Remembering Nan
Today is my grandmother's birthday. She passed away many years ago, but in so many ways she is with me everyday.
Until I was quite grown up she did not have any other name for me than 'Nan'. But as I grew I learned that her
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Normandy and D Day
This month is the 65th anniversary of the D Day landings in France and on June 6th, as a kind of remembrance, I watched the film Overlord.
The film brought back memories of my visit to Normandy late last year. Walking over the ground where the landings happened was very
D Day 6th June and Overlord
Got up early this 6th June and went off to the Sydney Film Festival showing of Overlord.
This is a rarely seen film based on Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, which was launched on D-Day 6th June 1944.
It is a fascinating film,
Gilmore of the eponymous law
~ A few times now I've referred to Gilmore's Law and wanted to share a bit more about its author. John Gilmore is one of the true mavericks of the internet, and he is a self described entrepreneur and civil libertarian. His ideas are further out on
The web is not forever ...
Over the past few days I have been thinking about history, in particular the history of telecommunications. It is easy for us to imagine that the Internet will be with us forever, indeed many cannot imagine what we did before it was invented. But technology that enables communication has come
Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchism but were afraid to ask
Anarchism is one of those words we use without really thinking about it's real meaning. Usually it is used as shorthand for disorder, no order or chaos. But there is a long history behind this political philosophy, and it was a significant driver of radical political activity in
Palestinian question - an interesting insight
Just recently came across an old transcript of an interview with Martin van Creveld (one of my favourite military writers - he wrote good books on command in war and technology of war). He gives a really interesting perspective on the problems Israel is having in Gaza, strangely enough things have