Bubbles Briefing

Can you believe it’s been ten years since Brexit? In some ways it feels more recent, in others it’s as though we’ve been hearing about it from our British and…

Reflecting on a reader's description of me as 'nice' and the responsibility of having an audience, I commit to becoming a 'toolshed of hope and stubborn…

In what is turning out to be a trying week, it is sad to report the passing of Canadian actor Peter Cullen at the age of 84. Although well-known for numerous…

More from the same diary study. When the researchers looked at what people actually completed, unplanned tasks won. Tasks that showed up during the day were…

I have an interesting, first hand experience with why continuity of care is important.

The best home automations are the ones that you don't think about. If you're visiting family or staying in a hotel, you notice that the automatic thing didn't…

Someone recently asked me, what rules do I try to live my life by? Good question. In no particular order: • Do no harm • Be kind at all times...

Dolly Parton, pop culture titan of the 20th and early 21st Century, has sadly passed away at the age of 80.Parton was born in 1946 in Tennessee and became one…

Flock sells surveillance as safety, but even a Sith Lord can see through the marketing.

The Bridge Over “Content Marketing” Bulls*** Introduction I went down a rabbit hole recently, or at least I tried to. I found it difficult to come up with…

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately…

My gym locker requires me to have a small lock, that I carry in my backpack. After (presumably) leaving the lock unlocked in my backpack and it shuffling…

Proof that our data is always more valuable than paying for services.

a tour of creating a family reading culture In the Netherlands, many families are in possession of magnificent ceiling-tall bookshelves — a practice I always…

In the country of the blind, goes the proverb, the one-eyed man is king.In his 1904 short story "The Country of the Blind" H.G. Wells writes of a sighted man…

If Curiosity Killed the Cat ( so we’re told, by who, I have no idea) then curiosity for me, as a child and adult alike, enriched my life and made...

From 404Media: We discovered that VGT3 was used to destructively scan books for AI training data by placing a tracking device in a shipment of rare books that…