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According to an announcement posted yesterday, The Old Reader will most probably become a private site within two weeks, the only accounts that will be transferred being those created before March 13, when it was first announced that Google Reader will be shut down on July 1, and those belonging to people who have recently […]

I’m barely managing to add a paragraph or so to my story lately, when I struggle, so I won’t make that even worse by struggling to write anything else, such as this post, any more than I have to. Initially meant to leave it for tomorrow too, but I was sort of thinking I may […]

The pictures of Earth taken on July 19 by Cassini and MESSENGER were released by NASA, so now we have a few more images of our tiny and fragile world to add to Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot, taken in 1990, Cassini’s previous effort, from 2006, and the few taken over the years by our […]

This will be quick, but there are things to say, starting with the fact that the expected crash actually came two days late last week. It wasn’t that bad on Friday, but Sunday I woke up after a dreadful dream, stared at the ceiling for about one hour before somehow managing to crawl out of […]

I watched the Europa League draw earlier and just have to throw this out here and ask what kind of mockery was that? They used a computer to do something, then set 24 ties by just drawing a few numbers to pair groups of teams in some order that was arrived at in ways that […]