Borepatch

Well that's your problem , right there: Oracle engineers mistakenly triggered a five-day software outage at a number of Community Health...

Wow : A remotely operated vehicle exploration of the wreck of the USS Yorktown, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier sunk in the Battle of Midway, h...

This is pretty big : US health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information belonging to as many as 4.7 mil...

High Energy Radio Frequency.  Now it seems to be some sort of cigar thing.  But the old HERF gun concept is back, to shoot down drones : Bri...

Yes, we usually hear this at Christmas.  Remember, though, that Handel wrote this for an Easter performance.  I can think of no greater - ...

This is a great reflection from the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land. I hadn't known that today is the only day that the Catholi...

Today is Palm Sunday, and what is unique (well, for a bit) about this year's Holy Week is that the Latin Easter, the Orthodox Easter, an...

This dropped 2 days ago.  Highlights : The Order establishes a Maritime Security Trust Fund to provide consistent funding for maritime progr...

Walter emails with a question that probably will have broad interest: BP - Long time reader question here: I need to replace my long-in-toot...

When did the EU.gov get so, well, stupid ? The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent's denizens secure and among the pages of bu...

 Heat, TopGun, TopGun II and Tombstone. My favorite Val Kilmer movies. He's not the leading star in any of them. But all of them would n...

Well played indeed.

I just realized that I don't have a blogroll link to Flares Into Darkness which is really strange since I've been linking to him si...

The passing of George Foreman got me thinking about how boxing has changed from back in the day (1960s/1970s).  Back then we used to watch F...

The Surveillance State is bringing people together.  In this case Apple (iOS) and Google (Android).  You will now be able to send end-to-end...

The last of the Battle of Britain RAF pilots reports to the final muster .

If you are at version lower than 128, you need to update Firefox immediately or all sorts of things will break.  The crypto certificate it u...

Aye, but not gone. Today is the Ides of March, the 15th of this month (each month has Ides on various dates).  While we look at the Romans...

 I've been thinking this for the last few weeks, but The Smallest Minority has put it to words. I couldn't say it as well, so here...

Roman roads in Britannia as an underground map.