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I think Brewster is one of those photos in your video. I met him because I set up the first WAIS server in Australia and he was kind enough to offer a tour when I mentioned I was visiting Boston. Good times.

The same could be said for many companies in the last three decades. Sometimes investors are right, sometimes they are wrong. Cloudflare is a good example, and they weren't even going to space. It's less about current earnings and more about whether they become key infrastructure for a new market.

Really intrigued to see what Apple's design chops brings to this form factor. I'd love more screen real estate so I can travel without a damn laptop. The big question is how thick will it be?

I've read that New Zealand study and it's identifying an effect in a small group of heavy users who started using cannabis very young (a full third as teens) and continue to use it heavily (four times a week) three decades later. That's not a huge surprise.

They also state "cognitive functioning among midlife recreational cannabis users was similar to representative cohort norms". It's clearly shown in Figure 1 - midlife recreational cannabis users actually got smarter than people who quit cannabis according to their data.

There may well be some confounding factor in there. The study was done in New Zealand where cannabis was illegal for the majority of participants, and usage was self-reported so there's a basic issue there as well. One of the meta-analysis citing this (Crisafulli, 2026) and finding no effect criticizes the study design.

Avon was a hell of an anti-hero and Paul Darrow nailed the role. All my friends at school wanted to be Avon. And don't get me started on Servalan...

Media companies spend untold millions on new content, and yet the acting and writing on a comparatively obscure and low budget British TV series still occupy a place in my psyche many decades later.

RIP Mr Keating.

That was over 20 years ago? And there were half a dozen Qwest executives who were profiting from insider trading on inflated revenues that started in 1999, long before the NSA incident in 2001. I remember it clearly because I had the misfortune of being a shareholder in that dog.

My first job at college was wrangling campus email, both X.400 and SMTP. As the article points out, SMTP won out because it was simple and developed in the open, not buried in standards committees, and SMTP code was widely available. It was the Cathedral and the Bazaar hypothesis playing out in real time.

Just seeing that X.400 notation is giving me bad memories!

Absolutely, Johan is one of my all time favorite composers and as prolific and talented as he was, it's terrible that we will never hear new music from him again. :(