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What am I missing?

6 October 2026

As I sit down to write today's column, my head is buzzing with ideas for cool things to build and interesting lines of experimentation to pursue.

Right now truly is a great time to be alive.

Almost the entirety of mankind's scientific and technical knowledge is just a mouse-click or a keystroke away, thanks to the internet.

Technology that was once confined to the most exotic industrial, commercial or academic lab is now readily available for pennies from sites like AliExpress.

Artificial intelligence can quickly summarize and simplify even the most complex scientific study or paper, thus making its contents more readily available to even folk like me who don't have the PhD.

Just think of all the things that anyone with half a mind can now do.

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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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