of 2026 and it has been a good year, except the heatwaves in May and June. They are too much. We now have a new head coach for the local team. The other local team also had a new head coach confirmed a couple of months ago. Football resumes (nationally, not internationally) about 1.5 months from now.

Sunday, June 28th, 2026, 4:47 pm Filed under:  by Roy Schestowitz at 4:47 pm Crossposted from Tux Machines When we say “the Tux” we mean Tux Machines e’re only about two days away from July. The exquisite weather today (cool and sunny) is a fresh breath of air after a week(ish) of heatwave and even bursts of heavy rain last night.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2026, 9:27 pm Filed under:  by Roy Schestowitz at 9:27 pm AM not sure who is doing this and why, but the server of Tux Machines is under DDoS attack. It impacts Techrights as well. I wrote about this back in April when it began, then again ~3 weeks later. The Web is so chaotic on so many levels. CDNs are not the solution. Access gatekeeping with JS is not the solution either, it’s another new problem.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2026, 8:02 pm Filed under:  by Roy Schestowitz at 8:02 pm It raised awareness of the very things they were trying to suppress. N a lot of ways we have already won. What do I mean by that? Well, first of all, we’re finally going to have our laws rectified, perhaps as soon as later this year.