his coming weekend (Sunday) Stevie Wonder will be back in Manchester. Mariah Carey comes here a month later. They will perform across the road from us.

To people like me who grew up hearing them (in the 80s and 90s) there’s a sort of gateway to the “past” or “good old days”.

I don’t believe going to a concert makes one younger, even if it makes one feel that way.

I am relieved to know those two people are still alive, well, and actively performing.

For Wonder, as he’s blind and older than Carey, this can’t be easy. The last time he was here his children helped him.

“When you point the finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back to you”

year ago my wife and I sent this message about Garrett: “We should note that 100% of his social media posts from December 15 until December 23 were about us, which seems obsessive/compulsive.”

His latest 10 “tweets” are 70% about me and my wife. 7 our of 10 are about us, nothing else. And if about 70% of his latest 10 “tweets” are of this nature, whereas only about 3% of pages/articles of ours are about the SLAPPs (maybe at most 5%), then maybe we are merely responding by explaining what really happened; and he calls others “obsessed” (and pays a barrister to use that word)… he does accuse others of many of the same he himself is guilty of.

The cause of the criticism is my opposition to a back door called “Secure Boot”, UEFI insecurity, or “Restricted Boot”.

Back doors in machines

verybody seems to be talking about politics. Some people do it only privately. Some are very public and vocal about it.

To me, integrity of proprietary voting machines is an important subject. I don’t believe that voting should be done on computers at all. Modern computers have way too many defects in them. The task of managing elections (ballots) is simple enough to be done manually.

I currently have a series going which deals with voting in the US (more recent parts):

The year went by so fast

oday is the first day of November and it’s getting dark very early. We’re only 2 months away from 2027, a year that promises lots of exercise, a lot of writing, and a 23^rd anniversary of Tux Machines.

We’re only months away from the end of the fifth year of the Ukraine war. Putin would rather destroy Russia (and his neighbour) than accept defeat.

Techrights plans

his coming week Techrights turns 20. Originally I thought about doing something very special for that day. Then I realised that it would be rather superficial and dumb. Throwing parties would not be in the “spirit” of that site and it would be better to devote the whole year, as a team, to endeavours associated with site improvement.

We already have some ideas and projects underway.

The public and our politicians need to know

wo years ago I said I’d likely spend the next 5 years writing about lawfare. Earlier this year I corrected myself and said a decade or more.

I meant it when I said it the first time, it’s just that there’s more to cover and more material becomes available than I can cover (or things happen more quickly than I can properly cover them).

Sometimes I need to stop and do an “outline”, then assess how long it’ll take to cover it all thoroughly enough.

The order of the coverage matters a lot.

Someone has asked me to “move on” (with “my life”), but he is just projecting. Merely explaining how lawfare works in the UK (it’s bigger than just one firm) is prerequisite for change and I’m in a position to explain what happened.

Transparency is not negotiable.

Just went past the new City Store

oday is one of those days ManCity fans cheer for Liverpool.

Liverpool needs to win in order for ManCity to remain on top of the league.

We’ve just returned from ManCity’s stadium, not many birds turned up today, but a wide variety of species.

Some squirrels climb up unusually high (on trees) and it’s still rather foggy, albeit not as hazy as this morning.

ManCity’s relationship with Liverpool is changing as the “Gunners” become the more potent opponent. A decade ago it was Chelsea.

I plan to write a lot this afternoon. I took a nap on the bench at the park (while sitting down of course), it was very relaxing.

We have an intentionally slow Sunday.