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Posted on 30 August 202429 August 2024

Because It’s Friday – The Reality of Time Travel

time travel

Regular readers will know I like a good sci-fi story and especially a time-travel story. At the moment I am reading the classic Rainbow Mars by Larry Niven and I am part way through the more modern series Chronicles of St Mary’s by Jodi Taylor. However, there are two main …

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Posted on 12 July 202411 July 2024

Because It’s Friday – The paper is cheap but the ink is expensive

printer

I know this looks like an IT post about the cost of inkjet ink verses everything else you have to pay for when printing a page – (DEC inserted) including the environmental cost, but it isn’t. How many printers do you need to print Wikipedia? For today’s “Because It’s Friday” …

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Posted on 5 April 20245 April 2024

Because It’s Friday – Titanium = Ti

the periodic table and elements

Interesting facts about titanium: However titanium is not what today’s “Because It’s Friday” is about. It is about the Periodic Table which when I was at college I had memorised. University Challenge Diana and I watch University Challenge and are always impressed by the knowlege shown by the contestants – …

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Posted on 15 December 202315 December 2023

Because It’s Friday – Christmas is almost here

Trojan Horse

This is not so much a funny as topical, with the online (and real world) Christmas shopping rush in full progress. (For those of you still shopping – I’m done.) One Foot Tsunami: Package Camoflauge So, talking of Christmas gifts, this is an opportunity to point you at Octagon’s blog …

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Posted on 9 February 20239 February 2023

The Tor network service suffers ongoing DDoS attacks

Project Tor https://www.torproject.org/

It has been revealed that the Tor network has been suffering a sustained series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which has been going on since July 2022. Tor and I2P networks hit by wave of ongoing DDoS attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) At its peaks, this attack has been stopping users …

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