The outage today, 19/07/2024, to do with Microsoft and Crowdstrike was probably cloud related. It’s the old problem of resilience, with limited alternative avenues. Everybody having their own storage and their own access for things, allowed for with distributed services. Clouds are extremely centralised, so if there are problems you lose the lot, airlines, rail […]

Nobody is sure how common magnetic reversals in the world are. They are generally considered non-periodic and happen once every 450,000 years, but that may be just down to lack of discovery, misclassification, or simply ignoring them, not what really happened. A similar thing, archaeologists are constantly finding new civilisations almost every year now that […]

Blackbirds, Turdus merula seem to becoming rarer in the south. Blackbirds may be a vector for encephalitis through the Usutu virus via culex pipiens, the common house or northern mosquito that also bites humans, transferring unknown levels of infection. The southern areas seem to be hosting more mosquito type populations that are slowly moving northwards […]