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Take Note, Manager

Read Take Note, Manager So, I sent my manager an email to inform him that I wouldn't be present at the office. Not much later, I got a reply back stating that "agreements must be respected" and tha...

Weil’s Corporate Chair Decamps For Cravath, Which Weil Would Like You To Know Is ‘A Smaller Platform’

That's not how I'd describe Cravath, but sure. The post Weil’s Corporate Chair Decamps For Cravath, Which Weil Would Like You To Know Is ‘A Smaller Platform’ appeared first on Above the Law.

Restriction on K-12 Teaching of Certain Race/Sex-Related "Concepts" Not Unconstitutionally Vague

So the Tenth Circuit held Wednesday, in Black Emergency Response Team v. Drummond; a short excerpt from the opinion, by… The post Restriction on K-12 Teaching of Certain Race/Sex-Related "Concepts"...

Daily News Stuff 11 September 2026

Sunken Scat Cat Edition Top Story Twenty-five years. I was only four at the time, like the rest of us, but I remember the day. The Exploration Company has raised $450 million in series C funding in...

TeamLab is building a new Tokyo museum, and it’s the digital art group’s biggest ever

As TeamLab’s fame continues to grow, so too does the size of its art museums. At the time of its founding in 2001, TeamLab didn’t attract all that much attention. Sure, the Japanese creative group’...

A monumental building discovered in the port of Tarquinia in an even older layer beneath its own Roman ruins

Gravisca sits on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lazio, in what is today the Porto Clementino area near Tarquinia, roughly 7–10 kilometers (4–6 miles) from the ancient Etruscan city it once served. The sit...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 386: Doomscroll Tamagotchis, Clavichords, and Vibrotrucks

In this specially-numbered podcast episode that lines up quite nicely with our Retrocomputing Challenge, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met over surprisingly low latency and loud beverages to b...

Move passwords and passkeys between Android managers safely

Android now lets users transfer passwords and passkeys directly between supported password managers, without downloading an unencrypted file. A new Android-managed flow detects eligible password ma...

Website Evolution: 2026

This post covers versions 4.2 to 4.5.1. Content and Pages This section provides an overview of content and pages with details on what was added, changed and/or (re)moved. Removed the notes page, ar...

2026-09-11 15:02: Because a basic sitemap would be boring! https://kevquirk.com/sitemap

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Bottles' Founder Has Managed to Run Microsoft 365 on Linux

As of now, he has the desktop app installing and signing in.

Burial During Justinian's Plague, Part 1

Sometimes a disaster strikes a civilization that kills so many so fast that the systems for providing support and burial cannot keep up. Such was the case when the Bubonic Plague came to town. One ...

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Even This Supreme Court Wouldn’t Bail Out The Missouri GOP — See Also

Show Me State Got Shown: The U.S. Supreme Court yet again told Missouri Republicans that they need to stop trying to make their illegal map happen. Say Howdy To The New Biggest Firm In Texas: The r...

Dog Food For Thought

Read Dog Food For Thought Customer: "Do you have any Blue Buffalo brand dog food that has no "pro van" in it? I don't want to change up my dog's diet because it hurts his stomach." I had absolutely...

Creating a Custom Hinge for a Motorbike’s Fuel Access Panel

A fun part of modifying something like a motorbike is that you sometimes have to come up with creative solutions to basic questions, like how you can still access the …read more

Summer Diplomacy Deepens Azerbaijan’s Integration with Central Asia

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Geof Stone and I on "The State of Free Speech in 2026" (from the National Constitution Center)

I much enjoyed participating in this, and I expect many of our readers will much enjoy listening to it. The post Geof Stone and I on "The State of Free Speech in 2026" (from the National Constituti...

Apple introduces a redesigned Health app and Apple Watch with continuous Siri AI listening

Alongside the announcement of its new foldable iPhone, Apple has also announced the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, starting at $399 and launching September 18. More notably, the company is prep...

Rant: Java und Spring

Java ist keine schöne Programmiersprache, aber das Spring-Framework macht es um Größenordnungen schlimmer.