Bendigo – a Name for the Ages
Dido Plumb – 1900 To add colour and veracity to my novels set in colonial Australia, I have spent and continue to spend a lot of time in research. One […]
Dido Plumb – 1900 To add colour and veracity to my novels set in colonial Australia, I have spent and continue to spend a lot of time in research. One […]
I awoke to news of rockets flying into Israel in their thousands, Palestinians pouring into southern Israel, killing and kidnapping. And Israel retaliating. Today more than 500 people on […]
The Graveyard Detective: Boer War Photographs There has been a growing assessment in the press that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is not going as fast as had been expected […]
John Borland Thayer II For my readers who follow cricket, the recent controversy about the dismissal of an English batsman in an Ashes test will not be news. However, […]
All the King’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again. 25th June, 2023 The last 24 hours in Russia have seen remarkable events with Prigozhin […]
Compelling Reading Reviewers’ Comments about the Case of the Emigrant Niece In the past month, the first of my Findo Gask and Erroll Rait series, the Case of the Emigrant […]
Bitcoin mining farm. Photo: Marko Ahtisaari The first transaction involving the use of a crypto currency to buy something physical was on May 22nd, 2010 when 10,000 bitcoins were exchanged for […]
On 22nd April, 2021[1] I predicted that Russia would invade Ukraine and so break its UN charter commitments and the promise it made in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 […]
Lee Se-dol in 2016. In 2016, AlphaGo, a machine that used large data sets to teach itself how to play Go defeated Lee Se-dol in a contest leading to this […]