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Knog Milkman bike combination lock security flaw
[Note: This issue has been fixed by Knog – see final paragraph.] I have a Knog Milkman combination lock for my bike. It’s not supposed to be high security – it could be cut through very easily...
View ArticleTrump After the Inauguration
Try listening to William S. Burroughs reading his Roosevelt After the Inauguration piece and everywhere you hear “Roosevelt”, think “Trump”. Burroughs is probably highly NSFW, but Trump is even less...
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Everesting
Yesterday (Sept 3, 2016) I did an Everesting ride on my bike. As a concept, Everesting is dead simple. You pick a hill, any hill, and ride up it enough times to equal or exceed the vertical height gain...
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Thoughts ahead of the 2017 Transcontinental Race
Last Sunday I did my final training ride before the Transcontinental Race (TCR), which starts in Geraadsbergen (Belgium) at 10pm this Friday night, July 28, 2017. In February 2016 I happened across Joe...
View ArticleDo stuff on things, in parallel
Most people don’t really know how to use the tools they spend the most time using: the shell and their editor. It’s worth stopping once in a while to teach yourself new things. Sometimes you find...
View ArticleA BLAST puzzle
Re-posted from my internal Cambridge notebook. I have a strange situation. I have two almost identical BLAST databases (20170821 and 20170824). They both contain a certain subject sequence LC074724. I...
View ArticlePapers on ancient hepatitis B virus and human parvovirus B19
We just published two papers. Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period in Nature, and Ancient human parvovirus B19 in Eurasia reveals its long-term association with humans...
View ArticleDaudin – a Python shell
A few nights ago I wrote daudin, a command-line shell based on Python. It allows you to easily mix UNIX and Python on the command line. Source code and documentation:...
View ArticleThe vikings had smallpox
In July 2020 we published a paper in Science on ancient smallpox viruses: Diverse variola virus (smallpox) strains were widespread in northern Europe in the Viking Age. That was a couple of years of...
View ArticleEstimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course
We had a paper in Science go online on May 25, 2021: Estimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course.
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