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From http://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/blog/post/66681/Barfleur-salutes-SS-Leopoldville-troopship?page=1 On Tuesday 17th April Barfleur welcomed a 93-year old American World War 2 veteran, Mr John Waller, and his family for a special trip from Poole to Cherbourg... As Barfleur approached the coast of…

[gallery ids="25957,25956,25955,25954,25953,25952,25950,25951" type="rectangular" link="file"] A fun place to visit is the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Fascinating to learn the history of the "expeditionary force" and their worldwide involvement since the 19th century.

[gallery ids="25937,25938,25939,25940,25941,25942,25943,25944,25945,25946,25947" type="square" link="file" orderby="rand"] One of my favorite museums in the DC-area is the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum. The history, the sheer enormity of it all, and the faith in the physics…

Around a month ago, I left Cloudflare and went back to HTTP-only sites. Not HTTPS. I did it for my own reasons, mostly performance-related. This is a long, somewhat technical post on my musings about…

By user request, what I read over breakfast: Fall Of Voodoo, https://tedium.co/2018/02/14/3dfx-history-failure/ Building your own CDN for Fun and Profit, https://pasztor.at/blog/building-your-own-cdn These Skates are Made for Walking, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/science/skate-walking-fish-evolution.html If you can't smell him, can you love him? http://nautil.us/blog/-if-you-cant-smell-him-can-you-love-him Half…

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbp4qn/the-story-of-the-trackball-canadas-earliest-gift-to-computing I've been a trackball user since day one when graphical interfaces became all the rage with X windows and CDE. Thanks Canada.

[gallery ids="25816,25817,25818,25819,25820,25821,25822" type="rectangular" link="file" orderby="rand"] A random assortment of Apple things from my archives. My experience with Apple starts with the Apple IIe and IIgs. I had to learn to code in logo and BASIC…

Interesting, http://danluu.com/input-lag/ I sometimes long for the performance of the BeBox. My memory is that it was incredibly fast and responsive no matter what you asked it to do. Of course, as Dan says, memory…

A quick trip by the bay.