Random Learnings #63
I happened upon this article in a 1949 issue of International Conciliation (sorry, didn't note which issue, the name of the article, the author): The North Atlantic Pact is a…
The Treaty of Versailles and Germany
The Treaty of Versailles held Germany (a.k.a Germany Empire), and Germany alone, responsible for World War I: not Serbia who planned the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand; not the Austrian-Hungarian Empire…
First-Time Airports
My recent trip to Morocco and Poland required flights to/from two European airports to which I had never been: Paris Orly (ORY) and Berlin Brandenburg (BER). ORY was totally unknown…
Windows IRL #1
As a technologist, I'm always interested in learning about the underlying technologies. Once, I intently watched an airplane's entertainment system go through a Linux reboot. I recently added new use…
Transferring From CDG to ORY
I had the privilege of being accepted to give my talk Demonolithing the Monolith? Bullocks! at Devoxx Morocco this year. And the talk was given in front of a full…