This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
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The Hacker Manifesto by+++The Mentor+++Written January 8, 1986 Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”… Damn kids. They’re all alike. But did you,...
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! As we step across the threshold into 2026, I want to send each of you my heartfelt thanks and my fiercest good wishes. Another year has turned its page, and here we stand, wiser, a little more battle‑tested, and still carrying...
Its that time of year again. Where I look back over the previous year and answer the same 40 questions.
2025 Edition
On the longest night of the year, the world feels as though it pauses, just for a heartbeat, between one breath and the next. The veil thins, not in the ghost‑story sense, but in the way a still lake reveals the sky when the wind finally rests....
This evening was my final Masonic event of 2025! and I swear, this time it really is the last one. Hugh had been battling a bad cold and couldn’t make it to Wynnstay Lodge on Wednesday, so we agreed the year wouldn’t feel complete without a proper...
This evening was my final Masonic event of 2025. I am all done until next year. Ok, So I may have already posted about my last Masonic Meeting of the year, but in my defence when I wrote that post it really was my last meeting of 2025. I had...
The latest issue of Coronatio Quadrans (Issue #8 - Winter Solstice 2025) just hit the news-stand (And by the news-strand, I of course mean my inbox), so why not do and try and get yourself a copy for some interesting Christmas time reading. Once...
This evening was the Blood Bikes Christmas Party!!! We had decided (by popular vote) that we would move the monthly meeting to a Saturday this month and turn it into a Christmas Party. So at 7:30pm all the good boys and girls of the NE Blood Bikes...
This evening was my final Masonic event of 2025. I am all done until next year. I ended the year with Wrexhamian Chapter. The plan for the evening was to do a demonstration of an exhalation ceremony. To gives the new officers a chance to practice...
The United Grand Lodge of England (“UGLE”), the home of Freemasonry in England, Wales and the Channel Islands, notes today’s announcement by the Metropolitan Police that it will now require mandatory declaration of membership of Freemasonry as a...