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  Today's blog post: Timothy Snyder on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/09/timothy-snyder-on-25th-anniversary-of.html #history #politics #ukraine #911anniversary

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  Today's blog post links to one of my favourite albums that's long been out of print but showed up on YouTube Music: STILL INSIDE by the Tony Rice Unit. Some of the best acoustic music of the 1980s. He called it "spacegrass". https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/09/saturday-sounds-still-inside-tony-rice.html #music #bluegrass

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  My home town of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario has been featured in an article (gift link) in the New York Times. The subject is, of course, the ongoing tariff war between the US and Canada, and how it's affecting the Sault (or just Soo, if you're local). It's not affecting it in a good way. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/09/my-home-town-in-times.html #politics #tarrifs #Ontario

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  Today's blog post: Some thoughts on using Google Docs for technical writing. I couldn't do much with it in my pre-retirement job eight years ago, but Google has added a lot to it since then. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/09/google-docs-is-getting-better.html #MicrosoftWord #GoogleDocs #TechComm #Word #Docs

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  YouTube keeps surprising me with great videos that randomly pop up in my feed. Last night, it came up with a video of John Coltrane performing "Afro Blue". Given when Coltrane was performing, it had never occurred to me to look for videos of his performances. But lo and behold, there are quite a few. So today's blog post has five videos of Coltrane performing in the 1960s. Jazz doesn't get much better than that. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/09/saturd...

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  Today's post is a review of the amazing music website: MOSHPIT. This is one of the best collections of live music recordings on the internet. Be prepared to spend hours there. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/09/saturday-sounds-moshpit.html https://www.moshpit.com/ #music #rock #jazz #blues #folk

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  Today's blog post is a review of our new Hyundai IONIQ 5 EV, one month in. TL;DR: We love it. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/09/hyundai-ioniq-5-ev-one-month-review.html #IONIQ5 #Hyundai #EV

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  I'm becoming increasingly concerned and more than a little disturbed by the Liberal government's current emphasis on fossil fuel development. Some thoughts about this and some relevant links in today's blog post. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/10/carneys-building-canada-strong-policy.html #MarkCarney #Environment #PoliticsNews #Canada #ClaimateChange

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  If you're looking for information about that plague case in Russia, this thread from the Flu Frackers site has the most I've seen yet. https://flutrackers.com/threads/russia-the-woman-died-of-the-plague-in-shelekhov-october-2-2026-gov-denies-says-pneumonia-of-unknown-etiology-cause-of-death.1041087/ #Plague #Russiaplague

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  Sometimes you just have to pull the plug. Yesterday afternoon I went downstairs to fold laundry, and as I usually do, watch a couple of videos on YouTube. Turned on the TV and receiver and got a "No video signal" screen. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/10/sometimes-you-just-have-to-pull-plug.html #technology #LG #Denon #Glitch

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  Today's blog post is a note about WordCraft, an interesting new open source clone of Microsoft Word. (Updated to fix the link). https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/10/wordcraft-open-source-microsoft-word.html #Software #Word

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  Today's blog post was prompted by the repeated and annoying behaviour of our two cats. We love them but they can be trying. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/10/will-he-learn-his-lession.html #cats

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  Today's blog post has reviews of six science fiction novels that I've read in the last couple of months. My favourites were BIOLOGICAL WAR by Annie Jacobsen and SLOW GODS by Claire Noorth. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/10/some-short-book-reviews.html #Books #SFF #SciFi #BiologicalWar

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  Today's blog post links to a real gem: Buddy Guy's 90th birthday tribute concert. If you're a blues fan, this is a must watch. And if you're not, you might be by the end of the concert. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/10/saturday-sounds-buddys-got-blues-90th.html #music #blues

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  Today's blog post is another set of articles about the continuing contretemps between Canada and the United States. The trade war and the Alberta referendum feature prominently. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-us-versus-canada-18.html #Canada-US #politics #economy #tariffs

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  I'm still trying to catch up on my reading backlog of science fiction anthologies. Today's blog post is a review of three of them with stories from 2018 and 2019 https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/10/three-sf-antholgies-reviewed.html #SFF #SciFi #Books

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  We're thinking about going to see WILDWOOD next week. I've seen some clips on YouTube and they look amazing. Has anyone see in and what do you think about it? #movies #Wildwood

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  I just finished Emily St. John Mandel's new novel, EXIT PARTY. What a wonderful book; I could not put it down. I read it in about a week, which for me is very fast. I wouldn't be surprised if it won both a Giller Prize and Hugo award next year. It's that good. #SF #books #CanLit #Books

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  Today's blog post is is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. Featured are the effects of climate change and the danger of reckless technological decisions. https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2026/05/were-toast-66.html #AI, #ClimateChange, #Medical, #Military, #Politics, #Space, #Technology