Showing posts with label The Great Siege. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Great Siege. Show all posts
Sunday, March 29, 2026

Minesweeping: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1955

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 In a perfect world where everyone spent their time following the paparazzi who follow me around, you all would have learned not to take my ...
Sunday, March 8, 2026

Postblogging Technology, November 1955: Even the Moderate Adlai Stevenson

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The Ballad of Davy Crockett hit the Top 10 twice in 1955, by two different artists. Leaving the historic Crockett aside (JFC he was a Shawne...
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Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Le Mans Disaster: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1955

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This is a snip: Source is https://www.mike-hawthorn.org.uk/lemans2.html Discussion below. There is something to be said, once again, for the...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

Postblogging Technology, July 1954, II: Somewhere Between Unacceptable and Unattainable

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Because Betty Boop cartoonist Ving Fuller is in a What's New segment. Deep cut, I know . R_., C., Nakusp, Canada Dear Father: Well, I le...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Postblogging Technology, July 1954, I: Red Meat and Free Men

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  Nurses of the Experimental Civil Defence Mobile Column like motorcycles. Do they get to ride  motorcycles, or is just their despatch rider...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1954, II: Just You Wait

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  Surely I'm not the only person who hears " [Henry] Wiggin Works " and thinks of My Fair Lady, the 1964 film adaptation of th...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1954: Gormenghast

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  Just kidding. Today I'm talking about the pioneering nuclear power plant, Calder Hall, not Mervyn Peake's weird 1950 novel about a...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1954, II: Revisiting the Nuclear Submarine Question

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  The story here is that the United Kingdom is a rich, first world country and a Great Power. It fought the Second World War in alliance wit...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Missing Plugs, Missing Rebuttals

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  Is that a bandwagon going by? Let me hop right on that thing!  I am going to go with the assumption that no-one wants to hear my potted hi...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The Great Siege, I: Attlee Was Right

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  I added "The Great Siege" tag early in the life of this blog to organise the idea that Germany's strategic campaign against ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

A Technological But Also Economic and Engaged Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1953, II: The Bee Problem

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  I hope there's some of the bee scenes I remember from my slightly traumatised junior high viewing of this documentary based on Frank H...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

A Technnological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, January 1953: 488,000lb of Actor-Network Theory

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  So, anyway, from Wikipedia:   B-52 strikes were an important part of  Operation Desert Storm . . . . a flight of B-52Gs flew from  Barksda...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Postblogging Technology, January 1953, 1: Cold, Cold Heart

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I hope this finds you well, as I am not. I could say that it is because of my condition,...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Postblogging Technology, November 1952, II: The Secretary

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I don't want to alarm anyone, but we're in the middle of Mamie mania and everyo...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Postblogging Technology, November, 1952, I: Everyone Likes (M)ike

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R._C._, The Mayflower, Washington, D.C. Dear Father: If this letter gives you the sense that I am feeling a bit out of sorts for reasons tha...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Postblogging Technology, September 1952, I: Vixen Crash

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: We are in a little hotel just outside of Maastricht, which I know was not in our itiner...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1952: And Colour Television!

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  Last week, it was hard to avoid giving the impression of being prematurely bored of SAGE. Even as the postblogging approaches SAGE from th...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Postblogging Technology, April 1952, I: Metal Fatigue

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R._. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I am always kicking myself for getting these letters off late, and so last week I was ...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

A Technical, But Not At All Technological, Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1952: Pound Sterling But Also Energy

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  That was weird. So much for more talk about the Comet this week! (After a planned week off from work collapsed due to labour churn, befor...
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Saturday, July 9, 2022

A Technical Appendix About Airplane Crashes and Revisiting the Great Siege With Derek Leebaert

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  Per Wikipedia: Derek Leebaert  is an American technology executive and management consultant who writes books on history and politics, whi...
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