I’ve had some new packets show up at my TFTP Honey pot.

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A pickup truck crashed into an electric pole just down the road yesterday. The pole fell partway over, held aloft by the power cables. The electrical mains power dropped abruptly. My Dell R530 and Qotom fanless server are powered through an uninterruptible power supply, but only the R530 has the USB connection and runs apcupsd to get notifications that the UPS is running out of energy.

Recently, I found On Bots, an interesting project from 2006-05-03. Someone constructed 2 billion numbered web pages, arranged as a binary search tree via hyperlinks. They tracked accesses of the web pages for a year. It looks like they were interested in how much of their binary trees got explored, and in what order more than anything else.

The Android phone application Google Maps should have been a blockbuster winner for Google, but it’s always been deeply flawed.

I had dinner at India’s Restaurant for the first time in maybe 10 years. Their food was excellent!

Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars.
Hurowitz, J. A., et al (2025)
Nature, 645, Article 8080.

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The origin of animal body plans: a view from fossil evidence and the regulatory genome
Douglas H. Erwin
Development 15 February 2020; 147 (4): dev182899.

I changed from Arch Linux linux-hardened to plain linux kernels on my Dell R530 server.

From 2025-12-31 to 2026-07-31, 34.39.91.209 asked for the URL /posts/economic-intelligence/ 27 times a day. From 2026-08-01 to the present, 34.39.91.209 asked for /posts/economic-intelligence/ three times a day.

Contrasting life history in the diminutive Dimetrodon species from North America and Germany
Arore Caonville, Philipp L. Knaus, Lorenzo Marchetti & Jörg Fröbisch
Scientific Reports volume 16, Article number: 16279 (2026)

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