Eurobloat #0068 • December 2015
The month Brussels answered a border crisis by proposing to seize the borders, agreed to log every air passenger for five years, and flew to Paris to congratulate itself.
Eurobloat
2015
118 posts
Reflecting on the year 2015
Reflection on the year 2015, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey is a British drama series. It aired on ITV from 26 September 2010 to 25 December 2015. Julian Fellowes wrote it. Hugh Bonneville plays Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, who runs a grand estate in the Yorkshire countryside during the early twentieth century.
TV Series
Merry Christmas
At this stage Christmas prompts serious thought. Christ was born to give us forgiveness and new life.
Christianity
Eurobloat #0067 • November 2015
The month Brussels invented a pan-European constituency nobody asked for, paid Ankara three billion euros to mind the door, and decided the cure for collapsing borders was more Europe.
Eurobloat
The Patriot Attack by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Patriot Attack, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith investigates a brewing war between Japan and China driven by a powerful new metal.
Books
A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay
Coldplay's joyful 2015 album, a bright farewell of sorts that I discovered well after its release.
Music
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies (2015), directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the true story of James Donovan. He is a lawyer who swaps spies during the Cold War. Tom Hanks plays Donovan with steady calm.
Movies
Monthly update #0307 • November 2015
Monthly update 307 • November 2015 • 2015-11-01 - 2015-11-30
Monthly Updates
Swift 3 API Design Guidelines
Swift 3 aims to set API design guidelines and apply them across libraries to make the language feel more unified.
Development
The Swift Linux Port
Apple released a Linux port of Swift with the open source project launch. Users can build it from sources or download binaries for Ubuntu on x86_64 architecture.
Development
The Swift.org Blog
Apple has launched the open source Swift project and the Swift.org website. They aim to work with the community to fix issues, add features, and expand Swift to new platforms.
Development
Privacy Roundup #0112 • November 2015
November 2015 paired a wave of breaches that swept up children, prisoners and hotel guests with a renewed government push to weaken encryption after the Paris attacks.
Privacy
Look Who's Back
Look Who's Back (2015), directed by David Wnendt, adapts Timur Vermes's book. It places Adolf in modern Berlin. He wakes up in 2014. Oliver Masucci plays Adolf with sharp mimicry and deadpan humour. He thinks the world is his again.
Movies
Make Me by Lee Child
Make Me drops Reacher in the isolated town of Mother’s Rest, investigating a journalist’s disappearance into a dark web conspiracy. With her partner, he uncovers a sinister underground service.
Books
Eurobloat #0066 • October 2015
October 2015: the judges shred the Commission's data deal, the regulators quietly let diesel poison the air, and Brussels goes courting Ankara to clean up its own border mess.
Eurobloat
Masters of Chant X: The Final Chapter by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2015 album, the last of the Masters of Chant series, pop songs reset as choral chant.
Music
Dark Sky Island by Enya
Enya's 2015 album, layered Celtic-tinged songs about journeys, islands, and the night sky, calm as ever.
Music
Surrender by Kutless
Kutless's 2015 album, contemporary worship driven by Christian rock, songs of giving everything over to God.
Music
Asterix and the Missing Scroll by Jean-Yves Ferri
It is the thirty-sixth book in the Asterix series. Caesar writes his memoirs but leaves out the Gaul village. A scribe leaks the missing chapter.
Books
Useful macOS defaults: Spotlight
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.Spotlight and Spotlight indexing controls.
Mac
What is bootinstalld?
If you see bootinstalld running on your Mac, here is what this macOS installation process does.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0111 • October 2015
October 2015 was defined by Europe's court tearing up Safe Harbor, a run of large customer-data breaches, and the United States Senate pushing the CISA surveillance bill through.
Privacy
Old New Ballads Blues by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 2006 release, expressive playing rooted in the blues. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
Music
Monthly update #0306 • October 2015
Monthly update 306 • October 2015 • 2015-10-01 - 2015-10-31
Monthly Updates