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I’m really thrilled that our research article on government IT procurement was recently published in Canadian Public Administration. It’s a bit over two years since Prof. Amanda Clarke and I began this research project, and …

There are several nice options in NixOS for specifying scheduled backup jobs, including borgbackup, borgmatic and restic. But I’ve often used rsync in the past, and there is no such module for scheduled rsync jobs …

I co-founded console.dev back in 2021 because there wasn’t anywhere for experienced developers to find good tools. There are so many interesting tools for developers, so writing short reviews every week has been a lot …

As a family, we don’t get McDonald’s that often, mainly because I think it’s shit and there are better life choices to be made, but occasionally it will magically appear at our door, often when …

My Google Pixel 8a hated the inside of the away end of Carrow Road so much, it created this new background as Daddy BRAPA supped down Wherry and a fruity Greene King guest pre-match. Less …

This leaves the provocateur director herself in her role as catalyst for the mayhem to follow as the ultimate filmic presence wreaking its influence on others. Assigned only the title[...] The post Presence Tension: <em>The …

Good tagline: “Their crime was against nature – nature found them guilty.” This refers to the lead asshole, on a camping trip with his unwilling wife, who trashes and destroys and kills every natural thing …

My dear wife, Kathryn Farley, just woke me this Friday the 20th from a nap with something that she said was amazing. She told me it was the top most viewed video of the entire …

Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Manby Peter K. AnderssonPrinceton University Press, 2023 The posthumous image of him has been entangled with the real individual, and no one has really fully tried to disentangle …

This is the concluding part of the previous post on the subject of refugees and émigrés during the French Revolution in Goethe's works. As with Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten, discussed in the earlier post, I am …

It’s time for my annual update on crime statistics, following the September release of 2023 numbers by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). We …

[Written 9/29/24] Mark Robinson posing for a photo next to a cardboard cutout of Trump and Melania. pic.twitter.com/ZMIsdP506Z— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) September 28, 2024 Q: Are you going to pull your endorsement of Mark Robinson?Trump: …

Slate has a fascinating story about the current state of cellphone camera technologies. Recently, people have been sharing beautiful images of the Northern Lights. Even people who didn't chase the meterological phenomenon have been found …

Trumpeter Swan observed last week at Ragged Mountain Reservoir, near Charlottesville, Virginia Well, this is it: The last post at Mountain Beltway here at the AGU Blogosphere. AGU has been so accommodating, hosting my blog …

This will be the new home of my blog Georneys. I’ll be moving all of my posts here from the AGU blogosphere – and starting some new blogging in 2024. Stay tuned!