2 February 2026
Last week I watched a video from Laurie Kirk, ȧ Google employee who creates some great content online under the name LaurieWired. The video looked at some of the more interesting recent advancements in computing, with one segment talking about new CPU schedulers for Linux that run in user space rather than kernel space:
16 October 2023
Last week I wrote about how I had been texted asking if I would like a job earning US$6,100 (around NZ$10,000) per month for simply clicking on a few buttons every day in a mobile app that was apparently testing other mobile apps. Of course, no testing was actually going on, and the process I was walked through by Anna, my scammer, was just a way to hook me in and gain my confidence, before the scammers attempted to extract cash from me.
9 October 2023
While shopping in KMart a few weeks ago, on Saturday afternoon, I received an unsolicited text message. This isn't unusual, as I take the bold move when it comes to privacy of not trying to hide my contact details at all. I'm a believer in the philosophy of almost inviting spam, and then dealing with it as it arrives by setting up spam filters and mailbox rules. A benefit of doing this, for me as a skeptic, is that I get to see all the weird and wonderful nonsense that spammers attempt to bombard people with. And so it was with this text message:
2 April 2017
I received an email earlier this week about a new Citizen Science Project called Planet 9.