France

I have so many plans for travelling in France, its getting difficult to keep track of. I made this index page, with plans for an active link to my maps, and a dynamic list of article on this wiki. …

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IT Sovereignty

Various things have taken me to considering the EU stack, these include the issues raised in this article On cloud operating systems and security of supply and the Bastani/Hao interview. The EU is considering these issues, in defining an EU stack, which does include networks, storage, and systems (and thus presumably CPUs and ASICS).

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My EU Start Page

I have written a lot about the European Union and its democracy and its easy to get lost so I have made this page which is meant to be a start page/index.

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Broken Links

As the World Wide Web changes, but maintaining the currency of links within this blog becomes more difficult I had a plug in which worked quite nicely but the growing prevalence of captchas, paywalls and proxies is making it much more difficult. So sorry for those who thought they found something useful and then didn’t.

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A Vassal State

As part of my reading as a result of the Bastani/Hao interview, I was pointed at and found a couple of books and articles on the UK’s dependence on the USA, primarily quoting the work of Angus Hanton. These are primarily economic, although the choices made by the Starmer Government, are increasing our dependence on…

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Naval Wargames

My interest in naval wargaming was rejuvenated when I considered how to recreate the Battle of Actium which I document on my page, Playing the Battle of Actium. My researches have pointed me at several other games and rule sets. Here are my notes and links.

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Marseilles

Inspired by paintings of the Riviera, I am considering visiting Marseilles. Here are my notes and links …

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Michael J Rumsby

I visited the the Clarendon Gallery in Greenwich again and they had a picture by Michael F Rumsby which spoke to me. I checked out his web site and made the slide show below. The web site illustrates a series of collections. The picture I saw was quite big and so even if I could…

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Fabian Perez

I walked into the Clarendon Gallery in Greenwich and they had three of Fabian Perez‘s pictures on the wall. They were all listed at a price well outside my price range but I enjoyed them and wonder what else he does/has done. …

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Compression cubes

My compression packing cubes are broken and I need some more, or at least one more. It needs a sturdier zip. Here’s what I found …

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